Chapter one hundred and sixty-seven the glorious years
"Chen Xingyi cut inside! Beautiful! He dribbled horizontally... past Tong Xin! Passed the ball to Hu Lai... Zhang Qinghuan! And passed it back to Hu Lai! Hu Lai!! Hu Lai - beautiful!! Very beautiful!!!"
The commentator on the TV was yelling at the top of his lungs.
Xie Lan, who was in front of the TV, also jumped up from the sofa, screamed, raised her hands and turned to her husband.
Seeing this, Hu Lixin could only stand up from his seat helplessly, raised his hands and high-fived his wife.
"Haha!" Xie Lan smiled happily after high-fiving, "Our son scored a goal for the Chinese Super League!"
Hu Lixin ignored her, sat back on the sofa, and stared at the figure on the TV in trance.
His son ran towards the camera and then made a gesture of reciting his name and number on the back of his fingers towards the camera lens.
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This action was far less beautiful than his previous signature celebration, but it made Hu Lixin's heart beat violently.
Lao Hu vaguely recalled that when he was still as old as his son, he had imagined how to introduce himself to all the fans.
At that time, the trend of professional football had already started in the land of China. Every game was packed with people in the stands, lively TV broadcasts, flowers, cheers, fame, money...all the young people who loved football were dreaming about the best. future.
They have great ambitions and believe that they will be the most talented people on the football field and can help Chinese football achieve the ultimate goal of decades - reaching the World Cup finals!
He is also one of those young people with great ambitions.
But that was a long, long time ago.
So much so that in the long years, he completely forgot that he had ever been pretentious before, so he copied some famous sayings such as "You have to endure hardships to become a master", "The edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold" and posted them on on the wall of the team dormitory to encourage yourself.
I believe that all the hardships and injuries suffered in training and competition are the only way to success.
I firmly believe that football is fair. As long as you put in the effort and sweat, you will definitely gain something. The more you put in, the greater the gain.
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His wife was spinning and jumping beside him, clapping her hands and laughing.
The commentator on the TV was screaming his son's name at the top of his lungs.
The cheers from the Andong Provincial Sports Center, more than a hundred kilometers away, reached his ears through TV signals.
The TV broadcast screen was shaking slightly, and the Provincial Sports Center seemed to be experiencing a small earthquake.
This should have been a happy moment, but for some reason, Hu Lixin only felt bitter in his mouth.
He lowered his head to look for a cigarette on the coffee table, but first saw himself reflected in the dark glass of the coffee table.
He had a frown on his face, and the deep nasolabial folds were pulled down by the corners of his droopy mouth, almost separating the entire chin from his face.
It looks like a dog, an old Shar-Pei.
Where is the look of that ambitious young man from back then?
Those pretentious days...
In the flow of people commuting to and from get off work, in wine glasses, on paychecks... they slowly disappeared in the whirlpool of reality. (Note 1)
Hu Lixin grabbed the cigarette case, shook out a cigarette, lit it for himself, and took a deep breath.
The smoke he exhaled slowly rose up, as if it had transformed into a big bird, flapping its wings vigorously and circling to high places.
In Lao Hu's sight, he was flying higher and higher, flying higher and higher.
Until it is completely integrated into the "sky" under the ceiling.
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The Andong Provincial Sports Center was buzzing with people. Even though the players from both sides had returned to their respective half-courts and stood in their positions, the cheers of the fans were not over yet.
Before the game, almost everyone was not optimistic about the Flash Stars. After all, they are a Chinese League One team and their opponent is an established Chinese Super League team.
But there are still some Shining Star fans who are unconvinced - didn't they say that football is round? How come it is the turn of this game to say that Shining Star will definitely lose? Why? Just based on those data and analysis? What?
If the outcome is determined by these things, what else is there to do in the actual competition? Wouldn't it be better to directly compare whose data is better and play a big or small game?
Now that Shining Star has taken the lead in the home game against Haihe Shuanggang, these Shining Star fans are as happy as drinking a bottle of cold beer on a dog day in summer!
Amid the shouts of Flash Star fans, the Haihe Shuanggang players were a little confused.
They really never thought that they would fall behind in this game. They thought that as long as they were a little more serious, wouldn't it be easy to win against a Chinese League One team?
As a result, they were scored first by the Chinese League One team during the game!
Captain Tong Xin clapped his hands hard and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Cheer up! Get serious!!"
The other Haihe Shuanggang players came to their senses after hearing his words.
Yes, as long as we are serious, we can still defeat them.
In the past, it was mainly because we were not serious enough...
It's okay, from now on, we have to be serious!
Let you see how scary the Chinese Super League team is when they get serious!
At this moment, the referee blew the kick-off whistle.
"Beep——!"
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"Anton Shining Star's attack is back with a vengeance!"
CCTV commentator He Feng yelled.
The national live broadcast of Chinese League One games relies on online video platforms such as Tengfei Video.
The Football Association Cup is broadcast live nationwide on CCTV.
He Feng is the commentator of this game.
Like Shen Lang, he saw Hu Lai again in the live commentary of the game, which gave him the feeling of "an old acquaintance he hadn't seen in a long time."
He was also very excited to see Hu Lai score the goal of the Chinese Super League team.
Compared with the East Asian Cup, Hu Lai has grown again!
The Provincial Sports Center burst into cheers and loud shouts, cheering for the flashing stars advancing towards the Haihe Shuangport restricted area.
Hu Lai ran into the penalty area, turned around and stood still.
Fan Hongpeng immediately moved up to him and kept putting pressure on him with his body.
Even if Hu Lai has gone through several periods of special training in physical strength, it is still difficult to compete with this mountain-like central defender.
