Chapter 207: Farewell at the Airport
Dai Zetao took his ID card back from the self-service ticket machine, and then pulled out the printed boarding pass from the ticket gate of the machine.
Then he stepped aside and gave up his place to the man behind him.
He carefully put away his ID card and boarding pass and put them in the inner pocket of his clothes.
After doing all this, he didn't rush to the security checkpoint, but looked around the departure hall of the terminal.
As the third largest city in the country, the airport is still very busy, even though it is not a holiday.
As a scout for Anton Shining Star Club, he finished his work here and at this moment, he was about to say goodbye to the city.
Looking at the hurried crowd in front of him, he was a little melancholy.
In the end, his mission failed.
He failed to convince Hulay to join his team, the Twinkles.
Although he put forward the "hometown team" statement, he still failed to impress Hulai.
Even as soon as he mentioned the advantage of "being close to home", Hulai suddenly shook his head very firmly. This made Dai Zetao wonder if he had said something wrong......
Coupled with the fact that the Twinkling Star is the only team in the lower league of all the teams interested in Hulai, the attraction is naturally not as good as that of other rivals.
He was quickly defeated.
Later, I heard that Hu Lai signed a contract with another local professional football club in Lingnan City, Poseidon Team, and became a member of the youth team of this Chinese Super League club.
Poseidon is not a strong team in the Chinese Super League, and there is no past record that can be used, but it is also a midstream team, and its performance has been very stable.
Since being promoted to the Chinese Super League seven years ago, they have been in this position, and it is difficult to win the title, but the risk of relegation is not great.
It is said that Zhao Kangming was very optimistic about Hu Lai's talent, and told him in detail about the club's training plan for him, which impressed Hu Lai, and finally made him choose this football club in Lingnan City.
Even as a competitor, Dai Zetao has to admit that Hulai made the right choice.
Because Lingnan City's Poseidon Football Club does have a hand in cultivating young players, or to be precise, Zhao Kangming does have a hand in cultivating young players.
This legendary international player, after retiring in 2010, has been engaged in the training of echelon players at the Poseidon Club where he played before his retirement, from an ordinary grassroots youth coach to the current club's youth training director.
He has cultivated a number of outstanding players, some media statistics, among the players he has cultivated, three of them eventually became players of the Chinese national team, and there are currently as many as 16 of his active "disciples" active in the Chinese Super League clubs, with an average of one team per team. As for the middle A and middle B ones, there are even more.
This can be said to be a very bright youth training achievement for Chinese football, which did not pay much attention to youth training before.
With such a person who is good at cultivating young players to persuade Hu Lai to join, how can Dai Zetao and the shining star behind him have the power to fight back?
Don't talk about them, the other clubs are all out of the game - Poseidon's sworn enemy South China Tiger is-for-tat, putting on a posture that he must take Hu Lai to the South China Tiger.
But everyone knows that they just want to disgust the Poseidon Club, after all, the South China Tigers Club's business ideas are very different from the Poseidon Club, they prefer to use a lot of money to collect those famous stars, rather than a small business to pay attention to youth training - not that the South China Tigers don't pay attention to it, they also pay attention to it, but they don't pay more attention to it.
Regardless of the different positions, Dai Zetao believes that Hu Lai's joining Poseidon is a good thing for both parties, and it is a win-win situation.
And after Poseidon hibernates, concentrate on honing his skills and improving himself, and in two years, Hu Lai may be able to make a name for himself in Chinese professional football - Dai Zetao is now very optimistic about Hu Lai's future - but this also means that he and the Shining Star Club will gradually drift apart:
A young player who is on the rise, can play in a Chinese Super League team, why should he go to a Chinese League A team?
Thinking of this, Dai Zetao sighed with mixed feelings.
He wants Hulai's future to get better and better, but that means it is impossible for the Twinkling Star to have Hulai.
Isn't it good to be close to home?
Now Jincheng and Dongchuan are half an hour away by high-speed rail, and if you want to go home, you can buy a high-speed rail ticket to go back to visit your parents at any time.
Isn't it better than wandering alone in this far-flung southern city?
Dai Zetao shook his head, pulled up his cabin suitcase, and turned around and walked towards the security checkpoint.
At this moment, he heard a burst of cheers and screams coming from the entrance of Gate 10 of the terminal building, and a uniform female voice shouted: "Chen Xingyi! Chen Xingyi! You're the best, Xingyi Chen! ”
Dai Zetao looked back and found that it was Shuguang High School that was about to return.
The screams were all made by Chen Xingyi's fans, they looked so energetic, it seemed that Shuguang High School didn't win the championship, Chen Xingyi didn't win the Golden Boot, and it didn't affect their mood......
Dai Zetao sighed twice in his heart, retracted his gaze, and continued to walk towards the security checkpoint.
The hustle and bustle behind it has nothing to do with him, and it is not worth his stop for this. But the people who stopped to look at him out of curiosity might have saved him from waiting in line in the security lane......
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Although the final of the national competition was already over the afternoon before yesterday, the entire team of Shuguang High School, which left for Tangdu today, has not recovered from the frustration of losing the championship.
No matter how enthusiastic the people who came to see them off were, it didn't make them feel better at all.
Many people lowered their heads and squeezed through the crowd without even raising their heads or looking at their fans.
Of course, they don't look at these fans, and it's not just because they haven't won the championship and feel shameless to see the fans.
