When Sun Yonggang went to the tea room to drink coffee, he met Zhang Chao, who came out of the office humming and jumping.
So Sun Yonggang laughed: "Why are you so happy?"
"Ah, it's Brother Sun!" Zhang Chao jumped in front of Sun Yonggang and said to him, "I found big news today!"
"What big news? By the way, you went to Hongmaple Ridge..." Sun Yonggang guessed, "Have you seen Hu Lai?"
"I see, I see, the big news is related to Hu Lai!" Zhang Chao said excitedly.
"Hey, what big news has he made again?" Sun Yonggang also became interested.
"Hey, actually, he didn't accept interviews from our media because the team's head coach Shi Wuyin didn't mention his name at all at first. I took the initiative to ask him to be interviewed, and got support from other reporters...
"Zhang Chao briefly told Sun Yonggang the situation at that time.
"Actually, Brother Sun, I just wanted to ask him about his plans for his future career, but I didn't expect to find out such big news... Guess how he answered my question?"
"Becoming the number one player in world football?" Sun Yonggang tried to guess the result according to Hu Lai's thinking.
"..." Zhang Chao glanced at Sun Yonggang, "Brother Sun, are you kidding me? But it's really hard to say whether the future you mentioned is more difficult to realize, or the future Hu Lai said is more difficult to realize...
"
After sighing, he revealed the answer to Sun Yonggang: "Hu Lai said that he hopes that one day he can wear the Chinese team jersey and win the World Cup!"
Sun Yonggang burst out laughing when he heard this - this was really the style of that kid Hu Lai.
Zhang Chao was very proud of the big news he had created, and was still "showing off" to Sun Yonggang: "Brother Sun, do you know? This time I went to Hongfengling to interview, whether it was the National Olympics or the women's football team, whether it was Guo Junfu
It’s still Li Qingqing, their answers to our reporters’ questions are quite boring! Until Hu Lai, he is really a treasure boy! His words are interesting and pleasant, and he always brings surprises to people... And his answer
That’s the biggest surprise!”
Sun Yonggang asked: "How do you plan to do this news?"
"What else needs to be done? Just releasing what he said is shocking enough!" Zhang Chao said. "This kid knows how to create topics to hype himself up!"
"Is it just a curiosity? Let everyone see how arrogant a player who was selected for the Olympic team for the first time is?" Sun Yonggang asked, staring at the triumphant Zhang Chao.
Zhang Chao heard something different from Sun Yonggang's words, and he asked: "Brother Sun, what do you think we should do?"
Sun Yonggang shook his head: "Let me tell you an old story, maybe it can inspire you. You know that I met Hu Lai at the national competition... It was the first national competition that Dongchuan Middle School participated in. At that time, because of Luo
Kai performed well, and the National Competition Organizing Committee wanted to highlight him, so they found a lot of media to interview Luo Kai. Dongchuan Middle School was training when we went to interview, and the media swarmed in. There were too many people, so we needed
Queuing up for an interview. I was waiting on the sidelines with my photographer Xiao Li, and then I saw Hu Lai running to the training ground to practice more...guess what he was practicing?"
"Practice shooting?" Zhang Chao guessed based on Hu Lai's position on the field.
"No, he is practicing more celebration movements." Sun Yonggang said.
"Well, it has now become his signature celebration. At that time, he was not very skilled. He would fail seven or eight times if he did it ten times, so he would practice more. I thought that waiting is just waiting anyway, and I have nothing to do with it.
Ergan, go interview this somewhat eccentric young man, maybe there will be some extra gains."
Sun Yonggang continued to talk.
"In that interview, I asked a question similar to yours, asking him what his outlook for the future was. But the original intention of my question was to ask him what his outlook was for the future of this national competition. As a result, you guessed he
How did you answer that?"
Zhang Chao shook his head and said simply: "I don't know."
