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When Li Qingqing finished training, she was stopped by head coach Yang Mingwei: "Li Qingqing, change your clothes and come to my office to find me."

He didn't explain why he asked Li Qingqing to find him, so he left straight away.

Although Li Qingqing was in a hurry to go home, she didn't show an expression of impatience. Instead, she followed her teammates back to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes.

In the locker room, everyone had some speculation about the head coach's sudden approach to Li Qingqing: "Isn't it to criticize Qingqing?"

"What are you thinking? How could it be criticism? Qingqing's performance is impeccable!"

"Oh, what a nuisance, and he said that he would ask Qingqing to go shopping together when he wasn't training in the afternoon..."

Li Qing smiled and said, "Well... I still have to watch the football this afternoon, so I definitely can't go shopping."

"Watching football? What kind of football?"

"In the final of the National High School Championship, my alma mater made it to the final." Li Qingqing explained to his teammates.

"Yeah, that's the team that used to play fishing to celebrate?"

"Yes, they have reached the final."

"That's amazing!"

"But the coach didn't ask you to stay for extra training in the afternoon, did he? Then how do you watch the live broadcast of the game?"

A teammate raised this question, which shocked everyone else: "Impossible! Impossible! Does Qingqing need to practice extra? Our whole team needs to practice more, and it is impossible for Qingqing to practice more..."

Li Qingqing interrupted everyone's discussion with a smile: "Okay, don't guess, don't I know what's going on after I go there?"

While speaking, she had finished taking a shower, came out to change her clothes, put on her bag and said goodbye to her teammates, and walked towards the head coach's office.

The office building of the women's football team is not as grand as that of the men's football team. All the facilities, including the player locker room and the coach's office, are located in a small three-story building.

Li Qingqing climbed the steps to the second floor, turned right, and found the head coach's office.

She knocked on the door and heard the head coach's voice from inside: "Come in" before she opened the door and went in.

Yang Mingwei who was sitting in the office saw Li Qingqing come in,

A smile appeared on his face, and he said to her, "Close the door."

After Li Qingqing obeyed, he asked, "Uncle Yang, do you have anything to do with me?"

"It's nothing." Hearing Li Qingqing's address, Yang Mingwei laughed happily, "Is there a game with your father's team this afternoon?"

Li Qingqing nodded: "Well, the final of the national competition."

"When I finish my work, we will go together later. You go to my house and we will watch the game together. After the game, we will have dinner at my house and ask your aunt to cook you something delicious."

Li Qingqing didn't refuse, but simply nodded and agreed: "Okay, then thank you, auntie!"

"Oh, I really didn't expect that your father has only led the team for two years, and he will be able to bring the team to the final..." Yang Mingwei said with emotion. "And the Hu Lai you introduced to me back then ranked first in the scorer list."

Li Qingqing quietly listened to Uncle Yang's praise of Hu Lai, with a smile on her face after entering the door.

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Chu Yifan and his roommates got out from the exit of the subway station, and saw the huge building standing on the square in front of them.

That is the venue for the final of the national competition, the Lotus Stadium, the home stadium of the South China Tigers football team in Lingnan City, Nanling Province.

A professional football stadium that can accommodate up to 100,000 people without a runway.

All facilities are designed according to the top international standards, which can be called luxury.

The only thing is the appearance...

"Damn, every time I see the Lotus Stadium, I can't help but think of that comment—this is the lotus seat that Guanyin sits on!" Chu Yifan's roommate couldn't help but see the outer wall of the stadium. Stop complaining.

"Actually, it's okay to look at during the day, pure white, elegant and clean, but at night, when the lights are turned on, you can't see it..." Another roommate said. "The color scheme reminds me of the lotus candles on the birthday cake. Once lit, it will automatically turn on, and then the lights will play the happy birthday song..."

"Haha! Maybe this is the wishful thinking of the South China Tigers? If the game is held at night, when the visiting team comes to the square outside the stadium by car and sees this lotus candle, they will be mentally polluted and unable to perform normally. State, lost the game..."

