In the away hotel room, Qin Lin asked his roommate Hu Lai.
He had been observing from the side during the previous training, and he could see that Zhang Qinghuan seemed to have a hard time getting along with Hu Lai. But he couldn't understand that the two people had never interacted before.
"Hey, it's actually not a big deal..." Hu Lai explained. "To put it simply, I acted bravely to help a girl whose heart was broken by a scumbag and a heartless man."
Qin Lin:???
Qin Lin, who was stunned for a few seconds, frowned and said, "Speak humanly!"
"Uh, yes!" Hu Lai then told him that he and Wang Guangwei went to Senwei Road for dinner on Thursday night, and then they met Zhang Qinghuan eating there, and were frightened by a woman who came to the door and ran away.
Qin Lin listened.
After hearing this, Qin Lin frowned and asked, "No, what does it have to do with you if someone picks up a girl and turns her on? Why do you have to get involved?"
Hu Lai curled his lips: "I don't like him."
"Why?" Qin Lin was even more surprised, "Are you jealous that he has many women?"
Hu Lai quickly shook his head: "No, no!"
Then he repeated the reasons he told Wang Guangwei in front of Boss Qin Lin.
"…Obviously he is so talented and has a smooth career in football. His future is unlimited, but he doesn’t know how to cherish it. He spends all his thoughts and energy on women all day long… When I see such a person, I want to tease him.
Let him suffer a little."
Hearing what Hu Lai said, Qin Lin sighed and then said nothing.
Seeing this, Hu Lai was a little uneasy - could it be that the boss didn't agree with my approach? He thought I was nosy and narrow-minded?
So he rolled his eyes and quickly lowered his head and said: "Brother Lin, I was wrong! You are right, no matter what Zhang Qinghuan does, it has nothing to do with me. I shouldn't meddle in other people's business..."
Hu Lai, who was panicking to save his image in front of Qin Lin, heard a chuckle.
"A little advice, Hu Lai. Don't rush to apologize in front of your girlfriend like this. Otherwise, your girlfriend will think that you have done something wrong, and the nature of it will be serious."
Hu Lai raised his head and saw Qin Lin looking at him with a smile. He quickly shook his head: "No, no, Brother Lin. I don't even have a girlfriend, so I can't do anything wrong even if I want to!"
Qin Lin laughed, then stared at Hu Lai with a smile, making him confused: "Brother Lin?"
When Hu Lai called him softly, he noticed that Qin Lin's eyes had clearly refocused and regained their energy.
He shook his head: "What you said is wrong... No, what I said is wrong. If someone had... No, if I could have been as nosy as you, maybe Zhang Qinghuan would not be like this today...
…”
Hu Lai:???
This time it was his turn to have a lot of question marks.
Seeing Hu Lai's confused look, Qin Lin smiled and said, "Did you know that Zhang Qinghuan is called the 'Francis of China'?"
Hu Lai nodded.
"Then do you know that after he first debuted, he was first called 'Qin Lin's successor' by the media?"
Hu Lai shook his head.
"It's normal not to know, because he quickly got the nickname 'Francis of China'. Obviously, Louis Francis is more famous than Qin Lin." At this point, Qin Lin smiled, and then he gave Hu
Lai told his story with Zhang Qinghuan.
"When I first heard the media saying that there was someone who was my successor, I was quite upset, because I was only thirty-three years old at that time, not old yet, so why were they so anxious to find a successor for me? There just wasn't one.
Not long after, the South China Tigers and Tenglong met in the Chinese Super League. At that time, Zhang Qinghuan, who was only 18 years old, started the game as Tenglong's main force. He was the attacking midfielder and I was the defensive midfielder. The two of us happened to face each other in the game.
I'm not specifically responsible for defense, but I did defend him in that game..."
Qin Lin still remembers Zhang Qinghuan's eyes when he faced him on the court, which reminded him of a phrase:
Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.
At that time, Zhang Qinghuan was really exuding an unstoppable aura, and her every move was full of confidence.
