Chapter 432 Hu Lixin’s decision
The Chinese Olympic team just started its last training camp before the U23 Asian Cup in the cold weather of the capital.
Lin Zhiyuan, the "catfish", has indeed injected fresh vitality into the team.
Although he and Hu Lai reached an agreement before signing, it is difficult to make everyone on the team like him.
There will always be people who try to challenge Lin Zhiyuan in training.
Especially every shooting training session is when the atmosphere on the training ground is at its highest.
Everyone was holding back their energy and wanted to enter the door guarded by Lin Zhiyuan.
Lin Zhiyuan also used this opportunity to show everyone his abilities, why he was able to become the main player in the German football club's echelon, why he became the main player of the reserve team as soon as he came to the South China Tigers reserve team, and helped the team win the Chinese Super League Reserve League Champion.
Although his words sometimes make people annoying, it doesn't mean that he only knows how to talk. He has real talents and learning.
After he saved his teammates' shots many times, even those Olympic team players who were psychologically uncomfortable with this man had to admit that Lin Zhiyuan had two tricks up his sleeve.
As for the duel between him and Hu Lai... there were winners and loses in training. Sometimes Hu Lai's shots could be saved by Lin Zhiyuan, but sometimes even if Lin Zhiyuan tried his best, he couldn't touch them. To the side where Hulay scored.
As Lin Zhiyuan himself said, performance in training does not count. This kind of training performance cannot prove who wins and who loses. We still have to wait and see in the actual game.
Even his direct competitor, the original main goalkeeper Song Kun, had to be impressed by Lin Zhiyuan's strength in training. He may lose his position as the main goalkeeper because of Lin Zhiyuan, but he has nothing to say, after all, his ability is indeed outstanding.
After seeing Lin Zhiyuan's performance, he understood the gap between domestic training and high-level professional football training in Germany...
This is a somewhat sad reality.
As a goalkeeper, he is considered one of the best among his peers in China, otherwise he would not have been the main player from the National Youth Team to the National Olympic Team.
But this is the premise of domestic football after all. Compared with the vast ocean outside, domestic football is like a small pond.
As a returnee from overseas, Lin Zhiyuan has many things that make people angry, but his strength is the only one that cannot be blamed.
Your strength is inferior to others, your position has been taken away, you have to admit it.
Just like Guan Xinyan, if you don't recognize it, you won't even be able to get into the training list...
Regarding Xinyan's lesson learned from the past, Song Kun felt that it was good that he could still stay in the Olympic team.
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After the training camp, the Chinese Olympic team will fly collectively to Dashun City, Haining Province - this U23 Asian Cup will be held in four cities in Haining Province - Dashun City is the base camp of the Chinese Olympic team, where they will A warm-up match with the UAE Olympic team. This is also the last warm-up match before the U23 Asian Cup.
After this warm-up match, the U23 Asian Cup will officially begin.
As the host and seed team, the Chinese team was automatically assigned to Group A. Its opponents in the same group include Qatar, Uzbekistan and Oman.
This U23 Asian Cup serves as an Olympic qualifier. It is stipulated that only the first, second and third place teams are eligible to participate in the Olympic Games to be held in Madrid in August.
In other words, if the Chinese team wants to qualify for the Olympics, it must at least reach the semi-finals to have a chance.
This is a very difficult task for the Chinese Olympic team.
Even if they win the East Asian Cup, it does not mean that they have the strength to reach the semi-finals of the U23 Asian Cup held locally. After all, the psychological state of the teams participating in the East Asian Cup is completely different from that of the U23 Asian Cup.
But as the host of this competition, fans naturally have reason to have high hopes for the team's results.
Since the 2012 Olympic Games held in the capital of their country, the Olympic team has never been able to participate in the Olympic Games. And that time eleven years ago, I was promoted without taking the test by virtue of my status as the host.
As a result, the team performed very poorly. They did not qualify for the group stage, lost all three games, did not score a single goal, and were shaved off their heads.
At that time, everyone's patriotic enthusiasm for the local Olympics was aroused, and they also had high hopes for the performance of the Olympic team.
As a result, the Olympic team handed over such a report card, and was naturally scolded by fans and media across the country after the game.
