After Liaozu was relegated one round ahead of schedule, the whole country was shocked.

Many old fans of Liaozu shed tears of sadness after learning the news.

It is embarrassing that a club that has sent a whole national team has been relegated in the second year of the A-League.

After Liaozu was relegated, Li Jinyu, Li Tie and Ou Chuliang returned to Liaozu to visit Zhang Yin.

At this time, Liaozu was already in a state of disintegration, and when Zhang Yin saw the three of them returning, he reluctantly wiped away his tears and received the three of them, and said the same thing as Ou Chuliang.

Learn the art first, and then repay the effect. It's not too late to learn what you can do and come back to serve the team.

In this way, the three of them said goodbye to Zhang Yin with full of enthusiasm and returned to their respective teams.

At the end of November, Zhu Guanghu led the team to Nepal to participate in the first Nepal International Invitational Tournament. Ou Chuliang also needed training because the National Olympics also needed training, so he did not go with the team.

Jianlibao won consecutive games in the group stage, defeating Singapore and Nepal successively and advancing to the semifinals.

In the semifinals, Li Jinyu scored twice to help Jianlibao defeat Malaysia 5-1. He took the lead in the final a few days later, helping Jianlibao defeat Oman 3-0 and achieve the final victory.

Jianlibao's victory in Nepal was transmitted back to China, which made the media who questioned Jianlibao's strength suddenly shut their mouths.

Although the gold content of this kind of invitational tournament is not high, considering that the Jianlibao team members are still some half-old children, the media instantly moved in unison and hyped it up for a while.

During this period, Ou Chuliang played two games in Gongti with the National Olympic Games. First, they beat Indonesia 3-2, and then they played a friendly match against the visiting South Korean Daewoo Royals.

In both games, Occhulian was a substitute, but instead of sitting on the bench all the time, he stood next to Ladd and acted as his interpreter.

What ball should be played, what ball should be saved, what ball should be passed, what ball should be controlled.

Ou Chuliang has learned a lot under this old man in the former Yugoslavia, and with his own understanding, he can usually draw inferences.

And Ladd also values Ou Chuliang's spirituality, and during the Korean team's throw-in, he also joked with Ou Chuliang: "Ou, if the Football Association asks me to be the national team coach of the Chinese team, I will definitely bring you to the 98 World Cup!" ”

Ou Chuliang smiled, "I hope that Mr. Ladd will be missing a goalkeeper, not a translator." ”

In the end, South Korea's Daewoo Royal and Guoao played a 1-1 draw in regular time. In the next penalty shootout, Guoao won 4-3.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the sound of firecrackers in 1996 rang out one after another.

During the Olympic year, athletes from all competitions in the country focused their efforts on the Atlanta Games.

Ou Chuliang, as a "special person", played with the National Olympic Games when there was a training camp for the National Olympic Games, and followed Jianlibao when the National Olympics did not have a training camp.

Although Jianlibao also played many friendly matches during this period, Ou Chuliang sat on the bench like the National Olympic Games, watching the game with the coach and other substitute teammates.

In Zhu Guanghu's words: "Xiao Ou no longer needs to compete at this level, I need to be responsible for his health." ”

Shortly after New Year's Day, Ou Chuliang was selected for the third training camp before the Olympic qualifiers for the National Olympic Games, and followed the National Olympic Games led by Rade to Germany to prepare for the upcoming Olympic Games.

During his time in Germany, the National Olympic Games played a total of five friendly matches, with 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses, which made Rad shake his head. The only clean sheet was played by most of the substitutes. With the stubborn defense of the whole game and the brave play of Ou Chuliang, the semi-main Dynamo Kyiv also did not score.

At the end of January, the National Olympic Games returned to China, and under the leadership of Gu Mingchang, they played two friendly matches with the visiting Slovakia in Liuzhou and Nanning respectively, both of which were 1-1 draws.

After the game, the National Olympic Games were disbanded again, and the players were told to go home and wait for the news, waiting for the fourth training camp after the year.

Everyone knows that if they can continue to be selected, then the ticket to the second stage of the Olympic Games qualifiers is almost in their hands.

February 20, the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Ou Chuliang held a handful of white chrysanthemums and came to a small hill in rural Shenyang.

In the wilderness, as far as the eye can see, there are bellflowers covered in snow. It's good to come in winter, a few tall locust trees can show the way. If it's summer, if you don't know it, when you enter a cornfield, it's no different from entering a maze.

Gently place the bouquet in front of the grave and clean up the weeds on the grave.

"Mom, I've come to see you."

Looking at the name on the tombstone, Ou Chu's conscience was blocked.

Speaking of which, Ou Chuliang is still very grateful to this great mother. In my impression, after she divorced her father Ou, she took the young Ou Chuliang back to her hometown in the northeast, and the orphans and widows lived a poor life.

When Ou Chuliang was seven years old, Ou Chuliang's mother became seriously ill, but she never told Ou Chuliang. Instead, after asking Ou Chuliang if he really liked to play football, he resolutely handed over all his savings to Zhang Yin, and let him follow other children to stay at Zhang Yin's house to learn to play football.

Day after day, year after year, when Ou Chuliang was ten years old, he finally learned the news of his mother's death.

The three years of boarding allowed Ou Chuliang to learn to be strong and also to accept.

Since then, every year on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Ou Chuliang will return to the grave of his hometown in the countryside to visit his mother. Even now that this body has changed hands, the feelings of flesh and blood engraved in the bones and flowing in the blood are still difficult to part.

"Mom, I've joined the National Olympics. If you go one step further, you will be able to enter the national team. If you knew, you would be able to rest in peace. ”

In this era, what does it mean to be promising? Only when you learn the ability to serve the country can you be productive.

Ou Chuliang stared at the black-and-white photo on the tombstone, knelt down and kowtowed three times, and then left abruptly.

The next day, Ou Chuliang received a call to Xiamen for intensive training.

On February 23, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Xiamen National Olympic Training Base.

Twenty-one teenagers lined up in an empty basketball court for a medical check-up.

Ou Chuliang glanced around, Wang Hao and Zhang Pengsheng, who was recruited into the team for the third training camp, were not there. It seems that only himself and Sun Gang are left in the goalkeeper position.

"Next, Ou Chuliang." The ancient chief sat on a high bench with a bulky scale in front of him, and next to the scale sat a staff member in charge of recording.

"Ryoko, it's your turn."

Qu Shengqing pushed Ou Chuliang who was in a daze behind him, and Ou Chuliang subconsciously raised his foot and was about to step on it.

"Go down, go down!" The small whip in Gu Mingchang's hand knocked on the stool legs, and he looked at Ou Chuliang's feet.

"Oooo Ou Chuliang realized that his feet stepped on each other, and the two heels were lowered and stepped on with his socks.

Gu Mingchang pulled up the height ruler in front of the scale, and after Ou Chuliang stood firmly, he lowered his head and glanced at the display screen of the scale.

"Weight, 72 kg, height... Uh..."Halfway through the reading, Gu Ming Chang raised his eyes and looked at the ceiling, pondering for a moment as if there was no one around: "Xiao Ou, you put your shoes back on and come up again." ”

"Oh." Ou Chuliang replied obediently, stepped back and stood up again with his feet crossed and stepped on his shoes.

"Weight: 72 kg, height, 1.85 meters. Well, yes, that's it, next! ”

Ou Chuliang shrugged his shoulders, lifted his feet one by one, and pulled his heels up. Just after taking two steps, the voice of the ancient chief of the ancient life came from behind him again: "Who told you to come up with shoes?" Go down and take off your shoes! ”