Chapter 26: no hula

Lin Zhiyuan walked towards his place with the breakfast tray. He passed by the dining table where Wang Guangwei, Zhang Qinghuan, Xia Xiaoyu, and Chen Xingyi were sitting, and was stunned for a moment.
Wang Guangwei thought he was looking for them for something, so he asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "No... I was wondering why it was just the four of you. I just remembered that Hu Lai didn't come back."
The four people looked at him, and Chen Xingyi laughed: "What's the matter, Xiao Linzi? Are you not used to it without Hu Lai meeting you?"
"Bah!" Lin Zhiyuan spat, then waved his hand and walked to his table with his breakfast.
When the four people at the table saw him leave, they looked away and continued to eat their breakfast.
"Don't talk about Lin Zhiyuan, I'm not quite used to it, there is one less noisy person in my ear..." Zhang Qinghuan said with emotion.
Before that, Hu Lai was not without the national team's game.
But in general, in this case, not only Hu Lai is absent from the national team's games, but most of the overseas players are absent together.
Like the previous Top 40.
After qualifying for the top 12 in advance, many overseas players were not recruited into the team by Jorge Dillon.
Zhang Qinghuan did not return to the national team to participate in the competition, and even did not participate in the "China Cup" after the top 40.
Because at that time he had been selected for the national Olympic team as an over-age player. At that time, he trained and played warm-up matches with the national Olympic team.
At that time, he and Hu Lai were both in the national Olympic team as overage players. When they returned to the national team again, it was already the beginning of the last 12 rounds in September last year.
It's really rare that Hu Lai didn't come back by himself this time.
"I read on the Internet that the Japanese media is very happy to know that Brother Hu will not participate in this game. I think the Japanese team's qualifying for the World Cup is stable." Xia Xiaoyu shared the news he saw on the Internet with his companions.
Everyone asked, "Is it stable?"
"Yeah." Xia Xiaoyu nodded, "They don't think there is anything to be afraid of without Brother Hu's Chinese team. Because everyone has overseas players, except for Brother Hu, they think we are no different from their overseas players, and Japan The team has more foreign players than we have..."
"Fuck, I'm looked down upon." Chen Xing tutted.
"Isn't it normal to be looked down upon by Japan?" Zhang Qinghuan shrugged. "We were directly looked down upon by others before. That is, the situation has gotten better in the past two years. Why is it better, isn't it because Hu Lai got up?"
Wang Guangwei nodded: "It's really like this. Aside from the 'fake national team' of the East Asia Cup, the first time we played against the Japanese team was actually the Asian Cup at the beginning of the previous year. Hu Lai scored them two goals that time, Then they met in the top 12, and Hu Lai also scored. Coupled with Hu Lai's sudden strength in Europe, it brought a lot of shock to the Japanese. It is normal for them to have such thoughts, in their hearts , maybe the reason why the Chinese team was able to participate in the World Cup, or even participate in the World Cup two rounds ahead of schedule, is all thanks to Hu Lai..."
"That's right, it is indeed Hu Lai's credit." Zhang Qinghuan said. "How many goals did our team score in the World Cup? How many goals did Hu Lai score? How many goals did Hu Lai score in the Asian Cup? And more importantly, Hu Lai's ability to seize opportunities, I think this is the most deadly point. Yes. With him, it means we can always break the deadlock in the game. Sometimes whoever can score first has the advantage.

