Chapter 516 Meeting Hu Lai again
Luo Kai followed his teammates from Hedong Thunder and walked out of the airport exit. Immediately, enthusiastic reporters came up to him and extended the microphone to him: "Excuse me, Luo Kai, how does it feel to return to your hometown?"
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"Very good." Luo Kai replied concisely.
This made the reporter who asked the question a little embarrassed.
He originally wanted to use this method to get close to Luo Kai, to close the distance between them, and then move on to the next topic naturally.
Unexpectedly, Luo Kai answered so coldly and blocked the rest of the way.
At this time, a reporter next to him interrupted: "Luo Kai, you and Hu Lai have known each other since high school. You two must have a good relationship, right?"
Luo Kai's face stiffened for a moment, and then he said with a smile: "It's okay."
Then he pointed to his teammates and said: "Sorry, I have to go to the car."
After saying that, without waiting for the other reporters to react, he jogged to catch up with his teammates.
In the seventh round of the league, Flash Stars faced Hedong Thunder at home.
Luo Kai returned to Anton again. This was his second time traveling with the team to play against Flash Stars.
The first time was in the Chinese League One last season, when he represented the Nanhai team.
But Luo Kai didn't have any emotion about this. He was just here to defeat Hu Lai. The questions those reporters asked were really stupid.
What does it feel like to be back home?
It’s not like I haven’t been home for many years. I returned home after last season, okay?
The league has played six rounds, and Hu Lai, as the top scorer of the Flash Stars, has scored four goals in the league.
Luo Kai failed to score a goal.
Of course, this is related to Luo Kai's positioning in Hedong Thunder.
In the strict tactics of the head coach of Hedong Thunder, Luo Kai is not a main attacker. His task is to create opportunities for his teammates.
So far in the league, although he has not scored a goal, he has already provided three assists. Judging from this data, he has accomplished very well the head coach's tactical requirements for him.
Because of this, he has now secured his position as the main force of Hedong Thunder, and Yan Li confidently and boldly hands over the team's right-side offense to this young man.
When Luo Kai returned to the team, a teammate touched his shoulder, then pointed at a few beautiful young girls in the distance and joked: "I didn't expect you have fans here, Luo Kai! ”
The light sign held by those female fans was Luo Kai's name.
Luo Kai glanced at them, and the female fans also noticed his gaze and cheered excitedly.
But Luo Kai didn't respond, waved, or smiled. After they cheered, he quickly withdrew his gaze.
"Just those few fans can't help us turn the away game into a home game." He also said.
"Ahem, who cares about this? What are you thinking about, Luo Kai?" His teammates were particularly speechless towards Luo Kai.
Luo Kai didn't look at the excited female fans anymore, but followed his teammates and boarded the bus waiting outside.
His teammates were enthusiastically discussing which hotpot restaurant in Jincheng had the best hotpot and which had the most beauties. He, a native of Anton, did not participate. He only had Hu Lai in mind for the upcoming game.
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"Luo Kai - he's in! Shoot as soon as he kicks up! Danger!"
Amidst the exclamations of the commentator on Anton TV Sports Channel, Yu Zhiming jumped into the air and tried to lift the football out with one hand.
But he didn't touch the ball.
The football has flown into the goal he is guarding!
"This ball is beautiful!" CCTV commentator He Feng, as a neutral media, does not have such an obvious emotional tendency.
Whether it's Anton Flashing Star or Hedong Thunderbolt, it doesn't matter who wins or loses, as long as the game is exciting.
"Luo Kai scored his first goal in the Chinese Super League!"
After scoring the goal, Luo Kai was very excited. He didn't care that he was facing his hometown fans. He excitedly rushed to the corner flag area and knelt down in front of the Stars fans.
Not only did he score, his goal also helped Hedong Thunder take the lead in the away game!
"Everyone knows that Luo Kai and Hu Lai were in the same class in the same high school and played together on the school team. Hu Lai also became professional players one after another and played on the Olympic team together. Winning glory for the country and helping the Chinese Olympic team qualify for the Olympics... something like this The experience is like the plot of a novel. The common progress and competition between the two of them are destined to become a good story in Chinese football... I can see young people like Hu Lai, Luo Kai, and Chen Xingyi As people grow up, we are so lucky!" He Ping said with emotion.
If he knew the true relationship between Hu Lai and Luo Kai, I'm afraid he wouldn't say this...
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"Luo Kai is in really good shape today..." Chen Xingyi said to Hu Lai after losing the ball, "It's all because of you!"
"It's none of my business?" Hu Lai shook his head.
"Don't you want to think about why he is in good condition today?"
"Maybe it's because I saw you? Who doesn't know that your fans are very difficult to deal with his fans."
"Haha."
When the head coach Zhao Kangming saw the game behind, he frowned slightly and was not very angry.
