Without Hu Lai, would you have become a professional player, and would you have become an Olympic player wearing the Chinese team jersey and appearing in the U23 Asian Cup?
Luo Kai would never have thought about this question before, because the answer to what made him become a professional player had always been "Li Qingqing".
Without Li Qingqing, Luo Kai probably would not have become a professional player. After all, although he has received professional football training since he was a child and has shown extremely high talent, neither he nor his parents have set their minds on becoming a professional player.
The direction of football changed. At that time, the reputation of professional football in China was not very good, and Luo Kai's grades were not bad. As senior intellectuals, his parents did not think that their children would have any future in professional football.
Of course, as senior intellectuals, they must also respect their children’s own ideas.
So when Luo Kai came home from school one day and suddenly told them that he wanted to play professional football, they did not object too much. They just confirmed with their son again and again whether this was his decision after careful consideration.
After receiving a positive reply from their son, they also expressed their agreement.
After all, as a middle-class urban family with a father who is an engineer and a mother who is a university teacher, even if the son finds that the path of professional football is not feasible, the family still has enough capital for him to try and make mistakes.
Of course, now that the son has obviously been kicked out, the "fallback path" they prepared for the child will most likely not be used...
The reason why Luo Kai decided to play professional football was of course because he heard from Hu Lai that Li Qingqing went to play professional football. He believed that this was the only way for him to be in the same world as the goddess in his mind.
After becoming a professional player, Li Qingqing was also his driving force for continuous improvement.
At least, that’s what he thought before joining the Olympic team.
But when he was selected for the first time to participate in the friendly match of the Olympic team, he saw Hu Lai's status and treatment in this team. Even the leader of the Olympic team, Ran Jiachang, attached great importance to Hu Lai.
To be honest, as a proud Luo Kai, it is impossible not to be stimulated...
He realized that if he did not defeat the boy in front of him, it would be almost impossible for him to win the favor of the goddess.
So things became simple. As long as he worked hard to become stronger and surpassed Hu Lai, the goddess would naturally look at him with admiration.
In this U23 Asian Cup, Hu Lai scored five goals in nine minutes, which shocked many people. Luo Kai was shocked in his heart no less than those people on the Internet who repeated "I'm fucked, I'm fucked".
He was even a little frustrated, feeling that he would never be able to score more than five goals in nine minutes and surpass such Hu Lai.
It wasn’t until he looked at the photos of Li Qingqing that he had collected on his mobile phone for a long time that he cheered up again. He felt that he could not just do nothing anyway, so he gave up the goddess.
This final is a perfect opportunity for him to prove himself.
Just as Yan Yan said to himself, he was not in the Olympic team in the East Asian Cup last year. Those Japanese players didn't know how good they were. They would only focus on Hu Lai.
The ball just now was at his feet, but Hu Lai turned around and ran in it. He could make the Japanese team collectively retreat collectively. He created a space for himself to create an unmanned defense.
Then let the little Japanese take a look, Luo Kai is also a character worthy of their defense!
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Luo Kai created a corner kick for the Chinese team, but after the corner kick was taken, it failed to threaten the Japanese team's goal. Instead, it allowed the Japanese team to launch a counterattack.
The stands booed for the first time against the Japanese team.
The Chinese team players fought hard to defend, but Lin Zhiyuan in front of the goal became excited: "Damn! It's my turn to be the protagonist!"
After speaking, he directed the two full-backs Bai Di and Sun Gang who were behind him: "You two keep an eye on their receiving players and don't worry about the one with the ball yet!"
“The one with the ball” is none other than Tatsuya Sugiyama, the captain of the Japanese football team.
Upon seeing this, Bai Di asked loudly: "Then who will take care of it?!"
“We’ll talk about it later!” Lin Zhiyuan answered him in a loud voice.
Sugiyama Tatsuya originally wanted to attract the Chinese team players to his side during the counterattack, and then pass the football to his teammates in the space.
As a result, when he looked up, he found that the forward Daisuke Hanada who was supposed to respond to him was actually followed by two defensive players from the Chinese team, leaving no room for him to pass the ball!
Of course Tatsuya Sugiyama can also wait for his other teammates to run up and pass the ball, but then the Chinese team's defense will be in place.
He looked at the Chinese team’s goalkeeper Lin Zhiyuan, gritted his teeth and decided to go and meet him for a while.
When he brought the ball close to the Chinese team's penalty area, Lin Zhiyuan shouted: "Bai Di, go up and force him now, don't let him break through the penalty area, let him shoot!"
Bai Di immediately rushed over and blocked Tatsuya Sugiyama's path with the ball. At the same time, Sun Gang continued to follow the Japanese team's forward Daisuke Hanada. Another defensive midfielder Zeng Chi had also returned to defend and withstood the ball.
Another Japanese forward, Takenori Kuroiwa, ran up and did not allow him any space to receive the ball.
Sugiyama Tatsuya saw Bai Di approaching, he quickly slowed down and changed direction, and then took a shot directly from outside the penalty area!
This is exactly what Lin Zhiyuan wanted him to do.
At the same time as he shot, Lin Zhiyuan rose into the air, stretched his arms lightly, caught the flying football, and then brought it back directly to his chest, and pressed it firmly under him when he landed. It was a standard and perfect set of goalkeeper skills.
After catching the football, Lin Zhiyuan got up from the ground, hugged the football, and shook his finger at Tatsuya Sugiyama: "What's the matter with you, little brother?"
“Lin Zhiyuan made a wonderful save to resolve the Japanese team’s counterattack!”
The Chinese fans in the stands cheered again, applauding Lin Zhiyuan's save.
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The Japanese team failed to counterattack this time, it was just part of the game.
It had no impact on either team.
