The venue of the FA Cup final, the home of Dashun Golden Arrow, and the Ocean Stadium were full of people.

Home fans celebrate their team's goal.

Just three minutes into the second half, Dashun Golden Arrow finally blasted open the goal of the shining star and broke the deadlock on the field.

“…… In the first half, the Shining Stars set up a bus in front of the goal, and they successfully resisted the attack of the Dashun Golden Arrows, and did not concede a goal throughout the first half. But we said it in the first half – this kind of passive defense is not going to last. As a result, at the beginning of the second half, the Golden Arrows took advantage of the flaws in the lack of concentration of the shining star players and scored first......"

He Feng watched this scene in the back studio and shook his head.

"The team lacked enough offensive means and without support, and Hulai, who started the game, was almost invisible. Chen Xingyi, who performed well in the semi-final counter-attack, was also unable to pose much threat to the Golden Arrows' defence...... The Golden Arrow's defense against Chen Xingyi was very successful, and the counterattack of the shining star was almost impossible to play......"

"He Feng, this is the objective strength gap between the two teams. The gap between the second in the Chinese Super League and the first in the Chinese League is so big. In the face of the second Dashun Golden Arrow in the Chinese Super League, Anton Shanxing could only shrink into defense, and he couldn't hold it like this......" Commentator Yan Kang shook his head and sighed, "It can't be said that the shining star is not good enough, they have done well enough, it can only be said that the Dashun Golden Arrow is too strong......"

"It's just a lost goal!" The commentator of Anton Satellite TV is cheering up the Anton fans in front of the TV, and he is also cheering up the whole team of shining stars on the field. "Playing second in the Super League away from home, how can you not concede a goal? Of course, everyone wants not to concede a goal, but it is not a big deal to concede a goal, it is just a conceded goal...... If they lose by one goal in this game, it would be completely acceptable for the flashers......"

Xie Lan in front of the TV listened to the narrator's voice, her brows furrowed.

This time by her side, there is no husband of her own.

He said yesterday that the unit was temporarily on duty today, and there was no way to watch the game.

Although Xie Lan always felt that her husband's reaction was very strange, since his son reached the FA Cup final, he seemed to be a little wrong. But she didn't force her husband to watch the game.

She knows very well that for men, face is greater than the sky, and some things cannot be forced. Since the husband didn't want to watch the game, he got his wish.

Aren't there still two finals anyway?

In the second final, she asked her husband to watch it with her, but he was embarrassed to refuse twice in a row, right?

Xie Lan had such a plan to watch the game alone at home, but now she regrets it a little.

Because she wanted to hear her husband's analysis of the game situation, whether the flash star could hold on and not continue to concede goals, or whether there was any hope of stealing one, like in the semi-finals against Poseidon......

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"Eh, old Hu. There is no class for you today, what are you doing here? When Lao Fan returned to the security guard duty room to change clothes, he was a little surprised to see Hu Lixin sitting on the sofa playing with his mobile phone in his own clothes.

"I had a quarrel with my wife and didn't want to stay at home." Hu Lixin said without raising his head.

"Oh, why are you doing this......" Lao Fan persuaded Hu Lixin while walking to the TV in the duty room, "As a result, you can't even watch your son's game now, right?" It's okay, you can watch it here......"

With that, he turned on the TV with the remote control.

"Eh, no, I ......" Hu Lixin wanted to stop it too late, the TV screen that had been on standby was quickly lit up, and then Lao Fan operated the remote control to switch to the Anton Satellite TV sports channel.

There was a loud commotion on the TV.

At the same time, the commentator of the Anton TV sports channel said in frustration: "...... The flashstar made a mistake in defence when the team's captain, Li Tielin, accidentally touched the ball into his own goal while blocking Sosa's shot...... It's an own goal! And that's only six minutes after the goal that the Twinkling Star conceded just now...... Now the stars are 2-0 down away from home......"