So he didn't stop at this position and started running to the next receiving point.
Fan Hongpeng did not follow because he had to hold his position, and he was not the only one here.
Didn’t Chen Xingyi just run over?
When Hu Lai ran into the defensive area of another Haihe Shuanggang center back, Han Yan, he stopped, and at the same time Zhang Qinghuan's pass came over.
Although Han Yan quickly approached, in Hu Lai's view, the strength of this central defender was far different from that of Fan Hongpeng. At least he could carry him and stop the ball, so that he would not be unable to maintain his position.
It's just that he can't turn around and attack...
After Zhang Qinghuan passed the ball, he moved forward, seemingly trying to get behind Haihe Shuanggang's defense.
His forward thrust attracted Tong Xin's attention. He didn't dare to make the same mistake again, so he followed in decisively.
But Hu Lai did not pass the ball to Zhang Qinghuan - Zhang Qinghuan was followed, and he still passed it? Although he is not an organizer, he is not a fool either. He knows what balls can be passed and what balls cannot be passed.
He used his body to resist Han Yan, and then saw Lin Ge in the middle outside the penalty area.
The opponent's midfielder was pulled away by Zhang Qinghuan...
Hu Lai didn't hesitate and passed the football back with one kick.
When Qin Lin saw the football rolling towards him, he quickly glanced at the goal in front of him, then adjusted his pace and raised his right leg to meet the ball passed back by Hu Lai!
"Qin Lin! Direct volley - what a good shot!!!"
Following He Feng's roar, Qin Lin kicked the football toward the goal.
The football did not fly into the air and fly toward the goal with astonishing momentum. Instead, it stuck to the turf and passed through the feet of the crowd in the penalty area!
This kind of low and long shot that is close to the turf is what goalkeepers dislike the most, because it is much more difficult to save than a long shot...
Goalkeeper Huang Anjie's sight was disturbed by the dense crowd of players from both sides in the penalty area. By the time he saw the football flying over, it was already too late!
He hurriedly fell to the ground and jumped sideways, but the football entered the goal from the far corner before he could reach it!
"Good goal! Good goal! Qin Lin! Unbelievable! Flashing Stars scored two goals in six minutes! A Chinese League One team led the Chinese Super League team by two goals in a short period of time! This is what many people thought before the game.
I didn’t even expect it! So what if we don’t say football is round? Anything can happen. This is the charm of the football game!”
Haihe Shuanggang, who wanted to get serious, was given two goals by Flash Star, who had already taken it seriously!
Kuang Mingjian, the head coach of Haihe Shuanggang who was on the coaching bench of the away team, suddenly stood up from his seat. The magnetic tactical board in his hand fell to his feet, and he didn't even notice it.
In front of the home team's coaching bench next door, Zhao Kangming rushed out of his seat and punched the sky.
Behind him, Chen Mo jumped out, jumping continuously like a cheerful deer.
The excitement brought by the last goal to the Shining Star fans has not yet passed. Another goal came. The Shining Star fans in the Provincial Sports Center raised the volume again on the basis of the original cheers, and the cheers were thunderous.
Soar into the sky!
After scoring the goal, Qin Lin turned around and ran to the sidelines to celebrate the goal. After running to the sidelines, he turned around and pointed at Hu Lai, who was running towards his teammates, and turned his back again.
So Hu Lai jumped up when he ran to Brother Lin, and jumped directly on the back of Qin Lin who turned around.
Qin Lin put his hands in his pockets and carried Hu Lai on his back!
Hu Lai, who was lying on top of Qin Lin, straightened up and waved his fist towards the cheering Flash Star fans in the stands.
"Wha——!!"
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"Qin Lin carried Hu Lai on his back! The last big man in Chinese football just carried young Hu Lai up... Oh!" The commentator of Anton TV Sports Channel saw some metaphors in this celebration. "
This is how football should be, with the old leading the new and passing from generation to generation, only then can our football develop! Now the baton of Anton Football has been handed over to Hu Lai by Qin Lin. Come on Hu Lai, come on Shining Star, come on Anton Football!”
In the end, the old commentator who had experienced the glorious era of Anton football even started to cry a little.
Perhaps he also thought of the days when Anton football was once glorious and then in decline.
Anton fans who lined up outside the old sports center to buy tickets could circle the stadium three times!
Later, this scene belonged to the fans who came to watch the star's concert.
Belongs to those fans who chase variety show stars.
As for the prosperous years of Anton Football, they disappeared into the singing and dancing crowd, into the boiling red soup hot pot, into the bustling crowds of Senwei Road, and into the clatter of mahjong.
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It’s as if this once golden football market no longer needs football.
But listen to the cheers from the Provincial Sports Center at this moment!
Look at the large swaths of red in the stands of the Provincial Sports Center!
Qin Lin, who was trained by Anton Football, is back, and the enthusiastic Anton fans have returned to the stands. Anton’s professional football team is thinking about launching an impact in the top league. Now our team is in the Football Association Cup again
Two goals ahead of the Chinese Super League team...
It's like everything is back.
This city, which is famous throughout the country for its slow and leisurely pace of life, still has a heart that is beating with vitality.
The thunder that rings out from the Provincial Sports Center is the pulsing sound of this city!
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Note 1: This paragraph is adapted from "Honghu Zhi" by the Slap Band. The original lyrics are:
Your ambition is like a young and frivolous poem.
The days when I was so pretentious slowly disappeared in the flow of people commuting to and from get off work.
Disappearing in your wine glass, disappearing in your sheets,
Slowly disappear in your salary, slowly disappear in the whirlpool of reality.