A few years later, Maxi Carey announced his retirement, and the famous sports reporter Lemon Rainey went to interview him.
The interview between the two was later included in Rainey's new book "The Archer" which won the "Wish Sports Book Award".
In this interview, Lemon Rennie asked: "I have a question that I have always wanted to ask you, Maxi. It's about the ball in the Champions League final that year. You know, it was later known as
The 'Assist of the Century' ball..."
After he said "Assist of the Century," Kyrie laughed.
Then he nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, that ball... ha!"
Rennie also laughed: "What do you think of the description 'assist of the century'?"
"I don't know...but it sounds cool."
"Can you please recall the situation at that time? Do you know what Hu was thinking about shooting?"
"I thought he was crazy, right? Shooting here, this is the center circle... Besides, he is not the kind of player who is particularly good at scoring long shots, but I was too late to stop him..."
"Do you think he wasted an offensive opportunity frivolously?"
Kaili nodded: "Yes."
"Then let's see your expression at that time..." Reni took out his mobile phone and started playing the clip at that time.
In the clip, Maxi Carey slowly turned around and looked at Hu Lai in stunned silence.
Kaili himself was amused by this scene, and he kept shaking his head with a smile.
"What are you thinking about at this time, Maxie?" Lennie asked.
"What am I thinking about?" Kaili tilted his head, looking diagonally upward at a 45-degree angle, as if recalling.
Then he shook his head: "I didn't think about anything, Lemon. My mind was blank at that time, so I didn't think about anything."
Reni nodded in agreement: "I'm afraid many people were just like you at that time, their minds were blank and they couldn't think about anything."
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Xie Lan turned to look at her husband and asked in a hesitant tone: "Does this goal... count as a goal?"
Hu Lixin did not answer his wife's question immediately, not because he did not know, but because he had not yet recovered from the shock of the ball.
It wasn't until his wife shook his arm vigorously that he came back to his senses and answered her question:
"Forget it, it should be considered."
"Should?" Seeing that her husband's answer was not very positive, the wife asked.
"It definitely counts, it definitely counts..."
Before he finished speaking, the referee standing outside the center circle blew his whistle and pointed his finger at the center circle - this is a valid gesture for scoring a goal!
However, the cheers did not start immediately, and the center court was still relatively quiet, so his whistle was particularly clear.
There are many people like Hu Lixin who have not recovered from the shock of this ball.
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Chen Xingyi turned around and looked at his father, not knowing what to say.
Zhang Qinghuan and Sun Juan looked at the court in sync with their expressions and movements.
Luo Kai stood in front of his seat, holding his hands on the huge glass floor-to-ceiling window. It seemed that if he didn't hold on like this, he would fall down.
Next to him was Lilith, who was also standing. Her eyes widened and she covered her mouth with her hands.
There are also Wang Guangwei, Xia Xiaoyu...
Countless people with names and no names, they all behaved like this when the football flew into the goal.
Don't blame them for not seeing the world.
Such a "world"... they have never seen it before!
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In the stands, the Kings women's football players, who had not yet finished celebrating Melly's hat trick, were standing in front of their seats blankly, staring at the Kings goal with dumbfounded eyes.
Li Qingqing was also standing, but she raised her hands as if to cheer for Hu Lai's goal.
But in the end, she lowered her hands and clasped them on her head - she held her head in her hands, her eyes widened with an incredible expression on her face.
This was not something she was adapting to. She really didn't expect Hu Lai to take advantage of the kick-off opportunity and shoot a goal directly from the center circle...
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When the Madrid Pirates kicked off, the Argentinian commentator continued to praise Melli's performance very fast, like a machine gun.
When the football flew into the goal of the King of Madrid, he was like a rooster that was suddenly strangled by the neck. Halfway through his crow, he let out a hiccup and stopped abruptly.
He stared at the court blankly in the commentary box, his mind went blank, he lost his ability to speak and his ability to think.
He Feng and Yan Kang, who were not far from the Argentine commentator, jumped up from their seats at the same time. They were raising their arms and shouting at the top of their lungs:
"Hu Lai——!! Hu Lai!! Ahhh! It's incredible! It's amazing! It's unbelievable! It's amazing! It's amazing! The opening... no, the kick-off... the goal was scored from the kick-off!
