Principal Zhai stood in the inner room of the school's honor room, which was a place with a completely different temperament from the honor room outside.

The hall outside is full of proof of various honors and achievements won by Dongchuan Middle School, both educational and cultural honors.

The hall is well-lit and spacious, and the various trophies, certificates, medals, and pennants placed on glass cases and shelves are very eye-catching in the light of the lights.

This is an honor room that is common in almost all schools, nothing unusual, and as the best high school in Dongchuan City, it is normal to have these honors.

It's just that on the other side of this Hall of Honor, there is a double door, which is not the exit of the Hall of Honor, and when it opens, it is a relatively dim inner room.

Stepping into this room, which is mostly dark, there are two rows of L-shaped cabinets connected against the wall, enclosed by transparent glass, and the light falls from the ceiling above the cabinets, enveloping the contents and making them look shining.

They are the only areas of light in this room and the most attractive arrangement.

"These are the champions of the Anton Cup." Principal Zhai glanced back at the SLR camera displayed in the cabinet and said, there was a red light flashing repeatedly on the top of the camera, indicating that the machine was working.

"They all look different, because the shape of the Anton Cup trophy has also undergone some changes. At first, it wasn't even a trophy, but a pennant......" The white-haired Principal Zhai pointed to a dimly colored red pennant under the spotlight closest to the door, which read in yellow italics:

Champion of the 5th Andong Provincial High School Football Championship Dongcheon Middle School.

There is also a line of small print on the left: 1989.04.19.

Some of the edges of the font have been detached from the suede red pennant, and even under the strong light, both the flag and the color of the font appear dull, these are the traces left by the years on its body, after all, it is already thirty years ago.

"It wasn't until 1994 that our national football began to be professionalized, and the Anton Cup also underwent a change. Silver-plated trophies replaced shabby pennants. After walking past the four pennants with a DSLR camera, Principal Zhai pointed to a small silver trophy and said.

The trophy is really small and can be easily held with one hand. There is a pedestal underneath the silver trophy, and a metal plaque on the pedestal reads:

The 10th Andong Provincial High School Football Championship - Andong Cup

champion

Dongchuan Middle School

1994.04.16

The shape of the trophy is ordinary, and it belongs to the shape of the large-scale factory wholesale, and the trophies of many competitions across the country may look like this......

"This is our 10th Anton Cup. This Anton Cup is special because from this year, the competition time of the Anton Cup has been adjusted to the first semester of each year, instead of the next semester as before. This is also so as not to affect the college entrance examination in the next semester. Therefore, Dongchuan Middle School won two Anton Cups in one year - the ninth Anton Cup championship in April in the first half of the year, and the tenth in December in the second half of the year. Principal Zhai laughed as he spoke, pointing out the two trophies next to each other to the camera.

The camera went up, and sure enough, the date on the base of the trophy on the left was April 1997, and the date on the base of the trophy on the right was December 1997.

"In the history of the Anton Cup, this is unique, there is no one before, and I am afraid there will be no one in the future." Principal Zhai is still a little proud when he talks about this past.

"After ten consecutive championships, Dongchuan Middle School has won two championships in the 21st century, but that was before 2005. From 2005 to 2018, we missed the Anton Cup championship for 13 years, until ...... This year. ”

Speaking of this, Principal Zhai turned around, and the camera lens followed together, turning to the center of the room. A light descends from the sky, illuminating the middle of the previously dark house, and a separate glass case appears in the shot, along with the golden cup in the cabinet.

"Champion of the 32nd Anton Cup in 2019." Principal Zhai looked at the Champion Gold Cup, which was shining from every angle under the light, and said with a faint sense of pride in his flat tone.

The videographer used a hand-held stabilizer to set up a camera SLR camera, slowly walked around the glass display case, and photographed the figure of the golden cup in 360 degrees without dead ends.

In the end, he lifted the lens slightly, twisted the infinite focus ring, and from a lower angle, through the golden cup in the cabinet, the focus was smoothly focused from the golden cup itself to the face of Principal Zhai standing on the opposite side of the cabinet.

On the display screen behind the camera, the flashes of the golden cup gradually turned into round light spots, and the figure of the old principal standing behind the golden cup changed from blurry to clear.

In the real-time footage, he lowered his head slightly, staring at the championship trophy in front of him, and the light hit the gold cup and reflected it, reflecting the old principal's wrinkled face and shining into his eyes.

The focus of the camera finally focused on Principal Zhai's eyes, and the pair of brown pupils seemed to reflect the shape of a golden cup, shining in the lens, not at all like the eyes of an elderly person.

The photographer holds the image for three seconds and then raises a hand and makes an "OK" gesture.

Sun Yonggang, who had been following him but didn't speak, said softly: "Okay, Principal Zhai, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to help us record, and thank you for introducing ......."

Principal Zhai glanced at the golden cup in the glass cabinet again, then looked away, and asked with a smile, "The effect of this recording is okay?" ”

Sun Yonggang gave a thumbs up: "Okay, very good." Coherent! Principal Zhai, you were really full of emotion just now, especially the shot staring at the trophy at the end...... It was just perfect! This is the expression of true feelings! ”

Principal Zhai said with a smile: "The main thing is that this champion has been waiting too long. ”

"Then next, we're going to interview Coach Li......" As Sun Yonggang said this, the photographer next to him was packing up his equipment.

"Go ahead, the school has already greeted Coach Li, you can just go to him directly. He should have been in his office under the stadium rostrum by this time. I'm not going to take you there......"

