Because it was during the training camp, Shi Wuyin did not designate a penalty kicker for his team. This work is usually done after the game. Anyway, there are only a few people who are good at penalty kicks.
The coach knows it well, and when the time comes, he will choose from these people, rank them in order, and usually take penalty kicks in this order.
If there is no designated penalty kicker, then everyone defaults to a rule - whoever earns the penalty kick will take the penalty.
Hu Lai just stood in front of the penalty spot.
Speaking of which, although he was asked by the coach to practice penalty kicks in high school, he was designated as the team's top penalty kicker.
But Hu Lai has never taken a penalty kick in a game... because Dongchuan Middle School has never taken a penalty kick in a game.
When he went to the Flash Star first team, the team's top penalty taker was not him, but veteran Qin Lin, so naturally he didn't get his turn.
So although coach Li Ziqiang was very convinced that Hu Lai was the most suitable candidate to take a penalty kick, it was not until now that Hu Lai stood at the penalty spot for the first time in the game.
After the referee blew the whistle, he took a running start and kicked the football neatly into the goal.
The goalkeeper of the Tenglong reserve team made a wrong judgment in the direction and was completely helpless against Hu Lai's shot.
In the end, with Hu Lai's two goals in the second half, the U22 training team defeated the Tenglong reserve team 2:1 in the warm-up match.
After the game, everyone ate together in the restaurant. Guo Junfu sat down next to Hu Lai with a dinner plate.
When he sat down, everyone looked at him.
Including Hu Lai.
This is really an amazing move.
When this training team just started training, the players were clearly differentiated. The Chinese Super League players and veteran players were all in the same group, and the Chinese League One players were joining the group to keep warm.
This can be seen from everyone's seats during the meal.
Chinese League One players gather together, Chinese Super League players gather together.
But later, as the training camp progressed and everyone became familiar with each other, this barrier was broken. When eating, everyone no longer just looked at their respective identities. It was normal to get together with good friends, and there was no difference between the Chinese Premier League and the Chinese Super League.
, the old and new players are not as divided as before.
But the exception is between Guo Junfu and Hu Lai.
Everyone knows that Guo Junfu once went out to talk to Hu Lai alone. No one knows what they talked about specifically, but what is certain is that Guo Junfu must have been unhappy with Hu Lai. The two of them had an unhappy chat.
This can also be seen from the fact that the two of them are never at the same table when eating.
But it was just a conflict between two people, and it did not escalate. Neither Hu Lai nor Guo Junfu formed cliques, eliminated dissidents, and insisted on getting rid of those they disliked.
Despite this, the invisible conflict between Guo Junfu and Hu Lai still makes many people feel uneasy. It is like a time bomb buried in the team that will explode at any time.
Today, Guo Junfu took the initiative to sit at Hu Lai's table, and he was also next to Hu Lai. Everyone knew what this meant.
This means that Guo Junfu took the initiative to show his goodwill, and the tense relationship between the two people seems to have eased.
Seeing this scene, many people breathed a sigh of relief.
Hu Lai has a high status in the hearts of the Chinese League One players, and Guo Junfu is also the core of the entire Olympic team. If the two of them get into trouble, it will not be good for anyone.
In front of everyone, Guo Junfu said they said: "Director Shi just told me that before the end of the training camp, we will have a small social event with the women's national football team..."
"Wow!!!" The people at several tables immediately threw the relationship between Hu Lai and Guo Junfu out of their minds and cheered collectively.
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In the locker room, the players of the women's national team finished training and returned to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes.
The captain of the national team, Lan Lixin, clapped her hands and reminded everyone: "Everyone, please change your clothes and stay here for a while. I have something to tell you."
The team members who were about to take a shower stopped and looked at her curiously. Xu Wen simply asked: "What's the matter, Sister Lan? Can you tell me now?"
"That's okay, it's just a matter of words anyway." Lan Lixin nodded, "The training camp is about to end. Everyone has worked hard in the past half month. The team leader wanted to let us relax, so he decided to go to South Korea.
Have a party with the Olympic team who are training here together."
"Ah! Party?!"
"Do you want to sing?" someone asked excitedly. There is a KTV private room in the training base, but no one is allowed to use it without permission from the leaders, and it is usually locked.
"Bonfire party?"
The locker room suddenly became lively. Everyone stopped taking a shower and just fantasized about it.
"What a beautiful idea you have!" Captain Lan Lixin was angry and funny. "What are you thinking about? It's just a fun sports meeting, playing some games on the court to let everyone relax. After all, we will go to South Korea to play the East Asian Cup.
Then we need to prepare prizes. If the Olympic team beats us, we will lose the prize to them. This prize does not need to be too expensive, but it cannot be too perfunctory..."
Xu Wen raised her hand: "Sister Lan, is this prize for the whole team or for a specific person?"
"It should belong to the team, how can I give it to one person?" Lan Lixin said.
Li Qingqing, who had already taken off his shirt and was only wearing a sports vest, said casually: "How about taking a jersey signed by our entire team as a prize?"
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"Do you want to prepare a prize? I want to give Qingqing my handsome photo!"
"Disgusting! I want to prepare a postcard for Qingqing..."
The players of the Olympic team didn't even bother to eat. They all started thinking about how to give gifts to Li Qingqing in disguise.
