Three days after playing Yunshan Caiyun at home, on Sunday afternoon, Anton Flashing Stars welcomed another powerful team, Sichuan Chongshan, at home.
Although it was a home game, because the previous three weeks had been double matches a week, the Flash Star players seemed very tired, and they only tried their best to play 1:1 with their opponents at home.
Considering that Sichuan Chongshan is the second-ranked team, it is already good for Flash Star to get a draw at home despite the team's poor condition.
Hu Lai scored the only goal of Flash Star in this game and was the biggest contributor to helping the team draw the opponent at home.
This goal also continued his excellent form - he has scored in each of the last three league games, scoring five goals in three games. His form is really good.
Next Wednesday, May 3rd, Flash Stars will play Wuzhou Dongshan away from home.
The opponent in this game is much weaker. Even if it is an away game, even if it is a mid-week game, I believe that with the strength of Flash Star, we can defeat the opponent.
After this game, the league will usher in a two-and-a-half-month offseason. In order to make way for the next Asian Cup, all Chinese League One and Chinese Super League will be suspended and will restart after the Asian Cup.
Of course, in addition to the Asian Cup this summer, there is another football event, but the attention is much smaller.
That's the Women's World Cup.
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There were distant cheers from the stands of the stadium. For a Women's Super League match, the number of fans present today was quite large. At least half of the people were sitting in the south stand of the stadium facing the coaching bench. They had opened up the front half of the stand.
Parts are almost full.
Because there is Li Qingqing in today's game.
Most of them came to watch Li Qingqing play football.
There were people in the stands holding posters and light signs of Li Qingqing to cheer for her.
As soon as Li Qingqing catches the ball, they will stand up and cheer.
Watch her dribbling, dodging, passing, shooting... Watch her running towards her teammates with a smile and hugging them.
The lighting on the court seemed to be able to automatically track the target, giving people the illusion that she was playing football under the spotlight.
She was the only protagonist on the entire court, and everyone else disappeared into the darkness where the light could not shine.
Yang Mingwei sat on the coaching bench on the sidelines, admiring Li Qingqing's performance.
This is the last round of the Chinese Women's Football League before the Women's World Cup. After this game, Li Qingqing and her teammates will go to the capital to gather for training and prepare for the Women's World Cup to be held in the UK in June.
This is Li Qingqing's first time participating in the World Cup. Yang Mingwei believes that the whole world will see Li Qingqing's strength for the first time and be impressed by her talent.
After the World Cup is over, the country will no longer be able to keep her. There is no point in her continuing to stay in the country. She must go to a bigger stage, to Europe where women's football is more professional, to grow there and unleash her talents...
…to gain more attention for the Chinese women’s football team.
This is the beautiful blueprint that Yang Mingwei expected after many phone calls with Li Ziqiang.
If a female football player with excellent image and ability like Li Qingqing goes to play in Europe, it will definitely bring everyone's attention to women's football to a new level, which will also help the further development of women's football in China.
The power of idols is infinite.
In Yang Mingwei's view, Li Qingqing is the best football idol.
He looked at Li Qingqing who caught the ball and turned around to brush away the defender, and a smile appeared on his face involuntarily.
But at this moment, the perfect football idol in his eyes had just put the football out and was about to speed up the sprint, when his body suddenly tilted and he stumbled to the ground!
The goddess whom everyone thought was innocent rolled over on the turf, her jersey and body covered with dirt and grass clippings.
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Luo Kai, who was watching the Chinese Women's Super League broadcast on a pay channel in front of the TV, suddenly stood up from the sofa when Li Qingqing fell to the ground.
He stared closely at the painful expression of Li Qingqing in the TV broadcast, unaware that he was stunned and panicked.
He wanted to rush out the door, but as soon as he turned around, he stopped again - where was he going after he rushed out?
This game was played in Shanhai City, and he is now in Lingnan City. They are thousands of miles apart and blocked by high mountains.
He sat down again and prayed that nothing would happen to Li Qingqing.