"But apart from Hu Lai, we have also made progress." Chen Xingyi was not very convinced. "Last season, Luo Kai, Xiaoyu and I all made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and I even made it to the semi-finals. The best result of their Japanese players in the Champions League is only the semi-finals..."
"Yes, we have indeed improved." Zhang Qinghuan nodded and said, "But our progress is because our original foundation was too poor. From ten to sixty, the improvement was very large, but the Japanese team originally had seventy."
Chen Xingyi seemed to want to say something, Zhang Qinghuan said to him: "Actually, there is nothing to say about this issue. The Japanese media think that the Chinese team without Hu Lai is not strong, and they can easily win. Of course, it makes sense. But football games are not In poker, if you have a big king and a small king, you will be awesome... It still depends on the performance on the court. If they think they can beat us, let them try it."
"Brother Huan is right, who can't talk shit? After all, football still has to be played with feet." Xia Xiaoyu agreed.
"That's right. We can't let that kid Hu Lai think we can't play without him." Wang Guangwei also agreed. "In the World Cup next year, we can't rely on him alone, can we?"
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At the pre-match press conference, Luo Kai participated as a player representative.
Then he was asked a question about Hu Lai by reporters: "Without Hu Lai, will the team encounter some difficulties when facing the Japanese team?"
Luo Kai stared at the reporter who asked the question for about two or three seconds without speaking.
It made the reporter feel nervous when he was seen, and the scene was a little embarrassing for a while.
Fortunately, Luo Kai finally spoke: "We are a collective, a team."
He just said this, and he didn't continue to answer the question, but sat on the seat with a serious expression.
Anyone could see his displeasure.
To be honest, this question is really not polite.
It's like questioning the ability of the international players except Hu Lai.
But this is only a continuation of the dissatisfaction of the media reporters that Dillon did not call up Hu Lai to return to the team, not against the players, but against the head coach Dillon.
If it was replaced by other players with high emotional intelligence, he might have said some nice scenes and put this issue away.
But the person who came to the pre-match press conference today was Luo Kai.
So after he put down such a hard sentence, he put on his face and made a gesture of non-cooperation.
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"Yu, I always feel that your media is really unprofessional in some aspects."
As soon as the press conference was over and he returned to his room, Dillon complained about his translator Yu Jintao.
"They would ask such stupid questions."
Yu Jintao explained: "They are just dissatisfied that you didn't recruit Hu Lai, Jorge, not really targeting Luo Kai."
"No. I know they're playing off the topic. But I'm going to say something else. Did you notice their problem? 'Will it make the team face some difficulties against Japan'...you Listen, you listen to the questions they ask... isn't that crap?"
Dillon spread his hands and said exaggeratedly.
"The reason why I didn't recruit Hu Lai was because I hoped to let the team encounter difficulties in the game, and then take a good look at how they deal with the difficulties... How rare, we can meet Japan who are doing their best in the game. Team, this is the best warm-up opponent that you are looking for, and you may not be able to find.

Dillon was also clearly off at the press conference and wanted to vent.
"Why do I say your media is so unprofessional? Because they still see the Chinese team from an 'Asian' perspective, and it seems that it is very important to play against the Japanese team in the quarter-finals. But they completely forgot We have already won the World Cup qualifying two rounds ahead of schedule, and the remaining two rounds against Japan and Iran in the top 12 games will be meaningless if they are not used for training. They have not yet realized that the Chinese team is preparing for the World Cup finals. It's already started!"
"They may think that if they want to train troops, they will not delay you to recall Hu Lai... It's a big deal not to let him play..." Yu Jintao said.
"That's different, completely different." Dillon shook his head. "With Hu Lai and without Hu Lai, the psychological cues given to the players are completely different. I just want Hu Lai to stay in Madrid, Spain, and I want to let Hu Lai stay in Madrid, Spain. All the players of the Chinese team know that this time there is no 'safety lock'. Only in this way can we maximize their true appearance. Since it is training, of course, we must set the most extreme situation. They don't even know this. Can't you figure it out?"
Yu Jintao smiled a little embarrassedly: "China's media level is really not high..."
"Like the issue they were arguing about some time ago related to the Chinese football youth training, UU reading www.uukanshu.com also seems ridiculous to me. At this time, they are still arguing about the concept of youth training. Go... what's so noisy about it? European football is the most advanced place in the world, just look at how the youth training of European football is done, and then follow it, won't it be over?"
"Our national conditions are different..."
"No, Yu. These are all excuses. There is no difference in national conditions. If you haven't even learned to walk, you want to invent a better starting technique than the world 100-meter champion. That's nonsense. There is no such thing as a football in China. Before you can really succeed, it is right to learn the most advanced football concepts in the world. Even blindly learning it is better than figuring it out on your own."
Having said this, Dillon sighed: "If you don't solve this problem, there will be more serious consequences waiting for you in the future. Now I just didn't let Hu Lai come back for a game, your media and fans will not accept it. After that, when Hu Lai and his group of players retire? After they can no longer return to the court to play for your national team, where will you... Chinese football go? Can your media and fans still accept it? If you can't accept it then you have to accept it!" 8102/10954351