Dai Zetao took his ID card back from the self-service ticket machine and took out the printed boarding pass from the machine's ticket outlet.
Then he stood aside and gave up his position to the people in line behind him.
He carefully collected his ID card and boarding pass and put them into his inner pocket.
After doing all this, he did not rush to the security checkpoint, but looked around the departure hall of the terminal.
As the airport of the third largest city in the country, it is still very busy even though it is not a holiday.
As a scout for Anton Star Club, he has finished his work here and is about to say goodbye to this city at this moment.
Looking at the hurried crowd in front of him, he felt a little melancholy.
His mission ultimately failed.
He failed to persuade Hu Lai to join his team Shining Stars.
Even though he mentioned the term "hometown team", he still failed to impress Hu Lai.
Even when he mentioned the advantage of being "close to home", Hu Lai suddenly shook his head firmly. This made Dai Zetao wonder if he had said something wrong...
In addition, Flash Star is the only low-level league team among all the teams interested in Hu Lai, so its attractiveness is naturally not as good as other competitors.
He was quickly defeated.
Later I heard that Hu Lai signed a contract with Poseidon, another local professional football club in Lingnan City, and became a member of the youth team of this Chinese Super League club.
The Poseidon team is not a strong team in the Chinese Super League and does not have any impressive past results, but it is still considered a mid-range team and its performance has been very stable.
Since being promoted to the Chinese Super League seven years ago, it has been in this position. It is difficult to win the championship, but the risk of relegation is not great.
Poseidon's youth training director, former international player Zhao Kangming, personally came to contact Hu Lai. It is said that Zhao Kangming was very optimistic about Hu Lai's talent and told him in detail the club's training plan for him, which impressed Hu Lai.
, finally made him choose this football club in Lingnan City.
Even as a competitor, Dai Zetao had to admit that Hu Lai made the right choice.
Because Poseidon Football Club in Lingnan City is really good at training young players, or to be precise, Zhao Kangming is really good at training young players.
After retiring in 2010, this legendary international player has been engaged in the training of echelon players at the Poseidon Club where he played before retiring. From an ordinary grassroots youth training coach, he has reached the current club youth training step by step.
director.
He has trained many outstanding players. According to media statistics, three of the players he trained eventually became players for the Chinese national team. Currently, there are as many as sixteen of his current "disciples" active in the Chinese Super League.
Among the clubs, there is an average of one per team. As for the Chinese League One and Chinese League Two, there are even more.
For Chinese football, which has not paid much attention to youth training before, this can be said to be a very impressive youth training result.
If such a person who is good at cultivating young players persuades Hu Lai to join, how can Dai Zetao and the shining stars behind him be able to fight back?
Not to mention them, other clubs are also out of luck - Poseidon's local rivals, the South China Tigers, are tit for tat, showing that they must take Hu Lai to the South China Tigers.
But everyone knows that they just want to disgust Poseidon Club. After all, the business philosophy of South China Tigers Club is completely different from Poseidon Club. They prefer to spend huge sums of money to recruit famous and famous stars instead of focusing on youth training in a small business-not that South China Tigers Club
Tigers don't pay attention to it, but they do too, but they don't pay more attention to it than Poseidon.
Putting aside the different positions, Dai Zetao believes that Hu Lai joining Poseidon is a good thing for both parties, and it is a win-win situation.
After Poseidon hibernates, he concentrates on honing his skills and improving himself. In two years, Hu Lai will probably be able to make a name for himself in Chinese professional football - Dai Zetao is now very optimistic about Hu Lai's future - but this also means that
As a result, he and Flash Star Club will drift apart:
A young player who is on the rise can play in a Chinese Super League team, so why should he go to a Chinese League One team?
Thinking of this, Dai Zetao sighed with complicated emotions.
He hopes that Hu Lai's future will get better and better, but this means that Flash Star cannot have Hu Lai.
Isn't it nice to be close to home?
Now Jincheng and Dongchuan are half an hour away by high-speed rail. If you want to go home, you can buy a high-speed rail ticket to go back to visit your parents at any time.
Isn’t it better than wandering alone in this distant southern city?
Dai Zetao shook his head, pulled up his suitcase, turned around and walked towards the security checkpoint.
At this moment, he heard a burst of cheers and screams coming from the entrance of Gate 10 of the terminal building, and a uniform female voice shouted: "Chen Xingyi! Chen Xingyi! You are the best
, Chen Xingyi!"
Dai Zetao looked back and realized that it was Shuguang High School who was about to return.
The screams were all made by Chen Xingyi's fans. They looked so energetic. It seemed that Shuguang High School didn't win the championship and Chen Xingyi didn't win the golden boot, so it didn't affect their mood...
Dai Zetao chuckled in his heart, looked away, and continued walking towards the security checkpoint.
The hustle and bustle behind it had nothing to do with him, and it wasn't worth his while. But those who stopped and looked around out of curiosity might be able to save him from queuing in the security check channel for a while.
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Although the finals of the national competition ended the day before yesterday, the players of the Shuguang High School team who set off back to Tangdu today have not yet recovered from the frustration of losing the championship.
No matter how enthusiastic the people who came to see him off were, it couldn't make them feel better at all.
Many people lowered their heads and did not even raise their heads or glance at the fans when they squeezed through the crowd.
Of course, they don't look at these fans, and it's not just because they didn't win the championship and they feel ashamed to see the fans.