Chu Yifan didn't pay much attention to the appearance of the stadium. His eyes stayed on an arch in front of him. On the arch was written "2021 Seventh National High School Football Championship Finals" in large characters. From this arch to the entrance button area in front of the stadium, there is a good artificial turf carpet.

On both sides of the green carpet, a flagpole was inserted every five meters, and the flags of the two participating teams were hung, one team on each side, clearly distinct.

His eyes stayed on the four characters "Dongchuan Middle School" on the team flag on the left for a long time.

A year ago, he led the team to the National Competition. On the way to the main stadium, he saw a similar scene. Under the blue sky and white clouds, the bus turned a corner, and the famous Bird's Nest Stadium appeared in everyone's field of vision. The promotional flags of the national competition were planted all over the stadium, waving in the wind in the sun.

At that time, he was a member of the Dongchuan Middle School football team. Sitting on the bus, the team flag of the Dongchuan Middle School football team was neatly folded and placed on his lap. He is full of longing for the upcoming national competition and cannot hide his excitement.

Although when he retired from the team, Chu Yifan said that he was content and had no regrets. But when he saw the Dongchuan Middle School football team flag extending all the way to the stadium today, he still couldn't restrain a thought in his heart—if only I were in that team now...even if I'm a substitute willing.

If possible, who would not want to participate in the final, who would not want to win the championship trophy? Saying no regrets is just self-consolation.

"Let's go, Da Chu!" The teammates had already walked to the front and found that Chu Yifan hadn't followed, so they turned to greet him.

"Here we come..." Chu Yifan trotted two steps, caught up with his roommates, walked through the arch with them, stepped on the soft artificial turf carpet, and walked towards the national competition finals as a spectator.

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All Dongchuan Middle School players will find one thing when they step into the locker room.

In the position of each starting player, there is a neatly folded jersey with the number on the top, which is clear at a glance.

But to their surprise, there was something else on the jersey number this time...

"Damn it, it's my name!" Meng Xi was the first to react. He rushed up and shook off his jersey. On the number "1", his name was indeed printed, and it was directly printed in Chinese characters, not The Chinese Pinyin alphabet printed in accordance with international practice.

"Meng Xi" two square characters are very eye-catching.

The other players also found the names on their jerseys one after another, holding the jerseys one by one, stroking their names, and couldn't put it down.

"Is this the final treatment? I love it!"

Mao Xiao was also admiring his own name, and when he heard a teammate say that, he shook his head and said, "No, there was nothing like this in the previous finals. The jersey only had a number, but no name."

"Hey, so we are given special treatment?"

Mao Xiao said: "I heard that the organizing committee of the national competition is considering starting from the next national competition and requiring all participating teams to print the names of the players on their jerseys instead of just printing numbers. Maybe this final It’s just to show everyone in advance what the effect of having a player’s name on the jersey is.”

Not only the starting players, but also the substitute players have jerseys with their names printed on them, but they have not been displayed. The team leader, Mr. Liu, is distributing the jerseys to them.

Every player who gets a jersey is extremely excited, even though this jersey may have been with them for a year, two years, or even three years. But only when their names were printed on the jersey, did they feel that the jersey belonged to them for the first time. Even if they didn't play, they felt a sense of pride just wearing the jersey.

"Ms. Liu, can I keep this jersey for myself?" Someone asked such a question.

As soon as these words came out, everyone else in the locker room also looked at the team leader teacher.

Teacher Liu, the team leader, said with a smile: "Of course you can keep it. In fact, this is for everyone to keep. It is a commemoration of your participation in the final of the national competition."

"Wow, awesome!"

"Okay, change your clothes quickly and go out to warm up!" The team's head coach Li Ziqiang appeared at the door.

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The bell for the end of get out of class rang in all the teaching buildings on campus, and cheers came faintly.

But in the classroom of the second class of high school, the math teacher ignored the ringing of the bell, but bowed his head and said, "Let's hurry up and talk about another problem..."

In the past, even if the students were dissatisfied, they would not show it, but today, after she finished speaking, she suddenly heard a loud sigh from the classroom: "Ah—?"

This surprised the math teacher. She raised her head and saw the disappointed expressions of almost every student in the audience.

