Two hundred and ninetieth chapters their first steps
While the Chinese team was meeting behind closed doors in the hotel conference room, the second game of this World Cup, also the second game of Group A, the match between France and Uruguay had also begun.
By the time the Chinese team was about to take a bus to the Mercedes Stadium, the competition venue, the match between France and Uruguay had just ended.
The French team, which returned home in the group stage of the last World Cup, showed their strong attacking firepower in the first game this time.
Payet and Bonnet each scored a goal, plus an own goal from a Uruguayan player. In the end, the French team defeated the South American team with a score of 3:1 and got off to a good start.
Currently, the French team and the American team have the same three points and the same winning margin. However, the French team is temporarily ranked first because it scored more goals, and the United States is second. Uruguay has one goal, so it is ranked third, and the Korean team is at the bottom of the group.
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The first round of the group stage of Group A has come to an end, and now it’s the turn of Group B.
The first one to appear is the Chinese team, which will face Algeria. After their game, there will be a game between Brazil and Russia.
The Chinese team’s game will kick off at 4:00 pm local time in Atlanta on June 16th, and at 4:00am on June 17th Beijing time.
The outside of the hotel entrance was crowded with Chinese media reporters, as well as Chinese fans who could not buy tickets - those who had tickets were now at the Mercedes Stadium.
When the Chinese team players walked out of the lobby wearing uniforms and lined up to get on the bus, the fans at the scene were the first to start a commotion.
They waved the five-star red flag in their hands and shouted and screamed: "Come on, Team China!!"
“Hu Lai is awesome!”
“Luo Kai, I love you!!”
“Qing Huan!! Ah——Qing Huan!!”
“Chen Xingyi!! Chen Xingyi!!”
The reporters pressed the camera shutter and fixed the scene on the memory card.
In such a noisy environment, the on-site CCTV reporter had to raise his voice, which made him look particularly excited: "The Chinese team players are coming out! They are about to board the bus to the Mercedes Stadium! Audience friends
, this is the first time the Chinese team has started in the history of the World Cup!"
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Li Qingqing didn't wait for the alarm clock to ring, but was woken up by the sound of the TV in the living room.
Picked up the phone and saw that it was nearly an hour before the game started.
Then she saw Hu Lai's reply to herself: "Just got up."
It happened several hours ago, and she doesn't plan to reply again, because at this time, Hu Lai needs to concentrate on preparing for the battle, rather than chatting with her on WeChat.
“… Audience friends, this is the first time the Chinese team has started in the history of the World Cup!”
The excited words of the reporter on the TV set in the living room outside hit Li Qingqing’s ears at exactly this moment.
So her sleepiness disappeared and she sat up from the bed.
The Chinese team is going to the stadium, why should they sleep?
Get up and have fun... No, it’s to watch football!
She quickly changed her clothes, took her cell phone and got out of bed.
Opening the bedroom door, I saw red flags waving on the TV screen in the living room. Chinese team players were boarding the bus one by one, cheered by fans and reporters.
Hulai happened to appear in the close-up shot, and there were fans shouting his name at the top of their lungs.
Li Qingqing smiled and then asked Li Ziqiang who was sitting on the sofa: "Dad, why are you watching the game at home? Didn't Aunt Xie tell us to go to their house to watch the game?"
“What time is this? You may not have gotten up yet, so what are you going to do now?” Li Ziqiang answered his daughter’s question while lowering his head to check his phone. “Wait until the game starts soon before knocking on the door.”
“That’s right...” Li Qingqing herself got up more than half an hour earlier than expected.
After saying that, she went to the bathroom and washed her face with cold water to wake herself up completely. Then she returned to the living room and sat down with her father to wait for the game to start.
In the TV broadcast, all the players of the Chinese team had boarded the bus, closed the door, slowly started up, and drove away from the crowded hotel entrance.
Led by police cars clearing the way, they headed towards the Mercedes Stadium, the competition venue.
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Hulai stood in the tunnel, and the cameraman was next to him with a camera.
Hulai knows that the camera lens is pointing at him and his every move will appear in front of hundreds of millions of TV viewers.
But at this time, he didn't care about being clever in front of the camera lens like in the Olympics.
