Chapter 238 Former Genius
Anton Shining Star defeated the invading Xiaojiang Lulin 2:1 at their home court. After this battle, their league ranking returned to eleventh.
In terms of points, they are ten points more than the 16th-ranked Jingyang Shengjing team of Haining Province.
The situation of relegation is excellent.
Even from this point difference, it cannot be said that the goal of Flash Star is to avoid relegation.
And this change all happened when Hu Lai started playing on the team. He has currently played four league rounds for the team, including two substitute appearances and two starts. The Flash Stars have three wins and one loss, and scored nine points.
It can be said that Hu Lai brought these nine points to the team. The evidence is that in these four games, the Flash Star team scored a total of six goals, and Hu Lai scored four goals.
Flashstar's defense is as good as ever, conceding only two goals in four games, so the ranking has risen so much entirely because the team has improved offensively.
After the game, everyone was in high spirits on the bus returning to the training base from the stadium. Some people sang songs, which were echoed by others.
For team coaches, if they want to have a good atmosphere within the team, it is actually very simple - just keep winning.
As long as we win, the atmosphere in the team will be great. Everyone is a brother, and there will be no infighting or discord at all.
In fact, everyone understands this truth.
But winning is easier said than done?
After Zhao Kangming came to this team, it took him half a season to gradually find the feeling of coaching the first team. It was not until the arrival of Hu Lai and Qin Lin that he saw hope of solving the team's poor offense.
Qin Lin's dispatching and wonderful passes in the midfield, coupled with Hu Lai's ability to seize opportunities, make the team's current victory seem natural.
Behind this success is the hard work, attempts, and sacrifices of countless people.
For example, Raizekai sacrificed his playing opportunities and may even lose his position in the team.
After starting two consecutive games and scoring a goal, no one cares whether Hulay will be in the starting lineup in the next game. Is it like there's a concern that a healthy Selius Caesar won't make the starting lineup? Of course not, because as long as the head coach of the team is still in his right mind, it is impossible to remove Caesar from the starting lineup...
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Sitting in the front row of the bus, listening to the players singing and laughing behind them, Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo were in a good mood.
Because they finally found the way forward in the fog.
This is something even more gratifying than these two victories.
In addition to Hu Lai's performance making them happy, Qin Lin was also a signing that surprised them.
"To be honest, I really didn't expect that the 38-year-old Qin Lin could still have such a state and physical fitness. He played the whole game in consecutive games and was still able to run until the last moment of the game. The pursuit at the last moment today was so timely. , it is hard to believe that this is the performance of a person who is almost forty years old..."
Chen Mo said with emotion.
The timely pursuit he was talking about happened in the penultimate minute of stoppage time in today's game. At that time, Xiao Jiang and Lulin launched a fast break attack. It was Qin Lin who chased back from the midfield and forced the opponent's ball player into the corner. In the flag area, other Flash Star players were given time to return to defense, otherwise Green Forest might have equalized the score.
This scene attracted cheers from countless fans in the stands. Everyone was impressed by Qin Lin's professional attitude and fighting spirit.
Zhao Kangming is forty-seven years old this year, nine years older than Qin Lin, but he retired at the age of thirty-five. In fact, retirement at this age is already considered late among Chinese players. Many retire at around the age of thirty-three.
The 35-year-old Qin Lin also led the Lingnan South China Tigers to the Chinese Super League championship as captain.
Zhao Kangming was teammates with Qin Lin for a period of time in the national team, mainly in the 2004 Asian Cup held in China. At that time, the two of them were a central defender partner. Qin Lin was still a young man at that time, while Zhao Kangming was a senior who had been famous for a long time.
In this cup, the two people cooperated tacitly.
Qin Lin will use his speed and technical advantages from time to time to dribble the ball in and participate in the attack.
In the final, Qin Lin once made such a good show of riding thousands of miles alone, almost breaking the Japanese team's goal.
When he stepped in to participate in the attack, Zhao Kangming was left behind to protect him. The Chinese team's ability to reach the final of that Asian Cup was inseparable from the tacit cooperation of their two central defenders.
Unfortunately, in the World Cup qualifiers a year after the Asian Cup, Zhao Kangming was sent off due to that "stupid red card" - a reporter from a newspaper said - and the Chinese team also lost a key match and missed the final. The top ten competitions, and even missed the World Cup finals.
