Chapter 291 My Hu Lai can’t be so rubbish
When Hu Lai was a fan, he always felt strange - why are the professional players in China, who obviously live in football and are considered "industry insiders" after all, why do so many people in the world of football talk about it? But they don’t know as much about things as an ordinary fan, and it’s rare to see them watching events like the European League and the Champions League?
Now that he is a professional player, he understands a little bit of the reason:
Most European games take place in the middle of the night, especially the World Cup.
Professional players must strictly abide by reasonable work and rest regulations to ensure their good condition.
If there is training the next morning, how can the players stay up late to watch the game like ordinary fans do?
Hu Lai initially wanted to watch every World Cup like an ordinary fan.
But he soon realized that this was impossible.
The group stage is okay, because this World Cup is held in the Middle East, and the time difference from China is not too far. There are two games every day in the group stage that are played before 24:00 domestic time in China. Domestic time at night at six o'clock and nine o'clock.
It was almost 10:30 after watching the nine o'clock show, so it was okay to wash up and go to bed.
But there are two remaining games, which kick off at midnight and three in the morning the next day. As a professional player, Hu Lai cannot watch the live broadcast anyway - although other players on the team are still on vacation, He has been asked to go to the training base to receive targeted training, so it is impossible to stay up late to watch the game every day. Because Wang Guangwei had to hurry up and learn to drive, he couldn't stay up late to watch football.
The two men could only learn about the results of these two games through the news reports the next day.
But whether it is news reporting or watching highlights, it is far more intuitive than watching live broadcasts.
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As the World Cup progressed, the French team led by Louis Francis, the oldest of the "Four Kings", surprisingly did not even reach the knockout rounds and went home after the group stage.
It's very sad.
Although he has the title of World Cup champion on his personal honor list, his desire to truly win the World Cup with his own strength may never be realized - in the 2026 World Cup four years later, he will have won the World Cup three times. At the age of eighteen, it is almost certain that he will no longer be able to participate.
After entering the knockout stage, the defending champion Germany was also eliminated in the quarter-finals. Aylmer failed to complete the task of leading the team to defend the title. It also once again confirmed the cruelty of the World Cup and the uncertainty of football.
The World Cup curse of being unable to defend the defending champion will continue for another four years.
In the end, it was the remaining two kings who reached the World Cup finals. The Italian team led by Caesar faced Spain in Cerrados.
Neither Hu Lai nor Wang Guangwei paid attention to this much-anticipated battle between kings.
If you were an ordinary fan, this would have been a battle at Tianwang Mountain that you would have prepared early for beer and supper, called your friends, and stayed up late to wait.
But for professional players Hu Lai and Wang Guangwei, they are not qualified to stay up late to watch the game - the team has already gathered to start the first phase of winter training.
The World Cup is coming to an end, and all the players from Anton Shining Star have flown to Yunshan Changshui Market to prepare for the new season.
Hu Lai only found out who the World Cup champion was through the news reports the next day.
With their excellent tactical discipline and defense, the Italian team withstood the offensive of Spain's "golden generation" led by Cerrados, and after a dull ninety-minute game, it entered overtime. In the second half of overtime, the Italian team took a one-goal lead thanks to the superb personal ability of "Emperor" Serius Caesar.
Next, the Italian team quickly retreated on defense and allowed the Spanish team to bombard them outside without going out.
Even forwards like Caesar also acted as a central defender, using his height and header to help the team push away Spanish crosses from the wing.
In the end, the Italian team managed to survive until the end of the game. They also won the third World Cup championship in history and could embroider three stars on their chests.
Needless to say, there were various articles praising "Emperor" Caesar after the game. It is also normal for Caesar fans and Cerrados fans to quarrel on the Internet.
Amid this commotion, the first World Cup held in winter in history, which had been bustling for nearly a month, also came to an end.
But this is too far away for the shining star who is training in the winter in Yunshan Changshui, China. Whoever wins the championship will only be excited by the fans and the media. Professional players actually don’t pay much attention to the World Cup...
