Ye Ruiyang pushed the door and came in. We asked him how he was and he said it was okay. It should be handed over to Sister Mu Ran. Luka was also carried back to the locker room by Leben and Xiao Qi, his calf was a little strained, his ankle was twisted, and he was taking off his shoes and socks to apply ice. Yan Xi went out again after returning to the locker room, probably because he didn't want to affect our emotions because of himself. Zhao Rui said don't worry, Tongtong went to accompany him. I don't know who it is, it could be a classmate in their class.

Is it already over? The injuries of our teammates, the status quo of being three goals behind, this game haunted us like a nightmare from the beginning, everyone was like a frozen stone sculpture, only the sweat and heat emanating from our bodies could prove that we were alive. It's not that we don't have a chance, but it's just a fraction of a second. On the contrary, Ah Fang's two goals made no sense: without subtle teamwork or great individual ability, it was easy to get us into a desperate situation with just the right luck.

The coach told us to rest and frown at the tactical board. There is no rice cooking, and no matter how much we search our intestines and stomach, we can't make up for the congenital shortcomings of our lineup. It's not just that we're lagging behind, it's because we've lost all the weapons to attack. How long can Mu Zheng play? Ten minutes at most, maybe five minutes later. Everybody knows it. What about Leben? Not. To tell you the truth, he hasn't quite figured out how to move yet. The rest of the bench are either defenders or juniors. The mountains and rivers are exhausted. We don't even have the chips to turn the tables around.

Is it just a matter of sitting back and waiting? In less than forty minutes there will be "relief". Then there was the awards ceremony, and we went to get the silver medals, and that bunch of individual awards. The runner-up is also an honor, not many people are optimistic about the first high school this year, but we still made it to the final. Although I didn't win the championship, it was not easy, and I could still celebrate after the game, after all, it was the best result in the history of the school......

No, no, it's not over yet, why am I starting to comfort myself? I'm not that kind of person, I've been a competitive kid since I was a kid, and if I can win the first place, I will never want to win the second place. Second place is the biggest loser. Didn't I tell him that this opportunity was not easy to come by, I want to cherish it, and I want to help him realize his wish. As long as there is a breath left, why should people sit still and wait to die? I don't want to throw in the towel, and I don't want to surrender. People need to have a little spirit.

"Is it cold?" He realized something was wrong with me. I'm shaking. June, not because of cold or fear, but simply excitement, there is uncontrollable emotion and strength in the body.

I shook my head.

“Give me a hand.”

He stretched out his right hand, but I took the glove he had placed in his arms. He wore it three times this season, the last game of the group stage against the school, the second leg of the semi-final against Polytechnic, and today. The first two times we were desperate. Although I don't use it much, there are still some slight wrinkles and peeling on the finger cuffs. "Heaven and earth have righteousness, mixed with manifolds", the person who left this poem and the person who wrote it on the glove are gone. The former has passed by hundreds of years, and the figure of the latter is like the red letter on the glove. I have lived past the age you have had, and one day I will enter the old age that you have not entered. At that time, I will remember you, even though I have never known or seen you, and I will only know your story through the stories of others. If you show up with me, can you tell me what to do? Shouldering the heavy responsibility and turning the tide must be this answer. In the last summer, I honed myself day in and day out, as if I was waiting for a moment to come.

"Obviously, you go play center. We have to have a fulcrum up front. ”

"I see. Leave it to me. ”

The coach made the first change, transforming the tallest centre-back into a centre-forward. She took the tactical board, explained all the plans she thought of in a short period of time to Ming Minghe, and called Brother Chuan and Ah Hui, arranged for them to retreat to the defensive line, and formed a three-guard with Ye Ruiyang, so as to ensure the safety of the rear during a large-scale attack. In this case, the midfield is clearly in front, and I and Xuexue are on both sides. But there is still one less person, one less commander who can connect with teammates and command and dispatch.

Who else?

"Miller, what do you think...... Can I play in midfield? My mind was racing for a solution, and he quietly took the gloves back.

