When Sun Yonggang went to the pantry for coffee, he ran into Zhang Chao, who came out of the office humming a song.

So Sun Yonggang laughed: "Why are you so happy?" ”

"Ah, it's Brother Sun!" Zhang Chao happened to jump in front of Sun Yonggang and said to him, "I found a big news today!" ”

"What's the big news? By the way, you've gone to Hongfengling......" Sun Yonggang guessed, "Have you seen Hu Lai?" ”

"I've seen it, I've seen it, the big news is related to Hulai!" Zhang Chao said excitedly.

"Yo, what's the big news he's making again?" Sun Yonggang also became interested.

"Hehe, in fact, he didn't accept our media interviews, because the team's head coach Shi Wuyun didn't name him at all. I took the initiative to ask him to be interviewed, and I got the support of other reporters......" Zhang Chao briefly told Sun Yonggang about the situation at that time.

"Actually, Brother Sun, I just wanted to ask him what his plans for his future career were, but I didn't think of digging up a big news...... Guess how he answered my question? ”

"To be the number one in world football?" Sun Yonggang tried to guess the outcome according to Hulai's train of thought.

"......" Zhang Chao glanced at Sun Yonggang, "Brother Sun, are you teasing me?" But it's really hard to say whether the future you said was more difficult to realize, or the future that Hulay said was more difficult to achieve......"

After sighing, he revealed the answer to Sun Yonggang: "Hu Lai said that he hopes that one day he can win the World Cup wearing the jersey of the Chinese team!" ”

Sun Yonggang laughed dumbly when he heard this—this is really Hu Lai's boy's style.

Zhang Chao was very proud of the big news he created, and was still chattering to Sun Yonggang to "show off": "Brother Sun, do you know? This time I went to Hongfengling for an interview, whether it was the National Olympic Games or the women's football team, whether it was Guo Junfu or Li Qingqing, their answers when facing our reporters' questions were boring enough! Until Hulai, he's a treasure boy! Talking is funny and nice, and it always surprises people...... And his answer is the biggest surprise! ”

Sun Yonggang asked, "What are you going to do with this news?" ”

"Is there anything else that needs to be done? Just putting what he said out was shocking enough! Zhang Chao said. This kid knows how to create topics to hype himself! ”

"It's just a curiosity? Let's see how arrogant a player who is selected for the national Olympic team for the first time is? Sun Yonggang stared at the triumphant Zhang Chao and asked.

Zhang Chao heard something different from Sun Yonggang's words, and he asked rhetorically: "Then Brother Sun, what do you think should be done?" ”

Sun Yonggang shook his head: "I'll tell you an old story, maybe it can inspire you." You know I met Hulay at the national competition...... It was the first national competition that Higashikawa Middle School participated in. At that time, because of Luo Kai's outstanding performance, the organizing committee of the national competition wanted to focus on promoting him, so he found a lot of media to interview Luo Kai. When we went to interview, Dongchuan Middle School was training, and the media were flocking to it, and there were too many people, so we had to queue up for interviews. I waited on the sidelines with my photographer Xiao Li, and then I saw Hu Lai running to the training ground alone to practice...... Guess what he's practicing? ”

"Practice shooting?" Zhang Chao guessed based on Hulai's position on the field.

"No, he's doing his celebratory moves." Sun Yonggang said.

"Training...... Celebratory moves? Zhang Chao's eyes widened.

"Well, it's now his signature celebratory move, and he wasn't very skilled at the time, and he might fail seven or eight times out of ten, so he went to practice. I thought I'd wait and wait anyway, and I had nothing to do, so I interviewed this weird teenager, and maybe there would be something extra. ”

Sun Yonggang continued.

"In that interview, I asked a similar question to you, asking him what he had to say about the future. But my original intention was to ask him what he was looking forward to in the future at this national competition, and guess what he did? ”

Zhang Chao shook his head and said dryly: "I don't know." ”

"He said he was going to be a professional footballer." Sun Yonggang laughed when he said this, his eyes were a little empty, and he didn't look at Zhang Chao in front of him, as if he saw the scene of that day again. "Actually, I was complaining crazy in my heart at the time. I said, who wants to ask you about your career plan! You're a student player, you're playing a national tournament for the first time, and you're still a substitute on the team...... Where do you get the qualifications to be a professional player? As you can see now, not only did he become a professional player, he also scored eleven goals in half a season in the Chinese League, and then at the age of 19 he was selected for the Olympic team......"

Sun Yonggang stretched out his hand to Zhang Chao.

Zhang Chao fell into deep thought after listening to Sun Yonggang and Brother Sun tell him about Hulai's old days.

Then he said, "I know what to do, thank you, Brother Sun!" ”

He thanked him very sincerely.

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"Hulai, did you ever think about the impact when you said that?" After finishing the training and eating in the restaurant, Wang Zijian lowered his voice and asked Hu Lai, who was sitting next to him to eat.

"What impact?" Hu Lai lifted his face from the plate and asked Wang Zijian, an enthusiastic teammate, in confusion.

"Aren't you worried that people will think you're pretending?"

"But I didn't pretend to be forced, I was telling the truth."

