After the game, the stadium was as barren as a battlefield where the smoke had cleared, and I walked in vain, and I didn't even know what I was stepping on. It could be grass, it could be a plastic runway, it could be the earth that has sunk into clouds.

"Brother, brother, are you okay?

"Brother, don't cry, I want to cry too."

"Brother, cheer up a little! I'll give you whatever you want, I don't want anything, I just want my brother to be good. I'm so scared, don't ignore me, don't be angry with me......"

"Alright. Go celebrate with your companions. Congratulations. Yue Yin gently pulled Ah Fang away from Lao Ye's side. He kept crying, and Miller and I walked him to the bench, and halfway through he couldn't walk anymore and sat straight on the turf.

"But, sister, is my brother angry with me? Will my brother ignore me......" Ah Fang shivered a little, and looked worriedly at his cousin's head hidden in his knees. At this time, Yue Yin's face was expressionless, just now Peng Jingbai came over and hugged her, she was so calm and comfortable, so strong that she didn't need a little comfort. Maybe I dried my tears in the first half. It could also be because people are like that, being vulnerable when they can be vulnerable, and being tough when they need to be tough.

"Don't be verbose! If you understand your brother, walk away with me! Let him be quiet for a while! "It's the first time I've seen Yue Yin so fierce, and it's still a child younger than himself, "You'll have dinner together in the evening." The next sentence was a little calmer. Ah Fang was obviously stunned, but quickly nodded obediently.

Ye Ruiyang was also called up by her obediently, although she was still wiping her tears, her eyes were in a trance.

Koko, I'm sorry. I...... I want to win my brother. I want mom and dad to see me in ...... Actually, I saw you and Millet celebrating, and I know, do you really want to give your victory to your brother? I, I really want to help you...... I really want to help you make this wish come true. Sorry for thinking too much. I'm sorry, I'm sorry......

No, no, you've been helping me all the time. Good brother, I really appreciate you. You pulled me back to the court, and you've been helping me from the beginning. Don't apologize. I also don't do well, I still make jokes about you a lot, and I'm pretty bad as a friend. And you have always been very reliable, your boss, our little brother. You take good care of us.

Ye Ruiyang, the two of us have quarreled several times. It's all gone. We will always be good brothers. In the future, don't lie on the ground and take the ball over your head in the future. It's too dangerous. Don't try so hard, we'll all be afraid.

The three of us hugged each other for a while, forehead to forehead, feeling the temperature of each other's minds in the sweat that flowed. But Ye Ruiyang is still sad, he will continue to be sad for the next period of time, and he may be even more sad when he thinks about it in the future. I can't make him feel bad, and I'm sad myself. But I knew that my sadness had nothing to do with the missed penalty.

In fact, he was only in tears after the game and really cried when he apologized to me. Crying is always something to be said out loud. And burying your head in another person's arms and crying is the real cry. She said they'd be back later. So Miller and I went to the bench first. The coach and Brother Chuan walked towards us, and the former patted us both on the head. Maybe she thought we were the most reassuring kids, but she didn't comfort us much.

"Waywe. Millet. "My sister followed them closely and stopped beside us.

"It's fine." I put out a smile, twisted my head back, and told her to go and see the people behind us, and not to comfort me now. She looked at me hesitantly, then nodded, and strode forward.

She must have felt like I had grown up at that moment.

"Boss, boss, big brother, just raise your head. Don't cry. If you cry again, your nose will cry crookedly. ”

At one end of the bench sat Xuexue, Mu Zheng and Xu Mu. Xuexue covered his entire face in the clothes he lifted up, and arched his whole body again. Xu Mu grabbed the mask he threw away with one hand and stroked his companion's hair softly. The voice was so gentle that it seemed to be coaxing a child who didn't want to go to kindergarten to pick up his school bag, and my mother and sister had coaxed me to do the same before.

"Hey, the captain and Miller are here." Mu Zheng patted Xuexue's back, with an expectant look in his eyes, as if I was their savior.

"Captain, I'm sorry." His body shrouded in white clothes trembled twice, and he didn't remove the protection in front of him. For some reason, out of instinct, I stepped forward and straightened his upper body, and before he could react, I ripped off his head-covered clothes. He kicked him in the calf, and there was another black mark on the long white sock.

"What are you doing?" His little face was unhappy, but he couldn't get angry, and the question he asked was more like a helpless accusation when the poor little creature was attacked. Like an unreasonable beast, I pounced on him, took him in my arms, and hugged him fiercely.