She remembered, and it seemed that the school arranged to watch the live broadcast of the game next.

This group of students obviously couldn't wait to watch the game, and maybe even before the get out of class was over, many people were not thinking about the class at all...

So she sighed: "Okay, today's class will end here, get out of class is over..."

"Stand up!" the monitor yelled.

There was a rumbling sound in the classroom, and the students all got up quickly, with extremely correct attitudes, and said in unison with extremely loud voices: "Teacher, you have worked hard!"

The math teacher bowed perfunctorily: "Goodbye, classmates..." He put away his teaching aids and lesson plans, walked off the podium, and left the classroom of Class 2 and Class 2 of Senior High School.

Behind her, students have sprung into action.

"Put down the projection screen!"

"Turn on the projector!"

...

There was a lot of hustle and bustle.

The math teacher sighed, smiled wryly and shook his head.

Two minutes after the math teacher left, the live broadcast finally flashed on the projector screen in the classroom of Class 2 and Class 2 of Senior High School.

Hu Lai appeared on the screen, standing on the sidelines, as if he was being interviewed by a reporter.

"Fuck, and the pre-match interview! It's official!"

"Stop making noise, I can't hear Hu Lai anymore!" Song Jiajia roared.

Everyone immediately quieted down.

A reporter's voice came from the speakers at the four corners of the classroom. It was a female voice: "Then Hu Lai, who entered the final of the national competition for the first time and faced the two-time champion Shuguang High School, will you be a little nervous? "

Hu Lai shook his head: "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous. The Shuguang High School who shouted out the three consecutive crowns in advance wears shoes, and we are barefoot. How can barefoot be afraid of wearing shoes? We are the first time If you participate in the finals, even if you lose to the defending champion, it is a normal result, but if Shuguang High School and their three consecutive championships are not won, they will lose their lives!"

Everyone in the classroom laughed when they heard their classmates say that.

The reporter in the live broadcast was also laughing, and then asked: "The last question, you and Chen Xingyi both scored nine goals in this competition, do you have the confidence to compete with him for the honor of top scorer?" Woolen cloth?"

Hu Lai's expression was serious, and he said very seriously: "Yes, I will go all out to compete for the top scorer."

"Well, I wish you success, student Hu Lai, let's fight hard!"

Hu Lai in the picture also nodded to the reporter, then turned to leave.

Then the live broadcast screen cut to the studio, and the host said to the camera: "Okay, this is the video replay of the reporter's interview with the key players of the two teams before the game... Now the game is about to start, let We do a commercial and then go straight to the Lotus Stadium!"

During the broadcast of the commercial, discussions in the classroom resumed.

"Hey, thinking about it now is like a dream. Who would have thought that Hu Lai would be able to appear in the finals of the national competition in such a capacity and accept interviews from reporters?"

"Yes, yes, don't say that Hu Lai is unexpectedly handsome!"

"The temperament has changed... I feel like two different people."

Amidst the discussion, Song Jiajia glanced at the empty seat beside her.

Before his tablemate went to participate in the national competition, he once told him that he must fight for a professional team contract to participate in the national competition this time. Only in this way can he get rid of his father's control and go his own way. the way you want to go.

But if Hu Lai really succeeds, it means that after returning from participating in this national competition, he will bid farewell to high school life completely, go to a professional team to receive training, and work hard to become a first-team player.

Song Jiajia once hoped that Hu Lai would achieve nothing in football, so that he would not have to be laughed at, and could play games and eat chicken with him.

But today, Song Jiajia hopes that the fish Hu Lai can successfully cross the dragon gate, transform into a dragon, soar into the clouds, and go to a wider world to roam freely.

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ps, well, post the answers to the questions in the previous chapter.

The easter egg is the scene where Li Ziqiang and the team leader Mr. Liu went to the ward rounds, which was the same as when the head coach Liang Ke went to the ward rounds to see if the players were ready before the first game of the "Do You Care About I Play Football" national competition.

It’s no wonder that everyone can’t guess it... I only read it when I was writing the last chapter. I read "Do you care about me playing football" and found it very interesting, so I moved it directly to this book... …

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