Fox in the Penalty Area

Chapter 1792 Those who are not happy for Hu Lai

When Maxi Carey said goodbye to his wife at the door, he was hugged by his wife.

"Are you ready, honey?"

"Preparing for what?" Carey was a little surprised.

"Are you ready to face those media reporters?" The wife laughed. "They will definitely ask you what you think of Hu winning the World Footballer of the Year."

Carey didn't expect his wife to tease him with this topic. He shook his head: "I would suggest that they ask Melly. After all, Melly won this award last year. He must have felt more deeply than me."

The wife smiled and punched her husband lightly on the chest: "You are so bad!"

After speaking, he kissed his wife and said goodbye to her.

After getting into his car in the yard, he thought back to his wife's problems.

He snorted softly.

World Footballer?

Amazing?

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Matthew Miller had just stepped into the first-team locker room with his bag on his back when he heard Charlie Potter bragging about his vision:

"...When he first came to the team, I could see that he would have great achievements in the future!"

"Go ahead, Charlie! You look like a ghost!"

"Hey, I'm the first person in our team to take the initiative to talk to him! Why should I take the initiative to talk to him? Isn't it because I see his potential?"

"Isn't our captain the first to talk to Hu?"

"Cough! The captain is fulfilling his duties, which is different from mine!"

Everyone laughed.

Then someone sighed:

"When Hu joined our team, I remember some people on the Internet saying that the club is to sell jerseys..."

Upon hearing this, Matthew Miller immediately raised his hand and said:

"Me, me, me!"

After everyone turned their attention to him, he sold his father: "My father once said that the club spent money to buy Hu, just to sell jerseys in China. He also complained about the one thousand that the club paid to buy Hu. Two million pounds, I don't know how many jerseys I have to sell to make it back..."

Everyone was amused by the words of Matthew Miller's father.

Sell ​​jerseys?

In fact, Leeds City has already received more than 12 million pounds in sponsorship fees from Chinese sponsors.

In the end, when Leeds City sold Hou Lai, the transfer fee was 120 million, which was already ten times what they spent on introducing Hou Lai.

In fact, don't look at these specific money figures, just look at the changes brought to this team after Hu Lai's transfer to Leeds City, it has long been worth the money.

Those championships and the improvement of the team's reputation and status are by no means measurable by simple money.

Everyone was discussing Hu Lai's winning the World Footballer of the Year, as if this honor belonged to them too.

Zhou Zijing listened to everyone's discussion in the crowd, but didn't say a word, because he was not very happy, unlike the elation of other teammates.

Hu Lai won the Golden Globe Award before, and now he has won the World Footballer.

He is like a rapidly rising mountain, and it is becoming more and more difficult for him to conquer this mountain.

Although his performance in Leeds City is getting better and better, halfway through the season, he has completed eight goals and five assists in all competitions.

It was his best season since joining Leeds City.

It also allowed him to secure the main position of Leeds City.

But it is still far behind the records Hu Lai created in this team.

It is also far from his goal of replacing Hu Lai here.

For this reason, he really couldn't be happy with Hu Lai's achievements.

It wasn't jealousy, it was some kind of... desperation.

Although he told Morikawa Junpei many times that he must defeat Hu Lai, he is not stupid, and he also knows how difficult it is to achieve this goal.

Hu Lai is such a bastard... really does not leave a way for people to survive!

Zhou Zijing is unwilling to join the discussion of his teammates, but the teammates of Leeds City will not let him go easily.

Charlie Potter called his name: "Zhou, in your China, the fact that Hu won the World Player of the Year must have caused a lot of repercussions, right?"

Zhou Zijing forcefully smiled and prevaricated: "Yes, yes..."

"Really? Then what did they say?"

"That's right, let's talk about it in detail, Zhou!"

Zhou Zijing's smile froze.

Next to him, Junpei Morikawa laughed happily.

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In the backyard of the villa, Mauro Albertazzi stood facing the goal in the middle of the goal line.

He was panting heavily, his body shaking slightly.

Behind him, a short beep sounded.

After hearing the beep, Albertazzi quickly turned around from the left.

As soon as he turned around, he saw a ball machine shooting a football at him about 20 meters away from him!

Without time to observe and think, he almost made a reflexive save action with the afterimage of the football captured by his own eyes—he quickly rushed to the right, and knocked the flying football out of the baseline with one palm!

Albertazzi, who completed the save, did not lie on the ground, but quickly got up from the ground and stood on the goal line with his back to the serving machine.

Just when he had just stood up and was still breathing, there was another "beep" sound from behind him.

He turned around almost at the same time as the sound sounded, and threw himself out again.

But this time he didn't jump, the direction was right, but the distance was not enough when he kicked the ground and flew out, so the football passed by his fingertips, then rubbed against the goal post and flew into the goal, and was blocked by the net It didn't continue to fly out.

Alberta Qi couldn't care less about feeling sorry and unhappy about losing the ball, and quickly got up from the ground, stood in front of the goal line, and looked at the footballs in the goal.

When the prompt sounded, quickly turn around, save, and get up.

And so the cycle repeats.

Until there is no more football in the "magazine" behind the ball machine.

He just lay on the ground without getting up, his chest was heaving violently, and his eyes were staring at the sky blankly.

Then a human face appeared in his field of vision, blocking the sunlight.

"If you don't rest during the holidays, what are you still practicing?"

His uncle, Salvatore Albertazzi, who was also his goalkeeper's first coach, frowned at Albertazzi who was slumped on the floor.

