Chapter 242: Captain's Armband

"A few of them."

After Lei Yi said this, his group of national team teammates surrounding the old captain Zhang Shaolin all laughed after being stunned.

Then Zhang Shaolin said: "Okay! Brother Shaolin is in charge of you, this time we won't talk about friendship first and competition second! None of you are allowed to shoot when you get the ball, all of you will assist Little Thunder Wing! We Lei Yi want to enter a few, and if we can get in, we can get a few! ”

Saying that, the big brother in the national team really seriously coerced these national team players who were right in front of him. When the teammates in the corridor saw their teammates, the atmosphere of hugging and laughing gave a whole sense of gangsterism, Wei Lin, who also came over at some point, nodded his chin to Lei Yi, signaling the other party to come with him, he had something to say.

Seeing him shouting like this, Lei Yi hurriedly pointed to Wei Lin over there with Chilie Nyima, who was standing beside him, and then took a step towards Wei Lin. So Chi Lie Nyima, who always played striker with him in the national team, quickly understood what Lei Yi meant, and signaled Lei Yi to go, he would tell Brother SΓΉ Shaolin about them.

After seeing Lei Yi walking towards him, Wei Lin turned around and walked towards the end of the corridor, near the place where he was in his bedroom.

"Lei Yi, there is something I want to sue you, although this matter is still early, but I think you are already a responsible man, it is better to sue you earlier."

Hearing this, Lei Yi, who didn't understand or guess what the other party wanted to say to him, nodded knowingly, and then waited for the other party very seriously.

'I'm almost 32 years old, so I'm very old for the position I'm playing. Originally, I wanted to retire from the national team at the end of the World Cup. But after consulting with my coach, I decided to stay with the national team for another year and make it official after next year's Asian Cup. The team has discussed that you will come and pick up my captain's armband when the time comes. ”

"Me? I can't, I can't. Before he had time to digest his second national team captain, he was about to leave that position, and Lei Yi was shocked by the last words of the other party! He was taken aback, and reflexively waved his hand after hearing the words "take the captain's armband".

At that time, Zhang Shaolin, who was surrounded by many people not far away, glanced in the direction of Wei Lin and Lei Yi, and then nodded with Wei Lin.

Wei Lin received this signal, then looked at Lei Yi again, and said, "Lei Yi, we are the national team. A lot of people can only play one major tournament in their lifetime. Although many of the people in our current team are from the team of the World Cup four years ago, and everyone has been in the team for about the same time, if you talk about the qualifications in the national team, you are actually not shallow. It's been five years since you were in the national team. Originally, I thought you were still a child who hadn't grown up, so how to be a captain. But your performance at this World Cup has made me feel different about you. ”

Hearing this, Lei Yi didn't rush to deny anything, but blushed under such a gaze.

"You are the one I watched enter the team, at that time Shaolin told me that this child is only 16 years old, it is rare to have such a good seedling, as long as it is not a matter of principle, we have to protect you well. But in this World Cup, you don't need us anymore. Even when we had no hope of qualifying, it was you who led everyone to fight such a beautiful battle. You're doing a great job. I also believe you can do better. Kick it up, kick it well! A European Golden Boot at such a young age as you, what is there that you can't get by. ”

Although it is said that when he came here and saw his familiar teammates, Lei Yi, who was experiencing a difficult period in his career, had a smile on his face. But when he heard the captain of his national team say such words to him, his eyes were red as he smiled and nodded.

He: "Hmm! sighed, and then agreed: "Yes, I'm so good, what's too much to get by!" ”

After that, Wei Lin rubbed Lei Yi's head, as if Zhang Shaolin had done to him when he first joined the team. Then the front waist, who has always had a very calm personality, said to Lei Yi: "Let's go, let's go to the kitchen to see the cake cutting." ”

When Wei Lin, who had already decided to retire from the national team next summer, said this to Lei Yi, he could not have imagined that at the Red Star Stadium in Belgrade two days later, the boy next to him, who had grown to the height of his eyebrows, would set a crazy goal record like ZΓ o.

In the beginning, a qiΔ“ was all good. In a friendly match between the two national teams during the international break, thousands of Chinese fans dressed in red and carrying small flags went to the Serbian capital, and some local Serbian fans also went to the scene.

It's just that such a game still vacated a large number of unmanned seats at the scene.

And it was in such a somewhat empty and not very lively stadium that Lei Yi single-handedly set a record of six goals in a single game.

From the first minute of the game, he was so eager to do something. He was eager to attack, eager to pass, eager to score goals. It was as if tomorrow, tomorrow he would no longer be able to run so wantonly.

