Chapter 284: Where the dream started

Hu Lixin looked at his wife neatly dressed, sitting on the shoe-changing stool when entering the house, and playing with her mobile phone. He felt strange: "Why did you tidy up so early today?"
My wife’s unit usually goes to work at nine o’clock in the morning, so she doesn’t leave so early.
"Occasionally, you should be more active. You can't get stuck in the office every time." Xie Lan explained while looking down at the phone. "Don't you know, every time I get stuck and click in, Sister Wang's eyes will roll to the sky..."
"Then you don't hurry to leave? What mobile phone are you still playing here?"
Hu Lixin went to elementary school to be a football coach. There was no special situation. He didn't have to go to school in the morning, so he didn't have to worry about going to work.
Just then Xie Lan heard the sound of opening the door next door, and she quickly made a "hush" gesture to her husband, then got up and opened the cat's eyes and looked out.
Saw Li Ziqiang and Li Qingqing and his daughter appearing in the stairwell.
She also pushed the door hurriedly.
Hu Lixin understood why his wife didn't rush away just now, so he let out a hey.
As soon as Li Qingqing pressed the elevator down button, she saw Hu Lai's mother push the door out.
She smiled and greeted: "Good morning, Auntie."
"Oh, good morning Qingqing, and good morning Lao Li." Xie Lan smiled as soon as she saw Li Qingqing, feeling that her mood improved all day.
"Hello, Sister Xie." Li Ziqiang also responded.
"Auntie is going to work?" Li Qingqing asked.
"Yeah, go to work. How about you guys, go shopping?"
"No, we also go to work." Li Qingqing said with a smile.
"You also work? Qingqing what class do you work?"
"I went to Dongchuan Middle School to train with my father's football team and stay in shape." Li Qingqing explained.
"Oh--"
Just as the elevator was coming, the three of them walked in together.
Xie Lan asked again: "Qingqing, how long will you stay at home this time?"
"Our team started reporting on July 1. If there is nothing unexpected, I will stay at home until the end of June."
Xie Lan slapped a slap: "That's right! Watch the World Cup together and cheer for the Chinese team at that time!"
"Okay!" Li Qingqing promised simply, and Li Ziqiang didn't have any comments.
Seeing this, Xie Lan said happily: "Well watching football, it just needs a lot of people to be lively, ha!
Then he was a little confused: "Oh...I don't know what performance the Chinese team can show in the World Cup this time. I feel that everyone is enthusiastic now, and I am afraid that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment..."
Li Qingqing comforted her: "I don't think it should be too bad, right? Hu Lai is there!"
Xie Lan liked to hear these words, and she quickly came to the spirit: "That's right, there is my son..."
The elevator dinged to the underground parking lot on the first floor. Xie Lan went out first and waved to Li Qingqing in the elevator: "If you have time to play at home, you can come without Hu Lai..."
"Okay, Auntie, you must come when you have time."
Before the elevator door closed, Li Qingqing agreed.
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Two days ago, Hu Lai was picked up by a special car from the Football Association from his home and went to the Jincheng Football Association training base in Pujin, south of Jincheng, where he joined the teammates of the national team and started training for the World Cup.
This is a highly anticipated training camp.
The footage of Hu Lai arriving at the training base has been seen by Li Qingqing in various time periods on TV news and on the Internet. I don’t know how many times.
You should know that this picture is just that he enters and sits in the car to enter the training base. At most, he opens the window and waved to the camera lens of the fans and reporters outside.
This shows that now Chinese fans...no, not just fans, but the entire Chinese society, what great hopes are placed on this group of people.
Outside the training base of Jincheng Pujin, a large number of fans gather every day, and there are many people who are not even fans. They also go to join in the fun. As for the self-media internet celebrities who are holding their mobile phones and doing live broadcasts at the door...there are more, although they can't shoot anything-the Chinese team implements closed management, and players will not go out if there is no game of.
But even so, it can't stop everyone's enthusiasm for "pilgrimage"-many people really just come here to take a photo or a short video of the signboard of the Jincheng Football Association Pujin Training Base.
There are also people on the Internet who have specially made guides and tutorials for taking pictures and recording videos.
Some people call this the "Chinese Football Holy Land Tour".
Yes, the Jincheng Football Association training base in Pujin County has thus become the "Holy Land" of Chinese football. Because this is where the Chinese team dream begins.
Regarding the national team’s last training camp before the World Cup, why they chose Jincheng? Although the official has never admitted, there is a convinced explanation circulating on the Internet:
Everything must start from the 2024 AFC Champions League group stage, when Anton Shining defeated Seoul LG in Jincheng...
Seoul LG was on the way to Jincheng to play away, but somehow encountered extreme weather, and the plane was forced to alternate to a heavy mountain, which caused the players to have a lot of bumps and toss on the journey. After finally staying at the Jincheng hotel, there was another small earthquake. The Seoul LG players were so scared that they didn't wear any clothes, they rushed downstairs.
After such a series of tossings, Seoul LG was completely stateless in the game and was easily defeated by the flashing star who was not dominant.
Since then, there have been rumors that the Korean football team and Jincheng are incompatible. If the Chinese team wants to beat the Korean team, there is no place that is more suitable for home than Anton Jincheng. Because this is the anti-Korean blessed land of Chinese football!
This statement reached a climax when the Chinese Football Association finally determined that Jincheng would host the top 12 match between the Chinese team and the South Korean team at home.
