Chapter 33: Yanjing, I'm Coming
Half a month later, the Huabing National Finals Competition was held as scheduled in Yanjing, the capital of China.
Yanjing, a thousand-year-old city, has developed into one of the largest and most prosperous cities in the world in the past two decades. The football atmosphere here is even stronger, and it is said that Yanjing fans are the most fanatical fans in the country.
Yenching Jingxi District Hotel.
The 32 C-level teams participating in the national finals have been stationed in Jingxi Hotel. This of course includes Liu Yun and his Huhai Dongxing team.
Although it was a third-division league match, reporters from all walks of life still stayed at the Jingxi Hotel at the same time. Today's football experts agree that a mature league system should include a professional league system - Chinese Super League, Chinese Jia, Hua B, and amateur league system - Hua C, no rank. Now it is a national football fever, and the Huabing national finals have naturally attracted the attention of various media.
The 32 teams participating in the competition are all the top teams in each major region, and all of them have good strength.
When the Dongxing team checked in, a female reporter stopped Liu Yun: "Hello, I'm Wu Pingping, a reporter from the sports section of Beijing Daily. Are you the coach of the Huhai Dongxing team? What was it like to compete in the National Finals? β
Liu Yun looked up at Wu Pingping, a woman about thirty years old, wearing a pair of glasses, revealing a unique charm of intellectual beauty. He smiled at Wu Pingping: "I'm sorry, I'm not the coach, the coach is still on the bus." β
Wu Pingping asked, "Then you are a teaching assistant?" β
Liu Yun shook his head: "It's not." β
Wu Pingping said confidently: "So you are the team doctor?" β
Liu Yun smiled bitterly: "Comrade reporter, I am a player!" Players of the Huhai Dongxing team! β
Wu Pingping's mouth grew in surprise! Players? This middle-aged man turned out to be a player! You must know that the 32 teams in the Huabing National Finals are all very strong, although they have the name of the amateur league, they actually have the strength to play in the professional league! As the top four in the East China Division, how can there be middle-aged amateur players in their forties?
Wu Lili asked Liu Yun: "Big... Uncle, are you expensive this year? β
Liu Yun replied: "Forty-five! β
Wu Pingping was shocked again, she said something to the Bluetooth headset, and then she took out a voice recorder and said to Liu Yun: "Uncle, your surname?" β
Liu Yun replied: "Excuse me, Liu Yun." β
Wu Pingping turned on the recorder and asked Liu Yun: "Uncle Liu Yun, just now our reporter from Beijing Daily sent out the list of players reported by each team, and you are the oldest player in this competition!" What is it that makes you so persistent in your love of football? β
Liu Yun thought for a while: "People are alive, they always have some dreams, right?" How can you live without dreams? β
Wu Pingping thinks she has dug up a fierce material! No matter what the level of this uncle in front of him is, he is participating in such a high-level competition at the age of forty-five, which is big news in itself!
Wu Pingping asked, "Then what is your dream?" β
Liu Yun said without thinking: "Play football hard to make money, so that my daughter can live a good life." β
Wu Pingping originally thought that Liu Yun would answer the tall and tall, but who would have thought that his original intention of playing football would be so down-to-earthγγγγγ Down-to-earth, from the perspective of these little intellectuals, it is also called vulgar! As soon as something gets money, it's immediately lost.
Wu Fan and Lu Binbin saw that a reporter interviewed Liu Yun in front of them, and Wu Fan said with some jealousy: "This old girl is quite good, and she loves to be in the limelight!" Xiao Lu Zi, you Angkor and I played in the Chinese Super League back then, and this kind of small scene is not in your eyes at all! β
At this time, Zhao Qiyou, the head coach of the Dongxing team, and Wang Qingqing, the assistant coach, walked into the hotel.
Liu Yunru was granted amnesty, and he said to Wu Pingping: "The old man in the back is our head coach Zhao Qiyou. Comrade journalist, you should go and interview him. β
After speaking, Liu Yun dragged his luggage into the elevator.
Wu Pingping stopped Zhao Qiyou: "You are the Zhao director of the Huhai Dongxing team, right?" I'm a reporter from Beijing Daily, and I have a few questions I would like to interview you! β
Zhao Qiyou nodded: "Okay, little beauty, you ask." β
Wu Pingping asked: "First question, I just learned that there is a forty-five-year-old player in your team. I don't know why you would want to take a forty-five-year-old player to compete in the national finals? Will he get a chance to play? β
Wu Pingping: This is obviously questioning Liu Yun's ability.
Zhao Qiyou wiped his white hair with his hand and replied, "Let me tell you, although Liu Yun is forty-five years old, his level is definitely not inferior to those young players in their twenties!" Not only will he get a chance to play, but he will also shine in the game! β
Wu Pingping asked again: "You seem to have a lot of confidence in this older player. β
Zhao Qiyou replied: "I don't just have confidence in Liu Yun alone, I have confidence in our whole team!" The Dongxing team will definitely play well in the finals and impact the qualification for the FA Cup! β
The winner of the Hua Bing National Finals will qualify for the FA Cup. The original intention of all teams to participate in the competition is also this precious FA Cup qualification!
Wu Pingping said: "You seem to be confident that the Dongxing team can achieve good results!" However, your three opponents in the same group are also the best in each regionγγγγγ β
Zhao Qiyou said: "No matter how much I say here, it's useless. Since it's a race, it's a mule that a horse pulls out to slip around! β
Liu Yun entered the hotel room. The organizing committee provided a separate room for each player. He turned on the faucet and took a shower.
After taking a shower, the phone rang.
It's a phone call from my friend Seinfeld.
"Hey, Lao Liu, how is it in the Dongxing team? What about our daughter? I heard that you are now competing in the national finals in Yanjing? Seinfeld asked affectionately on the other end of the phone.
Liu Yun replied: "It's good, my daughter is also very good, studying in Shanghai." β
Seinfeld said, "When is the first game?" I'm going to Yenching recently to talk about something. I guess I can watch your game. β
Liu Yun replied: "It's great that you can come to the first game on the 15th." β
Seinfeld smiled: "Okay, I estimate that I can finish things on the 14th, and I will stay one more day on the 15th!" Look at how you half-old man taught those lads a lesson! β
Liu Yun hung up the phone, the doorbell rang, and it was the assistant coach Wang who came to celebrate: "Lao Liu, Director Zhao asked me to inform you that the pre-game preparation meeting will be held in the second hall of the hotel conference at seven o'clock in the evening." β
Liu Yun nodded: "Okay, Assistant Teacher Wang." β
Liu Yun and his teammates finished the buffet in the cafeteria on the second floor and came to the second conference hall of the hotel to sit down.
Zhao Qiyou was holding a thick stack of materials, and Wang Qingqing walked in with a laptop.
Wang Qingqing connected the computer to the large multimedia screen in the conference hall.
Zhao Qiyou cleared his throat and said loudly: "The art of war says, knowing oneself and knowing the other is invincible. Now let me talk about the general situation of our three opponents. β