Chapter 63: Not an honest person
"Hey, Hu Lai, have you started special shooting training?" Li Qingqing stood in the corridor, chatting with Hu Lai who was sitting by the window through the open window. From the chat, she learned that Hu Lai had already She has started special shooting training. Her father has never told her about this. Of course, there seems to be no need to tell her...
"Yeah, except for the warm-up, all the training content is shooting training." Hu Lai sat in his seat, leaning his head on his propped up arm, and then moved Li Qingqing to the side with his other hand.
"What?" Li Qingqing asked doubtfully.
"You are blocking my sunshine."
"Oh." Li Qingqing saw that his shadow was covering Hu Lai, so he moved a step to the side and let out the sunlight that came through the glass curtain wall. All the sunlight shone directly on Hu Lai's face. He raised his head slightly and closed his eyes, looking very much enjoying it.
Luo Kai, who was standing far away, looked very ugly when he saw this scene.
Is my goddess just being called around by you like this?
But Li Qingqing didn't seem to care at all. After she gave way to the sunlight, she still leaned on the window sill and chatted with Hu Lai inside.
"This is good news, Hu Lai. The coach's decision to let you practice shooting is definitely not without purpose. I think he may want to let you play in the final..."
"Let me play in the final?" Hu Lai was also a little surprised. "Can't, right? That's the final. I wasn't allowed to play in the semi-finals. Will I be allowed to play in the final?"
"If the coach asks you to continue basic training, then you really won't be able to play in the finals. But now that he specifically asks you to practice shooting, it shows that he at least has this idea. He may need you to score, so he just Let you practice shooting. After all, the time is limited. If you treat it like normal training, you may not learn anything in the end, so it is better to strengthen your shooting so that if you need to play, you will be able to score.” Li Qingqing analyzed it for Hu Lai.
Hu Lai rubbed his chin and showed a thoughtful expression: "It seems that the coach has also realized that Luo Kai can only bully the weak, and he still has to rely on me to fight tough battles!"
Song Jiajia, who was also lying on her desk basking in the sun, closed her eyes and said lazily: "You think too much, Hu Lai. You are Luo Kai's spare tire..."
Hu Lai was furious: "You are Luo Kai's backup!"
Song Jiajia originally wanted to refute, but his mouth opened wide before he remembered the scene that happened on the sidelines of the training ground yesterday.
Damn it, maybe in the minds of those girls, I really have some unexplainable relationship with Luo Kai...
But who can blame it? Didn't you cause it yourself? Alas, it’s not good to be too competitive...
At this thought, Song Jiajia closed her mouth angrily and continued to bask in the sun.
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Luo Kai kept staring at Li Qingqing and Hu Lai from a distance. These two people seemed to no longer hide from others. They got together openly and openly in the school. Unlike before, they seemed to be secretive and did some little trick of meeting each other after school.
When he saw that Li Qingqing stopped coming to watch the training, he thought there was some conflict between the two and that Li Qingqing no longer cared about Hu Lai.
But now it seems that there is no problem between the two of them... which makes him happy in vain.
Then why didn't Li Qingqing come to watch the training?
At this moment, Li Zhiqun suddenly came up and whispered with a strange expression: "Brother Kai..."
"What are you doing?" Luo Kai was in a bad mood and his tone was also bad.
"Well... I just went to the toilet, and on the way I heard some girls who seemed to be spreading gossip about you..."
"Gossip? What gossip do I have?"
"Uh, they... they said..." Li Zhiqun was in a dilemma.
"If you have anything to say, just say it." Seeing this, Luo Kai glanced at Li Zhiqun.
"They... said you are interested in Song Jiajia..."
"Interesting? What do you mean?" Luo Kai hasn't reacted yet.
"That is to say, you two are...a pair..." Li Zhiqun pointed at Song Jiajia, who was lying next to Hu Lai and enjoying the sunshine with his eyes closed.
Luo Kai looked at the pig-headed face and was stunned for a few seconds, then gritted his teeth and said: "Who is so fucking boring!?"