Some people even labeled them a "national humiliation".
But to be honest, given the level of Chinese football, this result in the Olympics is actually quite normal and far from being a national humiliation. It would be a "national humiliation" if table tennis was completely wiped out in the Olympics...
Since then, the performance of the Chinese Olympic team has been worse than the last - the 2016 Olympic qualifiers have been changed to the U23 Asian Cup format, which was also the first U23 Asian Cup at that time. After the Chinese team qualified in the group stage, they lost to the Qatar Olympic team in the first round of the knockout round.
In the 2020 Olympic Qualifiers and the Third U23 Asian Cup, the Chinese team lost all three games in Thailand without scoring a single goal and went home without qualifying for the group stage.
Hu Lai's current Olympic team was still U17 at the time, participating in competitions such as the Asian Youth Championship.
The best result of this team in the Asian Youth Championship was seventh place, although they did not participate in the World Youth Championship. But they are still a little more promising than their predecessors, and at least they qualified in the group stage.
At the same time, it also benefited from the high-level efforts of the Football Association to crack down on gangsters. The growth environment of this national youth team is better than that of their predecessors.
At least Shi Wuyin, who has been leading the team, has not been fired for various reasons. He has always led the team and ensured the continuation of tactical thinking and the familiarity and tacit understanding between them.
Such a stable environment was something that the previous National Olympic teams did not have - you must know that the National Olympic team that participated in the Olympic Games suddenly announced a coaching change only one month before the Olympic Games, replacing the previous team leader. Lauter Prinz, a foreign coach with decent grades. It is said that the reason for the coaching change was because Prinz, an old German man, did not listen to the Chinese Football Association, so the Football Association replaced an obedient local coach. Changing coaches before battle is a taboo for military strategists, so it is no surprise that the Olympic team returned from the Olympics with a disastrous defeat...
Now that the Olympic team led by Shi Wuyin has finally achieved results in the East Asian Cup, it has quickly received high hopes from the Chinese people.
It can even be said that after seeing the outstanding performance of these young players in the 2023 season, if this Olympic team cannot break out of Asia and participate in the Olympic Games, then Chinese fans may fall into great despair.
After all, if such a talented team can't do it, then who else can do it?
So even though the U23 Asian Cup has not yet started, this team is already under heavy pressure.
Of course, the style of a team with Hu Lai in it is destined to be a little different...
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When Hu Lai deducted Liu Yan with a fake move during the team's teaching competition, Chen Xingyi waved his arms and shouted: "Everyone stand up! Applaud and cheer!"
There were cheers from the sidelines.
“Hu Lai is awesome!!”
“Hu Lai’s dick exploded!”
Song Kun, who was originally preparing to defend Hu Lai's shot, simply ran out of the goal and ran with arms outstretched in celebration.
He left Hu Lai with an empty goal.
Hu Lai was so angry that he shouted: "Come back! Why are you running? If you can, you can also run away with the goal!"
Everyone was laughing on and off the court.
Shi Wuyin and Li Zhifei were also happy when they saw this scene, and had no intention of going up to stop everyone.
The two of them knew that this was a player from the Olympic team playing a prank on Hu Lai, because just now Hu Lai successfully passed someone outside the penalty area...
Everyone knows that Hu Lai is not good at passing people, so when he passed Liu Yan in training, everyone cheered, as if Hu Lai had accomplished something amazing.
Liu Yan, who had been raped, lay on the ground and covered his face with his hands, looking very upset - he had been raped by Hu Lai! He knew that he was going to be scolded by his teammates for several days...
Sure enough, Wang Zijian rushed over immediately, squatted next to Liu Yan and clenched his fists, as if holding a microphone and handed it to Liu Yan: "Hey, Brother Yan, interview, how does it feel to be passed by Hu Lai?"
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"Damn it, I thought he was going to pass from my left, so I moved the blocking position in advance, but I didn't expect that he mixed the garlic under his feet and touched the football to the right... I'm going to die!" Lying on the ground Liu Yan shouted sadly and angrily.
Wang Zijian concluded: "I understand, just like playing FIFA with me, twisting the joystick randomly and unexpectedly turning around like Francis, I guess Hu Lai doesn't even know how he got past you..."