On the TV, the commentator's voice was surprised: "...Li Qingqing suddenly fell down without any physical contact, and seemed to be injured!"
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Hu Lai learned about Li Qingqing's injury when he and Wang Guangwei came back from playing football games in Zhang Qinghuan's house.
Wang Guangwei, who was scrolling through his cell phone, told him.
"Fuck Li Qingqing is injured?!" Wang Guangwei exclaimed at that time.
Hu Lai was still joking: "Old Wang, don't keep saying it like that next time, it will be easy... What the hell are you talking about?"
Only halfway through the joke did he realize that what Wang Guangwei had just said was Li Qingqing, and it was Li Qingqing who was injured.
"Didn't you keep saying that..." Wang Guangwei protested.
Hu Lai ignored him and took out his mobile phone. He originally wanted to ask Li Qingqing directly on WeChat, but he glanced at Wang Guangwei who was standing next to him and looking at him, so he opened the "Goal" website again.
Sure enough, as soon as I clicked in, I saw the news on the home page.
"Sudden! Li Qingqing suffered a muscle strain during the game and was unable to continue the game!"
He was stunned.
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"Dad, don't worry...I've already checked it out, there's nothing wrong..."
Before Li Qingqing finished speaking, he took the phone away from his ear and frowned. His father's roar came from the receiver of the phone: "The muscles in the back of your thigh are strained. Tell me it's okay."
?Is it your muscle or your brain that was strained?!"
"Dad..." Li Qingqing was helpless. When his father became anxious, he would talk nonsense. "It's really not a big deal. I just need to rest for a month and a half at most. If I'm lucky, it might be fine in a month..."
After saying that, she immediately put the phone away, and sure enough, her father's roar came from the receiver again: "What a fart! Next is the national team training, and then the World Cup... At this time, the muscle strain is still in the hamstring muscles.
Strain, are you going to the training camp? The World Cup is still..."
Roaring and roaring, Li Ziqiang's voice on the other end of the phone softened. He seemed to realize that it was useless to be anxious and angry here, so he sighed: "Oh——"
"dad……"
"Does it hurt?" Li Ziqiang suddenly asked.
"It doesn't hurt." Li Qingqing said with a smile.
"It doesn't hurt!" Li Ziqiang's voice became louder again. "My muscle strain doesn't hurt. Do you think I don't understand anything?"
Then he quickly lowered his voice and said in as soft a tone as possible: "Don't think about the World Cup, do you hear me? Don't rush back just because you want to play in the World Cup. Muscle strains and other injuries that are not recovered will lead to endless troubles...
...If you can’t play in this World Cup, there will be another one. But if you don’t recover well from this strain, it will be very troublesome..."
"I know, dad, don't worry, I won't force myself."
Li Ziqiang sighed: "Injury is a professional player's partner, Qingqing, don't be too depressed..."
"Dad, I think you are more depressed than me?" Li Qingqing smiled.
"dare you laugh?"
"Didn't you tell me not to be too depressed, Dad?"
"..." Li Ziqiang was stunned for a moment, then sighed again. He sighed a lot today. "Okay, you have a good rest."
After hanging up the phone with his father, Li Qingqing lay on the bed and looked in the direction of his right leg. The injured leg was now hung up. This was also one of the treatment methods. After straining, he immediately applied cold compresses and elevated the affected limb.
Dad is a professional, that's the only bad thing about it. You can't deceive him. You can't even try to stop him from worrying.
How can a muscle strain not hurt?
The strained area on her right leg now hurts like hell.
The moment she was injured, thinking about it now, it was as if there was a buckle connecting the back of her thigh. Suddenly, the buckle snapped open, and then she lost her entire right leg, and what followed was heartbreaking pain.
pain.
In fact, Li Qingqing is used to the physical pain now, but when she thinks that she may miss all the national team's pre-World Cup training due to this strain, and may also miss this World Cup because of this strain, she feels more pain in her heart than in her body.
How can a person who loves football be indifferent to the World Cup?
