Chapter 301 Don’t you even dare to dream?

Chapter 301 Don’t you even dare to dream?

When Sun Yonggang went to the tea room to drink coffee, he met Zhang Chao, who came out of the office humming and jumping.

So Sun Yonggang laughed: "Why are you so happy?"

"Ah, it's Brother Sun!" Zhang Chao just jumped in front of Sun Yonggang and said to him, "I found big news today!"

"What big news? By the way, you went to Hongmaple Ridge..." Sun Yonggang guessed, "Have you seen Hu Lai?"

"I see, I see, the big news is related to Hu Lai!" Zhang Chao said excitedly.

"Hey, what big news has he made again?" Sun Yonggang also became interested.

"Hey, actually, he didn't accept interviews from our media because the team's head coach Shi Wuyin didn't mention his name at all at first. It was me who took the initiative to ask him to be interviewed, and I got support from other reporters... "Zhang Chao briefly told Sun Yonggang the situation at that time.

"Actually, Brother Sun, I just wanted to ask him about his plans for his future career, but I didn't expect to find out such big news... How do you think he answered my question?"

"Becoming the number one player in world football?" Sun Yonggang tried to guess the result according to Hu Lai's thinking.

"..." Zhang Chao glanced at Sun Yonggang, "Brother Sun, are you kidding me? But it's really hard to say whether the future you mentioned is more difficult to realize, or the future Hu Lai said is more difficult to realize... ”

After sighing with emotion, he revealed the answer to Sun Yonggang: "Hu Lai said that he hopes that one day he can wear the Chinese team jersey and win the World Cup!"

Sun Yonggang burst out laughing when he heard this - this was really the style of that kid Hu Lai.

Zhang Chao was very proud of the big news he had created, and was still "showing off" to Sun Yonggang: "Brother Sun, do you know? This time I went to Hongfengling to interview, whether it was the National Olympics or the women's football team, whether it was Guo Junfu Or Li Qingqing, their answers when asked by our reporters are quite boring! Until Hu Lai, he is really a treasure boy! His words are interesting and pleasant, and he always brings surprises... and his answer. That’s the biggest surprise!”

Sun Yonggang asked: "How do you plan to do this news?"

"What else needs to be done? Just releasing what he said is shocking enough!" Zhang Chao said. "This guy knows how to create topics to hype himself up!"

"Is it just a curiosity? Let everyone see how arrogant a player who is selected for the Olympic team for the first time is?" Sun Yonggang asked, staring at the triumphant Zhang Chao.

Zhang Chao heard something different from Sun Yonggang's words, and he asked: "Brother Sun, what do you think we should do?"

Sun Yonggang shook his head: "Let me tell you an old story, maybe it can inspire you. You know that I met Hu Lai at the national competition... It was the first national competition that Dongchuan Middle School participated in. At that time, because of Luo Kai performed well and the National Competition Organizing Committee wanted to highlight him, so they contacted many media We went to interview Luo Kai. Dongchuan Middle School was training when we went to interview. There were too many people in the media, so we had to queue up for the interview. I took photographer Xiao Li and was waiting on the sidelines, and then I saw Hu. Lai went to the training ground alone to practice more...guess what he was practicing?"

"Practice shooting?" Zhang Chao guessed based on Hu Lai's position on the field.

"No, he is practicing more celebration movements." Sun Yonggang said.

"Practice more...celebrations?" Zhang Chao's eyes widened.

"Well, it has now become his signature celebration. At that time, he was not very skilled. He would fail seven or eight times if he did it ten times, so he would practice more. I thought that waiting is just waiting anyway, so I have nothing to do. Ergan, go and interview this weird young man, maybe you will get some extra rewards.”

Sun Yonggang continued to talk.

"In that interview, I asked a question similar to yours, asking him what his vision is for the future. But the original intention of my question was to ask him what his vision is for the future of this national competition. As a result, you guessed he How did you answer? ”

Zhang Chao shook his head and said simply: "I don't know."