I looked up at his blank face as if I heard the sound of a drop of water falling into a lake.

"Of course! Of course you can kick! ”

"But can I really do it?" He cast his gaze on the verse on the glove.

"Absolutely! You've thought of it, what are you hesitating about? As soon as he hesitated, I became anxious and pulled out the schoolbag on his seat. Sure enough, I pulled out the number 23 white jersey, which he was carrying.

"You see, you've always had this shirt with you. You've been thinking about it for a long time, so why should you doubt yourself? Do you think this is your brother's position and you can't kick it? I grabbed his arm, realizing that I was even more excited than just now, "I know that Brother Xianxian is very good, but didn't Pu Yun say it, we have our own way, we don't have to be exactly the same as him." Yes, I'll admit, you and I may not be as good as him in the ring, but we're two people. Me and you, Miller and Kopeway. What one person can't do, two people together can do. What exactly are you waiting for?

"Didn't Ko Peixian tell you that he wanted to be a partner with you on the offensive line? I'm telling you, and I'd like to, just today, just today! We only live once, and we will never come back after today. To be honest, I don't know if I'll have a chance in the future, maybe today will be the last game we will play together in our lives. I want to win, I want to win with you! ”

"I'm not hesitating. Instead, the answer to a question suddenly came to mind. He grabbed my wrist and twisted my head, and in addition to the gentleness and calmness in his usual familiar gaze, there was another fortitude that I had been waiting for.

"I've thought a lot about why I'm back on the pitch. Do you really like football? Do you want to inherit your brother's dream? Neither. I didn't come back for anyone, not even for myself. Didn't think much about it, almost for no reason. However, I seemed to understand that there was something deep inside me that was driving me, telling me to get moving, to get back into life. I can't tell what it was, it was a sound, an impulse, like a beating heart, maybe my life itself. The moment I decided to go back to the court, I was ready to face the past, and although I would still be scared and run away, I would know that I could no longer immerse myself in the dark. I have to bear everything that happened in the past, and no matter how painful life is, it is still beautiful in itself. I love my life and I love everyone's life. Football is my way of expressing that emotion, the way my family and my friends taught me when I was a child.

"So, Millet, it's my greatest happiness to fight with you on the court. How could I possibly hesitate? In the past, I thought that this pair of gloves would get old and dirty if I used it too much, but this is normal, things will get old when they are used, and people will be old when they are born. If not, what is the purpose of this thing's existence? ”

As he spoke, he clung to my head. In just a short moment, I knew that there was no barrier between the two of us, like partners who grew up together, like brothers who could completely hand over their bodies to each other. With this second of emotion and trust alone, I believe that I can bravely get through this life.

He got up and went to the coach, and so did I. Suddenly, I realized that she was also walking towards us. It turned out that everyone was on the same page. Since there is such a tacit understanding, there is no need to say a lot of things.

The gloves were handed to Number One. Probably never imagined that Ke Peiwei would hand over this precious relic to him, and Zhao Rui's hands almost failed to catch it.

"This is a gift from Xianxian. Take it and protect our gates. ”

'It's been two years and I've never kept a clean sheet. He bit his lip hard, "But for the remaining thirty minutes, I will never let them score a goal." ”

"Captain, Miller, you two focus on attacking. I'll defend at midfield and I'll run as hard as I can. Xuexue put his hand on our waists, "Don't look back, just rush forward!" ”

"Ke Ke, how can our brother lose to his brother? I've got me at the back, don't worry! Everyone gradually gathered in the locker room, and Ye Ruiyang was still full of fighting spirit as usual, "Let the champagne go to the fifty-fourth middle school, Istanbul, Anfield, Cruyff!" [1] Leading three at half-time is the most dangerous! ”

"Fight and you're done!" Brother Chuan is still so simple and capable.

The door creaked open, and with the support of his companions, Yan Xi walked back to us with red eyes, followed by Yue Yin and Sister Mu Ran. Luka was also being held, and the ice pack was still dangling on his bare feet. The coach also walked over to us, and everyone was in a circle shoulder to shoulder.