Hu Lai once again accomplished such an amazing feat!"
"In the second round of the Champions League semi-finals, Hulay once took advantage of the kick-off opportunity to score directly. But this time he went a step further and shot the ball directly into the King's goal from the center circle! After Melli, he also became
The player who scored a hat-trick in the Champions League final!"
"Did I say before that Hulay's first goal in this game, that hook relay, should be the best goal in the Champions League this season? Sorry, I changed my mind... This goal is the best goal this season.
The best goal in the Champions League!”
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"I'm so fucking awesome!!"
"Hu Lai Niubi!"
Everyone in the living room was "crying like ghosts and howling like wolves."
Chu Yifan was teasing Yan Yan: "Old Yan, why didn't you guess this ball?"
Yan Yan confidently said: "Isn't it normal that I didn't guess it? If Hu Lai makes me guess every ball, doesn't it mean that I am better than him?"
Chu Yifan smiled and said: "But you should have guessed it, because there is precedent."
"precedent?"
"In the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals, Hulay also scored just after Becker set the record. So I thought you would guess that Hulay would definitely score immediately. Isn't he the 'Chosen One'? He couldn't score.
This kind of lucky ball, what kind of 'Chosen One' is this?"
Yan Yan: "..."
Then he patted Chu Yifan hard on the shoulder: "Captain Chu, my position as archbishop is passed on to you!"
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In the bar, countless people were screaming and cheering.
They also used beer as champagne and squirted it wildly.
In the noisy crowd, Yao Yuling screamed and hugged Peng Hao beside her.
She was so strong that even if Peng Hao tried to break free, he couldn't.
Of course, Peng Hao only broke free symbolically and let nature take its course. An excited smile appeared on his face, he waved his fist and shouted:
"Hu Lai Niu Pi! Hu Lai Niu Pi!"
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The Spanish commentator Alvarez Sanchez reacted and roared in a long voice. After the roar, his mouth fired like a machine gun:
"Hu! Hu! It's so terrible! Such a performance is too terrible! Melly's hat trick is surprising enough, but Hu can surprise us even more! We are so surprised that we can't open our mouths from ear to ear! What can be better than this?
Is there a more amazing way to complete the hat trick - shooting directly from the center circle at the kick-off to complete his third goal of the game! To be honest, I once thought that when Melli had already completed the hat trick,
, how Hu wants to fight back, I have thought about many possible ways for him to fight back, but I never thought that he could respond to Meili like this! Look at Meili, he seems to be frightened too..."
Melly once thought that Hu Lai was intimidated by his hat trick, but now he was really intimidated by Hu Lai.
Just like commentator Sanchez, Melly also thought that Hulay might score a goal, but he also didn't expect that Hulay's third goal would come so quickly... and in such a way!
He stood there, staring at Hu Lai dumbfounded.
The heroic spirit he had just aroused suddenly disappeared and turned into nothing...
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It was definitely not just Melli who was hit, but also the players and fans of the Madrid Kings.
Especially the fans.
Now they feel exactly the same as the Pirates fans after Melli just scored, feeling some kind of... despair!
Melly scoring three goals in the final is already amazing.
But Hu Lai was like Meili's shadow, pursuing him relentlessly.
This goal is like telling all Madrid Kings fans:
Don't think you can just get rid of me!
If Melli's goal demoralized the Madrid Pirates fans by 10, then Julay's goal could have a 100 demoralizing effect on the Madrid Kings fans.
Because he scored the goal too easily and too quickly...
It was like two people were racing. Hu Lai asked Melly to run 40 meters first, and then chased him. He actually caught up with Melly before the finish line...
How do King fans feel?
After the initial shock, Milan Central Stadium gradually came to life.
The songs and cheers of Pirates fans became the "main theme" in this stadium, while Kings fans collectively fell into silence.
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Hulay and Carey have withdrawn from the center circle, leaving it to the players of the Madrid Kings.
Vandenberg, who was responsible for kicking off the ball, walked into the center circle somewhat numbly, but the football still didn't come from behind.
He stood in the middle circle a little confused, not knowing what to do for a while.
He reflexively turned his attention to the coaching bench on the sidelines, wanting the head coach to give orders.
But their head coach Roy Wei stood on the sidelines, motionless, motionless like a sculpture.