Chapter 242 The past is like the wind
"What's going on between you and Zhang Qinghuan?"
In the away hotel room, Qin Lin asked his roommate Hu Lai.
He had been observing from the side during the previous training, and it was obvious that Zhang Qinghuan seemed to have a hard time dealing with Hu Lai. But he couldn't understand that the two people should have had nothing to do with each other before.
"Hey, it's actually not a big deal..." Hu Lai explained. "To put it simply, I acted bravely and helped a girl whose heart was broken by a scumbag and a heartless man."
Qin Lin:? ? ?
Qin Lin, who was stunned for a few seconds, frowned and said, "Speak humanly!"
"Uh, yes!" Hu Lai then told him about how he and Wang Guangwei went to Senwei Road for dinner on Thursday night, and met Zhang Qinghuan eating there, and were frightened by a woman who came to the door and ran away. Qin Lin listened.
After hearing this, Qin Lin frowned and asked: "No, what does it have to do with you if someone picks up a girl and turns her on? Why do you have to get involved?"
Hu Lai curled his lips: "I don't like him."
"Why?" Qin Lin was even more surprised, "Are you jealous that he has many women?"
Hu Lai quickly shook his head: "No, no!"
Then he repeated the reasons he told Wang Guangwei in front of Boss Qin Lin.
"... He is obviously so talented, and his football career is going smoothly. His future is unlimited, but he doesn't know how to cherish it. He spends all his time and energy on women... When I see such a person, I want to tease him. Let him suffer a little.”
Hearing what Hu Lai said, Qin Lin sighed and then said nothing.
Seeing this, Hu Lai was a little uneasy - could it be that the boss didn't agree with what I was doing? Do you think I'm nosy or small-minded?
So he rolled his eyes and quickly lowered his head and said: "Brother Lin, I was wrong! You are right, no matter what Zhang Qinghuan does, it has nothing to do with me. I shouldn't meddle in other people's business..."
Hu Lai, who was panicking to save his image in front of Qin Lin, heard a chuckle.
"A little advice, Hu Lai. Don't rush to apologize in front of your girlfriend like this, otherwise your girlfriend will think you have done something wrong, and the nature of it will be serious."
Hu Lai raised his head and saw Qin Lin looking at him with a smile. He quickly shook his head: "No, no, Brother Lin. I don't even have a girlfriend, so I can't do anything wrong even if I want to!"
Qin Lin laughed, then stared at Hu Lai with a smile, making him confused: "Brother Lin?"
When Hu Lai called him softly, he noticed that Qin Lin's eyes had obviously refocused and regained their energy.
He shook his head: "What you said is wrong... No, what I said is wrong. If someone had... No, if I could have been as nosy as you, maybe Zhang Qinghuan would not be like this today... …”
Hu Lai:? ? ?
This time it was his turn to have a lot of question marks.
Seeing Hu Lai's confused look, Qin Lin smiled and said, "Did you know that Zhang Qinghuan is called the 'Francis of China'?"
Hu Lai nodded.
"Then do you know that after he first debuted, he was first called 'Qin Lin's successor' by the media?"
Hu Lai shook his head.
"It's normal not to know, because he soon got the nickname 'Francis of China'. Obviously, Louis Francis is more famous than Qin Lin." At this point, Qin Lin smiled, and then he gave Hu Lai told his story with Zhang Qinghuan.
"When I first heard the media saying that there was someone who was my successor, I was quite upset, because I was only thirty-three years old at that time, so I was not old yet. Why were they so anxious to find a successor for me? There just wasn't one. Not long after, the South China Tigers and Tenglong met in the Chinese Super League. At that time, Zhang Qinghuan, who was only 18 years old, started the game as the main force of Tamron. He was the attacking midfielder and I was the defensive midfielder. We were facing each other during the game. I was not specifically responsible for defense, but I did defend in that game. Of him..."
Qin Lin still remembers Zhang Qinghuan's eyes when he faced him on the court, which reminded him of a phrase:
Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.