"I don't like it when people see me crying. But if you want to cry, just cry heartily. Don't hold back. ”

This sentence was like opening a sewer or a floodgate, and Xuexue cried out with a "wow", crying like a child, although his voice finally changed, and gradually leaned towards the emphasis of adults. Hammering me while crying, I don't know how long he hasn't cried like this, crying loud and desperate, maybe the last time he cried like this was the night he mistakenly thought Mu Zheng was dead. That's it, we don't have to say anything, we don't have to say anything, all the loss and bitterness that we swallowed into our stomachs will now be poured out of our eyes.

"Learn. Mu Zheng. And also...... Koko. Sorry, I'm back. ”

Li Bin came to us. At the moment of victory, only he and Ah Fang did not immediately fall into a carnival of celebration.

"Congratulations." Mu Zheng got up and walked towards him, "You finally won the championship, my sister will be happy." ”

"My sister can't see it. If she can see it, she is the happiest......" Li Bin lowered his head and rubbed his fingers again, but after just rubbing it, he suddenly looked up at Mu Zheng again, "She must be the happiest that you are getting better again." ”

"Yes...... It's getting better. We'll all be fine. It is still meaningful for people to live. ”

"I'll beat you next time."

"Don't say that. In the future, they may become comrades-in-arms on the same front. ”

The wind is blowing. We were outside, we didn't need to open the window to see, we could feel.

Captain, I'll be back next week. Can you drop me off? Seeing me approaching, Lukka reluctantly stood up with the help of Leben. Of course, we will all come. Great, thank you, Captain. Although I didn't win the championship, I ...... I don't have any regrets. I'd love to go back with the gold medal. Captain, alas. It's okay, I'm fine. Thank you, thank you Miller. I will always remember you, no matter how far apart you are, whether you can see each other or not. I've been here for a year and I'll never forget it. Once a white， always a white. Captain Cazador till I die.I'm fine, we're both fine. I'm going to have to work hard, and there's a final exam. I want to pass once. Language, yes, yes. Captain, can you teach me? I've heard you can write poetry. Did you say yes? That's great. I don't want to fail once. Thank you, Captain. In return, shall I teach you to read my name? I teach each of you to read. That way, you'll all remember me. [1]

Okay. However, let's put on your socks after applying ice. You can't go barefoot outside.

Miller, don't forget to grab your ball. Obviously helping Yan Xi grope for the painful place on his body, the latter gritted his teeth and said that sentence to Mi Le. He hung his head in response. You're the perfect hat-trick. Yan Xi continued to explain. Left foot, right foot, and head, one goal each in three different positions. You've got to tell them to get the ball. Go to them with your head held high and ask for it, and ask for it with confidence. You are awesome. It's really great. Xixi, you are much better than me, you are the one who carries us forward. Miller sat down and pressed Yan Xi's cheek. Sorry, I didn't hold it in the end. It's okay, you're too tired. Rest, don't run anymore. No. 3 rubbed No. 9's eye socket with the cleanest side of his arm.

Number 6 rummaged frantically in his bag. A piece of paper, we need a piece of paper. There are some things that are always deliberately hiding from XZ when we need it most.

I walked alone to the entrance of the passage. The golden trophies stand on a small platform, with white and light green ribbons tied at the sides. Soon it will be lifted by the man who wears the captain's armband, and the ribbon fluttering in the wind will only be left in one color. I'm so close to it, so close that I can touch it with just a hand. In keeping with the promise we made with our fellow men, none of us touched its sacred shell before we had it. But we are no longer destined to have it, just as the past time is destined to pass. It's right in front of my eyes, but it's someone else's stuff. From an early age, we were taught not to take other people's things.

"Ke Ke...... You okay? ”

It was Zhao Rui who tentatively touched my arm.

"I'm sorry." I finally couldn't hold it anymore and stuck my head on him. It was he who could make me so ashamed.

"It's been a lot of hard work."

"Not at all! Should let you go. ”

'To keep a clean sheet for me is far beyond expectations. You're the only one who can do miracles. We were just a little bit unlucky. ”

"Almost, always, always. Why am I always like this? I don't understand. How many times. My throat was so itchy, I hurriedly turned my head and coughed, and Zhao Rui patted my back several times before I felt better. It's so damn that I feel like I'm going to cough my throat out.

"Am I far behind? It's just a good luck to get here, but in fact, it's not worthy of this stage at all? So, it looks a little bit worse, but it's actually more than that. I stared straight at him.

"Nope. After these two years, you should know your abilities very well. And it's far from the limit, none of us have reached it. Champions are rewards, not proof, and you don't have to get it to show that you ......"

"But second place is nothing! Do you still want to continue to lie to yourself? You're just as sad as I am! I yelled, and then reflexively looked around warily. It's been a long time since I've had a gaffe like this.

