Chapter 92 Say what you want to say and do what you want to do
"...Recently, the words of Hu Lai, the youngest player selected for the U22 training team, caused an uproar on the Internet. So what did he say? He said that his dream is to lead the Chinese team to win the World Cup. That's it.
After being posted on the Internet, it attracted a lot of cynicism. Some self-media said he was arrogant, while others thought he was sensationalizing..."
"Arrogance is nothing! Grandstanding is nothing!"
In the locker room below the stands of Qingyang Yigao Stadium, Zhou Zijing was shouting curses on his mobile phone.
“Those marketing accounts know nothing!”
"Team Zhou, Team Zhou, pay attention...there are fans of yours outside..." The teammates in the locker room winked at Zhou Zijing.
"So what if there are fans?" Zhou Zijing ignored the female fans waiting outside the locker room. Instead, he pointed to the "Goal" news on his mobile phone and said to his teammates, "Tell me, are all those people there?"
Are they a bunch of idiots? Our own players said they wanted to win the World Cup. Isn’t that a sign of ambition? How come they fell into the eyes of such a group of guys with dark psychology and turned into arrogance and grandstanding?"
"Hey, Team Zhou, who told us that our national team doesn't even know where the World Cup door opens? In fact, they are not criticizing Hu Lai, they are criticizing Chinese football. In competitive sports, weakness is the original sin..."
"You can't say that, you have to be reasonable. Don't they want Chinese football to be good?" Zhou Zijing frowned.
"Maybe people really don't want Chinese football to be good. Chinese football is good, so we can't criticize them casually. Aren't they missing a channel to vent?" someone sneered.
Zhou Zijing was stunned for a moment when his teammates said this, and then shook his head helplessly: "What do they think of Chinese football?"
"For what? As a spittoon."
Zhou Zijing looked down at the photo of Hu Lai on his phone. He was already wearing the training uniform of the Chinese team, with a bright five-star red flag on his chest.
Where can I find such a beautiful spittoon?
"Okay, I've decided, I'm going to play football in this spittoon from now on!" Zhou Zijing said, pointing to the screen of his mobile phone.
The locker room was quiet for two seconds, and then everyone applauded: "Come on Team Zhou!"
"If Team Zhou is you, then there will be no problem!"
"Team Zhou has great goals and ambitions! It is indeed Team Zhou!"
Zhou Zijing was amused by his teammates' rainbow farts: "Let's set a small goal first and come back with a national championship!"
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When Luo Kai came out of the gym, he looked like he had just been fished out of the water. Every step he took was a wet footprint under his feet. Sweat was like a waterfall, flowing down from his forehead to his chin.
Pointed, it fell down. It flowed down his arm, to the tips of his fingers, and was thrown everywhere as he moved his arm.
When he walked from the gym to the door of the locker room, he heard his teammates discussing a name that he was very familiar with.
"Is this kid Hu Lai drifting off?"
"Fuck, I just joined a training team, and my tail is raised to the sky... I can even say something like the World Cup..."
"It's not necessarily because he's floating. Haven't you seen that everyone is talking about him now? He is quite popular. Maybe they did it on purpose, just to become famous?" The person who said this was the midfielder of the Nanhai team.
Liao Tinghui, in the 32nd round of the Chinese League One last season, the Stars challenged Nanhai away from home. He was responsible for defending Zhang Qinghuan during the game.
Originally, under his defense, Zhang Qinghuan had almost no power to fight back.
As a result, Hu Lai got into trouble with the two, and he could only restrain his hands in defense.
And he was almost tricked by Hu Lai.
So until now he is still impressed by Hu Lai's cunning.
Others might think that Hu Lai was arrogant when he said this, but he felt that Hu Lai was just trying to please others.
At this moment, Luo Kai walked into the locker room.
Everyone was shocked when they saw his appearance again: "Luo Kai, did you go swimming?"
"You don't need to get your clothes and pants wet all over while swimming, right?"
