Chapter 53: The Samba Elephant
As soon as I saw a football field with turquoise turf, a dozen or so men rushed up, running, jumping, chasing, and having fun to their heart's content, and some even came directly to a series of side flips. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The alpha version of the work has just been carried out in an orderly manner as planned, and the recent work pressure is not as great as before, in order to "get rid of the single" plan of the fat man, in order to force him to exercise and fitness, Liu Kewei actually ran to instigate Manager Bing to "enrich the spare time life of employees, exercise the health of employees" under the guise of this big pretense, Zhang Luo set up a football team under the name of the company.
More than 90% of the Holy Grail studio with more than 60 people are young and strong IT men, isn't it easy to start a football team?
So just two days after signing up, a squad of 18 people was put together, and the personnel department sponsored two sets of jerseys in the form of half reimbursement and half self-expense, and presented five copies of the "universal celebration" football designated by this year's South Africa World Cup (the authentic product of this ball has not been publicly sold in China), plus a personnel manager of the substitute player and cheerleader and team leader.
In addition, Manager Bing also personally contacted a nearby vocational school with a football field to agree on borrowing the venue.
So, on Saturday afternoon, the sloppy Holy Grail club men's soccer team ā no joke, with a huge golden goblet embroidered on the chest of their uniforms and the two black characters for "Holy Grail" ā rushed to make a copy.
Liu Kewei, who prides himself on being the team's top scorer, devotedly asked for the No. 10 jersey, and Che Guanglong chose the No. 3 jersey of his idol Maldini, and when asked why he chose No. 8, the otaku fat man winked and said that I like Gascoigne, like his uninhibited and reckless, although I definitely can't do it myself so crazy.
A group of people lined up in a circle in the center of the field to play a game of passing and robbery as a warm-up, and the fat man was alone holding a football and hiding far away.
"What are you doing, old Duan, come and play together!" Che Guanglong asked.
The fat man smiled and waved his hand: "I haven't touched the ball for more than ten years, let me find the ball first." ā
"Don't pay attention to him, he stinks a lot!" Liu Kewei snorted.
As if he couldn't hear Liu Kewei's muttering, the fat man gently threw the ball in his hand, and then turned the ball upside down with his instep. At the beginning, the ball fell to the ground after three or four times, and the fat man was not in a hurry, bent down to pick up the ball and continued to bumble.
Five minutes passed, and the number of consecutive juggling balls gradually increased to about 20.
Ten minutes passed, and the fat man didn't make many mistakes when he juggled the ball, so he slowly added the juggling action of other parts of his body in addition to the instep, including the thighs, shoulders, and forehead......
Fifteen minutes passed, Che Guanglong inadvertently turned his head to look, and immediately opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it anymore, only to see that the fat man sometimes had the instep of his feet, sometimes his thighs, sometimes his shoulders, and his forehead constantly changing his posture of bouncing the ball, completely like a professional player. He couldn't help but tug at Liu Kewei and motioned for him to look back.
"Cut, I don't know how the ball is kicked yet, there is a lot of work!" Liu Kewei pursed his lips and complained convincingly, "Don't make it all a long day." ā
At the end of the warm-up exercise, the team leader Manager Bing decided to play a 30-minute five-a-side internal competition, the whole team was divided into two groups of nine, with no limit on the number of substitutes, 15 minutes each in the second half, and a three-minute half. There is no referee and patrol line, after all, they are all their own people from the same company, and it is not appropriate to make it too formal, and if there is any dispute, everyone will negotiate and settle it.
The fat man, Liu Kewei and Che Guanglong were placed on the first team, and several newcomers who had just joined the company humbly gave them the opportunity to start.
"Old Duan, are you okay?" Che Guanglong looked at the round belly of the fat man in the house, and was a little relieved.
"I don't know until I get on the field," the fat man wiped the beads of sweat from his head, "but I seem to have regained the sense of the ball that I had back then." ā
Liu Kewei glared and said: "Wait until we win and then blow, what position do you want to play?
'I play in midfield. The fat man replied.
In fact, there is no strict distinction between strikers and midfielders in the five-a-side game, basically a two-line position, and the so-called strikers and midfielders are just a statement that is biased towards breaking through the attack or biased towards organizing defense.
Cha Guanglong and another buddy play defender, and there is a goalkeeper, which makes up the starting five.
After guessing the ball, the first team kicked off, Liu Kewei looked at the position of the fat man, kicked the ball over, and then turned around and ran towards the opponent's half.
The fat man gently retracted the ball with his right foot and stopped the ball beautifully with the arch of his foot.
A player from the second team ran towards the fat man, who stepped on the ball with his right foot, bowed to the right and made a feint to try to break through, and the opponent immediately stepped forward to block in that direction. The fat man made a 270° turn with his left foot as the support, leaned on the opponent's body and turned clockwise for most of the time, and at the same time stepped on the ball with his right foot and shook it over easily.