He looked expressionless on the surface, but he had actually entered the system space and was using the ten [Lingxi Cards] one by one for his starting teammates.
As the cards turned into white light one after another and were thrown into the bodies of his teammates, in his system vision, everything in front of him was completely white - the light chains of the teammates in front and behind gathered together to form a huge light pillar.
Fortunately, the light was not dazzling, otherwise Hu Lai would have been blind for a few minutes...
After using up all the [Spirit Cards], he began to equip himself with [Broken Bear Shin Guards], [Worn Bear Jersey] and [Lover's Red Rope].
Hu Lai, who was concentrating on setting buffs for himself, didn't know that his scene would be interpreted differently in the eyes of others.
“...Hu Lai looked serious in front of the camera. It can be seen that even Hu Lai rarely became nervous when facing the Chinese team in their first World Cup game..." He Feng said with emotion.
"Yes, I still remember his performance in the first Olympic Games. He was really relaxed and relaxed..." Yan Kang agreed, "And today he is obviously not very relaxed..."
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After the commentator said this, Xie Lan did not jump out to refute. Hu Lixin was a little surprised. I wonder if it was because Li Ziqiang and Li Qingqing were here today, and she couldn't let go... so she glanced in her direction.
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At this glance, I realized that Xie Lan's hands were tightly clenched into fists in front of his mouth, and his body was trembling slightly.
It’s not that I can’t let go, but I’m too nervous...
Hu Lixin did not laugh at his wife about this, because this was really a normal behavior.
He is also nervous, but he doesn't show it as obviously as his wife...
Xie Lan, who couldn't restrain her body from shaking, suddenly felt someone put a hand gently on her... knee.
Turning around to look, it was Li Qingqing sitting next to her.
The girl saw Xie Lan looking over and didn't say anything. She just smiled at her.
The shaking of Xie Lan's body suddenly eased a little.
So she gave Li Qingqing a grateful smile, and then continued to watch the live broadcast.
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Zhang Qinghuan, who was standing in the queue, suddenly raised his head with a feeling and cast his gaze diagonally forward.
There, he saw a man with long hair reaching his shoulders and a fair face staring in the direction of him.
That is Algeria’s captain, their midfielder Iris Sedli.
Zhang Qinghuan thought it was his own illusion, and the other party should not be looking at him.
So he looked back behind him to see if anyone else was looking at Sateri.
Haven’t seen anything like this happen.
Then he turned back and found that the other party was still looking in his direction.
That confirms that Sateri is indeed looking at himself.
As for why the other party looks at me...
Saideli noticed that Zhang Qinghuan also looked over, so he nodded slightly and smiled.
This smile appears on Sateri's rather handsome face, and it is sure to charm many women.
But Zhang Qinghuan's heart sank.
Because the man in front of him who nodded and smiled at him was not a dashing and suave "noble young man".
On the contrary, Illie Sedelli, who plays for San Marco, a mid-table team in Serie A, has a murderous nickname:
Killing machine.
As the saying goes, there is only the wrong name, not the wrong nickname.
So just from this nickname you can tell what kind of player Sateri is.
Sadeli, who is 1.8 meters tall, does not look very strong, but has outstanding core strength and is good at running. Sweeping in the midfield is his most common defensive method.
But this doesn’t matter, most sweeping midfielders play like this.
In addition to these characteristics, Sateri also has a very famous characteristic, that is... rough defense and extremely aggressive.
Such characteristics have made him somewhat "notorious" in Serie A.
This is a defensive player who seems to be rushing to kill the opponent every time he plays defense.
How could he show kindness to himself?
Don’t even think about it!
Such a smile must be a threat!
Zhang Qinghuan didn't want to look at this lunatic, so he looked away, trying to keep his heart calm before such an important game.
Seeing the Chinese players' reaction, Sateri grinned widely this time, showing his teeth.
He turned around and looked away, standing at the front of the team, holding the team flag that would be exchanged later in his hand, slinging it behind his back, raising his head slightly, like a proud general who had won a battle.
Soon the referee team came up from behind and said to the captains of both sides: "Get ready, gentlemen!"
Saideli didn’t even look back. Yao Huasheng, who was next to him, turned around and applauded his teammates: “I’m on the field! I’m on the field! Cheer up!”
