Chapter 3 (14)

Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, is an ancient city with a history of more than 2,400 years, and is also a famous tourist city in China. However, the city is frequently mentioned and appears in the newspapers like an explosion, because of a hard rule of the Football Association in 1994: all players of the First Division club must pass the physical fitness test of the Football Association and obtain the qualification certificate before they can participate in the A or B League; The location of the physical fitness test is at the Kunming Haigeng Sports Training Base at the southern end of Kunming City.

Almost overnight, all those who care about Chinese football remember this place, and almost overnight, this beautiful plateau city has become a nightmare for many players. Haigeng winter training, Haigeng spring training, physical testing, running laps, footwriting...... Linguists have not even had time to determine the exact meaning of these new terms, but they are already familiar and used by many people, appearing frequently in newspapers and magazines, and even in CCTV news.

Since mid-December, 36 first-class clubs have been concentrating like locusts on the 360,000-square-meter base, turning the few dormitory buildings in the base into an almost airtight canned sardine. Those teams that are slow to do so can only beg for the clubs they have made good friends with on weekdays, pin their hopes on the mercy of others, and look forward to being able to share a few rooms, even if the head coach and the players work together, it is better than running back and forth for more than ten kilometers a day and staying in a hotel. Yes, the nearest hotel to the base was seven kilometers away, and even if it did, the hotel might not have enough rooms and beds, because it was not only the players and coaches who came to Haigeng, but also the many journalists, the licensed sports agents who were like human traffickers, and they also brought with them a wave of foreign players with all kinds of skin and speaking various languages - all of whom had to stay in hotels or hotels outside the base. At this time of year, the Haigeng base, which is so quiet that you can hear the wind whispering on the green grass on weekdays, immediately becomes as lively as a market in the village, and when it is time to eat, the players who enter and exit the narrow entrance of the base canteen converge into two turbulent torrents, coupled with the small merchants and vendors shuttling through the crowd and their loud shouting, this place is more like a crowded and noisy temple fair.

Gao Jinsong was dragged outside the cafeteria by the crowd of people with almost no effort. He immediately left the crowd that was gradually dispersing, and ran to the side to check his lunch box.

Thankfully, except for the slight deformation of the lunch box due to squeezing, the food inside was not damaged much, but because of carelessness in a certain link, the oil and water of the braised tofu had seeped out from the edge of the lunch box, and the red yanyan stubbornly crawled down his palm to his wrist.

He muttered an unpleasant word, quickly handed the lunch box to the other hand, shook his wet hand vigorously, bent down nonchalantly and wiped his oily hand in the barley by the roadside, and looked back at the magnificent scene with palpitations. Eating is like going to war! He muttered another foul word, looked back and forth, left and right, and saw that there were people sitting on the low concrete curbs on the side of the road, so he had to ignore the "no trampling here" sign on the green space next to him, and stepped onto the lawn.

Wei Honglin, who was in the cafeteria with him, had only come out now, and judging from his embarrassed appearance covered in sweat, his harvest was definitely not good. Indeed, his large enamel bowls were now almost oval, and a thin layer of juice was left over the scrambled tomato eggs on the impure rice, and the two braised eggs he had managed to fight for were ...... Except for the dark brown marks on the edge of the bowl that indicate that the braised eggs did exist, there is nothing to do with the braised eggs.

Gao Jinsong also sprinkled salt on his wound with great interest: "I saw that you snatched the last two eggs,—— what about the eggs?" ”

"Hatching chicks." Wei Honglin said with a mouthful of spit. The fatigue from the morning's training and the repeated battles in the cafeteria just now made him lose his usual sense of humor, and even if he could still say a few witty words, his current image would not give him much momentum.

Gao Jinsong smiled at Yao Yuan, who was walking not far away, and held up the lunch box in his hand to indicate that he had eaten; Yao Yuan also smiled at him, raised the bowl in his hand, and showed with his eyes that he was going over there to eat. Gao Jinsong nodded. He had already seen that Yao Yuan and Wei Honglin probably had some deep contradictions, even if they met in the base dormitory, they never talked to each other, just like two strangers who never knew each other. He didn't ask the two of them about the reason for this - he wasn't curious about other people's private affairs, he listened to what others wanted to say, and it didn't matter if he didn't want to say it, anyway, he would never take the initiative to inquire.

Another unconscious creature stepped over the bushes between the road and the lawn, greeting them as he walked over.

Gao Jinsong and Wei Honglin glanced at each other and smiled at the same time.

