The Spring Festival of 2024 is approaching. Many people are no longer interested in working at this time, and their minds are full of arrangements for the Spring Festival holiday.
For Chinese fans, they are enjoying the feeling of celebrating the New Year in advance.
On January 23, the Chinese Olympic team defeated the Vietnamese Olympic team 2:0 in the U23 Asian Cup semi-finals and reached the U23 Asian Cup finals.
Although the winner has not yet been decided, and we don’t even know who our opponent will be in the final, it doesn’t matter, it’s not important.
The Chinese team has already qualified for the Olympics, and this is what everyone is most concerned about.
When the whistle blew at the end of the game, the whole land of China was boiling.
I don’t know how many places have become a sea of cheers, and how many people have their wine glasses raised high and drank down in one gulp.
Internet jokesters started their own carnival.
Someone uploaded a video of Chinese fans lighting firecrackers to celebrate on a short video app like Douyin or Kuaishou, and then added an excited explanation: "This is probably what will happen if the Chinese team reaches the World Cup!"
But if Hu Lai saw this scene, he would just curl his lips.
In the time and space when he came, although he was born after the Chinese team reached the World Cup, through the documentary materials circulating on the Internet, he still knew the grand scene of the motherland after the Chinese team reached the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.
It is far from being comparable to what the current Olympic team can compete with in the Olympics.
But for Chinese football in this time and space, being able to reach the Olympics is indeed a top event.
After all, apart from having entered the Olympics once before relying on the qualifications of the host nation, this is the first time they have participated in the Olympics through the qualifying rounds.
In the previous time and space, Chinese football had made it to the 1988 Seoul Olympics through the qualifiers.
Looking at the results of the Chinese team in this time and space, which has not even participated in the World Cup finals, we can know that Chinese football in this time and space is even worse.
But a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise?
Perhaps it was precisely because the performance was so bad that radical reforms were carried out after the crackdown on crime in 2015, instead of arresting a group of people and ending it like in the time and space where Hu Lai came from.
We just replaced a group of people as leaders, nothing changed.
When he first traveled through time, Hu Lai felt that the Chinese fans in this time and space were really pitiful.
But now he feels that they are going to have a happy ending...
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When Li Ziqiang went to work at Dongchuan Middle School in the morning, he saw Principal Zhai at the school gate. He was directing the workers to hang a red banner on the school gate.
Seeing Li Ziqiang, he happily asked him to wait.
"Old principal, what are you doing?" Li Ziqiang asked strangely.
"Hey, you'll know soon." After Principal Zhai finished speaking, he shouted to the workers: "Hang up the banner now!"
Two workers on both sides of the school gate, one on the left and one on the right, climbed up the ladder with the banner on the ground.
As they moved, the banner was unfurled and raised like a flag.
Li Ziqiang looked up and saw the big words on the banner:
"Warm congratulations to our students Hu Lai and Luo Kai for leading the Chinese Olympic team to the 2024 Madrid Olympics!"
In addition to him, the students and teachers who came to school and went to work also stood outside the school gate, looking up at the banner and this line of large characters on the banner.
Someone took out their mobile phone, took a photo of this scene, and uploaded it to the Internet.
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"Look at Dongchuan Middle School, why didn't we at Jiaxiang High School think of it?"
Wu Yue downloaded the photo of the banner hanging on the gate of Dongchuan Middle School that he saw from Yan Yan's circle of friends, and then sent it to his alumni group, and issued such a soul-searching question.
It immediately aroused heated discussion among everyone.
"Damn it, Dongchuan Middle School should learn how to play!"
"Our Jiaxiang High School may not be as shameless as Dongchuan Middle School..."
"It can't be said that they have indeed trained two Olympic players. They will publicize it. Now everyone knows that Hu Lai and Luo Kai came from Dongchuan Middle School, but a few people know that Wang Guangwei also came from our Jiaxiang team.
Where are you from high school?"
While they were discussing, someone sent a photo, which was the gate of Jiaxiang High School. There was also a banner hanging on it, which read: "Warm congratulations to Wang Guangwei, a student of our school, for leading the Chinese Olympic team to the 2024 Madrid Olympics!"
Wu Yue was surprised: "What? Does our school also have one?"
"No, Wu Yue, look carefully..."