Other Chinese team players turned around to remind their teammates behind them and encourage each other.
Then the players from both sides took their caddies, followed the referee team and their own captains, and moved forward.
With the crisp sound of spikes, these two teams, both entering the World Cup for the first time, took their first steps in the history of the World Cup.
The players from both teams walked onto the court under the guidance of the national flags of their respective countries and stood in a row. The live broadcast reminded everyone that the national anthems of both participating teams would be played next.
For the Algerian and Chinese teams, this is the first time that their respective national anthems have been played on the World Cup stage.
The stadium quickly became quiet.
The Algerian national anthem was played first.
Every Algerian player who appeared on camera seemed to have tears in his eyes and sang along to the music with great excitement.
This is their moment of glory.
After the Algerian national anthem, there was a round of applause and a brief cheer.
Then the radio prompts: "The national anthem of the People's Republic of China will be played below!"
The cheers stopped suddenly, and the stadium was silent.
“Get up—people who don’t want to be slaves!”
When the national anthem of the People's Republic of China was played on the TV, in front of the TV and in the KTV box, Yan Yan, Chu Yifan and their friends stood side by side in a row. It was like on a football field.
The same goes for the Chinese team players.
They sang along with the national anthem on TV.
“Build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood!”
Not only in the box of this KTV, but also in other places in China, the audience in front of the TV also stood up and sang the national anthem in front of the screen.
“The Chinese nation has reached its most dangerous moment!”
On the bus, in the subway car, on the road...the fans watching the live broadcast on their mobile phones also held the screen, remained silent, and sang the national anthem silently.
“Everyone is forced to give one last roar——”
A deafening roar rang out over the Mercedes Stadium in Atlanta.
Those fans who came from far away China, those overseas Chinese in the United States and Canada, and international students... raised their voices to join this chorus.
“Get up! Get up!! Get up!!!”
The broadcast camera scanned the coaching bench and bench of the Chinese team in sequence. Both the coaches and the bench players were standing in front of their seats, facing the direction of the national flag.
“We are united! Brave the enemy’s artillery fire – move forward!”
The camera once again scanned the starting eleven players of the Chinese team. Through the live recording of the microphone, the TV audience could even hear the songs sung from their mouths.
"Brave the enemy's fire, advance! Advance! Advance! Advance!!"
As the last note disappeared, huge cheers could not wait to be heard from the stadium stands.
The captain Yao Huasheng in the camera clapped his hands hard and shouted to his teammates: "Get ready to play! Brothers!"
In the KTV box, Chu Yifan and Yan Yan were like captains, shouting excitedly: "Coming, coming, coming! The game is coming!!"
Countless Chinese fans in front of the TV are also shouting:
“Come on Team China!!”
The Chinese team’s World Cup is finally coming!
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PS, during the World Cup plot, considering that this plot is very important to the entire novel - not because of the final results of the Chinese team, but because this World Cup is a connecting part for the entire novel, and its
The significance is definitely not the final ranking of the Chinese team.
I hope to use this World Cup to portray those important figures and make them more vivid.
So there will be more pages in the competition.
But considering the update, if I still maintain the original rhythm, I am always worried about you scolding me, which makes me involuntarily want to speed up the pace when writing, hurry up and hurry up.
But doing this actually goes against my original intention, and may cause me to miss some things and fail to explain the completeness of the depiction.
In other words, I don’t want to write fast, I want to write slowly.
Write out everything that needs to be written.
In this case, I guess there will be people complaining about "I haven't even finished writing XX chapters of a game yet".
So in order to make the experience of readers who follow the series a little better, I decided to update the game three times a day, but the plot outside the game will be updated once a day.
Three updates a day allows you not to feel delayed for too long, and it also allows me to write what I want to write during the competition more calmly.
At the first update of the day, I was asked to make up for the manuscripts I had used before, so that I would not be overwhelmed by the update progress. After all, the summer vacation is approaching, and there will be a lot of trivial matters in my life, so writing will definitely be stressful.
Influenced.
When will be the third update and when will be the single update? I will also explain it in the update the day before.
First of all, there will be three updates a day for tomorrow, the day after tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.