Sun Yonggang hurriedly said, "You are busy with you, Principal Zhai, we can go by ourselves." ”

Sending the two "Goal" people out of the dim team honor room, Principal Zhai did not leave, but turned around and walked to the first pennant that appeared at the beginning, and then walked through the honor room from the beginning as he had just introduced to the camera.

His eyes lingered for a long time on the trophies and flags that symbolized the 30 years of glory of the Dongchuan Middle School football team.

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"It's the end of the interview, oh my god, this Coach Li feels old and stern."

After packing up his equipment and following Sun Yonggang out of Li Ziqiang's office, the photographer let out a sigh.

Sun Yonggang felt the same way, and during the interview, he always felt that the atmosphere in the office was a little depressing. Coach Li Ziqiang kept a straight face and did not smile from beginning to end, even if he, a reporter, wanted to talk about some light topics, he couldn't make the other party laugh.

"But maybe it's this kind of strictness that can make Dongchuan Middle School the champion team of Andong Province in just three months." Sun Yonggang said. "In fact, many of their professional football coaches have this temperament, they are not easy to deal with, they speak ugly, and they beat and scold the players if they don't agree with them......"

"Is that an exaggeration?" The photographer, who had just entered the industry for a short time, was staggered.

Sun Yonggang nodded and said, "Well, the older generation of coaches is even more so. When I first started in the industry, I followed a journalist teacher to interview a certain old coach at that time. This coach is also quite famous in our country, and has trained many excellent professional players. Later, after retiring from the front line, he set up a football school and did youth football training, and the results were very good, so we went to interview him. We interviewed him at the training ground and he was watching the training on the pitch as we did the interview. And guess what? ”

"What's wrong?"

"There was a little player in training who made a mistake, and he didn't say a word, he went up and kicked the little player to the ground, and then there was a scolding, how ugly the scolding was...... I can't even relay it to you. The child didn't dare to say a word when he was scolded, and he didn't even dare to stand up, so he could only continue to lie on the ground. After being scolded, he was kicked by the old coach again, and then he got up and continued to run to train. The reporter teacher and I stood next to me and watched the whole time, I was dumbfounded, but the reporter teacher seemed to be used to it, and the expression was even like watching a play......"

Seeing the young photographer's expression of disbelief, Sun Yonggang smiled: "Of course, this situation has improved a lot now, after all, society is progressing." You see, corporal punishment is not even allowed in schools anymore - in the past, when we were in school, it was not uncommon for poor students to be beaten and scolded by teachers. ”

The photographer nodded thoughtfully. Although he has not received professional football training, he is also a student and is no stranger to school life.

"There is also a reason for the simple and crude approach of those coaches, many of the children who used to learn to play football were not of high cultural quality and uneven level - do you think about playing football in the past, is it the path of many so-called 'poor students' who did not study well? Instead of being a confidant brother with the players, it is better for the coach to kick the past directly...... If a coach tries to be friends with his players, he is likely to end up not being taken seriously by the players. It's a paradoxical thing, it's not good to be rough, but it doesn't seem to be effective if it's not rough...... In fact, it's not just our country, if you look at foreign countries, most of those older coaches have a bad temper......" Sun Yonggang continued to say to the photographer.

"Of course, now we are bringing football into the campus and vigorously developing campus football. There is still a shortage of coaches specifically for campus football, so there are coaches of various former professional teams who have become campus football coaches, and they naturally bring the work style and habits of the professional teams to the campus. In fact, campus football is different from professional football, there are many differences in details, which need to be adapted to and need our coaches to change their work concepts and styles...... There is also a process of running into each other. When campus football was first launched, it was common for football coaches to physically punish students, but it has only gotten a little better in the last year or two...... Forget it, let's not talk about this, the topic is too big. Let's go? ”

The photographer picked up the camera and pointed to the empty stadium: "Wait a minute, Mr. Sun, I'll take a few more empty shots here for material." ”

"Okay." Sun Yonggang stood next to him, quietly waiting for the photographer to finish his work.

"Eh, Mr. Sun. When I was photographing Coach Li just now, I made a discovery...... "The photographer who was working while chatting with him."

"What discovery?"

"That's when you asked him, as an elite coach of Quanshun Football School, why did he suddenly resign and leave and come to teach in this ordinary high school...... I noticed that his eyes were losing focus for about two seconds – I happened to be tweeting about his eyes at the time, so I could see it clearly. ”

Sun Yonggang thought about it, and when he asked this question, Li Ziqiang didn't answer him right away, as if he had suddenly fallen into some emotion, but said an answer that didn't surprise him after about a few seconds.

He said that because the country now strongly supports the development of campus football, he believes that the future of Chinese football lies in ordinary middle schools with a larger foundation, not in high-tech football schools, so he resolutely quit his job in Quanshun Football School with a bright future and returned to his former alma mater, wanting to make a modest contribution to China's campus football cause.

It was a very official, very correct answer, the content of the answer was impeccable, and the attitude of the respondent was impeccable.

But Sun Yonggang always felt that the real reason might not be as high-sounding as the unsmiling coach.

I am afraid that there is something else behind the loss of consciousness for about two seconds......

But what does that have to do with yourself? I'm just here to report on next year's national competition, not to dig up a coach's personal privacy.

So he said to the photographer, "Maybe I'm a little tired from the interview." Is the filming finished? We're going to eat. ”

He saw a person at the entrance of the stadium, who they had seen before, a teacher who was in charge of school propaganda, looking over to them.

"Alright, alright." The photographer puts away the machine.

The two men walked towards the teacher.

Behind them, the door to the football team's coach's office was opened, and Li Ziqiang appeared at the door, looking at the backs of the two people without saying a word.