The guy who came is Zhang Chi, and now he has gone to Shanghai Dongsheng, a club b, according to himself, the club is very good to him, and it is very likely that he will play the main force next year, but yesterday afternoon Gao Jinsong and they occasionally passed by the Dongsheng training venue, but saw Zhang Chi was doing the work of picking up the ball and handing water for the teammates who were training in groups.

"What are you doing here?" Zhang Chi also followed their example and sat on the lawn. He also held an enamel bowl in his hand, the color and pattern were the same as the general appearance in Wei Honglin's hand, and it seemed that he had also bought it in the commissary of the base - the owner of the commissary sold the big road goods for fifteen yuan for a few cents, and it seemed that he had made up his mind to earn a year's contract lease fee by relying on this bowl.

Gao Jinsong gestured at the lunch box in his hand.

Wei Honglin said happily: "Wait for someone to come and fine." He had already seen that Zhang Chi's bowl was more miserable than him, and in the bowl there was only a few slices of uncooked kimchi in addition to the rice mixed with old and new rice. The advantage in the quality of lunch immediately turned into a psychological advantage, and he added, "You should withdraw quickly, otherwise you won't be able to keep the money for dinner!" ”

Zhang Chi took out two pork red sausages from his clothes as if he were playing a trick, as well as a box of canned sardines and a canned luncheon meat. He gave Gao Jinsong two cans and said, "You two can share the luncheon meat, I'll order fish." ”

Naturally, the two of them would not care about the whereabouts of the two red sausages with Zhang Chi, and one of them began to deal with them as soon as they heard the cans, and in a blink of an eye, all the meat was poured into their respective bowls, and Gao Jinsong also divided more. He is bigger than Wei Honglin and Zhang Chi, so of course he has to share more, of course, the most important thing is that the canned luncheon meat is in his hand, so he will pull his share into the bowl first.

Eating other people's things in his mouth, Wei Honglin didn't forget to stab Zhang Chi in the wound again: "Your twelve-minute run is okay, right?" ”

Zhang Chi's face immediately turned bitter. The day before yesterday, in the team's self-test, he tried his best and didn't run 3,000 meters, the passing line stipulated by the Football Association was 3,000, and he didn't know where to make up for the remaining 100 meters. He sighed for a long time, drooped his head to shave rice, and said for a long time: "I can only see if I can run out of those 100 meters." ”

"Aren't you usually very fast, why can't you run three thousand and one with this? If it weren't for the fact that you are a little older, you have hope of changing to sprinting now, even if you can't enter ten seconds in the 100 meters, eleven seconds will definitely be fine. Wei Honglin didn't seem to see Zhang Chi's painful appearance, and continued to ask with a surprised face, "Are you going to surprise them?" ”

Zhang Chi ignored him, only tilted his head and asked Gao Jinsong: "Your twelve-minute run, no problem, right?" "The two of them have lived under the same roof for more than two months, and they are very familiar with each other, although they have some estrangement because of the black money, but they talk more casually than others on weekdays.

Gao Jin swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "No problem, just run out of 3,400 meters." He glanced at Wei Honglin next to him and grinned, "But if you have to practice with him, there will be no idle time in the base." "When Wuhan Yafeng also conducted an internal test when he was at the Shanghai Ridge Base, there were only seven people in the team who met the standard, Gao Jinsong and another midfielder had the best results, all over 3,005, and this kind of results can be exempted from testing the rest of the items. But the disadvantage is that you have to be a sparring partner, and if you're unlucky, the two of them have to run with them on the side when they make up the test.

Zhang Chile said: "What is Lao Wei's achievement?" ”

"Two thousand nine hundred and three." Gao Jinsong said expressionlessly.

"Yes!" Zhang Chi scolded with a smile. "He didn't invite me when he got married. - I had a gift in advance, and I waited for him to send me a ticket. ”

This is obviously a lie, in the new era, his friendship with Wei Honglin is very ordinary, but this is also a polite remark that should be in the question, and no one will take it seriously. So Wei Honglin immediately took advantage of the topic and said: "Give me the gift now, and I'll make up the ticket for you when I go back. Speaking of money, he spat again, "This place is really not a place for people, a broken bowl costs fifteen, a pound of rotten pears costs twenty, you just say this can, it sells for seventeen!" ”

Gao Jinsong suddenly stood up and said in a loud voice: "Let's go!" "Picking up the lunch box, he opened his long legs and ran to the other side of the lawn. Before the two guys who were talking happily and energetically had not yet woken up, they heard someone behind them shouting: "Look where you are running this time!" One person is fined twenty! ”

In the current Chinese dictionary, we will never find a correct explanation of the word "running circle", it is a specific product of a certain historical period, if we really want to make a definition for it, then its content or should be like this: The appearance of "running circle" was about a certain time between the 1994 season and the 1995 season of the Chinese Football Professional League, and the specific time is not known; The original provenance is not verifiable; It does refer to a kind of physical training carried out by professional football players in order to meet the requirements of the Football Association for players, and more specifically, it refers to the endless running exercises of the players who are about to participate in the 12-minute physical fitness test around a stadium, because the track of the stadium is a closed oval, so it is vividly summarized as "running circles"; Run, that is, run; circles, i.e., circles; The term is often cited as a typical case of dogmatism......