Hearing such a voice, and then confirming the score in the upper left corner of the screen, Lao Fan was also a little embarrassed.

"Uh...... This one...... What are Shiningstars doing?! ”

Hu Lixin looked up at the TV hanging on the wall, and at this time, the picture of the Golden Arrow coach appeared on the TV screen.

Golden Arrows head coach Wang Xianke was waving his fist to celebrate the goal.

When Hu Lixin saw this scene, he immediately lowered his head again and continued to look at his mobile phone: "It's only two goals behind, and the shining star is already playing very well." ”

"That's the way it is, but didn't you only concede one goal when you beat that Poseidon in the semifinals before?" Lao Fan asked.

"The teams are all different, how can it be so simple? Poseidon and Golden Arrows are different, the same tactics work against Poseidon, but they may not work against Golden Arrows. After Hu Lixin finished speaking, he got up and wanted to go out.

"What are you doing?"

"Go to the bathroom." Hu Lixin put his mobile phone in his trouser pocket, bowed his head and walked out.

The noise on the TV in the house was left behind him.

Lao Fan looked at Hu Lixin's back strangely, looked back at the TV again, and scratched his head.

He always felt that today's old Hu was weird.

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Hu Lixin, who walked out of the duty room, walked around the community, and he looked like a resident of this high-end community without wearing a security uniform.

When he walked around the fifth and fourth buildings, it suddenly became clear that it was the lawn in the atrium of the community.

Although it is already late autumn and early winter, the specially selected grass species ensure that this large area of lawn in the community remains green even in the depths of winter. The owners of the community can see the green scenery of the community with a slight probe on their balconies or bay windows, which makes them feel relaxed and happy, and feel that the money is really well spent.

The well-designed and maintained greenery is one of the reasons why the housing prices in this neighbourhood are higher than those in the surrounding neighbourhoods.

More than one person couldn't help but exclaim after seeing the atrium of this community: "Wow! It's like a park! ”

Now, there are a few kindergarten kids chasing a soccer ball on the park-like lawn.

Three boys, one girl, played completely undisciplined, just chasing the football.

Someone caught up with the soccer ball and kicked it forward, and then his companions swarmed over him and continued to chase the bouncing soccer ball.

And so they ran from one side of the lawn to the other, and from that back again.

The neighborhood at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon was filled with their laughter and noise.

Hu Lixin stopped and watched this scene in a daze.

He remembered the old-fashioned neighborhood where his home was located, many years ago, when there were not so many cars, and the vacant space between the buildings in the community had not yet been reduced to a parking lot, and children often played football there.

If you accidentally break the window glass on the first and second floors, it will attract scolding and angry scolding from the people in the house, and it will also cause disputes in the neighborhood.

But even then, it's hard to ban the little ones from playing football there.

Because children like to kick, but they don't have a place, they can only kick in the open space of the community.

He remembered that it was at that time that Hulai was downstairs playing football with the other children.

Then he kicked the glass window of an old man's house, and he took the opportunity to clean up his son so hard that he was not allowed to continue playing football.

Later, everyone gradually installed security fences, football could no longer be played in other people's homes, children would still play in the open field, Hulai also tried to reapply to play football, but he refused.

Later, as cars entered thousands of households, the vacant land in this old community was gradually filled by those cars.

The children have no place to continue playing, and Hu Lixin doesn't have to worry about his son running down to play football with him on his back.

Everything seemed to be back on track and there was no more football in his life.

But I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that he took every precaution, and in the end his son still became a professional player.

Watch him score goals one after another in the professional league, watch him even wear the jersey of the Chinese national team and lift the championship trophy in international competitions......

Hu Lixin's heart is extremely complicated.

The wife always blames him and is not happy about her son's success.

But deep down in Hu Lixin's heart, he often asks himself, what does it look like to be successful?

Son, is this considered a success?

has only been in the professional league for two seasons, and so far he is still in the Chinese League, and he has not even played in the Chinese Super League. And most crucially...... He still has a long career ahead of him, and who knows what will happen next?

