Chapter Fifty-Eight: Football Is Fun
"Hulai, I heard you scored a goal in the weekend's game?"
When Hu Lai stepped into the classroom with his schoolbag on his back, a classmate asked loudly.
"What? Hulai actually played on the varsity team?! ”
"And scored?!"
More voices of surprise rang out.
Faced with everyone's surprised questions, Hulai was very proud, and he raised his head: "Yes! Scored a goal on the pitch! Helped the team reach the semi-finals! ”
"Wow! It's unbelievable! ”
"Damn, Hulai can score?"
"Awesome......
Listening to the exclamations and exclamations in his ears, Li Zhiqun couldn't stand it anymore, he stood up and said loudly: "Don't listen to his nonsense!" That's a shitty goal! ”
All eyes were on him.
Seeing this, Li Zhiqun became even more energetic, and he desperately explained: "I was at the scene at the time!" His ball landed at his feet only after Kai Ge's shot bounced off the post...... What he had to do was very simple, just push the ball into the empty goal, and it was not difficult at all! This kind of goal can be scored by any of you who go there! ”
"Huh." Hulai smiled. "Then why didn't you score, Reipili?"
Li Zhiqun was furious: "I'm so off the field, how can I score!" ”
"I scored three goals in the team game, and you were on the field at the time, why didn't you score a single goal?" Hu Lai picked on Li Zhiqun's wound and said.
Sure enough, Li Zhiqun's face turned red, but he couldn't say anything. What was he going to say? Hulai's first two goals in that game had something to do with him to some extent, because it was he who didn't kick the ball that gave Hulai the opportunity. At that time, everyone was in front of the goal, and if they had to study this problem, everyone would think: yes, why was Hulai able to score goals in front of the goal, but he Li Zhiqun couldn't score?
"Haven't you heard that, Ripri?" Luck is also part of strength'. Hu Lai stretched out his hand to Li Zhiqun, his expression calm and calm.
Li Zhiqun gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be too happy, Hu Lai! Don't think you'll be able to play when you score a goal! I'll tell you, you've got this chance! You just hold on to this ball that you have scored by walking shit! ”
"But Li Zhiqun, you don't have a chance......" It was not Hu Lai who said this, nor Song Jiajia and Li Qingqing, but an ordinary classmate who had nothing to do with Hu Lai before.
He was pointing at Hu Lai and said to Li Zhiqun: "No matter what Hu Lai says, he also played for the school team and scored goals. ”
Li Zhiqun never expected that someone else would stand up and speak for Hu Lai, which had never happened before.
He looked around and saw that many of the students in the class were looking at him with a gaze that made him feel uncomfortable.
Not to mention that Li Zhiqun was not adaptable, even Hu Lai himself was a little uncomfortable, and he looked around a little blankly.
Li Qingqing, who saw this scene, smiled.
The clown in everyone's mind seems to be getting different little by little.
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It was school training time after school on Tuesday, and Luo Kai glanced back in the direction of the rostrum as he stepped on the training ground.
It was almost all a habit before he started training.
Although he knew why the shadow had come to watch the training, he still had some fantasies in his heart, hoping that his performance would impress her and regain her favor.
Just like in the last game, after scoring the second goal, didn't you see the opponent's heartfelt smile?
But today, when Luo Kai looked back at that familiar place, he didn't see a familiar figure.
In other words, there is only one familiar figure.
Song Jiajia's big fat man was still standing on the rostrum, but there was no Li Qingqing by his side.
Luo Kai was stunned.
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Song Jiajia turned her head and glanced at the female classmate next to her who was waving to Luo Kai excitedly.
"He's looking at me! He's looking at me! The female classmate was still shouting excitedly.
Of course, the other girls around her also thought so, and everyone was sure that Luo Kai would definitely look at herself this time.
Song Jiajia snorted when she saw this: "What are you proud of?" Luo Kai: He's looking at me! ”
When the girls around heard a fat man say this, they were first shocked, then in an uproar, and then laughed: "What nonsense are you talking about?" Luo Kai look at you? Why does he look at you! Luo Kai is obviously looking at me! ”
"Yes, it's me!"
"It's me, it's me!"
Seeing a group of girls scrambling to say that they were close to Luo Kai, Song Jiajia smiled proudly: "How do I know why he looks at me, but he looks at me every time." If you don't believe me, I'll change my position tomorrow when I'm training, and you'll see if he's still looking at me. ”
A group of girls didn't expect this fat man to be so determined, and the verification method he proposed was easy to implement. Seeing his confident smile, many girls were really a little shaken in their hearts - is Luo Kai really looking at this big fat man? But what does he have to do with this fat man? They're not friends, are they?
Seeing the thoughtful expressions of the girls, Song Jiajia stopped paying attention to them.
He glanced at his side, of course he knew that Luo Kai was looking at him, definitely not to look at himself, but to find Li Qingqing.
But from now on, Li Qingqing may not be able to watch the training.
It wasn't until today after school that he heard Li Qingqing say that he was going to train, and he remembered that Li Qingqing was actually playing football - this was what Hu Lai told him at the beginning.
That's right, since it's a kicker...... But why have I never seen Li Qingqing play?
In the school's physical education class, the boys occupy the soccer field and are keen to compete with other classes. And what about Li Qingqing? I watched the boys play football on this podium, and I didn't see her playing football by herself.
So Song Jiajia forgot that Li Qingqing would play football......
