Chapter 577 The golden boy and girl of Chinese football
"Ah, Madrid, we are back again!"
"It feels like I'm in a dream..."
“The sunshine in Madrid is so nice!”
Sitting on the bus, the players of the Chinese Olympic team looked at the Madrid street scene outside and sighed.
Before the Olympics, they trained in the eastern suburbs of Madrid and then went to Valencia to compete.
At that time, many people probably did not expect that they could actually return to Madrid.
Although Director Shi said that their goal is to qualify from the group.
But how many people really believe they can qualify from the group stage?
Because they qualified second in the group, their opponent in the quarter-finals was the host Spain.
The host country's games were all played in Madrid, so they were able to return to Madrid.
And very coincidentally, the women's national team's opponent in the quarter-finals is also the Spanish women's football team, and they also have to return to Madrid to participate in the game.
When the bus stopped outside the hotel, the players began to get off the bus one by one.
Hu Lai was left alone by head coach Shi Wuyin.
"I received a notice from the group this morning, saying that there is a program on CCTV tomorrow that I would like to invite you to. It's up to you whether you want to go."
Hu Lai was stunned for a moment: "Can I refuse this?"
"Yes, of course I can. But it's best not to refuse." Shi Wuyuan said. "Try not to offend the media as much as possible, especially this kind of national media."
"What show?"
"There is a talk show called 'I Am an Olympic Star'. The atmosphere is relatively relaxed. You just sit on the sofa and chat with the host. It doesn't take long. The whole show may only take less than half an hour..." Shi Wuyin said I briefly introduced what I knew to Hu Lai.
"But won't this take up training time?" Hu Lai still had questions.
"Use your lunch break to go, what kind of training will you miss?"
"Okay, I'll go." Hu Lai nodded and agreed.
Seeing that Hu Lai agreed, Shi Wuyin smiled and said: "There is one more thing to tell you. Someone from the women's football team has also accepted the invitation to participate in this show. You two together, guess who it is?"
Who else could it be?
Hu Lai blurted out: "Li Qingqing?"
Shi Wuyin put his hands on his hands and said with a smile: "Both of you are the major contributors to the team qualifying from the group stage, so the program team called your names respectively. When the time comes, be careful and don't embarrass the men's football team. I heard No?”
"Don't worry, Director Shi, no one is more stable than me..." Hu Lai assured, patting his chest.
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Li Qingqing sent Director Yan out of the door. When she turned around, she saw Xu Wen smiling at her: "Congratulations on being on TV!"
"Don't we get to be on TV every week?" Li Qingqing asked her.
"Hey, can a game broadcast be compared to a talk show like this?" Xu Wen waved her hand and asked her again: "Director Yan just said that there is someone from the Olympic team who will be on the show with you, do you know who it is? ”
Li Qingqing shook his head: "I don't know."
"What do you think?" Xu Wen smiled.
"I guess..." Li Qingqing looked up at the ceiling, pretending to think: "I guess, it's Chen Xingyi who scored the first goal for the men's football team in the Olympics?"
"Ahem!" Xu Wen coughed, "Qingqing, you did it on purpose!"
"Isn't the choice of Chen Xingyi very memorable?" Li Qingqing asked.
"Of course, but he's not the most suitable candidate. Stop acting, Qingqing, Hu Lai must have told you a long time ago!"
"Really not..."
As soon as Li Qingqing finished speaking, her phone rang with a WeChat message notification tone.
It was Hu Lai who sent it: "In that CCTV program, are you going to do the women's football team?"
"Yes. Are you going to the Olympic team?" Li Qingqing replied.
"I'm right."
Li Qingqing laughed.
Xu Wen saw Li Qingqing's smile: "Is he going?"
"Yeah." Li Qingqing nodded.
"Oh, I really want to see it...but I can't see it in Spain!" Xu Wen sighed happily and sadly.
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"Have you heard? It is said that the person on the show with Hu Lai is Li Qingqing!"
"Damn? Real or fake?"
"Of course it's true! Think about it, there is one player each for the men's and women's football teams. Who else is there besides Li Qingqing for the women's football team?"
"Ahh! Envy, jealousy and hate!"
At lunch, the players of the Olympic team were talking about Hu Lai going on TV while eating.
When Luo Kai heard the keyword, he realized what he had missed.
The first goal in the Olympics is not my own, and my first goal in the Olympics has not come yet.
Now even the opportunity to appear on TV with Qingqing is not his own.
Hu Laiyin scored a hat trick in the game and helped the Chinese team qualify for the group. This opportunity must be his.
But it happened that the ball he completed his hat trick was passed by Luo Kai...
I once again pushed him to Qingqing with my own hands!
Zeng Chi, who was lowering his head to eat, suddenly heard a crunching sound coming from across from him. He raised his head strangely, only to find that Luo Kai, who was sitting opposite, was cutting steak with a knife. But the problem is that he has cut the steak long ago, but his movements have not stopped yet. The squeaking sound is caused by the friction between the knife and the ceramic plate...
He quickly called out: "Luo Kai? Luo Kai?"
Luo Kai came back to his senses: "Huh?"
"What are you doing? Are you going to cut the plate into pieces and eat it?" Zeng Chi joked.
"Oh... no." Luo Kai hurriedly put the cut steak into his mouth as if to cover it up, and then... chewed hard.
"Isn't this meat quite tender?" Zeng Chi asked curiously.
"I have tendons here." Luo Kai said through gritted teeth.
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In the studio of the Madrid News Center rented by CCTV, three minutes before the show started, the host Li Xiaohong was smiling and said to Hu Lai and Li Qingqing, who were sitting on the sofa opposite her: "Although ours is a live broadcast, There are no specific program requirements, just chat, so you two don’t have to be nervous, relax and talk freely.”
Hu Lai and Li Qingqing looked at each other. Li Qingqing smiled and nodded to Li Xiaohong: "Okay."
Li Xiaohong looked at Hu Lai again: "Where are you, Hu Lai?"
"Fortunately, I'm not nervous." Hu Lai said.
Li Xiaohong smiled: "I think so. Director Shi Wuyuan said that you have a big heart. Then are we ready to start?"
Li Qingqing and Hu Lai nodded at the same time: "Okay."
After waiting for the director to give a signal, Li Xiaohong sat upright, facing the working camera lens, and said with an intellectual and beautiful smile:
"Viewers, welcome to the new episode of 'I Am an Olympic Star'. I am your old friend Li Xiaohong. Today is a bit special because two Olympic athletes were invited to the recording site of our program. They are the Chinese women's national Li Qingqing, the main player of the football team, and Hu Lai, the main player of the Chinese Olympic team, come and say hello to the audience.”
Li Xiaohong pointed to the camera, and Li Qingqing and Hu Lai waved hello to the green light of the camera and introduced themselves at the same time.
"Hello everyone, I am Li Qingqing."
"Hello everyone, I am Hu Lai."
Li Xiaohong observed the young man and woman from the side and found that they behaved very calmly and generously, so she secretly breathed a sigh of relief - the next program will be much more relaxed.
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"Hello everyone, I am Li Qingqing."
"Hello everyone, I am Hu Lai."
Xie Lan put down her phone. She had just taken a photo of her son and Li Qingqing on the TV screen.
She was very happy, no matter how she looked at it, she was happy.
"Well, it matches! It's a perfect match!" She nodded repeatedly.
She had been looking forward to it ever since she knew her son was going to be on this show with Li Qingqing. She even set an alarm on her phone and turned on the TV ten minutes in advance to watch. Seeing this scene now, she felt huge satisfaction.
Hu Lixin did not throw cold water on her, but also looked at the TV screen. He wondered if his wife had brainwashed him during this period, but he actually felt that these two people were sitting side by side, which was unexpectedly pleasing to the eye...
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Li Ziqiang had just ordered a bowl of noodles for himself and placed it on the coffee table, intending to eat it when it cooled down a bit. Taking advantage of this moment, he used the remote control to turn on the TV.
When the TV screen lit up, he was stunned.
His daughter Li Qingqing appeared on the TV screen in a close-up manner, and at the same time the host's voice came out: "...There have been rumors on the Internet that you two have known each other since high school. Today I want to verify it on the spot. Is it true?”
Li Ziqiang's heart sounded alarm, and he had a very bad premonition...
Sure enough, the camera then zoomed out, and there was another person sitting next to his daughter. If it wasn't Hu Lai, who was that kid? !
He stared blankly at the TV screen.
Inside, his precious daughter turned to look at Hu Lai, and the two smiled at each other. Then Li Qingqing looked back at the host and said with a smile: "Yes, when I transferred to Dongchuan Middle School, I was in the same class as Hu Lai."
"Wow? They are actually classmates? What a coincidence!" the host exclaimed, and the show was very effective.
Then she looked at Hu Lai: "Hu Lai, we know from many reports about you that you actually didn't have much formal contact with systematic football training before high school. But when you come into contact with football After training, you showed amazing talent, and now you are performing well in the Olympics. I am very curious, what made you change like this?”
Hearing this question, Hu Lai glanced at Li Qingqing first, and at the same time, Li Qingqing also turned to look at him.
The two looked at each other again, and then Hu Laicai said: "Then I have to thank Li Qingqing."
He pointed at the girl next to him, and the smile on Li Qingqing's face became brighter after hearing this...
Li Ziqiang almost reflexively pressed the sleep button on the TV. The TV screen instantly went black, and Hu Lai's voice and his daughter's smile disappeared.
The room was eerily quiet for a moment.
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"Ah? Why do you want to thank Li Qingqing?" Li Xiaohong continued to widen his eyes and look surprised.
Hu Lai explained: "It was Li Qingqing who led me into football. She led me in training in the beginning."
"Wow!! Really?!" Li Xiaohong was really shocked, and her exclamation was not fake at all. She really didn't expect that the football career of this talented forward of Chinese football would be inseparable from Li Qingqing, the talented girl of Chinese football.
After last year's East Asian Cup, Hu Lai and Li Qingqing once took a photo at the airport. At that time, everyone didn't know that they had known each other for a long time. They thought it was the first time that the golden boy and girl in Chinese football were in the same frame.
But in fact, the football paths of the two geniuses have been intertwined for a long time, and they run parallel to this day...
Li Xiaohong only felt that her scalp was numb, and goosebumps suddenly appeared on her arms!
Li Qingqing nodded to Hu Lai and said: "Well, I am his coach!"
The tone is proud.
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"Ha!"
Xie Lan first slapped her thigh, then pointed at the TV screen and turned to look at her husband next to her: "What did I say before!? The relationship between the two of them is definitely not a simple high school classmate!"
Hu Lixin really couldn't say anything to refute this time. He stared at the TV in stunned silence - his wife had really been fooled!
On the TV, Hu Lai was still telling the host: "...In fact, Li Qingqing has always been my role model. Whether it is from high school to professional football, or from local clubs to national teams..."
When he said this, Li Qingqing, who was sitting next to him, turned to look at him intently with a smile.
As a person who has experienced this, Hu Lixin can see that the girl’s eyes really don’t look like those between ordinary high school classmates...
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Li Ziqiang turned on the TV anyway. He was really uneasy and worried that that brat Hu Lai would say something he shouldn't have said on the show.
The TV screen lit up, and Hu Lai's voice came out: "...I haven't even participated in the World Cup, and Li Qingqing has already scored in the World Cup. This really makes me envious..."
Li Qingqing, who was staring at Hu Lai on the left side of the screen, heard this sentence and felt a little shy in her bright smile.
The old father looked at this scene blankly.
The noodles were already cold and even lumpy, but he didn't take a bite. (End of chapter)