Although the Football Association did not officially acknowledge this statement, every Chinese fan thinks so!
Sure enough, before the top twelve match, there was another accident that South Korea’s main core player Park Chun-tae was taken directly from the plane to the hospital. The Chinese team finally defeated the South Korean team at home despite the fact that they could not retreat.
The victory against South Korea was a crucial match for the Chinese team to qualify for the World Cup.
It is precisely because the Chinese team defeated the most powerful enemy South Korea here, scored valuable three-pointers, and gained a strong confidence, then the Chinese team can pass all the way and enter the World Cup finals.
So this is the sacred and blessed land of Chinese football, and the place where the journey of the Chinese Football World Cup begins. There is really nothing wrong with it.
Holding a training camp in this place is of commemorative significance on the one hand, and there must be some superstitious considerations on the other hand, thinking that Jincheng is a place that can bring good luck to the Chinese team. Training here is good luck, maybe Will you be able to achieve good results on your first World Cup tour?
There are still so many people who have such thoughts, so that they spread from one to another. In the end, some people just came for the purpose of getting good luck...
Chinese football, the existence of a rat crossing the street before, is so infamous that it simply insults the title of "the world's number one sport".
Now, in the eyes of many people, it has become a symbol that can bring them good luck.
I have to say that this phenomenon makes many old Chinese football fans feel baffled.
After all, in the eyes of many people in the past, all the dark sides of this country combined, I am afraid that they are not as sinful as Chinese football...
No matter how stupid things and people are on the Internet, they can gain recognition and support. Only in Chinese football, everyone's position is surprisingly consistent-the curse is over.
Now this situation no longer exists, but it makes the old fans who have witnessed the darkest years of Chinese football a little uncomfortable.
Seeing the overwhelming praise of Chinese football in public opinion on the Internet, they became nervous, for fear that this kind of attention pushed up everyone's expectations and requirements, so that it seemed as if the Chinese team failed to qualify for the World Cup group stage this time, even if it failed... …
In this kind of excitement, the Chinese team ushered in their first warm-up match in Jincheng. The warm-up opponent is the Nigerian national team.
Nigeria will meet Japan in the World Cup group stage, so they came to play a warm-up match with the Chinese team.
Although the Chinese team also has an African team opponent in the group stage, Algeria is obviously not the same way as Nigeria. Algeria is located in Africa, but it is more European.
The purpose of this warm-up match is just to let the Chinese team find the feeling of playing against the world's top teams, not to simulate their opponents.
The Chinese team asked the National Olympic team to do the simulation of opponents-while the Chinese team was training in Jincheng, the National Olympic team was also training in the mountains and seas. The purpose of their training is not to prepare for any important events, but to simply study and simulate the Chinese team's opponent Algeria in the group stage.
As the only opponent of the Chinese team in this group that can touch the edge in strength, Algeria is the top priority of the Chinese team's research.
In the first group match, if you can beat Algeria, it is a good start-of course, it is not easy to beat this team. It takes some good luck while going all out.
But after all, it is the only Chinese team that can fight hard and may still be able to fight against the opponent.
In the warm-up match between Jincheng and Nigeria, the Chinese team finally lost 1:3. The only goal for the Chinese team was Hu Lai, which is no surprise.
Although the Chinese Olympic team had a 2:2 draw with the Nigerian Olympic team in the Olympics, it was a contest at the level of the Olympic team, which was completely different from that of the national team.
In this Nigerian national team, there are also a few players who were originally in the Olympic team, but most of their performances are completely different from those in the Olympic Games that year.
In the face of this traditional African team with excellent physical fitness and delicate skills, the Chinese team did not get any advantage in terms of physical or technical skills.
The final loss of 1:3 is actually pretty good. Anyway, Hu Lai scored a face-saving goal without letting the Chinese team be shaved.
After the match against Nigeria, the Olympic team flew from Shanhai to Jincheng. Closed the door in the Pujin training base and played two teaching games with the national team.
The result of these two games is not important, after all, the significance is not in the final victory of the national team. It is to let the national team understand how Algeria plays in this match, especially when it comes to fighting on the court.
Of course, it is impossible for the Olympic team to imitate a particular image, but it is better than no imitation at all.
In fact, let the Olympic team imitate the opponents of the Chinese team in the World Cup, this is also the opinion put forward by Shi Wuyin. In the past, when the Chinese team played in the Asian Cup, they did not let the Olympic team do this kind of sparring. The Olympic team and the national team are relatively independent, and the national team cannot command the Olympic team.
Now for the Chinese team’s first World Cup trip, the La Guo Olympic team is here to do sparring. No one thinks this is wrong, and no one thinks it is incredible.
Everything has become a matter of course~EbookFREE.me~ After all, this is the first World Cup in Chinese men's football history!
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ps, the European Cup has already started, but I have not said anything. It is really because he is busy with codewords and has no time for him to take care of it. In addition, I am getting older and my body is not good enough. I can't stay up late. Most of the European Cup matches are in the latter half of the night. There is no way to stay up late to watch every game like the World Cup that year.
So many games are not going to be watched.
Since I didn't watch it, I was embarrassed to predict the score.
However, I am still interested in the game between Croatia and England tonight, because the time is just right, at nine o'clock in the evening, I still plan to take a look.
Personally, I am more optimistic about England. After all, the World Cup runner-up Croatia is too old... Modric is the core of this team and a player I like very much, but I still have to follow objective laws.
I think England should beat Croatia by one goal. If you are lucky, you can win two goals.