The aloof persona was not tight, and he even used swear words.
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During the afternoon training, the girls looked for Song Jiajia first in the crowd. The fat man was standing at the other end of the podium, looking at his cell phone with his head down.
Then they all went to see Luo Kai, and found that Luo Kai walked onto the court without looking away, and then began to warm up with the team. During this process, he never once cast his eyes on the podium.
The girls wondered if their comments had reached Luo Kai's ears, and he deliberately didn't look at the podium to avoid suspicion?
Otherwise, deliberately avoiding the rostrum would be too suspicious...
The team that had finished warming up began training, and the offensive team was individually called to the goal for shooting training.
Hu Lai is among them.
Although Hu Lai has done shooting training in basic training before, it is different from today's shooting training.
The shooting training in basic training mainly allows Hu Lai to master the technical movements of shooting, such as what the correct shooting movement should be, such as how to exert force correctly, such as paying attention to straightening the instep when shooting, such as using different parts. What is the effect of shooting.
Only train for the technical action of shooting.
Now the shooting training in the team is really aimed at shooting the football into the goal.
And unlike basic training, it is no longer as simple as placing the football in a fixed position and letting Hu Lai kick the football towards the goal.
In the current shooting training, players need to run to the designated position, receive Chu Yifan's pass, and then complete the shot.
While they are receiving the ball, there is a defensive player in front who will interfere - he will not actually come up to grab it, but will just block in front of them to increase the sense of presence and allow the trained players to gradually adapt to completing the shot under the influence of someone's pressure. technical actions.
These are completely different from Hu Lai's feeling of kicking against the wall alone.
Li Ziqiang also asked them to only touch the ball twice during shooting training, catch the ball once and shoot once.
Hu Lai understands this, because the training is based on actual combat. In actual games, one more touch and adjustment may result in missed shooting opportunities.
At this time, the value of his previous basic training was reflected.
Although they are all very ordinary training, he has been practicing catching and shooting for nearly two months now, and one of them has the bonus effect of [Smart Potion], so he is no longer as good as he was at the beginning. Just like in training, a ball can be stopped ten meters away.
After completing shooting training with the rest of the team, the team went to other training, and Hulay himself came to the other end of the goal, ready to start his own shooting training.
He picked up a small foldable shelf, walked to the restricted area, and then opened the shelf.
The four borders of the open shelf are pulled by a tight nylon rope net. Because it is very tight, even if you press hard with your hands, it may not be able to soften it much.
This prop is the role responsible for passing the ball to him.
Because other teammates have to carry out their own training content, no one can pass the ball to Hu Lai, so Li Ziqiang found such a prop to help Hu Lai practice, and at the same time, he can also train Hu Lai's passing.
After starting training, he first kicked the football towards this small support. After the football was stopped by the tight rope net, it bounced back. Hu Lai ran to catch the bounced football and completed the shot.
After setting up the rack, Hu Lai began his shooting training alone.
Li Ziqiang stood on the side of the training ground, his eyes wandering between each training group, and then fell on Hu Lai.
He saw Hu Lai kicking the football towards the rope net with the inside of his right foot. At a distance of about five or six meters, Hu Lai's kick did not miss, but accurately hit the rope net, and the football bounced back. Fly diagonally forward.
After Hu Lai passed the ball, he moved forward quickly. After receiving the bounced football, he raised his foot to stop the football with the inside of his right foot, then supported his body with his left foot, then moved his right foot, and there was a muffled sound. After that, the football was shot to the lower left of the goal and finally entered the net smoothly.
After completing a shooting training, Hu Lai did not go to pick up the ball in the goal. Instead, he ran to a large net bag nearby, hooked a football with his feet, took it to the starting point of the shooting training, and continued to repeat all the actions just now.
Li Ziqiang kept staring at Hu Lai. This kid's passing was much better than before, and the connection between catching and shooting was smoother than when he practiced like yesterday.
As he watched, a strange thought grew stronger and stronger in his mind, and emerged uncontrollably - This kid... seems to be progressing a little too fast?
