Luo Kai followed his teammates from Hedong Thunder and walked out of the airport exit. Immediately, an enthusiastic reporter came up to him and extended the microphone to him: "Excuse me, Luo Kai, how does it feel to return to your hometown?"
“Very good.” Luo Kai replied concisely.
This made the reporter who asked the question a little embarrassed.
He originally wanted to use this method to get close to Luo Kai, to close the distance between them, and then move on to the next topic naturally.
Why did you think Luo Kai answered so coldly and blocked the next road.
At this time, a reporter next to him interrupted: "Luo Kai, you and Hu Lai have known each other since high school. You two must have a good relationship, right?"
Luo Kai's face stiffened for a moment, and then he said with a smile: "It's not bad."
Then he pointed to his teammates and said: "Sorry, I have to go to the car."
After saying that, without waiting for the other reporters to react, he jogged to catch up with his teammates.
In the seventh round of the league, Flash Stars faced off against Hedong Thunder at home.
Luo Kai returned to Anton again. This was his second time with the team to play away against Flash Stars.
The first time was in the Chinese League One last season, when he represented the Nanhai team.
But Luo Kai didn’t have any emotions about this. He was just here to defeat Hu Lai. The questions those reporters asked were really stupid.
How does it feel to return to your hometown?
It’s not like I haven’t been home for many years. I returned home after last season, okay?
The league has played six rounds, and Hu Lai, as the top scorer of the Stars, has scored four goals in the league.
Luo Kai failed to score a single goal.
Of course, this is related to Luo Kai’s positioning in Hedong Leiden.
In the tactics of Hedong Thunder head coach Yan Li, Luo Kai is not the main attacker. His task is to create opportunities for his teammates.
So far in the league, although he has not scored a goal, he has already had three assists. Judging from this data, he has completed the tactical requirements of the coach very well.
Because of this, now that he has firmly established himself as the main force of Hedong Thunder, Yan Li confidently and boldly hands over the team's right-side attack to this young man.
When Luo Kai returned to the team, a teammate touched his shoulder, then pointed at a few beautiful young girls in the distance and joked: "I didn't expect you have fans here, Luo Kai!"
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The name of Luo Kai was on the light sign held by the female fans.
Luo Kai glanced at them, and the female fans also noticed the gaze he cast, and cheered excitedly.
But Luo Kai did not respond, waved, or smiled. After they cheered, he quickly withdrew his gaze.
“Those few fans can’t help us turn the away game into a home game.” He also said.
“Well, who cares about this? What are you thinking about, Luo Kai?” The teammates were particularly speechless towards Luo Kai.
Luo Kai did not look at the excited female fans anymore, but followed his teammates and boarded the bus waiting outside.
His teammates were discussing enthusiastically which hotpot restaurant in Jincheng had the best hotpot and which had the most beauties. He, a native of Anton, did not participate. He only had Hu Lai in mind for the next game.
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"Luo Kai, he's in! Shoot as soon as you start! Danger!"
Amidst the exclamations of the commentator on Anton TV Sports Channel, Yu Zhiming jumped into the air and tried to lift the football out with one hand.
But he didn't touch the ball.
The football has flown into the goal he is guarding!
“This ball is beautiful!” CCTV commentator He Feng, as a neutral media, does not have such an obvious emotional tendency.
Whether it’s Anton Flashing Stars or Hedong Thunderbolts, it doesn’t matter who wins or loses? As long as the game is exciting.
“Luo Kai scored his first goal in the Chinese Super League!”
Luo Kai was very excited after scoring the goal. He didn't care that he was facing his hometown fans. He rushed to the corner flag area excitedly and performed a kneeling slide in front of the Stars fans.
Not only did he score, his goal also helped Hedong Thunder take the lead in the away game!
"Everyone knows that Luo Kai and Hu Lai were in the same class in the same high school and played together on the school team. Hu Lai also became professional players one after another? And they were on the Olympic team together.
Winning glory for the country and helping the Chinese Olympic team qualify for the Olympics... This experience is just like a plot. The common progress and competition between the two of them are destined to become a good story in Chinese football...
...can we see young people like Internet, Luo Kai, and Chen Xingyi grow up? We are so lucky!" He Ping said with emotion.
If he knew the true relationship between Hu Lai and Luo Kai? I'm afraid he wouldn't say this...
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“Luo Kai is in really good condition today...” Chen Xingyi said to Hu Lai after losing the ball. “It’s all because of you!”
“None of my business?” Hu Lai shook his head.
“Don’t you want to think about why he is in good condition today?”
“Maybe it’s because I saw you? Who doesn’t know that your fans and his fans are very difficult to deal with.”
"hehe."
When the head coach Zhao Kangming saw the score behind, he just frowned slightly and was not very angry.