Facing the team currently ranked third in the league, even at home, it is impossible to say that they can keep a clean sheet.
Losing the ball was what he expected.
The key is not whether to concede the goal, but how to score the goal.
Of course he made careful preparations for this.
He believed that those young people who had a tacit understanding would not let him down.
Not only do they train together, they also live together, eat together, and play together, and they also conduct morning exercises under the leadership of Qin Lin every morning... This kind of tacit understanding can no longer be described as a simple teammate relationship.
Even for Zhao Kangming, it is difficult to see such a teammate relationship - some people may be able to maintain such a pure and pure relationship in the youth team. After all, they live in the dormitory provided by the club and get along day and night. But after becoming professional players and adults, it will be difficult for them to continue like this.
The rapidly expanding desires and income naturally bring about the separation of family and living on their own.
It would be considered strange and unnecessary to continue living together - when my income is enough to allow me to live in a mansion and drive a luxury car by myself, it will be more convenient to be alone instead of forcing myself to be separated from my teammates. tied together. At least you don't have to explain to your roommates when you take a girl home, and you don't have to worry about waking up your roommates if you do it too fiercely.
Therefore, Zhao Kangming has met many players who have a good relationship. After they entered the adult team, they lived their own lives and often gathered together, but it does not mean that they still have to live together.
Hu Lai and his friends were stunned but they got together instead. Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo also discussed why this happened in private.
In the end, they discussed and discussed, and they could only attribute the cause of all this to Hu Lai.
I think it is Hu Lai's unique personal charm that connects these people with different personalities and experiences.
In other words, if there is no Hu Lai, then Zhang Qinghuan is Zhang Qinghuan and will not become friends with anyone. Chen Xingyi may be friends with Wang Guangwei because they have known each other since high school, but Xia Xiaoyu is Xia Xiaoyu and may still be trying to integrate into the team.
As for Morikawa Junpei...he may not be able to integrate until he finally leaves the team. It is really difficult for a Japanese player, a Japanese player whose brain waves are not on the same channel as other players, to integrate into this team.
But after Hu Lai, the situation became different.
Hu Lai is like the hub between them. All the clues of interpersonal relationships are gathered in his head, and he distributes them out, bringing people who originally seemed incompatible together, creating a chemical reaction and becoming We are friends who can understand each other with just one look on the court.
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The young people who had high hopes for Zhao Kangming did not disappoint him. At the end of the first half, through the tacit cooperation of the front trident, Flashing Star scored the football into the penalty area of Hedong Thunder.
After receiving a pass from Zhang Qinghuan, Chen Xingyi, who broke through the ribs, passed the football back as he approached the bottom line.
Hu Lai, who drove straight forward, grabbed the football with the outside of his right foot before the defender of Hedong Thunder stretched out his foot to block it.
The football flew into the goal from behind!
"Hu Lai! Wonderful! This shot is really wonderful!" The commentator of Anton TV Sports Channel was full of praise for Hu Lai's goal. "Four ounces makes a thousand pounds!"
Hao De, the goalkeeper of Hedong Thunder and the main goalkeeper of the national team, lay half on the ground and spread his hands, asking angrily: "Why did you let him go?!"
Central defender Sui Huiming, who was responsible for defending Hu Lai, lowered his head and did not argue with him.
Before the game, head coach Yan Li did ask him to keep an eye on Hu Lai.
But only after competing with this kid do you know that it is too difficult to completely freeze this guy. His movement is as erratic as a feather. The harder you try to catch it, the more you push it away. farther.
Players are humans, not machines, and there will always be times when they are negligent.
The goal conceded just now was, to put it bluntly, a flaw in Hedong Thunder's defense. Most people's energy was attracted by Chen Xingyi's breakthrough.
Sui Huiming just gave Chen Xingyi a slight glance. After he saw Chen Xingyi passing the ball, he came back to look for Hu Lai, and Hu Lai had already rushed in front of him...
This kid is always looking for opportunities around you and won't let you relax at all.
In the first half of the Chinese Super League this season, most of Flash Star's opponents will be playing against Hu Lai for the first time.
They will also experience firsthand why this young man will become the best among the younger generation of players. Scoring goals is like chopping melons and vegetables.
Now Sui Huiming understood the power of Hu Lai.
Such a player who moves like a ghost in the penalty area really gives him a headache when it comes to defense.
In fact, he really wanted to say to Hao De: If you have the ability, try to guard against him and see if you can still say something like that?
But he didn't dare to say that. As the main goalkeeper of the national team, Hao De is also responsible for commanding the club's defense. He certainly has the right to criticize those defender teammates who he thinks are not doing well enough.
As a defender, if you talk like this, you are talking back.
It will lead to conflicts within the team.
Sui Huiming knows very well that if this happens, head coach Yan Li will definitely feel that he has greater responsibilities.
So he wisely chose to keep his mouth shut. (End of chapter)