…… In that interview, I posed a question to Hulay: "What is the goal that has stood out to you the most, or that has been the most meaningful to you, in your football career so far?" ”

That's the kind of question I've ever thrown at almost every striker I've interviewed.

This is actually a very formulaic question, and the answer of most players is indeed very formulaic - most people will choose their goal in a certain final, and then lean back slightly on the back of the sofa or chair, with an expression of reminiscing about the glorious moment, in an excited or calm tone: "...... It was the most important goal of my life. Yes, because it brought us a championship ......"

None of these answers surprised me, and I was able to get the answer even at the same time I asked the question. I know which goal they're going to pick because I know them so well.

The point of this question is not really to give readers and viewers a real insight into the heart of a player, but just to give these stars a chance to relive the highlights of their careers in front of the media. It's a tacit understanding between the interviewer and the interviewee, and it's a small bonus for the stars to be honest in the face of the interviewer's aggressive questions.

When this question is asked, it can be enjoyed by both guests and hosts.

I know Hulay has a lot of goals, some of them are important and very beautiful, and his answer should be in the middle of that. I already have some alternatives in mind, and I swear by my professionalism that his final answer should be one of them.

But what I didn't expect was that the answer Hulay gave in the end was completely unexpected.

He told me that the most important, meaningful and impressive goal for him was not among the 761 career goals he had scored, but a goal that had not been counted at all. It wasn't even a game, it was a goal in training.

I was so surprised by this answer that I quickly asked, "A goal in training?" I can't understand why you're saying that......"

I still remember Hulay's answer and the vivid look on his face when he said it – a look I've seen on the faces of players who recall the highlights of their careers, but they often say the key goals in the big games. It was only Hulay, the efficient goal-scoring machine, who didn't choose any of the 761 goals he had scored before the end of his career, the alternatives that I remember, but a goal in training.

It was a goal that was the highlight of his life.

"Because that goal opened the door to a new world for me," he said. ”

- Lemon Rainey, a well-known sports journalist who writes for world-class media outlets such as Football Illustrated.

The excerpt is from the book "The Shooter", which won the "Wihi Sports Book Award".

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The stadium of Dongchuan Middle School, which used to be very noisy, is now in an eerie silence.

Almost everyone's eyes widened and their mouths wide open, as if they had seen something incredible and unbelievable.

Not as if.

They just saw something incredible and unbelievable.

Hu Lai, that rookie that everyone knows, knows nothing but Hu Lai. In the special training just now, he used a very, very shocking upside-down golden hook to face the joint defense of the two main central defenders of the school team, and shot the football into the goal guarded by the main goalkeeper of the school team.

If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's like rushing into the police station to tell the police that you've been kidnapped by a mermaid, which will only make people laugh.

Li Zhiqun, who put his tongue against his teeth, was so frightened by this scene that he couldn't hold back, and a loud whistle came out of his mouth.

It was like a clarion call to wake everyone in the room, and suddenly more whistles came from all sides of the stands and the sidelines, and the boys put their hands in their mouths and whistled desperately, in this way to express their explosive feelings about Hulai's goal.

The girls took to the skies with cheers and screams.

Everyone came to life, and there was thunder of joy around the stadium.

"Holy!!"

"What do I see?! What do I see?! Barb?! I'm not mistaken?! ”

"Awesome——!"

"This Hulai...... That's amazing! ”

Li Qingqing slapped hard, with the brightest smile on her face.

Song Jiajia was beside her, turning her head to look around, looking at the excited boys and girls with some confusion, each of them with an excited expression on their faces.

These are the same people who once laughed at Hulai and admired Hulai's "performance" with a curious eye.

But now they all seem to have become Hulai's fans.

It's as if they weren't here to see Hulai's jokes, but to spend two days waiting, waiting for this moment, for Hulai to jump in the air and score a barb goal.

He had previously told Hu Lai that being ugly and being laughed at by others was also a figure of the year in a sense. After all, isn't this the only way for people like them to be in the limelight?

But now...... His tablemates, not relying on making a fool of themselves or being laughed at, have really become a popular figure!

These people cheered for him, screamed and applauded him.

As his tablemate, Song Jiajia is very uncomfortable with today's scene.

His gaze turned in a circle, taking in the carnival scene, and finally fell to Li Qingqing, who was beside him, there was no joy on his face, only doubts and stunned, he couldn't quite understand what he saw. He thought that maybe Li Qingqing could explain it to himself.

The tall girl turned her head and smiled at him while clapping like everyone else around her: "Song Jiajia, it seems that your table mate will not go to eat chicken with you." ”

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Amid the loud cheers and applause, Hulay did not get up and rushed to the stands to celebrate, to accept the glory that truly belonged to him.

He lay on all fours on the ground, his chest rising and falling violently, panting like an ox.

He didn't actually make sure he had scored, but when he heard the cheers, he knew he had succeeded!

He passed the coach's devil's special training with a world wave.

And most importantly –

He!

Finally!

Can be obtained!

It's a chance to play!

He slowly raised his arms, spread his fingers, and lifted them up to the sky, as if pushing open a door with great force.

The door was closed and heavy, and it took all your strength to push it open.

Finally, when the arm was fully extended, the ten fingers that had blocked his gaze were withdrawn and clenched into a fist, which made his eyes suddenly open.

At this moment, in his field of vision, the clouds were burning, and a golden light swept from the direction of sunset.

Someone in the cheering crowd noticed the wonder in the sky and couldn't help but exclaim, "Wow! What a beautiful fire cloud! ”

In exclamation, Luo Kai raised his head and stared blankly at the red-burned sky.

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Hu Lixin just rode to the gate of the community where he worked, he did not rush in to hand over the shift, but parked the electric car on the side of the road, supported it with his feet, held the faucet with both hands, and looked up at the sky.