"Needless to say, everybody was watching around us. Football is round. As long as the game is not over, we can do miracles! "The sadness and momentum of desperate frustration are rolling. Knowing that they couldn't do it, everyone looked at each other as if they were dead, even if we knew it was a doomed battle. After the coach, the captain also made a final speech, and the slogan of winning was like thunder, passing through the layers of obstacles on the wall, and it would definitely be heard by those in the stands who still did not give up hope. In the vast life of life, the victory or defeat of this game is only a slight wave, and it may not be enough to affect our long life. But at this moment, I seem to feel the beating life and impulse that Ko Peiwei said. If I hadn't come to this city, if I hadn't met him, I would never have been in this place. What will I be like? Maybe he is still a good and motivated student, keeping an eye on his scores and rankings, looking vigilantly at his classmates, and drowning his time in the test papers and workbooks alone. Then I will grow up and graduate, and leave a graduation photo that I will no longer look at, save the contact information of each classmate, and make them the gray avatar that I will not contact in my phone list. I hope to go to a good university, make up for the lack of sleep and games I have missed in the past few years in middle school, and when I graduate, I can make up a patchwork thesis, and barely get a diploma that makes my parents hold their heads up in front of relatives. After that, she wandered around society, found a decent job, was constantly urged to marry someone who was quite suitable, and "spent every quiet twilight" in her eyes[2]. And then "in the shaking of the cradle, waiting for the first call of the son"[3]—or the daughter. I will endure them, faithful to my wife, remember my parents, from middle age to old age, my hair is thinning and withering, but my body is getting fatter and fatter, and I will be immersed in socializing and toiling for a long time, until the day I grow old, and lie down on the white bed, and watch the sun outside the window as chaotically illuminating the earth as it has been for hundreds of millions of years, under the vigilant and impatient gaze of my relatives. I have cherished time and squandered it; I became a refined egoist and loved several of my relatives; I was timid, self-preservation, sleek, greasy, and occasionally shed a few tears for strangers, exchanging a little money for the peace and forgetfulness of conscience. Maybe that's how I grew up, there's nothing wrong with that, it's an ordinary life, it's not a romantic poem, it's not a tragedy, and people who think they have mastered morality and truth shouldn't blame us.

However, before I had time to start my life at a glance, I still felt the meaning of my life this afternoon. "I finally know what I want to be when I grow up, and I want to be a little boy when I grow up." [4] And when I was a little boy, I knew so unshakably what I was doing and what I was going to do. Where there is sunshine there is shadow, and there is birth before death. Courage is precious because cowardice, and the persistence of choice after vacillation will not change. My first friend, who I have been with for two years, I learned this from him. "My heart jumped in ecstasy, everything in my heart was reawakened, there was a person to love me, there was inspiration for poetry, there was life, there were tears"[5], and many other touches that I had never felt before. I began to make my hometown a foreign land, and the people from other places became close friends. After wandering, I realized the preciousness of home, and after the entanglement of loneliness, inferiority and selfishness receded, I would be so eager for love and unity. I belong here, I belong to this city, I belong to this green field, I belong to this group of lovely people.

This day was destined to be the brightest moment in my ordinary life.

Li Bin, Ah Fang, I know your story, and I know the darkness you have endured and your perseverance. We are all similar people, but there can only be one winner of the competition. It is this determination and hope that I want to prove that will never be extinguished. In the darkness of the passage, we saw the light of the sky at the exit. He walked in front of me, the number 23 printed on the back of his spotless white jersey. Those who are familiar with the past, after three and a half years, they finally see another such 23. He stood majestically in the middle of the pitch as if he had been reborn, and No. 3 silently followed. This long-awaited combination, which never really appeared, has come to the earth today, awakening a breath of fresh air before the hot summer is about to arrive.