"He said he wanted to be a professional player." Sun Yonggang laughed when he said this, his eyes were a little blank, not looking at Zhang Chao in front of him, as if he had seen the scene that day again. "Actually, I was complaining crazily in my heart at that time. I said, who should ask you about your career plan! You are a student player, participating in the national competition for the first time, and you are still a substitute in the team... How do you get the qualifications to be a professional player? But now you I also saw that not only did he become a professional player, he also scored 11 goals in half a season in the Chinese League One, and then was selected for the Olympic team at the age of nineteen..."

Sun Yonggang opened his hand to Zhang Chao.

Zhang Chao fell into deep thought after listening to Sun Yonggang's brother Sun told him about Hu Lai's past.

Then he said: "I know what to do, thank you, Brother Sun!"

His thanks were sincere.

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"Hu Lai, when you said that, did you ever think about the impact it would have?" After training and eating in the restaurant, Wang Zijian asked Hu Lai, who was sitting next to him, in a low voice.

"What impact?" Hu Lai raised his face from the plate and asked Wang Zijian, his enthusiastic teammate, in confusion.

"Aren't you worried that others will think you are pretentious?"

"But I'm not pretending, I'm telling the truth."

Hu Lai thought to himself that I have pretended to be cool a lot, but this time, I really didn’t want to show off...

"Your behavior is more like showing off..." Wang Zijian complained helplessly.

"Why? Because it's difficult to win the World Cup?" Hu Lai asked.

"It's not a question of whether it's difficult or not. We haven't even made it to the World Cup finals...you just said you want to win the World Cup." Goalkeeper Song Kun next to him explained for his friend. "What do you want others to think? Don't they think you are bragging?"

"I thought this was every kicker's dream..."

"Dreams also have to be divided. Some dreams can be realized with hard work. For example, if you say that your future dream is to participate in the World Cup, then I guess many people will not have any other ideas. But if you have to say winning the World Cup... This kind of dream that is simply impossible to achieve will naturally be considered by others as trying to show off with something that is destined to be impossible," Song Kun said.

At this moment, there was someone suddenly at their table.

"Hu Lai, are you free? I want to chat with you."

Everyone turned to look at Guo Junfu who said this.

Hu Lai looked at the almost finished dinner, got up and followed Guo Junfu out.

"Look, what did I say?" Wang Zijian looked at the backs of the two people and spread his hands. "Guo Junfu must represent many people in the team and came to talk to Hu Lai about his limelight... I went back to the dormitory yesterday and thought about it for a long time, and I felt that the scene of eating in the restaurant yesterday was probably a little exciting. People.”

"Oh, actually if I were Hu Lai, I would tell Guo Junfu that it was a joke. After all, isn't there a Gold Cup tour before every World Cup? There are also people who come to our country. When the time comes, Hu Lai will be a fan. , Wearing the Chinese team jersey to hold the cup and take a group photo, doesn't it also fulfill his words?" Sun Gang was standing by to give Hu Lai advice. "Anyway, he was talking about winning the World Cup wearing the Chinese team's jersey, but he was not talking about winning the World Cup. There is a big difference."

Wang Guangwei frowned and said nothing.

At the same time, on the other side, at the dining table where the Chinese Super League players gathered, they were also talking about Guo Junfu going to find Hu Lai: "Guo Junfu actually went to find Hu Lai... It's because of Hu Lai's Dream'? ”

"I think it's nine out of ten. Hu Lai, this kid, is a little too arrogant. He was only selected for the first time, and he can say such things in front of so many reporters in the first training session. These days, Even the most YY online novels would not dare to write about the Chinese team winning the World Cup! Guo Junfu probably wants to beat him..." Xiao Xiao said.

"Xiao Xiao, please stop guessing." Gao Ruimin frowned, "What is 'beating'? As an old team member, giving some suggestions and advice to newcomers, does it count as 'beating'?"