After all, this is not a world where good people are rewarded and evil people are rewarded.

How dare he rejoice in the meagre achievements his son has achieved now......

I think he was happy that he had the opportunity to go to the first team, and then what? The result?

Who would have thought that guy would just kick his foot in the knee like this in training?

Seriously injured and lying in a hospital bed, he thought that the person who did this kind of thing should not be able to continue in this industry, after all, this kind of thing is extremely bad.

But the sentence "It was just an accident in training, I didn't mean to, I didn't want to rush people, I just didn't stop it." The explanation cleared him of all his "crimes", and the fluttering apology did not expect to be forgiven by the victim.

When I often wake up in my sleep because of knee pain, I see the news that the person has stood out...... He didn't know how to face the world.

He wrapped himself in a quilt, unlit room, and thought of himself as a seed buried in the ground, a rotten seed that had not sprouted.

Don't watch football, don't pay attention to football, don't let football appear in your life, don't let that person have another chance to appear in your life.

But he failed.

All his efforts were in vain, and he didn't expect that more than twenty years later, it would be his son who brought that person into his field of vision again.

Nothing in the past is just in the past

There are always hurdles in life that cannot be overcome.

The man he hated the most, who was still doing so well, became one of the most successful people in football in this country.

Now he is asking him to look at his son's prospects in Chinese football with optimism.

Why?

Why can shameless people rise to the top?

Why do despicable and shameless people have a bright future?

Why are well-dressed beasts admired when they become famous?

And he can only die alone in failure?

Why?

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"The game is over...... The shining stars lost 0:2 away to the Dashun Golden Arrows. They lost two goals in the first leg of the FA Cup final. But the result is not the most important thing, the important thing is that this game fully illustrates how huge the difference in strength between the shining stars and the second place in the Chinese Super League, Dashun Golden Arrows...... In the face of such a huge gap, even if we return to our home stadium in the second leg, we honestly have to admit that it is almost impossible for the Twinkles to turn the tables around...... This is not the kind of competition where two teams are at the same level, and the shining star as a team in the first division can go all the way to the finals, and has won everyone's respect, but we also have to see the facts clearly...... We often say that there is nothing in life that cannot be overcome, but for today's shining stars, Dashun Golden Arrow is no longer a hurdle, but an almost unattainable mountain. We still have a lot of work to do and a long way to go to conquer this mountain, so everyone has to be patient and understand them......"

On the TV, the commentator of Anton TV's sports channel spoke in a mournful tone, as if he was reading a eulogy to the shining star.

Of course, he said this to the fans in front of the TV, telling them not to expect too much, to calm their emotions and not to blame the team for this defeat.

After all, when it comes to the final, everyone wants to win the championship.

But there is only one champion, is it considered a failure if you can't win the championship?

Of course not.

The team is already doing well.

It's just that the strength is not good, what can be done if you lose?

Twinkle Stars should not have been expected to beat the Golden Arrows on the road, let alone win the FA Cup.

The defeat may have made the team realize that winning the FA Cup is a toxic dream and that the league is the foundation of it.

They were able to reach the final, facing three Chinese Super League teams in succession, and have accumulated a lot of experience against Chinese Super League teams, which may become the capital of the flash stars in the Super League relegation next season.

Xie Lan in front of the TV heard the narrator say this, and opened his mouth to refute, but he couldn't speak.

She could only turn off the TV irritably, not wanting to listen to the narrator's deliberately neutral and objective chatter.

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"Uncle!"

Hu Lixin, who was standing on the edge of the lawn, was awakened by the shouts of children.

"Uncle! Kickball! ”

The little child in the distance pointed to his feet.

Only then did Hu Lixin realize that the football didn't know when it rolled to his feet.

Even though the children told him to kick the ball over, he bent down to pick it up with his hands and threw it back.

The soccer ball hit the ground behind the children and bounced again, causing the children to laugh and chase after them, while he himself turned away.