"Damn it! It's P!"
"Hahaha! You're talented! You can do P too!"
"Please ask for the original picture and I will send it to Moments!"
“Same request, I’ll post on Weibo!”
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As soon as Xie Lan entered the office, he grabbed a handful of candies from the plastic bag he was carrying and stuffed them into the hands of his colleagues sitting at the door: "Eat candies, eat candies!"
"Sister Xie, are you happy today?" The colleague was surprised as he held the candy in both hands.
"Hey, Lao Zhang, didn't you watch yesterday's game? The Chinese Olympic team has entered the Olympics!" Other colleagues in the office immediately explained enthusiastically to him.
"Oh, that's it! That's such a happy event! Sister Xie, your son is awesome!"
With a smile on her face, Xie Lan handed out candies one by one, and said modestly: "Hi, so-so... Come, eat some candies!"
She just sent it all the way. When she came to Sister Wang, she paused and smiled sheepishly: "Oh, I forgot that Sister Wang has high blood sugar..."
After saying that, she turned to the workstation next to Sister Wang and gave the candy to the man.
Sister Wang opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end she still couldn't say anything.
She lowered her head again, put on the noise-cancelling headphones she bought on Pinduoduo for ninety-nine yuan, and turned on the noise-cancelling function along with the music, preparing to block out the distractions and laughter from the outside world.
The house is in a human environment, and there is no noise of carriages and horses. When I ask you how you can do it, your mind is far away and you are biased.
But I don’t know if the noise reduction effect of the noise-cancelling headphones is not as good as advertised, or if her music volume is not loud enough, or if her heart is not far enough away, but she can still hear the laughter and chatter in the office.
"Sister Xie, I remember that you shared the wedding candies with us when your son was the '95 Supreme', right? If you continue to share like this, the expenses won't be small!"
"Hey, what's this? If my son behaves like this every day, I'll be happy even if I'm bankrupt!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
There was warm laughter in the office.
Sister Wang had to turn up the music louder and louder, and she didn't stop until her head was buzzing with music.
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When Li Qingqing entered the dressing room, Lilith Raza's eyes widened when she saw her, and asked doubtfully: "Qingqing, why are you so happy?"
"Is there any?" Li Qingqing asked.
Raza nodded: "Of course, you still have a smile on your face."
After speaking, she raised the small mirror in her hand in front of Li Qingqing.
Sure enough, Li Qingqing's smiling face appeared in the mirror.
"Look at your smile...it's as if you're in love. Tell me, Qingqing, who is your boyfriend? Let me see which bastard is so lucky..." Lilith Raza said half-jokingly.
Li Qingqing in the mirror rolled her eyes at her: "What! It's our Chinese Olympic team that has qualified for the Olympics and is going to participate in the Madrid Olympics!"
After hearing Li Qingqing's reasons, Lilith Raza was stunned for a moment: "That's it?"
"Isn't this worth being happy about?" Li Qingqing asked her.
"It's worth it..." Raza nodded and frowned, "But there's no need to be so happy, right?"
"Lilith, you don't understand. What an amazing achievement this is for our country's football - except for the 2012 Olympics, after participating in the Olympics as a host nation, our men's football team has never entered the Olympics through the qualifiers.
"Yeah!" Li Qingqing explained to his teammates seriously. "But this time, they performed well in the U23 Asian Cup. They successfully reached the finals of the U23 Asian Cup and qualified for the Madrid Olympics this summer.
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After Lilith Raza heard this, the corner of her mouth twitched: "Then your country's men's football team is really great..."
Li Qingqing was too lazy to talk to her anymore, and turned to her locker with a smile on her face, ready to change clothes and start training.
She was already envisioning in her mind the image of walking with Hu Lai on the opening ceremony rostrum as part of the Olympic delegation.
Who would have thought that five years ago, they were just ordinary high school students, and Hu Lai was a rookie that no one wanted and could only play football alone in a secret base?
But by this summer, the two of them will be wearing the uniforms of the Chinese delegation, holding small national flags in their hands, waving to the world.
That will definitely become a wonderful memory.
Lilith Raza looked at Li Qingqing's back from behind and couldn't help but frown.
When the Chinese men's football team participates in the Olympics, what does it have to do with you, a female football player?