In the new week of training, Hulai once again participated in the team's offensive routine training, not Lai Zekai.

At this time, including Lai Zekai himself, he felt that Hulai would definitely get the start of the next game.

Lai Zekai was deeply disturbed by his situation, but also quite annoyed.

He knew that Zhao Kangming was biased towards Hu Lai, because the two of them were masters and apprentices when they were in the Poseidon Youth Team, and they had this level of human relationship, so what did they compete with Hu Lai?

In his opinion, if he wants to break the game, he can only wait.

Wait for Hulay to get through this "fresh period". Generally speaking, it is not unreasonable for the folk to say that "changing hands is like changing knives", when you can't pass this level by playing a game, changing a new handle may feel bursting, God blocks and kills God, and Buddha blocks and kills Buddha.

Then when the attack of the Twinkles is not improving, replace the new striker of the whole team, although he does not look like a person who can take on the big role in all aspects, but it is possible to perform well on the field and score goals.

And it makes sense.

But the change that comes with freshness is often not long-lasting.

Lai Zekai really didn't see any greater ability from the training, in his opinion, Hulai is just a young player with a little bit of talent and super good luck. He picked a suitable opponent at the right time to play and scored a goal......

Maybe after a game you'll be beaten back to square one.

At that time, head coach Zhao Kangming will definitely know who can be the main striker of this team.

After all, even if you can't score, you have other roles up front, such as pulling opportunities for your teammates and providing assists with passes......

And what is the ability of that young man who can only grab points?

He decided to hibernate and patiently wait for the opportunity and the goddess of luck to come back to him. After all, he is almost thirty years old, what storms and waves have he never seen in his career?

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Shiningstar's next opponent in the round is the Red Lotus Club from Youjiang Province.

The team is currently second from bottom in the league and is a relegation team.

If this ranking remains unchanged until the end of the league, Youjiang Honglian will go to the relegation play-offs, and together with the third-to-last team, go to fight against the fourth and fifth teams in the second division, and finally decide whether they can stay in the middle league.

Although the Twinkle has moved up to twelfth place with a win in their last game, it looks like they are already out of the relegation zone.

But it's still not sloppy. Because the league has only played 19 rounds, there are still 15 rounds of games left, and everything is possible in these 15 rounds.

Not to mention that they are still facing a red-eyed relegation team in this round of the league.

Anyone who knows a little bit about football knows that in the second half of the league, relegation teams are much more difficult to play than teams in the upper middle of the table.

This is true both at home and away.

Because people are here to fight you.

Before this game, there was some anticipation that the young player named Hulai would be able to appear on the pitch. Before that, few people cared about the name in the tournament squad.

The squad for the tournament was announced the day before the match, which is no secret, and can be found on the official website of Shining Star, the official social media account, and the official website of the Chinese League.

Hulai, who scored the winning goal for his team in the last game, was among them.

"Look, our son is coming out again!" Xie Lan shook her phone in front of her husband.

Hu Lixin turned around and didn't look at his phone.

Xie Lancai didn't care what her husband was like, she continued to say happily: "This time it must be the starter!" ”

Hearing his wife's words, Hu Lixin finally couldn't help but hum: "What do you know? Scoring a goal to start? Do you know the difference between starting and coming off the bench? ”

"What's not to know about this? The starter is to play at the beginning of the game, and the substitute is to play after the game starts. Xie Lan said triumphantly.

"What a difference!"

"So what's the difference?"

Hu Lixin opened his mouth to explain, but after seeing his wife's expression, he closed his mouth again.

"Hey, you're a man. You know you can tell it......"

Hu Lixin got up and left.

"Why are you going?"

"Smoking!"

Looking at the back of her husband leaving in a hurry, Xie Lan pursed her lips.

She originally wanted to use this way of letting her husband give her popular science football knowledge to let him enter her son's world little by little, and find his own feeling of being a professional player little by little, and slowly dissolve the ice in her husband's heart through this common topic.

But now it seems that it may not be as easy as she thought.

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"There's Hulai in the squad!"

In a WeChat group called "Dongchuan Middle School Team Jincheng Branch", someone excitedly announced.