"He said he wanted to be a professional player." Sun Yonggang laughed when he said this, his eyes were a little blank, not looking at Zhang Chao in front of him, as if he saw the scene that day again. "Actually, I was madly complaining in my heart. Who did I say?
I want to ask about your career plan! You are a student player, participating in the national competition for the first time, and you are still a substitute in the team... How did you get the qualifications to become a professional player? As a result, you can see it now. Not only did he become a professional player, he also became a professional player.
He also scored 11 goals in the Chinese League One in half a season, and then was selected for the Olympic team at the age of 19..."
Sun Yonggang opened his hand to Zhang Chao.
Zhang Chao fell into deep thought after listening to Sun Yonggang's brother Sun telling him about Hu Lai's past.
Then he said: "I know what to do, thank you, Brother Sun!"
He thanked me very sincerely.
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"Hu Lai, when you said that, did you ever think about the impact it would have?" After training and eating in the restaurant, Wang Zijian lowered his voice and asked Hu Lai, who was sitting next to him while eating.
"What impact?" Hu Lai raised his face from the plate and asked Wang Zijian, his enthusiastic teammate, in confusion.
"Aren't you worried that others will think you're pretentious?"
"But I'm not pretending, I'm telling the truth."
Hu Lai thought to himself that I have pretended to be cool a lot, but this time, I really didn’t want to show off...
"Your behavior is more like showing off..." Wang Zijian complained helplessly.
"Why? Just because it's difficult to win the World Cup?" Hu Lai asked.
"This is not a question of whether it is difficult or not. We haven't even made it to the World Cup finals...you just said you want to win the World Cup." Goalkeeper Song Kun next to him explained for his friend. "What do you want others to think? Don't you?
Do you think you are bragging?"
"I thought this was every kicker's dream..."
"Dreams have to be divided. Some dreams can be realized with hard work. For example, if you say that your future dream is to participate in the World Cup, then I guess many people will not have any other ideas. But if you have to say winning the World Cup...
This kind of dream that is simply impossible to realize will naturally make others think that you are trying to show off by doing something that is destined to be impossible." Song Kun said.
At this moment, there was suddenly an additional person at their table.
"Hu Lai, are you free? I want to chat with you."
Everyone turned to look at Guo Junfu who said this.
Hu Lai looked at the almost finished dinner, got up and followed Guo Junfu out.
"Look, what did I say?" Wang Zijian looked at the backs of the two people and spread his hands. "Guo Junfu must represent many people in the team and came to talk to Hu Lai about his limelight... I
I went back to the dormitory and thought about it for a long time yesterday, and I felt that the scene of eating in the restaurant yesterday might have irritated some people."
"Oh, actually if I were Hu Lai, I would tell Guo Junfu that it was a joke. After all, isn't there a Gold Cup tour before every World Cup? There are also people who come to our country. When the time comes, Hu Lai will be a fan.
, Wearing the Chinese team jersey to hold the cup and take a group photo, doesn't it also mean that he has fulfilled his words?" Sun Gang was standing by to give Hu Lai an idea. "Anyway, he was talking about wearing the Chinese team jersey to win the World Cup, and he didn't say that he was winning the World Cup.
There’s a big difference here.”
Wang Guangwei frowned and said nothing.
At the same time, on the other side, at the dining table where the Chinese Super League players gathered, they were also talking about Guo Junfu going to find Hu Lai: "Guo Junfu actually went to find Hu Lai...it's because of Hu Lai's
Dream'?"
"I think it's nine out of ten. Hu Lai, this kid, is a little too arrogant. He was only selected for the first time, and he can say such things in front of so many reporters in the first training session. These days,
Even the most YY network would not dare to write about the Chinese team winning the World Cup! Guo Junfu probably wants to beat him..." Xiao Xiao said.
"Xiao Xiao, please stop guessing." Gao Ruimin frowned, "What is 'beating'? As an old team member, giving some suggestions and advice to newcomers, does it count as 'beating'?"
