Fox in the Penalty Area

When the Chinese team held a meeting behind closed doors in the hotel conference room, the second match of the World Cup, also the second match of Group A, between France and Uruguay had already begun.

And when the Chinese team was ready to drive to the Mercedes Stadium, the match between France and Uruguay was just over.

The French team, which returned home in the last World Cup group stage, showed their powerful offensive firepower in the first game this time.

Payet and Bonet each scored a goal, plus the Uruguayan player's own goal, and finally the French team defeated the South American powerhouse with a score of 3:1 and made a good start.

At present, the French team and the US team have the same three points, and the net wins are also the same, but the French team temporarily ranks first because of more goals, and the US is second. Uruguay has a goal, so they are ranked third, and South Korea is at the bottom of the group.

The first round of the group stage of Group A has come to an end, and it is time for Group B to compete next.

The first to debut is the Chinese team, they will face Algeria. After their match, it's the match between Brazil and Russia.

The Chinese team will kick off at 4:00 p.m. local time on June 16th in Atlanta, and at 4:00 a.m. on June 17th Beijing time.

The outside of the hotel gate was full of Chinese media reporters, as well as those Chinese fans who couldn't buy tickets - those who had tickets were now in the Mercedes stadium.

When the players of the Chinese team came out of the lobby wearing uniform suits and queuing up to get on the bus, the fans at the scene were the first to commotion.

They waved the five-star red flag in their hands, shouted and screamed loudly: "Come on, Chinese team!!"

"Hu Lai is awesome!"

"Luo Kai, I love you!!"

"Qing Huan!! Ah—Qing Huan!!"

"Chen Xingyi!! Chen Xingyi!!"

The reporters press the shutter of the camera and freeze the scene on the memory card.

In such a noisy environment, the CCTV reporter also had to raise his volume, which made him look very excited: "The players of the Chinese team have come out! They are about to board the bus to the Mercedes Stadium! Audience friends , this is the first start of the Chinese team in the history of the World Cup!"

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Before the alarm clock rang, Li Qingqing was woken up by the sound of the TV in the living room.

Picking up the phone to look, there is still nearly an hour before the start of the game.

Then she saw Hu Lai's reply to herself again: "Just woke up."

It was several hours ago, and she didn't plan to go back, because what Hu Lai needed at this time was to concentrate on preparing for the battle, not to chat with her on WeChat.

"... Audience friends, this is the first start of the Chinese team in the history of the World Cup!"

The excited words of the reporter on the TV in the living room outside fell into Li Qingqing's ears at this moment.

So she lost all sleepiness and sat up from the bed.

The Chinese team is going to the stadium, so why sleep?

Get up... No, it's watching the ball!

She quickly changed her clothes, got up and got out of bed with her mobile phone.

open the bedroom door,

I saw red flags fluttering on the TV screen in the living room, and the players of the Chinese team boarded the bus one by one under the cheers of the fans and reporters.

It happened that Hu Lai appeared in the close-up, and there were fans shouting his name hoarsely.

Li Qingqing smiled, and then asked Li Ziqiang who was sitting on the sofa: "Dad, why are you watching at home? Didn't Aunt Xie tell us to go to their house to watch the game?"

"When is this? Maybe he hasn't woken up yet. What are you doing now?" Li Ziqiang answered his daughter's question while looking down at his phone. "Wait until the game is about to start before knocking on the door."

"That's right..." Li Qingqing woke up half an hour earlier than expected.

After finishing speaking, she turned to the bathroom to wash her face with cold water to wake herself up completely, and then returned to the living room and sat down with her father to wait for the game to start.

In the TV broadcast, all the players of the Chinese team had already boarded the bus, the doors were closed, and then slowly started, leaving the crowded hotel gate.

Led by the police cars that cleared the way, they headed towards the competition venue, the Mercedes Stadium.

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Hu Lai stood in the player tunnel, and the cameraman was next to him with a camera.

Hu Lai knew that the camera lens was on him, and his every move would appear in front of hundreds of millions of TV viewers.

But at this time, he can't care about shaking his wits in front of the camera lens like the Olympic Games.

