Chapter 459 Luo Kai’s fighting spirit
Without Hu Lai, would he have become a professional player, and would he have become an Olympic player wearing the Chinese team jersey and appear in the U23 Asian Cup?
Luo Kai would never think about this question before, because the answer to what made him a professional player has always been "Li Qingqing".
Without Li Qingqing, Luo Kai probably would not have become a professional player. After all, although he has received professional football training since he was a child and has shown extremely high talent, neither he nor his parents have set their minds on becoming a professional player. Football turns that way. At that time, the reputation of Chinese professional football was not very good, and Luo Kai's grades were not bad. As senior intellectuals, his parents did not believe that their children would have any future in professional football.
Of course, as senior intellectuals, they must also respect their children's own ideas.
So when Luo Kai came home from school one day and suddenly told them that he wanted to play professional football, they did not object too much. They just confirmed with their son again and again whether this was his decision after careful consideration.
After getting a positive reply from their son, they agreed.
After all, as a middle-class urban family with a father who is an engineer and a mother who is a university teacher, even if their son finds that the path to professional football is not going to work, their family still has enough capital for him to try and make mistakes.
Of course, now that the son has obviously been kicked out, the "fallback options" they prepared for the child will most likely be useless...
The reason why Luo Kai decided to play professional football was of course because he heard from Hu Lai that Li Qingqing went to play professional football. He believed that this was the only way for him to be in the same world as the goddess in his mind.
After becoming a professional player, Li Qingqing was also his motivation for continuous improvement.
At least, that's what he thought before joining the Olympic team.
But when he was selected for the first time to participate in the friendly match of the Olympic team, he saw Hu Lai's status and treatment in this team. Even Ran Jiachang, the leader of the Olympic team, attached great importance to Hu Lai.
To be honest, as a proud Luo Kai, it is impossible not to be stimulated...
He realized that it would be almost impossible for him to win the favor of the goddess without defeating the boy in front of him.
So things became simpler - as long as he worked hard to become stronger and surpassed Hu Lai, the goddess would naturally look at him with admiration.
In this U23 Asian Cup, Hu Lai scored five goals in nine minutes, which shocked many people. Luo Kai was shocked in his heart no less than those people on the Internet who repeated "I'm fucked, I'm fucked".
He was even a little frustrated, feeling that he could not score more than five goals in nine minutes anyway and could not surpass Hu Lai.
It wasn't until he looked at the photos of Li Qingqing he had collected on his mobile phone for a long time that he cheered up again. He felt that he couldn't just do nothing anyway, so he gave up the goddess.
This final is a perfect opportunity for him to prove himself.
Just like Yan Yan said to himself, he was not in the Olympic team in the East Asian Cup last year. Those Japanese players didn't know how good they were. They would only focus on Hu Lai.
The ball was clearly at his feet, but Hu Lai turned around and ran in, forcing the Japanese defense to retreat collectively, creating an undefended space for himself.
Then let the little Japanese take a look. Luo Kai is also a character worthy of their defensive focus!
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Luo Kai created a corner kick for the Chinese team, but after the corner kick was taken, it did not threaten the Japanese team's goal. Instead, it allowed the Japanese team to launch a counterattack.
For the first time, the stands booed against the Japanese team.
The Chinese team players tried their best to defend, but Lin Zhiyuan in front of the goal became excited: "Damn it! It's my turn to be the protagonist!"
After speaking, he directed the two full-backs Bai Di and Sun Gang who were behind him: "You two keep an eye on their receiving players and don't worry about the one with the ball yet!"
"The one with the ball" is Tatsuya Sugiyama, the captain of the Japanese football team.
Seeing this, Bai Di asked loudly: "Then who will take care of it?!"
"We'll talk later!" Lin Zhiyuan answered him in a loud voice.
Sugiyama Tatsuya originally wanted to attract the Chinese team players to his side during the counterattack, and then pass the football to his teammates in the space.