Hu Lai thought to himself that I had pretended to be forced a lot, but this time, I really didn't want to pretend to be coerced......

"Your performance is more like pretending to be forced......" Wang Zijian complained weakly.

"Why? Just because it's hard to win the World Cup? Hulay asked rhetorically.

"It's not a question of whether it's hard or not, we haven't even been in the World Cup finals...... You're saying you're going to win the World Cup. Song Kun, the goalkeeper next to him, explained for his friend. What do you make others think? Don't you think you're bragging? ”

"I thought it was every kicker's dream......"

"Dreams also have to be divided, some dreams can be realized with hard work, for example, if you say that your dream in the future is to participate in the World Cup, then it is estimated that many people will not have any other ideas. But you have to say win the World Cup...... This kind of dream that is impossible to achieve at all will naturally be thought by others that you are forcibly pretending to be forced with a thing that is destined to be unattainable. Song Kun said.

At that moment, there was suddenly one more person at their table.

"Hulai, are you free? I want to talk to you. ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at Guo Junfu, who said this.

Hu Lai looked at the dinner he had already eaten, got up and walked out with Guo Junfu.

"Look, what am I talking about?" Wang Zijian looked at the backs of the two people and spread out his hands. "Guo Junfu must have represented many people in the team to talk to Hu Lai about his showmanship...... I went back to the dormitory yesterday and thought about it for a long time, and I felt that the scene of eating in the dining room yesterday might have stimulated some people. ”

"Oh, actually, if I were Hu Lai, I would tell Guo Junfu that it was a joke. After all, isn't there a Gold Cup tour before the start of each World Cup? There are also people who come to our country, and when Hu Lai wears the jersey of the Chinese team as a fan, he will go up to take a group photo, isn't it also a realization of his words? "Sun Gang is next to Hu Lai's idea." Anyway, he said that he wore the Chinese team jersey to win the World Cup, and he didn't say that he won the World Cup, so there is a big difference. ”

Wang Guangwei frowned and didn't say a word.

At the same time, on the other side, at the dining table where the Chinese Super League players gathered, they were also talking about Guo Junfu going to Hu Lai: "Guo Junfu actually ran to find Hu Lai...... Is it because of Hulai's 'dream'? ”

"Nine times out of ten, I think so. Hulai, this kid, is a little too arrogant, and he was selected for the first time, and he was able to say such things in front of so many reporters in the first training class. In these years, the Chinese team won the World Cup, and even the most YY Internet didn't dare to write about it! Guo Junfu probably wanted to knock him......" Xiao Xiao said.

"Xiao Xiao, don't guess." Gao Ruimin frowned and said, "What do you mean by 'knocking'?" Is it 'beating' to give some advice and advice to newcomers as a veteran player? ”

Xiao Xiao is just a substitute goalkeeper, facing the main midfielder like Gao Ruimin, it is inevitable that he is a little short of breath, seeing Gao Ruimin say this, he can only explain: "I used the wrong word, but the meaning is about the same." I just think that the newcomer should be more low-key, and he is not only causing trouble for himself again, but also causing trouble for the team...... When did you see Shinhiko being so high-profile? The Chinese Super League scored six goals, and they didn't say they wanted to win the Super League Golden Boot, right? ”

His sentence "causing trouble for the team" did represent the views of some people in the team, so Gao Ruimin didn't say anything, just turned his head and watched Guo Junfu walk out of the restaurant with Hu Lai, probably going to the artificial lake.

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"Eh, have you heard? During today's training, the media went to interview the players of the national Olympic team, and something happened...... "In the dining area of the women's national team, someone said very gossip to his teammates.

"What's going on?"

"Did you mean the one named Hulai?"

"Huh? Did you know that? ”

"Well, I've heard rumors too......"

"You two, what's going on? Let's talk about things directly, don't be appetizing! ”

It turns out that even if it is a national team player, the gossip is still the same gossip.

Hearing Hu Lai's name, Li Qingqing, who was playing with his mobile phone, also pricked up his ears.

"Oh, I heard that Hu Lai, who was selected for the first time in the National Olympic training team, said in an interview that he hoped to lead the Chinese team to win the World Cup in the future, and the reporters blew up ......"

"Wow! Young people nowadays are crazy! ”

"Eh, you can't say that, the National Olympic training team is not all young people, no one is over twenty-three years old, why aren't others so crazy?"

"I heard that he is the youngest in this training team, he scored eleven goals in the professional league at a young age, and was selected for the national Olympic team, it is normal to be crazy, people have that capital ......"

"I don't like to hear this, he has capital? So what do we Qingqing say? ”

Originally, after hearing Hu Lai's World Cup victory declaration, Li Qingqing was still looking down and snickering, because she thought of what she said about the two of them chatting with Hu Lai on that football field when she returned to Dongchuan during the holiday......

As a result, when she heard someone suddenly call her name, she looked up and saw that her captain in the club, Shi Yuehua, was hugging her for her: "Oh, that kid is the youngest in the training team...... We are still the youngest in the national team! They're all nineteen years old, so why aren't they crazy? ”

"Oh, Yuehua, it's unfair for you to say that, how can you use Qingqing as a standard?"