After that game, although Zhao Kangming was only 30 years old, he had basically faded out of the national team. Although he never said anything about retiring from the national team, no matter who became the head coach after that, whether it was a foreign or local coach, He was drafted.
Qin Lin grew rapidly in the national team and eventually became the well-deserved leader of the Chinese national team.
However, the 2004 Asian Cup runner-up jointly won with Zhao Kangming is still the veteran's best result in the national team...
Speaking of Qin Lin, Zhao Kangming was also a little embarrassed. He said to Chen Mo: "When Dong Wen insisted on signing Qin Lin at first, I was not particularly cold... But now it seems that Dong Wen has done something This good deal not only increased the value of the team's brand, but also helped us solve the problem of midfield commander - at that time, I still believed that Zhang Qinghuan could turn around..."
Speaking of the name Zhang Qinghuan, the two people suddenly fell into a slightly awkward silence.
Until Chen Mo sighed and whispered: "Speaking of Zhang Qinghuan, he seems to be coming back from the reserve team..."
The smile that was on Zhao Kangming's face disappeared, and he snorted hard: "Don't even think about appearing when you come back!"
Seeing Zhao Kangming like this, Chen Mo knew that Old Zhao was really disappointed with Zhang Qinghuan this time.
But it would probably be the same for anyone else. Zhang Qinghuan... it's too difficult to describe.
As a player of the Flash Star first team, Zhang Qinghuan was sent to the reserve team for a month. Why?
Because he was investigated for drunk driving before, he was detained administratively for ten days.
And this wasn't his first drunk driving incident.
Two years ago, when he was playing football for Tamron in the capital, he made the news for drunk driving. It was his first drunk driving at that time, so he did not need to be detained, but the scene of being blocked by reporters in the office of the traffic police squadron quickly spread across the country, arousing heated discussion and attention.
Why does a player's first drunk driving cause such a big reaction from public opinion?
It's really because Zhang Qinghuan was so famous before - as a talented player trained by the Capital Tenglong Football Club, Zhang Qinghuan had high hopes from countless people. As a midfielder, he is full of agility, has exquisite skills, and has a good overall view. When he first debuted, he was hailed as "Francis of China" by the media.
Louis Francis, a Frenchman, is currently the world's top midfielder and master organizer, nicknamed "The Grand Commander". He currently plays for the Spanish giant Madrid Kings.
Being able to be called "Francis of China" by the media shows Zhang Qinghuan's strength.
Many fans have pinned their dreams of the rise of Chinese football on Zhang Qinghuan, hoping that he can lead the Chinese team to the World Cup finals in the future.
Zhang Qinghuan is indeed a talented genius, but generally such geniuses often have perverse personalities and are difficult to discipline. In stark contrast to his talent, he was uninhibited.
After making his debut in the Chinese Super League at the age of seventeen, he played well for two years and then swelled up. He drove his Ferrari 488 around major nightclubs all day long and indulged in the sensual life.
Because he became famous in the capital's nightclub circles, he was later nicknamed "Mr. Qinghuan" and "King of Workers' Sports" - the Workers' Stadium is Tenglong's home ground, but this "King of Workers' Sports" does not mean that Zhang Qinghuan is in the stadium. He performed well and conquered the Workers' Stadium, but it refers to the fact that he conquered a circle of nightclubs around the Workers' Stadium, so he got such a nickname.
As for "Francis of China", no one has mentioned it for a long time...
Against this background, his first drunk driving incident naturally became big news. The super genius who was originally highly expected by others has now surrendered and appeared in social news. How could he not attract attention?
Watch him confess in front of the camera with a dejected look on his face, vowing never to do it again. I don’t know how many people felt heartbroken for him, and how many people just saw it as a joke...
After the drunk driving hit the social news this time, "Master Qinghuan" has indeed been honest for a while, trained hard, never arrived late or left early, and said goodbye to the nightclub. It seems that he really wants to change his mind and start a new life.
And his performance in the team is also gratifying. He has provided beautiful assists to his teammates many times and scored goals himself. He has once again become the "Francis of China" who is cheered and loved by the fans on the court. This time it seems that he is going to become The real "king of work sports".
But the good times didn't last long. Just when everyone thought that the super genius was back, Zhang Qinghuan returned to his old ways. He was photographed by reporters entering and leaving nightclubs, holding a woman in his arms and getting into his red Ferrari sports car.