Guo Junfu coughed and knocked on the table: "What are you thinking? There is only one prize, and it is not given to a certain person, but to the entire team. Besides, do you really want to lose? Do you think so?
Shouldn’t we try every possible means to win the prizes prepared for us by the women’s national football team?”
When he said this, everyone came to their senses - this is really the case!
"Then what prizes are we preparing here?" someone asked.
Hu Lai raised his hand: "How about the whole football and sign our names on it."
Everyone turned to look at him.
"Uh, what? Did I say something wrong?" Hu Lai asked with a guilty conscience in front of everyone.
"I think Hu Lai's idea is good." Someone looked back at Guo Junfu and said.
"I also think Hu Lai's idea is good."
Guo Junfu nodded: "That's it!"
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In this way, on the afternoon of the next day, the Chinese Olympic team and the Chinese women's football team finally walked to the same training ground to start socializing.
The female team members, wearing training uniforms, gathered together, laughing and chatting, while sizing up the players from the opposite Olympic team.
The Olympic team players have to be more cautious. Many people are particularly interested in Li Qingqing, but they don't dare to look at it blatantly. They can only look at him from a distance. If they find someone on the other side looking at them, they will
Look away shyly.
When Hu Lai saw this scene, he couldn't help but snorted.
Everyone thought they were so thick-skinned, but they turned out to be just a bunch of fledglings.
If our brother Huan were here, I'm afraid he would have rushed into the crowd opposite and called my sister one by one to add WeChat!
After cleaning up Zhang Qinghuan in his heart, Hu Lai calmly turned his attention to Li Qingqing, the figure he had seen countless times.
Even if Li Qingqing noticed his gaze, she did not move away, but continued to look at him.
After Li Qingqing saw Hu Lai staring at her, she also smiled sweetly towards him.
"Wow, Qingqing smiled at me!"
"Fart, you are obviously smiling at me!"
"Haha, how brave are you?"
When Hu Lai saw everyone arguing, he advised them: "Don't argue, everyone. Li Qingqing is just smiling at me!"
The teammates turned to look at Hu Lai and started arguing again: "It's me!"
"No, it's me!"
Hu Lai rolled his eyes when he saw this and was too lazy to argue with them.
He took out his mobile phone, lowered his head and sent a WeChat message to Li Qingqing: "They are arguing about who you are smiling at. Do you think these people are boring? In order to stop them from arguing, I told them you were smiling at me, but they didn't believe it.
!What’s wrong with this society? No one believes you when you tell the truth, so you have to force people to show off... I’m so angry!”
"You're even more boring..." Li Qingqing came over with an eye-rolling expression.
At the same time, the women's football team was also talking about the boys on the opposite side.
"This Olympic training team is really disappointing...there are not many handsome guys."
"Alas, Guan Xinyan didn't come, and the average appearance level of the Olympic team plummeted..."
"Yes, yes, only Guan Xinyan can play some... Hey, Xu Wen, aren't you and Guan Xinyan in the same club? Can we see each other on a regular basis?"
Xu Wen pouted: "Where is it so easy to see? Our training base and the men's football team are not together. Unless there are some official activities, they will be arranged together... Ah, you have to ask Qingqing about this. She once participated in it with Guan Xinyan
Activity."
Li Qingqing was chatting with Hu Lai on WeChat when she heard Xu Wen mention her name. She had to put down her phone and said with a little hesitation in front of everyone's expectant eyes: "Just... okay."
"What kind of activity is it?" someone asked curiously.
"It was a promotion event for football to enter campuses. As partners, Qingqing and Guan Xinyan went to several primary schools and middle schools to promote..." Xu Wen interrupted to introduce, then covered her mouth and laughed, "After that, there was an additional kind of fan among the fans.
It is said that Qingqing and Guan Xinyan are the golden boys and girls of Shanhai Football..."
Li Qingqing waved her hands and frowned slightly: "It's all nonsense from the fans."
However, her behavior was seen as shy in the eyes of her teammates. They cheered: "Wow, so romantic!"
"Oh, speaking of which, the two of them are indeed of a similar age..."
"This picture is really beautiful when I think about it!"
After hearing what everyone said, Li Qingqing did not directly refute them, but sighed inwardly.
Sometimes... it was these times that she really envied Hu Lai, who could bravely express his thoughts and live the way he wanted regardless of what others thought of him or what they said about him.
And she didn't dare to live up to others' expectations, didn't dare to directly express her truest thoughts, let alone... be willful, or she was not qualified to be willful.
Since high school, in the eyes of others, Hu Lai may have been a clown who could be laughed at casually. But in the eyes of this girl who lost her mother at the age of ten and was forced to grow up overnight, the stubborn and willful boy was full of
With a light that made her envious.
Even though both of them have entered the professional football world and are no longer the same students as before, in Li Qingqing's eyes, Hu Lai is still the young man chasing football alone under the window of her house, the one who can only stick out his tongue and watch other people's football.
The boy chasing after him in the shadow is the thin but proud boy standing on the school podium. He is the boy who clumsily tried to use the celebration move he had practiced for a long time after scoring a goal in the national competition...
He was the boy who made her lips curl up involuntarily whenever she thought about him.
In Li Qingqing's heart, Hu Lai will always be young.