Chapter 33: Reminiscence
In fact, who doesn't have a lot of black history?
But the tragedy of Zhang Shaolin is in the ...... He made his black history TV out!
Zhang Shaolin, he is on TV, and he is still on a program with extremely high ratings across the country!
In fact, compared to Lei Yi, the daredevil of Lei Yi, Zhang Shaolin, the current captain of the Chinese national team, is not a lucky player. When he was a teenager, he encountered a lot of dark sides in the youth training system of Chinese football. He has loved football since he was a child, and although his family is not well-off, he has also spent a lot of money to go to those academy schools for a fee to learn how to play.
But what happened after that was nothing more than a clichéd story of a poor boy with a dream who was bullied by a wealthy young master who came to have a trip in the more profit-oriented academy. When he was still 16 years old, Lei Yi had already gone to Sao Paulo in Brazil to start his career, but Zhang Shaolin was viciously trampled on by the bad boys who were not used to seeing him stealing the limelight in the academy and suffered a leg injury.
At the age of 17, Zhang Shaolin recovered from his leg injury, but he did not play football again. He chose to put on a guitar on his back, wandered the world, and braved the police and the mall security guards to sing to passers-by "This. Egg Soccer!
Not to mention, Zhang Shaolin was born with a good voice. After wandering for a year, I signed up for a talent show that was popular all over the country at that time, and I was really selected layer by layer, and I met Yue Yihuang, who was invited by the program team to be a substitute judge, and only then helped the promoted Torino defeat Juventus in the Serie A Torino derby and became famous.
And then again?
It's nothing more than the story of a goblin swinging a knife to slash a warrior, but the warrior was subdued with a pokemon ball.
Zhang Shaolin decided to return to the football field instead of continuing his national wandering career. With the help of the program team, Zhang Shaolin went to Shanghai Shenhua, where he had a tryout, and then started his career after a bumpy ride.
Zhang Shaolin is 31 years old this year, and the troubles of his 18-year-old years have almost accompanied this generation of young players of the national team all the way up. Moreover, as long as Zhang Shaolin does not retire for one day, the talent show 14 years ago will definitely be rebroadcast year after year in the winter and summer vacations.
This feeling!
It's really ...... Too fucky. Eggs.
When Lei Yi's national team teammates hahahahaha told Lei Yi about the black history of captain Zhang Shaolin back then, some good deeds directly took his mobile phone and called up the video that let them watch it year after year...... Then, continue hahahahaha.
If Zhang Shaolin knew that his early return to the dormitory would cause such a tragedy to happen, then he would definitely not sit there in peace until everyone dispersed!
Especially...... Before that, Lei Yi really didn't remember the show that he had occasionally seen in his childhood...... The male protagonist in it is his current captain of the national team!
The boring month of closed training and the anticipation of the World Cup always make it feel like a long time.
Thinking that they were going to leave for Mexico and participate in the World Cup the next day, everyone went to call the people they had a close relationship with, whether they were friends or lovers, and told each other about the excitement and nervousness on the eve of the big war.
Lei Yi couldn't think of who he was going to talk to on the phone, so he dragged a chair and went to the balcony of the dormitory to sit and look at the stars, his eyes were bright, and he smirked because he thought of something. Smirking and smirking, he suddenly lost his smile and sighed deeply.
Maybe it's because Lei Yi thinks that after he finishes this World Cup, he will be able to play in a brand new country that belongs to the European continent and prove to the world that he is omnipotent.
Therefore, before leaving for the national team's training base, Lei Yi once again went to his second hometown, which will always be in his heart. The small town of Paugrande, 50 km from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is where Garrincha was born and where Garrincha grew up.
It was a place surrounded by mountains on three sides, covered in thick rainforest, peaceful and quiet.
Compared to the sixties of the last century, not much has changed there.
There are still wooded streams, cobbled paths, and low old-fashioned houses.
It's just that the textile mill that was always skipped by Garin Cha is now gone.
There is no large memorial sculpture of Garrincha here, but at the foot of a hill there is a very simple and even rudimentary tombstone. There are no flowers in front of the tomb, and it seems that no one has come to clean it for a long time. But that phrase on the tombstone alone can set it apart from the tombstones of all the other little people in the vicinity.
Mane is the nickname given to Garrincha by Pele and others, which in Portuguese means big fool and fool.
