Chapter 32: Ebb and flow

"Luo received the ball in the penalty area!"
With the passionate roar of the commentator, the noise in Veronica's home stadium, Volendam, rose to the next level.
This football stadium, which can only accommodate 6,000 people, is an inconspicuous little stadium in the Eredivisie. Even if it is fully occupied, it is difficult to compare with a giant team like Amsterdam.
But in the Dutch League, the prestige created by the stadium filled with 6,000 people is still very amazing.
In the Dutch second league, Veronica is the giants, and the Volendam Stadium is the "home ground of hell."
As the commentator said, Luo Kai received the ball in the penalty area.
Facing the opposing defender who was defending him, Luo Kai's right foot stabilized, and he lifted his left foot to make a motion to buckle the football to the right.
He tricked the opposing defender to stretch his foot to block, but his left foot flicked a shot from behind the football, and then quickly shook his ankle back after the stroke, and gently moved the football to the left with the outer instep.
In this way, the defender who came up to block his shot was swayed away, and he followed him to raise his left leg again. This time it was no longer a fake action of making a fake shot!
His left foot was firmly on the back of his instep and hit the football!
Bang!
The football flies to the goal like a cannonball!
The opponent's goalkeeper didn't even make a save-he just raised his arm in time, and the ball was scored.
"Rororororororo!!! Amazing Luo!!! This is his third goal in the game! He completed a hat-trick! His three goals helped Veronica in 4:0 at home!!!"
The narrator's roar was soon drowned in the thunderous cheers of six thousand people.
Luo Kai, who had scored a goal, turned and ran to the nearest stand.
There, Veronica fans have all rushed down, waving their arms at him.
The other Veronica players rushed to hug Luo Kai and celebrate his goal.
Luo Kai smiled wildly in the crowd, even hideously, but this didn't damage his handsomeness at all, and even made him look more charming...
There was a uniform, deafening shout over the seated Volendam Stadium: "Luo!!! Luo!!! Luo!!!"
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"Luo!!! Luo!!! Luo!!!"
Looking at Luo Kai, who hugged and celebrated with his teammates on the screen of his mobile phone, Yong Jun sighed: "Luo Kai is kicked out. He has only played 14 rounds in the Dutch second league, and he has already scored seven goals. Maybe. He can still compete for the Dutch second-tier golden boots this season. It seems that he did not adapt to the Netherlands for nothing last season..."
"So it is correct that Luo Kai chose to continue loaning to Veronica-when the news came out, there were no fans who thought he would delay growth if he went to play Dutch second..." Zhang Qinghuan commented.
"It's the marketing account that followed the yelling rhythm. It sounds like the Dutch league level is very low." Yong Jun snorted and put his mobile phone aside.
"Don't worry about others, Qinghuan. The next Barcelona Derby is very important to you..."
Zhang Qinghuan opened his hands: "I may not be able to start, Uncle Yong."
"What if? Besides, if you don't start, you won't be ready? You have to be ready on the bench at any time, so that you can seize it once the opportunity comes!"
Zhang Qinghuan nodded quickly: "Uncle Yong, you are right, I will be ready..."
"And I tell you, Qinghuan. After playing with your city derby, Catalonia will have to welcome Leeds in the Champions League. This means that they will definitely be affected in the league. This is a good opportunity. Be sure to catch it!"
The time has come to mid-November.
La Liga played twelve rounds, and Sarria is currently ranked twelfth.
The performance is quite satisfactory, neither good nor bad, which belongs to Sarria's normal performance.
Zhang Qinghuan had a total of seven appearances in the past twelve rounds of the league, five of which were substitute appearances and two starters, but were replaced early in the second half.
So far there has not been a game that has played a full ninety minutes.
If you only look at the data, it is easy to think that Zhang Qinghuan's performance is not very good.
After all, he played seven times and only contributed one assist without scoring a goal.
But in Yongjun's view, Zhang Qinghuan is indeed gradually adapting to the rhythm of La Liga.
His performance is actually getting better and better-the two starts are just recently.
Sarria coach Arno Casas also gradually figured out the characteristics of Zhang Qinghuan in the process, and basically fixed him in the offensive midfielder position to compete with the team's several offensive midfielders. In this way, Zhang Qinghuan doesn't have to compete with his opponent in a position where he is not suitable, which is also a good thing.
Zhang Qinghuan's speed is not fast, and his physical confrontation ability is also very average. But his advantage is that he has good technique, can control the ball, and has a wide passing field of vision, so he is not completely unable to find a position in the Sarria formation.
But what makes Yong Jun very uncomfortable is that Zhang Qinghuan has to be frequently called up by the national team to play some friendly matches that he considers unnecessary during the critical period of his integration into the team.
In the two games in September, it was said that the new coach took office. It was a surprise that all the overseas players who had just been training with the team returned to China. Wanli played two warm-up matches.
In October, the Chinese Football Association had a brainstorm, knowing that it would be a toss for everyone to return from Europe to play two meaningless friendly matches. So this time they decided to put the friendly match in Europe, instead of letting the overseas players run back and forth, but let the domestic players run.
The Chinese team lost all these two friendly matches.
A 1:2 loss to Croatia, a 0:3 loss to Switzerland.
After Dong Jianhai took office, he has already scored three consecutive defeats in friendly matches.
In order to prepare for the Asian Cup in January next year, the two warm-up matches that have just been played recently are all Asian teams. It is impossible to go to Europe for training and training. Only the overseas nationals can run again. One trip.
