Hu Lai found that no matter whether it was in the national competition when he was a student, or in the Poseidon Youth Team, the Flash Stars first team, or even in the national training base, the restaurants provided buffets and the way of eating was similar.
It's just that some places look more like school cafeterias, with stainless steel plates serving food, while others use ordinary dinner plates and bowls to serve rice.
The national training base may be because it often receives officials from teams from various countries, football associations, and even the AFC and FIFA. Whether it is the restaurant decoration or facilities, it is more like a serious hotel than a canteen.
The floor is covered with gorgeous but slightly old-fashioned carpets, the walls are covered with light yellow wallpaper, and there are many tassels on the curtains. The tables, chairs, benches, and the bar are all made of mahogany.
It's more sophisticated than many Chinese restaurants in five-star hotels.
After he and Wang Guangwei picked up their meals with three friends they had just met, they went to eat at a round table where only two people were seated.
When he came up to him, Wang Zijian asked the other party: "Hello, is there anyone else at this table?"
The two people on the other side raised their heads, looked at the five people opposite, and shook their heads: "No."
"Then let's sit here." Wang Zijian asked others to sit down and eat. He himself took the initiative to introduce himself to the other party and got in touch: "Hello, my name is Wang Zijian. I play as a winger and come from Yunyang Phoenix. This one
It’s Song Kun, he is the goalkeeper and plays for the Nanjiarui Lions. Sun Gang plays as a full-back and plays for the Meiling Rangers. And this is..."
When he introduced Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei, he was interrupted by the other party: "We know that Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei from Anton Shining Star."
"Huh? Do you know them both?" Wang Zijian was surprised.
"Both of our teams have played against Flash Star, how could we not know about them?" The two freshmen who arrived first looked at Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei and said.
"Ha! What a coincidence!" Hu Lai laughed quickly, "Which team are you from?"
A tall, strong man on the left said: "Li Chengwu, from Heihe Polaris, midfielder."
The equally tall but thin man on the right said: "Liu Jinge, Lingnan Nanhai, full-back."
Wang Zijian noticed that the smile on Hu Lai's face was a little stiff.
"Pfft!" Sun Gang next to him suddenly laughed, "Haha! It's true that enemies never get together!"
Both Wang Zijian and Song Kun looked at him curiously.
Sun Gang pointed at Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei and said to his two friends: "Last season in the Chinese Premier League, the Nanhai team lost the qualification to advance to the Super League at their home court. The initiator was Hu Lai. He scored a very beautiful goal...
"
He was interrupted by Hu Lai before he finished speaking: "The initiator is Zhang Qinghuan! Ninety-nine percent of the credit for that ball should be attributed to Zhang Qinghuan!"
Song Kun also remembered: "Ah! Are you talking about Zhang Qinghuan's world-class assist? I saw it later and it was indeed beautiful!"
Sun Gang said with a smile: "That goal directly shattered Nanhai's Super Dream."
Li Chengwu, who remained silent after introducing himself, said: "When Hu Lai was playing against our Heihe Polar Stars, he helped their Flash Stars win a controversial penalty kick..."
Although he didn't go into details, everyone knows what "controversial" means, that is, the team that got the penalty kick insisted that the other side committed a foul, while the penalty kicker insisted that the winning side was diving...
Wang Zijian felt ridiculous that he could find Hu Lai's enemies at any random table, or two of them!
He turned to look at Hu Lai, wanting to say that you are so popular!
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became awkward.
Looking at this scene, Liu Jinge laughed: "Isn't it right? Do you think we are here to raise an army to punish you?"
Li Chengwu, who had always been expressionless, also said: "We are not the kind of narrow-minded people."
Wang Zijian breathed a sigh of relief and called everyone to sit down: "That's right, we are all teammates now."
Just when they sat down to eat, they heard a slight commotion coming from the direction of the door.
There were exclamations and discussions.
Everyone at this table looked around and found four people walking in the door.
It’s women’s football!
"I remembered, we were training together with the women's football team," Wang Zijian said.
"Women's football team?" Liu Jinge suddenly became excited, "Isn't that right?"
"Yes, Li Qingqing is here too." Wang Zijian certainly knew what the other party was thinking.