She had been preparing for this World Cup for so long, and was so looking forward to standing on the stage of the World Cup and showing herself to the world... But now, it clicked.
Li Qingqing felt aggrieved. Why did he get injured in the last league game before the World Cup? Dad was right, injuries are a companion of professional players, but this companion had just finished playing in the East Asian Cup a few months ago. Li Qingqing
She wouldn't be so sad.
She will patiently follow the instructions of her father and doctors, rest, recuperate, and undergo physical therapy. She will never take the risk of playing until her body fully recovers.
but now……
When Li Qingqing felt a little wet on the pillow beside her face, she realized that her tears had flowed out at some point.
After realizing this, she raised her hand to wipe away her tears, but she just wiped her tears from one side to the other.
Li Qingqing, don’t cry!
She said to herself in her heart.
Don't cry!
You swore before your mother's death not to be a girl who loves to cry anymore! Don't let your father worry about you anymore!
She tried her best to hold back the tears, but it was in vain. Her body was shaking slightly, but the tears still couldn't stop flowing out.
Don't cry! Don't cry...Don't cry out...
Li Qingqing bit her lip tightly and clenched her hands until her knuckles turned white.
It really hurts, mom, it really hurts...
Just then, the cell phone on the bed suddenly started ringing loudly!
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Hu Lai rarely calls Li Qingqing because he thinks it is more convenient to contact Li Qingqing using WeChat. After all, there is no way to send emoticons on the phone, right?
Now he feels that it is better to call her directly to find Li Qingqing on WeChat because he can hear her voice.
But the number he dialed was hung up by Li Qingqing.
He stared at the phone for a few seconds, rarely calling Li Qingqing, but ended up hanging up after he called once?
Just when he was about to call again, a new message on WeChat popped up.
Li Qingqing: "Someone is here, tell me on WeChat."
He quickly moved his fingers and typed on the virtual keyboard: "Where are you now?"
"In the hospital. Have you seen the news?"
Almost at the same time she sent this message, Hu Lai's second sentence also jumped out: "I saw the news."
Then came the third sentence: "Does it hurt?"
Li Qingqing looked at the words that popped up one after another, hesitated for a moment, chose an emoticon with a smile on her face and sent it out from the WeChat emoticons she saved: "Not bad!"
Then she typed in: "The doctor checked it out and said that he can rest for a month and a half at most. It's nothing serious. It's just a strain. It's common."
"I've been resting for a month and a half and the World Cup has started, right?"
"That's the worst case scenario. What if I recover in a month? Can't I catch up with the World Cup?" Li Qingqing comforted Hu Lai and also comforted himself.
After she finished speaking, Hu Lai did not respond. Li Qingqing waited for more than ten seconds, but there was still no new news.
She sighed softly. Sure enough, even Hu Lai couldn't be fooled by such nonsense...
Then she complained in her heart: Oh, you pretend to have been deceived and just follow my words, can't you?
Li Qingqing was about to put the phone aside, but at this moment there was a ding-dong sound, and a long paragraph was thrown over by Hu Lai: "Well, it's like this... Well, I happen to have a bottle of ointment here that can help with muscle strain recovery.
, was formulated by an old Chinese medicine practitioner. I have known him since I was a child. We have a very good relationship, and we have been friends forever. He knew that I played professional football, so he contacted me and gave me a bottle of this ointment... He
He said that this ointment is very effective. As long as it is applied to the strained area and massaged every day, the recovery time of the strain can be greatly shortened. Although I have never used it, I believe him because I used to have headaches and fever.
He cured me. So I want to give this ointment to you, maybe it can help you recover before the World Cup?"
Li Qingqing laughed after reading such a long paragraph. Although there were still tears on her face, she replied with a smile in her eyes: "Hu Lai, your way of comforting people is really unique, and you even make up stories..."
"I'm not making up a story! It's true! I really have an old Chinese medicine doctor who I have been friends with for many years! Of course, he is retired now and doesn't like to be in the public eye, but his medical skills are really superb!" Hu Lai explained.
