Chapter 812 Dream Chaser
"I have a dream! I dream that in the future I can wear the Chinese team's jersey, participate in the World Cup as a national football team, and eventually win the championship! Let Chinese football stand on top of the world! I also want those foreigners to become the Chinese team Fans! Just like we have many Brazilian fans, Argentinian fans, and Spanish fans! I believe... I believe there will be one day! "
Xiao Hu Lai, wearing a white shirt and a red scarf around his neck, stood on the podium with one hand behind his back, and the other hand suddenly waved forward along with his last words. At the same time, he stepped out with a lunge, raised his little head slightly, and looked at the place where he pointed - that was a five-star red flag posted on the back wall of the classroom.
In the classroom in front of him, the students were already swaying with laughter in their seats, leaning forward and back.
Little Hu Lai didn't care, he just stared at the national flag, just like he was watching the flag rising with the national anthem on the World Cup podium.
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Hu Lai looked at the five-star red flag being waved vigorously in the Lotus Stadium stands, and his ears were filled with the crazy screams, cheers and roars of his teammates.
This made him realize that he was not on the podium of a primary school classroom, but at the Lingnan Lotus Stadium on November 19, 2025.
It is the last play-off match of the 2026 United States and Canada World Cup qualifiers.
Just now he scored a crucial goal.
That's why he was hugged by so many ecstatic and excited teammates.
No matter who it is or for what reason, I came to this world...I want to say thank you! Thank you for giving me the possibility of not being laughed at in my daydreams...
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There was no one on the bench of the entire Chinese team. Whether they were substitute players or coaching staff, they all rushed to the corner flag area and rushed to hug Hu Lai and participate in the carnival.
Even the fans in the audience were converging on the stands in the corner flag area where Hu Lai was, like a surging red tide...
No matter what I say in the live environment, I can no longer hear my own voice.
But everyone is still making noises, and they don't care whether their voices can be heard. They just don't want to remain silent at this time!
At the commentary table, He Feng and Yan Kang pressed hard on the earmuffs of the sound-isolating headphones with trembling hands to minimize the interference of environmental sounds on their work - others can ignore the specific sounds they make, but the commentator cannot. , they also have to explain the game for thousands of households in front of the TV.
But maybe not many people actually care about what they said at this time...
"The Chinese team... the Chinese men's football team has never been so close to the World Cup as it is now! From 1961, when Chinese football failed to compete in the World Cup for the first time, to 2025, we have been chasing for sixty-four years! Finally we are close to the World Cup. It only lasted a few minutes! I don’t know how many people who were cheering for the Chinese team in the stands could see this scene today..."
"Sixty-four years... is enough for a newly born child to enter old age... but the dream chaser is still young! The ball started from a corner kick in Paraguay, was hit by Lin Zhiyuan, and was headed back by Chen Xingyi Point to Wang Guangwei, then Zhang Qinghuan, Luo Kai... and finally return to Wang Guangwei's feet Next, pass it to Hu Lai...all young people under the age of 25! This is the future of our Chinese football! Thanks to these young dreamers, thank them for making the dream of 64 years the closest to reality. Opportunities! Youth is invincible and dreams never die! ”
Li Ziqiang stood in front of the sofa, staring blankly at the spectacular scene on the TV screen. He felt that something was rushing in his chest, trying to rush out.
He never expected that the brat that he disliked at first would almost help him realize his biggest dream!
He took several deep breaths and finally allowed the suddenly roaring sea to gradually calm down and return to its usual calm state.
After calming down, Li Ziqiang suddenly remembered something - from his neighbor, when Hu Lai scored the first goal, there were loud cheers and screams. How come Hu Lai scored the second goal just now? There has been no movement since the ball started?
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Xie Lan turned to look at her husband and found that his face had been filled with tears for some time.
So she stood up gently, took her husband into her arms, and gently patted his back with her hands, as if comforting a child who had been wronged.
