Chapter 56: You are playing on behalf of us Chinese!

At six o'clock in the morning of May 10, Lu Zhuhu and the national team continued to take the French steamer to the next stop, which is also a very important "ticket warehouse" - Singapore.

After getting on the boat, Lu Zhuhu took out the "Falcon" sneakers that he had dug up in the stadium in Saigon last night and distributed them to his teammates.

Interestingly, most people felt that the shoes fit quite well after putting them on, which made Lu Zhuhu feel quite strange, but he didn't know the origin of these sneakers, so he didn't think much about it.

(Could it be that the international players who participated in the World Cup in '02 were exactly the same size as the players who participated in the Olympics in '36?) )

The teammates asked Lu Zhuhu where they got these shoes from-

Lu Zhuhu didn't even know how to explain Xiao Dong and Xiaohua!

The teammates still had to be fooled, so they lied that it was specially customized by patriotic overseas Chinese......

Li Huitang got a pair of blue falcon Mania, looked at it over and over again, and said in amazement: "What are these shoes made of?" Light! It's too light! ”

The chubby Sun Jinshun stepped on two pairs of shoes, and he was a little squeezed - after all, no one in the group of players in 02 was as fat as him, but he also praised: Wearing it is the same as not wearing it! (Not quite like a compliment...... )

Lu Zhuhu felt that they could look at the shoes for a day just by looking at them......

Don't blame these guys for their "old hats", these sneakers from the 21st century are truly extraordinary in this era!

The early soccer boots were almost non-slip shoes, with huge, seeping metal spikes, which were very heavy, not to mention flashing and moving on the field, and getting tired after walking two steps!

And most of these shoes are made of leather, and when it rains, they will accumulate water, and each shoe weighs two pounds, and two shoes are four pounds - it's like a lead ball!

Adi actually appeared earlier than Lu Zhuhu thought, began to produce sneakers in 1928, and it was also Adi who produced the first pair of football shoes with rubber studs in 1950, don't underestimate the role of a pair of sneakers, in the 1954 Swiss World Cup final, the torrential rain made the stadium muddy, the Hungarian team wore old-fashioned sneakers, and the West German team wore the latest Adi - the Hungarian team was almost unable to move an inch, but the Federal Republic of Germany team could easily score the winning goal, breaking out the biggest upset in football history, He also won his first World Cup.

This is the "Bernese miracle".

Hungary with Puskas are almost mythical teams, while the Federal Republic of Germany were beaten by Hungary in the group stage with an effortless 8-3.

This is just a little difference between modern sneakers and ancient times - in fact, a pair of shoes does embody all aspects of technological development, and almost every side can be taken out in detail.

In short, Lu Zhuhu gave his teammates this set of Falcon 6 generations, not only because of the 02 national football team and well-known in China, the world-famous Beckham was wearing this pair, and Zidane scored the killer goal in the Champions League final before the World Cup that year, and he also wore this pair. That's right, it's the first goal in Champions League history called "Flying Immortals".

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Although the boat was dangling, everyone still carried out their daily routine training on the boat as usual, and at the same time, they also happened to try whether the sneakers sent by Lu Zhuhu were good or not-

I don't know if I don't try, I'm scared if I try!

These shoes are simply designed for kicking football! (Nonsense!) Not to mention lightweight, there is also a good sense of friction against the ball, and it is really great to wear this kick!

At the suggestion of Lu Zhuhu, Xiao Dong and Xiao Hua also put on new sneakers and showed a few fancy actions to the players of the national team, "rainbow", ox tail and so on, and called a group of big men surprised again and again.

Indeed, it was only after the lightness of the sneakers that there were various gorgeous and beautiful technical movements that were developed later.

Swap back to a four-pound pair of vintage sneakers?

Uh, forget it......

An accident was that when Xiaohua made a "rainbow" pass, the arc was too high, and the ball flew straight over his head and fell into the sea...... Xiao Dong, who was bought the ball, was beaten again......

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As usual, they sailed at sea for another three days, and in the early morning of May 12, Lu Zhuhu and his party arrived in Singapore.