It is impossible for the Japanese team to suffer heavy losses just because a counterattack failed.
Not to mention that because the counterattack was unsuccessful, the Chinese team sneak-attacked Lin Zhiyuan and started the attack again with a hand-thrown ball.
But the Japanese team retreated very quickly, leaving no opportunity for the Chinese team to take advantage of.
This team is obviously an Olympic team, but it shows the same maturity and stability as an adult team.
This has a lot to do with their midfielder Tatsuya Sugiyama.
After being provoked by Lin Zhiyuan wagging his finger, he was not angry. Instead, he immediately turned around and pointed at his own half and shouted to his teammates who were already pressing up: "Get back on defense quickly!"
Just as the other players of the Japanese team turned around and ran back, Lin Zhiyuan threw the football in his hand.
But facing the ebbing Japanese team, the Chinese team has lost the opportunity to counterattack, and can only stabilize the rhythm and slowly deal with the Japanese team.
Since it is the final and both teams want to win the championship, they will naturally play cautiously to avoid making mistakes on their own side.
As the head coach of the Japanese team, Koichi Sato must have studied the Chinese team and knew that the two wings of the Chinese team are very fast, so he asked the Japanese team to shrink deep enough and retreat fast enough when defending, without giving up
The Chinese team's two wide players leave space where speed can be exploited.
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Luo Kai almost dropped back to the middle to receive the ball.
The Japanese team's deep defense made him feel a little frustrated playing in the front. Just now, Shi Wuyin asked him to retreat deeper and he did so.
Next to Junfu Guo stood Junpei Morikawa, with his back to the direction of attack. He raised his arms not to ask for the ball, but to point in the direction of Luo Kai and shout: "Give the ball directly to Luo Kai, give it to him!"
Wang Guangwei took the ball at the back line and moved the long pass to the wing.
Luo Kai almost jumped up on the sideline and stopped the football with his chest.
At the same time as he stopped the ball, Japanese team forward Takenori Kuroiwa also pressed forward.
It was seen that Luo Kai did not raise his right leg to kick the football, but made an action to pass the football to the center to meet Gao Ruimin.
Kuroiwa Takenori quickly moved a step over there.
Just like that, he pushed the football into the space behind Takenori Kuroiwa. At the same time, he held Takenori Kuroiwa with his hands, and then accelerated on the spot to catch up with the football.
He almost brought the football along the sideline!
“Oh, beautiful!” Following He Feng’s roar, deafening cheers rang out from the stands.
Luo Kai, who broke through, dribbled the ball forward along the sideline.
When he met the second Japanese player, he slowed down and passed the football sideways to Guo Junfu, who came up to meet him.
At the same time, he continued to move forward.
Under the close defense of Morikawa Junpei, Guo Junfu did not stop the ball, but directly passed the football back to the front of Luo Kai's running position!
The two people played a one-two and hit the wall.
Luo Kai accelerated to catch up with football.
But at the same time, on the inside, the Japanese team also deployed a defensive line.
Two players are lying on his inside. If he wants to cut inside, he will collide with these two players. There is almost no space for him to cut inside.
The Japanese team obviously wants to let Luo Kai pass down the field and not let him enter the penalty area.
Luo Kai did indeed make a gesture of going directly to the bottom. He first gently pushed the football forward and at the same time rushed forward.
But after tricking the forward one of the two Japanese players to move, he suddenly stopped suddenly and used the outside instep of his left foot to move the football to the inside, allowing the football to pass between the two Japanese players.
He himself rushed in.
While forcing his way in, he was physically blocked by two Japanese players, but Luo Kai still used his physical advantage to force his way in.
Although he staggered a little, he finally got in.
“Luo Kai...beautiful inside cut! He went in!”
The cheers from the stands were even louder.
Yōichi Yamaura, the central defender of the Japanese Olympic team, comes up to defend Luo Kai.
He and Luo Kai exchanged kicks, and both of them fell to the ground, but Luo Kai got up from the ground faster than him, and took the lead to hook the stopped football back to his side, and then he was about to lose it.
While balancing, he shot the football towards the goal with his left foot!
Another Japanese central defender Yuichi Sakurai also rushed over and tried to block the ball with his foot, but the football flew past his toes and went straight to the back corner of the goal!
Japanese goalkeeper Hiroki Ueshima was originally blocking the shot angle from the front point. When he saw the football flying over, he quickly jumped back, but he did not touch the football!
Amidst the continuous cheers, the football flew into the Japanese team’s goal!
The cheers in the People's Stadium turned into explosions, and sonic bombs exploded in the stands!
Boom!
"Luo Kai Luo Kai...Luo Kai!! Good goal!! Beautiful!!! He single-handedly challenged the Japanese team's defense, relying on his super personal ability to kill each other in the Japanese team's defense! The Chinese team won the finals
took the lead!"
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In the bar, after Luo Kai pulled the ball in a V-shape to create a breakthrough, many former members of the Dongchuan Middle School football team stood up from their seats, staring at themselves on the projection screen with their eyes wide open.
The figure of this former teammate.
As he moved, they began to shout, the sound getting louder and louder.
Seeing the football fly into the Japanese team's goal, they all cheered: "Holy shit! Awesome!! Luo Kai is awesome!!"
When they were all playing in the same team, as teammates, when they watched Luo Kai's individual performance, they also said "awesome" in their hearts, and this is still the case today.
Luo Kai is the genius that all of them can only look up to from the beginning, and this has not changed until now.
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Luo Kai lost his balance after finishing the shot and fell to the ground again. He stood up and glanced at the football. After confirming that it was a goal, he got up from the ground, opened his arms and ran excitedly to the corner flag area.
In the final of the U23 Asian Cup, facing the Japanese team, he helped the Chinese team open the scoring!