"That's right. But......" His voice choked up, and his gaze narrowly ducked to the ground.

"Keco, don't say that."

Approaching a sneak attack, Miller hugged me from behind. His arm was wrapped around my stomach like a constricted belt, causing me to drop all thoughts from head to toe at once, feeling only the tight-fitting palpitation of contact.

"It's me who is bad and keeps saying those things. That's not right. I'm especially competitive...... But it's never like you're useless if you can't do the best. Ke Ke, don't learn from me. 'It's nice to be able to finish it', isn't that what you taught me? Again, let's finish this journey together. Now that the road is finished, we still have to be together. ”

"You don't have to comfort me like that. With or without a championship we will always be together. But I really want to get it. It's really good to think. ”

Perhaps in a person's long life, there are far more frustrations than pride. Throughout history, human resistance has often failed. The wall that can't be crossed, the stone ball that pushes up and falls, the helplessness of life, old age, sickness and death. The loss after hard work makes you feel that there is no way out after struggling, and the life and goals that you get and are disliked are a luxury that others cannot hope for. However, it seems that this is not enough for us to leave life itself behind and curse our existence and destiny.

I know that. But at this moment, it's them that I'm throwing away. Reason is one of the proofs that we have matured from a child, but no matter how much we grow up, we still have emotions. I don't want to hear that anymore, I just want to really get back to my buddies and cry with them. Like now I turned around, left the trophy one step away, and walked back to the bench with Miller. "Failure is the mother of success", "Youth is inherently imperfect", "Youth with regrets is more valuable...... Shut up, I commanded myself. I don't think about those words anymore. They are nothing more than chicken soup for the soul that adults who have succeeded in making up for their regrets. They have long forgotten the bitterness of being empty-handed until tomorrow comes, or that they have not had the experience that I have at all. I was a student under the age of fifteen, naïve and ignorant, with no social experience, and only living in my own narrow little world. The school taught me to study, and I knew that learning was for myself and my loved ones. And the rest of the two years, I've learned a lot more. At the intersection of my childhood and youth, I worked with a group of people to achieve a common goal. It may not be our ideal, nor is it the most important thing to do at this age, but we are united in this and do not hesitate. We gave it our time, it didn't give us the best in return, but we still love it, we still love each other because it's together. We ignore prejudice, forget timidity, endure pain, cross death, suffer ourselves repeatedly like traditional Chinese medicine, persistently salvage and search for bitterness, and never stop steady and light steps. In the last moments, we clad in broken armor and urge our scarred, scrawny horses to shoot towards the imaginary sunset horizon, never looking back, even if our figures will be swallowed up by its great afterglow.

If only I could end this growth with a trophy. A small full stop, and a longer one to come. The future is like the sea, and the future is long. But...... No matter how I think about it, I still can't give up on the trophy left behind me today.

A makeshift podium was set up, and there was a sponsor's billboard behind it. It must have been that we were almost crying, and the coach walked to the center of the crowd. Kids, I know you're sad. I'm the same with me, so I won't say anything superfluous. This is the first time our school has played a final, and it is also the first time in our teachers' lives. Maybe in the future you will have more opportunities and receive much heavier honors than you do today. The future belongs to you, not to mention that each of you is so good. Teacher, she's old. Children in the second year of junior high school, the teacher can no longer accompany you. Don't be sad, it's inevitable. You can't stand still, you always have to grow up, you always have to go to a higher and better platform, and have a life that surpasses our generation. Teachers feel very lucky and happy to be able to accompany each other through these two short years of life. And don't forget that the people who have always supported you are still waiting for you in the stands to return. For the last time, let's wipe away our tears, face them bravely, and thank them for being there from beginning to end. Even when we are in a desperate situation, they will never leave us. When all roads are impassable, there are always relatives and friends waiting for you to return home. No matter how far you go, whether you live well or badly, don't forget them. Then, we went to claim the prize. Don't forget to thank your peers for their help, we are always a family. After the individual awards, we generously went to receive our silver medal. Don't take it off until you leave the field, and accept everything that life and destiny have to offer.

We did so, and everyone went to the stands at No. 1 High School to bow and thank everyone. "Thank you, Chasseurs" and "The children of Jiangdong are talented, and the comeback is unknown", the blue and white banners were unfurled by our relatives, teachers and friends. When I got home, my mom and dad would tell me that they had discussed making banners for us before the game. They did three, and in addition to what we saw that day, there was one to celebrate the win. Win or lose, they always love us, and they thank us for the joy we bring to them before we thank them.

It's a pity that we can bring too little joy. I'm ashamed that I didn't get you to happily pull the flag or the sail-like declaration of victory.