Xiao Xiao is just a substitute goalkeeper. Facing a main midfielder like Gao Ruimin, he will inevitably feel short of breath. Seeing Gao Ruimin say this, he can only explain: "I used the wrong word, but the meaning is similar. I just feel that the newcomer Should be more low-key , He is not only causing trouble for himself by being so high-profile, he is also causing trouble for the team... When did Xinyan become so high-profile? Isn’t it?”

His phrase "causing trouble for the team" did represent the views of some people in the team, so Gao Ruimin couldn't say anything more. He just turned to watch Guo Junfu lead Hu Lai out of the restaurant door, probably to the artificial lake. .

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"Hey, have you heard? During today's training, the media went to interview the Olympic team players, and something happened..." In the dining area of ​​the women's national team, someone gossiped to his teammates.

"What's going on?"

"Did you mean the one named Hu Lai?"

"Huh? Do you know it too?"

"Well, I heard the rumors too..."

"You two, what's going on? Just tell us what's going on, don't keep your appetite!"

Facts have proved that even if you are a national team player, the gossip is still the same.

Hearing Hu Lai's name, Li Qingqing, who was playing on his mobile phone, also pricked up his ears.

"Oh, I heard that Hu Lai, who was selected for the National Olympic training team for the first time, said in an interview that he hoped to lead the Chinese team to win the World Cup in the future. The reporters were shocked..."

"Oh! Young people today are so crazy!"

"Hey, you can't say that. Aren't the National Olympic training teams all young people? No one is over twenty-three years old. Why aren't the others so crazy?"

"I heard that he is the youngest in the training team. He has scored 11 goals in the professional league at a young age and was selected for the Olympic team. It is normal to be crazy. He has the capital..."

"I don't like hearing this anymore. He has capital? What do we, Qingqing, say?"

After hearing Hu Lai's declaration of winning the World Cup, Li Qingqing was still lowering her head and snickering, because she thought about what they talked about when they returned to Dongchuan during the holidays and Hu Lai on the football field. She guessed that Hu Lai didn't know what he said. Wasn’t it exciting that he was going to participate in the World Cup...

As a result, she heard someone suddenly call her name. She looked up and saw her club captain Shi Yuehua redressing her injustice: "Oh, that guy is the youngest in the training team... We Qingqing are still in the national team. The youngest one is nineteen years old, why aren’t you crazy?”

"Oh, Yuehua, it's unfair for you to say that. How can you use Qingqing as the standard?"

"Yes, yes, how can the man named Hu Lai be compared with Qing Qing?"

"That's right, if you say that, don't talk about that Hu Lai, even we have to die."

The women laughed.

Li Qingqing looked at everyone like this, with a stiff smile on his face, but sighed in his heart.

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Hu Lai and Guo Junfu were walking by the artificial lake.

Hu Lai looked at the "black mass" flying in the air in front of him, and thought to himself that it was not summer now, so he was wearing long clothes and long trousers, which were well covered, otherwise he would never let Guo Junfu take him to the lake. of.

The winters in and around the capital have not been cold at all in the past two years. It would be nice if it snowed once a year. When it snows, the people in the capital are just like the people in the south. They are extremely excited and look like they have never seen the world.

This warm winter makes it very comfortable for the players to train here, but it also brings in some mosquitoes that were rarely seen in previous years...

Guo Junfu's attention was not on the mosquitoes. He stood at the top of the slope, looking at the lawn that extended from his feet to the lake, and said to Hu Lai straight to the point: "I know everyone is very excited when they are selected for the national team for the first time. Yes, I was just like you at the beginning, and I was inevitably a little proud. Get carried away... I know you may not like what I say, Hu Lai, but I do do it for your own good. It's okay to want to be in the limelight, but you should also pay attention to some ways to win the World Cup championship. Not a good idea.”