Xiao Xiao is just a substitute goalkeeper. Facing a main midfielder like Gao Ruimin, it is inevitable that he will be a little short of breath. Seeing Gao Ruimin say this, he can only explain: "I used the wrong word, but the meaning is similar. I just feel that the newcomer
He should be more low-key. He is not only causing trouble for himself by being so high-profile, he is also causing trouble for the team... Do you think Xinyan has been so high-profile? He has scored six goals, and he has not said that he wants to take them.
The Chinese Super League Golden Boot, right?”
His phrase "causing trouble for the team" did indeed represent the views of some people in the team, so Gao Ruimin couldn't say anything more. He just turned his head and watched Guo Junfu leading Hu Lai out of the restaurant door, probably to the artificial lake.
Already.
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"Hey, have you heard? During today's training, the media went to interview the Olympic team players, and something happened..." In the dining area of the women's national team, someone gossiped to his teammates.
"What's the matter?"
"Are you talking about the one named Hu Lai?"
"Huh? Do you know it too?"
"Well, I also heard the rumors..."
"You two, what's going on? Just tell us what's going on, don't keep your appetite at bay!"
Facts have proved that even if you are a national team player, the gossip is still the same.
Hearing Hu Lai's name, Li Qingqing, who was playing on his mobile phone, also pricked up his ears.
"Oh, I heard that Hu Lai, who was selected for the Olympic training team for the first time, said in an interview that he hoped to lead the Chinese team to win the World Cup in the future. The reporters were all blown away..."
"Hey! Young people today are so crazy!"
"Hey, you can't say that. Aren't the National Olympic training teams all young people? No one is over twenty-three years old. Why aren't the others so crazy?"
"I heard that he is the youngest member of the training team. He scored eleven goals in the professional league at a young age and was selected for the Olympic team. It is normal to be crazy. He has the capital..."
"I don't like hearing this anymore. He has capital? What do we, Qingqing, say?"
After hearing Hu Lai's declaration of winning the World Cup, Li Qingqing was still lowering her head and snickering, because she thought about what they talked about when they returned to Dongchuan during the holidays and Hu Lai on the football field. She guessed that Hu Lai didn't know what he said.
Wasn’t it because he was going to participate in the World Cup that he was excited...
When she heard someone suddenly call her name, she looked up and saw her club captain Shi Yuehua defending her against the injustice: "Oh, that guy is the youngest in the training team... We Qingqing are still in the national team.
The youngest one! They are all nineteen years old, how come they are not crazy?"
"Oh, Yuehua, it's unfair for you to say that. How can you use Qingqing as the standard?"
"Yes, yes, how can the man named Hu Lai be compared with Qing Qing?"
"That's right, if you say that, don't talk about that Hu Lai, even we have to die."
The women laughed together.
Li Qingqing looked at everyone like this, with a stiff smile on his face, but sighed in his heart.
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Hu Lai and Guo Junfu were walking by the artificial lake.
Hu Lai looked at the "black mass" flying in the air in front of him, and thought to himself that it was not summer now, and he was wearing long clothes and long trousers, which were well covered, otherwise he would never let Guo Junfu take him to the lake.
of.
The winters in and around the capital have not been cold at all in the past two years. It would be nice if it snowed once a year. When it snows, the people in the capital are just like the people in the south. They are extremely excited and look like they have never seen the world.
This warm winter makes it very comfortable for the players to train here, but it also brings in some mosquitoes that were rarely seen in previous years...
Guo Junfu's attention was not on the mosquitoes. He stood at the top of the slope, looking at the lawn that extended from his feet to the lake, and said to Hu Lai straight to the point: "I know everyone is very excited when they are selected for the national team for the first time.
Yes, I was just like you at the time, and it was inevitable that I would get carried away... I know you may not like what I say, Hu Lai, but I do do it for your own good. It is right to want to be in the limelight, but you should also pay attention to some methods.
