Fox in the Penalty Area

Zhou Zijing, who had just landed, saw the football fall into the goal from behind the US goalkeeper Todd, and he tilted his head to confirm that he really scored.

Then he turned and ran towards the corner flag.

But because he was so excited, he even forgot that he should kneel to celebrate.

He was just running wildly with his arms open, jumping and jumping at the same time, the whole person was like a starfish with teeth and claws...

The action looks very incongruous and very funny.

But none of the fans in the stands nearby could laugh.

Because they are all American fans!

What does it mean when your team is three goals behind with 20 minutes left in the game?

They know better than anyone else.

It may be difficult for the US team to come back and win the championship.

Unless... unless the referee desperately sends off four players of the Chinese Olympic team, resulting in insufficient numbers of the Chinese Olympic team, the game will be abandoned.

But how could such a thing actually happen?

Even the most shameless Americans can only dare to think in their hearts, and the remaining reason still tells them that this is impossible...

In the last women's football final, the referee's practice of favoring the U.S. team almost in the audience has attracted unanimous criticism from the world's public opinion after the game.

At the same time, Li Qingqing almost became a world-class hero, because she defeated the "evil and despicable" Americans by herself.

This is a great comfort and encouragement to the people of the third world who are still resisting the hegemony of U.S. imperialism.

The fierce criticism of the women's football final by the world's public opinion also makes it unlikely that the women's football final will occur in this men's football final.

This is indeed the case. Compared with the last game, the style of this men's football final is much more normal.

The referee did not deliberately favor the host, and the whistle blowing is basically quite satisfactory.

If the Chinese team does not perform well, the referee may be slightly biased towards the US team.

But the Chinese team performed so well, leading by two goals in the first half. Even if the referee has such thoughts, it is estimated that it will be dispelled.

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After the game restarted, the American fans in the stands who had been noisy for 70 minutes were much quieter than before. Many people just sat in their seats, staring blankly at the stadium without saying a word.

As for the four American fans who were holding "M.A.G.A." just now, they also died down at this time, and the sign was still there, but they were not held up, but leaned in front of them.

The Olympic team, which was three goals ahead, played more and more calmly.

After the experience of the previous five games, the players of the Chinese Olympic team are no longer country bumpkins who have not seen the world, especially the two knockout games against Spain and Argentina, which gave them endless confidence.

Make them realize that as long as they play properly, they can beat world-class teams.

So they are also about equal to world-class teams.

In this case, what is there to be afraid of in the face of the host United States, which is not as powerful as Spain and Argentina?

Pass control is actually a test of the player's mentality, because if someone's mentality is out of balance, either nervous or too excited, they will not be a qualified part of the pass control system - the ball will be lost in all likelihood when it reaches his feet. , what's going on with this transmission?

Many years ago, the Chinese national team also played pass control for a while, but they could only play pass control against teams weaker than themselves. Once you encounter a strong team, you will be blinded.

It is because in the face of weak teams, the players have the upper hand mentally, they are more relaxed and more confident, and naturally they can play better. Of course, players from weak teams are weak and cannot press against Chinese players, giving them more space to pass control, which is also one of the reasons.

When encountering a strong team, Chinese players are psychologically timid before the battle, and they are willing to lose. Coupled with the strength of the opponent, who dares to press, and restricts the space and time of the Chinese team's players to hold the ball, this pass control will naturally be difficult to play.

Now the performance of the national Olympic team players, let people see some kind of transformation of Chinese players.

At the Madrid Olympics four years ago, both the players themselves and the fans and spectators felt that the Chinese team was a weak team, and they always felt uneasy inside. If you encounter some setbacks in the game, it will be easy to be frightened--I always feel that it will be finished, it will be black × minutes, it will be a tragedy, and it will be scolded by the people of the whole country as a joke...

In the past four years, the Chinese national team has entered the World Cup and performed well in the World Cup group stage, drawing 3:3 with former world champion Brazil.