Looking up, Liu Kewei was being sandwiched by two players on the other side, and there was no gap for passing, at this time, the opponent who had been shaken by the fat man had already controlled the center of gravity of his body, and turned around to intercept again. The fat man turned his head to look behind him, knocked the ball with his heel covertly, and passed the ball to Che Guanglong, who ran over to meet him.
"Damn!" Che Guanglong blurted out, the fat man's ball was passed so suddenly, he was not mentally prepared at all, and he almost didn't receive it.
The player who was staring at the fat man turned around again and ran towards Che Guanglong, who left him alone and ran along the sideline to the opponent's half, and at the same time raised his right hand high to signal to Che Guanglong to ask for the ball, and Che Guanglong found a gap and stuffed the ball along the sideline to him.
The fat man looked for the direction of Liu Kewei again, and found that he had approached the edge of the penalty area, and the two players who wrapped him saw the fat man breaking through on the sideline, and quickly separated a person and ran towards him. The fat man stopped the ball with his left foot and got up directly on the spot, with the momentum of twisting, his toes used a little upward strength to kick the ball high, over the head of the player running towards him, and fell in the direction of Liu Kewei.
Liu Kewei took two steps to meet the ball, jumped high and shook his head, and the ball rolled along the post into the goal.
One to zero.
"Give it beautifully!" Liu Kewei grinned and ran to the fat man, reaching out to give him a fierce "give_me_five" (high-five). The fat man smiled and replied, "Shoot beautifully!"
In fact, there is nothing surprising, compared to most of the pure amateur colleagues who have accumulated no more than dozens of hours of playing football, the three of Otaku, Liu Kewei and Che Guanglong have at least dozens of official matches (of course, they are also amateur games) experience, and after a little familiarity with the ball sense, it becomes a one-sided slaughter.
Liu Kewei is a typical European football style, fast and bounced, especially good at shooting; Cha Guanglong is the North and South Korean style of football, close to the fierce and decisive, while the fat man's style of play is delicate and dexterous, and the imagination of passing the ball is very southern. The three of them get together and can almost stretch out a complete front, middle and back axis.
The reason why I say "almost" is because there is a serious problem with the physical strength of the fat man.
The game was only less than ten minutes old, and as soon as he scored two goals against his opponent, the fat man had to ask for a substitution, and after the game, he sat on the ground like a dead dog, panting vigorously.
At halftime, Liu Kewei and Che Guanglong sat down next to the fat man on the left and right.
"Old Duan, you can't do it, can you still play in the second half?" Che Guanglong said a pun jokingly.
The meaning of not restricting the substitute is that you can play again after the game, as long as the total number of five people on the field is maintained, it is said that you are not allowed to play after the football game, and it is not basketball, right?
", you can't do it. The fat man replied while gasping, "I definitely won't be able to play the whole game in the second half, let's see if I can recover in the last five minutes." ā
Liu Kewei shook his head and said, "Dear, you really have to exercise! You can only play for fifteen minutes in the whole game, what do you think you are Massaro?"
Massaro was a famous gold medal substitute for AC Milan, and although he rarely started, he was always able to come off the bench and score goals, becoming a legend on the pitch.
"At my age, unless I'm a goalkeeper, I should have retired a long time ago!" the fat man defended, "When you are over thirty, you will know that time is not forgiving!"
Liu Kewei scoffed at the argument of the fat man: "I didn't ask you to play the whole game of eleven-a-side, what kind of years do you give me in the five-a-side field, I believe I can still play in this kind of field when I am forty years old!"
Che Guanglong once again stood up to play the role of the old man and played a round: "Lao Liu, don't say it, Lao Duan's footwork is really good, he has a good dribbling, and the long and short passes are just right, if his physical strength is better, he is a main midfielder!"
Liu Kewei nodded in approval this time: "Well, Uncle Duan's footwork really didn't say it, it's just that the physical strength is too bad! But Uncle Duan, don't you always say that you are from Shandong? Your style of play is not the number of roads in Shandong at all!"
Liu Kewei once participated in the junior training team of Luneng Club when he was a child, and later withdrew because of injury, so he is very familiar with Shandong's style of play.
"Most of my high school classmates were fans of the Brazilian team, learning the Brazilian way of playing football all day long, and after staying with them for a long time, they were assimilated. The fat man explained stupidly.
"Hahahaha!" Liu Kewei suddenly burst into laughter irrepressibly, "Uncle Duan, with this kind of ball style, you are completely a samba elephant!"
Samba is a popular dance and music genre in Brazil, and is often used as a synonym for the style of Brazilian football. Hearing Liu Kewei say this, Che Guanglong paused for a moment, and couldn't help but laugh out loud, looking at the shape of the fat man, thinking about how he played football, this description is really apt and appropriate.
After laughing enough, Che Guanglong said: "Actually, Lao Duan is not very fat in other places, mainly because his belly is more cumbersome." It seems that just playing football will not solve the problem, so it is better to play a ball every weekend, swim once, and do a few sets of push-ups and sit-ups in the apartment after work on weekdays, which should quickly pay off. ā
When the fat man heard this, his face immediately turned pale, and he raised his head to the sky and let out a wail.