"Yes, yes, how can that guy named Hulai be on par with Qingqing?"

"That's right, if that's the case, don't talk about that Hulai, even we have to die."

The women burst into laughter.

Li Qingqing looked at everyone like this, with a stiff smile on his face, but sighed in his heart.

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Hu Lai and Guo Junfu walk by the artificial lake.

Hu Lai looked at the "black group" flying in the air in front of him, and thought to himself that it was fortunate that it was not summer, and he was wearing long clothes and trousers, which were well covered, otherwise he would never let Guo Junfu take him to this lake.

In the past two years, the winter in the capital and its surroundings has not been cold at all, and it would be good to have one snow a year.

This kind of warm winter makes the players very comfortable to train here, but it also has some mosquitoes that are rare in previous years......

Guo Junfu's attention was not on the mosquitoes, he stood at the top of the slope, looked at the lawn that stretched from his feet to the lake, and said to Hu Lai: "I know that I am very excited to be selected for the national team for the first time, and I am like you at the beginning, so it is inevitable that I will get a little carried away...... I know you may not like what I'm saying, Hulay, but I'm doing it for your good. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be in the limelight, but there are also ways to do it. It's really not a good idea to use the World Cup title to make a splash. ”

Hu Lai spread his hands and said very innocently: "I didn't want to grandstand, big brother. I was telling the truth, and the reporter asked me to tell the truth. ”

Guo Junfu looked at Hu Lai and shook his head: "The World Cup is so easy to take?" We haven't even participated in the World Cup, and now you say that you want to win the World Cup, don't you think you're grandstanding? ”

"We haven't been to the World Cup, so can't we just go and win the World Cup? We haven't played in a World Cup in 60 years, and we haven't won a World Cup in 60 years, isn't that different? You have to have some dreams, don't you, big brother? Don't care if this dream is exaggerated or not, don't you even dare to think about it? ”

Hulai carefully recalls it and finds that there is a 100-year plan for Japanese football in both planes.

So he said: "Just like our neighbor Japan, when football was at its lowest point, they made a 100-year plan, saying that in 100 years, the Japanese football team must win the World Cup." Big brother, do you think, winning the championship in a hundred years, does it sound like a joke? Isn't such a plan nonsense? But they just followed the plan. Didn't the Japanese team also fail to reach the World Cup when the plan was made? I don't need to tell you how good Japanese football is so far, right? Japan dreamed in the name of the National Football Association, and I can't dream in my own name? It's my dream to go to the World Cup, and it's my dream to win the World Cup. ”

Guo Junfu originally thought that with his qualifications as a veteran player, it should be easy to take the rhythm into his own hands by saying a few words to a newcomer.

Unexpectedly, this newcomer's mouth is very neat, and he is stunned to be speechless now.

He also had to admit that what the newcomer said was right and reasonable.

The development of Japanese football as a kicker, of course, is well understood.

When the Japanese team met our Chinese team, it was just meat on the chopping block. As a result, now, when the Chinese team meets the Japanese team, everyone will think: Oh, it's over, this time it's going to lose again.

He's not happy as a player, but is there a way to be unhappy?

No matter how unhappy you are, you still have to lose?

The difference in strength between the two sides is there!

And South Korea, so far, the Chinese team has not even won South Korea once in an official competition, is it a shame?

Shame on you!

But does it solve the problem if you feel ashamed?

It is often said that shame is followed by courage.

was ashamed, but also braved, and then because of the huge strength gap between the two sides, he was taught to be a man by the Korean team on the field.

Their U22 team has been playing against South Korean teams of all ages since U16, from the Asian Junior Championship to the Asian Youth Championship, and then to the Asian Games, as long as they meet the Korean team, it is one word: lose!

This East Asian Cup, it will definitely still play against the South Korean team, and everyone feels that it is more than lucky. After all, after so many years of fighting as an opponent, what is the strength of the opponent, and how many catties and taels he has, he couldn't be clearer in his heart.

Now the newcomer in front of us said that we didn't even dare to think about it......

Is this unthinkable?

Who hasn't daydreamed......

It's just that I've been convinced by reality!

Thinking of this, Guo Junfu snorted: "There are a bunch of big truths, and they just sound good." Do you think you can win the World Cup by saying two nice words? Let me tell you, let's not mention the World Cup, even if it is the East Asian Cup this time, the championship is not so easy to win! ”

After saying that, he didn't bother to talk nonsense with this newcomer who didn't know the height of the sky, turned around and left.

Hulai, on the other hand, stood still, with no intention of catching up, and he lowered his head as if he was lost in thought.

Guo Junfu's corner of his eyes caught a glimpse of Hu Lai's standing figure, I don't know if he realized his problem, and said this championship and that championship on his lips, as if he was embarrassed to see people if he didn't win the championship.

As soon as you open your mouth, you will be a World Cup champion...... Don't tease the boy, we have only won the East Asian Cup once, and that was eighteen years ago!

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PS, the next is still the easter egg chapter of the strongest Chinese team in history.

If we have such a Chinese team, our expectation may not be to enter the World Cup, but to win the World Cup, right?