Luo Kai explained to everyone: "I trained in a raincoat."
A group of people stared at him dumbfounded.
Everyone knows what training in a raincoat is.
If you don't know, imagine running on a treadmill in a hot and stuffy room with the doors and windows closed in the summer. It won't take long for sweat to spread all over your body.
The feeling of exercising in a raincoat is ten times worse than this stuffy feeling.
Because raincoats are generally not breathable, wearing them is like wearing a plastic bag. The heat emitted by the body cannot be discharged, and more sweat will be produced. This training method requires a high load on the heart and lungs.
"Luo Kai, I remember you were injured before, right?" Captain Wang Yiru stood up, "You should take it easy? Don't practice too hard, as that will increase the chance of getting injured again."
Luo Kai nodded: "Thank you, Captain Wang, I will pay attention to it."
Then he went to the shower room in the locker room and took a shower.
When the sound of rushing water inside started, the Nanhai team players looked at each other and lowered their voices and said, "I remember Luo Kai and Hu Lai were in the same team before?"
"It is said that he entered the professional team earlier than Hu Lai..."
"Must be stimulated."
"That's right when you think about it. He entered the professional team a year earlier than Hu Lai, but now everyone is going to the National Olympics, but he is on loan from the Chinese Super League to the Chinese Premier League..."
"I think this is a good thing for our team. With such a high-spirited Luo Kai, maybe we will have a chance to advance this season..."
Captain Wang Yiru shook his head: "Promotion does not depend on one person, but on the efforts of the whole team. I am even more worried that if he continues to practice like this, his body will be unable to bear it..."
Luo Kai let the hot water pour down on him from head to toe under the nozzle. Luo Kai did not rush to apply shower gel on his body, but just stood in the water with his head lowered and hands down.
While he was still trying to achieve zero breakthrough goals in the professional league, Hulay had already scored 11 goals in the league in the first half of the season.
When he decided to loan to the Chinese League Nanhai team to get more playing opportunities, Hu Lai had already been selected for the National Olympic training team.
For the first time, Luo Kai had this idea - will I never be able to catch up with him?
He clenched his fists tightly and his body trembled slightly in the hot water.
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"...To be honest, at first, when I heard Hu Lai's words, I reflexively thought that he was arrogant or trying to please others. But when I came up with something that made big news
When I returned to the editorial office excitedly, I met my senior teacher Sun Yonggang and Sun. He told me an old story about Hu Lai...
"At that time, Hu Lai was just a freshman in high school. He participated in the national competition for the first time with the Dongchuan Middle School football team. He was not even a starter in the team and could only come on as a substitute. But Luo Kai had already made a sensation in the national competition and became a
He became the target of many media reporters. At that time, Hu Lai was under the shadow of Luo Kai and no one cared about him. It was under such circumstances that Teacher Sun noticed that Hu Lai was practicing more celebrations on the training ground!"
"It's true. I was there at the time." Yan Yan said to his roommates with a serious look on his cell phone, "You can't imagine why Hu Lai had this idea - to go and practice the celebration.
.It was as if he knew from that time that he would often use this set of celebrations in the future... In fact, he did use it often. So I always said that he was the chosen one! I even felt that the coach was playing tricks on Hu.
From the moment Lai was recruited into the school team, it was destined that the Dongchuan Middle School football team would win the national championship! The coach has a unique vision, and Hu Lai lived up to his expectations. It was a perfect match!"
His roommates listened intently to Yan Yan's story about Hu Lai's past, with focused expressions.
"He has a kind of mysterious confidence, as if it is a kind of intuition and prophecy. He just firmly believes that he will do it. Now I think it may be because he believes so strongly and works hard towards this goal that he can finally achieve it when others do.
It seems unbelievable. Don't listen to the nonsense of those marketing accounts and self-media on the Internet. None of them even watch a game. They don't even know who the Chinese team is. When I hear the word "national football", I have an orgasm in my head.