Li Ziqiang still clearly remembers that when this kid first joined the team, he was just a beginner, no different than a blank piece of paper. Of course, there was an element of deliberately making things difficult in letting him do basic training alone, because at that time Li Ziqiang didn't regard Hu Lai as a member of the team at all. He felt that this kid might soon become bored because he couldn't stand it. He took the initiative to quit the team due to high-intensity training.
Unexpectedly, Hu Lai not only persisted, but the nearly two months of basic training also made this kid look good.
Now that Li Ziqiang thought about it, Hu Lai seemed to have been conscientiously completing the training tasks assigned to him since he joined the team, and he had never been lazy or complained about hardship.
He always felt that based on his appearance, Hu Lai must be someone who was good at cheating and cheating, but it turned out that he trained harder than anyone else - someone else might not be able to sustain this kind of training for him for so long.
This makes Li Ziqiang have very complicated emotions towards Hu Lai.
As a father with a daughter, he doesn't like Hu Lai, but as a coach, he should like Hu Lai, a player who works hard and is down-to-earth...
Like it or don't like it?
This is a problem.
Li Ziqiang forced away the distracting thoughts in his mind and continued to focus on Hu Lai's training.
After watching for a while, he felt more and more that his previous feelings were not an illusion.
Hu Lai is really improving as his performance becomes more and more consistent. This is not the so-called "good performance" where you perform well once or twice in training.
Even Li Ziqiang, who was always strict, couldn't help but nodded.
It's a pity that Li Qingqing is not here, otherwise her jaw would be shocked if she saw it - her father actually nodded to Hu Lai!
Just this picture can make Li Qingqing happy for several days...
Of course, Li Ziqiang may have realized his understanding very quickly and did not even nod his head in approval again.
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Hu Lai had no idea about the intense and exciting inner drama when the coach behind him stared at him for a long time. He once again kicked the football towards his "teammate". The football was caught in the rope net and did not bounce back directly. Spin upward, then fly out from the upper edge of the rope net, draw a parabola in the air, and fly diagonally forward.
Looking at this perfect arc, Hu Lai suddenly felt the urge to kick him...
After all, he had also experienced those wonderful volleys, and more than once imagined that he could score such volleys on the court.
Thinking of this, Hu Lai adjusted his pace and did not lift his right foot to catch the ball, but opened his right leg slightly...
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Li Ziqiang, who saw this scene from behind, frowned. This was definitely not a way to stop the ball. If he really stopped the ball like this, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to stop it at all...
In the next moment, he saw Hu Lai's right leg swinging towards the football!
He immediately knew what this kid Hu Lai was going to do - he was going to shoot directly without stopping the ball!
The veins on Li Ziqiang's forehead were prominent, but before he could stop him, Hu Lai's right foot hit the football.
Bang!
The football flew high over the goal crossbar, dropped over the bunker, hit the stadium wall, bounced back and landed on the red plastic track.
When the football landed on the track, Li Ziqiang's roar arrived even though he was late: "What nonsense! You haven't practiced stopping the ball before shooting, so you just want to volley? Do you want to reach the sky in one step? I'll give it to you Say, don’t bother me with these nonsense! Keep your feet on the ground and do what you have to do!”
Hu Lai in the distance quickly acknowledged his mistake to the coach with gestures, and then ran to get a football.
This time, his training returned to normal, stopping the ball first and then shooting.
Li Ziqiang saw this scene and snorted in his heart: From joining the team and doing basic training for a month, he wanted to play, to practicing shooting for just one day and wanting to volley. You can endure hardship, but this is honest. But not necessarily...you still need to keep an eye on it!
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After hearing the head coach's roar, Yan Yan winked at Chu Yifan, which meant: Look, our coach is always staring at Hu Lai, and his level of attention is even better than Luo Kai's!
Chu Yifan did not express any doubt this time and turned his attention to the thin figure.
It seems that the weakest person in the team is actually the person that the head coach values the most.
He is beginning to doubt his life experience over the past eighteen years...(End of Chapter)