First back to China to play in Thailand, with Luo Kai, Chen Xingyi's goals, and Hu Lai scored twice, the Chinese team defeated Thailand 4:2, and finally ended the embarrassing situation of the friendly three-game losing streak.
In the second friendly match, the Chinese team's opponent is Syria. The Football Association took into account the hard work of the overseas players and decided to go to Qatar and Syria for the whole team. This will allow the overseas players to return closer...
But they didn't think about it, shouldn't it take time and energy to travel from China to Qatar?
Therefore, the Chinese team did not play well in this game, shaking hands with Syria 1:1 in the away game.
The only bright spot is that Zhang Qinghuan scored in the game.
It proves that he is in good shape recently.
It's just that this makes Yong Jun feel even more pity for Zhang Qinghuan-because with Zhang Qinghuan's recent state, if there is no interference from the national team game, he may actually start in the Barcelona city derby with Catalonia.
As a result, after playing the national team game, followed by the Barcelona Derby, Zhang Qinghuan, who flew tens of thousands of kilometers to play the friendly match of the national team, could only sit on the bench.
Not only that, the Chinese national team will regroup on December 1st and begin a one-month training camp to prepare for the Qatar Asian Cup that will open in January next year.
Although it is not necessary for the overseas international footballers to join the national team so early, they have to report to the national team on December 15th.
At that time, La Liga has not yet entered the winter break, and there are still two rounds of league games that have not been played...
You said that no matter how good your performance is, which club head coach dare to rest assured to entrust a new player who will be absent from the game for a month and a half when he comes to the team?
Yong Jun once had some very "big rebellious" ideas. He believes that this Asian Cup should be given up directly, or should not care about the results and mainly participate in domestic players. Let all overseas players, especially those who have just gone abroad, feel at ease in the club to adapt to the new team and new environment.
It doesn't matter what the Asian Cup looks like.
But he just thought about it in his heart, didn't say it, let alone complained to Zhang Qinghuan.
He knew that his thoughts were indeed extreme.
After achieving good results in the World Cup, the domestic expectations for this team are high, and they all hope that they can achieve good results in the Asian Cup. Someone has already chanted the slogan of "winning the championship."
Although the players are working hard, they also look forward to the Asian Cup.
As an agent, it is not suitable to say frustrating words in front of the players.
Lest the military will be shaken...
It's just that it hurt Zhang Qinghuan and the others. For them, their overseas career actually started after the Asian Cup.
Hu Lai and Luo Kai are okay, they have passed the adjustment period.
Xia Xiaoyu was still training and playing in the reserve team, and he didn't even make the first team.
Wang Guangwei and Chen Xingyi have only had very few appearances in their respective teams' domestic cups.
Seeing that 2026 is about to pass, the wave of overseas Chinese football has begun to vigorously, but now it has gradually fallen into a low ebb.
Even Hu Lai, his performance is much quieter than last season.
Seven goals scored in the twelve rounds of the league, not too small, but still ranked first in the league's scorer list.
But he scored twelve goals in the same period last season, which is a decline in terms of statistics.
This season, Leeds City has spent energy in the Champions League due to two-lane fighting, which has dragged down the league's performance.
The Premier League played twelve rounds, and the defending champion ranked only ninth.
Paying such a huge price, the performance in the Champions League is not satisfactory.
Four rounds have been played in the Champions League group stage, and Leeds ranked third in the group with only three points.
Since they defeated the Bay Lighthouse 2:1 in the first round, they have never scored points again.
In the second round of the group stage, they lost 1:3 at home to Catalonia, and the third round of the group stage was defeated by Vesuvius at 0:4. After returning to the home in the fourth round of the group stage, although they scored two goals, they were still 2 :3 lost to Vesuvius.
After the four rounds of the group match, Catalonia has accumulated 12 points and has already locked in the group qualifications in advance.
Vesuvius ranked second with seven points. Because goal difference and win-loss relationship are dominant, there are two group matches left. As long as they win one more game, they will lock in the remaining group qualifying places.
As for Leeds, the best result is to participate in the Europa League knockouts-it depends on whether they can beat the Bay Lighthouse.
It can be said that last season's Premier League champions have been very embarrassed in the past two months.
The news even began to circulate that Tony Clark was about to dismiss get out of class...
Because of Clark's appreciation and trust in Hu Lai, this also makes Yong Jun very concerned about the leadership of Leeds.
Just over four months ago, when Chinese players went abroad one after another and were favored by European teams, everyone thought that these overseas players would have a bright future together with Chinese football.
Now I think of the joy and expectation of everyone at the beginning, and look at it now, it is somewhat...boring and frustrating.
So... it's not that when our players start to go abroad and come to Europe to play, the situation will get better, and our football will improve by leaps and bounds like taking a high-speed elevator.
Chinese football still has a long way to go...
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PS, I saw a playlist that some readers asked about in the book~EbookFREE.me~ so I took the time to get one.
I originally planned to do it in NetEase Cloud, because I listened to songs on NetEase Cloud. But copyright issues, many songs do not have.
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That's right, it's the playlist whose cover is the green cover of "Fox in the Forbidden Zone", the creator of which is called "Lin Hai Ting Tao".
Because there are duplicate names, don’t click the wrong one.
Click in to see all the songs that have appeared in this book so far.
You can also collect them. I will put them in this playlist as long as new songs appear in the book in the future.
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(End of this chapter)