Chapter 8: 1 decision to change the future of Chinese football

The Chinese team did not let those Chinese fans who cheered for them in the cold evening wind wait too long.
Take the lead in the opening twenty minutes.
The whole stadium is like a boiling pot, with white gas rising and noisy voices.
The sports photographers on the scene focused their cameras on the Chinese Olympic team players celebrating the goal and pressed the shutter in their hands.
This is the first step taken by the Chinese National Olympic Team towards the Madrid Olympics. It is of great significance.
It must be recorded.
In their shots, the players of the Chinese Olympic team hugged each other, high-five, and then turned around with a smile, walked back to their half-time side by side, on the way, they did not forget to wave to the fans in the stands to thank.
The fans at the scene responded with warm applause and cheers.
The red Chinese team jersey is like a beating fire on this cold winter night, bringing warmth to people's vision and psychology.
Many years later, if the Chinese fans who were on the scene recalled this night, they might be surprised. There are many things in their memories, but they didn't feel cold.
Just when they were all hot because of this goal, just four minutes later, in the 24th minute, the Chinese team's offense came back.
This time it was Chen Xingyi who cut in after taking the ball from the wing, but did not dribble horizontally. Instead, he cut in and suddenly passed the football to the middle of the penalty area with his right foot.
Hulai, who was behind in the last goal, cut forward this time and took away an Omani central defender, creating a gap in front of Oman.
Luo Kai jumped in and jumped to the top in this space!
The football was pushed into the goal by him!
"Eh, good goal! 2:0! The Olympic team scored two goals in a short time! This time the goal was for Luo Kai who wasted a chance in the opening game!"
"The Chinese team played very well. It was proactive, and various cross-transpositions made Oman's defense a little difficult to parry!"
In the commentator's praise, Luo Kai, who scored a goal, got up from the ground, ran to Chen Xingyi who passed the ball to him, and hugged him.
Whether in the club or in the student days, the two of them are opponents, and their fans bit each other as enemies for a long time.
At that time, as fans of the two of them, how could they have imagined that one day their idols would hold each other so intimately and celebrate a goal?
Chen Xingyi’s fans circled Luo Kai’s fans online: "Now, remember, your family’s ball was assisted by our family’s star!"
Luo Kai's fans have not been able to return, because they did assist Luo Kai, and Luo Kai also went up to hug him, they could only hold this breath in their hearts.
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"Chen Xingyi has completed two assists...Although he has not scored so far, he has performed very well. Shi Wuyin has tried to launch the Olympic team in three warm-up matches last October. After the Trident, this was actually the first time these three people appeared in an official competition. Although the game only lasted for half an hour, the tacit understanding between them has surprised us... …"
"Chen Xingyi and Hu Lai both played in Flash Star, while Luo Kai and Hu Lai were teammates when they were student players. All three of them have participated in our country’s own high school national football championship. It can also be regarded as a model for training talents in campus football..."
Hearing these words from the narrator and the guests, Li Qingqing turned to ask Li Ziqiang with a smile: "Dad, what kind of experience is it to cultivate two international players at once?"
Li Ziqiang shook his head: "Luo Kai was not trained by me. He was already formed before he entered the Dongchuan Middle School team. But Hu Lai... I really didn't expect him to achieve what he is today. It stands to reason that he was exposed to formal training. At my age, it’s hard to achieve anything..."
"He is a genius!" Li Qingqing said proudly. "I told my dad the earliest."
Don't give Li Ziqiang a deep glance at his daughter: "Only his talent for running without the ball?"
"Of course not." Li Qingqing said solemnly, "When I took him to do coordination training in that open space, I found that his progress was much faster than ordinary people. Dad, you know, too old. The effect of coordination training will be much worse...but Hu Lai doesn’t. It’s almost the first time he trains, and his progress is visible to the naked eye."
Li Ziqiang didn't know this detail before, because his daughter hadn't told him about it.
However, he followed his daughter's words and remembered Hu Lai's performance after being recruited into the school team.
That kid is indeed making progress faster than ordinary people. He is like a sponge that has been dry for sixteen years. He was suddenly thrown into the water and started to absorb water frantically...
"...I thought at the time. If you don't recruit him to the school team, I will take him to practice for a year in the open space behind our house. I believe he will be able to take the school team exam again. He was selected. In the end, I didn’t expect that Dad, you actually recruited him in the end... Oh Dad, why did you suddenly decide to recruit him to the school team? Was it because of what I told you?"
Li Qingqing turned her head and stared at her father with wide eyes.