In the past four years, Hu Lai, Zhang Qinghuan, Xia Xiaoyu, Zhou Zijing and many other Chinese players have gone abroad to play in European football where the level is higher and the competition is more intense, and gradually gained a firm foothold... No, not only Standing firm, it is even more sharp-edged, which has also enhanced the confidence of many Chinese players.

They realized that the widely circulated statement that "Chinese people are not fit to play football" is nonsense. As long as they work hard, they can also wrestle with players from developed countries.

The psychological changes brought about by this increase in self-confidence may be the most important progress in Chinese football.

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The game time passed quickly in the slow pass of the Chinese team.

Soon, when the fourth official held up the five-minute stoppage time sign, huge boos erupted from the stands, and those American fans seemed to be alive again.

I don't know if their boos were that they gave too little stoppage time, or they were dissatisfied with the impending loss of another gold medal...

"Five minutes of stoppage time! Although from the perspective of the second half of the game, the stoppage time is at most four minutes... But it doesn't matter! We are three goals ahead now, even if the US team is given five minutes, they can What are you doing?" He Feng said very proudly at the commentary.

As a Chinese commentator, he has never commented on such a safe game!

Yan Kang even shouted excitedly next to him: "Ladies, gentlemen, audience friends! We are about to witness history! A brand new history belonging to Chinese football and Asian football! Now we are only five minutes away from this history! Minutes... the Chinese Olympic team will win the Olympic gold medal! And on August 21st, the Chinese women's and men's football teams have become world champions at the same time!"

In front of the TV, Xie Lan, Hu Lixin and Li Ziqiang were all standing and watching the game.

Not only them, in the inpatient building of the affiliated hospital of Jincheng Sports College, in the rental house of Chu Yifan and Tang Xiuyuan, on the busy street, in the crowded square, in the restaurant, in the subway...in In front of countless large and small screens, no one can sit and watch the ball.

Some excited people can't wait to start cheering and celebrating.

Many pedestrians on the street stopped one after another and looked up at the big screen on the outer wall of the commercial building. Even the traffic flow on the road slowed down. The drivers turned their heads and looked out of the car windows. No car behind was honking to urge.

In the subway car, the sound of the arrival signal sounded, and the door of the car was open, but few people came out of the car, and no one stepped into the car.

Everyone inside and outside the carriage looked down at their mobile phones, motionless, as if some kind of magic had been cast.

Different places, different crowds, different performances, some people are cheering, some people are so nervous that they are motionless...

Football + the Olympics, these two elements combined, at noon on August 22, domestic time in China, touched the hearts of countless Chinese people.

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Hu Lai and Zhang Qinghuan, who had been substituted, stood side by side with their substitute teammates. They hugged each other, stood on tiptoe, and looked forward to it.

The same goes for all the coaching staff of the National Olympic Team. Mai Zhaocheng kept raising his hand to look at his watch. Team leader Ran Jiachang put his hands together on his mouth, closed his eyes, lowered his head, and his lips moved slightly, not knowing what he was talking about.

Compared with the excitedly looking forward Chinese team, the coaching bench and the bench of the US Olympic team next door are full of decadence. Some people are slumped on chairs, some people are squatting on the ground, their hands are on their heads, and some people are on one knee. Kneel down and make a cross on your chest.

Seems to be praying to God.

But don't they know?

God can't control the Chinese who don't believe in evil!

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"Half a minute left!"

He Feng reminded loudly.

After a while, he shouted again: "Twenty seconds left!"

"It's not far from that new world! I seem to hear... the footsteps of that world! It's coming! It's approaching!"

When He Feng said this, he didn't look anywhere, just stared at the referee on the court.

Until he saw the referee push his hands out from his chest, even though he hadn't heard the whistle, he couldn't wait to shout:

"The game is over!!! The game is over!!! Here comes the world champion!! The Chinese Olympic team defeated the host US Olympic team 3-0 in the final! They won the gold medal in the men's soccer event of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games! August 2028 On the 21st of the month, on the 22nd of August, domestic time, Chinese football is on this day. The men's team and the women's team became the Olympic champions at the same time! It is on this day! Chinese football has turned a new page! From this The day begins! The history of Chinese football is about to be rewritten!!”

