Chapter 98 I don’t want to go home yet
"Hurry up and get out! Everyone is gathered!" Yan Yan's loud voice rang out in the corridor of the dormitory building where Dongchuan Middle School lived. "Quick, quick, quick!"
He walked from room to room, shouting. If someone closed the door, he would slam it hard.
The thumping sound echoed in the corridor.
Someone opened the door and complained: "Don't rush me! It'll be ready soon!"
Someone yelled through the door: "I'm going to the bathroom!"
Others have already packed up, wearing uniform sportswear and carrying uniform sports bags, walked out of their rooms, and stood at the door waiting for other teammates to appear.
The chaos in the corridor lasted for about ten minutes, and all the players from Dongchuan Middle School appeared in front of head coach Li Ziqiang, fully dressed.
"Okay, let's go." Li Ziqiang nodded, and a group of people rushed out of the dormitory building.
Some people are full of longing, some are anxious, and some have serious and scary expressions...
They are about to usher in their first game in the national competition.
When they arrived at the parking lot, Lin Jin was already waiting for them in front of their bus and waved to them enthusiastically.
However, not many people in Dongchuan Middle School responded to her. Except for Hu Lai, everyone else turned their attention to another bus next to it.
A group of depressed peers wearing uniforms, carrying backpacks and dragging suitcases, were queuing up next to the bus to put their luggage.
He's from Garden High School.
After yesterday's opening game, their journey to the national competition came to an end.
After losing the game, they were not in the mood to visit the capital, but planned their return trip today.
Dozens of people gathered together, and apart from the sound of footsteps and the wheels of suitcases rubbing against the ground, there was no other sound at all.
This scene made the players of Dongchuan Middle School feel sad.
If they lose to that Xizi Middle School, then they will appear here in this state tomorrow.
Chu Yifan took a deep breath, then turned around and said to his teammates: "Get in the car, hurry up, we have to go over to warm up and adapt to the venue."
After everyone got on the bus, the bus closed the door and quickly drove out of the parking lot.
As they left, the Garden High School players were still lining up to put their luggage away.
The Dongchuan Middle School players on the bus were still looking at them until they could no longer see the bus.
When Lin Jin saw them like this, she thought they were frightened by the scene just now, so she became nervous. She was about to get up to comfort and encourage these young players, when she saw Chu Yifan had stood up and looked towards them. She comes.
"Sister Lin, can you lend me the bus microphone?"
Chu Yifan said to her politely.
"Ah? Okay, no problem, you can use it." Lin Jin handed the microphone to him and added, "It's already turned on, just say it."
"Thank you, Sister Lin." After Chu Yifan thanked him, he took the microphone, turned to his teammates in the car and said, "Did you all see it just now? That is Huayuan who was eliminated in the first round and went home. High School.”
None of the teammates spoke. Everyone sat upright in their seats and looked up at the captain at the front.
"When we first came here, we saw them in the cafeteria. I don't know if everyone noticed it, but I paid attention. I paid attention to every team that came to participate in the national competition. At that time, everyone's Everyone has a smile on their face and is full of longing for the national competition. But now, any hope is useless. If you lose the game, you have to pack your bags and go home. I ask everyone, do you want to go back to Dongdong tomorrow? Sichuan? ”
Hu Lai shouted: "I don't want to!!"
As soon as he took the lead, others also shouted: "We don't want to! We don't want to!"
"I don't want to either!" Chu Yifan said to them. "So we must defeat that Xizi Middle School! They are the ones who should go home, not us! I know it is your first time to participate in a national competition, so you will inevitably be a little nervous, but when you are nervous, just think about what happened in the parking lot just now When you see it, just think about it, will we have to queue up in the parking lot to get on the bus at this time tomorrow? ”
Yan Yan jumped up and raised his arms and shouted: "Destroy Xizi Middle School!!"
More people followed him and howled: "Kill them!!"
Behind Chu Yifan, Lin Jin stared dumbfounded at the carload of excited Dongchuan Middle School players, as if she didn't need her comfort and encouragement at all...
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Although the opening ceremony of the national competition was held at the Bird's Nest Stadium and the opening game was also played there, this does not mean that all the national competition games will be held in the Bird's Nest. In that case, it would not be possible to arrange it at all.
All games will be spread out to other stadiums in the capital, especially those at university football stadiums.
The match between Dongchuan Middle School and Xizi Middle School was held at a university stadium in the capital.
Although it is a college football field and is far smaller than the Bird's Nest, the sparrow is small but has all the internal organs. The stands, locker rooms, referee lounges and other facilities are all available.
The stadium is open to the public, and anyone can enter to watch the game after passing a simple security check. There is no need to buy tickets or any vouchers.
And this is not only true for the first round, but also for all games in the national competition. Even for the finals, tickets were only symbolically distributed to some social groups or guests. The total number was not even 10,000. Except for the seats reserved for the cheerleaders of both sides of the finals, all the remaining seats were vacant. Leave it to anyone who wants to come watch the game.
After all, middle school football matches are for public welfare and cannot be operated commercially. It makes no sense for the organizing committee to earn the ticket money.
So when the match between Dongchuan Middle School and Xizi Middle School started, there were already many people sitting in the stands, and most of them were students from this university.
Many of them have been participants in the national competition themselves, and many of them spent their three years of high school in the environment of the national competition, so they will naturally come to support the current national competition.
These people are neither fans of Dongchuan Middle School nor supporters of Xizi Middle School. They are very neutral.
But because of this, no matter which team performs well, it can win cheers and applause from everyone in the stands, which makes the atmosphere of this game very lively.
Just like now, a huge cheer erupted from the stands.
"Wow! That No. 11 from Dongchuan Middle School is so strong!"
"He is also handsome, and his serious profile is really stunning!"
"Hey, are you here to watch a game or someone else..."
"You can watch the ball, right?"
"Is this really the first time Dongchuan Middle School has participated in the national competition? Why is it so strong?!"
"Looking at the people in Xizi Middle School, they all feel stunned... Suddenly I feel sympathy for them..."
There was a lot of chatter and cheers in the stands.
On the court, the players from Xizi Middle School really seemed to be stunned. They stood still and allowed the players from Dongchuan Middle School to cheer and run past them, and then hugged their teammates who scored the goal.
At the same time, the commentator of this game said: "This is Luo Kai's second goal in this game! He dribbled the ball forward quickly and scored a beautiful long shot! His goal also helped Dongchuan Middle School leads Xizi Middle School 3:0! There are still 25 minutes left before the end of the game. Xizi Middle School is now in a very dangerous situation. If they don’t want to be eliminated in the first round again, they must hurry up!”
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After Luo Kai scored, the bench of Dongchuan Middle School was filled with players cheering and celebrating, which meant that their hopes of advancing to the top 16 were greatly increased.
The leading teacher also stood up and applauded the team's performance.
As the head coach, Li Ziqiang did not participate in the celebration, but turned to look at the players on the bench.
Now that the team has achieved a three-goal lead, and there is not much time left until the end of the game, should we consider substitutions and rotations to allow more players to experience the atmosphere of the national competition?
If there are substitutions, there is a quota limit. National competition regulations stipulate that each team can only make up to three substitutions per game.
But there are so many substitute players, who will be allowed to go up?
Li Ziqiang's eyes fell on Hu Lai.
"Go warm up, Hu Lai!" he shouted.
Hu Lai left his teammates who were still celebrating the goal, quickly put on a yellow vest, and ran to the warm-up area like a rabbit.
He knew he was going to play. (End of chapter)