When Ray scored two goals in ten minutes, even his national team manager, Brazilian Andric, was a little intimidated by his ferocity. And the previous captain of the national team, who was the leader of the team, stood up directly after seeing Lei Yi's expression and walked to the sidelines, as if to determine something.

But his goal record in this game certainly won't stop at just two. In the 27th minute, Thunder Wing scored a third goal. But that's not the most shocking, and forget about it.

What left eyes glued to him and the whole heart fluttering with him was another scoring frenzy that struck him after 70 minutes of play as the fitness of the Serbian defence dropped.

On this day, Lei Yi's teammates were just like their old captain said in the training base in Beijing, and the whole team provided him with assists. But even so, his team-mates who are trying to match up with the European Golden Boot on the offensive line will still be horrified by his terrifying attacking prowess.

That would make those national team teammates who have known him for five years wonder if it ...... Is it possible that this is the limit of what the boy with the long and short legs can do on the court?

But once such a thought is born, it makes people's hearts turbulent......

"Six-goal recovery in a single game? 》

"Attacking until the last minute in the lead, is it respect or too persistent? 》

He shouted at everyone in the room: No! What can I do! 》

At the end of every international break, newspapers are scrambling to report on the performances of some of football's top players in their respective national teams, and the Tottenham winger, who won the European Golden Boot with Manchester United's young king Tigos last season, has received too much coverage for his recent slump at the club.

But even so, the newspapers that had been set aside for Ray Wing's watch in that friendly against Serbia were collected and now lying on Tottenham boss Nikola's desk. And when the French coach, who is accustomed to smiling at his players, read the words describing how brave Raywing's performance in that game was and how he frightened the crowd.

He even read the sentences out in his office alone, and then hummed a French love song tune that he couldn't remember the name or lyrics.

But as he walked out of the office for a training session that had only half an hour to go, he had his usual expression.

The manager, who is responsible for the high-pressure domination of the entire team, demands "just" punctuality from his players, not even a minute late. But his requirements for himself and the entire coaching team arrived early. And he himself is likely to be the first of the entire coaching staff.

For him, as a manager, his early arrival at the training ground has helped to create a healthy state of competition among the players. And coming to the court earlier also makes his thinking clearer.

And when he came to the training ground, he found that the figure belonging to Thunder Wing had already appeared there.

Very good. Nikolai made a sound of approval in his heart. And his assistant coach called out to him at this moment.

"Sir, just now, the strength and conditioning coach gave me a set of numbers. It's about ha. ”

Hearing this, Nikolai glanced at Lei Yi, who was doing sprint training there, before saying to his assistant coach, "I'll listen. ”

"In recent times, there has been an amazing improvement in all aspects of HA. Especially his thirty-meter sprint speed. Now he's the second fastest player on the team. Isn't it said that HA is the slowest winger in the big five leagues! Isn't it that he doesn't want to run fast, but that if he runs fast, he will easily trip over himself? ”

Hearing this, Nikolai laughed again, but soon, he put away his smile and said to his work partner with some pretense: "That was a long time ago, don't you know?" Such rumors have long been outdated. ”

"How long ago was that, my old fellow? I remember his number jΓΉ, we tested him when he first joined the team, and although he was much faster than before, his number was still not so impressive at that time. But for the past two months, he has gone crazy. I said, when are you going to get him back in the core role? ”

When asked this question, Nikolai glanced at the figure of Lei Yi on the field again, but did not answer the assistant coach's question, but clapped his hands a few times as he walked to the court, and motioned for several players who had come to the training ground in advance and trained him to come to his side.

"There's 20 minutes left in training this morning, are you interested in playing a lap-steal before that?"

During the lunch break on this day, Lei Yi, who had been in a cold war with his coach for quite some time, went to the door of Nikolai's office during the lunch break.

In fact, after the last Champions League group stage game against Paris Saint-Germain, the whole of England was mocking him for asking his boss for a chance to play in the middle of the game, trying to interfere with the opponent's judgment and was ultimately rejected by the Frenchman.

Although Lei Yi thought that he was not wrong at the time, even the most gently worded related reports described his behavior at that time as "out of place". And many more criticized Lei Yi for not being a professional enough player at all.

If he could, Lei Yi didn't actually want to take the initiative to find the other party after ten days, just to persuade the other party to get a promise from the person he hated. A commitment that will get him a start in the next round.

Although, he is not even fifty percent sure that he can do this.

But he had to give it a try. Because he wants to be able to play as a starter when his good friend Legos is a guest at Tottenham. They are both friends and rivals, which means he will definitely want to compete with his friend when Tigos travels with the team to White Hart Lane.

When Lei Yi thought about this wish in his head again, he knocked on the door of Nikolai's office without hesitation.

"It's me. I'd like to talk to you about it. ”