One, two, three......

You Shen and his two assistants stood on the edge of the field with expressionless faces, holding stopwatches in their hands, loudly telling the time for the team members who ran in front of them.

"It's time!" You Shen announced loudly,

With this sound of help, most of the team members immediately stumbled diagonally to the court, threw themselves directly on the soft grass, and then gasped for air. Physically challenged households like Wei Honglin and Zhou Jian don't even have the strength to walk onto the court. Zhou Jian coughed so dry that he could barely straighten his waist, his face was as red as if he had drunk three bottles of beer, Wei Honglin's chest rose and fell violently like a dilapidated bellows, and his legs were as soft as two pieces of mud. Both of them relied on Gao Jinsong, who accompanied them, to pull and drag, and finally struggled to roll into the grass.

"Let me die!" I don't know which guy crawled in the barley and wailed in pain. This was immediately echoed by many people.

The players of another club, which shares a football field with Wuhan Yafeng, dragged their tired steps and stood on the track with blank expressions. Wuhan Yafeng has endured, and now it is their turn to suffer.

"This time the results are okay." The assistant coach said to You Shen with satisfaction.

You Shen looked at the players lying in the playground from afar, pursed his lips and shook his head. It's not that he's not dissatisfied with the results of this lap, but with this rigid way of physical training. Every time he saw the team members crouching in the grass like dead dogs, desperately panting, his heart was as uncomfortable as a knife. He had never seen a player toss like this anywhere, and the purpose of such a toss was just to get through a so-called "twelve-minute run" that he didn't know where to go! He hated the living treasure who came up with this training method to the extreme! If that guy dared to stand in front of him now, he swore to smack him in the face! Doesn't that bastard know that this method of training is controversial even abroad? Look at his players, look at his players who are so tired that they can't even look at them, where do they still look like players? They look more like prison inmates now! There are only ten months in a season, and his players have to spend almost two months on this damn running lap, and the pre-season preparation period for them is only one month, not to mention practicing new tactics, and even getting acquainted with new teammates is difficult......

How he wants these players to run with the football! At this time, they should be with their football, to enjoy the joy that football brings them, and also enjoy the pain that football brings them, so that joy and pain can grow with them at the same time. That's the life of a player! But it doesn't work! He still had to let them go and run laps, round after round. He couldn't do anything but let them run laps. What pained him the most was that he knew it was wrong, but he still had to continue it. That damn fitness test not only tied the player's hands and feet, but also his hands and feet!

He resented the damn test, and he resented his own helplessness and incompetence!

He spat the lawn, venting his anger at others and at himself, and then he reached over the assistant's lesson plan.

The two assistants glanced at each other. They knew You Shen too well, and knew that if this person who usually paid attention to appearance was not so angry that he couldn't restrain himself, he would never do rude things like spitting on the ground. But they couldn't help him, "fitness is the foundation of football".

You Shen carefully checked the results just now with yesterday's results, and looked at the records of the previous days.

"Run again." He returned the lesson plan to the assistant.

The assistant opened his mouth to say something, but his colleague stopped him with a look.

You Shen caught a glimpse of the small movements of the two assistants, but he was speechless. He knew what they were trying to say to him, and the team couldn't run anymore. If you can't run, you have to run! Running is a sport in itself, which is destined to have a chance in its performance, and one of his tasks as a coach is to minimize the possibility of such accidents. But he didn't want to discuss it with his assistants and teammates, they just had to follow his orders.

In the last run he gave the right of supervision to the assistant and walked next to the other manager, he wanted the two teams to play a game, whether it was a friendly or a teaching game, whatever it was, he just wanted his players to touch the ball and let them remember the passion of the game.

Two managers with the same goal hit it off.

The result of the game caused You Shen to put his hand on his forehead and shout that it was a fluke - the Uruguayan striker, who was shoveled in the grass and immediately sent to the infirmary, only suffered a knee abrasion, and this cunning guy used this method to buy himself more time to rest; Gao Jinsong, who was also shoveled in the grass, cracked his right shoulder blade and needed to rest for at least ten days.

You Shen made up his mind: he wouldn't find anyone to do any more teaching competitions before the physical fitness test.