Mainly because these people are fans of Chen Xingyi, not theirs.
It should be Chen Xingyi who responds to them.
It's just that these fans who come here specifically to see off their idols are destined to be disappointed.
Because their idol is not in this Akebono High School team.
In fact, Chen Xingyi took the earliest flight to Dashun and left early this morning.
Accompanied by his father, he went directly to the Golden Arrow Football Club in Dashun, where a press conference was held specifically to welcome him.
Apart from Chen Xingyi and his father, and Xue Chaoyu, the general manager of Golden Arrow Football Club, no one else knows about this matter. Even Sun Yonggang and his camera crew don't know about it, so Chen Xingyi's fans
Of course we don't know this either.
When they rushed to the airport with their fan team to see off their idol, they realized that they had missed the opportunity - after all the Shuguang High School players passed in front of them, they also realized that Chen Xingyi was not among them.
A group of people looked at each other with huge disappointment.
They never figured out why they didn't see Chen Xingyi when they were picked up at the airport for this national competition, and they still didn't see it when they came to see him off at the airport. They still don't know what happened to Chen Xingyi in the first place.
He bypassed their pursuit and disappeared from the airport. Could it be that he could teleport?
What made them feel even more painful was that Chen Xingyi was obviously avoiding them on purpose.
But why would he do this?
They are his fans. How can any idol in this world hide from his fans?
Fans looked around and saw that many young girls were emotionally unstable and wiping away tears. Some were even angry because Chen Xingyi deliberately avoided them. She and other administrators quickly reassured people: "Don't be too demanding, everyone.
I think Xingzi must be in a bad mood because he lost the final, and he doesn’t want us to see him feeling lost... We have to understand him."
"Sister, you are right. Since we can know Xingzi when he is at his most glorious, we must also be able to stay with him when he is at his lowest and most depressed! Continue to be by his side!" An administrator immediately echoed.
, and used high-profile slogans to revive everyone's spirit.
"Everyone please let Xing Zai be quiet during this period, and we will also wait for his re-emergence. I believe that real fans of Xing Zai will not leave him just because of his low profile. We Xing Zai will be fine if we don't fly.
, soar into the sky, it’s nothing more than a cry, it’s a blockbuster!”
Thanks to the words of the fans and administrators, everyone's mood was finally revived, and the voices that complained about Chen Xingyi disappeared.
Since Chen Xingyi is not here, there is no need for them to stay here and be watched by others.
So one by one they packed their things and prepared to leave.
But at this moment, they saw another group of people walking in from door No. 10, wearing uniform sports coats.
It was their idol's opponents in the final - all members of the Dongchuan Middle School football team!
They actually returned at this time.
Many people began to search for their targets in the crowd.
They found it quickly.
Some people couldn't help but booed when they saw that face.
If the first person does this, there will be a second person, a third person...and more people.
The boos soon sounded on the departure floor of the terminal. This sudden momentum attracted more people's attention than their cheers just now. Many people turned their surprised eyes to them, not understanding what was happening.
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Hu Lai was walking and talking to Zhao Kangming, the youth training director of Poseidon Club, when he suddenly heard a burst of boos.
The two people who were interrupted raised their heads in surprise and looked in the direction where the boos came from.
After just one glance, Hu Lai laughed - he was a fan of Chen Xingyi!
These people didn't boo themselves enough in the stadium stands...
When Zhao Kangming saw this scene, he immediately figured out what was going on, so he also laughed: "Your ability to attract hatred has caught up with mine. I think I was sent off with a red card in that top 40 game.
After that, for a whole year, I could hear boos and curses every time I was recognized on the street..."
Hu Lai raised his head and said: "The good is better than the old!"
Zhao Kangming glared: "What is there to be proud of?"
Then he couldn't hold it back and burst into laughter.
Li Ziqiang, who was in the team, heard Zhao Kangming's laughter and couldn't help but cast his eyes at them both.
Although they have known each other for a short time, it is obvious that Hu Lai and Zhao Kangming, two people with a huge age difference, get along well with each other and they feel like old friends at first sight.
Some people say that professional players choose a team rather than a coach. In a sense, Li Ziqiang agrees with this view.
Being able to select a youth training director who admires him personally, Hu Lai's future with the Poseidons should be more optimistic than Luo Kai's last year.
On my side, Dongchuan Middle School has only one core every year. Although there is no problem in participating in the national competition as the defending champion, it may be difficult to successfully defend the title...
He shook his head. It would have been difficult to successfully defend the title, but it wasn't necessarily because of the absence of Hu Lai.
After sending Hu Lai to the place where he exchanged his boarding pass and checked in his luggage, Zhao Kangming patted Hu Lai on the shoulder: "Okay, I'll send you here. I'll pick you up here when you come back!"
"Okay, I will be back as soon as possible, Director Zhao."
Amid harsh boos, the two shook hands and said goodbye, meeting to see each other again.
When Hu Lai looked back, he could still see Zhao Kangming standing there looking at him.
He quickly smiled and waved to Zhao Kangming, but after he withdrew his gaze and turned around, his expression suddenly turned dark.
He thought about how he would have to convince his father when he went back this time. This would be a very difficult task, probably even more difficult than winning the national championship.
How to prove it?
That system didn't even issue any tasks on the matter...
I wonder if winning a national competition can add some persuasion, and whether being the top scorer and best player in a national competition can give him more confidence in front of his father?