Yan Kang, who was beside him, roared along with him: "We are the champions!! We are the champions!! Chinese football...is the champions!! Yes...yes...the champions...the champions, the champions!! The champions..."

Roaring to the end, hoarse, weeping.

The former international washed his face with tears in the commentary, and in the end he could not even stand still, so he could only lie down on the commentary, and let his wailing be transmitted to thousands of households in China through satellite signals. .

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Another train of subway cars entered the station, the doors opened, the people in the car rushed out of the car, and the people on the platform rushed into the subway. They cheered in the car and on the platform, and hugged and celebrated with people they knew and didn’t recognize.

The cheers echoed in the underground space, drowned out the electronic prompts for entering and leaving the station, and then followed the passage all the way up, and finally rushed out of the subway station entrance.

And the streets on the ground have long been covered by a continuous stream of cars and car horns.

The green light was on at the intersection, and no car started. The drivers honked their horns while sticking their hands out of the windows and waving them vigorously.

People on the sidewalk rushed to the motorway, high-fiving and hugging people in vehicles parked on the road.

Someone rushed out of the shop in the streets and alleys and shouted at the outside: "We won! We are the champion!!"

Someone in the company's cubicle took off their headphones, or before they could take them off, they cheered loudly: "Long Live China!!"

Yan Yan was shouting: "Hu Lai is awesome! The Olympic team is awesome!!"

Meng Xi, Mao Xiao and the others huddled together.

In the cheering crowd, Chu Yifan grabbed Tang Xiuyuan's arm and asked, "Let's get married, Yuanyuan!"

Tang Xiuyuan threw herself into his arms with a smile: "Okay!"

In the inpatient building of the Affiliated Hospital of Jincheng Sports College, the nurse station was surrounded by cheering crowds. Some patients supported the wall with one hand and held up their crutches with the other. Some people threw away their crutches and hugged each other tightly, even sitting in wheelchairs. The patient was also hugged by the nurse...

Sun Juan was screaming hoarsely: "Okay! Good!! Champion!! I won the championship!"

With a smile on Xie Lan's face, she raised her hand to wipe away her tears.

Hu Lixin and Li Ziqiang smiled at each other and patted each other on the shoulder.

"Congratulations, Sister Xie, Lao Hu!"

Li Ziqiang said from the bottom of his heart.

On the TV screen in front of them, a huge five-star red flag was pulled from the Chinese team's bench, held high by the rushing Olympic team players, and "floated" onto the court.

When Hu Lai appeared in the La Liga final three months ago wearing the flag, it was just a tiny spark.

And now, appearing on the Pasadena Stadium in Los Angeles is a meandering red dragon!

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The girls in the stands were like ordinary fans, cheering, screaming and celebrating.

Xu Wen hugged Li Qingqing and shouted in her ear: "We are champions!! We are champions! All champions!!"

Li Qingqing, who was hugged tightly by her, turned to look at the green field, and she easily found the figure running on the edge of the flag.

Instead of cheering, she was surprisingly calm.

She just thought of that evening when she first saw Hu Lai, the puppy-like boy was clumsy but stubborn.

Unexpectedly... He really walked from that corner that no one cares about to the Olympic podium... Although this is not the top of the world~www.readwn.com~, it is already close to the top of the world.

You did it, Hu Lai!

We did it!

It's great to meet you!

Li Qingqing shouted loudly: "Hu Lai!!"

She didn't say anything else, just called out the boy's name.

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In addition, the story of the Olympic Games is finished. From tomorrow onwards, there will be four days of single shifts, and I will accumulate manuscripts. It happens to be the Qingming holiday, and I may have to play with my children... For example, I recently bought a bicycle for myself and him, and every weekend I I will take him for a ride on the nearby greenway. I can't go too far during the Qingming Festival holiday. It is possible to take him to the greenway in the park to ride a bike. body……

Thank you for your understanding and support!