If you have experienced the feeling of falling from heaven to hell, then you can almost understand Shao Yifan's current mood and state. He was originally the darling of the Red Devils Manchester United, one of the top eight giants in the planet's football, but he accidentally fell into the dust and came to this marginal league, but even so, the excellent teams in this league were still unwilling to accept him, so he had no choice but to come to a promoted polo team. These are obviously a huge blow to a player who is in the prime of his youth.

Shao Yifan's family said goodbye to Guangzhou and came to Chixian. Chixian is a county-level city in the Central Plains, and although it is also a leader among county-level cities in the country, it is still much worse than China's real big cities. It is here that the barefoot football club is located, and a few years ago it was still struggling to make a living in the lower leagues, until it was bought by a consortium from the Middle East, and its strength began to expand rapidly. Within a few years, he rushed into the Chinese League, and won the championship of the Chinese League last season and successfully entered the Chinese Super League.

For Shao Yifan's arrival, Barefoot showed great enthusiasm. At the suggestion of the barefoot officials, the signing with Shao Yifan was quickly completed. Of course, this is not a real professional contract, and he is still playing for the barefoot junior echelon. In this regard, Shao Yifan felt aggrieved in every way, he thought that he had the ability to play in the Chinese Super League, at least for barefoot. In addition, he also learned about the situation of leagues of all ages in China, which is really miserable compared to Europe. However, he still chose to accept the contract, because it was the only result he could get here. He didn't want to wait any longer.

Shao Yifan's family turned down the offer of accommodation from the barefoot club, and they bought an apartment in the city directly. Because this county town has another identity for them, that is, their hometown.

Even though Shao Shiping has been away from this place for nearly twenty years, even though his parents have long since passed away, his connection to this land is still inextricably linked, and the city is still deeply imprinted in his heart, which may be what the Chinese often call homesickness, right?

Football aside, Shao Yifan doesn't hate this city, its cleanliness, elegance, and tranquility attract everyone who comes here, but unfortunately, the current Shao Yifan can't leave football behind. He was full of depression, and he was not in the mood to enjoy the scenery of this small city at all.

The first time he came to the barefoot academy, he felt bad everywhere he looked, and he felt shabby everywhere he looked.

In fact, it was just a matter of his mind. The barefoot youth training system is built with world-class standards and employs a large number of world-class youth training staff, which is definitely one of the best even if you look at the whole country, and it is by no means as bad as he thought.

Chen Wei, a teenager who came to the barefoot academy a year ago. Unlike Shao Yifan, his family background is not very good, and he was also a free student who applied for a football school with his outstanding talent before. When he first came here, he was in awe of it, and he trained extremely hard and hard. So, in just one year, he used his strength to conquer everyone here. Now, when he suddenly heard that players from Manchester United's Academy were going to join them, he was naturally curious.

The first time the two met was at Shao Yifan's first training, Chen Wei's mind was all on him, watching his every move, but Shao Yifan didn't care about Chen Wei. Or rather, he doesn't care about any of the players here. Arrogance, which has never appeared in him, appeared for the first time.

Of course, he does have arrogant capital, at least the strength shown in training, which makes the barefoot teenagers have to be in awe.

Only Chen Wei was an exception, although he also admired Shao Yifan's strength very much, but he could see that Shao Yifan's attitude towards training at this time was a negative attitude, as if everything he did was just for perfunctory. That's not what a young player should be. How can such an attitude go further?

Is this the player who came out of Manchester United? Chen Wei's heart began to be a little disappointed.

Soon after, both the coach and Shao Yifan's parents discovered his poor state. But after much persuasion, nothing has changed.

Can a person who has fallen into the abyss really be able to get up?

In the following days, Shao Yifan went to the club day after day to train and compete. Although he still performed well on the pitch and made a qualitative leap in the team's strength, the negativity always permeated him.

In a cup match at the end of the season, he started the whole 90 minutes, but did not score a goal, his performance was sluggish, and the team finally lost 0-3 and was eliminated.

After that game, Shao Yifan became more silent and more negative. It seems to be self-defeating.

However, the real darkness has only just arrived.

Time comes to the end of the year, and both the East and the West are immersed in the joy of the New Year.

However, an email from England made Shao Yifan almost collapse.

The content of the email was just a simple sentence: Let's break up. - Catherine.

He could not imagine that the girl who had been with him when he had left England half a year earlier would have to say goodbye to him after only half a year. The good things of the past flashed through his mind one by one. Shao Yifan, who didn't cry even if he fell from heaven to hell, cried for the first time, tears flowed out of his eyes, crossed his emaciated face, and made a short stop at the tip of his chin.

He emailed her to ask why, but waited a long time and received no reply. So, he silently deleted the email and turned off his phone.

Is this the city going to be cut off from me? He thought to himself mockingly.

……

Shao Yifan's increasingly low mood made Shao Shiping and Woolf feel uneasy.

One day, Shao Shiping suddenly went to the United States, but he did not tell his family the reason.

Just a month later, he came back tired but smiling. He brought something with him, a video to be exact.

He called Shao Yifan over, projected the video on the wall in his son's puzzled eyes, and pressed the start button.

Soon, a middle-aged man walked into the camera and sat down in front of the camera. It was an elegant-looking man, although his face was full of traces of wind and frost and time, but it could also be seen that he must have made countless girls feel handsome and handsome when he was young.

"Hello, young player from Manchester United!" He smiled at the camera and spoke.

And Shao Yifan in front of the video had already covered his mouth in surprise, his face full of incredulity, "Kaka? It's Kaka?! ”

"I'm really sad to hear that you're at a low point in your life right now."

"However, since it is a low point, sooner or later there will be a time to go out, it just depends on when you can accept a better version of yourself."

"There were lows when I was younger, and it made me give up football. But, thank God, I managed to come out of it......"

“……”

Listening to the words of Kaka, the idol who has always been, the aura around Shao Yifan began to change slowly. A more energetic aura began to appear around him, and the negative aura swept away.

This video is not very long, but Shao Yifan watched it several times.

Shao Shiping, the father on the side, said: "I know you like Ronaldo, Kaka, and Beckham, but Ronaldo and Beckham are basically impossible for me to meet......" There was guilt in his words, but he never mentioned the hardships he paid to get this video.

Tears lingered in Shao Yifan's eyes again, but this time it was more moving.

"Thank you, Dad."