Then they saw Li Qingqing among the four...
"I'll go..." Liu Jinge exclaimed, "She's much more beautiful in person than in the photos! Goddess Qingqing!"
Although the others remained silent, their performance was not much better than his. Li Chengwu, who had been expressionless before, also widened his eyes.
Li Qingqing, who was coming from the door, noticed the people at the table. She looked at them with a smile, and then she saw that familiar face in the crowd, so the smile on her face became even wider.
Seeing Li Qingqing's gaze and blooming smile, six of the seven people at the table turned their heads, and their heads turned like sunflowers following Li Qingqing.
Of course, they were definitely not the only ones in the restaurant who did this. Others were similar to them. When Li Qingqing went to get her meal, some people even turned their bodies so that they could always see her.
There is only one person who is the calmest among these people.
Hu Lai didn't stare at Li Qingqing. He just showed a surprised expression when Li Qingqing just walked into the restaurant. Then he lowered his head and took out his mobile phone and sent a WeChat message to Li Qingqing: "Why didn't you tell me that you were coming to training?"
Under the gaze of everyone, Li Qingqing lowered her head, picked up her phone, and smiled with her eyes rolled.
I don’t know how many young people fell into this scene.
"Ah, I'm dead!" Wang Zijian sighed softly.
"Ah, I'm dead!" Song Kun pressed his heart.
"Ah, I'm dead too..."
In the Awei graveyard, Hu Lai received a WeChat message from Li Qingqing: "I want to give you a surprise! Besides, I knew you were coming, why didn't you know I was coming? Huh?"
Hu Lai looked at the cell phone with a look, and then replied: "This is about the injustice in this society. The women's football team has such good results, but the attention is far less than that of the men's football team. The news exposure of the women's national team training is not as good as that of the national team."
Olympic team! What’s wrong with this society? Can it get better? When I think of this, I can’t help but tremble with anger. My whole body is sweating in cold weather, and my hands and feet are cold!”
"Wow, Qingqing smiled again! What made her so happy?"
Next to Hu Lai, those guys who only had eyes for Li Qingqing were talking in low voices.
"I don't know, who are you chatting with when you are looking at your phone?"
"Let me go, who can make Qingqing chat so happily? It makes people envious and jealous!"
"Don't think blindly, maybe you saw something interesting?"
"If Goddess Qingqing could smile like that at me, I would be happy to die right now!"
Li Qingqing didn't know what the players of the Olympic team were talking about her. She was lowering her head and replying on her mobile phone: "But it's not a hot day now!"
She had just finished replying when she heard the club captain Shi Yuehua curiously ask her: "Qingqing, don't you want to pick up the meal?"
"Oh, if you want to get it, get it." Li Qingqing then put away her phone and followed her teammates to get the dinner plate.
When Hu Lai saw that Li Qingqing had gone to get food, he stopped chatting with her. Instead, he put away his cell phone and said to his useless teammates: "Don't you all eat?"
Wang Zijian stretched out his hand and said, "It's beautiful and delicious!"
"Haha, I'll eat first." Hu Lai lowered his head to eat.
Wang Zijian came to his senses at this time. He turned to look at Hu Lai: "Hu Lai, aren't you? Qingqing walked in front of you, can you still eat?"
Hu Lai was surprised: "Why can't you eat it? Isn't Li Qingqing so ugly that it's off-putting?"
"You are not allowed to talk about my Qingqing goddess like that!" Liu Jinge, who just didn't care that Hu Lai shattered their dream of reaching the Super League, glared at Hu Lai.
"Okay, okay, I take it back. Li Qingqing is so beautiful that I can eat two more bowls of rice!" Hu Lai raised his hand and made an oath, then picked up the bowl and put rice into his mouth. It seemed that he really felt his appetite when he saw Li Qingqing.
It's like it's wide open.
Wang Guangwei also shook his head: "Let's eat. You can't really fill your stomach by watching."
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"Xinyan, what did you do in training today? You were absent-minded."
On the Shanhailanyue training ground, Guan Xinyan was left behind after the training.
Gao Cheng, the team's Chinese coaching staff leader, frowned and stared at Guan Xinyan seriously.
The young man he was staring at lowered his head and said nothing.
