Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Genius of the Past

Anton Shining Stars defeated the incoming Xiao Jiang Lulin 2-1 at their home stadium, and after this game, their league ranking returned to 11th place.

In terms of points, they are 10 points more than the 16th-ranked Jingyang Shengjing team in Haining Province.

The relegation situation is a big piece of good.

Even from this point difference, it cannot be said that the goal of the shining star is relegation.

And this change all happened when Hulai started playing in the team. He has played four league games for the team so far, making two appearances as a substitute and starting twice, with three wins and one defeat for the Shining Stars with nine points.

It can be said that Hulai brought these nine points to the team, and the evidence is that in these four games, the whole team scored a total of six goals, and Hulai scored four goals alone.

The Splinks' defence is as good as ever, conceding just two goals in four games, so the fact that they have risen so much in the rankings is entirely due to the team's offensive improvements.

At the end of the game, everyone sat on the bus back from the stadium to the training base, and some people sang and were echoed by others.

For the coach of the team, if you want a good atmosphere in the team, it is actually very simple - just win all the time.

As long as you win, the atmosphere in the team is good, everyone is a brother, and there is no intrigue at all.

In fact, everyone understands this truth.

But how easy is it to win?

After Zhao Kangming came to this team, it took half a season to gradually find the feeling of coaching the first team. And it wasn't until the arrival of Hu Lai and Qin Lin that he saw hope for solving the team's weak offense.

Qin Lin's scheduling and clever passing in the midfield, coupled with Hu Lai's ability to grasp opportunities, made the team's victory now seem to be a matter of course.

Behind this natural success is the painstaking efforts and attempts of countless people, as well as the sacrifices.

For example, Lai Zekai sacrificed his playing opportunities and may even lose his place in the team.

After starting two games in a row and scoring a goal, no one cares if Hulay will be in the starting line-up for the next game. It's as if people would be worried that a healthy Cylius Caesar won't be in the starting lineup? Of course not, because as long as the head coach is still in his right mind, it is impossible to remove Kaiser from the starting lineup......

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Sitting in the front row of the bus, listening to the songs and laughter of the players behind, Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo were also in a good mood.

Because they finally found their way forward in a cloud of fog.

That's something even more gratifying than these two wins.

In addition to Hu Lai's performance that made them happy, Qin Lin was also a surprise reinforcement for them.

"To be honest, I really didn't expect the thirty-eight-year-old Qin Lin to have such a state and physical fitness. Played the whole game in a row, and still ran in the final moments of the game. Today's last-minute comeback was so timely that it was hard to believe that this is a man who is almost forty years old......"

Chen Mo said with emotion.

The timely recovery he said occurred in the penultimate minute of injury time in today's game, when Xiao Jiang Lvlin launched a fast-break raid, and it was Qin Lin who chased all the way from the midfield, forcing the opponent's players with the ball to the corner flag area, giving other shining star players time to return to defense, otherwise Lvlin would have equalized.

At that time, this scene attracted countless cheers from the stands, and everyone was impressed by Qin Lin's professional attitude and fighting spirit.

Zhao Kangming is forty-seven years old this year, nine years older than Qin Lin, but he retired at the age of thirty-five. In fact, retirement at this age is already considered late among Chinese players, and many people retire at the age of thirty-three.

And the 35-year-old Qin Lin also led the Lingnan South China Tigers to win the championship of the Chinese Super League as the captain.

Zhao Kangming was teammates with Qin Lin for a while in the national team, mainly in the 2004 Asian Cup held on his home soil. At the time, the two of them were centre-back partners. At that time, Qin Lin was still a young man, and Zhao Kangming was a long-established senior.

In this Cup, the two people worked together tacitly.

From time to time, Qin Lin will use his speed and technical advantages to dribble and plug in to participate in the attack.

In the final, Qin Lin once came to such a good show of walking alone for a thousand miles, and almost broke the goal of the Japanese team.

And when he stepped in to participate in the attack, all the behind him was left to Zhao Kangming, and Zhao Kangming protected him. The Chinese team was able to reach the final of that Asian Cup, which was inseparable from the tacit cooperation of their two central defenders.

However, it is a pity that in the World Cup qualifiers a year after the Asian Cup, due to the "stupid red card" - a newspaper reporter - Zhao Kangming was sent out, the Chinese team also lost a key game, missed the final top ten, and missed the World Cup finals.

