Chapter 8: The Summer of France
At 23:30 BJ time on June 10, the 16th World Cup kicked off at the Stade la Dale de France in Paris, France. The two sides were the defending champions Brazil and Scotland, there were no red cards and no injuries, but it was also a bloody game that led to the first own goal in the history of the World Cup opener. After Sampaio's header took the lead, Scotland's Collins scored a penalty, and when the two sides were in a stalemate, something unexpected happened: Cafu broke through quickly on the right, shook off Boehly and burst into the box to shoot low, although Scottish captain Stephen Hendry tried his best to chase the ball off the goal line, but Boyd, who was eager to chase back, did not judge the direction of the ball, and directly slammed the ball into his own door with his chest. In the end, the defending champions got off to a winning 2-1 in their opening game......"
The news cut into the game screen, and Song Shixiong's unique voice also floated out of the TV.
Your sister!
Li He screamed in his heart, just after he came back from rebirth, he always felt that nothing was straightened out, and he forgot that there was still this stubble. For Li He, who shed tears for Baggio's back four years ago, how could he not remember the 98 World Cup?
In his previous life, although he was a tall and thin bamboo pole, it felt like a gust of wind could blow it down, but he, like many boys at that time, was also very fond of football. And when he was a freshman in high school, he was also a member of the football team formed by the boys in his class. Although he didn't play well and played poorly, he had to come off the bench a lot of the time, but he still took the name of the team.
What is the name of the team?
By the way, it's called "Black Lancer", or "Black Cavalry" for short.
The "one team" that Zhao Yong said is obviously this football team.
However, although the team name was taken by Li He, he was really a fringe player in the team, and he remembered that his jersey number was 21, which everyone thought was a substitute at first glance. Although the number 21 is Li He's birthday, he himself doesn't like this number, he wants the number 9, the jersey number of his idol Batistuta, but it is the number 9......
With a scream of "The ball is in!" on the TV, Li He's thoughts returned to his eyes, and then a light suddenly flashed in his mind, taking advantage of the fact that the news had not reported the results of the other two games in the early morning of the 11th, he quickly recalled, he remembered that he stayed up late to watch the live broadcast, even if he didn't watch the live broadcast, he would watch the replay the next day, and he was in full swing with the team's friends, so for the 98 World Cup, he was really impressed.
When he recalled the results of the matches between Morocco vs Norway and Italy vs Chile in the early hours of June 11, the TV news also introduced the results of the two matches, two 2-2, exactly the same as he remembers.
Same!
Li He didn't remember all the results of the 98 World Cup in his head, but he almost remembered some of the teams he followed and liked, as well as the more classic games, the big score games, and the games after the round of 16. But what about remembering? He knows that there are many people who gamble on the Internet later, some legal and some illegal, and he has friends around him who won tens of thousands of dollars in the 2014 World Cup and lost tens of thousands of dollars in the 2016 European Cup. But the problem is that it's 1998 and he doesn't have the opportunity to bet online. In his impression, the sports lottery started in 99, and the football lottery had to wait until 01......
Damn, is this memory just a chicken rib? Li He wants to cry, because the protagonist in Mao's novel is reborn everywhere, he is full of opportunities, he doesn't want to get rich and is worried that Tianyu will suffer if he doesn't take it, and it's so difficult for him to find a way out? What a pit......
At this time, the phone at home rang, it was a landline, 98 years mobile phones have not been popularized in everyone's hands, for ordinary families in a small city, landlines are the most common, of course, adults also still carry BP machines, Li He remembers that Kang Xingjian has a Motorola Chinese BP machine, in high school students at this time, this is definitely a luxury.
"Chunchun, you answer the phone. Mia shouted from the kitchen, "Mommy is still washing the dishes!"
Li Chun sighed and went to answer the phone, then raised his head and said to Li He, "Brother, your phone." ”
Li He was still depressed that he couldn't find a way to get rich overnight, and he was lazy when he took the phone, and then he heard a boy's voice on the phone, saying, "Li He, thank you today." ”
Li He didn't hear who it was for a while, so he could only sigh.
Kang Xingjian said: "I am Kang Xingjian. ”
Li He sighed in his heart and said, "You said that there was a fight?"
Kang Xingjian said: "Yes, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I've had a wrong opinion about you in the past, and I'm sorry to say to you. Zhao Yong said that you are a person who can be a brother, I have always disagreed, and now I admit that what he said is right. ”
Li He smiled and said, "I don't blame you, do I have to tell you if I have learned the Divine Palm?"