Looking at that line of words, Lei Yi, who put all his luggage at the airport and came here alone, smiled and gently read "Mane". It didn't seem to be enough to read it once, so Lei Yi recited the nickname two more times, three times.
The old grave keeper didn't recognize Lei Yilai, but the grave keeper seemed to be very used to the occasional appearance of a few young people with unfamiliar faces here. He half-squinted his eyes enjoying the Brazilian sun. Not far away, a few children were chasing a battered soccer ball.
A qiē and a qiē are all so familiar, but ...... The small town of Paugrande, which Lei Yi knew, did not have this tombstone.
Lei Yi put down his backpack and started to clean the small tombstone that finally belonged to Garrincha, and then carefully placed the flowers he brought from the city of Rio de Janeiro in front of the tombstone. He had a soccer ball in his bag, and he had wanted to put it in front of Garrincha's grave because he was sure of the ...... The happiest people will love such a gift.
But in the end, Lei Yi gave the football to the children who were playing nearby.
Lei Yi understood that this was not the first time he had been here, and it would certainly not be the last time he would return here.
In his mind, there will always be a small, narrow road that leads to this town, where he first met Garrincha.
And in Garrincha's heart, he never forgot where he came from.
Being buried here after his death was one of his last wishes.
The night before he traveled to Mexico for the World Cup, Lei Yi dreamed of the 1958 World Cup.
It was the first World Cup that belonged to Garrincha. The whole team seemed nervous, and Brazil were eager to lift a World Cup trophy.
Garrincha was 24 years old that year, and Pele was 17. Reckless, but the best goalscorer in the Brazilian team.
Before the World Cup, Brazil played a friendly match against Fiorentina in Serie A. Garrincha didn't shoot at the empty goal like a joke, and continued to dribble, turning to startle the Fiorentina goalkeeper who had just gotten up, and then passed him again before he finished the shot without getting enough of it.
Then, Garrincha, who had no idea what he had done wrong, was very sad to receive a one-game ban from the team.
That year, Brazil became the team that would eventually lift the World Cup. Their captain Bellini was brought to the trophy. But the Brazilian journalists who went to the awards ceremony that year were much shorter than their Swedish counterparts. So the Brazilian journalists, with cameras in hand, shouted at their national team captain Bellini: "Hold it up!" "Lift it high!!"
The captain slammed the trophy above his head! It seems that after that, this move of his was imitated by many champions......
About the 1958 World Cup, Thunder Wing dreamed a lot about it that night.
And the World Cup journey that belongs to the name of Lei Yi is just about to begin......
"It's raining a little bit in Beijing today, but of course this little rain can't stop the enthusiasm of the fans! It's today! Our Chinese team is about to take a connecting flight to Mexico City, the capital of Mexico!! A large number of fans came to the capital airport this morning! In order to bid farewell to this team that is about to go on an expedition!! In order not to affect the normal passenger flow in the airport when a large number of fans arrive at the airport, the capital airport has specially opened a special area today!! Following the camera, we can see that the order of the scene is well maintained! And whether it is the fans who came here spontaneously or the fans who came in groups, they are all waiting here very quietly! Waiting for the appearance of the Chinese team!! ”
"Fans and friends! As one of the very few media invited by the Chinese team, Tencent Sports will board the plane with the team, which means that we will have 15 hours of exclusive interviews and follow-up shooting time in the future! Of course, we will remember not to disturb the rest of the players! If you are interested enough in the Chinese team's trip to the World Cup in Mexico, please lock in our program!! ”
As soon as the host, who was reporting on the scene, finished speaking, the crowd erupted in exclamations of joy.
"They're coming!!"
"Look at them!"
"The Chinese team is here!!!"
As far as the eye could see, a team in red training uniforms walked into a green passage that had been fenced off by airport staff and security. They are not dressed in the same way as the multinational teams in Europe, and they are collectively in suits that show their gentlemanly demeanor off the field. But the red training clothes can make the vitality and momentum on their bodies undoubted.
Although it was bumpy before.
Although there have been too many times before, it has almost made the fans who support them have no hope of making it to the finals.
But at this moment, they are about to go to the World Cup in Mexico.
This will be the last World Cup for Zhang Shaolin, the current captain of the Chinese team. This is also the first World Cup in their careers by Lei Yi, Wu Jian, Chi Rinima, and Yerti. No one knows what the result of these names will be when they are combined.
But regardless of the outcome, many fans have chosen to join them on their journey to Mexico.
This is no longer subject to change.