Fox in the Penalty Area

A week later, Hu Lai went to the provincial capital Jincheng with the team on the pretext of attending the birthday party of his friend Song Jiajia at the same table, to participate in the final of the Anton Cup.

Unlike the first time they came here, the Dongchuan Middle School players will no longer be shocked by the natural turf.

Because Jiaxiang High School failed to reach the finals this time, their huge cheerleading team also failed to come in handy.

The stands of the Provincial Sports Center were a little empty.

But this time after Dongchuan Middle School reached the finals, some of their own cheerleaders came. The number of people is not many, but it is also a remarkable zero breakthrough.

These cheerleaders organized to take the high-speed train to the final venue with the team, and after boarding the stadium stands, they began to hang their cheering banners and slogans.

Jincheng No. 13 Middle School, another team that reached the final, was a local middle school, so many students came to the scene to cheer for the team.

So although the number of people watching the game is not as many as last year's final, the momentum is still not bad.

Dai Zetao also appeared in the stands of the stadium.

He came to observe Hu Lai.

After that semi-final, he followed Wang Guangwei's advice and decided to observe Hu Lai carefully.

After all, in this Anton Cup competition, Hu Lai is the most worthy of attention among the local young players.

After the semi-finals, Hu Lai, who scored ten goals, has become the top scorer. Since another competitor's school stopped in the semi-finals, there is no chance to overtake Hu Lai. It can be said that Hu Lai has won the Golden Boot honor of this Anton Cup in advance-after the finals, he will get a small trophy as a reward for the top scorer list.

This trophy belonged to Luo Kai last year.

This year it fell into the hands of Hu Lai.

In Dai Zetao's view, this seems to mean a kind of "inheritance".

Hu Lai, who succeeded Luo Kai, became the top scorer in the Anton Cup, so what kind of performance can he show in the national competition?

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The final itself is not much suspense.

Even though Jincheng No. 13 High School is half a game at home, there are more people who come to cheer for them.

But the strength gap between the two sides is there.

Before Jiaxiang High School, Dongchuan Middle School has always been the king of high school football in Anton Province. They are the first middle school in Anton Province to win the "Football Tradition Strong School"-this brand is not the so-called "key middle school" "A school can get it. So far, there are only two schools in Anton Province that have won such an honorary title. One is Dongchuan Middle School and the other is Jiaxiang High School.

After defeating Jiaxiang High School, another "traditional football school" 3:1 in an away game, the players of Dongchuan Middle School were full of confidence. They were confident that no other team in Anton Province could stop them from going to the national competition.

This allowed them to quickly enter the state in the game, and after 27 minutes of resistance in the 13th middle school, the goal was declared lost.

It was Hu Lai who scored the goal for Dongchuan Middle School!

He opened the scoring for the team with a shot in front of the goal!

When Hu Lai made his signature celebration again, he simultaneously heard the task completion notification sounding in his mind.

This made the smile on his face even bigger.

When he looked at the slogan "Xiaoyu Come on" in the stands, his eyes softened a lot.

Finally, I want to have my female fan group too!

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Hu Lai's goal opened the door to victory for Dongchuan Middle School.

In the second half, Xia Xiaoyu scored a goal with a long shot, rewriting the score to 2:0.

In the end, Dongchuan Middle School defeated No. 13 Middle School with this score, and successfully defended the title of Anton Cup and also qualified for the second national competition.

After the award ceremony, there is no need for the captain to go to Hu Lai this time. Hu Lai and Yan Yan have already sandwiched the trophy in the middle, and behind and on both sides of them are all the players from Dongchuan Middle School them.

Surrounded by the trophy, they completed the championship family portrait.

On the high-speed train returning to Dongchuan from Jincheng, Li Ziqiang came to Hu Lai and asked him, "Do you need me to take your clothes back this time?"

Hu Lai froze for a moment, then nodded quickly: "I need it, coach. You can keep this for me for the time being..."

After speaking, he put his Golden Boot trophy into the sports backpack and handed it to the head coach.

Looking down at the backpack in his hand, Li Ziqiang asked, "Your father still won't let you play football?"

Hu Lai smiled a little embarrassedly: "I told him that I came out today to celebrate a classmate's birthday..."

"You do have talent and you've shown that you can go this route."

"It's useless, my dad doesn't care about it, he just hates football, and he hates me playing football."

"why"

"I don't know..." Hu Lai shook his head in a daze.

Li Ziqiang did not continue to ask this question. In today's society, there are indeed some people who are full of natural prejudices against football.

