After the Spring Festival holiday, the football team of Dongchuan Middle School resumed training.

The first five days of the second ten-day training camp were mainly physical training, mainly to allow the players' bodies to recover from the nonsense of the Spring Festival.

After all, they are not professional players, and Li Ziqiang has no way to ask them to strictly control their diet and rest during the Chinese New Year.

After these ten days of relaxation and rest, everyone's physical fitness will inevitably decline.

In order for the next training to be carried out normally, of course, it is necessary to restore the physical fitness of the players to the level before the Spring Festival.

So the training volume is slightly larger.

But it's not a big deal for the players at Higashikawa Middle School.

After all, they used to have two physical training sessions every morning and noon, so they have long since adapted to the intensity of the manager's training.

After the end of the ten-day intensive training, it will be only a few days before the start of school.

In the past few days, Li Ziqiang has asked the players to take a good rest.

Because after the start of school, the team will return to two or three practices a day - every morning and noon, and three afternoons a week.

And at this time, there is not much time left before the start of the national competition.

Because this year's Spring Festival is on February 12, and it will be March 1 by the time school starts.

There are only two weeks to prepare for the national competition.

Time is tight and the task is heavy, but Li Ziqiang does not plan to continue to practice the tactics of the whole team, but disperses into various set-piece tactics to train.

After all, set-pieces are a very important scoring weapon in the game.

So, in addition to the thunderous physical training every morning and noon, three times a week, a total of six training sessions, were spent on set-piece tactical training: corner kick attack and defense training, free kick attack and defense training, and penalty kicks.

There is no overtime in high school soccer games, and if there is a draw in regular time, it goes straight to the penalty shootout.

So penalty kicks must be practiced.

At the same time, Li Ziqiang also had to reorganize a list of penalty takers.

If a penalty is awarded in regulation time, who will take the penalty?

In a penalty shootout, how do you decide the order of penalty takers?

The penalty taker in regular time last year was actually the captain Chu Yifan, but Chu Yifan is a good talker, if someone really wants to take the penalty, then he will also let it out.

For example, at the last national competition, the penalty scored by Luo Kai in order to stage the senior year was actually snatched from Chu Yifan.

However, Chu Yifan didn't take it to heart, and head coach Li Ziqiang naturally turned a blind eye.

Now both Luo Kai and Chu Yifan have left the team.

In the Anton Cup, Li Ziqiang did not think about fixing a person to take the penalty, but let the players decide for themselves.

It's just that Dongchuan Middle School didn't get a penalty in the Anton Cup, so there was no situation where everyone was left to decide who would take the penalty on the court.

Later, Li Ziqiang thought about it and felt that it was better to fix one person to be the main punishment.

The Anton Cup may not be necessary, but it is absolutely necessary for the national competition.

Because of the penalty kick in the national competition, who will take the penalty is a very important matter, to put it seriously, it is related to how far the Dongchuan Middle School football team can go in the national competition.

Maybe in the end it's the quarter-finals, or the quarter-finals, and there's only one penalty in between.

Since he is the penalty taker in the national competition, Li Ziqiang values not his skills, but his psychological quality.

Because of the penalty kick in the national competition, the pressure can be imagined......

In front of the goal, the players of Dongchuan Middle School are practicing on penalty kicks.

It was Hulai standing in front of the football, ready to take the penalty.

Goalkeeper Meng Xi stood in the goal, fangs and claws, twisting his body, trying to interfere with him.

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Hu Lai looked at the funny Meng Xi, and suddenly thought of the famous goalkeeper from another time and space, Zimbabwean Bruce Grobella.

The former Liverpool goalkeeper helped the team lift the trophy by beating rivals Roma in the 1984 European Cup final.

At that time, the way to decide the winner was a penalty.

In the face of Roma's penalty shooters, Grobella suddenly writhed on the goal line, as if he had a seizure. The Roma players on the opposite side were at a loss, and famous players such as Conte and Graziani missed penalties one after another, and Liverpool finally succeeded in winning the cup.

And the noodle dance created by Grobella has also become one of the psychological battles that goalkeepers will use in penalty shootouts.

In this plane, there is no Grobella, but it is clear that a similar method has been invented, otherwise how could a goalkeeper of a high school team think of using this method to interfere with Hulai?

In fact, after Hu Lai first traveled over, he also thought about inventing those special ball skills in this time and space, such as "ox tail", "croquette", "Marseille slalom" and "cycling...... But then he checked on the Internet, and all these actions were made, but they might not be called by these names.

This fully shows that the football people in this time and space are not idiots and fools, and the football in this time and space is not an inch after more than a hundred years of development, waiting for the protagonist to pick peaches......

