“…… Recently, Hulai, the youngest player in the Under-22 training team, caused an uproar online, so what did he say? He said that his dream is to lead the Chinese team to win the World Cup. After such a sentence was put on the Internet, it attracted many people's cynicism. Some self-media said that he was arrogant, and some people thought he was grandstanding......"

"Megalomaniacal fart! Grandstanding! ”

In the locker room under the stands of Qingyang No. 1 High Stadium, Zhou Zijing was scolding with his mobile phone.

"Those marketing accounts know a fart!"

"Team Zhou, Team Zhou, pay attention...... There are your fans outside......" The teammates in the locker room winked at Zhou Zijing.

"What's wrong with having fans?" Zhou Zijing didn't pay attention to the female fans waiting outside the locker room, but pointed to the "Goal" network news on his mobile phone and said to his teammates, "Tell me if those people are all a group of stupid eagles?" Our own players, saying that they want to win the World Cup, isn't that a sign of ambition? How did they fall into the eyes of their group of psychologically dark guys, and they became arrogant and grandstanding? ”

"Alas, Team Zhou, who told our national team that we don't even know where the door of the World Cup is open until now? In fact, they are not scolding Hu Lai, they are just scolding Chinese football. Competitive sports, weakness is the original sin......"

"That can't be said either, you have to be reasonable. Don't they want Chinese football to be good? Zhou Zijing frowned.

"Maybe people really don't want Chinese football to be good. Chinese football is good, you can't scold casually, don't they have a channel to vent? Someone sneered.

Zhou Zijing was stunned for a moment when he heard his teammates say this, and then shook his head helplessly: "What do they think of Chinese football?" ”

"When what? Be a spittoon. ”

Zhou Zijing looked down at the photo of Hu Lai on his phone, he was already wearing the training uniform of the Chinese team, and the bright five-star red flag was on his chest.

How can there be such a beautiful spittoon?

"Okay, I've decided, I'm going to play in this spittoon in the future!" Zhou Zijing pointed to the phone screen and said.

There was silence in the locker room for two seconds, and then everyone applauded: "Come on, Team Zhou!" ”

"If Team Zhou is you, then it must be fine!"

"Team Zhou has big goals and big ambitions! It's worthy of Team Zhou! ”

Zhou Zijing was amused by his teammates' rainbow farts: "Set a small goal first, and come back with a national championship!" ”

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When Luo Kai came out of the gym, the whole person was as if he had just been fished out of the water, and with every step he took, there was a wet footprint under his feet, and sweat was like a waterfall, flowing down from his forehead to the tip of his chin, and falling. It flowed down his arm, down to the tips of his fingers, and was thrown everywhere with his swing of his arms.

Walking from the gym to the locker room door, he heard his teammates discussing the name he knew so well.

"Hulai, this kid is floating, isn't he?"

", I just entered a training team, and my tail went to the sky...... You can say anything like the World Cup......"

"It's not necessarily floating. Don't you see that everyone is talking about him now? He's kind of on fire. Maybe people did it on purpose, just to be famous? Liao Tinghui, the defender of the Nanhai team, said this, in the 32nd round of the Chinese League last season, the flash star challenged Nanhai away, and he was responsible for defending Zhang Qinghuan in the game.

Originally, under his defense, Zhang Qinghuan was almost powerless to fight back.

As a result, Hulai was in harmony with the two, and he could only be restrained in defense.

And he was almost yin by Hulai.

So by now he was impressed by Hulay's cunning.

Others may think that Hulai is arrogant and arrogant, but he thinks that Hulai is just for grandstanding.

Just then, Luo Kai walked into the locker room.

Everyone was surprised when they saw him again: "Luo Kai, did you go swimming?" ”

"You can't swim and get your clothes and pants wet, right?"

Luo Kai explained to everyone: "I trained in a raincoat. ”

A crowd of people looked at him dumbfounded.

What is the concept of training in a raincoat, everyone knows very well.

If not, imagine running on a treadmill in a stuffy room with closed doors and windows in the summer, or it won't be long before the sweat spreads all over your body.

And the feeling of exercising in a raincoat is ten times more stuffy than that.

Because raincoats are generally not breathable, wearing them on the body is equivalent to putting a plastic bag on the body, and the heat emitted by the body cannot be discharged, and it will sweat more. This method of training is very demanding on the cardio load.

"Luo Kai, I remember you were injured before, right?" Captain Wang Yiru stood up, "Are you still more leisurely?" Don't practice too hard, that will increase the chances of getting hurt again. ”

Luo Kai nodded: "Thank you, Team Wang, I'll pay attention." ”

Then he went to the shower in the locker room and took a shower.

Waiting for the sound of rushing water inside, the players of the South China Sea team, who were looking at each other, lowered their voices and said: "I remember that Luo Kai seems to be in the same team with Hu Lai before? ”

"It's said that he entered the professional team earlier than Hulai......

"It must have been stimulated."

"Think about it, he entered the professional team a year earlier than Hulai, but now everyone is going to the National Olympics, but he is on loan from the Chinese Super League to the Chinese League......"

"I think it's a good thing for our team. With such a scrappy Luo Kai, maybe we have a chance to be promoted this season......"

Captain Wang Yiru shook his head: "The promotion does not depend on one person, it depends on the efforts of the whole team." I'm even more worried that if he continues to practice like this, his body will not be able to bear it......"

Under the sprinkler head, he let the hot water drench him from head to toe, Luo Kai did not rush to apply shower gel to his body, so he stood in the water with his head bowed and his hands down.

While he was still trying to achieve a goalless goal in the professional league, Hulay had already scored 11 goals in the league in half a season.

And when he decided to go on loan to the Nanhai team of the Chinese League to get more opportunities to play, Hu Lai has been selected into the National Olympic training team.