The first award is the best player in the final. For the first time in the history of the Mayor's Cup, the award was given to the losing side. Its winner was Mi Le from Jiangyuan No. 1 Middle School. Quite unexpectedly, he wanted to pull me on stage to accept the award, but after all, the award was his own. To the applause of the audience, he walked up a little dejected, as if he had just woken up from a nap. For the runners-up, the medal ceremony is a long ordeal, and every time you take the stage, it is like uncovering a scar. The sun's intense rays made my temples sore a little, especially when I was on the stage as a goalkeeper in the Team of the Season. Also in the All-Star team was Azzi, who walked himself from the stands to the pitch on crutches. Seeing that Yan Xi was a little unsteady on his feet, he divided the crutches to Yan Xi so that he could hold on, and he was supported by Heming Ming and Aniwar in turn. Also coming down from the stands were Pu Yun and Ah Hua, the latter of whom accepted the award for Yoon Il-young, who was unable to attend. Pu Yun and Mi Le and I gently embraced, this moment was just like that moment, a year later, we exchanged identities, and smiled helplessly at each other in the bitterness. The prize is a certificate and a small gift from the sponsor, mine is a gray rabbit doll. After the end, I gave the rabbit to my sister.

I'm sorry, that's all I can give you. Alright, my brave little brother, my sister will protect you. She took it in her arms, and me.

It's time to find my sister a rabbit again, a rabbit that can jump, and can stand up two ears.

This was followed by the award of the best rookie and the announcement of the best rookie lineup. The sun flipped and pounded on the awning of the bench, steaming and baking the sweat that had dried up and froze us. I was a little drowsy, barely bracing my eyelids to keep an eye on my honored companion. But the heavy pressure pushed the drowsiness in my brain until he sat down next to me with the ball.

"Koko, I'm sorry. That's all I can give you. ”

A ball?

Oh, yes. A ball. There's only one ball in a whole season in a city, and it represents a near-perfect individual performance, and it belongs to the people who are most important to me. Moreover, there is also my own effort behind this personal performance. After 60 minutes of play and a penalty shoot-out, it was still brand new and full of words written in red marker. It is the name of each teammate, Luka's longest, his shortest. And the names of the coaches, and the opponents who can't be forgotten.

"Theory is gray, the tree of life is evergreen", "And death shall have no dominion", the red letters of the two small poems are crowded together, like us crowded together in the past. [2]

I'm not going to lose anything again.

[1] The meaning of these two sentences is "white for one day, white for life" and "I am a hunter and a light cavalry until death".

[2] The previous sentence is from Goethe's Faust. The latter line is from Dylan Thomas's And death shall have no dominion.

Awards

Best Team (433)

Goalkeeper: Ke Peiwei (No. 1 middle)

Defenders: Mi Le (No. 1 Middle School), Chen Yanba (No. 54 Middle School), He Mingming (No. 1 Middle School), Pu Yun (Jiangwai)

Midfielders: Li Bin (54 middle), Yin Rirong (Jiangwai), Huo Yuqi (Li Fu)

Forwards: Yan Xi (No. 1 Middle School), Qiao Li (No. 54 Middle School), Aniwal (Lifu)

Best Newcomer Team (partial): Ye Junfang (No. 54 Middle School), Jiang Xiaofei (No. 1 Middle School), Aniwal (Polytechnic High School), Luka Mihailovic (No. 1 Middle School), Xiao Qi (No. 1 Middle School), He Honghui (No. 1 Middle School)

Best Newcomer: Aniwar Iñayeti (Attached, 11 appearances, 11 starts, 10 goals, 2 assists)

Player of the Final: Miller (1 hit, 3 goals)

Best Player of the Mayor's Cup: Qiao Li (54 Strikes, 10 Appearances, 10 Starts, 9 Goals, 1 Assist), Li Bin (54 Strikes, 11 Appearances, 11 Starts, 6 Goals and 5 Assists)

Golden Boot: Aniwar Inayeti (Lifu, 10 goals)

Assist king: Yan Xi (1 middle, 5 assists), Li Bin (54 middle, 5 assists)

Dark Horse Award: High School Affiliated to Polytechnic University

Sports Ethics Award: Beichuan Middle School, Polytechnic High School, No. 1 Middle School Branch

Special Award of the Organizing Committee: Mu Zheng (No. 1 Middle School), Jiang Xiaofei (Branch), Huo Yuqi (Lifu)

Best Manager: Wang Feng (No. 1 Middle School)

Third runner-up: Colonel Jiang Yuan

Runner-up: Jiang Yuan No. 1 Middle School

Champion: Fifty-four