Albertazzi did not answer the question, but said:

"Hu Lai became 'Mr. Golden Globe'."

Players who win both the Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year in the same year are called "Mr. Ballon d'Or".

There are many players who can become the World Footballer of the Year, and there are many players who have won the Ballon d'Or - after all, there is an annual selection - but not every player who wins these awards will become "Mr. Ballon d'Or".

Because the selection methods and standards of the Golden Globe Awards and the World Footballer are different. The Golden Globe Awards look at the past season, while the World Footballer looks at the past year, and the time is different.

After some Golden Globe winners won the Golden Globe, their performance in the second half of the season was not satisfactory due to various reasons, and they may lose the World Footballer.

For example, in the World Player of the Year selection the year before last, Hu Lai, the winner of the Bronze Ball Award, did not even make the top three, which well explained the difference between the two awards.

Therefore, being able to win both the Golden Globe Award and the World Player of the Year award is enough to show that this player has conquered everyone in the selection cycle of these two awards in the past, whether it is professional review opinions or worldwide influence Power is impeccable.

The previous year's "Mr. Golden Ball" was Meli Banega, and last year's "Mr. Golden Ball" was Hou Lai.

Hearing what Albertazzi said, my uncle knew why he wanted to use the vacation time to continue training.

Then he looked back at the serving machine and shook his head, "Then I'm afraid it's not enough for you to practice like this."

Albertazzi turned over and sat up when he heard the words: "Why not enough?"

"It's just a ball machine, so you already know in advance which direction the ball will come from. Although this ball machine has two launch ports for high ball and low ball...but there are too few changes." Uncle explained to him.

"That…"

Uncle waved his hand and drew a set of arcs on the edge of the lawn, which is about the size of a restricted area of ​​a standard football field:

"Get more ball machines, fill this line up, string them together, and use a program to control all the ball machines and let them shoot the ball randomly. That way, when you turn around, you don't know which direction the football is coming from. It's gone."

Listening to his uncle's approach, Albertazzi's eyes lit up.

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Boom!

After the run-up, Luo Kai shot the football towards the goal.

However, the football failed to cross the moving wall, but hit the "head" of the wall and went sideways.

Seeing this result, Luo Kai shook his head, took a football and continued to practice.

Just as he was setting the ball up for a run-back, his good friend Ricardo Balia shouted to him from the sidelines: "Aren't you leaving, Luo?"

Luo Kai turned to look at him who just came back from the gym and shook his head: "No, I have to practice for a while!"

"All right…"

Although Ricardo Balia didn't quite understand why Luo Kai practiced longer than usual today, he respected Luo Kai's choice.

So he nodded and left on his own.

After Ricardo Balia left, Roquet resumed his approach and kicked the football.

This time the football didn't hit the moving wall, but it didn't hit the goal frame either. Instead, it flew high over the beam and hit the barbed wire wall ten meters high behind the goal.

With a snap, it lost all kinetic energy and fell down.

Luo Kai stared in the direction of the goal in a daze.

After a while, he started to move again, went to get a football, and continued to practice his elevator free kick.

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When Luo Kai returned to the locker room after finishing free kick practice, Barea had already left, and he was the only one left in the locker room.

After taking a brief shower and changing clothes, he also turned off the lights and left.

Walking to the parking lot, he saw a slim figure standing beside his car.

He sighed, and finally walked over.

When the other party saw him, they happily came forward and greeted him: "Why are you training later than usual?"

Then without waiting for Luo Kai to speak, he said again: "Are you free tonight? I want to treat you to dinner, can I?"

Luo Kai looked at the French international in front of him, the head star of the Tramed women's football team, feeling a little helpless.

This wasn't the first time that the two of them had a conversation like this, but every time Lilith extended an invitation to him, he would refuse it without hesitation.

He felt that his attitude was very clear, and Lilith should be able to know it.

This time, he should also refuse.

But today, when he saw the smiling woman in front of him, he suddenly thought of the scene last night when Hu Lai and Li Qingqing held hands and showed their trophies in front of the cameras of the media reporters.

Ever since the official announcement of the relationship between Hu Lai and Li Qingqing, Luo Kai actually knew that it would never be possible for him and Li Qingqing, so he also let go of the feelings in his heart.

In fact, before that, he gradually realized that everything was just his own wishful thinking, and Li Qingqing didn't mean that to him at all.

He's just a self-defeating clown...

Why did seeing Lilith remind him of Hu Lai and Li Qingqing?

Because he suddenly realized that in front of him, Lilith seemed to be a clown who kept running into walls.

Her confession to herself ~www.novelmt.com~ is always rejected by herself mercilessly.

As for why you refused?

Is it because you hate the woman in front of you?

No, maybe it's just because he hasn't quite gotten over the excuses he used to lie to himself.

In the current Lilith, he seemed to see himself in the past.

In the eyes of others, I am afraid it is so ridiculous.

"Of course..." Seeing that Luo Kai didn't answer, Lilith knew what the other party's answer was, so she shrugged and said with some self-deprecation: "It's okay, if you are not free now..."

Luo Kai nodded: "I'm free."

"...Then I'll... Huh?"

Lilith, who was ready to be rejected again, was almost finished speaking before realizing it. She stared at Luo Kai with wide eyes, thinking that she had heard it wrong.

Under her surprised gaze, the handsome oriental man nodded and repeated:

"I'm free."

(end of this chapter)