Hu Lai turned around and retorted: "Nonsense! This is obviously my strategy, I have premeditated it!"
Wang Zijian pointed at Liu Yan: "Then you come back and challenge Brother Yan again, and use your extraordinary skills just now."
Hu Lai shook his head and waved his hands: "That won't work. I am an extraordinary person who has been used once and cannot be used again."
"Is that true? One-time success?"
"No, just like there are no two identical leaves in the world, no one of my extraordinary moves is exactly the same. Just like a person cannot step into the same river twice, it is impossible for me to make two identical moves. An extraordinary move. I call this extraordinary move the 'Schrödinger's Pendulum'..." Hu Leon shook his head and said seriously.
"I believe you, you idiot!" Wang Zijian jumped up, "What's the 'Schrödinger's Pendulum'? Isn't this the same thing I just said, made by rubbing the rocker randomly!"
Liu Yan lay on the turf and cried silently, feeling even more embarrassed.
"Hahahahaha!" Everyone listened to the conversation between the two people and burst into laughter.
Even Lin Zhiyuan grinned widely and kept laughing along with his new teammates - when he first joined the Olympic team and saw everyone teasing Hu Lai like this, he still couldn't believe the top scorer and tactics of the Olympic team. The core is actually like a team favorite...but now he has completely caught up with everyone's rhythm, which makes him feel like he has integrated into the team.
The training ground of the Olympic team was full of laughter and laughter, just like the Chinese New Year.
So you have to say how much pressure will this team have if they know that everyone has high expectations for them?
Maybe a little bit...
But it may not be that easy to expect them to be overwhelmed by the pressure all of a sudden.
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"...Today is January 1, 2024, New Year's Day... How are the young men of the Chinese Olympic team who are preparing for the U23 Asian Cup spending the New Year's Day at this moment? Please follow the lens of our reporter Enter the Hongmangling training base and find out..."
Images of the Olympic team training were shown on the TV, and there was constant laughter.
"...It seems that the boys of the Chinese Olympic team are in high spirits and very relaxed. The base restaurant has specially prepared a sumptuous holiday meal for the Olympic team to ensure that the boys at the training base can have a happy New Year's Day... ”
In the last shot before cutting to the restaurant scene, Hu Lai on the training ground was picked up by Wang Guangwei and kicked in the butt. However, he nimbly dodged it, and then ran out of the screen with his butt covered, which provoked even more people. The players who remained in the shot burst out laughing.
Seeing this scene, Xie Lan was very happy: "Look how popular our son is!"
Hu Lixin did not respond to her. She glanced at her husband: "What are you thinking about? Your eyes are straight?"
"I want to resign." Hu Lixin continued to answer his wife's words with that look.
"Resign? Okay, you should have resigned a long time ago. Let me tell you, what's there to do in that crappy job... I'm not looking down on the security guards, I mean they leave you idle in the office... every day Is it interesting to just go to work and be in a daze? It’s not interesting!” Xie Lan slapping her thighs excitedly, oh, her husband finally figured it out!
After getting excited, she asked again: "But have you decided what to do after resigning?"
She did not consider the option of staying home after her husband resigned, because she and her husband had reached a consensus on the issue of "not chewing children." However, no matter what kind of work they do, they must always be busy and active. They cannot rest at home, otherwise they are afraid that the rest will get rusty and cause problems.
"I want to take the coaching qualification certificate."
"Eh?"
"Then I went to be a coach in an elementary school and taught children to play football. Isn't our country now advocating that football be brought to campus? But the lack of enough youth training coaches has always been a problem... I think it should be easier for me to find a job, right? ”
Xie Lan asked: "I'm not against it, I'm just curious - why do you suddenly want to go to a primary school to teach children to play football?"
After she asked this question, she noticed that her husband's eyes had returned to clarity, but the direction of his gaze had not changed, and it was still the TV screen.
"I didn't let Hu Lai play football when he was a child. If I could teach him to play football at that time, he might have suffered a lot less. Now that he has grown up and cannot go back, I will teach other children to play football. Right." Hu Lixin said. "It can be regarded as making some contribution to this changed Chinese football."
Hearing this, Xie Lan smiled: "I support you!" (End of Chapter)