As a penalty taker, Hulay wanted to try a way to kick penalties that was also famous, and it already existed in this plane, which he couldn't invent, but he could emulate.

That's the spoon penalty.

In the time and space where Hulay came, the inventor of the spoon penalty belonged to the Czechoslovak player Palenka, who kicked the ball into the West German goal with a deflection in the 1976 European Championship final, and the first spoon penalty in the history of world football was born.

Since then, many players have scored spoon-kicks in games, but very few have dared to take spoon-shots in major matches.

After all, if the play was to be taken off, it would be self-defeating and ridiculed by countless people - and someone really missed the spoon penalty in the game.

In this plane, Hulai also checked that the first spoon penalty appeared much later than the other plane.

In the 1998 World Cup, the famous Argentine star Gabriel Nicolás Guzmán scored a beautiful penalty in the quarter-finals of the World Cup, and he deceived the goalkeeper of the England team at the time.

When this kind of penalty kick first appeared in front of the world's eyes, everyone didn't know what to call this strange way of scoring penalty kicks.

It was Giuseppe Gasparoni, the commentator of Italian national television at the time, who exclaimed: "Spoon! Spoon! Spoon Penalty!! ”

That's why this weird way of kicking penalties has officially got its name.

The reason why the Italian commentator named an Argentine player's penalty kick is because there is a very good tradition of picking and shooting in Italian football, and this way of scoring goals is not uncommon in Italy, and there are also Italian players who are famous for being good at shooting. It's just that when you combine this type of shooting with a penalty, Gabriel Nicolás Guzmán is truly the number one in world football.

The provoked football drew a beautiful arc in the air, which was also like the arc of a spoon, and the "spoon" was used to name the penalty, which was very well described and very vivid, so the name was instantly spread all over the world with the TV broadcast of the World Cup.

Hulai wanted to give it a try.

A spoon penalty may seem simple, but it's not easy to get it right because it requires better control of the ball. The force should not be too large, and it is easy to pick out the beam if it is too big; The power should not be too small, and it will give the goalkeeper time to react and then save the football......

The most important thing is to have a steady mindset and not be impatient.

"Hey! Hulai, what are you doing standing stupidly? Were you shocked by the murderous aura of the door god like me? Meng Xi in front of the door twisted his body for a while, but found that Hu Lai was indifferent, so he shouted.

In this penalty exercise, he just saved three penalties in a row, and it was when the momentum was at its peak, and he was full of confidence.

Seeing Meng Xi's triumphant appearance, Hu Lai smiled and began to run.

The speed of his run-up is not slow, and it feels like he wants to use the power of the sprint to volley hard.

Meng Xi in front of the goal did not twist his body, but leaned over, and while opening his arms, his left thigh exerted force, his knees and ankles were tense, ready to kick out and pounce to the right at any time - he predicted that Hu Lai would kick the football to the right, because Hu Lai is a right-footed player. Generally speaking, those who are good at which foot will often subconsciously kick the football in which way.

But when he flew out, he found that the football was coming towards the middle of the road where he was standing just now!

Instead of a powerful volley, he drew a parabola in the air and fell into the goal!

Spoon penalty!

“wooooooooooooooooooow！！！”

"!!"

"Haha! Meng Xi was deflated! ”

"Vice Hu is awesome!"

On the field, the players were in an uproar.

Although spoon penalties are not new, there are indeed not many people who have the courage to kick them like this.

Li Ziqiang, who saw this scene next to him, narrowed his eyes, and he had already made a decision in his heart about the choice of the penalty taker.

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"Huh? I'm going to take a penalty? In the queue, Hulay pointed to himself with some surprise.

The rest of his team-mates also looked at him, but they were not surprised or unconvinced, and in everyone's mind, the manager made a wise decision.

"yes, what? Not happy? Li Ziqiang asked rhetorically with a straight face.

"No, no, quite willingly! Coach wise! Hu Laixi smiled and agreed without any pretensions.

Perhaps for some people, it is too easy to score a penalty and disdain it. But here in Hulay, such pedantic ideas do not exist at all.

He doesn't care if it's easy or difficult, as long as he can score goals, that's fine. As a striker, of course, the more goals you score, the better.

Even if the penalty was relatively simple, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. He wished all his goals were so simple......

Seeing that Hu Lai was so happy, Li Ziqiang added: "But don't think about cheating a penalty in the penalty area, you kid......"

"No, no, of course not! Coach, what do you think of me as? Am I the kind of person who doesn't have sportsmanship? If I fall in the penalty area, it must be a foul on the other side! Hulai shouted.

Li Ziqiang raised his hand and motioned for Hu Lai to shut up.

Look at this kid's shameless appearance...... How could he be nervous when he took a penalty?

With the thickness of his skin, he is of course the first choice to take the penalty.