For the first time, Luo Kai had this idea - will I never be able to catch up with him?

His fists clenched, his body trembling slightly in the hot water.

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“…… To be honest, at first, when I heard Hulay's words, I reflexively thought he was arrogant or grandstanding. But when I returned to the editorial office with a kind of excitement about making a big news, I met my senior, Mr. Sun Yonggang, and he told me an old story about Hulai......

At that time, Hu Lai was just a freshman in high school, and he participated in the national competition for the first time with the Dongchuan Middle School football team, and he was not even a starter in the team, so he could only come off the bench. And Luo Kai has already made a splash in the national competition and has become the target of many media reporters. At that time, Hulai was in the shadow of Luo Kai, and no one cared about him. It was under such circumstances that Mr. Sun noticed that Hu Lai was practicing celebratory actions on the training ground! ”

"It's true. I was there at the time. Yan Yan took his mobile phone and said to his roommates with a serious face, "You can't imagine why Hu Lai had this idea - to run to practice the celebration." It was as if he knew from that time that he would use this celebratory gesture more often in the future...... And in fact, he does use it a lot. That's why I always say he's the chosen one! I even think that when the coach recruited Hu Lai into the school team, he was destined to win the national championship for the Dongchuan Middle School football team! The coach has a unique vision, and Hulai lives up to expectations, it is a match made in heaven! ”

His roommates listened attentively to Yan Yan's talk about Hu Lai's past, their expressions focused.

"He has a kind of delusional confidence, as if it were an intuition and a prophecy, that is, he believes that he will do it. Now I think it's probably because he believes so much and works hard for this goal that he can finally do something that seems incredible to others. Don't listen to the nonsense of those marketing accounts on the Internet, they usually don't watch a game, and even some of the Chinese team don't know, as soon as they hear the word 'national football', they climax in the skull, and they all come to rub the heat! Those who engage in overseas purchasing can come to laugh at Hu Lai, and they are also worthy? Wait to be slapped in the face! ”

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"At that time, many people believe that many people have seen the celebration that Hulai practiced, and yes, it was Hulai's signature celebration...... And who would have thought that when he first practiced this set of moves on the training ground, seven or eight times out of ten times he was unsuccessful? But just as it was incomprehensible that he was celebrating with a practice, he was now saying that he was going to win the World Cup.

What was not understood was his later answer in an interview with Mr. Sun. When Mr. Sun asked him what his vision was for the future, he just wanted to ask him what he thought about the upcoming national competition. But guess how Hulay answered this question? By the way, he said he wanted to be a professional footballer.

"Look, isn't it similar to today? A substitute who couldn't even start in the middle school team, faced the media and said seriously that he wanted to become a professional player. A newcomer who was selected for the first time in the national Olympic training team said that he wanted to win the World Cup...... Two future prospects, same questions, different answers, but the same taste. So guys, when you scolded this young man for being arrogant and grandstanding, did you ever think that he was just really saying what was in his heart?

"That's obviously what you're talking about, why don't you believe it? Maybe it's because we've long been accustomed to wearing masks and playing our own role in this society, a role that others want to see, that benefits us, but not our true selves. When everyone is accustomed to opening their eyes and telling nonsense, and they are used to hiding their true thoughts in their hearts, someone suddenly says his inner thoughts, even if this sincere words are so sincere and respectable, but most people's first reaction is probably to laugh at him, reprimand him, belittle him, and besiege him......

"Are they irritated by the 'hubris' of this young man? No, they were just stabbed by his 'sincerity'. Just like a human who has lived in a dark cave for a long time, the reaction when he sees the sun for the first time is not joy, but fear.

"The ambition of young people, or even gibberish...... And what is the sin? Let people be so verbally criticized? We...... Has everyone in Chinese football sunk for too long, been scared for too long, cowered for too long, and crawled in a dark cave for too long...... So much so that you forget what sunlight looks like? When encountering something other than one's own cognition, there is only the idea of the dark side in the heart, and there is no room for the slightest light......

"In that case, let this young man bring light to everyone!"

(Reporter: Zhang Chao)

After reading this article, Li Ziqiang put down his phone and turned his head to look at the window.

The curtains were pulled back, and the morning sun poured in through the glass windows, shining on the phone, and reflecting off the ceiling by the phone screen.

This house he rented near Dongchuan Middle School, because it was an elevator apartment, the floor was high, and the lighting was much better than the old house before. That's why he now likes to open the curtains every morning to let the sun shine in and make every corner of the room bright.

When he came back from work, after the last rays of the setting sun had disappeared into the western mountains, he would close the curtains again.

Now he was looking out over the sun-drenched city.

In the sunlight, the glass windows of the buildings in the distance shimmered brightly.

Under the sun, the triangular plum blossoms on the balcony of the opposite residential building bloom more colorfully.

Under the sun, every corner of the city comes alive.

The song that was put at the beginning of this article on the official account of "Goal" is still playing on a loop, playing out of the mobile phone speaker.

“…… Woo oo oo Woo oo oo…… Pull back the curtains. I was full of emotion. Lucky Son. It's like a new ......"

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Li Qingqing stopped swiping the phone screen, so the content on the screen stayed at the last few paragraphs of the article.

She kept staring at the last sentence of the article.

The soundtrack of the official account continues to reach her ears through headphones.

“…… Look at your youthful self and the breath of youth...... Life belongs to you, don't care about their reasoning, just say what you want to say and do what you want to do......" (Note 1)

She shook her head slightly, squirmed her lips to the music, and repeated silently in her heart:

Say what you want to say, do what you want, and don't care what they say, Hulai.

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Note 1: This song is "New Life" by GALA.