Chapter 20: Frustration

"On the last leg of the World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team lost 1-3 in the first leg"

"In eight years, we were beaten back to the original shape from the top 16 of the World Cup"

Where is the final light for the Chinese team to advance to the World Cup? 》

"Ecuador didn't defeat us, we lost to the plateau"

Prodigy? Hallucination? Birdie: He didn't make it to the South American highlands.

Almost in the afternoon of that day, major portals gave reports on the Chinese team's intercontinental qualifiers. Moreover, the TV news media acted very quickly this time, and they even gave a brief report on the event during the midday news. In the afternoon, there were various commentary and analysis programs about the focus battle in the hearts of the people.

There are two main points of discussion about this game. One is Zhang Shaolin, the captain of the Chinese team who is still young and contributed a key goal in this game, and the other is ...... It was to take advantage of everyone's expectations, but it was exactly like the last game with the little Garin Charley Wing of two people.

Although at the post-match press conference, head coach Andric has made it clear that he is only sorry rather than disappointed that Lei Yi failed to score in this game, because the child has been suffering from altitude sickness since the beginning of the training camp. But the fans are still a little reluctant.

Why can everyone else but not him?

The 31-year-old center can fight all the way from the beginning of the game to the end of the game.

Why can't a sixteen-year-old child overcome this problem?

Many denounced the so-called "prodigy" after the game with high expectations, but it was actually a parallel import.

There are also many people who say that it has been said a long time ago that football is a place that emphasizes stable play, and it is not enough to judge heroes by just one game!

For these public opinions, Lei Yi, who seems to have lived a century ago and doesn't like to check his own information on the Internet at all, may not know it yet, but Rong Naida, the central five sets of leading commentators who are responsible for commenting on the game, gave his own opinion.

Rong Naida's words were actually protecting Lei Yi, and this was not the first time he had bravely stood up for a player when he became the target of public criticism. But obviously, most people just like to take things out of context, and negative news can always spread farther than positive news.

Many people just intercepted one of Rong Naida's two paragraphs and dragged it out, scrambled to forward it, and expressed indignantly one by one:

Take a look, take a look, compare the long and short legs that fell off the chain at that critical moment with your idol, Brother Rong Nai can't stand it!

Rong Naida's personal Weibo was there, but the masses echoed each other without clicking on it, making the famous commentator of the CCTV department so angry that he jumped to his feet, and said angrily:

At the same time, after finishing that game, Lei Yi took the initiative not to return to Sao Paulo, Brazil, but to fly directly back to Beijing with the team for the final training camp before the start of the second round.

Just after the end of the game, the Chinese team went to the low-altitude seaport city of Ecuador for repairs.

As soon as Lei Yi arrived in the plains, the discomfort in his whole body was gone. But in this way, he was even more depressed, hated in his heart, and couldn't get along with himself.

Before the start of this game, Thunderwing's club friend Dominguez advised him to use long shots as much as possible and not to dribble too much. Because this not only saves his body, but also reduces the discomfort caused by the strenuous exercise caused by altitude sickness, and at high altitudes, the ball hardly slows down in the second half of the long shot compared to in the plains. It is for this reason that in Ecuador's home stadium, long-range shots can make it more difficult for the goalkeeper to save.

But if this is the case, it is equivalent to folding Lei Yi's strengths and exposing his shortcomings.

What Lei Yi is best at is dribbling. He is also able to shoot flexibly in the box, and he has an unrivalled talent for the rhythm of his shots. And this skill certainly surprised his club manager when he first arrived in São Paulo.

But for the long-distance shooting outside the penalty area, Lei Yi is extremely troublesome, or rather...... He doesn't like to try at all. He couldn't understand why some people could practice a handicap and then go through a strange change of direction after kicking. He hated the spoon kick that made Roma Wolf Totti famous, a penalty or a long-range shot from outside the box.