The game is back! Jiang Yuan's No. 1 squadron made substitutions, replacing No. 10 Luka and replacing No. 1 Zhao Rui, which I believe was unexpected by both the opponent and the audience. Hand-to-hand combat with wolves, hunters and cavalrymen left behind their steadiness and lightness, and burned the flame of hope with the only remaining strength of life. If you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent, and the courage to die together will overwhelm the other party at the beginning. In the first attack of the 54th Middle School, Ye Ruiyang fell to the ground in front of the penalty area to intercept. The ball was not kicked far, and in a hurry, Ye Ruiyang directly used his head to meet the feet kicked by Qiao Li and Ah Fang when they grabbed it, and pushed the ball out of the range that would be touched by them. The legs of the two froze. Brother, you don't want to die. Ah Fang's voice trembled with fright, and the person stopped in place. And the leader of the back line quickly got up without saying a word, and sent the ball passed by Brother Chuan to the front court.

With the advantage of height, Ming Ming Li pressed Man Lin to give the ball to Ke Ke. Although Wang Rui broke the ball from behind, Xuexue snatched the ball back like a yellow finch in the back. After a small range of flickering, the ball was squeezed diagonally to my side. The cross is deflected and goes off the baseline. Xuexue took a corner kick, obviously grabbed the landing header again, and the ball was saved by the goalkeeper. But Ke Ke on the edge of the penalty area controlled the second drop point, and with a shot on goal, he did not hesitate, and the connection action from stop to hit was perfect. The ball was saved by the goalkeeper again and was about to fall in the air. And I'm right next to it! Ignoring the offside, I took a step forward while mimicking the head-to-head strikes my teammates had tried again and again that I had never learned. There was a heavy weight on my forehead, a slightly dull sound. I fell to the ground, and by the time I got up, the ball was in the net. Koko ran over and pulled me up, and the referee pointed to the tee point in the center circle. The goal works! The first offensive game at the start of the second half allowed a goal for the first hitch, and we are racing against the clock. Xuexue quickly fished the ball out of the door, and everyone quickly ran back to the center circle, leaving the opponent who shook his head repeatedly.

Pull back one, two left! The shouts pierced through the sun and wind and were clearly visible in every corner of the pitch. Two minutes later, Xuexue snatched the ball from his opponent's feet in another biting manner, and this time he handed it to Ke Ke again. In the face of Wang Rui's close pressing, he used a flexible man-ball pass to leave the opponent's midfielder behind. He has practiced his foot movements in every training session, and it is not surprising that he has such a technique. Riding up quickly, he passed the centre circle and sent a long through ball to the right without looking at the tacit understanding he had cultivated for two years. Ah Fang is close to me, but as long as I want to speed up, this little imp doesn't want to stick to me. As I said a long time ago, I am usually very fast, and I can be two or three times faster than others. I learned how to adjust my pace to be able to enjoy the scenery when I should be slow, and in this kind of sprint, it was just a luxury to catch up with my shadow in the middle of a sprint. I got the ball first, and I took a huge step forward. "Pass to myself in three seconds", that's it, the incredible exclamations from the stands overshadowed Ah Fang's reluctant and helpless run, and I left him behind in a desperate way. Is the next opponent a kudzu planet? He rushed from the middle to the wing. Come on, come on, come one by one, come with two over a pair, I'm just about to cut into the restricted area. He was already in front of me, and I stepped forward again, not letting him touch the ball at my feet. The angle is not too big, and the teammates who follow up may not be in place, and the speed of Ming and Ke Ke is not fast. At this time, the wind is rushing under your feet and shoulders. Let's take a kick, give it a try! I could have tried, and my body had already run to the front of my thoughts, and my less dominant left foot had already kicked the ball before Ge Xingxing stretched his leg to block it. A lightning bolt that touched the ground, Zhen Ge did not react to make a save, and the ball hit the back post without hesitation, hitting the inside of the post and bounced into the net. Absolutely perfect angle, we narrowed the seemingly insurmountable score to just one goal in the opening five minutes! I didn't stop, I rushed to the goal, picked up the ball in the side-netting and kicked it into the centre circle. At this time, Ke Ke and Ming Ming ran to my side, and I let out a cry at my partner with my lungs trembling, as if I had roared my soul and life into my throat. In the dazzling sunlight, Ke Ke and I jumped up and collided shoulders in the air. The game is far from over, it's just begun! "The enemy can destroy it, and I can restore it." "As long as you can't kill Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu has to stand up!" I pounded my chest like crazy, and for the first time in my life I felt that I was so omnipotent, that any miracle could be done with my hands and feet, and that the sun was nothing more than a crown of laurels that I could wear on my head.

