Old principal Zhai Guangming stood in the inner room of the school's honor exhibition hall and said to the crew of Anton TV: "This is also an honor room, but it is completely different from the honor room outside. Because there is only one kind of honor in it -
—The honors Dongchuan Middle School has received in football. Because our Dongchuan Middle School is a traditional strong school in football and has too many honors in football, we have specially arranged an honor room for separate display."
He was very proud and proud when he said this.
Of course he also has this confidence.
After saying these words, he took a step aside, revealing the glass display case in the center of the honor room that had been blocked behind him.
A glittering golden trophy appeared in the glass cabinet. Under the spotlight, it showed its beauty to the people in the room and the camera lens from 360 degrees.
Under the trophy, there is a metal nameplate placed in the cabinet, which reads:
Champion of the 7th National High School Football Championship in 2021 Dongchuan Middle School of Andong Province
The old principal Zhai Guangming looked at the trophy with extremely gentle eyes.
The cameraman carried heavy equipment and tried his best to keep the camera angle as balanced as possible and took a circle around the cabinet to take in all the details of the national competition championship trophy. Then he put down the camera and signaled to everyone that he would take the picture.
alright.
Chen Jianyu quickly said: "Okay, then we won't disturb you, old principal. We are going to interview the team next..."
Principal Zhai smiled and nodded: "You go ahead. The school has already said hello to the team. They will definitely cooperate with your work."
The group packed up their equipment, said goodbye to the old principal, and walked out of the building.
As soon as they came out, they couldn't help complaining: "It's understandable to take pictures of the national championship trophy. After all, it was the only national championship that Hu Lai led the team to win. But why did the old principal insist on dragging us to win from them?
Starting from the introduction of the first Anton Cup champion, what does those champions in the 1980s and 1990s have to do with Hu Lai?"
Chen Jianyu said with a smile: "The old principal introduced us to us all the honors won by the Dongchuan Middle School football team as treasures. If we want to understand Hu Lai's past experience, the high school he attended cannot be ignored. The high school's
Many things will definitely have an impact on his character and ideological shaping. For example, we now know that it was this middle school's emphasis on football that allowed Hu Lai to really come into contact with football training after attending this high school. Change to another school.
Without such an environment in school, professional player Hu Lai might not have appeared at all..."
"That's true. When I was in high school, there was no national high school football competition, and our school didn't pay much attention to football... Seeing the dazzling array of trophies, certificates and banners in the honor room of Dongchuan Middle School, people thought
These things are proudly displayed as very important honors, which is quite enviable. With such an environment, it is really not surprising that Hu Lai, who is a halfway monk, can be created..."
The director on the film crew said with emotion.
After listening to the director's words, Chen Jianyu also added: "Yes. Although we are giving chicken soup, giving chicken soup must also pay attention to the actual situation and cannot be given indiscriminately. Without a suitable environment, dreams will only be dreams and cannot be realized.
The dream is meaningless. The reason why Hu Lai was able to enter "Characters" is definitely not only because he had a dream, but more importantly, he had a dream and realized it. A dream that cannot be realized and can only be talked about with his mouth.
That’s too common, too cheap, and has no publicity value.”
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When Chen Jianyu led the camera crew into the stadium of Dongchuan Middle School, the school team was training on the field.
Although it is still summer vacation and school has not started yet, the training camp for the Dongchuan Middle School football team has already begun.
Everyone immediately set up the machines and started working.
The school did greet Li Ziqiang. After he turned around and saw this scene, he did not stop them. Instead, he yelled at the players who were looking at the sidelines: "What are you doing? Concentrate! Be careful not to lose face."
Get on the TV!”
When he said this, the teenagers no longer dared to be half-hearted. They all worked up tenfold during training, hoping to show their best side and then be able to point to themselves on TV and show off to their relatives and friends.
Fan.
But at the same time, they are also very curious - the Anton Cup has not started yet, and the national competition has ended long ago. Why are there reporters who come to interview and look at the logos on their uniforms?
, it’s actually from Taiwan Province…
What did they come to take pictures of?
The answer will soon be revealed.
After the training, Xia Xiaoyu was called over by Li Ziqiang and introduced to Chen Jianyu and the others: "Xia Xiaoyu, he will be a senior in high school when school starts. He is the captain of the team. You can ask him about Hu Lai."
It turned out that he was here for Team Hu.
Chen Jianyu stood next to the camera lens and said to Xia Xiaoyu with a smile: "Don't be nervous, classmate Xiaoyu. We are from the program team of Anton TV's "Character Chronicles" and are filming a profile of Hu Lai. We want to know more about what he did in high school.
Some situations when you were a player. You and Hu Lai once participated in the national competition together in the Dongchuan Middle School team. As former teammates, what kind of person do you think Hu Lai is?"
Xia Xiaoyu glanced at the huge camera lens. It looked much bigger than a SLR camera...
Then he said: "Captain Hu, he is a very interesting and powerful person...and speaking of it, I came to Dongchuan Middle School entirely because of him!"