Facing the team currently ranked third in the league, even at home, it is impossible to say that they can keep a clean sheet.
The goal was originally expected by him.
The key is not whether to concede the ball or not, but how to score the goal.
Of course he made careful preparations for this.
He believed that those young people who had a tacit understanding would not let him down.
They not only train together, but also live together, eat together, and play together. They also conduct morning exercises under the leadership of Qin Lin every morning... This kind of tacit understanding can no longer be described as a simple teammate relationship.
Even for Zhao Kangming, it is difficult to see such a teammate relationship. Some people may be able to maintain such a pure and pure relationship when they are in the youth team. After all, they live in the dormitory provided by the club and get along day and night. But after becoming professional players and adults, they
It would be difficult to continue like this.
The rapidly expanding income naturally brings about the need to separate the family and live on their own.
It would be considered weird to continue to live together, and there is no need for it. When my income is enough for me to live in a mansion and drive a luxury car by myself, it will be more convenient to be alone instead of forcibly tying myself to my teammates.
Together. At the very least, you don't have to explain to your roommates when you bring her home, and you don't have to worry about waking up your roommates if you do it too fiercely.
So Zhao Kangming has seen many players who have a good relationship. After they entered the adult team, they also lived their own lives and often gathered together, but it does not mean that they still have to live together.
Hu Lai and his friends were stunned but gathered together instead. Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo also discussed in private why this happened.
In the end, they discussed and discussed, and they could only attribute the cause of all this to Hu Lai.
I think it is Hu Lai's unique personal charm that connects these people with different personalities and experiences.
In other words, if there is no Hu Lai, then Zhang Qinghuan will be Zhang Qinghuan and will not become friends with anyone. Chen Xingyi may become friends with Wang Guangwei because they have known each other in high school, but Xia Xiaoyu is Xia Xiaoyu and may still be fighting each other.
Panpan desperately tries to integrate into the team.
As for Junpei Morikawa... he may not be able to integrate until he finally leaves the team. It is really difficult for a Japanese player, a Japanese player whose brain waves are not on the same channel as other players, to integrate into this team.
But after Hu Lai, the situation became different.
Hu Lai is like the hub between them. All the clues of interpersonal relationships are gathered in his head, and he distributes them out, bringing people who originally seemed incompatible together, creating a chemical reaction and becoming
We are friends who can understand each other with just one look on the court.
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The young people who had high hopes for Zhao Kangming did not disappoint him. At the end of the first half, through the tacit cooperation of the front three, Flashing Star scored the football into the penalty area of Hedong Thunder.
After receiving the pass from Zhang Qinghuan, Chen Xingyi, who broke through the ribs, passed the football back when he was approaching the baseline.
Hu Lai, who went straight forward, grabbed the football with the outside instep of his right foot before Hedong Thunder's defensive player stretched out his foot to block it.
The football flew into the goal from the back!
"Hu Lai! Wonderful! This shot is really wonderful!" The commentator of Anton TV Sports Channel was full of praise for Hu Lai's goal. "It's a big difference!"
Hao De, the goalkeeper of Hedong Thunder and the main goalkeeper of the national team, lay half on the ground and spread his hands, asking angrily: "Why did you let him go?!"
Central defender Sui Huiming, who was responsible for defending Hu Lai, lowered his head and did not argue with him.
Before the game, head coach Yan Li really asked him to keep an eye on Hu Lai.
But only after competing with this kid do you know that it is too difficult to completely freeze this guy. His movement is as erratic as a feather. The harder you try to catch it, the harder you push it.
farther.
Players are humans, not machines, and there will always be times when they are negligent.
To put it bluntly, there was a flaw in Hedong Thunder's defense. Most people's energy was attracted by Chen Xingyi's breakthrough.
Sui Huiming just gave Chen Xingyi a slight glance. After he saw Chen Xingyi passing the ball, he came back to look for Hu Lai, and Hu Lai had already rushed in front of him...
This guy is always looking for opportunities around you and won't let you relax at all.
In the first half of this season’s Chinese Super League, most of the Stars’ opponents will be playing against Hu Lai for the first time.
They will also experience for themselves why this young man has become a leader among the younger generation of players. Scoring goals is like chopping melons and vegetables.
Now Sui Huiming understood the power of Hu Lai.
Such a player who moves like a ghost in the penalty area really gives him a headache when it comes to defending.
In fact, he really wanted to say to Hao De: If you have the ability, try to guard against him and see if you can still say something like that?
But he didn't dare to say that. As the main goalkeeper of the national team, Hao De is also responsible for commanding the club's defense. He certainly has the right to criticize those defender teammates who he thinks are not doing well enough.
As a defender, if you talk like this, you are talking back.
will lead to conflicts within the team.
Sui Huiming knows very well that if this happens, head coach Yan Li will definitely feel that he has greater responsibility.