After all, the World Cup is a carnival for fans and a stage for the world's top players, but for those players who cannot participate in the World Cup at all, it is just a large-scale reality TV show.
If you memorize the lineups of both sides in every World Cup game, it won't help you improve your playing skills.
So the excitement of the World Cup is over, but the life of professional players continues.
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Zhang Zihao bought the game "The Godfather of Champions 2023" during the World Cup promotion event on the Steam platform. It only cost him 110 yuan, while the usual price of this game on the Steam platform is 230 yuan. , no discount.
This discount can be said to be very large.
During the World Cup, all football games on the Steam platform are discounted with varying discounts.
Zhang Zihao never expected that the latest version of "The Godfather of Champions 2023" could be offered at such a heavy discount.
He wanted to buy this game when it first came out, but as a college student who had to rely on his parents for living expenses, he still couldn't bear to spend 230 yuan on a game.
Fortunately, there is a big World Cup promotion.
After Zhang Zihao bought this game, he kept it in his game library and never played it. Now that the World Cup is finally over, he can continue his football dream in the game.
Unlike those players who coach wealthy teams in the "Godfather of Champions" series of games, Zhang Zihao chose to coach his hometown team Anton Shining Stars after creating his own personal image in the game.
As a world-renowned football manager game, "The Godfather of Champions" is released every year. Until 2022, it will be exactly thirty years and thirty generations. At first, they were called "The Godfather of Champions 1" and "The Godfather of Champions 2". Later, because there were so many algebras, they simply used years to represent the algebras.
What this game is most proud of is its detailed and real database, which covers almost all professional players in the world. It is said that game production companies have specially insured their databases with high amounts of insurance.
Based on this huge database, the game company has produced a game that is almost comparable to the real football world. Countless players dominate the game, become world-famous coaches, and enjoy the sense of accomplishment of commanding world-class stars.
There are some amazing examples of players of this game becoming head coaches of professional teams.
Of course, Zhang Zihao does not expect to become the head coach of a professional team. He plays this game purely as a hobby and out of love for his hometown team. He wants to lead Flash Star to become the overlord of Chinese football. The World Cup is such a lively global event, but there is nothing happening with the Chinese team. He can only play in the virtual game, coach his hometown team, train local players like Hu Lai, and then strive to become a Chinese player in the game. The head coach of the team, recruit a direct descendant like Hu Lai who he has cultivated, and then lead the Chinese team to the World Cup...
After choosing a coaching team and selecting a database, Zhang Zihao entered the game.
After a simple opening animation, he enters the game screen.
He threw aside the congratulatory letter from the club president in his inbox and the expectations for the season, and went straight into the team lineup without even looking at it.
This game was released in October. At that time, Zhang Qinghuan was still in the Flash Star team, and Zhang Qinghuan in the game was also there. But Zhang Zihao’s release date is January 2023, and Zhang Qinghuan is still in the team. It seems that this game has acquiesced that Zhang Qinghuan can continue to stay in Flash Star...
Zhang Zihao didn't care about Zhang Qinghuan. He just glanced at the name and then looked for the person he was most interested in in the team lineup.
Hu Lai.
He quickly found the name and clicked on it to see Hu Lai's attributes.
Without installing the avatar package and team logo package yourself, most players' avatars will be gray due to portrait rights and copyright reasons.
The same goes for Hu Lai.
Zhang Zihao glanced at Hu Lai's basic data:
Nationality Chinese, age 19, date of birth September 9, 2003, plays for Anton Shining Stars, worth 500,000 yuan, position forward (middle), dominant foot right foot, height 1.75 meters, weight 60 Kilogram.
Height 1.75 meters?
Zhang Zihao remembered that Flash Star updated the basic data of each player on the official website before winter training, including height and weight. Hu Lai seemed to have grown to 1.78 meters, and his weight also increased to 66 kilograms.
This data is really backward...