Hearing what Xia Xiaoyu said, Chen Jianyu became interested: "Oh? Why?"
"Actually, when I was in the third grade of junior high school, I was originally going to Jiaxiang High School in Jincheng, but my cousin took me to watch an Anton Cup final. It was Jiaxiang High School versus Dongchuan Middle School, and I was there.
I saw Team Hu in that game... After watching that game, I made up my mind to come to Dongchuan Middle School to study, join the Dongchuan Middle School football team, and play football with Team Hu..."
Xia Xiaoyu told Chen Jianyu the past events of that year.
Chen Jianyu nodded from time to time, listening very fascinated.
Being able to make a football boy decide to be his teammate just after seeing his game... Hu Lai's high school football career is more interesting than what he knows and masters...
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After Xia Xiaoyu finished the interview, he returned to the locker room and found that many of his teammates had not left.
When they saw the captain coming back, they swarmed towards him: "Team Xia, Team Xia! Are the reporters here to interview you?"
"Xiaoyu, what did the reporter ask you?"
Facing the teammates of Curious Baby, Xia Xiaoyu raised his hands and said loudly: "They are indeed here to interview me, but they are not here for me. They are here to make a documentary for Team Hu!"
The locker room became quiet, everyone looked at each other, and then they all suddenly realized.
"Ah, that makes sense. Let me just say, how could a reporter go to find Xiaoyu..."
"Damn it, Chen Rui, what do you mean?" Xia Xiaoyu stretched out his hand and hugged Chen Rui's stubby neck.
"No, no, what I mean is that Captain Hu performed so well in Flash Star, it's normal for the media to come and take pictures of him..." Chen Rui quickly explained.
Ever since Hu Lai transferred from the Poseidon Youth Team to Flash Star, he has returned to everyone's attention.
Former teammates, as well as people who didn't have the opportunity to be teammates with Hu Lai, are all paying attention to this most legendary figure in the history of the Dongchuan Middle School football team.
They all watched Hu Lai's performance after playing in the Stars game. After every game of Stars, what everyone talked about most was Hu Lai's performance.
Did Team Hu score a goal? How beautiful was Team Hu's movement before scoring? Did Team Hu flop the ball... No, this issue was not discussed. Team Hu's fall must have been a foul by the opponent's player. This
Need to discuss?!
Shen Yulin suddenly asked: "Xiaoyu, do you know when Captain Hu's program will be broadcast?"
Xia Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment: "I forgot to ask..."
"Ah -" there was a sigh in the locker room.
"Hey, no, I know when it will be broadcast." Xia Xiaoyu said again. "They are from the program team of "People's Chronicles", and next Wednesday is the time when the new issue of "People's Chronicles" will be broadcast!"
""Characters"?"
"Holy shit, Captain Hu is awesome! Can he be in "Characters"?!"
"Team Xia is also awesome. Team Xia has also appeared in "Characters"..."
"If you want to put it this way, they filmed all our training just now, and we are all in "Character Magazine"!"
"Haha! I want to go back and tell my parents about this!"
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Before the players returned to the locker room, they moved all the training facilities back to the equipment room. When they returned to the locker room, the football field became empty, with only the "People Chronicles" camera crew and head coach Li Ziqiang remaining.
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Chen Jianyu listened to the frolicking coming from the direction of the locker room and said to Li Ziqiang with a smile: "As Hu Lai's first coach, Director Li, please let us go back to your office for the interview, or just here?"
Li Ziqiang pondered for a while and asked: "Is it okay to shoot elsewhere?"
Chen Jianyu did not expect that the interviewee would make such a request. He looked back at the well-equipped camera crew and nodded: "Does Director Li want to be interviewed elsewhere? Of course."
"Then I will take you to a place."
After saying that, Li Ziqiang turned around and left.
Chen Jianyu quickly called for the entire film crew to follow him.
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Standing in a small open space overgrown with grass, listening to the chirping of insects in the grass, Chen Jianyu and the film crew members around him looked around, feeling a little confused:
Where are we?
What are we doing here?
Standing in the center of the field, Li Ziqiang's feet had the fewest and shortest weeds, because that was where Hu Lai had repeatedly trampled.
"I am not his first coach, Hu Lai's first coach is himself." He said to the confused Chen Jianyu, "The football genius in your eyes can only face that wall alone on this wasteland at first.
Play football."
Chen Jianyu looked in the direction of Li Ziqiang's finger and vaguely saw a thin white line on the uneven blue-gray stone wall, crookedly and crookedly outlining the shape of a goal...
The other members of the film crew stared dumbfounded at the area that was almost submerged in weeds.
The purpose of their program is "It's never too late to start pursuing your dreams." They want to tell TV viewers that as long as you have a dream, you can start wherever and whenever you want.
But they never expected that the place where Hu Lai's football dream started would be so... unbearable.
Chen Jianyu stood there blankly, looking at the scene in front of him. Somehow, this sentence suddenly came to his mind: