Chapter 567 Still has courage
When Melly walked into the locker room, he was cheered and applauded by his teammates.
"Well done, Merry!"
"Both of your goals were so beautiful!"
"You simply destroyed your opponent with your own strength, haha!"
Mellie raised her hands in humility.
Cantero came up and hugged his neck: "I just said, that kid is really lucky to be able to compete with you. But the kid actually said that it was our misfortune to compete with him... and scored another goal in the second half. , put on a hat, look how tough that kid is! ”
"Ramon, why are you always competing with him?" Mellie was puzzled.
"I just don't like that kid. In an Asian football-level game, you can just be so lucky and score five goals in nine minutes, and you can brag about it everywhere... He still pretends to be in front of me and says that it is our misfortune to play against him... ...Ha! I want to see what's so unfortunate!" Ramon Cantero pouted.
Merry knew that his good friend had this temper, so he didn't try to persuade him. If Ramon could change, he wouldn't be Ramon anymore.
There will always be all kinds of people around him, and not all of them may have the same temperament as him, and not everyone may have the same philosophy of life as him, but it is Melly's principle not to force everyone to be the same as him.
So he smiled and shook his head and stopped discussing the issue.
Ramon Cantero seemed more excited than Melli, who scored two goals. He swung his butt and danced next to Melli: "I can't wait for the second half to start right away! After you score this time I must run to that kid and take a good look at his expression! It must be more exciting than the score in this game!”
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"I know the situation is serious..."
In the locker room of the Chinese Olympic team, head coach Shi Wuyin is speaking to his players.
All the starting players are in the locker room at this time, and the substitute players are warmed up on the court by the assistant coach.
Everyone sat in their seats, some looked at their head coach, and some lowered their heads as if in deep thought, but no one spoke. The only voice in the locker room was Shi Wuyin's.
Shi Wuyin stood in the center of the locker room, almost surrounded by the players except in the direction of the door.
He scratched his hair, then touched the back of his head along the hair, and finally pressed it on the back of his head. He just lowered his head, seeming to be thinking about countermeasures, but also seemed not to know what to say to his players.
"I really want to tell you, let's adjust this way and that, readjust your tactics in each position, and you can restrain your opponents... But unfortunately, such tactics do not exist. Our tactics before the game are This is the best response plan that the entire coaching staff came up with after several days of practice. This is the same tactic we have been practicing for so many days. Now if I just open my mouth and tell you during halftime that I have thought of another good idea, and then you just need to do what I say, you can beat Argentina... then I am deceiving people, and I am lying. I’m lying to you. There is no such tactic, no training required, just rely on me to tell you a tactic that will work.”
Shi Wuyuan shook his head.
"Tactically, I have done everything I can do. In terms of execution, you have actually done everything you can do. But are we out of tricks? Just watch the game fall into the opponent's trap in the second half. rhythm, and then we are getting further and further away from our goals, or is it? Are we going to give up on that goal now? Many of you know very well whether we can qualify as a group, right? That's just a carrot tied to a stick that I use to drive you forward... right?" At this point, Shi Wuyuan raised his head, looked around at his players and smiled.
"So far, the results are good. Because we have this goal in front of us, our performance in the Olympics so far is generally excellent. This is not my boast. It has the evaluation of external media and the reaction of fans. Testify. Logically speaking...as our first time participating in the Olympic Games, we should The task has been completed. We also scored against a strong opponent in this game, and our performance was not bad. This performance can satisfy many people, and it can be regarded as a "clear conscience" for myself. It seems that I am not qualified to let you continue to fight... Hu Lai, sit down."
When Shi Wuyin said this, he saw Hu Lai standing up from his seat impatiently, as if he had something to say, so he raised his hand to signal him to sit down.
Hu Lai was anxious...but he still sat down obediently, his anxiety written on his face.
As of now, the Chinese team has only 45 minutes left before leaving the Olympic Games, and his hat trick and the task of qualifying for the group have not been completed yet.
How useful would two bottles of [Marrow Cleansing Potion] be to him? After he entered professional football, it couldn't be more clear. Now every time he faces an opponent who is physically stronger than him, he has to rack his brains, use his sharp tongue, and talk, just to be able to deceive the opponent and give himself even a tiny bit of space to shoot. Is it because of the disadvantage in physical confrontation?
The [Marrow Cleansing Potion] can improve his physical fitness.
Seeing Hu Lai sitting on the bench still rubbing his butt, Shi Wuyuan smiled - this guy didn't think I was going to surrender in advance and admit defeat, right? Well, blame me, maybe the foreshadowing was a bit long...
So he changed the topic and his tone changed: "I have talked about so many objective problems and difficulties before, and I have also talked about so many reasons why we can give up and go home and enjoy the praise...but I still feel unwilling to do so. Just admit defeat. Argentina is very strong, but after the first half of the game started, you played according to the battle we prepared before. With our skills and playing style, doesn’t it mean that we are one goal ahead of them? It means that our opponents are the same as us, but they will be injured and bleed when they are stabbed by us. If they bleed dry, they will die! So since we have stabbed them once, why can’t we stab them a few more times?”