Facing Qin Lin's close defense, he could use his heel to pass through the opponent's crotch and make Big Brother spin around.
It also caused the home fans in the Workers' Stadium stands to scream and cheer.
Qin Lin had to take advantage of his physical strength to knock him to the ground from behind and received a yellow card amidst overwhelming boos.
But Zhang Qinghuan, who was stopped by him with a foul, didn't seem angry. Instead, he sat on the ground and smiled at him.
It was also a show of hands, and Qin Lin knew very well that the show of hands and the show of hands he had against Hu Lai on the training ground yesterday had two completely different meanings.
"...Zhang Qinghuan was very confident at that time, but not arrogant. Now Zhang Qinghuan is very arrogant, but no longer confident." Qin Lin said to Hu Lai.
Hu Lai thought deeply about these two sentences.
"We lost this game in the away game, which the media called the 'Dragon-Tiger Fight'. Zhang Qinghuan was elected the best of the match after the game, and he deserved it. He ran tirelessly in the game and kept running on the court.
He looks for loopholes in our defense and assists his teammates with imaginative passes. If there are no loopholes, then he breaks through with the ball, disrupts our defense, and creates loopholes himself... Such a performance certainly deserves the best of the match award.
.Under his leadership, the entire workers' body was like a pot of boiling water. I have observed that during the game, listening to the shouts of Tamron fans, our teammates were obviously not breathing well... and this was all
Zhang Qinghuan caused it alone."
Listening to Qin Lin's description, Hu Lai imagined the scene in his mind. Although he didn't like the current Zhang Qinghuan, he had to admit that the Zhang Qinghuan described by Qin Lin was really handsome...
"After this game, everyone no longer called him my successor, but instead called him 'Francis of China'."
Hu Lai suddenly realized - I bet he earned this nickname from you, the boss...
"After that game, I thought it would be good to let this kid be my successor. Of course, I don't plan to retire yet, but I do have the idea of treating him as my successor and training him. But we are not in the same club.
I never met him at all. Only in the national team... Not long after, he was selected for the national team training list for the first time. When we were assigned a room, he and I lived in the same room. It was my initiative.
"We talked about a lot of things, and I had a very good relationship with him during that time. Although we each had our own masters in the club, when we got to the national team, we both had only one goal - to win glory for the country. I really thought about it at the time,
After he matured quickly, I partnered with him in the midfield, I controlled the rhythm from behind, and he organized the offense from the front. The Chinese team may not be able to participate in the World Cup at the end of this year..."
The 2022 World Cup will still be held in Qatar in this time and space, and it will be held in December at the end of the year.
But the World Cup qualifiers are all over.
In the qualifiers without Qin Lin, the Chinese team stumbled into the final twelve, but failed to successfully qualify.
Listening to what Qin Lin said now, Hu Lai thought that the boss should have never thought about giving up participating in this World Cup qualifier. As a result, he did not even participate in the top 40 this time. In the Asian Cup in early 2019
Then he retired from the national team.
If Zhang Qinghuan had not become what he is now and everything went according to the boss's plan, would the Chinese team with him and Zhang Qinghuan really be able to appear in the Qatar World Cup at the end of the year?
But there are no ifs in real life. Zhang Qinghuan failed to grow into what everyone expected. Qin Lin also left sadly after the Asian Cup. The Chinese national team once again missed the World Cup finals.
As a Chinese football fan, Hu Lai feels saddened by this reality.
"...But you also know what happened later." Seeing that Hu Lai seemed a little depressed, Qin Lin smiled. "Zhang Qinghuan has set many records in the national team. For example, he is the youngest player in the history of the men's national team.
, the youngest goal scorer, and the player with the most appearances for the national team before the age of 20 - many players before the age of 20 are still in the National Youth Team or the National Olympic Team, and he has already played eight times for the adult national team.
He has an appearance record. However, he has not been selected for the national team once after he turned 20. He was removed from the national team because of drunk driving. In fact, even if he had not been drunk, based on his performance and condition, the national team would not have wanted him..."
