Chapter 8: Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei
After the morning training, Zhao Kangming and his colleagues in the coaching staff left the training ground, and they had to return to the office to make a training summary and prepare for the afternoon training. Today, Wednesday, is the only day of the week where you have to practice twice a day, and it is also the most intense day of the week.
On the way back to the office, assistant coach Chen Mo asked Zhao Kangming: "How is it, Lao Zhao, are you quite satisfied with Hu Lai's performance?" ”
Two days ago, Zhao Kangming found him and asked him to revise the content of today's training. Originally, there was no striker and midfielder to attack with the ball today.
Chen Mo didn't understand why Zhao Kangming did this at first, but after watching the training today, he figured it out - Lao Zhao wanted to see Hu Lai's current level and state.
After all, no matter how I knew Hu Lai before, it was half a year ago, after Lao Zhao and he left one after another, Hu Lai insisted on being alone for several months, during these months, the environment he was in was very bad, did this bad environment affect his training state?
This is something that both Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo are concerned about.
Zhao Kangming smiled: "Satisfied, satisfied." This kid has a good mentality, you don't know, Lao Chen, he was joking with me on the way to the locker room......"
"I'm not surprised at all." Chen Mo said, "Hu Lai is such a person. ”
As the head coach of Hu Lai's youth team in the Poseidon Youth Team, Chen Mo naturally knows Hu Lai's character very well.
"Yes, that's what shows that he has a good mentality. I was really worried that this transfer would make him uncomfortable, but now it seems that I am thinking too much......"
"It depends on how he gets along with his new teammates...... Chen Mo said.
"I don't think it's a big deal." Zhao Kangming groaned. "I have learned that Wang Guangwei and Hu Lai in the team seem to know each other, and he can help Hu Lai integrate into the team."
"Wang Guangwei?" Chen Mo thought of Wang Guangwei's appearance, his calm appearance was indeed quite reliable......
He nodded.
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After the morning's practice, Hulay returned to the locker room with his teammates.
Wang Guangwei came up: "Let's eat together?" ”
He extended an invitation to Hulay.
"Good! I don't know where the restaurant is. Hulay readily agreed.
So after the two of them took a shower and changed their clothes, they walked towards the restaurant together.
The restaurant is actually in a building at the south gate of the training base, not far away, but Wang Guangwei still walked all the way to introduce the situation in the training base to Hu Lai.
"The gym is in the building where our locker room is, you see?"
Hulai nodded: "I see." ”
Wang Guangwei turned his head to look at Hu Lai and found that he was a little stronger than he had seen in the Anton Cup match.
But only some.
He was a little curious: "Haven't you practiced much strength in Seagod before?" ”
"I've practiced, but the effect is mediocre. Coach Zhao said that I was not born to be that kind of power player, and asked me not to put too much effort into improving my strength. Of course, if I have to practice, it's not that I can't practice, but I have to build muscle first, in that case, it will affect my physical mobility......" Hu Lai looked at Wang Guangwei, who was much stronger than in the Anton Cup final, "You have achieved remarkable results." ”
Wang Guangwei smiled: "The two of us are in different positions." The centre-backs are more physically demanding, the forwards have different styles and emphasis, and you're not the tank-type striker...... This is the youth team dormitory, and behind the dormitory is the youth team training ground, where I first stayed and trained. ”
Wang Guangwei pointed to a small building on the left and introduced.
Seeing Hu Lai's gaze, he asked again: "Is the Seagod's academy more advanced than Shining Star's?" ”
Hu Lai nodded: "The scale is larger than that of the Shining Star, and the sea god does pay more attention to youth training." ”
Before he transferred here, he had always lived in the dormitory building of the academy, but he didn't know much about the city of Lingnan, except for the Chu team who asked him to go out to play, he rarely left the training base.
Looking at Hu Lai, Wang Guangwei suddenly said: "If I hadn't lost to you in the final that year, I should have gone to the Chinese Super League team......
Hulai crossed his hands in front of him: "Big brother, I really didn't expect that we would be able to ...... in the same team in the future"
Seeing him like this, Wang Guangwei smiled: "What are you doing?" Do you think I'm going to seek revenge on you? ”
"We were each our own master at that time......
Wang Guangwei smiled and shook his head: "I'm not complaining, in fact, I just think it's fortunate that I didn't go to the Chinese Super League team at the beginning." Otherwise I might not have been able to play in the first team right now, and the midfield team sounds like a bluff, but when it comes to giving young players a chance, I think the stars are better. ”
Seeing Wang Guangwei say this, Hu Lai breathed a sigh of relief, put down the arm that was blocking him, and then said with a smile: "Yes, yes, I went to play in the Poseidon Youth Team for so long, and I don't even know which way the door of the first team's locker room opens......"
"That is the south gate of the training base, in fact, I usually enter and exit the training base through this gate, and I hardly go through the main gate." Wang Guangwei continued to introduce Hu Lai like a tour guide.
"Why?"