As a result, when he looked up, he found that the forward Daisuke Hanada who was supposed to respond to him was actually followed by two defensive players from the Chinese team, leaving no room for him to pass the ball!
Of course, Tatsuya Sugiyama can also wait for his other teammates to run up and pass the ball, but then the Chinese team's defense will be in place.
He looked at the Chinese team's goalkeeper Lin Zhiyuan, gritted his teeth and decided to go and meet him for a while.
When he brought the ball close to the Chinese team's penalty area, Lin Zhiyuan shouted: "Bai Di, go up and force him now, don't let him break through the penalty area, let him shoot!"
Bai Di immediately rushed over and blocked Tatsuya Sugiyama's path with the ball. At the same time, Sun Gang continued to follow the Japanese team's forward Daisuke Hanada. Another defensive midfielder Zeng Chi had also returned to defend and resisted another Japanese forward Takenori Kuroiwa who ran up, preventing him from receiving the ball. space.
When Tatsuya Sugiyama saw Bai Di approaching, he quickly slowed down and changed direction, and then shot directly from outside the penalty area!
This is exactly what Lin Zhiyuan wanted him to do.
At the same time as he shot, Lin Zhiyuan rose into the air, stretched his arms lightly, caught the flying football, and then brought it back directly to his chest, and pressed it firmly under him when he landed. It was a standard and perfect set of goalkeeper skills.
After catching the football, Lin Zhiyuan stood up from the ground, hugged the football, and shook his finger at Tatsuya Sugiyama: "What's the matter with you, little brother?"
"Lin Zhiyuan made a wonderful save to resolve the Japanese team's counterattack!"
The Chinese fans in the stands cheered again, applauding Lin Zhiyuan's save.
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The Japanese team's counterattack failed this time, it was just part of the game.
It didn't have any impact on either team.
It is impossible for the Japanese team to suffer heavy losses just because a counterattack failed.
Not to mention that because the counterattack failed this time, the Chinese team made a sneak attack - Lin Zhiyuan directly threw the ball with his hand and restarted the attack.
However, the Japanese team retreated very quickly, leaving no opportunity for the Chinese team to take advantage of.
This team is obviously an Olympic team, but it shows the same maturity and stability as an adult team.
This has a lot to do with their midfield core Tatsuya Sugiyama.
After being provoked by Lin Zhiyuan wagging his finger, he did not get angry. Instead, he immediately turned around and pointed at his own half and shouted to his teammates who were already pressing up: "Get back on defense quickly!"
Just as the other players of the Japanese team turned around and ran back, Lin Zhiyuan threw the football in his hand.
But facing the ebbing Japanese team, the Chinese team has lost the opportunity to counterattack, and can only stabilize the rhythm and slowly deal with the Japanese team.
Since it is the final and both teams want to win the championship, they will naturally play cautiously to avoid making mistakes on their own side.
As the head coach of the Japanese team, Koichi Sato must have studied the Chinese team. He knew that the Chinese team's two wingers were very fast, so he asked the Japanese team to shrink deep enough and retreat fast enough when defending, without giving up. The Chinese team's two wide players leave space where speed can be exploited.
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Luo Kai almost dropped back to the middle to receive the ball.
The Japanese team's deep defense made him feel a little frustrated playing in the front. Just now Shi Wuyin asked him to retreat deeper, and he did so.
Next to Guo Junfu stood Junpei Morikawa, with his back to the direction of attack. He raised his arms not to ask for the ball, but to point in the direction of Luo Kai and shout: "Give the ball directly to Luo Kai, give it to him!"
Wang Guangwei, who got the ball at the back line, moved the long pass to the wing.
Luo Kai almost jumped up on the sideline and stopped the football with his chest.
As he stopped the ball, Japanese forward Takenori Kuroiwa also pressed forward.
I saw that Luo Kai did not raise his right leg to kick the football, but made an action to pass the football to the center to meet Gao Ruimin.