Now, Zhang Qinghuan, who will turn 23 in January next year, still has a record of eight appearances for the national team.
Twenty-three years old is the deadline for a player to participate in the Olympics. Players under this age will also be regarded as young people. For example, the Chinese Super League has a "u23" policy, which stipulates that each team must have an eighteen-man roster.
Three players under the age of 23 are selected, one of whom must start. At the same time, it is required that at least one player under the age of 23 plays for no less than 60 minutes in a game.
It's just to develop young players.
The fact that players under the age of 23 can still be regarded as young players is not a special situation in Chinese football, but is the case across the world.
The reason why Zhao Kangming still couldn't let go of Zhang Qinghuan and loaned him out from the capital Tenglong was because Zhang Qinghuan was not yet twenty-three at that time, and in his eyes, Zhang Qinghuan was still a malleable talent.
As he grows older, if Zhang Qinghuan cannot change, his future may be determined.
Many people will no longer look at him as a young player, will no longer believe that he may improve in the future, and will not tolerate his mistakes. After all, no one will give him special treatment after he is no longer young.
People will no longer label Zhang Qinghuan as a "star of tomorrow" or a "genius".
After the first meeting in the league, Zhang Qinghuan and Qin Lin also played against each other four times in the league. In terms of team results, Qin Lin won three times, Zhang Qinghuan won twice, and the remaining five times.
The next time it was a draw. But in terms of individual duels, Zhang Qinghuan only won that one time, and Qin Lin won the remaining four times.
As an opponent with direct dialogue on the court, Qin Lin really watched Zhang Qinghuan go from a genius who was full of aura and swayed freely on the court to a walking zombie who was so confused that he seemed to be sleepwalking on the court.
"I have thought before whether I should persuade him as a person who has been through it. But I also thought that if others go their own way, what does it have to do with me? What qualifications and position do I have to ask others to follow my ideas?
Life? Otherwise, why don't I restrain all my teammates in the South China Tigers first?" At this point, Qin Lin shook his head and said. "Now I feel that I did something wrong at the beginning, and I shouldn't care what others say, I should just put it in my hands.
Zhang Qinghuan pulled him out of the quagmire. No matter what he thought, his path was wrong, and he should not go on the wrong path."
Hu Lai saw Qin Lin blaming himself and wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know what to say. Could it be that you didn't do anything wrong at the beginning, boss?
In fact, Hu Lai also felt that since Qin Lin had a good relationship with Zhang Qinghuan and was his senior, why couldn't he try to persuade him? Let's not talk about whether the persuasion was useful. How could you know it was useless if you didn't even try to persuade him? At that time, Zhang Qinghuan
The sinking is not deep yet, maybe I can persuade you to come back with some advice?
Just like when the boss was young.
I was taken to the nightclub by my "second brother" for three days, and I was so happy that I couldn't even think about it. Under such circumstances, I was given a slap in the face by my "second brother". Didn't I suddenly wake up?
Seeing Hu Lai's silence, Qin Lin suddenly said: "Hu Lai, please don't take the wrong path. You have talent and an outstanding personality. Sometimes I am really worried that you will not be able to withstand temptation... and you
It was also my initiative to stay in the same room before the game."
"Ah?" Hu Lai was a little surprised.
"I want to keep an eye on you to prevent you from learning bad things. I failed to keep an eye on Zhang Qinghuan at the beginning, and I don't want to make the same mistake again."
Hu Lai raised his head and looked at Qin Lin, who was almost old enough to be his father, and found that his expression was quite serious, and it definitely didn't look like he was joking.
So he also said solemnly: "Don't worry, Brother Lin, I finally got the opportunity to play football, and I will never be as stupid as Zhang Qinghuan. For Zhang Qinghuan, some things come too easily.
That’s why he doesn’t know how to cherish. And the things he doesn’t know how to cherish are hard-won for me. I didn’t pay so much to come here just to mess around.”
Hearing what Hu Lai said, Qin Lin smiled and nodded: "Go to sleep, tomorrow's game will not be easy."