At that time, Zhang Qinghuan was really exuding an aura that could not be blocked, and her every move was full of confidence.
Facing Qin Lin's close defense, he could use his heel to pass through the crotch and make Big Brother spin around.
It also caused the home fans in the Workers' Stadium stands to scream and cheer.
Qin Lin had to take advantage of his physical strength to knock him to the ground from the side and behind, and received a yellow card amidst overwhelming boos.
But Zhang Qinghuan, who was stopped by him with a foul, didn't seem angry. Instead, he sat on the ground and smiled at him.
It was also a show of hands. Qin Lin knew very well that the show of hands and the show of hands he had against Hu Lai on the training ground yesterday had two completely different meanings.
"...Zhang Qinghuan was very confident at that time, but not arrogant. Now Zhang Qinghuan is very arrogant, but no longer confident." Qin Lin said to Hu Lai.
Hu Lai thought deeply about these two sentences.
"We lost this game in the away game, which the media called the 'Dragon-Tiger Fight'. Zhang Qinghuan was elected the best of the match after the game, and he deserved it. He ran tirelessly in the game and kept running on the court. He looks for holes in our defense and assists his teammates with imaginative passes. If there are no holes, he breaks through with the ball and confuses me. Their defense, creating loopholes... Such a performance is certainly worthy of the best of the game. Under his leadership, the entire team is like a pot of boiling water. I have observed that the Tamron fans listened during the game. With the shouts, our teammates obviously couldn’t breathe properly... and this was all caused by Zhang Qinghuan alone.”
Listening to Qin Lin's description, Hu Lai imagined the scene in his mind. Although he doesn't like the current Zhang Qinghuan, he has to admit that the Zhang Qinghuan described by Qin Lin is really handsome...
"After this game, everyone no longer called him my successor, but instead called him 'Francis of China'."
Hu Lai suddenly realized - I bet he earned this nickname from you, the boss...
"After that game, I thought it would be good to let this kid be my successor. Of course, I don't plan to retire yet, but I do have the idea of treating him as my successor and training him. But we are not in the same club. I never met him at all. Only in the national team... Not long after, he was selected for the national team training list. When we were assigned a room, I was the one who proposed. < br>
"We talked about a lot of things, and I had a very good relationship with him during that time. Although we each had our own masters in the club, when we got to the national team, we all had only one goal - to win glory for the country. I really thought at the time, After he matured quickly, I partnered with him in the midfield, I controlled the rhythm from behind, and he organized the offense from the front. The Chinese team may not be able to participate in the World Cup at the end of this year..."
The 2022 World Cup will be held in Qatar in this time and space, and it will be held in December at the end of the year.
But the World Cup qualifiers are all over.
In the qualifiers without Qin Lin, the Chinese team stumbled into the final twelve, but failed to successfully qualify.
Now listening to what Qin Lin said, Hu Lai thought that the boss should have never thought about giving up participating in this World Cup qualifier. As a result, he didn't even participate in the top 40 this time, and retired from the national team after the Asian Cup in early 2019.
If Zhang Qinghuan had not become what he is now and everything went according to the boss's plan, would the Chinese team with him and Zhang Qinghuan really be able to appear in the Qatar World Cup at the end of the year?
But there are no ifs in real life. Zhang Qinghuan failed to grow into what everyone expected. Qin Lin also left sadly after the Asian Cup. The Chinese national team once again missed the World Cup finals.
As a Chinese fan, Hu Lai feels devastated by this reality.
"...But you also know what happened next." Qin Lin smiled when he saw that Hu Lai seemed a little depressed. "Zhang Qinghuan has set many records in the national team. For example, he is the youngest player in the history of the men's national team, the youngest goal scorer, and the player with the most appearances for the national team before the age of 20 - many 20-year-olds. Players before 20 years old were still in the National Youth Team or the National Olympic Team Well, he already has a record of eight adult national team appearances. However, he has not been selected for the national team once after turning 20. He was excluded from the national team because of drunk driving. In fact, even if he is not drunk, based on his performance and condition. The national team will not want him either..."
