Not long after Luo Kai and Chu Yifan arrived, players from the second and third grade of high school also arrived one after another.
Finally, the school team's head coach Li Ziqiang appeared in front of everyone.
He was wearing clean sportswear, professional football shoes, a whistle hanging around his neck, and a hard board under his arm.
The first impression you get is that he is a very professional and capable football coach.
Coupled with his unsmiling face, the chatter on the court gradually disappeared, and everyone looked at him with awe.
After Li Ziqiang silently looked around at everyone, he lowered his head and stared at the hard board in his hand: "Now let's start the roll call."
Starting from the senior players who are in their second and third year of high school, every player whose name is called will answer loudly: "Here!"
When the new players were called, the new players shouted louder than the old players.
On the football field, "Here we come!"
After Luo Kai responded, there was a huge cheer from the sidelines.
The cheers were louder than when Chu Yifan arrived.
Li Qingqing turned a deaf ear to this voice, her eyes always on Hu Lai.
Finally, her father read out Hu Lai's name.
"Here-cough cough cough!!"
Hu Lai raised his chest and raised his head and answered loudly, but because he roared too loudly, he broke his voice and ended up coughing uncontrollably.
This made everyone present, whether they were on the field or on the sidelines, the laughter spread on the football field, and even attracted curious and doubtful eyes from the basketball field - they didn't understand what was happening on the football field.
, causing so many people to laugh at the same time.
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There were not many people who didn't make Hu Lai laugh, and Li Ziqiang was one of them. He glanced at Hu Lai and didn't know if this guy was pretending to be weird on purpose.
After the laughter gradually disappeared, he still kept a straight face and focused his attention on the new high school students who had joined the team.
His expression also affected the players. Their smiles disappeared and they looked at their head coach in confusion.
"Congratulations on joining the team. As the head coach of the school team, I welcome you on behalf of the whole team." After everyone quieted down and looked at him, Li Ziqiang spoke. He said congratulations, but there was no joy on his face.
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"But don't be happy too early. Being in the team doesn't mean you can sit back and relax."
Sure enough, what Li Ziqiang said next matched his expression very well.
"If your performance in training does not satisfy me, then I will have to ask you to leave. So don't think that coming in means victory. Entering the school team is just the beginning."
When he said this, his eyes were always fixed on Hu Lai in the crowd.
But the person he was looking at didn't seem to have any sense of crisis. He still had the same smile on his face, as if he was happy to finally be able to join the school team.
After snorting in his heart, Li Ziqiang looked away, looked at the others and continued: "...Due to the change of coach and the recruitment of new players, our preparation time has been greatly shortened, and the provincial qualifiers for the national competition are about to begin.
It’s about to begin. So the intensity of the next training will be very high. If someone can’t stand it, they can take the initiative to quit the team. Don’t worry, I won’t set any threshold for quitting the team.”
The new players looked at each other at these words.
They were indeed very happy to be able to enter the school team, but they did not expect to face such a situation after entering the school team.
The training is very intense? Will you be kicked out if your performance fails? If you want to quit the team, no one will stop you?
Why do we feel that the coach does not welcome us?
Everyone was so shocked that they didn't realize that at the end of the sentence, their coach looked at where Hu Lai was.
This time, Li Ziqiang saw that the smile on Hu Lai's face finally disappeared and was replaced by a frown.
This made him feel a little better - this kid finally knew he was afraid!
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In fact, Hu Lai had no reaction to words such as "the training is very intense", "you may be kicked out", and "you are welcome to leave the team voluntarily".
He is not afraid of intense training. Before reporting to the team, he found an opportunity to go to the toilet and drink the [Smart Potion]. In the next thirty days, intense training will mean that the effect of his training will be great.
The improvement will also be greater.
As for voluntarily quitting the team, he is not stupid, so how could he do it?
Besides, when a new coach comes, he has to say something to establish his authority, right? These words sound scary, and maybe they are meant to scare people...
At this moment, the emotionless voice suddenly sounded in his mind:
"Task: Successfully stay in the school team within the next thirty days. Task reward: Points x 3000."
This task...
Hu Lai couldn't help but frowned when he saw this mission.
He was not very surprised when a task appeared at this time. The system would use some things that happened in reality to launch the task naturally. This was not the first time Hu Lai had seen it.
But the reward for this mission...
It’s too perfunctory!
What the hell is just three thousand points?!
After all, the previous missions also had physical rewards, either in the form of boosting potions or wearable equipment.
This mission alone costs 3,000 points.
The last mission required him to complete a hat trick in the team test match. The reward for that mission was three thousand points, which was just one of them. In addition, there was also a bottle of [Marrow Cleansing Potion] and a bottle of [Smart Potion].
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This is considered too easy to spoil the mission in advance, so isn’t the mission reward even high?
When I heard that there was a mission, I was looking forward to it, but now it seems that the biggest reward for this mission is probably not the three thousand points, but the fact of staying in the school team itself.
He curled his lips in his heart, okay, even if there is no such mission, I will stay here. Let the mission reward be a windfall...
If you save more, you don't have to feel too heartbroken to say "Thank you for participating" when you draw the lottery later.