Mainly because these people are fans of Chen Xingyi, not theirs.
If you want to respond, it should be Chen Xingyi who responds to them.
It's just that these fans who came to send off the plane and cheer up their idols are destined to be disappointed.
Because their idols are not in this team of Dawning High School.
In fact, Chen Xingyi left early this morning on the earliest flight to Dashun.
Accompanied by his father, he went straight to the Golden Arrow Football Club in Dashun, where there was a press conference dedicated to welcoming him.
Except for Chen Xingyi and his father, as well as Xue Chaoyu, the general manager of Golden Arrow Football Club, there is no fourth person who knows about this matter, and even Sun Yonggang and his film crew don't know, so Chen Xingyi's fans naturally don't know this.
When they rushed to the airport with their fan team to see off their idols, they found themselves in a state of failure - after all the Dawning High School players walked in front of them, they also realized that Chen Xingyi was not among them.
A group of people looked at each other with great disappointment.
They didn't understand why they couldn't see Chen Xingyi when they picked up the airport in this national competition, and they still didn't see it when they came to see off the plane. They still don't know how Chen Xingyi bypassed their encirclement and interception and disappeared from the airport, could he have teleported?
What made them feel even more painful was that Chen Xingyi was obviously deliberately avoiding them.
But why did he do it?
They are his fans, how can there be idols in this world who hide from their own fans?
Fans saw that many little girls were emotionally unstable, even if they wiped their tears, some people were even angry because Chen Xingyi deliberately avoided them, she and some other administrators hurriedly reassured people: "Don't be too demanding." I think Xingzi must be in a bad mood because he lost the final, and he didn't want us to see his lost appearance...... We need to understand him. ”
"The eldest sister is right, since we can know Xingzi when he is at his most brilliant, we must also be able to never leave him when he is at his lowest point and most lost! Keep being by his side! Immediately, one of the administrators chimed in and reinvigorated the spirits with a high-pitched slogan.
"During this time, let's let Xingzi be quiet, and we will wait for his re-emergence. I believe that real star fans will not leave him because of Xingzai's low profile. If we don't fly, it's just a fly, if we don't fly, if we don't fly, it's just a blockbuster! ”
Under the words of the fan leaders and administrators, everyone's mood was finally re-inspired, and the previous voice of complaining about Chen Xingyi disappeared.
Since Chen Xingyi is not here, there is no need for them to continue to stay here and be watched.
So one by one they packed up their things and prepared to leave.
But just then, they saw another group of people walking in from under Gate Ten, wearing uniform sports jackets.
It is the opponent of their idol in the finals - all the members of the Dongchuan Middle School football team!
They even returned at this time.
Quite a few people began to search the crowd for their targets.
They were found quickly.
Someone couldn't help but boo when they saw that face.
If there is a first person who does this, there is a second person, and there is a third person...... and many more.
The boos soon rang out on the departure floor of the terminal, and the sudden sound attracted more attention than their cheers had just begun, and many of them looked at them in astonishment, not understanding what was happening.
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Hu Lai was talking to Zhao Kangming, the youth director of the Poseidon Club, when he suddenly heard a wave of boos.
Both of the interrupted people looked up in disbelief and looked in the direction where the boos were coming from.
After just one glance, Hu Lai laughed - he was a fan of Chen Xingyi!
These people didn't boo enough of themselves in the stands......
Zhao Kangming saw this scene and immediately figured out what was happening, so he also laughed: "Your kid's ability to pull hatred has caught up with me." I think I could hear boos and curses after I was sent off in the round of 40 for a whole year after I was recognized in the streets......"
Hu Lai raised his head and said: "Blue is better than blue!" ”
Zhao Kangming glared at him: "What is there to be proud of?" ”
Then I didn't hold back and laughed.
Li Ziqiang in the team heard Zhao Kangming's laughter and couldn't help but cast his eyes on the two of them.
Although they have known each other for a short time, it is clear that Hu Lai and Zhao Kangming, two people who are very different in age, get along happily and are like each other at first sight.
Some people say that professional players choose teams rather than coaches. In a sense, Li Ziqiang agrees with this view.
Being able to pick an academy director who admires him personally, Hulai's future with Poseidon should be more optimistic than last year's Luo Kai.
It's just that on my side, Dongchuan Middle School takes a core every year, although there is no problem in participating in the national competition as the defending champion, but if you want to defend the title successfully, I am afraid it will be difficult......
He shook his head, it would have been difficult to defend his title, but it was not necessarily because of the absence of Hulai.
Sending Hu Lai to the place where he exchanged for a boarding pass to check in his luggage, Zhao Kangming patted Hu Lai on the shoulder: "Okay, I'll send it here, and I'll pick you up here when you come back!" ”
"Okay, I'll be back as soon as possible, Director Zhao."
Amid the shrill boos, the two shook hands and said goodbye.
When Hu Lai looked back, he could still see Zhao Kangming standing there looking at him.
He hurriedly smiled and waved to Zhao Kangming, but after retracting his gaze and turning around, his expression suddenly became gloomy.
He thought that this time he would go back and convince his father that it would be a very difficult task, and I am afraid that it would be more difficult than winning the national championship.
How to prove it?
That system didn't even issue any tasks on this matter......
I don't know if a champion of a national competition can add some convincing, and the honor of the top scorer and best player in a national competition can make him more confident in front of his father?