Now, Zhang Qinghuan, who will turn 23 in January next year, still has a record of eight appearances for the national team.
Twenty-three years old is the deadline for a player to participate in the Olympics, and players under this age are still considered young people. For example, the Chinese Super League has a "U23" policy, which stipulates that each team must register three players under the age of 23 in the 18-man roster, one of whom must start, and it also requires that at least one player must be guaranteed in a game. Players under the age of 23 will play no less than 60 minutes.
Just to develop young players.
That players under the age of 23 can still be regarded as young players is not a special situation in Chinese football, but is the case across the world.
The reason why Zhao Kangming still couldn't let go of Zhang Qinghuan and loaned him out from the capital Tenglong was because Zhang Qinghuan was not yet twenty-three at that time, and in his eyes, he was still a malleable talent.
As he grows older, if Zhang Qinghuan cannot change, his future may be determined.
Many people will no longer look at him as a young player, will no longer believe that he may improve in the future, and will not tolerate his mistakes. After all, no one will give him special treatment after he is no longer young.
People will no longer label Zhang Qinghuan as a "star of tomorrow" or a "genius".
After their first meeting in the league, Zhang Qinghuan and Qin Lin also played against each other four times in the league. In a total of five games, in terms of team performance, Qin Lin won three times and Zhang Qinghuan won twice. But in terms of individual duels, Zhang Qinghuan only won that one time, and Qin Lin won the remaining four times.
As an opponent with direct dialogue on the court, Qin Lin really watched Zhang Qinghuan gradually change from the genius who was full of aura and swayed freely on the court to a walking zombie who was so confused that he seemed to be sleepwalking on the court.
"I have also thought about whether I should persuade him as a person who has been through it. But I also thought that if others go their own way, what does it have to do with me? What qualifications and position do I have to ask others to follow my ideas? Life? Otherwise, why don't I restrain my teammates in the South China Tigers first?" Qin Lin shook his head at this point. "Now I feel that I made a mistake back then. I shouldn't care what others say. I should pull Zhang Qinghuan out of the quagmire. No matter what he thinks, his path is wrong. You can't take the wrong path."
Hu Lai saw Qin Lin blaming himself and wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know what to say. Could it be that you didn't do anything wrong at the beginning, boss?
In fact, Hu Lai also felt that since Qin Lin had a good relationship with Zhang Qinghuan and was his senior, why couldn't he persuade him? Let’s not talk about whether you have used such words to persuade me. How do you know it’s useless if you haven’t even tried to persuade me? Zhang Qinghuan was not in deep trouble at that time, so maybe he could be persuaded to come back?
Just like when the boss was young.
After being taken to the nightclub for three days by the "Second Brother", I was so happy that I couldn't even think about it. Under such circumstances, I was given a warning by the "Second Brother". Didn't I suddenly wake up?
Seeing Hu Lai's silence, Qin Lin suddenly said: "Hu Lai, please don't take the wrong path. You are talented and have an outstanding personality. Sometimes I am really worried that you will not be able to withstand temptation... and you It was my request to stay in the same room before the game.”
"Ah?" Hu Lai was a little surprised.
"I want to keep an eye on you to prevent you from learning bad things. I failed to keep an eye on Zhang Qinghuan, and I don't want to make the same mistake again."
Hu Lai raised his head and looked at Qin Lin, who was almost old enough to be his father, and found that his expression was quite serious, and it definitely didn't look like he was joking.
So he also said solemnly: "Don't worry, Brother Lin, I finally got the opportunity to play football, and I will never be as stupid as Zhang Qinghuan. For Zhang Qinghuan, some things come too easily. That’s why he doesn’t know how to cherish. The things he doesn’t know how to cherish are hard-won for me. I didn’t come here just to mess around.”
Hearing what Hu Lai said, Qin Lin smiled and nodded: "Go to sleep, tomorrow's game will not be easy." (End of Chapter)