It was still dark, but there was already a large group of people waiting at the docks—it looked like they had been waiting for a long time.

It turned out that Cai Wenli, a defender who had returned to his home in Singapore earlier to deal with personal affairs and was selected for the Olympic team, brought many local reporters, photographers and patriotic overseas Chinese to greet him.

Originally from Qionglin Township, Kinmen, Fujian Province, Chua Wenli was born in Singapore and plays as a left-back for Singapore Zhonghua. Although there are many overseas Chinese players participating in the selection this year, the selection conditions are relatively strict, and Cai Wenli was lucky to stay as a Singaporean player. Teammates joked that taking Cai Wenli to Berlin, even if he can't play football, he can represent China to participate in track and field, and he can't get a card or something - in addition to playing well, he is also an excellent track and field athlete, and he won the 100m, 400m, 800m three championships and the 200m runner-up in the 1931 Malaysia Chinese Games, which is very versatile.

Cai Wenli returned to the team, and the 22 members of this national team were completely completed.

In the face of the visitors from their homeland, the overseas Chinese in Singapore are also very happy and enthusiastic, and arrange the New Asia Hotel for them to stay. After drifting on the sea for a long time, there was finally a nice place to rest, and everyone was very happy.

Ha, I feel home!

There were no competitions and training arranged on this day, and after sleeping until he woke up naturally - Lu Zhuhu still got up at five o'clock, so he asked Xiao Dong Xiaofang and the two to go to breakfast together, ate the famous kaya toast or something, and said that he would eat Hainanese chicken rice and Fujian shrimp noodles at noon, and then wandered around the streets of Singapore.

Lu Zhuhu has been to Singapore a few times, and the feeling is that although everyone is Chinese or Chinese, they don't think of you as an ancestor. It's a bit of what others call "banana people", which means yellow skin and white heart.

However, in 36 years of Singapore, the feeling is simply a world of difference, I heard that Lu Zhuhu came from "China", he was very enthusiastic, he was like seeing his relatives, and then he heard that Lu Zhuhu was going to Berlin to play football on behalf of China, and he was even more excited, he didn't charge money for anything he bought, and he forced it into their arms. - "You are fighting for honor on behalf of us Chinese, collect your money, and when you die, you are embarrassed to face the tombstone to the north (in the direction of the old country)!" ”

It seems incredible, but it is understandable to think about it - after all, Singapore at this time is also a base camp of "traditional Chinese", and Chen Jiageng, who founded Xiamen University with the "flag of overseas Chinese and national glory", and Chen Liu, who founded Nanyang University, the first overseas Chinese university, are outstanding representatives of overseas Chinese.

The first Chinese were all lower-class people who were too poor and miserable in the country and forced to come out to do hard labor, and they really had a bite to eat, who would want to leave their homeland and come to such a far place!

As for the British-educated Singaporean "Shanghainese Chinese" who eventually defeated the "traditional Chinese", that was a very later matter.

At 9 a.m. on May 14, "head coach" Yan Chengkun also arrived in Singapore from Hong Kong.

The Chinese national football team that participated in the Berlin Olympics has finally assembled completely.

Everyone came to the rooftop of New Asia Hotel and took a group photo.

In the end, after the "butterfly effect" of Lu Zhuhu, the final 22-man roster of this national team is like this:

Goalkeepers (3): Bao Jiaping, Huang Jiliang, Zhou Xianyan

Defenders (4): Li Tiansheng, Tan Jiangbai, Mak Shaohan, Cai Wenli

Midfielders (6): Lu Zhuhu, Liang Rongzhao, Li Guowei, Xu Yahui, Chen Zhenhe, Zhang Xianyuan

Forwards (9): Cao Guicheng, Feng Jingxiang, Li Huitang (captain), Ye Beihua, Zheng Jiliang, Zhuo Shijin, Dai Linjing, Sun Jinshun, Jia Youliang

Head Coach: Yan Chengkun

Team Leader: Yung Kai Siu

Management: Huang Jiajun