Under the gaze of his daughter, Li Ziqiang smiled: "Yes, I thought about it, I should really give him a chance..."
Li Qingqing laughed: "Hey, Dad, you made a correct decision! Otherwise, you see, the Olympic team is missing such a core!"
She pointed at the TV screen and looked up.
Li Ziqiang gave a dry smile and turned his eyes to the TV.
There is a replay of Luo Kai's goal.
Before Luo Kai's header, Hu Lai was in the middle. Of course, he could also wait for Chen Xingyi's ball to come and jump up to compete with the opposing central defender.
But he did not do so.
Instead, he suddenly jumped in, took away the central defender who followed him, and created a gap for Luo Kai who had jumped in.
Does he not know the exact location of football?
Of course not, but he did it anyway and strictly implemented the coach's tactics.
He is already a qualified professional player.
It is difficult for Li Ziqiang to connect such a Hu Lai with his immature image at the beginning.
Perhaps the daughter is right. No matter what the reason, she has changed the trajectory of this kid's life, and perhaps also changed the future trajectory of Chinese football.
Thinking of this, he did feel so proud and laughed.
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After the Chinese Olympic team took a two-goal lead in the first half, they adjusted their rhythm slightly and did not continue to maintain the previous high-position press style, but withdrew to deal with their opponents. This is not to say that they will not pursue goals, but hope that Oman can properly press out to attack, so that they will have more space behind them.
Playing Oman seems to have been stunned by the Chinese team's two goals in just four minutes. Even if the Chinese team retreated to make room, they could not boldly use it.
Until the end of the first half, neither side scored any more goals, and the score was temporarily fixed at 2:0.
Although no more goals were scored, the Chinese team still prevailed.
The commentators He Feng, Yan Kang and the fans were also very satisfied with the performance of the Chinese team in the first half.
In the first half of the intermission, He Feng and Yan Kang took the Chinese team in the first half.
It is said to have played a rare spirit in Chinese football in recent years-of course, you have to put aside the East Asian Cup game against the South Korean team. That game, the National Olympic team was just like the game...
That is a special case among special cases.
Today's match against Oman is still a normal match, and it is sustainable.
During the intermission, in the home team's locker room, Shi Wuyin also praised the players for their performance, but only a word of praise, and did not stop complimenting the players, changing their tricks to praise the players.
He only said one sentence: "Everyone played well in the first half and played out our pre-match tactical arrangement."
Then there is one: "But, from now on, forget the two goals in the first half, we are only playing 0:0 with the opponent. So we are not qualified to celebrate and relax."
The players in the locker room looked solemn, and they all knew why Director Shi said that.
Isn't it because they were afraid that they were too satisfied with their performance in the first half, and arrogantly underestimated the enemy, and they were overturned in the second half?
"After the start of the second half, we still have to fight like the first half, continue to press high, press them, so that they don't know how to deal with it, and stir their brains and defenses together!"
Finally, Shi Wuyin slammed a punch in the palm of his hand.
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In the second half, the two sides changed sides to fight again, and no one made a substitution adjustment.
As soon as the Chinese Olympic team came up, they played against Oman as they did in the first half, and completely faithfully implemented Shi Wuyin's tactical arrangements.
In the face of the high-pressure tactics of the Chinese team, Oman seemed quite uncomfortable. Their own weak strength in the face of the tactics of the Chinese team soon led to many loopholes in the back line. When a breakthrough was made, it was completely broken.
So just ten minutes into the first half, in the 55th minute, the Chinese team once again used the wing space left by Oman's shrinking defense to launch an attack.
This time it was changed to the right side. After receiving the ball from Luo Kai, the right defender Baidi kept the ball and passed it directly at a 45-degree angle!
The football drew an arc~EbookFREE.me~ and flew high into the penalty area.
Hu Lai ran to the empty place between the two Oman players and took off. He accurately judged the football's position and shook his head back!
When he jumped up to compete for the top, the two surrounding Omani central defenders did not even take off. It was totally unexpected that a Chinese team player would hit the ball in this place...
They just watched the football fly to the back of the goal.
Even though the goalkeeper who was at the previous point struggled back, it was still beyond reach for Hu Lai's slightly tricky head shake!
"Hu Lai!!! A brace! The Chinese team leads Oman 3:0! The second half has just started for ten minutes!" He Feng cheered again.
After a 15-minute intermission, the atmosphere in the Yuanyang Stadium had cooled down a bit, but now it was re-ignited and blasted.
The shouts of the fans burst out like flames from the nozzles of a planetary engine soaring into the sky.