What follows is a particularly cliche story - a much-anticipated super talent gradually degenerates into an uncontrollable nightclub prince. The media, fans and clubs all lose patience with him. As much as the fans loved him at first, they scolded him harshly later.
The Capital Tenglong Football Club, which trained him and always gave him opportunities and tolerated his repeated mistakes, also lost patience with him.
Finally, during the transfer period at the beginning of this year, Flash Star signed Zhang Qinghuan on a rent-then-buy basis and brought him from the capital to Andong Jincheng.
The person who decided to sign him was Zhao Kangming, who had just become the head coach of Flash Stars.
This coach who is good at training young players feels particularly sorry that Zhang Qinghuan has fallen like this, and hopes to help him return to the right path. After all, Zhang Qinghuan's talent is really nothing to say - in terms of talent alone, Zhang Qinghuan may be the best in the country. Players, no one.
But after Zhang Qinghuan came, his performance was no different from his performance in the capital Tenglong. He was honest for a while when he first came here, and he did perform well on the court, which seemed to prove that Flash Star had made a good deal. That's why Zhao Kangming is not interested in Qin Lin's arrival, because he already has a midfield commander. Wouldn't it be a conflict to have another one?
As a result, not long after, after the red Ferrari sports car, which was famous in the capital's nightclub circles, was consigned to Jincheng, he began to frequent major nightclubs in Jincheng again.
Not to mention being late for training from time to time. Even when he arrived at the training ground, he was yawning all day long and was in low spirits. Naturally, his performance on the field was not much better.
Finally, he was caught by the traffic police again for drunk driving.
This second time of drunk driving, he was not so lucky. He could no longer be fooled by saying a few words of repentance to the camera... He was detained for ten days and his motor vehicle driving license was also revoked.
Before Hu Lai and Qin Lin transferred to Flash Star, this was the biggest news for Flash Star.
It was also because the social repercussions of this news were so bad. In order to dilute everyone's attention on this matter, Chen Jianyu suddenly broke the news about Flash Star signing Qin Lin, the former captain of the Chinese national team. Otherwise, everyone would still be holding on to it. Don’t let this matter go...
Zhao Kangming had high hopes for Zhang Qinghuan at the beginning, hoping that he could turn around and realize that he had fallen from the traditional strong team of the Chinese Super League to the Chinese League One team. If he didn't work hard to get up, his career would probably be over...
Moreover, Zhao Kangming is a little conceited, thinking that he can do things that others cannot do. Other head coaches can't do anything with Zhang Qinghuan, so how can he, who is good at coaching young players, do the same?
The result...
This is how Zhang Qinghuan repaid Zhao Kangming.
Arrested for drunk driving.
Zhao Kangming was slapped hard on the face by Zhang Qinghuan.
After this incident came out, Chen Mo remembered that the club's general manager Dong Wen wanted to bail Zhang Qinghuan out. After all, if this matter was revealed, it would be a scandal for Flash Star and would not be good for the image of Flash Star Club.
However, Zhao Kangming strongly opposed the club's bail for him, saying that he would stay in the detention center for ten days and not let him out for a minute less.
Just hearing these words, Chen Mo knew that Old Zhao was really angry.
When facing players, especially young players, he always had a smile on his face and looked at the very kind Zhao. To be so angry, Chen Mo felt that Zhang Qinghuan was indeed a genius...
The lease-before-buy contract signed between Flash Star and Tenglong does not limit the need to buy out after the loan: after a season of loan, Flash Star can decide whether to activate the buyout clause in the contract based on Zhang Qinghuan's performance during the loan period. If you are not satisfied, you can actually return it.
Chen Mo felt that Zhang Qinghuan's drunk driving detention should have ruined his future in Flash Star. Neither the club nor the coaching staff would feel the need to spend money on a "negative news generator."
For Flash Star Club, it is timely to stop losses. For the Tamron Club, they have another headache on how to deal with this former genius.
As for Zhang Qinghuan himself... Chen Mo doesn't know if he will regret his youth and frivolity when he looks back on his career in the future.
But what does that have to do with myself? After being in contact with Zhang Qinghuan for half a season, Chen Mo no longer even has any regrets.
It’s not like there have never been people like Zhang Qinghuan in Chinese professional football before, and even looking at the entire world of football, there is no shortage of such people.
Who knows how much talent these "geniuses" have squandered in their indulgence and willfulness. (End of chapter)