After that game, although Zhao Kangming was only thirty years old, he had basically faded out of the national team, although he never said that he would retire from the national team, but no matter who was the head coach after that, no one had recruited him.

Qin Lin grew rapidly in the national team and eventually became the well-deserved leader of the Chinese national team.

It's just that the runner-up in the 2004 Asian Cup won by Zhao Kangming is still the veteran's best result in the national team......

Speaking of Qin Lin, Zhao Kangming was also a little embarrassed, and he said to Chen Mo: "At the beginning, when Dong Wen insisted on signing Qin Lin, I actually didn't have a special cold...... But now it seems that Dong Wen made a good deal, which not only made the team's brand appreciate, but also helped us solve the problem of the midfield commander - at that time, I still believed that Zhang Qinghuan's kid could turn back......"

Speaking of the name Zhang Qinghuan, there was a slightly awkward silence between the two of them.

Until Chen Mo sighed and whispered: "Speaking of Zhang Qinghuan, it seems that he is coming back from the reserves......"

The smile on Zhao Kangming's face disappeared, and he snorted vigorously: "Don't think about playing when you come back!" ”

Seeing Zhao Kangming like this, Chen Mo knew that Lao Zhao was really disappointed in Zhang Qinghuan this time.

But whoever would estimate it to be like this, Zhang Qinghuan is a person...... It's hard to put into words.

As a player of the first team of the shining stars, Zhang Qinghuan was sent to the reserve team to play for a month, why?

Because he was investigated for drunk driving before this, he was administratively detained for ten days.

And this isn't the first time he's drunk driving.

Two years ago, when he was still playing football in the capital Tenglong, he was on the social news page for drunk driving. At that time, it was the first time to drink and drive, so there was no need to detain, but the scene of being blocked by reporters in the office of the traffic police squadron quickly spread all over the country, causing heated discussions and attention from everyone.

Why does a player's first drunk driving cause such a big reaction from public opinion?

It's really because Zhang Qinghuan was too famous before - as a talented player cultivated by the capital Tenglong Football Club, Zhang Qinghuan has been pinned on by countless people. As a midfielder, he is full of aura, delicate skills, and has a good sense of the overall situation, and when he first debuted, he was once praised by the media as "China's Francis".

Louis Francis, a Frenchman, is one of the world's top midfielders, a master of playmaking, nicknamed "The Grand Commander", and currently plays for Spanish giants Madrid Kings.

can be called "China's Francis" by the media, which shows Zhang Qinghuan's strength.

Many fans pinned their dreams on Zhang Qinghuan for the rise of Chinese football, hoping that he could lead the Chinese team to the World Cup finals in the future.

Zhang Qinghuan is indeed a talented genius, but generally this kind of genius has a perverse personality and is difficult to discipline. In stark contrast to his talent, he was uninhibited.

At the age of seventeen, after making his debut in the Chinese Super League, he played well for two years, and then he swelled, driving his Ferrari 488 to major nightclubs all day long, indulging in the life of dogs and horses.

Because he was famous in the nightclub circle of the capital, he was later nicknamed "Qinghuan Gongzi" and "King of Workers' Stadium" - the Workers' Stadium is Tenglong's home stadium, but this "King of Workers' Sports" does not mean that Zhang Qinghuan performed well on the court and conquered the Workers' Stadium, but that he conquered a circle of nightclubs around the Workers' Stadium, so he has such a nickname.

As for what "Chinese Francis" has long been mentioned......

In this context, his first drunk driving naturally became big news. How can a super genius who was originally expected to be pinned on by others appear in the social news without being noticeable?

Look at him confessing in front of the camera with a depressed face, and swear that he will never do it again. I don't know how many people feel heartache for him, and how many people just watch a joke......

After this drunk driving on the social news, the "Qinghuan Son" was indeed honest for a while, trained seriously, did not arrive late or leave early, and said goodbye to the nightclub, it seems that he is really going to change his mind and be a new person.

And his performance in the team is also gratifying, many times for his teammates to send beautiful assists, he also scored, once again became the "Chinese Francis" who was cheered and loved by the fans on the field, this time it seems that he is going to become the real "king of workers".

But the good times didn't last long, just when everyone thought that the super genius was back, Zhang Qinghuan relapsed, and was photographed by reporters going in and out of nightclubs, hugging women and getting into his red Ferrari sports car.

And then there's the cliché story of a highly anticipated super-talent who has degenerated into an uncontrollable nightclub prince, with the media, fans and clubs losing patience with him. The fans who loved him at the beginning scolded him as hard as they could.

And the capital Tenglong Football Club, which cultivated him and always gave him a chance, tolerated his repetition, also lost patience with him.

Finally in the transfer period at the beginning of this year, Shining Star signed Zhang Qinghuan on a rent-to-buy basis and brought him from the capital to Anton Jincheng.

The decision to sign him was Zhao Kangming, who had just become the head coach of the shining stars.

The coach, who is good at training young players, feels particularly sorry for Zhang Qinghuan to fall like this, and hopes to help him return to the right path, after all, Zhang Qinghuan's talent is really nothing to say - in terms of talent alone, Zhang Qinghuan may be the best player in China, there is no one.

But after Zhang Qinghuan came, his performance was no different from his performance in the capital Tenglong. When he first arrived, he was honest for a while, and he did put on an excellent performance on the field, which seemed to prove that Shiningstar had made a good deal. Because of this, Zhao Kangming was not interested in Qin Lin's arrival, because he already had a midfield commander, wouldn't it be a conflict to come again?

As a result, it didn't take long for the red Ferrari sports car, which was famous in the nightclub circles of the capital, to be consigned to Jincheng, and he began to frequent the major nightclubs in Jincheng again.

Don't talk about being late for training from time to time, even if you go to the training ground, you yawn and lose your spirits, and your performance on the field is naturally not much better.

In the end, he was finally caught by the traffic police again for drunk driving.

This second DUI is not so lucky, and it is no longer a matter of saying two words of repentance to the camera lens to fool the past...... He was detained for 10 days and his motor vehicle driver's license was revoked.

Before Hu Lai and Qin Lin transferred to Shiningxing, this was the biggest news of Shining Star.

It is also because the social repercussions of this news are so bad, in order to dilute everyone's attention to this matter, Chen Jianyu suddenly broke the news that Shining Star signed Qin Lin, the former captain of the Chinese national team, otherwise everyone may have to hold on to this matter......

Zhao Kangming had high hopes for Zhang Qinghuan, hoping that he would be able to turn back, and that he would realize that he had fallen from the traditional Chinese Super League team to the Chinese League team......

And Zhao Kangming is still a little conceited, thinking that what others can't do, he can do. Other head coaches have no problem with Zhang Qinghuan, can he, a person who is good at training young players, still have no problem?

The result......

That's how Zhang Qinghuan repaid Zhao Kangming.

Drunk driving detained.

Zhao Kangming was slapped in the face by Zhang Qinghuan.

After this incident came out, Chen Mo remembered that Dong Wen, the general manager of the club, still wanted to bail Zhang Qinghuan out, after all, this matter was also a scandal of the Shining Star, and it was not good for the image of the Shining Star Club.

But Zhao Kangming strongly opposed the club coming forward to bail him out, saying that he would let the kid stay in the detention center for ten days and not let him come out for a minute.

Just hearing this, Chen Mo knew that Lao Zhao was really angry.

In the face of players, especially young players, always with a smile on his face, looking at the very kind Lao Zhao, can be angry like this, Chen Mo feels that Zhang Qinghuan is really worthy of a genius......

The loan-to-buy contract signed by Shining Star and Tenglong does not limit the buyout that must be made after the loan: after a season of loan, Shining Star can decide whether to activate the buyout clause in the contract according to Zhang Qinghuan's performance during the loan. If you are not satisfied, you can actually return it.

Chen Mo felt that Zhang Qinghuan's drunk driving detention should have buried all his future in Shiningxing, whether it was the club or the coaching staff, I am afraid that there was no need to spend money on a "negative news generator".

For the Shining Star Club, it can be regarded as a timely stop loss. For the Tamron Club, they have a headache about how to deal with this former genius.

As for Zhang Qinghuan himself...... Chen Mo doesn't know if he will regret his youthful frivolity when he looks back on his career in the future.

But what does that have to do with yourself? After being in contact with Zhang Qinghuan for half a season, Chen Mo now doesn't even have the idea of regret.

Chinese professional football has not been without people like Zhang Qinghuan before, and even looking at the entire world football, there is no shortage of such people.

Who knows how much talent these "geniuses" have squandered in their indulgence and willfulness.

(End of chapter)