Orange-red glow poured from behind the towering mountains on the horizon in front of him, all the way to the eastern sky behind him.

It's like wildfire, sweeping across the sky, leaving nothing but churning red everywhere it sweeps.

Colleagues standing at the door of the security room, owners outside the gate of the community, car guards in the roadside parking lot, and people in the shops on the street...... No matter what they were doing before, at this time, they raised their heads to enjoy this rare beauty and let out a series of exclamations.

Everyone took out their mobile phones, pointed at the sky and clouds, and pressed the photo button.

Under this red sky, the originally hard lines on Hu Lixin's face have also softened a lot.

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Xie Lan glanced up at the clock hanging on the wall, then used the remote control to pause the TV series that was playing on the TV, and got up and walked to the kitchen.

Based on past experience, it won't be long before my son will be home.

It's just the right time for her to start cooking, so she doesn't have to worry about the food getting cold. Although it can be reheated, some dishes will not taste good if they are cooked a few times.

Xie Lan, who walked into the kitchen, saw the red sky reflected in the small window next to the kitchen at a glance.

She leaned in and peered out, looking through the grease-stained kitchen bar, and she was captivated by the scenery outside the old-fashioned residential building.

Her gaze crossed the roofs of the residential buildings on which clothes and bedding were drying on the opposite side, and in the orange-red sky, under the rose-gold clouds, suddenly a flock of pigeons rose, they flew up from the back of the opposite building, circled in the glow for a while, and flew collectively into the western sky, pulling out countless long shadows behind them.

It's like a smoke-pulling plane in the festival sky, but they pull out the shadow of the sunset.

Seeing this scene, Xie Lan suddenly felt better, as if something good had happened.

Humming a song, she withdrew her gaze, walked over to the stove, and unscrewed the lighter knob on the gas stove.

With a soft pop, red-yellow flames rose and quickly transformed into blue flames.

Xie Lan's eyes reflected flames, the corners of her mouth curled, she sat down on the pot with the oil, and when the oil was slightly hot, she poured the bean paste that had been prepared long ago into the pot.

There was a strong smell that spread through the small kitchen with a popping sound, and then floated out of the small window beside her, flying into the fiery red sky.

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PS, what, so far, the new world I described earlier can be regarded as open to Hulai, and Hulai can be regarded as officially entering the door.

I know there will be a lot of people complaining about the slow pace and slow progress, and it's almost fifty chapters now, and Hulai hasn't even played a single official match.

However, this was originally planned by me, and I didn't intend to let the rhythm of the beginning of the story run all the way to the pro league part like a wild horse.

For me, the soccer and life drama in the high school campus section are very important. That's why I'm going to write slowly, try to write well, and write what I want to express.

At this year's annual meeting, when I was chatting with the squid, when I talked about the new book, I said that I had hesitated to quickly pull over the campus part and go straight to the professional league in a dozen chapters like the previous novels. But I thought about it again and again, and I still didn't decide to do it, because I wrote the story of a teenager who loves football and grows into a superstar step by step, so as the birthplace of his legend, as the starting line of a thousand-mile journey that begins with a single step, how can it be perfunctory?

I told the squid that I was going to write about the campus part seriously, and I was going to spend a lot of space and color to describe the world and the people I wanted to describe. Hu Lai, who loves football and is paranoid, Hu Lixin, a paranoid father who doesn't let his son play football, Xie Lan, a mother who carefully maintains a balance between her son and her husband, Li Qingqing, who is helpful, kind and lovely, but has excellent talent and ability, Song Jiajia, a fat man who obviously says that he doesn't like Hu Lai's football but is not absent from every training game, and coach Li Ziqiang and genius Luo Kai, who are not very likable at present...... and those characters who haven't appeared yet.

It also includes the description of the burning clouds, including the details of Hu Lixin standing outside the security booth to salute the owners, including the snail noodles, including the setting of Hu Lai's secret training base......

These people and details are the building blocks that underpin this new world, and I'm painting a world out of thin air. I want to let everyone treat Hu Laigong as a real person after he becomes famous in the future, and go back to find out how this person became famous, and what impact his past experiences have on his current life. How did a high school teenager who loves football grow into a world-class superstar step by step through national high school football competitions and domestic leagues......

Then when you see these details and stories now, you will believe that he is a real person, that his success is traceable, and that his story is so legendary but believable.

He is not the kind of person who jumped out of a stone and has no past life and no future life, just like this, tens of thousands of words and a dozen chapters suddenly rushed out like a rocket, and he was born out of nowhere. Everyone wanted to explore his past - but the author didn't write about it, and his past in that world was shrouded in layers of thick fog, which made it unclear and unclear.

Such a person is not innocent, comrades!

As I said in the preface, I knew that it was a risk to choose to write about an alternate football world like this, and the results might not be too good, so I also let go of my obsession with the results, or at least I didn't put them in the first place, unlike before when I always thought about how many chapters to create conflicts at the beginning, leaving suspense and attracting readers.

This time, I just want to write a good story and shape a good world, so even if the pace is slow at the beginning, I will continue to write like this. As I said in the preface, I'll just write willfully.

At least I'm happy to write so far, although it's still slow, but that's because I have carefully thought about my words and tried my best.

When I wrote this chapter, I had a strong sense of accomplishment, and it took me half a day to write nearly 3,000 words, but I was very happy at the end of the chapter, as if I was standing by the window and looking at the red and golden fire clouds outside, and I wanted to hum a song.

It was as if I had traveled from my computer to this world of my own making.

It's called creative passion......

I hope you can feel my enthusiasm through my words, and I hope you will enjoy it.

Finally, once again, I would like to ask you for recommendation votes!

Thank you!