"There's a quarter of an hour left." When the new referee Hollid passed by Gao Yi's side, he reminded in a low voice.

Gao Yi nodded, indicating that he understood. But Hollid's help doesn't stop there, no matter which side he leans in his heart, he is absolutely fair in his administerment.

The reason why Hollid, the commander of the International Chamber of Commerce, was asked to referee an amateur match was because his reputation for integrity would counteract any criticism after the game. A fair game is exactly what Gao Yi needs, although he will also play some off-the-board tricks to lower the opponent's morale and blood before the game, but he always has a purpose, that is, to make the game more interesting, not to lower it. The black whistle is undoubtedly the most damaging to the spectacle of a game.

Gao Yi looked at several defenders on the first line of defense in front of him, all of them were old faces he had seen at least once, and in the past ten minutes, he had rotated all the players on the other side except the goalkeeper through repeated impacts, and some of them even rotated several times. It's time to execute the next step, otherwise if he continues like this, even his own physical strength will be exhausted.

"Hal!" Gao Yi yelled, got up and hoisted a high ball, and as the ball was passed, he himself rushed towards the opponent's backcourt, looking ready to pass the ball to Keswick behind the first line of defense, and then the two would cooperate with each other. However, the ball seemed to kick off and fell straight behind the second line of defence, where it was picked up by one of the opposing defenders and a big foot drove back into their half.

The ball quickly returned to Gao Yi's feet, this time he changed direction and passed to McPherson with a big foot, and the ball passed big again, and McPherson tried his best to catch up.

Three similar attacks followed, none of which had any significant effect.

When the ball returned to Gao Yi's feet for the sixth time, the defender in front of him changed again, and the five times just now, he would run behind the opponent's defense line every time he passed the ball, and he was faster and more difficult to mark when running without the ball, so it also consumed the defender's physical strength more. The new batch of guards who were transferred this time were all those who had only played with him once before, and they could be regarded as a new force, but this also means that as long as they cross this line of defense, they will be all old, weak, sick and disabled.

Gao Yi was at the top of the arc in the middle circle of the opponent's half at this time, he stepped on the ball under his feet, stopped, panting and looking like he couldn't run. The opposing players subconsciously leaned towards him, and even Keswick and McPherson, and even Landale, who had been hovering near the penalty area, sensed that something was wrong with him and ran towards him quickly to prepare to respond.

Gao Yi didn't pay attention to all the messy changes around him, he focused his attention on the field in front of him. The length of the course in this era ranged from 180 to 90 meters, and the width ranged from 90 to 45 meters, in various combinations, but generally larger than later courses, and the ratio of length to width was generally two to one. The course under his feet is 150 meters long and 75 meters wide, several laps larger than a standard course.

A bigger pitch means he's farther away from goal, and it takes more distance and more energy to get the ball into goal, but it also means more space behind the defenders.

Almost without warning, Gao Yi pulled the ball back under his feet, and the instep was naturally inserted into the bottom of the ball along this action, and then he struggled to pick the ball, and the ball at his feet suddenly pulled out a high parabola, not only past the first line of defense, but also over the second line of defense that was moving towards Gao Yi, and fell towards the large open area in front of the last line of defense.

At the same time as kicking the ball out, Gao Yi activated, and he didn't even glance at the trajectory in the air, and ran in the direction of the expected landing point.

Because Gao Yi would shout out the name of the receiver when he hung the pass a few times before, the opponent's entire back line was caught off guard by his sudden start without saying a word this time. Before the first line of defense could react, Gao Yi hit them and wiped them around. The second line of defense was even more ignorant, and they didn't understand why Gao Yi suddenly appeared in front of them.

After Gao Yi passed through the second line of defense, he looked up into the air, and the ball was slowly falling towards his right front. He's just kicked a stepped up lob because that's the only way to get slow enough to get him time to catch up with the ball.

Before the ball landed, Gao Yi stretched out his leg and unloaded the ball. The position he was in now was close to the right touchline, five or six meters behind the original second line of defense, but now the second line of defense had moved forward, and the third line of defense had not been able to keep up, so it was a smooth road, about fifteen meters behind the second line of defense, and twenty meters away from the third line of defense on the edge of the big penalty area.

Gao Yi stabbed the ball diagonally in the direction of the goal, and then chased it in stride, then another trip, and then chased it again, and he ran at a gallop in these few steps, throwing off the players of the first and second lines of defense who had just reacted to him and chased him nearly ten meters away.

It wasn't until a defender in the third line of defense came up that Gao Yi slowed down and controlled the ball at his feet, at this time he was less than five meters away from the line of the big penalty area.

Facing the defenders who pounced on him, Gao Yi did not rush to break through, but knocked the ball in the direction of the midfield and began to dribble horizontally. The defender didn't take two steps behind him, and he was gasping like a bellows, barely able to keep up with him running with the ball.

Football in this era is heavy and inelastic, and the foot feeling is also very soft and blurry, but it is just right for Gao Yi. His explosiveness, speed, and flexibility have actually been very good, but during his school years, he was a scumbag who couldn't even get into the team, and the reason was that he couldn't carry the ball.