"What are you thinking about? Don't think that if you scored six goals in the league last season, your tail will be in the sky. Let me tell you, if you don't work hard, you won't be able to score a single goal this season!" Gao Chenghao
You're welcome, that's very direct.
Guan Xinyan quickly defended: "I'm not, Director Gao, that's not what I meant..."
"Then what do you mean? Are you worried?"
Guan Xinyan nodded: "I want to go to the East Asian Cup."
Gao Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then figured out why Guan Xinyan was absent-minded during training today.
In this U22 training camp, Guan Xinyan was not recruited.
In fact, U22 head coach Shi Wuyuan communicated with the Blue Moon Club about this matter. He said that Guan Xinyan performed well in the team last season. For him, the next Chinese Super League season is very critical. In order to allow him to concentrate on preparing for the new season
season, so we won’t take him to the East Asian Cup this time. Anyway, judging from his position in the Olympic team, as long as he is not injured, he will definitely be able to participate in next year’s U23 Asian Cup, which is the Olympic qualifier.
The club feels that the Football Association has considered it very carefully. In fact, they do not want this young man who they have high hopes to play in the irrelevant East Asian Cup to become exhausted and miss the team's pre-season training, thereby affecting the entire team.
season performance.
After Guan Xinyan played well in the team last season, the club was very happy and immediately listed him as a key training target.
Everyone thinks that not letting Guan Xinyan play in the East Asian Cup is to protect him and for his better growth.
But now it seems that Guan Xinyan doesn't appreciate it.
Gao Cheng smiled: "What are you doing? Didn't I already tell you? There is no point in you playing in the East Asian Cup. What you should do now is to perform well in the league and strive to reach a higher level. Next year's U23
The Asian Cup is the stage for you to perform."
"I know, Director Gao... I'm just a little unwilling." Guan Xinyan lowered his head and said reluctantly.
"Sometimes being too competitive is not a good thing. You have to give other young people a chance." Gao Cheng patted Guan Xinyan on the shoulder, and the previous anger had long since disappeared.
At first, he was angry because he thought Guan Xinyan was in trouble. Unexpectedly, it was because he didn't go to the East Asian Cup.
He said that being too competitive is not a good thing, but he didn't think so in his heart. The quality that any great player must possess is competitiveness.
He just said that just to comfort Guan Xinyan.
"I know, Director Gao. I'm sorry for making you worry about me. I will continue to train hard..." Guan Xinyan expressed his attitude to Gao Cheng.
Gao Cheng also nodded with satisfaction: "Go back and change your clothes. Don't catch a cold."
Looking at Guan Xinyan's running back, Gao Cheng showed a happy smile on his face.
With a competitive spirit and talent, this kid's future is limitless!
The strongest forward under the age of 23 will need to remove the prefix "under 23" in the future.
Guan Xinyan didn't know what Director Gao was expecting from him. After he quickly returned to the locker room, he didn't go to take a shower immediately, but picked up his mobile phone.
"...Today, the players of the U22 national team and the Chinese women's national team came to the Hongmangling training base to report. They will conduct a fifteen-day training here before going to the East Asian Cup. For the girls of the Chinese women's football team
, this is also their most important warm-up event before the Women's World Cup in the summer..."
The news he saw before training was still on the home page, and it was displayed in front of him as soon as the phone was unlocked.
After seeing this news, he felt unhappy again.
At first, when the club told him that he would not be in the U22 training camp this time, he didn’t feel much at all. If not, then he wouldn’t. What’s the point of participating in a useless competition like the East Asian Cup? He doesn’t have to earn performance in front of Director Shi. Next year’s Olympic qualifiers will be held.
Can the Olympic team not recruit itself?
As a result, he saw this news before training started today, and his whole body suddenly felt bad.
If he is selected for the U22 training team this time, he can get along with Li Qingqing in the same training base for fifteen days... That's fifteen days!
He usually doesn't have such a good opportunity in the club. He is obviously in the same club, but the training base for the men's and women's football teams is not in the same place. Isn't this ridiculous!
The first team can train with the youth team and reserve team, but why can't it train with the women's first team?
If he was selected for this U22 training team, then he could get along with Li Qingqing day and night, but now he just missed Li Qingqing...