It’s so fast, they’re all just here to gain popularity! Those who engage in overseas purchasing can come and laugh at Hu Lai, so are they worthy of it? Just wait to be slapped in the face!”
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"I believe that many people have seen the set of celebrations that Hu Laijia practiced at that time. Yes, they are Hu Laijia's signature celebrations... And who would have thought that he first practiced this set on the training ground.
Why is it that seven or eight times out of ten he fails to perform the movements? But just as people couldn't understand him when he practiced additional celebration movements, now he says he wants to win the World Cup, but people don't understand him either.
"What is not understood by others is his answer when he was later interviewed by Teacher Sun. Teacher Sun asked him what his prospects for the future were. In fact, he just wanted to ask him what he thought about the next national competition. But guess what Hu Lai said?
Who answered this question? By the way, he said he wanted to become a professional player.
"Look, is it very similar to today? A substitute who couldn't even start in the middle school team said seriously to the media that he wanted to become a professional player. A rookie who was selected for the Olympic training team for the first time said so.
To win the World Cup... Two future prospects, the same question, different answers, but the same taste. So everyone, when you scolded this young man for being arrogant and grandstanding, did you ever think that he was just really serious?
He just said what was in his heart.
"It's obviously true, why don't you believe it? Maybe it's because we have long been accustomed to wearing masks and playing our own role in this society. This role is what others want to see and is beneficial to ourselves.
But it is not the real self. When everyone is used to telling lies and hiding their true inner thoughts, someone suddenly speaks out his inner thoughts. Even if this true words are so sincere and respectable, but
Most people's first reaction is probably to laugh at him, angrily rebuke him, belittle him, and besiege him...
"Are they angered by this young man's 'arrogance'? No, they were just hurt by his 'sincerity'. Just like a human who has lived in a dark cave for a long time, when he sees the sun for the first time
The reaction was not joy, but fear.
"Young people's lofty ideals, or even nonsense...what's the crime? Let people be so verbally criticized? We...everyone in Chinese football, have we been sunk for too long and been afraid for too long?
, cowered for too long, crawled in the dark cave for too long... so that you forgot what the sun looks like? When you encounter something beyond your own knowledge, you only have dark side thoughts in your heart, and cannot tolerate the slightest light...
"In that case, let this young man bring light to everyone!"
(Reporter: Zhang Chao)
After Li Ziqiang finished reading this article, he put down his phone and turned to look at the window.
The curtains were opened, and the morning sunlight poured in from the glass window, shining on the mobile phone, and then being reflected by the mobile phone screen to the ceiling.
The house he rented near Dongchuan Middle School, because it is an elevator apartment and has a high floor, has much better lighting than the previous old house. Therefore, he now likes to open the curtains every morning after getting up to let the sunlight in.
, making every corner of the room bright.
He would not close the curtains again until he came back from get off work and the last ray of sunset disappeared over the western mountains.
Now he is looking at the city shrouded in bright sunshine.
Under the sunlight, the glass windows of the buildings in the distance shone brightly.
Under the sunshine, the bougainvillea on the balcony of the residential building opposite bloomed more beautifully.
Under the sunshine, every corner of the city becomes lively.
The song that the "Goal" official account put at the beginning of this article is still playing in a loop, playing through the speaker of the mobile phone.
"...Woo oo oo Woo oo oo...open the curtains. I am full of emotions. I am a lucky child. It is like a new life..."
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Li Qingqing stopped sliding the phone screen, so the content on the screen stayed at the last few paragraphs of the article.
She kept staring at the last sentence of the article.
The soundtrack of the public account was continuously played into her ears through the headphones.
"...Look at your young self, the youthful atmosphere... Life belongs to you, don't care about their principles, just say what you want to say and do what you want to do..." (Note 1)
She shook her head slightly, moved her lips to the music, and repeated silently in her heart:
Go ahead and say what you want to say, do what you want to do, and don't care about their reasoning, Hu Lai.