Shi Wuyin looked around at the players in the locker room again, his expression becoming serious.
"Isn't it funny for us to ask this when we have already been stabbed twice by our opponents? But isn't that what the game is like? Whoever can kill his opponent first before being fucked to death by his opponent wins! I This person didn't accept his fate. He was kicked out of the audience when he didn't perform well at first. When the fans shouted for me to be replaced, I didn't accept my fate. I scored a fucking goal to equalize the score! I have suffered five major injuries in my career. Most people would have been injured if they encountered me with so many injuries. Retired? No, I didn’t accept my fate. I played until I did not retire until my body no longer allowed me to do so. Not accepting my fate brought me a lot of trouble, and I suffered a lot for it, because sometimes, as long as you lower your head a little bit, you can feel more comfortable. It doesn’t have to be so tiring, it doesn’t have to be so bitter... But there is only one winner on the football field, and there is only one champion. In order to not suffer or be tired, we have to lower our heads and accept our fate, so why are we still playing football? It’s so hard to come here!”
Shi Wuyin's voice got louder and louder, and in the end it seemed to be reverberating in the entire locker room, deafening.
"Argentina is better than us? So what? Melli is better than us? So what? There is a saying I like very much, and I give it to you here: 'Before you lose confidence, use your courage first.' Score It doesn’t matter if we fall behind, at least we still have the courage!” (Note 1)
After speaking, Shi Wuyuan took a break and then looked at Hu Lai: "Okay, Hu Lai, what did you want to say just now?"
Everyone looked at Hu Lai again.
Hu Lai stood up with a shy face in front of everyone, and smiled very flatteringly: "Just now I wanted to tell Director Shi a 'but' and help you change your tone... but Director Shi changed it yourself, so I have nothing to do with it." What I want to say.”
Shi Wuyuan was stunned for a moment, not expecting Hu Lai to say that.
I remembered a burst of suppressed laughter in the locker room. Obviously everyone knew that it was wrong to laugh at the head coach, but they couldn't help it...
Amidst the laughter, Shi Wuyin also laughed, and he tapped Hu Lai twice with his fingers: "You kid..."
After everyone had almost laughed, he said seriously again: "I have nothing to say about the second half. I said everything that needs to be said before the game. The tactics are still the same and how to do them specifically. In the second half, I asked Meli Ba Let Negga and his Argentina show our courage ”
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"In the second half of the game, the two sides changed sides and played again, and no one made any substitutions... Although the Olympic team was one goal behind, overall, the performance in the first half was remarkable and not too bad. Shi Wuyin Probably for this reason, no adjustments were made. The same is true for Argentina. After all, they are now the leading side and there is no need to adjust..."
After the second half of the game started, the commentator He Feng made a routine introduction. To be honest, he did not dare to have too many expectations for the second half, so he also began to deliberately maintain a calm tone when explaining the game and try not to let his emotions get involved. Come in to avoid being affected by the progress of the game later and interfering with his commentary work.
During the halftime break, he and commentator Yan Kang exchanged their views on the second half. They both agreed that given the strength gap between Argentina and the Chinese team, Melly Banega was already in full swing. Under such circumstances, the Chinese Olympic team may continue to lose goals.
Melly has already scored two goals and is only one goal away from a hat trick. Can he stop at this time?
Obviously not.
Therefore, the two people are not very optimistic about the Chinese Olympic team in the second half, for fear that the Chinese Olympic team, which played very well, will collapse in the second half.
Although even if they lose to Argentina by a big score, given the strength gap between the two teams, it is expected and normal.
But the two of them still have some selfish intentions. They hope that if the Chinese team loses, it will lose more beautifully, try their best to lose again, and have a "glorious defeat", even if they lose, it will be glorious. This way everyone can get along with themselves...
"...In the second half, I hope the Olympic team can stabilize its defense first, withstand Argentina's offensive, and then find a way to counterattack..."
As He Feng was talking, the game on the field had already progressed to the point where the Chinese team advanced the offense to the front of Argentina's penalty area.
With his back to the goal, Hulay stopped the football with his chest, and then pushed the football back with Juan Sosa behind him.
After Luo Kai, who came to the middle, received his response, he shot directly without stopping the ball!
"Look at this ball!" Yan Kang, who was next to him, reacted first and interrupted He Feng's explanation with a shout.
Rino Marinelli, the goalkeeper of the Argentina Olympic team, jumped into the air and reached out to lift the football over the crossbar!
"Wow! The quality of this shot is quite high!" He Feng also reacted and exclaimed, "Not long after the second half started, the Olympic team got a corner kick!"
"After the second half of the game started, the Olympic team played very proactively. It seems that they were not defeated by the goal conceded in the first half!" Yan Kang was very excited. Although the goal did not go in, he saw something exciting about it. content.
"That's right. I hope the boys of the Olympic team can keep this momentum. Put aside the results and fight with them!"
※※※Note 1: This sentence was said by Taiwanese rapper Song Yueting. His masterpiece "Life's Struggle" is very beautiful and highly recommended - but there must be few people who have not heard of this song, right?
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