Gao Yi dribbled the ball and looked around, one of the three defenders in the third line of defense had been left behind him; The one on the left half of the far side of the defense is outflanking here from the outside, which is a completely wrong choice, and the route he should take is actually the inside of the box; The remaining central defender did not catch up with him at the first time, but blocked in front of Landale, seemingly afraid of Gao Yi's pass, which was an absolute mistake, Landale was in an offside position, and there was no need to defend him; On Gao Yi's left side, there are players in the first and second lines of defense who are struggling to catch up, and the nearest one of them is at least five meters away from Gao Yi. Such a speed has fully demonstrated the complete exhaustion of their physical strength, you must know that Gao Yi has more than twenty meters of horizontal dribbling this time.

The central defender standing in front of Landale rushed up when he saw Gao Yi approaching, and wanted to wrap him up with the defender behind Gao Yi, but it was too late at this time, and the wheezing sound behind Gao Yi had already been thrown away by him more than two meters away.

Gao Yi calmly got up and stuffed the ball into the penalty area, then turned around the sluggish central defender like a stake, and chased the ball into the penalty area. The centre-back seemed to want to catch Gao Yi who flashed past him, but even he couldn't succeed in this, instead bringing himself to the center of gravity unsteadily, and fell to the ground with a pop.

The ball seemed to go a little too far, allowing the goalkeeper to see the opportunity, and this time he decisively abandoned the goal. However, when he was halfway through the run, he found that his speed was completely incomparable to Gao Yi, who had already chased behind the football at this time. He hurriedly stepped back.

Gao Yi, who was running, picked up his thighs and made a blast movement, but his foot only brushed next to the ball, and after coming back in a circle, he gently took another step forward behind the ball. The goalkeeper was shaken by his movements and sat on the ground.

Gao Yi did not rush to shoot, but pulled the ball sideways to the side, and then went forward, bypassing the goalkeeper's control with the ball, and after only a huge empty goal was left in front of him, he unhurriedly pushed the ball with the arch of his foot, and the ball happily crossed the goal line and hit the net. It's a two-to-two draw!

Accompanied by a landslide and tsunami-like cheers, Gao Yi put his hand to his ear as a listening gesture and ran along the edge of the court until he was knocked down by the players who rushed over to celebrate.

There was no longer any suspense in the rest of the game, just like champagne with the lid opened, and the elixir liquid was pouring out. There was no need to wait for extra time, and in the last ten minutes, in the face of an exhausted and scrappy opponent, Gao Yi scored three goals in succession, one of which was even specially fed to Keswick, so that he also enjoyed the feeling of being cheered.

After the match, Keswick walked over as if to say something, but eventually shook his head and said, "Dude, it's going to be a game I'll never forget!" A thousand words come together like this. Then he stretched out his hand and shook Gao Yi tightly, and Gao Yi felt a true friendship from it.

Friendship, although this is a bad word, but the real friendship between men is extremely precious, and it is never easily shown.

******

This game, which was full of ups and downs for the audience, the players, and Gao Yi himself, was officially over after Mr. Scotto personally presented the trophy. However, Gao Yi's celebration with the players has just begun, and today the entire Scottish Club will go to the Shanghai Federation to attend a dinner, for which the club specially customized the dresses for the players who do not have evening dresses.

This dinner is not only to celebrate the Scottto Cup victory, but also to celebrate Gao Yi officially becoming a member of the Shanghai Association.

Gao Yi became a member of the Shanghai Federation a week ago, and although the publicity period was less than three months, the committee decided that with his current fame, he did not need to wait for the expiration of the publicity period to conduct an early vote, so he officially became a member of the ruling class of the concession two months ahead of schedule.

The team is still back at the Scottish club, where everyone bathes and changes clothes before going to the Shanghai club. Gao Yi returned to his suite, because he was the protagonist of tonight, he was very carefully groomed and dressed up, and when he finished going downstairs, all the players had already set off in batches, leaving only Landale alone waiting for him.

"Where's Hal?" Keswick also said that he would go together, but the others were not there.

"He left early, saying he was going to prepare a mysterious gift for you."

"Mystery gifts? For me? Gao Yi was a little confused.

"Let's go, it's half past seven, and you may not be able to catch it at eight o'clock."

Landale seems to be recovering well, and his mid-energy is far from comparable to the appearance of the simmering cat in the game. On the contrary, Gao Yi, as if he had just completed a great thing, lazily couldn't be interested in other things.

It was already a quarter past eight o'clock when the car arrived at the Shanghai General Assembly, and it was still the waiter who guided him upstairs last time waiting at the door, I don't know if it was because he was promoted to a full member, and his attitude was much more respectful.

"Mr. Gao Yi, Mr. Keswick, please be sure to meet him before the dinner."

After the waiter led them up to the second floor, he did not go in the direction of the restaurant, but went up the stairs on the third floor.

Gao Yi glanced at Landale, who shrugged his shoulders. It was probably the mysterious gift, Gao Yi followed the waiter upstairs.

This time, however, the waiter did not lead Gao Yi to Keswick's suite, but instead led him to the door of a room at the end of the hallway, knocking on the door.

The door opened, and there were not only Keswick in the room, but also Bane, John Lyda, Anderson, Prandis, and Hollid, and Gao Yi frowned in surprise.

"Welcome, Steward, the new president, see if this room is still to your liking?"

Steward's meaning is broader, it can be a steward, a flight attendant on an airplane, a provincial governor in Rome, a "palace minister" above 10,000 people in the Merovingian era, or a British royal governor, the Japanese translate it as "officer", and the Hong Kong Jockey Club calls it "director". So now he is not only an ordinary member of the Shanghai General Association, he is also the Steward here, one of the rulers here.