Kang Xingjian was stunned for a moment, he hadn't heard Zhou Xingxing's lines in "Kung Fu", this young man was obviously shocked by such "humorous" words, and instead laughed and said, "Damn, you can really talk about it! Since we are brothers, I don't keep saying thank you." The captain asked me to inform me, after the class meeting tomorrow afternoon, and the 'thunderstorm', last time you were injured and didn't play, let them pick up the cheap and win us once, tomorrow to get this breath back, let everyone know, 'black rider' is the NO.1 in the seven!"
"Uh......" Li He wanted to say that I was just a substitute, but he felt that many things had changed slightly since he was reborn, just like the previous fights, and maybe the matter of playing football was not the same thing in him as he remembered.
Kang Xingjian didn't pay attention to these at all, and then asked: "What do you think of the games tonight?"
Li He knew that Kang Xingjian was talking about the World Cup, and in the hearts of these boys during this time, the world was big, and the World Cup was the biggest. He thought about it for a while, and couldn't remember which teams were playing on the second matchday, and he didn't think it was very important for him, so he could only ask, "Which teams?"
"Paraguay vs. Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia vs. Denmark, Cameroon vs. Austria," Kang said. ”
"I don't remember...... Oh no, I don't know, I don't feel it. 'He doesn't remember the games very much, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that he said he missed it.
But fortunately, Kang Xingjian didn't notice this, just thought for a while and asked: "Then Saudi Arabia, do you think you can win a good start for the Asian team?"
Li He wants to say that the Asian team has nothing to do with me? He is not like some "true fans", the Chinese team can't enter the World Cup, so he takes the Asian team as his home team, and even in 02, the stick shamelessly stole a fourth, and many people are so excited that their faces are flushed, saying that the Asian team finally stands on the podium of the top four in the World Cup...... Not only does Li He never regard other Asian countries as his home team, but he also does not regard the Chinese men's football team as his home team, which everyone understands.
However, Kang Xingjian asked, and Li He also thought about it and said: "Saudi Arabia lost 0-1." ”
The Saudis are all live Lei Feng, especially in 02, without Saudi Arabia's 0-8 loss to Germany, the most embarrassing ironclad must be the Chinese team......
Kang Xingjian was silent for a moment and said: "I'm still quite optimistic about Saudi Arabia, after all, Saudi Arabia also reached the top 16 in the last session, and their foundation is still there." You're so sure, why don't we make a bet and have a family photo with a bowl of mutton noodles?"
Li He smiled helplessly, a bowl of mutton noodles...... Why don't you gamble on tens or millions? Brother wants to be rich now, but unfortunately there is no place to gamble. However, he still agreed to this bet.
hung up Kang Xingjian's phone and walked back to his room sullenly, Li He subconsciously wanted to turn on the computer to find some wonderful movies to watch, and suddenly found that there was no computer in the room, only two posters on the wall, and Batistuta, who was wearing a Fiorentina jersey and long hair, roared like a lion, and his clenched fists were full of iron and blood. Li He realized once again that this was not in the time and space when he was 35 years old, but in the golden age of his 16 years.
Tomorrow is Friday, there is a class meeting in the afternoon, and they have to play football after the class meeting, and they will go to class as usual on Saturday, and they will not really have a half-day holiday until Sunday afternoon...... Well, Li He remembers that there were almost no days off in high school at that time. This time Li Chun didn't follow up, because she also had to do her homework, Li He once again looked around his room suspiciously, and pulled out his jersey from the closet.
But when he unfolded the black jersey on the bed, he found that the back of the jersey was printed with a big number "9...... Li He remembers very well that he wore the number 21 back then, although there were some more distinctive stars in this number, but in the traditional sense, this is a number worn by substitutes, at least they all thought so at the time. The number 9 is different, and the number 9 is the number of an absolute main center forward like Batistuta. Li He looked at the pinyin of "lihe" on the jersey with a half-smile and could be sure that this was not someone else's jersey, so this should also be an added value of physical attributes, and a subtle change that was different from his memory.
No. 9, and there are a lot of small five-pointed stars drawn with highlighters on the clothes, that's ...... Goals.
Li He looked at his jersey and really didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
I want to laugh because he used to be depressed because he was only a bench player in the team in middle school, and he used to hate his weak physique, and now it seems that his physical fitness has obviously picked up a little cheap, and he wants to cry, because he feels that if he picks up only such a bargain, then he will still be very lost, after all, even if he is reborn, he knows that he cannot rely on this body to embark on the road of a professional player...... What's even more tangled is that he is really worried that the added value of rebirth is just that, the body, it can be exercised, it is just a matter of strength and weakness, but if this physical fitness occupies the other advantages of his rebirth, then this rebirth is really too special.