But think about it, this height and weight data should have been collected by the investigators from the official website of Flash Star. Maybe Hu Lai's height last season was indeed 1.75 meters.
This doesn't matter, it will be correct when the winter transfer database patch is released at the end of March next year.
Zhang Zihao paid more attention to Hu Lai's attributes.
In terms of technical attributes, passing 4, crossing 3, marking 1, penalty kick 4, technical 3, corner kick 2, throw-in 1, dribbling 2, stealing 1, free kick 2, shooting 7, stopping the ball 8, header 6 balls, 3 long shots.
In terms of mental attributes, defensive positioning is 2, work input is 3, concentration is 4, decisiveness is 6, leadership is 3, aggression is 3, vision is 4, teamwork is 8, running without the ball is 9, imagination is 5, willpower is 5, and bravery is 4 , Prejudgment 6, Calmness 7.
Physical attributes: explosive power 5, jumping 6, agility 8, endurance 6, balance 7, strength 3, speed 6, and constitution 8.
"What the hell is this?!" After reading all Hu Lai's data, Zhang Zihao let out a strange scream in the dormitory.
"Rat, why are you yelling so loudly?" The roommate was startled by him.
"Are the data on "The Godfather of Champions 2023" so inaccurate?" Zhang Zihao pointed at his computer screen and said excitedly, "What the hell kind of data is this Hu Lai? Ah? Only seven shots!? Only eight stops?! There are only nine runs without the ball! There are not even two figures in the data! ”
When his roommate heard what he said, he slipped out of bed and came to his computer to look at it: "It's really terrible. These large gray numbers, I thought they were gray players that came out of the system... No, the ones that came out were even worse. This is strong!”
"Hu Lai, who was the top scorer in the Flash Stars last season and scored 11 goals in half a season, is like this?" Another roommate also joined in, and after looking at Hu Lai's data, he also complained.
The third roommate lay motionless on the bed, and his voice came from above: "It's normal, Flash Star is only a Chinese League One team. Originally, the Chinese league was not taken very seriously, especially China's low-level leagues... Besides, even the Chinese Super League doesn’t have every team investigated. As for the reporter, our Flash Star is under trusteeship, and we usually have investigators from Chiho Shigeyama to take care of it. How can they give us the data of the Central League team? I guess the investigators haven't even watched Hu Lai's game, so they just rely on the news. Just a few words were filled in casually. ”
Zhang Zihao looked at the game interface on the laptop screen, frowned and complained: "Why didn't I spend more than a hundred to buy "The Godfather of Champions 2023" just because I wanted to coach Hu Lai? But Hu Lai only had this data, then I’m still playing shit! Isn’t “The Godfather of Champions 2022” delicious? ”
"Use the editor to change it yourself..." my roommate advised.
"No." Zhang Zihao shook his head, "Hu Lai is such a powerful player, I don't allow others to think he is a gray trash. If this data is posted online, Hu Lai will be laughed at..."
"What can I do if I am laughed at?"
Zhang Zihao remembered that he had seen someone recruiting investigators in the "Godfather of Champions" section of the "Goal" website.
"I'm going to apply to be an investigator for Flash Star! I want all the players of "The Godfather of Champions" to know how powerful Hu Lai is!"
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PS, this chapter is a foreshadowing for the future.
Don’t just ask for help. If I want to improve the word count, there are a hundred ways to improve it. There is no need to use this thankless way to improve the word count.
The two chapters today were very hard to write, because they involved the explanation of the world background and the digital expression of Hu Lai's personal abilities. Although I will not use the system to digitally set Hu Lai's abilities, the game in this world is Hu Lai's abilities will be digitally marked.
Although this ability value is inaccurate now, it can also give everyone an idea of his progress in the future.
It's a curve strategy.
I didn't plan to say this at first, but a reader claimed that he usually watches pirated copies, so he wanted to say something about it.
People who watch pirated copies come to my place to complain, so I can only explain it a little bit, and ban him forever by the way. (End of chapter)