Song Jiajia set her sights on Hu Lai on the training ground, who had already begun to warm up.
Hu Lai didn't know that Li Qingqing was going to train, but looking at his focused, he probably didn't care if Li Qingqing came to train at all...... Think about Luo Kai who can't ask for it, why is the gap between people so big?
Looking at Hu Lai's decent warm-up movements, Song Jiajia still felt a little hard to believe that this was a rookie who couldn't even grasp the empty door opportunity three months ago.
And the scene that happened in the class on Monday morning, Song Jiajia felt that her table mate was changing more and more.
So far, though, he's only had one chance to play and looks like he's been lucky enough to score a goal...... But Song Jiajia always felt that Li Qingqing was right, and it should be impossible for his tablemate to eat chicken with him.
Staring at the serious figure, Song Jiajia frowned.
He felt like his best friend had been snatched away from him by football.
"That's why I hate ......football," Song muttered.
A male classmate behind him heard him muttering, so he reached out and patted him: "Eh, since you don't like football, why are you staying here?" Isn't that blocking my view? ”
Song Jiajia turned her head to look at the boy who was a head shorter and smaller than herself, and didn't speak. Instead, he turned back, pulled a phone out of his pocket, and played the game in a noisy environment.
The boy was a little unhappy by Song Jiajia's eyes, but he carefully looked at Song Jiajia's body shape, and then looked down at his thin arms and legs, and finally forced himself to calm down, just tilted his head and looked at the court from the gap between the girls in front of him.
In the gap, he saw that Rokai was bouncing the ball, and the football was bouncing from side to side between his feet, obedient as if it were his pet.
The girls kept screaming and cheering.
made this boy think in his heart a little sourly: Isn't it just an ordinary juggling ball, what's the big deal?
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This is a soccer park with several soccer fields of various sizes, which is open to the public, and you can rent a field for a while and call friends for a game.
There are a lot of community football parks like this, and many of them have been built in the last five or six years. Most of the neighbourhoods are zoned to the site of a five-a-side, seven-a-side and nine-a-side football tournament by using land that has been temporarily vacant in urban planning, then asphalted, planted with artificial turf, and raised with high barbed wire walls.
Relying on this kind of venue to survive is a variety of football training institutions, recruiting children from nearby communities to learn to play football, which can be said to be the main source of profit for this type of venue.
In addition, there will be some self-organized teams in the society, which will spend money to rent venues for training and competitions.
The girls who are now in a circle in the No. 5 field are such a spontaneously organized women's football team.
Most of them come from several nearby universities, and some have entered the society, usually they are white-collar workers, shopping mall guides, and private self-employed people......
And at this time of the evening, they will take off their suits, long skirts, stockings and heels, put on their jerseys and sneakers, and run around the football field, chasing, hugging and cheering for the goal.
Now, the girls were staring intently at the girl in the circle, all with their heads tapping up and down.
In their common vision, there is a girl with a ponytail, who is picking up the football, and then the right foot that has just picked up the football quickly crosses the top of the football, but this is not over, while the football has not yet landed, she uses her other foot to complete the same movement around the ball.
She then lifted the ball high again, turned around and gave it behind her, and when it fell from the air, she stretched out her right leg and sandwiched the falling ball between her thigh and calf.
With a little more force, the ball bounced lightly, and then she knocked the ball up behind her with her heels, and the ball flew over her head, landed in front of her, and was constantly upside down by her.
Under her control, the round soccer ball turned into a fluttering butterfly, flying up and down beside her, as if playing a game with her.
And this process has been going on for almost three minutes.
The football didn't hit the ground once.
"Wow......" Some of the stunned women's football players couldn't help but sigh.
The captain with short hair approached a middle-aged man and asked quietly, "Coach, where did you find such a powerful person?" ”
The middle-aged man put away the surprised look on his face, shook his head and said, "It was my friend who asked me to help receive it, saying that it was his friend's daughter, who had practiced for a few years and wanted to follow the training competition in our team......"
"How many years have you practiced? I've been practicing for a few years, so why am I not so good? ”
Hearing the captain say this, the coach smiled bitterly.
As the head coach of this women's football team, he naturally knows the level of this team very well, basically all football lovers, and people like the captain who have also received professional training are simply rare.
In second- and third-tier cities like Dongchuan City, there are very few pure women's football teams, especially this kind of adult women's football team.
If you are a child, girls can also train and play with boys, and in the lower age groups there is no gender distinction in football, and men and women can play mixed.
However, at the age of more than 10 years, with the development of the body, the difference between men and women gradually appears, and it is unrealistic to want to play mixed again. Especially in terms of physical strength, the gap is very noticeable. No matter how skilled a girl is, if she is hit by a boy with her body, she will have no advantage.
Football is a sport rich in physical confrontation, so it is impossible to ask boys and girls not to have physical contact when playing football, right?
As a result, many female soccer players of this age are generally not of high level - high-level female soccer players are not mixed in this kind of amateur - and the new players who came today are like fighting monsters and entering kindergarten......
"This kind of person shouldn't come to our team......" the captain muttered.
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Li Qingqing didn't care too much about the stunned looks of her teammates looking at her, she was immersed in the joy of bouncing the ball.
Let the soccer ball fly up and down with your heart, as if there is some mysterious connection between yourself and the soccer ball.
Little by little, that familiar feeling came back into her body.
She felt all the cells in her body reactivate, and they danced with excitement.
Football, it's so interesting!