"Isn't that a matter of course? It's not the big list that's important, it's the starting list! ”

"There should be no suspense about the starter, right? The substitute performance in the last game was so good, much better than the original starting striker Lai Zekai, if I were the manager, I would definitely let Hulai start! ”

"That's it, that Lai Zekai doesn't play well, and the spectrum is getting bigger and bigger, do you really think that the shining star can't do without him? If you want me to say that the club is not renewing his contract, I am right! Why do such people get high salaries? ”

The discussion in the group was in full swing, and Yan Yan jumped out and asked, "Are you ready for tomorrow's game?" ”

He circled Tang Yuan at the same time.

Tang Yuan, who was circled, sent out a picture, which was a folded red banner, and the big white characters on the back were faintly visible.

"The banner has been made, Team Yan."

"Good. Don't forget to put on your varsity jerseys tomorrow. Let's make sure Hulay can see us from the stands at a glance! Yan Yan reminded everyone.

The color of the home jersey of the shining stars is mainly red, supplemented by white.

The jersey of the Dongchuan Middle School football team is yellow as the main color, supplemented by a few blue patterns.

There is still a big contrast in the stands - twenty or thirty fans in yellow jerseys suddenly appeared in a large pile of red, as if a skylight was opened in the home team's fan phalanx, and their banners are sure to attract everyone's attention, and if Hulay can cast his eyes on them, then the purpose will be achieved.

They just want to tell Hu Lai: The teammates of the Dongchuan Middle School team are here to cheer you on!

The idea was first proposed by Yan Yan, hoping to let Hu Lai see them in such a way that was incompatible with the outfit of the surrounding fans - in order to surprise Hu Lai, they did not tell Hu Lai in advance.

Of course, it is also thanks to the fact that Youjiang Honglian's away jersey is not yellow or white, but dark green, otherwise it would not be good if it was treated as a fan of the away team......

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The night before the home game, according to the request of head coach Zhao Kangming, all the Sparkling Star players selected for the squad had to spend the night in the dormitory of the training base, which was also to facilitate management and avoid the situation that someone ran to have fun before the game, which ultimately affected the team's morale and results.

This situation is not uncommon in the early days of the professionalization of Chinese football. Even if the coaches strictly prohibit this kind of behavior, they can't resist the temptation of the fancy world outside.

Many people simply climbed over the wall and went out of the base, running to be chic, and did not come back until the second half of the night.

Either get drunk or drain the woman of the physical strength that should have been prepared for the competition.

Of course, after decades of development and progress, this has become much less the case as the idea of a more professional European football has been introduced into domestic football.

The vast majority of players know that it doesn't do them any good to do this kind of thing before a game.

“…… In fact, there are pros and cons to everything. It's not right to run around before a game, but the media and fans always want us professional players to be pure-hearted Puritans, and it seems like heinous to go to a bar or club...... This is also not true. Qin Lin was telling Hu Lai, who lived in the same room with him, about professional footballers.

The room arrangement for the group accommodation before the game was designated by the club at the beginning of the season, so Hu Lai, who transferred halfway, lived in the same room with Qin Lin.

It's not the first time they've stayed together – they shared a hotel room ahead of last week's away game.

To Qin Lin's surprise, although Hu Lai is a young man, he doesn't seem to have any pressure when he is alone with him, and his performance is completely different from that of some other young players when they see him.

He would take the initiative to chat with himself and ask himself a lot of questions, as if he was curious about himself......

"Except on the eve of the game, I think it's okay to go to a club, bar or something at any other time."

When Hu Lai heard Qin Lin, who is known as the most professional among Chinese players, say such a thing, he was a little surprised - he originally thought that Qin Lin would be a very stereotypical person, after all, the big guy gives people the impression of this.

Who would have thought that the big guy would say such a thing.

"The right amount is the right amount." Seeing Hu Lai's surprised expression, Qin Lin asked him with a smile, "You know that I am in the youth team of Andong Xingcheng, right?" ”

Hulai nodded.

"At that time, the training base in Xingcheng was now the training base of Shining Star, and after so many years, except for the redecoration, the location of the dormitory building has not changed." Qin Lin looked up at the ceiling of the dormitory room, "When I was in the youth team, I lived here. We trained with the first team a lot and we knew each other very well. Every team will have some big brothers, and every big brother will be surrounded by a bunch of little brothers, and I am one of those little brothers. ”

It was hard for Hu Lai to imagine what it would be like for the last big man of Chinese football to be someone else's younger brother, but he didn't say anything, but listened intently to Qin Lin talk about his youth.