Of course, this has something to do with the poor image of Chinese football in the past. Not to mention the black whistle of match-fixing. For youth football, it is not uncommon for various grassroots coaches to accept bribes from parents. If you don't give money, no matter how talented and capable your child is, they don't even think about getting a place in the team. And as long as the money is enough, even a cripple can arrange for you to play.

There are also some youth football coaches who do not hesitate to destroy the bodies of those children for the sake of team performance. Or the parents of children who are tricked by rhetoric keep throwing money at them, and kick the children away when they can't squeeze out more...

Such a thing was simply a well-known "hidden rule" in the previous Chinese football environment.

In recent years, as China has vigorously rectified the football environment from top to bottom, this situation has greatly improved.

But for ordinary people, they don't have a strong perception of this kind of improvement, but the long-term inherent image of Chinese football has left a deep and indelible impression on them.

As a result, many people's inner thoughts are difficult to be reversed.

In Li Ziqiang's mind, Hu Lai's father should belong to this kind of person.

He sighed in his heart, this is a debt owed by Chinese football in the past, and it must be repaid by everyone in the current Chinese football.

It's not just me who repays the debt, but also Hu Lai, although he is actually quite innocent...

"Do you want to play professional football?" Li Ziqiang suddenly asked again.

"Ah? Yes, I want to kick." Hu Lai quickly replied.

"Professional football is not easy to play." Li Ziqiang said with a normal face.

"So I have to work harder. Coach, the Anton Cup is over, but the national competition is coming up next. Do you think I have anything to improve?"

Li Ziqiang didn't say anything, he looked Hu Lai up and down first, and said to himself, what do you need to improve? You need to improve everywhere in your body.

But he didn't say that, but said to Hu Lai: "Aside from the winter vacation, there are only two months from now to the national competition. There is not much time. You should do both catching and shooting well, and at the same time, you should be physically fit." And strength training don't stop."

"Ah, don't you practice dribbling or something?" Hu Lai still hopes that one day he can dribble past five people in a row, break into Longtan alone, enter the opponent's penalty area, and finally give the goalkeeper three times, and then score the football. goal.

In other words, any boy who plays football probably has this kind of dream.

But Li Ziqiang immediately poured cold water on him: "Dribbling? Just your lack of coordination? Forget it. It's a waste of precious training time. Let me tell you, stop the ball and shoot. If you can practice these two things well, you will benefit a lot in the future. If you can stop some balls that others can’t stop, you can get more shooting opportunities than others. Some balls that others dare not shoot, you can shoot with confidence. You can score more goals than others. As for dribbling... don’t try to be an all-rounder, people’s energy is limited, and if you know a little about everything, you will end up with nothing but ordinary things.”

When he said these words, Li Ziqiang's tone was much colder, and his attitude was also much stricter. It seemed that he was afraid that Hu Lai, a bastard, would not take his words to heart. He added: "As long as I am your coach, I will You will not be asked to practice dribbling. If you can practice both shooting and stopping the ball to the top, there will definitely be a place for you in professional football.”

"Just shooting and stopping the ball?" Hu Lai asked back.

"Do you think it's easy?" Li Ziqiang glanced at him. "I'm not talking about shooting and stopping the ball in training, but stopping and shooting when there is a confrontation. In the Chinese national team, there are not many people who can do these two things well. Looking at the entire world football, it is also in this way."

"Okay..." Hu Lai is not blind to the ball, he knows that the head coach is right. Not to mention this world, even the world he came from is the same.

Stopping and shooting are the basic skills of a player, but the fact is so cruel and ironic that many people become professional players without even practicing the basic skills.

Seeing that Hu Lai agreed, Li Ziqiang said again: "No one can become an all-round player. If you choose to improve in one aspect, you will naturally give up the possibility of improving in another aspect. You are a player who is good at grabbing shots. You must Know what your strengths are and what your weaknesses are. Your second goal in the semi-finals was very clever. You didn’t just fight Wu Yue in the middle, but you gave up the middle after attracting his attention. Go ahead and grab points. Use your brains, that's your style of football."

After finishing speaking, Li Ziqiang pointed to his temple before getting up and leaving.

Mao Xiao sat down next to Hu Lai again, turned his head to look at the head coach, and said a little strangely: "The coach talked to you for a long time today, and he talked a lot. It feels like he didn't say so much to you before..."

"Because I'm the top scorer in the Anton Cup now!" Hu Lai raised his head and hummed. "If you have strength, you will naturally be favored!"

Mao Xiao frowned, feeling that things would not be as simple as Hu Lai said.

He turned around and took a sneak peek at the head coach. He was as stern as usual, stern and serious, sitting in his seat.

I don't know what I'm thinking.

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