Hu Lai spread his hands and said very innocently: "I didn't want to sensationalize, brother. I told the truth, and the reporter asked me to tell the truth."

Guo Junfu looked at Hu Lai and shook his head: "Is the World Cup so easy to win? We haven't even participated in the World Cup. Now you say you want to win the World Cup. Don't you think you are trying to flatter others?"

"We haven't participated in the World Cup, so we can't think about winning the World Cup? We haven't participated in the World Cup in 60 years, and we haven't won the World Cup in 60 years. Isn't this different? People have to have some dreams, right? Brother? First of all Don’t care whether this dream is exaggerated or not, don’t you even dare to think about it?”

Hu Lai recalled it carefully and found that there was a century-old plan for Japanese football in both time and space.

So he said: "Just like our neighbor Japan, they made a century-old plan when football was at its lowest point, saying that in a hundred years, the Japanese football team must win the World Cup. Brother, think about it, in a hundred years Doesn’t it sound like a joke to win the championship later? Is this plan nonsense? But people just follow the plan? Execution. Didn’t the Japanese team never reach the World Cup when the plan was made? I don’t need to say what Japan’s football strength is now. Japan dreamed in the name of the National Football Association, and I can’t dream in my own name. ? It’s my dream to participate in the World Cup, and it’s my dream to win the World Cup.”

Guo Junfu originally thought that with his qualifications as a veteran player, he would be able to easily control the rhythm in his own hands by saying a few words to a newcomer.

Unexpectedly, this newcomer was very sharp-tongued, which made him speechless now.

He also had to admit that what this newcomer said was right and reasonable.

As a football player, of course he is very aware of the development of Japanese football.

Thinking back when the Japanese team met our Chinese team, it was simply meat on the chopping board. As a result, now, when the Chinese team meets the Japanese team, everyone will think: Oh, it’s over, we will lose again this time.

He is also unhappy as a player, but is there a way to deal with his unhappiness?

No matter how unhappy you are, you still have to lose?

The strength gap between the two sides is there!

There is also South Korea. So far, the Chinese team has not even beaten South Korea once in official competitions. Isn’t it a shame?

How embarrassing!

But does feeling embarrassed solve the problem?

People often say: know shame and then be brave.

I realized my shame and became brave. Then because of the huge gap in strength between the two sides, I was taught how to behave by the Korean team on the field.

Their U22 team has been competing against Korean teams of all ages since U16. From the Asian Youth Championship to the Asian Youth Championship, and then to the Asian Games, whenever they encounter the Korean team, it is one word: lose!

This time in the East Asian Cup, we will definitely play against the South Korean team, and everyone feels that the odds are against them. After all, after fighting as an opponent for so many years, I know very well how strong the opponent is and how much I weigh.

The newcomer in front of us now says that we don’t even dare to think about it...

Is this unthinkable?

Who has never had a daydream...

It’s just that they were all defeated by reality!

Thinking of this, Guo Junfu snorted: "There are a lot of great principles, just saying them nicely. Do you think you can win the World Cup championship by saying a few nice words? Let me tell you, let's not mention the World Cup. Even in this East Asian Cup, the championship is not that easy to win!”

After saying that, he was too lazy to talk nonsense with this newbie who didn't know the world, so he turned around and left.

Hu Lai stood there, with no intention of catching up. He lowered his head as if lost in thought.

Out of the corner of his eye, Guo Junfu caught sight of Hu Lai standing blankly. He wondered if he was aware of his problem. He was talking about this championship and that, as if he was embarrassed to meet people if he didn't win the championship.

The first thing I said was the World Cup champion... Don't kid me, we only won the East Asian Cup once, and that was eighteen years ago!

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PS, what follows is still an Easter egg chapter for the strongest Chinese team in history. If we have such a Chinese team, our expectation may not be to reach the World Cup, but to win the World Cup, right?

(End of chapter)