The rapid approach of the score shocked the midfield deployment of 54 to pieces, and we made it clear that the best idea was to attack the area between Wang Rui and Ye Junfang. The former has already received a yellow card for a foul on Luca in the first half, while the latter is still a little immature in the midfield position and is not very consistent with the ball. The continuous killing of weaknesses has gradually become a huge hidden danger for the wolves, and Ke Ke and Xuexue have deliberately made Wang Rui's fouls with the ball several times. Maybe in a few minutes he will get a second yellow card and the Coyotes will have to make adjustments. Yang Shenglong, the No. 8 midfielder, replaced Wang Rui, and A, who was a little embarrassed by me, returned to the right wing-back position - I specialize in this kind of midfield opponents who are not fast enough in absolute speed and physical frequency, and I publicly punish them in their names every time I run. In the first half, he was able to barely maintain the confidence he found with his goal, and now he is at the end of his power. If I hadn't adjusted like this, Ah Fang would have been overdrawn by me before the end of the regular time.

And after this substitution, the battle quickly fell into a white heat. We had to equalise quickly and even overtake before the end, and in the 54th we wanted to score quickly to kill the suspense of the game. "Since ancient times, the final has been nameless", if the score remains even, it is likely that both sides are extremely conservative in attacking. And now we have the confidence to score, and the 54th is also redeployed after a short period of panic, and the big open and closed attack battle is immediately presented in front of the audience.

As we expected, it was Li Bin who stepped forward, and the appearance of "Brother Long" freed him up with his task on the defensive end, allowing him to go on the offensive with Qiao Li without any worries. It was a long-range shot after getting rid of it with a small technique, like a demon knife out of its sheath. There was a lot of noise in front of our goal, once hitting the crossbar, and the other time it was saved by Zhao Rui. The ball slammed into his right glove, and behind the extraordinary save was his will to persevere for two years. Only had the opportunity for these thirty minutes, Zhao Rui adjusted his spirit and body to the extreme, and blocked two close shots with his toes and chest in succession. The three armies are life-threatening, and the mountains and rivers are magnificent. The defenders were sacrificing their lives to keep the goal and we were killing in attack. Ke Ke was still a little uncomfortable in the midfield position, and although the two of us started to score two goals in the second half, he gradually fell into the tussle with Yang Shenglong. His physical strength was not so abundant, and he made several mistakes in succession. And Xuexue worked hard behind him to help him delay the offensive, and ran tirelessly all over the field with a black mask.

Pick up the high ball and find it clear! Compared to the Coyotes, our offense is getting simpler and more straightforward. And Chen Yanba, the "head wolf" who read about this tactic, began to consciously defend against Ming Ming and use his high-altitude ball advantage to limit our attack. Still, we created a lot of opportunities. A long pass from the back found Ke Ke directly, and the latter's shot into the box almost replicated Li Bin's stop-and-go shot against the colonel. A shot saved by Zhen Ge formed a corner, and Ye Ruiyang received my cross and headed it in a sliding header. There were many opportunities for both sides, and the rapid attack and defense at such close range brought the sun to a boiling point, and the sighs and shouts of the small number of spectators slapped in their ears like waves.

The body is gradually sinking, and the game is about to go into stoppage time. I took the fourth corner of the second half, obviously rushing past the attacking goalkeeper, and was about to fall into the net when Li Bin on the goal line subconsciously raised his foot to stop it. It was only a few centimeters away, and it turned into an insurmountable chasm. And just as we were breathing heavily with regret, the wolves had swept back. Li Bin retreated to the flank with great calmness, caught the ball cleared by his teammates after a struggle, and quickly sent it to the front court. Qiao Li, who understood it, knocked the ball in front of him with a stunning backheel stop, and our tired defence was a little too much to dodge. After dodging the angle in front of Brother Chuan, Qiao Li's powerful shot hit the post heavily and bounced out. We were also just a few centimeters away from suffocation. The ball went off the line and the substitutes from both sides invariably stood on the sidelines, along with a sign held up by the fourth official - four minutes of stoppage time in the second half.

