Chapter 3: Broken Legs
After the game, the fans were reluctant to leave for a long time, blocking the referee's car outside the stadium, causing traffic chaos and the scene was out of control for a while. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The bus of the info players could not leave normally, and some fans also shouted around the bus, saying things like getting out of class and betraying the country, venting their dissatisfaction.
The Chinese team was finally eliminated and missed the World Cup final, while the Iraqi team successfully qualified for the finals.
In the face of the final result, the domestic media began to bombard the referee, and the northern media bombarded the referee, saying that the referee accepted bribes and finally did not award an obvious penalty, resulting in the loss of the national team. The southern media bombarded the coach and players, saying that they did not work hard enough on the field and had a clear advantage in strength, but the performance on the field was indeed sprinkled, and they were not playing football at all, and for a while, domestic war of words was flying all over the sky.
On the day of the end of the game, the head coach of the national team, Coach Qi, announced his resignation at a press conference, and the position of head coach of the Chinese national team was temporarily vacant.
Fans and media across the country fell directly into pessimism, feeling that this is the time for the golden generation of the national team, and it cannot appear now, and it is estimated that it will not appear in a decade.
At the hospital, Zhang Zhi was undergoing an MRI to see how his injuries were, and a young mother with a child under one year old was quietly guarding him. His brow furrowed, looking pained, but he didn't say a word.
A few days later, the results came out, showing a comminuted fracture of the femur of the right leg and a comminuted fracture of the fibula of the lower leg of the right leg.
The young mother looked at Zhang Zhi silently, with tears in her eyes. Zhang Zhi turned his head to look out the window, without saying a word, with a serious expression. He knows that at his current age of 32, after suffering this injury, even if he can recover, he will be 34 or 5 years old after he recovers, and he will basically say goodbye to the green field when he comes back, and remorse, regret, and sadness occupy the depths of his heart.
The young mother's name is Yang Lan, who used to be a women's football player, selected for the national team, participated in the Olympic Games, and also won results.
Since the injury, Yang Lan has taken care of Zhang Zhi carefully, usually Zhang Zhi doesn't talk much, basically Yang Lan is talking, and Zhang Zhi nodded slightly.
Zhang Lan usually stays in the hospital at night and accompanies her. Several orthopedic specialists conducted a joint consultation and determined the surgical plan, which was carried out in 1 month.
During the injury, only Zhang Peng came to visit once, chatted briefly, and received a phone call during which he said that he was going to rush back to the club team, and then left in a hurry, and has not been here since.
After being injured, he could only lie on the bed, and he usually had nothing to do, only to play with Zhang Lan and the child and communicate. The child's name is Zhang Qing, and he can already call his father, but he still can't call it clearly, and he follows his mother to stay quietly by his father's bedside every day.
Because of Zhang Qing's company, Zhang Zhi also seemed a little happier, and a smile appeared on his face that was not smiling on weekdays.
Time passed day by day, the operation was completed, it went smoothly, and Zhang Qing slowly grew up and was able to communicate with his father and mother. The fans also seem to have forgotten the previous losses as time went by, and slowly returned to normal life.
"When the child grows up, will you let him play football too?"
"No, it won't."
"Hey, you're always like this, what if Qing'er likes it too?"
"Don't."
"Why?"
“……”
"It's okay, go to school, return to the life of a normal person, and take the college entrance exam."
"Yes."
"Eh, don't get up, I'll take you whatever you want. The doctor said you can't get out of bed yet. ”
"It's fine."
"No, you've just had surgery, and your bones aren't used to it."
“……”
"I'll hold you up."
Yang Lan helped Zhang Zhi to walk out step by step.
I just had surgery, and the fracture is more serious, so I can't walk on my own at present, that is, the athlete's body, if you are an ordinary person, it is estimated that it is difficult to even stand.
As soon as he stood for a while, Zhang Zhi began to sweat and his legs began to tremble, Yang Lan saw this and hurriedly helped him back to the bed to rest.
I'm coming back.
Zhang Zhi thought silently in his heart, although he had no bottom about whether he could make a comeback, but his career of more than 10 years made him unable to give up easily, coupled with his unfinished dreams and unfinished dreams of fans across the country, he felt that the burden on his body was extremely heavy. Every day I lie in bed and toss and turn and think about these things, thinking about the last battle, and the bits and pieces of my career, I can't sleep every day.
When Zhang Zhi was young, his family conditions were relatively difficult, and he couldn't go to a football school like a rich family, so he could only find a random place and start training. But it is him, who is the spiritual leader of the golden generation of Chinese football, the core figure, in addition to him, there are many outstanding players like Zhang Peng, Sun Fangyu, etc., in the U23, U19 international competitions, have made some achievements, they are also very promising and the last generation to impact the World Cup, so at that time, the domestic media and fans, the expectations for them were extremely high, and they were looking forward to them being able to rush into the World Cup finals, fulfilling a dream of Chinese fans, and it can be regarded as an explanation to Chinese fans.
But it backfired, and the original group stage overcame all the way and won Saudi Arabia, Japan and other strong teams, but when they played against Iraq, they were killed by their opponents and eliminated from the World Cup finals in the last round. In fact, it stands to reason that the national football team is in good shape and has been making great progress all the way, but later in several key battles, they lost the ball inexplicably, and the state of several key players was also questioned. In addition, Zhang Zhi himself was injured, if it weren't for the final key battle, he would have been defeated by his opponent with a bandage.
In addition, China's domestic youth training system is not very professional and sound, resulting in Zhang Zhi's national football team in the next ten years, and there is almost no successor, that is to say, when the next World Cup qualifiers, many people in this generation will retire, Zhang Zhi will also be 36 years old, unable to compete in the World Cup, and the national football team will be even more hopeless.
Just as he was thinking, the phone rang, breaking the silence of the hospital room.
"Huh? When was this? ……”
The phone hung up, and Zhang Zhi's face was deadly silent.
Yang Lan asked, "What's wrong?" Who called? ”
Zhang Zhi was silent for a long time, and slowly said four words......