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Li Qingqing stood in the stands. She couldn't hear what her father said to the players in the distance. She was still worried about Hu Lai's fate after joining the school team.
She knew that her father was a very demanding coach, which was reflected in herself and the players he had coached.
Li Qingqing still doesn't know if Hu Lai can meet his father's strict requirements.
In her daze, she suddenly heard Song Jiajia next to her say in surprise: "Hey, why don't they let Hu Lai train with them?"
Li Qingqing finally came to his senses and discovered that new changes had taken place in the stadium below.
All members of the school team have completed the warm-up under the leadership of her father, and now seem to be assigning specific training tasks.
Some people have already started training in groups.
Hu Lai was not among any of the groups. He stood alone on the edge of the field.
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When Mao Xiao went to train with his teammates, he couldn't help but glance in Hu Lai's direction several times.
He was confused. Everyone was assigned training tasks, why Hu Lai wasn't.
The coach seemed to have forgotten that there was another person. After assigning the training tasks, he blew the whistle vigorously: "Start training! Don't be lazy! Your principal did not invite me here just to play games with you!"
After saying that, he was going to the training area.
Hu Lai was a little confused before and didn't understand what was going on. Why everyone else had training tasks but he didn't.
Now that he saw the head coach simply walking away, he came back to his senses - Coach, have you forgotten me?
So he raised his hands and shouted: "Coach!"
After Li Ziqiang heard Hu Lai's shout, he stopped and looked back at him without saying a word.
Hu Lai pointed at himself: "No...coach, what about me? Where is my training content?"
Li Ziqiang turned around, walked step by step in front of Hu Lai, and looked at him condescendingly: "What's your name?"
"Hu Lai, first year of high school..."
"Oh, Hu Lai, right?" Li Ziqiang nodded without letting Hu Lai finish his words. He put his hands behind his back and swung the whistle tied to his wrist. "You are the one who scored three goals in the test match by luck.
The guy with the ball?”
Hu Lai held out his chest and said seriously: "Coach, that's not my luck..."
"If your skills weren't so bad, maybe I would believe you." Li Ziqiang interrupted Hu Lai again and pointed to the players who had already started training. "The content of your training is different from theirs."
"no the same?"
"You have to start from basic skills."
"Ah? Basic skills? Coach, I am actually good at basic skills. I want to train with everyone..." Hu Lai was a little anxious, because he knew that it was not long before the start of the qualifiers. If he practiced from basic skills now, then he would have to
When can I play the game?
"Are you good at basic skills? Come on, catch my pass first." Li Ziqiang looked up and down, then pulled a football over with his feet, then waved Hu Lai back ten meters. After Hu Lai stood still, he used very hard
He kicked the football over.
Hu Lai almost reflexively raised his leg to stop the ball. The football hit the inside of his slightly upturned foot. It was not stopped, but was bounced upward, and then hit Hu Lai's chin firmly.
superior……
With a bang, Hu Lai's head fell back as if he had been hit by an uppercut. Fortunately, he stabilized his position and did not fall backwards to the ground, but he still looked very embarrassed.
A burst of laughter erupted on the football field. Whether it was the onlookers on the sidelines or the players training on the field, everyone was amused.
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Song Jiajia heard Li Zhiqun's gloating laughter in the distance vaguely: "Ha... ha... don't be too happy too early... it's just... humiliating yourself... hahaha!"
He put down the hand covering his face and turned his head to glare. However, Li Zhiqun didn't notice at all. He covered his stomach with one hand and pointed at Hu Lai in the field, laughing so hard that he could hardly stand still.
Even among the laughing crowd, his behavior was a bit exaggerated.
Li Qingqing didn't smile. She stared at her father's figure, pursed her lips, and frowned.
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"I can tell you directly that if you don't obey my orders, you will leave the team. But I'm afraid you will think I'm unreasonable." Li Ziqiang looked coldly at the thin figure ten meters away who covered his chin and mouth with his hands, and said calmly,
"So this is my way of reminding you that this is the ball you are going to catch in the game. Do you still feel that your basic skills are good?"
He didn't get an answer, because Hu Lai was in so much pain that he couldn't speak - the blow just now made him bite the tip of his tongue, and tears of pain flowed out.
"Go and train honestly. I have the final say when we can practice together. Of course, if you don't want to practice anymore, you can leave."
After saying these words, Li Ziqiang turned around and walked towards the team, then waved to the crowd: "Yan Yan, come and teach him basic skills! Start with the most basic basic skills!"
Yan Yan ran over and looked at Hu Lai, who was still covering his mouth and speechless.
To be honest, he couldn't understand why the coach would give this guy a spot on the school team. He said he had talent? Maybe, but looking at his basic skills, wasn't his ability too far behind?
Well, now that he's been recruited, this kid may have just gotten lucky and got into the team with a lot of luck.
But he had just joined the school team and he made a fool of himself in front of so many people and became the laughing stock of everyone. Does he regret joining the school team?
After sighing in his heart, Yan Yan said to the person in front of him: "Let's start with the ball, don't wait any longer."