He was expressionless on the surface, but he had actually entered the system space, and was using the ten [Consonance Cards] one by one for his starting teammates.

As one card after another turned into white light and threw it into the bodies of his teammates, in his system field of vision, his eyes were completely white—the light chains of the front and back teammates gathered together to form a huge beam of light.

Fortunately, the light was not dazzling, otherwise Hu Lai would have been blind for a few minutes...

After using up all the [Consonance Cards], he began to equip himself with [Broken Giant Bear Legguards], [Punched Giant Bear Jersey] and [Lover's Red String].

Hu Lai, who was concentrating on setting buffs for himself, didn't know that his scene had a different interpretation in the eyes of others.

"...Hu Lai has a serious face in front of the camera. It can be seen that even Hu Lai rarely became nervous when facing the Chinese team's first World Cup match..." He Feng said with emotion.

"That's right, I still remember his performance in the first Olympic Games, that was really easy to take in and out..." Yan Kang echoed, expressing his agreement. "And today he is obviously not very let go..."

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After the narrator said this, Xie Lan didn't jump out to refute. Hu Lixin was a little strange. I don't know if it was because Li Ziqiang and Li Qingqing were there today, and she couldn't let go... So she glanced at her .

Only after seeing it did she realize that Xie Lan's hands were tightly clenched into fists in front of his mouth, and his body was trembling slightly.

It's not that I can't let go, it's that I'm too nervous...

Hu Lixin didn't laugh at his wife because it was so normal.

He was also nervous, but not as obvious as his wife...

Xie Lan, who couldn't restrain her body shaking, suddenly felt someone gently place a hand on her... knee.

Turning her head to look, it was Li Qingqing who was sitting beside her.

Seeing Xie Lan looking over, the girl didn't speak, but smiled at her.

The shaking of Xie Lan's body suddenly eased a little.

So she gave Li Qingqing a thankful smile, then turned her head to watch the live broadcast.

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Standing in the queue, Zhang Qinghuan suddenly raised his head and cast his gaze diagonally forward.

There, he saw a man with shoulder-length hair and a fair face staring in his... direction.

That's Algeria's captain, their midfielder Elis Sedley.

Zhang Qinghuan thought it was his own illusion, and the other party should not be looking at him.

So he looked back behind him to see if anyone else was looking at Sateri.

Did not see such a situation.

Then he turned back and found that the other party was still looking in his direction.

Then it is confirmed that Sateri is indeed looking at himself.

As for why the other party looks at me...

Sateri noticed that Zhang Qinghuan was also looking over, so he nodded slightly and smiled.

This smile appeared on Sateri's rather handsome face, and it was sure to captivate many women.

But Zhang Qinghuan's heart sank.

Because the person in front of him nodding and smiling at him is not a chic and suave "Young Master".

On the contrary, Iliye Sedri, who plays for San Marco in the middle of Serie A, has a murderous nickname:

Killing machine.

As the saying goes, there are only wrong names, not wrong nicknames.

So just from this nickname, we can see what kind of player Sateri is.

Sateri, who is 1.8 meters tall, does not look very strong, but he has outstanding core strength and is good at running. Sweeping in the midfield is his most common defensive method.

But that's okay, most sweeping midfielders play like this.

In addition to these characteristics, Sateri also has another well-known characteristic, that is... rough defense and extremely aggressive.

Such characteristics made him even a little "notorious" in Serie A.

This is a defensive player who seems to be rushing to kill the opponent every time he defends.

How could he be kind to himself?

Don't even think about it!

A smile like that is sure to be a threat!

Zhang Qinghuan didn't want to meet the eyes of this lunatic, he looked away, trying to keep his heart calm before such an important game.

Seeing the reaction of the Chinese players, Sateri grinned this time, showing all his teeth.

He turned around and looked back, standing at the front of the team, holding the team flag that will be exchanged in a while, behind his back, with his head raised slightly, like a proud general who has won a battle.

Soon the referee team came up from behind and said to the captains of both sides: "Ready to play, gentlemen!"

Sateri didn't even look back, and Yao Huasheng who was next to him turned around and applauded his teammates: "It's out! It's out! Pull yourself up!"