Her husband must have fantasized about this day too, right? In his young years when he had not lost all hope for football...
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Wang Xianke drank all the liquor in the cup and placed the cup heavily back on the coffee table.
After a bang, he leaned back on the back of the sofa, raised his hands and then put them down, pillowing them behind his head. He just stared blankly at the TV screen and listened to the sound coming from the Lotus Stadium in Lingnan City, thousands of miles away. cheers.
Then his eyes moved upward little by little, from the TV screen to the white ceiling, and then to the lit ceiling lamp. He just let the white light fill his field of vision without blinking or looking away.
Until the stinging eyes burst into tears uncontrollably, they overflowed from the corners of the eyes and slid down the arc of the cheeks.
He remained motionless, not raising his hand to wipe away his tears.
Just closed his eyes.
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In a luxury apartment in a high-end community in Dashun City, Jin Yong raised his babbling child high and smiled at her: "Huahua, let me tell you, my father was lucky to stop at that moment! Fortunately, fortunately! Haha! ! ”
The wife next to her stretched out her hand nervously to pick it up: "Be careful! Don't drop the flower! If you are happy, be happy. Why are you holding the flower so high? Oh, you are spinning!"
Although her mother was worried, the little Huahua, who was lifted high by her father, seemed to be on a merry-go-round, giggling happily and not thinking it was a dangerous thing.
In the brightly lit living room, the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows reflected a family of three, as if they were dancing.
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On a bar street near Jincheng Jiukong Bridge, countless cheers came from various bars, covering up the roar of the engines of the sports cars on the street.
Excited fans kept rushing out of those bars, waving their arms and shouting to the sky.
No one could understand what exactly they were yelling about, but everyone knew why they were so excited.
The Chinese team has just scored its second goal, drawing with Paraguay with a total score of 3:3, and also has an away goal advantage. This gives the Chinese team great hope of reaching the World Cup finals!
This is the first time in the history of Chinese football that it has entered the finals of the Men's Football World Cup!
All of them experienced history tonight and became part of it.
In one of the bars, the members of the Jincheng branch of the Dongchuan Middle School football team raised their arms and shouted, throwing the wine in their glasses into the air. The entire bar was filled with the sweet smell of alcohol.
"Hu Lai is awesome!! Dongchuan Middle School is awesome!"
In another bar, Wu Yue and his companions cried with tears: "The Chinese team is awesome! The King's team is awesome!"
"Dongchuan Middle School will always owe us Jiaxiang High School!"
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"I have a dream. I dream that one day I can wear the Chinese team's jersey and win the World Cup!"
Li Qingqing can still remember the scene when Hu Lai said these words.
Although she didn't see it with her own eyes at the time, she only recalled it later through news videos - in front of the camera, Hu Lai stood up straight with his hands behind his back, trying to make himself look taller and holding his head slightly high. The words were spoken in an unmistakable voice.
Many people laughed when they saw this scene, including Li Qingqing. But it wasn't the same ridicule as others.
But the same smile as at this moment, happiness, relief, admiration, pride...all mixed in this one smile.
The tablet computer was placed on the coffee table with its stand. Li Qingqing sat cross-legged on the carpet in front of the coffee table, holding her head with her hands together.
She just tilted her head slightly, staring at the familiar face on the tablet screen with a smile.
Great, Hu Lai, you are almost catching up with me!
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PS, this chapter is less than three thousand words, not long, but it is very long. For nearly five hours, I listened to Feng Feifei's "Dream Chaser" repeatedly, completely immersing myself in this scene.
Switch between different people and different scenes...
These are not my fictitious scenes, they actually happened in another time and space.
I just described them in words.
Those people, no matter what happens now, they once pursued that supreme dream.
So I named this chapter "Dream Chaser". PS2, two updates will be resumed tomorrow. Another update during the May Day holiday will allow me to slowly accumulate some manuscripts. Thank you all for your enthusiastic support! Thanks!
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