"Because the south gate is closer to the 12th bus stop. I have to train on this bus every day. ”
"By bus? Don't you have a car yourself? Hu Lai was a little surprised, he saw some youth team players driving cars to train when he was in the Poseidon youth team, but he didn't expect Wang Guangwei, a person who had been to the professional team for a long time, to take the bus to work at the training base until now......
"Do you have a car?" Seeing Hu Lai's natural look, Wang Guangwei asked rhetorically.
"Of course I have!"
Hu Lai's answer surprised Wang Guangwei: "What car?" ”
"That's a lot!" Hulai said proudly: "Little yellow car, little blue car, little orange car, little white car, little green car...... I'll tell you that I change the color every day, and I can not change it for a week! ”
Wang Guangwei was speechless: "Bike sharing! ”
"Why do you have this expression? Do you despise the concept of green and low-carbon travel? ”
"What a thing!" Wang Guangwei found that after so many years, Hu Lai still didn't slip away...... Isn't this kid supposed to be an adult?
At the same time, he found that after so long, he still had a sense of powerlessness in the face of Hulai...... Now, for example, he has to explain: "The house I rent is only eight stops away from here, and the training time and work rush are also staggered. It is very convenient to take the bus, and it is also environmentally friendly and low-carbon travel. ”
Hulai has nothing to say, taking the bus is indeed a green and environmentally friendly low-carbon way to travel, especially now that many buses are electric......
"You're staying in a hotel now, aren't you?" Wang Guangwei asked again.
Hulai nodded.
"You can't stay in a hotel all the time, can you?"
"Will there be a rental subsidy for Shining Star?" Hulay didn't answer the question, but asked first.
"Nope." Wang Guangwei shook his head and said, "The money you pay for staying in the hotel is not unlimited, at most a month will let you move out." ”
Hu Lai frowned when he heard this.
Seeing this, Wang Guangwei asked: "How much allowance does the Poseidon Youth Team give you a month?" ”
"A thousand a month. If there is a game, the main force will give a subsidy of 700 for one game, and the substitutes will be 300, and if you don't play, you won't have a penny. Hulai said.
"A little more ...... than when I was in the Shining Stars youth team," Wang Guangwei nodded.
"After all, it's a Chinese Super League club." Hulai said.
Wang Guangwei thought that he was still a native of Jincheng after all, and his expenses were relatively less. Hu Lai, on the other hand, is alone in Lingnan, so he can understand why Hu Lai frowned when he heard that the club did not give rent subsidies.
Although Hulai has signed a professional contract with the club, he will not get the money immediately, and the salary cannot be high, after all, he only gets 10,000 yuan a month from the club, which is still before tax. Presumably, Hulai's salary could not be higher than his own.
After paying taxes, I have a salary of several thousand yuan, I have to rent a house, I have to eat, and I have to live......
Many people think that professional footballers are very profitable, but it is the same in every industry, and the most profitable people are always those at the top of the pyramid. The bottom professional players, who account for a huge proportion, actually do not earn much, and some are even inferior to ordinary office workers.
Of course, when you are about 20 years old, you can earn a few thousand more per month, no matter how you say it, you can't be considered poor, and you are already much better than many of your peers.
"If you want to rent a house...... It just so happens that I am renting a house now, which is a two-bedroom house, and there is a vacant room, or you come to live in it, and we share the house, and we can share the rent? Wang Guangwei asked tentatively.
When Hu Lai heard him say this, his eyes lit up: "Okay, no problem! Let's split the rent of water and electricity in half! ”
At the beginning, he said that he wanted to come out to make a lot of money and help his family pay off his foreign debts of 350,000 yuan as soon as possible, but the money in the youth team was only enough for his own personal expenses, let alone 350,000 yuan, and he never repaid even the 50,000 yuan of Song Fatzi......
Now that Wang Guangwei proposes to share a house, how can Hu Lai refuse it?
Of course, in line with the idea that I can save a point, I immediately agreed.
While talking, the two of them had already walked to the door of the restaurant, a small three-story building.
"There's the restaurant on the first floor, and I ate here when I was in the youth team, but the youth team can't use the restaurant until the first team is finished." Wang Guangwei said as he walked towards the entrance of the restaurant with Hu Laixiang.
"Do you have to wait until the first team finishes eating?" Hulay was a little surprised. "Poseidon is a two-story restaurant, the first floor is dedicated to the echelon, and the second floor is for the first team. The stairs are all outside and do not interfere with each other. ”
"Poseidon is a Chinese Super League club, but it is richer than Shining Star." Wang Guangwei is not surprised. "And Shining Star here is the same except for the different meal times, the food standard is one hundred and fifteen meals a day."
"Yo, the food standard is good. The sea god is only two hundred...... Holy, it smells so good! ”
As soon as he reached the door, Hulai took a deep breath and smelled the fragrance wafting from the restaurant.
Wang Guangwei laughed: "Do you smell the taste of hometown food?" The chefs in the club cafeteria are very skilled. ”
He led Hu Lai into the restaurant, and in Hu Lai's eyes, this restaurant was smaller than Poseidon's restaurant, but although the sparrows were small, they had everything they should have.