"For a while, I had a problem with my thinking, and I couldn't keep up my spirits when I was hanging. Then I was seen by the 'second brother' Xue Bowen of the first team, and he knew why I was like this - I didn't perform well in the youth team at that time, and I couldn't even play in the youth team games, and I felt a little confused about my future...... The second brother is a very righteous person, warm-hearted, and willing to help us as little dolls of the youth team. To get me back on my feet, guess what he did? ”

Hu Lai shook his head, this kind of gossip between players, especially in the "ancient times" - Xue Bowen's name he had never heard of before, but after crossing over, when he inquired about the history of Chinese football and Anton football, he knew that this was a famous figure in the history of Anton football, and one of the representatives of Anton football - gossip between players, let alone gossip.

"He took me to the major dance halls and bars in Jincheng to eat, drink and have fun after training for three days in a row."

Hulai's mouth opened wide.

Seeing Hu Lai like this, Qin Lin laughed: "That was the first time I went to the dance hall, the first time I went to the bar, and I still sat in the second brother's Daben." When we got out of the car, we saw a group of women wearing heavy makeup coming up to us and greeting us with a loud voice...... I will never forget that scene for the rest of my life. For a seventeen or eighteen-year-old lad, it was too impactful. ”

Hu Lai nodded again and again - he also went to the bar with his teammates when he was in the Poseidon Youth Team, although it was not as exaggerated as Qin Lin said, but it still opened his eyes.

They were all nobodies, and no one paid any attention to them. But when Qin Lin followed the "second brother" Xue Bowen, he must have been the most beautiful boy on the field.

"I've been playing like this crazy for three days, I'm already a little addicted, and every day I look forward to the second brother taking me there after the training is over...... As a result, the second brother suddenly stopped taking me. He told me that he took me there to show me what a life it was like to be a professional, a first-team player. He hopes that I can take this goal seriously in training and have such a good life waiting for me in the future. The second brother called this method he invented 'self-wei'...... Of course, I learned later that being a professional footballer does have this kind of life, but if you want to make your career more successful, you must not indulge in this life. Proper relaxation is good for career, but indulgence is not. ”

After listening to the big guy's story, Hu Lai was powerless to complain.

So to take young players to see the world of glittering and drunken flowers, is it to let young players strive for this goal? This is really not afraid to take young players into the ditch......

But if you think about it carefully, this kind of thing is really in line with the atmosphere of the early stage of Chinese football professionalism in which Xue Bowen lived, as well as Xue Bowen's personal style.

It is really worthy of what Xue Bowen can do, after all, Xue Bowen can be said to have been planted in this area later, and his career achievements are far inferior to the little brother Qin Lin who was taken care of by him at the beginning.

Does Xue Bowen regret living such a life?

Hu Lai doesn't know, but he knows that in that era when the sports team has just changed from specialization to professionalism, how many Chinese players can have today's professional vision and career planning? Not to mention the players, the fans and reporters themselves have no idea.

It was the golden age of Chinese football, and the professional reform released the long-suppressed enthusiasm of fans, the market, the media, and the players, and sprayed unscrupulously.

But that is also the most dangerous time for Chinese football, because what about after the long-accumulated passion is sprayed? It's endless emptiness and chaos.

It's just that even the Football Association was in such a state of excitement at that time, and how many people can realize this?

As a result, Chinese football missed youth training in the most prosperous era of professionalization, and the brutal growth has repeatedly broken the rules, with constant scandals and ills.

Had to make up for it later with a little longer.

In a sense, Hulay's ability to become a professional player as a high school player is part of that compensation.

There was a knock at the door, and Hu Lai jumped out of bed to open the door, only to find that it was the team's head coach, Zhao Kangming.

After seeing Hu Lai, he glanced at Qin Lin who was inside, and said with a smile: "Where are they all?" Very good. Rest early, don't get too late. ”

Hu Lai hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Director Zhao, we'll wash up and sleep right away." ”

Zhao Kangming nodded with satisfaction, and at the same time did not tell Hu Lai too much, with Qin Lin here, he was a million at ease, and believed that Hu Lai would definitely not come to Hu Lai.

After checking Hu Lai and Qin Lin's room, he continued to go to the room.

And Hulai closed the door, really ready to wash up and sleep.

The night before the game, it passed peacefully.