The second substitution in the fifty-four is to replace the No. 2 Ge planet with No. 4 Zhang Zhenyuan, and the substitution of the counterpoint. Even though the defense was relatively solid, he slowly fell to the bottom in the constant sprinting and running with me in the second half. The last one to appear on the stage should be No. 10 Liu Chenchen, his warm-up has also been completed, and it is estimated that it is the choice to delay time at the last moment. And our hole card is No. 7, eight months later, Mu Zheng really returned to the court, and he ran to replace Brother Chuan. In the absolute sense of the word, we only had two defenders and four attacking players in the frontcourt. His first dribbling caused a foul on Li Bin, a free kick a little farther away, and it was naturally me who came to deal with it.

This may be our last chance, Zhao Rui rushed from the backfield to the penalty area of Fifty-four in one go, his hands clenched into fists. Everyone except me was ready to rush to the other city's gate. Sweat is going to boil on the door of your head, but you have to calm down, you have to make sure that you are accurate. Holding my breath, I probably made the most perfect arc in junior high school, and I could compare it to the long pass I gave to Yan Xi when I first stepped onto the court. The crescent-like ball flew out from the feet of No. 3, and the crowd was always found with No. 23. With the agility of a hunter and the agility of a cavalryman, he caught the direction in which the ball was falling, calmly threw his head out, and once the wonderful lion shook his head, the goalkeeper was powerless.

It's the 20th again! He headed over Koko's header and the horrible guy snuffed out the fire we were hoping for a second time on the defensive end. But there's still a chance! I frantically rushed into the penalty area to join my teammates in hand-to-hand combat, and in the confusion Mu Zheng got the ball, and a coherent turn and volley made everyone forget that he had been teetering on the brink of death. But the ball was over the crossbar, just a little bit off.

Almost, I won't get anything.

Liu Chenchen stood on the sidelines, but did not implement the substitution in the 54th Middle School, probably to save the opportunity to delay until the last moment, so that the game could be completely and safely ended. Zhen Ge kicked the goal kick, and Ye Ruiyang, who ran back quickly, resisted Qiao Li in the front court, and the two fell to the ground in hand-to-hand combat, and the referee blew for the attacker's foul. The shrewd Ah Hui immediately took a set-piece and did not give the 54th a chance to make a substitution. It was Zhao Rui who retreated to the goal area who received the pass, and he hoisted the ball high to the front court out of breath. Stoppage time may well have passed, and I heard restless protests and shouts from the Coyotes' bench as they signaled to the referee that it was time to blow the final whistle. It's likely that the enforcer has already put the whistle in his mouth and will signal the end of the game when the ball falls.

Is it over? In the end, it didn't work a miracle. This was the end of my last match with Koko.

Wait, the whistle didn't blow! Obviously, in the wrestling with Chen Yanba, he made the first move and gave the ball to Ke Ke. took a step, Yang Shenglong pasted it, and he lost his center of gravity in an instant, but he stretched out his foot and stabbed the ball in front before falling.

And I was running in the direction of the goal. Moreover, he got rid of Zhang Zhenyuan.

Thorn Slash killed Man Lin, but he was late, just one step too late. I touched the ball first, flicked it to the right of my body, and he swooped down.

There is only the goalkeeper in front of him.

This is the perfect opportunity!

[1] The three names mentioned here are all stadium names, referring to the three classic Champions League matches that took place at all three stadiums, in which the team that trailed by three goals on aggregate came back from behind in the second half to win the game.

[2] Kitajima, "The End or the Beginning".

[3] Kitajima, "The End or the Beginning".

[4] Joseph Heller, "Something Happened."

[5] Pushkin, "To Kern".