Takenori Kuroiwa quickly moved a step over there.
Unexpectedly, Luo Kai's leg-swinging action was a feint. His foot suddenly stopped on top of the football, then he stepped on the football and pulled it back, then pushed forward... pulled the ball in a V shape!
Just like that, he pushed the football into the space behind Takenori Kuroiwa. At the same time, he held Takenori Kuroiwa with his hands, and then suddenly accelerated on the spot to catch up with the football.
He almost brought the football along the sideline!
"Oh, beautiful!" Following He Feng's roar, deafening cheers rang out from the stands.
Luo Kai, who broke through, dribbled the ball forward along the sideline.
When he met the second Japanese player, he slowed down and passed the football sideways to Guo Junfu, who came up to meet him.
At the same time, he continued to move forward.
Under the close defense of Morikawa Junpei, Guo Junfu did not stop the ball, but directly passed the football back to the front of Luo Kai's running position!
The two people played a two-on-one and hit the wall to cooperate.
Luo Kai accelerated to catch up with the football.
But at the same time, on the inside, the Japanese team also deployed a defensive line.
There are two players lying on the inside of him. If he wants to cut inside, he will collide with these two players. There is almost no space for him to cut inside.
The Japanese team obviously wants to let Luo Kai pass from the bottom and not let him enter the penalty area.
Luo Kai did indeed make a gesture of going directly to the bottom. He first gently pushed the football forward and at the same time rushed forward.
But after tricking the forward one of the two Japanese players to move, he suddenly stopped and used the outside instep of his left foot to move the football to the inside, allowing the football to pass between the two Japanese players.
He rushed in after him.
When he forced his way in, he was physically blocked by two Japanese players, but Luo Kai still used his physical advantage to force his way in.
Although he staggered a little, he finally got in.
"Luo Kai... beautiful inside cut! He went in!"
The cheers in the stands were even louder.
Yamaura Yoichi, the central defender of the Japanese Olympic team, came up to defend Luo Kai.
He and Luo Kai exchanged kicks, and both of them fell to the ground, but Luo Kai got up from the ground faster than him, and took the lead to hook the football that was stopped in place back to his side, and then he was about to lose it. While balancing, he shot the football towards the goal with his left foot!
Another Japanese central defender Yuichi Sakurai also rushed over and tried to block the ball with his foot, but the football flew past his toes and went straight to the back corner of the goal!
Japanese goalkeeper Hiroki Ueshima was originally blocking the shot angle from the front point. When he saw the football flying over, he quickly jumped back, but he did not touch the football!
Amidst the continuous cheers, the football flew into the Japanese team's goal!
The cheers in the People's Stadium turned into explosions, and sonic bombs exploded in the stands!
boom!
"Luo Kai Luo Kai... Luo Kai!! Good goal!! Beautiful!!! He single-handedly challenged the Japanese team's defense, and relied on his super personal ability to kill each other in the Japanese team's defense! The Chinese team won the final took the lead!”
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In the bar, after Luo Kai pulled the ball in a V-shape to create a breakthrough, many former members of the Dongchuan Middle School football team stood up from their seats, staring at themselves on the projection screen with their eyes wide open. The figure of this former teammate.
As he did so, they began to shout, louder and louder.
Seeing the football flying into the Japanese team's goal, they all cheered: "Holy shit! Awesome!! Luo Kai is awesome!!"
In the past, when they were playing in the same team, as teammates watching Luo Kai's personal performance, they also said "awesome" in their hearts, and this is still the case today.
Luo Kai was the genius that all of them could only look up to from the beginning, and this has not changed to this day.
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Luo Kai lost his balance after finishing the shot and fell to the ground again. He stood up and glanced at the football. After confirming that it was a goal, he got up from the ground, opened his arms and ran excitedly to the corner flag area. In the final of the U23 Asian Cup, facing the Japanese team, he helped the Chinese team open the scoring!
Gained the lead over Hu Lai!
(End of chapter)