Method. It’s really not a good idea to use winning the World Cup title to impress the public.”
Hu Lai spread his hands and said very innocently: "I didn't want to sensationalize, brother. I told the truth, and the reporter also asked me to tell the truth."
Guo Junfu looked at Hu Lai and shook his head: "Is it so easy to win the World Cup? We haven't even participated in the World Cup. Now you say you want to win the World Cup. Don't you think you are trying to flatter others?"
"We haven't participated in the World Cup, so we can't think about winning the World Cup? We haven't participated in the World Cup in 60 years, and we haven't won the World Cup in 60 years. Isn't this different? People have to have some dreams, right? Brother? First of all
Don’t care whether this dream is exaggerated or not, don’t you dare to even think about it?”
Hu Lai recalled it carefully and found that there was a century-old plan for Japanese football in both time and space.
So he said: "Just like our neighbor Japan, when football was at its lowest point, they formulated a century-old plan, saying that in a hundred years, the Japanese football team must win the World Cup. Brother, think about it, in a hundred years
Doesn’t it sound like a joke to win the championship later? Is this plan nonsense? But they just followed the plan. Didn’t the Japanese team also never reach the World Cup when the plan was made? How is Japan’s football strength now?
Don’t you need me to say this? Japan has a dream in the name of the National Football Association, so I can’t dream in my own name. Participating in the World Cup is my dream, and winning the World Cup is also my dream.”
Guo Junfu originally thought that with his qualifications as a veteran player, he would be able to easily control the rhythm in his hands by saying a few words to a newcomer.
Unexpectedly, this newcomer was so sharp-tongued that he was speechless now.
He also had to admit that what this newcomer said was right and reasonable.
As a football player, of course he is very aware of the development of Japanese football.
I think when the Japanese team met our Chinese team, it was just meat on the chopping block. But now, when the Chinese team meets the Japanese team, everyone will think: Oh, it’s over, we will lose again this time.
As a player, he is also unhappy, but is there any way to deal with it?
No matter how unhappy you are, you still have to lose?
The gap in strength between the two sides is there!
There is also South Korea. So far, the Chinese team has not even beaten South Korea once in official competitions. Isn’t it a shame?
How embarrassing!
But does feeling embarrassed solve the problem?
People often say: know shame and then be brave.
I realized my shame and gained courage. Then because of the huge gap in strength between the two sides, I was taught how to behave by the Korean team on the field.
Their U22 team has been competing with Korean teams of all ages since U16. From the Asian Youth Championship to the Asian Youth Championship, and then to the Asian Games, as long as they encounter the Korean team, they will lose!
This time in the East Asian Cup, we will definitely play against the South Korean team, and everyone feels that the odds are against them. After all, after so many years of playing against each other, we know very well how strong the opponent is, and how much we weigh.
The new guy in front of us now says that we don’t even dare to think about it…
Is this unthinkable?
Who hasn't had a daydream...
It’s just that they were all defeated by reality!
Thinking of this, Guo Junfu snorted: "There are a lot of great principles, just saying them nicely. Do you think you can win the World Cup championship by saying a few nice words? Let me tell you, let's not mention the World Cup.
Even in this East Asian Cup, the championship is not that easy to win!"
After saying that, he was too lazy to talk nonsense with this newbie who didn't know the world, so he turned around and left.
Hu Lai stood there, with no intention of catching up. He lowered his head as if lost in thought.
From the corner of his eye, Guo Junfu caught sight of Hu Lai's figure standing blankly. He wondered if he was aware of his problem. He was talking about this championship and that, as if he was embarrassed to meet people if he didn't win the championship.
The first thing he said was the World Cup champion... Don't kid me, we only won the East Asian Cup once, and that was eighteen years ago!
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PS, what follows is still an Easter egg chapter for the strongest Chinese team in history.
If we have such a Chinese team, our expectation may not be to reach the World Cup, but to win the World Cup, right?