Chapter 43: A Love Story Happening in Ward 231

There was a lot of talk in the 90 World Cup in Italy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Approaching retirement age (38 years old), he was able to lead the then underdogs to the top 8 and scored four goals in the history of the national hero "Roger Miller".

Costa Rica, a group of amateur players, made a historic group break.

Saving consecutive penalties allowed Argentina to reach the final, and he was hailed as the most amazing penalty goal god in World Cup history: Sergio Goyechea.

Maradona, the king of the ball, staged the controversial "Hand of God".

The Argentine who was left with heroic tears in the final after the successful revenge of the previous runner-up.

The mighty and invincible Germanic chariot took home the Hercules Cup, which marked the pinnacle of football!

That fierce football game after game, scene after scene of wonderful moments, batch after batch of enthusiastic fans. The unrelenting celebration of the winners, the tears of grief of the losers, all of which are gradually changing Qiao Chuchu's perspective on football.

"Why is there no Chinese team?" This is the most common question asked by Chinese other than fans about the World Cup.

Faced with this problem, different people will have different opinions. There are many reasons that everyone analyzes, but in Zu Qiuyuan's view, he believes that the biggest problem is "system".

For a long time, domestic football teams have been formed by regional football associations, and the players are raised by the state, so there is a lack of competitiveness, lack of games, and lack of contact with the advanced foreign football world.

There is also a rule that people under the age of 28 are not allowed to stay abroad, which has also made many hopeful stars lose the opportunity to train in developed football countries. Under this closed-door mechanism, Chinese football, which is already quite backward, cannot keep up with the pace of the world powers.

After the end of the World Cup, the TV station broadcast the historical clips of the previous Chinese team's impact on the World Cup, and the first shock defeat in 1957 was on their own tenderness. The second impact failed in 1981, when the Chinese team, which thought it had already locked in the qualification, was "secretly calculated" by the opponent and missed the World Cup again. The third time occurred in 1985, when he also thought that qualifying was imminent, facing the weak Hong Kong team, and advocating the Chinese football that won at least 3 goals, but the "5.19 incident" occurred, and he paid a heavy price for his light enemy. The fourth time was in 1989, when the famous "Black Three Minutes" once again knocked out the Chinese team that was in sight of qualifying, once again making hopeful fans shed tears of grief.

All four of these failures are related to one's own mentality. Zu Qiuyuan believes that this is the bane of this system. Blindly arrogant, Chinese football cannot withstand such pressure, and has repeatedly dropped the chain at critical times.

Looking at the generations of fans who went from joy to crying in the TV screen, Qiao Chuchu experienced the charm of war in this era of peace. She seems to feel the same disappointment and grief from the fans.

"So what can we do to change that?" Qiao Chuchu asked the fans what they were most concerned about.

"To improve Chinese football, we must first carry out institutional reform! We can no longer do things behind closed doors, we have to learn from the advanced football experience of the great powers. Just like they did, they built professional football leagues and put teams, players to market. At the same time, we must "go out", send players to advanced football leagues for training and learning, and also "bring in" to introduce strong foreign aid to make the domestic league more competitive, so that players can compete with excellent foreign players in China. Let's connect with the world so that we can really improve our football. At the same time, we have a mature and exciting professional football league and our own stars, and players can earn a considerable income based on their performance, so that we can attract more young people to join the football circle and add fresh blood to Chinese football..."

Enough to ask for fate and talk about his opinions. Qiao Chuchu, who still doesn't know anything about football, has a lot of things she doesn't understand, but she doesn't feel bored, because when the other party talks about football, he always exudes the enthusiasm that fascinates her.

With the end of the World Cup in Italy, the relationship between the two has gradually become intimate, Zu Qiuyuan is not so shy, and Qiao Chuchu unconsciously approached him. The relationship between them seems to be just a thin layer of sandpaper, and just by stabbing it, they can hold each other's hands.

However, their injuries have also improved, Qiao Chuchu had injured his internal organs when he was ravaged before, but after this period of treatment, he has been so well that according to the doctor's opinion, he can go home to recuperate. The right foot of the foot has also been able to remove the fixed metal bracket, although the force will still hurt, but the physical team still decided to recall him, preferring to let him go back to recuperate and save money.

On the night of parting, they didn't talk all night as usual. The loss of being about to part left them speechless. Qiao Chuchu hoped to hear that sentence, but Zu Qiu Yuan didn't dare to speak, he knew that he was not worthy of the other party, and he was also afraid of her father's obstruction. But he didn't choose to give up, he wanted to regain his strength and make a career in the football circle, so that he had enough conditions to show his heart to Qiao Chuchu again.

In the end, they agreed that when Zu Qiu Yuan returned to the court to play, Qiao Chuchu would definitely be there to watch the game. In this way, the love story that happened in Ward 231 came to an end for the time being.

After returning to the sports team, Zu Qiuyuan trained hard every day, even if he could only exercise the muscles of his upper body in the gym, even if he was ridiculed by his teammates all the time, even if the leader advised him to know the current affairs. He felt bad in his heart, but he could overcome it if he wanted to behave well in front of Chu Chu, win honor with legitimate means, and win the belief that the material conditions were enough for Chu Chu to be happy.

Three months later, his right foot has recovered and he is able to participate in the team's confrontation training. During this time, the team's results were not ideal, and the team's scoring ability was greatly reduced due to the injury of the main scorer. Although some games are rigged, there is no such means when it is necessary to win the game, and the only way to do this is to buy the opponent, which will make the dealer earn a lot less. Therefore, the comeback of the team is a great benefit. Although after days of ideological work, Zu Qiuyuan still insisted on refusing to participate in match-fixing, but after this lesson, he learned to be flexible. He offered the manager a plan to send him on when he needed to win, and he would give it his all to score. If you want to lose, you can replace him, and he can use the repeated injuries as an excuse anyway.

One day in October, he received a request from the team leader that he would return for tomorrow's game and try to help the team win. Zu Qiuyuan was very happy, he called Qiao Chuchu overnight, and Chu Chu, who received the call on the other side, was also very excited.

As the saying goes, a lover who is not seen for a day is like three autumns, and the separation of these months has increased their concern unabated. They seem to have endless topics to talk about, although they usually chat by phone, but this time the call has been from 9 to 11 o'clock in the evening, in order not to affect the next day's competition, the two reluctantly put down the already hot microphone.

After putting down the microphone, both of them felt a burst of sweetness for meeting again tomorrow. The two of them were separated by several miles, but at the same time they fell asleep with a sweet smile on their faces...