The other Chinese players turned around to remind their teammates behind them and encouraged each other.

Then the players from both sides took their little caddies, followed the referee team and their own captains, and stepped forward.

Amidst the crisp sound of shoe spikes, these two teams, both of which entered the World Cup for the first time, have taken their first steps in the history of the World Cup.

Players from both sides walked onto the pitch and stood in a row, led by the national flags of their respective countries. The live broadcast reminded everyone that the national anthems of both teams will be played next.

For Algeria and China, this is the first time their respective national anthems have been played on the World Cup stage.

The stadium quickly quieted down.

The Algerian national anthem was played first.

Every Algerian player who appeared on camera seemed to have tears in their eyes, singing along to the music with great excitement.

This is their moment of glory.

After the Algerian national anthem, there was a burst of applause and short cheers.

Then the broadcast prompts: "The national anthem of the People's Republic of China will be played next!"

The cheers stopped abruptly, and there was silence in the stadium.

"Arise—those who will not be slaves!"

When the national anthem of the People's Republic of China was played on the TV, Yan Yan, Chu Yifan and their partners stood side by side in a row in front of the TV. Just like the Chinese players on the field.

They sang along to the national anthem on TV.

"Use our flesh and blood! Build our new Great Wall!"

Not only in this box, but in other places in China, the audience in front of the TV also all stood up and sang the national anthem to the screen.

"The Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time!"

On the bus, in the subway car, on the road... Those fans who watched the live broadcast on their mobile phones also held the screen, kept standing, and silently sang the national anthem.

"Everyone was forced to let out a final roar—"

A deafening roar resounded over the Mercedes Stadium in Atlanta.

Those fans who rushed from far away China, those overseas Chinese and overseas students who were originally in the United States and Canada... poured their voices into the chorus.

"Get up! Get up! Get up!!!"

The broadcast camera scanned the coaching bench and the bench of the Chinese team in turn. Both the coaches and the bench players stood in front of their seats and faced the direction of the national flag.

"We are of one mind! Under the fire of the enemy—forward!"

The camera once again scanned the first eleven players of the Chinese team. Through the live broadcast of the microphone, the TV audience could even hear the singing from their mouths.

"Brave the enemy's fire, go! Go! Go! Go!!"

With the disappearance of the last note, huge cheers can't wait to come from the stands of the stadium.

The captain Yao Huasheng in the camera slapped his hands hard and shouted to his teammates: "Get ready for the game! Brothers!"

In the box, Chu Yifan and Yan Yan looked like captains, shouting excitedly: "Here we come! The game is coming!!"

Countless Chinese fans in front of the TV are also shouting:

"Come on Chinese team!!"

The Chinese team's World Cup is finally coming!

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PS, during the plot of the World Cup, considering that this plot is very important to the whole novel—it’s not about the final results of the Chinese team, but this World Cup is a link between the past and the future for the whole novel. The meaning is definitely not what ranking the Chinese team will get in the end.

I hope to use this World Cup to shape those important figures and make them more vivid.

So there will be more space in the game.

But considering the update, if I still maintain the original rhythm, I am always worried that you will scold me, so I will involuntarily want to speed up the rhythm when writing, and hurry up and hurry up.

But in this way, it actually violated my original intention, and it may cause me to miss some things, and I cannot explain the completeness of the description.

In other words, I don't want to write fast, I want to write slow.

Write what needs to be written.

In this way, I guess some people will complain that "a game has not finished writing XX chapters".

So in order to make the experience of readers and friends who follow the series a little bit better, I decided to adopt three changes a day during the competition, but the plot outside the competition will be changed once a day.

Three shifts a day allows everyone not to feel dragged on for too long, and it also allows me to write what I want to write in the competition more calmly.

And when it is updated every day, let me make up the previously used manuscripts, so that I won't be forced to breathe out of the update progress. After all, the summer vacation is approaching, and there will be a lot of trivial things in my life, so writing will definitely be affected.

I will also explain in the update the day before when exactly when three shifts and when single shifts.

First of all, the three days of tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow are three shifts a day.

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