Chapter 432: First Acquaintance with Rugby
What Li Guo never expected was that in Australia, rugby tickets are generally season tickets, and they are sold out, and unless someone refunds the tickets, it is impossible to have any remaining tickets. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After understanding what happened, Li Guo shrugged, "That's a pity, I originally wanted to watch a rugby game." ”
Li Guo vaguely feels that Australia's football style is related to the country's football culture, maybe you can learn about the country's football from it, after all, in Li Guo's heart, next year's Asian Cup, the Chinese team has only one opponent, that is, Australia.
"Are you really interested in rugby?" Bob asked.
"Of course."
"Then I can take you to my alma mater, the University of Sydney, which is basically the highest level of the Australian youth team."
Li Guo had also heard of this, so the two happily reached a consensus and would visit tomorrow.
Before that, Li Guo basically knew nothing about rugby, because there were almost no football broadcasts in China, and no information could be found even on sports websites, perhaps the sport was too violent and did not correspond to Chinese tradition.
"Bob, can you help me borrow a set of gear later, I want to try this 'football' feeling too. ”
Bob looked Li Guo up and down once, and suddenly laughed, "Hahaha, don't make trouble with Li Guo, live well." ”
"Hehe, look at what you said, as far as I know, rugby players haven't been killed."
"That's professional," then Bob pointed to his nose and ribs, "Have you ever broken your nose?" ”
Li Guo shook his head.
"Where's the ribs?"
"Nope."
"Then don't make a fuss."
Li Guo began to understand why the Premier League is more rough, and these Commonwealth countries are probably advocating violence.
Soon, Bob's car was driving into the University of Sydney, which he knew as well as his home, and soon arrived at the rugby training ground.
"Hi Bob, why are you back?" Coach Thomas rushed up to say hello as soon as he saw Bob, who was Thomas's protégé and was likely to become a professional player, but a serious injury made Bob lose the opportunity to become a professional player, which was also a regret in Coach Thomas's heart.
"Thomas, bring a friend."
At first glance, the other party felt familiar, but they couldn't remember that it was face blindness between different races, just like we thought that Africans were all good.
"Let me introduce you, this is Li Guo, the head coach of the Chinese team."
As soon as Bob finished his introduction, Thomas came up, "You're the one who made the whole of Brazil angry, hehe, you can't see it." ”
"Looks like you know me."
Thomas shrugged: "I've watched the World Cup, it's been wonderful. ”
"I'm here today to see how good rugby is in Australia."
"Haha, huh?" Thomas looked arrogant, because in their opinion, the kind of football that Li Guo played was pediatrics, and he was a manly game.
Before Thomas could say anything, Li Guo was stunned by a scene in the distance, a player with a tiger's back tied to a rope around his waist, as if he was competing with something, looking along the other end of the rope, Li Guo was stunned, only to see that the other end of the rope turned out to be the tractor head.
Thomas shouted into the distance, "What are you doing, run." ”
The muscular man in the distance began to start slowly, and the tractor behind him was dragged.
Seeing that Li Guo was stunned, Thomas smiled and said, "How is it?" As I said, this is a truly manly sport. ”
Li Guo gave a thumbs up, "It's really amazing, I think I have a new understanding of rugby." ”
"What I want to know is, is this a team sport after all, and in addition to training brute force, does it require tactical training?"
"Of course, it's different from football, the tactics here are more about how to run and grab the ball, and even how to beat the opponent."
"Haha, do you guys often fight in this sport?"
"It depends, you know, people have broken noses, and sometimes the anger can't be suppressed."
Li Guo was still shocked, it should be said that after seeing the tractor, Li Guo did not come out of the shock.
"By the way, what I want to know is that the Australian men's football team will come to train with you?"
Li Guo felt that some of these trainings could actually be introduced into football, but Thomas explicitly denied it.
"I think the gap between the two sports is too big, you know, fighting on the football field is a lifetime ban."
That's the same, you can't learn badly, and at this moment, Thomas challenged Li Guo, "How about it?" Would you like to give it a try? ”
Bob interrupted, "Thomas, Li Guo is our guest in Australia, and if something happens to him here, it will be a diplomatic incident. ”
"Haha, Bob, don't worry, I just want him to catch the ball, there will be no physical confrontation."
Bob looked at Li Guo, asking for his opinion, Li Guo's temper could not be excited, he straightened his chest and said, "Let the horse come." ”
Just in case, Bob brought protective gear for Li Guo, Thomas didn't let his players play with Li Guo, he didn't know the severity of his attack, he came in person.
Thomas and Li Guo were 20 meters apart, and then said, "I throw the ball to you, you catch it, it's that simple, ok?" ”
Li Guo made an OK gesture, Thomas made a standard throwing posture, brushed it, and the ball flew towards Li Guo, "Oh no," Li Guo only then remembered that I wouldn't catch the ball at all.
snapped, just when Li Guo was stunned, the ball hit Li Guo's face, and a sour taste came to his head.
Bob looked at Thomas, as if to blame him a little, and Thomas shrugged his shoulders in embarrassment, as if to say, how do I know he's so good.
Li Guo sat on the ground for a while, shook his head, and Bob asked, "Do you want to find a team doctor for you?" ”
"No," Li Guo knew that the force used by Thomas was actually very small, but he didn't know how to pick up an olive-shaped thing, whether to connect it to the middle or the two ends.
"Thomas, thank you for showing mercy, otherwise I would have been disfigured."
"Haha, forget it, I'll invite you to have a cup of coffee, don't play with this thing."
Li Guo nodded, and the three of them walked to the café at the University of Sydney.
ps: "There was no rugby game in China before, but last year's rugby World Cup cctv5+ broadcast in the United Kingdom, so I also watched it, the final was New Zealand vs Australia, not long after the game started, there were several players on the field who broke the phase, to be honest, the rugby game is still quite exciting, a little violent, so I felt that I wrote this chapter, and in fact, according to the history of football development, rugby is relatively close to ancient football, because ancient football is used as military training. (To be continued.) )