"Okay, thank you, Hu Lai!"
"Take this ointment and say thank you to me, otherwise I won't accept it!"
Li Qingqing looked at Hu Lai's words on the phone and didn't know how to reply to him.
Hu Lai continued: "I'm serious, Li Qingqing! This ointment is really effective, and that old Chinese medicine doctor is really powerful! Besides, it's always right to give it a try, right? It won't let your situation get worse.
Does it get worse?”
Seeing Hu Lai speaking so firmly, she hesitated and replied: "Okay, but how are you going to give it to me? Send it by express delivery?"
"No, I'll send it to you."
"send over?"
"Well, this ointment is very small and rare. I don't worry about sending it by express delivery."
"You want to come over?"
"No?"
"But why did you come here..."
"I have seen it. In the next round of the league, we will play Wuzhou Dongshan away from home. Wuzhou is right next to Shanhai. When we come to play away from home, we have to fly to Shanhai first and then take the high-speed train. After the game, I will ask Director Zhao for a message.
Fake, I just need to take him to your place." Hu Lai obviously had a plan.
"After we beat Wuzhou Dongshan on Wednesday afternoon, I will come find you and give you the ointment."
Li Qingqing looked at Hu Lai's plan and his eyes were red with tears. The tears on his face were shining brightly under the light.
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Hu Lai put down his cell phone and looked at something in his hand that had an outer packaging that looked particularly like an ointment.
[Recovery Ointment]: Applying the ointment to the area of muscle strain can slightly reduce the sequelae of muscle strain and greatly shorten the recovery time.
Note: Use one bottle at a time, the effects cannot be superimposed. It can be used by others.
This is the "miraculous medicine" that Hu Lai decided to use on Li Qingqing, which was prepared and made by the mysterious grandfather himself.
It is one of the rewards for completing tasks after winning the East Asian Cup.
In addition to this ointment, there are one hundred thousand points, ten bottles of [Stamina Potion], two [Intermediate Training Scrolls: Shooting] and two [Intermediate Training Scrolls: Strength], and two bottles of [Powerful Intelligence Potion].
[Powerful Intelligence Potion] He used one bottle as soon as he returned to the club, and the six-month validity period has not expired yet. He kept the remaining bottle unused, planning to wait until the effect of this bottle wears off to see how it goes.
Decide whether to use it immediately.
Anyway, he still has a training scroll, which can also improve the training effect.
And the remaining bottle of [Powerful Intelligence Potion] is kept just to be prepared.
Hu Lai always does this. When he got the [broken Bear shin guard], he didn’t rush to use it and just put it in the warehouse. But didn’t it come in handy in the East Asian Cup match against South Korea?
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If he had used it early, he might have been seriously injured in that game.
For this reason, after seeing the [Recovery Ointment] that had never appeared before in the mission reward, Hu Lai just put it in the warehouse.
I didn't expect this to come in handy.
After knowing that Li Qingqing had a muscle strain, he immediately thought of this bottle of [Recovery Ointment], which happened to be only effective for muscle strains. He originally kept it for himself to be prepared for emergencies, but now he no longer needs to keep it and give it directly to Li Qingqing.
He didn't know how much this thing could shorten the recovery period after a muscle strain, but the adjective "substantially" was obviously not something the system said casually. Just like the "extremely large" in the description of [Broken Bear Shin Guards]
Hu Lai personally verified that this "extreme range" can directly eliminate a serious injury that may have caused him to miss more than half a year.
Thinking about it, even if the "significant shortening" of [Recovery Ointment] does not allow Li Qingqing to use it on the first day, she will be as alive and kicking as before the next day. As long as her recovery period can be accelerated, even if it is to recover ten days and a half month in advance, it is still a good thing.
If you can catch up with the end of the final training camp before the World Cup, you can catch up with the World Cup games.
Hu Lai has seen many examples of people who had no choice but to miss the World Cup due to injuries, and he doesn't want Li Qingqing to become one of these sad examples.
Go to the World Cup!
That is the World Cup that countless people dream of!
