Chapter 4 (33) (I)

Temperatures continued to climb and hit a front on Saturday with a daily high of 36.7 degrees Celsius. Hot weather has become an important thing that people are generally concerned about recently. Experts at the Provincial Meteorological Observatory predict that the hot weather will continue for a few more days, and then it will be alleviated to a certain extent - around next Wednesday, a weak cold air from the north will affect the Wuhan area and form a rain process in the area. However, experts also pointed out that the impact of this weak cold air is not enough to make the temperature drop significantly, so people still need to pay attention to summer heatstroke prevention and cooling work, especially in hospitals and schools, where people are concentrated, and pay more attention to maintaining air circulation...... Yunyun.

While the short-term average temperature in Wuhan exceeded the new high average temperature for the same period of the year, persistent high temperature weather also appeared in Chongqing, Changsha, Nanchang, Nanjing, and Zhengzhou...... And the list is constantly being added with new names. El Niño, a very unfamiliar term, is constantly mentioned. Although many people do not know that "El Niño" is the Spanish term for the Christian Holy Child, it does not prevent people from understanding the El Niño phenomenon, the active sunspot period, the warm current of the eastern Pacific Ocean, atmospheric and oceanic circulation, and climate anomalies...... These have become the most exposed words in newspapers. Every day in the news, there are mentions of drought-fighting work meetings held by governments at all levels. Experts from all walks of life have written articles to express their academic views. Farmers are trying their best to keep their crops on the land, and workers are still fighting for their jobs......

There are only two things that can be compared to the heat during this time.

The first thing that attracts people is the thriving stock market. At the beginning of the year, the securities market, which had been silent for four years because of the state's macroeconomic regulation and control policy, quietly turned its head upward in the faint tone of a bear market, and soon attracted the attention of many people -- after so many years of reform and opening up, many families have accumulated a lot of spare money, and many people are no longer willing to deposit their money in the bank to eat fixed interest, but they lack sufficient investment channels, and the securities market has just opened a door to investment for this part of the idle funds in society. As more and more money comes in, the market becomes more and more prosperous and snowballs. People quickly gave a series of apt names to the emerging securities market, stock market, stockholders, Shanghai stock market, Shenzhen stock market...... At this time, it was not clear to people that this 18-month bull market was only the first wave of China's securities market with a clear vein, and that at the turn of the century in 2000, it would usher in a second wave of 18-month bull market, and in 2006, it would usher in a third wave of rise, also 18 months......

The other thing, of course, is our professional football league.

The league starts in mid-March and ends in mid-November every year, and during this nine-month period, every Sunday, nine exciting games are staged in nine cities in the north and south of the country. Ninety minutes of play will keep satisfied fans and spectators entertained for three or four days, and then they will be even more eager to look forward to the next round of the league. The huge commercial interests of the league mobilized the enthusiasm of newspapers, magazines and television, and all the media sent their best reporters and best equipment to the football field, and soon gave birth to a new term in Chinese character culture, Zuji. What an honorable thing it is to have a special name for a single sport! These journalists have lived up to this resounding name, using their pens and lenses to record the details of each game, describe the trickle of each club, discuss the characteristics of each team, and teach them to be vividly presented in front of the reader. They won't even let go of a player who has only appeared once in the league, many names have spread all over the motherland overnight, and the best of those players have a stronger market appeal than the popular movie stars and singers, their every move, every offensive and defensive on the field, will become the most talked about content after dinner. After only two years of running the professional league, the biggest gainers of Chinese football and discerning investors, were surprised to find that a new market with huge potential for supply and demand had emerged, and gradually revealed its incredible size, and football had surpassed table tennis, badminton and volleyball to become the most popular sport for the masses. In primary and secondary schools across the country, playing soccer is the most popular part of physical education classes, and after school, countless students still run and beat on the improvised pitches wearing counterfeit club jerseys, uncaring to get their heads covered in mud. Football schools of all kinds have sprung up in various places, and the number of them is too large to be accurately counted, and in Shenyang, Liaoning Province alone, the application reports submitted in the past six months have filled an entire filing cabinet; Parents who want their children to become Jackie Chan are scrambling to send their children to football schools, and they are willing to pay as much money as they want. Football authorities at all levels, who have been scratching their heads for the job placement of retired players, have found that the supply of teachers for basic football education has exceeded demand, and the number of personnel shortages is still jaw-dropping......

The summer of 1996 was a fiery summer, and at the same time a fiery summer......

But the consequences of fiery and fiery are also easy for people.

With the help of the friendly arms stretched out by his opponents, Gao Jinsong got up from the grass. He didn't nod his opponent in thanks, he just stood there, his face gloomy at his teammates who had already recovered from his own half. Sweat trickled down his hairline and down his neck into his jersey. He still had some dirt and a few blades of grass on his cheeks, the result of a dog-gnawed mud on the edge of the box he had just thrown - both of his height and strength were not lost to his opponent in a closed bag, and he was only squeezed down except for the ball, and there was no room for manoeuvre......

He spat on the ground, pursing his lips and running to his place.

The Dalian people who controlled the ball were not in a hurry to attack, but were very experienced in patiently reversing their feet in the second half, falling from this side to that side, and then handing back to the left from the right, and occasionally their wide players also ran forward with the ball a few steps, and once they sensed that there was no chance, they returned the ball to the back line. The two international centre-backs who played a role in the transition back and forth were very experienced in the game, and after a few rounds of playing with Gao Jinsong in the opening game, they no longer easily tried to pass the ball in the middle, but hoped to wait for Yafeng to make mistakes through continuous passing. They weren't in a hurry – it was away anyway, and a draw would be a satisfactory result, and with less than fifteen minutes into the game, there was still a lot of time to spare; And they weren't worried that Yafeng would let them pass the ball so leisurely like this - Yafeng's new head coach needed a beautiful game to prove himself, and he needed a beautiful draw, if not a beautiful victory, and he couldn't tolerate his opponent falling to his feet so neatly.

The Yafeng team members really made the mistake that Dalian people expected them to make.

The right midfielder lost his defensive position because he recklessly stepped forward to tackle, and he became entangled with his opponent, but his efforts did not immediately trap the opponent, let alone control the ball; The opponent also failed to pass the ball; But that wasn't the point, as Dalian's left wing-back immediately accelerated, hooked the ball past his team-mate's feet, and then immediately took advantage of the holes in Yafeng's midfield defense to run along the touchline......