The kitchen operation room is separated from the dining area by transparent glass directly facing the door, so that people can see the scene inside at a glance, and it is a practice of confidence in the hygiene of their own kitchen and the chefs.
In the area between the kitchen operation room and the main door, there is a self-service station. The scent comes from the plate with the lid open.
Before them, there were already first-team players picking up their meals at the dining table.
Hu Lai followed Wang Guangwei to take the plate at the door, lined up to pick up the food, and at the same time stretched his neck to look over one by one to see what dishes were there.
Well, roast beef with potatoes, mapo tofu, steamed sea bass, boiled shrimp, spicy chicken nuggets, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, shredded potatoes with vinegar, oxtail soup with radish, seven dishes and one soup. There is also a vegetable salad and fruit salad, and the main dishes are white rice, steamed buns, and noodles.
In addition to this, freshly squeezed juices and drinks such as coffee and yogurt are also available.
The tantalizing aroma made Hulai swallow, and he felt hungry.
Wednesday was the largest training session of the week, with 100 minutes of training time in the morning, and the intensity of training was greater than when Hu Lai was in the Poseidon youth team, so he had already consumed his breakfast in the hotel, and it was not too much to say that he was hungry now.
In fact, before becoming a professional footballer, Hulai, as a fan, only had a vague and general understanding of what professional players eat, thinking that professional players would eat boiled chicken breast, steak, mashed potatoes, broccoli and other things every day.
But since he went to the Poseidon Youth Team, he found that at least in Chinese football, eating is not as strict as the legend says. Even the players of the first team of the Chinese Super League eat home-cooked food, but they completely abandon pork and eat a high-protein diet.
Moreover, clubs in different regions will also consider local characteristics in catering suppliers, for example, the Poseidon Club he went to has more seafood, which is light and in line with the taste of the locals. It is said that the food in the club restaurant on the other side of the mountain and sea is on the sweet side, and Hu Lai thought about it, if the boiled beef was sweet, he really didn't know how to eat such a "dark dish......
After he came to Shining Star, the food here tasted heavy, numb and spicy. Similarly, the difference between the potato roast beef dish in Shining Star and Poseidon's restaurant is that the color of the potato roast beef in Shiningxing is reddish, with a lot of chili peppers and bean paste, and the potato roast beef on Poseidon's side looks lighter, and the chili pepper is more like some symbolic meaning......
Of course, not all of the clubs are locals, and there are also some non-local dishes to cater to the tastes of people from other places. For example, if you can't eat spicy, then steamed sea bass is not spicy at all.
While choosing dishes, Hu Lai boasted: "It's really good, Lao Wang, you're right, the food of this shining star is really good, and it doesn't lose to the Chinese Super League team at all!" I'll tell you the truth, after a year and a half on the Poseidon's side, I always feel like a bird can fade out of my mouth when I eat......"
Wang Guangwei: "Then it's a good thing that you didn't go to Green Athletic. ”
"Athletic Green? What's that? ”
"A League Two team."
"Why do you know about a League Two team?" Hulay is strange.
"Some time ago, a self-media marketing account on the Internet turned the news of this team, saying that the club owner is an environmentalist and advocates vegetarianism, and at his request, the club restaurant only provides vegetarian food, and there is no meat, eggs, or milk." Wang Guangwei said.
Hulai's eyes widened: "Sick, right?" Is it all grass in their heads? Professional players don't eat meat, eggs and milk, where do they get the strength to train and play? Do you really think you're both Popeye? No wonder they can only be in League Two......"
With that, Hulai scooped another spoonful of beef into his plate.
After choosing the dishes, Wang Guangwei did not take Hu Lai to sit alone, but took him to a round table, where several people were already sitting at the meal, and when they saw Wang Guangwei and Hu Lai, they waved to the two of them.
Hu Lai knew that Wang Guangwei was doing this to make him as familiar as possible with his new teammates, so he sat down with Wang Guangwei with a smile.
After a glance, Hu Lai sat down with these faces one by one according to the information introduced by the previous captain Li Tielin.
There are the team's goalkeepers Yu Zhiming and Tang Xin, as well as defenders Han Di and Zhang Xiaolei, as well as midfielders Han Xiangfei, Ma Wenyi, and Leng Jinyu.
As soon as he sat down, Hu Lai hurriedly bowed his hand to everyone: "Hello big brothers, boy, I am a newcomer, and I will ask you to take care of me in the future!" ”
Hearing him say this, the others hurriedly waved their hands: "Don't say that, everyone will be teammates in the future, and it's right to take care of each other." ”
"Yes, yes, yes, take care of each other, take care of each other!"
Wang Guangwei quietly watched the reactions of his teammates and found that when they said this, the smiles on their faces were not as stiff and perfunctory as they were in the locker room.
It can be seen that Hu Lai's practice of carrying people in a sedan chair has indeed made many people have a good impression of him......
He was also worried that Hulai would not be able to integrate into the team and not get along well with his new teammates.
Now it seems, how could this kid have such a problem?