And what he hates the most is the deciduous ball created by the Brazilian Juninho Jr., and the crushed leaf ball, which was later improved by De Carlo, who is also Brazilian, was divided into the category of "entering pseudoscience" by Lei Yi.

Can you imagine! Deciduous balls! Not to mention the wall of people who jumped high after being kicked, it also fell high in the air! A sharp fall from a height is not enough! When he fell, he had to be erratic, so that the goalkeeper could not touch the ball even after watching it rush over!

And crushed leaves! Broken Leaf can also kick any of the cornering angles that the player wants before falling sharply!

When Lei Yi learned that in the history of modern football, there are still such magical skills, and these two skills were created by Brazilians, Lei Yi immediately said that these are unscientific and unscientific!

Immediately, his club teammate Dominguez gave him a physics lesson, explaining to Ray Yi from a physical point of view how to kick such a ball. and what exactly is the principle that contributed to the appearance of such balls.

After listening to that class, Lei Yi angrily flipped the table and said that what he wanted to do was to be a real, simple player, not Bohr, who had won the Nobel Prize for Physicism, nor the great writer Ibrahimovich, who had won the Nobel Prize for Literature! He only trusts his instincts, not the repeated physical formulas and numbers.

From these things, we can understand how stubborn Thunder Wing is when dealing with the problem of long-range shooting.

But no one expected that in the end, what made Lei Yi gain nothing in this life-and-death game happened to be that he couldn't shoot from a distance.

As the tinnitus and dizziness worsened, his ears rang with what Dominguez and his national team manager had said about the advantages of launching long-range shots at high altitudes. However, his shot ended up kicking the ball into the crowd, only to be booed and ridiculed by the home fans.

He already had a bad feeling when the taunts grew louder and the faces of the Ecuadorian home fans began to linger in front of Lei Yi's eyes.

But when that qiē is over, he still can't forgive himself.

It was after midnight that day that the Chinese team from afar boarded the plane back to Beijing. They have two connecting flights in Miami and New York. It's not going to be an easy air ride, but it's already the fastest way back there.

Almost on the plane, Lei Yi was also uncontrolled, constantly recalling the qiē on the field. He didn't need to watch the video of that game to be able to remember that qiē. In the 23 minutes he played, he didn't do much he should have done.

When he thinks of those pictures, Lei Yi will always instinctively raise his knees in a small area, and straighten his instep even more, as if he is trying again and again, about how he can catch the ball that should not be lost, and how he can make the best treatment of the ball that is not handled.

Zhang Shaolin, the captain of the national team sitting next to him, gently patted Lei Yi's leg and said, "Sleep, you will feel that everything is fine when you wake up." ”

Lei Yi should have heard Zhang Shaolin's words, but he didn't even turn his face away, lowered his head, and the whole person seemed to be immersed in his own thoughts. Seeing Lei Yi like this, Zhang Shaolin finally got angry and put on a blindfold for Lei Yi, and said in a louder voice: "Sleep!" ”

But the blackout blindfold obviously didn't make Lei Yi'an born. Immersing himself in darkness clearly made his memories more vivid and irresistible. Seeing that Lei Yi raised his foot again, this time he almost hit the chair of his teammate in front of him, and his body also had a corresponding, small movement under the muscle tension. That made Zhang Shaolin, who was already in a bad mood after losing, almost burst out under a rage and slapped Lei Yi's head.

But the head coach in front of the diagonal front, Brazilian Andric, turned around and made a silent gesture to Zhang Shaolin, and shook his head at Zhang Shaolin.

Obviously, this is a stubborn boy. He was stubborn to the point of stubbornness.

It was as if no one could change him but himself.

At this time, he was immersed in the losing game and asked himself over and over again, why! Why! Why......

Why didn't he get a good attack on the wings, why didn't he get space for the whole team's attack, why didn't he take the pressure off the team's defence.

He wanted to remember the feeling of self-blame at this time, and remember the unwillingness at this time.

That might make him more hungry for wins and goals in the next game.