Fame with a ball

The players of the national team were divided into two teams. Camacho and assistant coach Gaspar led a team of players to compete. The confrontation lasted 90 minutes. Like the official game, another assistant coach, Alfonso, temporarily served as the referee.

Within half an hour of Camacho's tactical deployment, Lin Zhigao hurriedly chatted with several national team players around him, recognizing their familiar faces.It’s just that the attitudes of the few people on the same team as him were neither cold nor hot, and their eyes were even more scrutinizing. One or two were like this. Lin Zhigao was also annoyed, and he was not without arrogance. I thought to myself, "I didn't steal your jobs, and everyone treats me as a class enemy? Tsk, I'm not willing to make friends with you!"

So, he stopped sticking his face to their cold buttocks, and put on a icy look to see who can beat the other.

There were people named Huang Bowen and Zhang Chengdong. Although they sat far away from Lin Zhigao, they still greeted him with a smile and were very friendly.Lin Zhigao was not afraid of offending members of the national team, and he didn't make a living in the country, so he just sat down next to Huang Bowen, completely ignoring the strange eyes of others looking at him.

After the three chatted for a few words, Lin Zhigao realized that the three of them were in the same situation, and they all played in foreign leagues.Huang Bowen is currently playing for Jeonbuk Hyundai in South Korea as a midfielder.And Zhang Chengdong played for the Portuguese Beiramar Club, playing as a striker.There are very few Chinese players studying abroad. He, Huang Bowen and Zhang Chengdong are currently the only three players in the national team to play in foreign leagues.

Lin Zhigao is the only one who plays in the world's top leagues.This is not only the reason why the veterans of the national team are scrutinizing and guarding against him, but also the reason why Huang Bowen and Zhang Chengdong took the initiative to show favor to Lin Zhigao-the veterans are afraid that Lin Zhigao, who is in the limelight, will snatch them away after he enters the national team. Because of his status, Lin Zhigao had a lot of fear and estrangement.But Huang Bowen and Zhang Chengdong want to form a united front with Lin Zhigao. After all, the three of them are in the same situation, and Lin Zhigao is obviously the one with the thickest thighs here.

When Gao Hongbo, Camacho's predecessor, was the head coach of the national team, the captain was his newly promoted young player Dewey.Gao Hongbo is indeed an aspiring head coach. He once wanted to reform the national team, but there is no doubt that ants cannot shake the big tree. Gao Hongbo had to accept the failure of the reform of the national team. The unspoken rule is to summon Li Weifeng, Zheng Zhi, and Mao Jianqing, who were once the national team's top three, to rejoin the team.

Later, when Gao Hongbo resigned and Camacho was the head coach of the national team, Li Weifeng and Zheng Zhi had re-established the banner in the national team. The captain of the team, Dewey, had long been isolated to one side. No one passed the ball for him on the court, and off the court in the locker room, his interpersonal relationships were also deliberately broken down.

As a foreigner, Camacho could not make drastic reforms in the early stage of coaching, so when he reorganized the national team, under the special arrangement of caring people, Dewey was not recruited, Mao Jianqing was not recruited, and Li Weifeng was appointed as the new coach. Zheng Zhi is the captain of the national team and Zheng Zhi is the vice-captain.Tianjin TEDA and Guangzhou Evergrande, where Li Weifeng is located, are also the clubs that recruited the most national team members in the Camacho era-Tianjin TEDA has recruited three people, and Guangzhou Evergrande has six people, almost catching up with half of the national team.

A person who can gallop on the court for decades and can still be a head coach after retirement is naturally not an idiot. After Camacho was originally designed, he slowly came back to it. After staying for a long time, he gradually figured out the three flavors, and understood some small thoughts that Chinese people make good use of.

I don't know whether it was his intention or not in this confrontation, but the two teams' teams are actually very distinctive - the team led by Camacho is almost all young players, including Lin Zhigao who is studying abroad.And in the team of assistant coach Gaspar, there are several "ball bully" figures who are well-known in the national team.

As for why Camacho arranged this in the end?The reason is naturally only known to him.

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In another locker room on the court, assistant coach Gaspar was explaining the tactics of the team for a while.To put it simply, one of the two teams imitated the Korean team's style of play, and the other tried to use Camacho's tactics to see if they could just stop the Korean team's attack in the official game.

Although the current level of the Chinese national team is generally lower than that of the South Korean team, and few people in China are optimistic that the Chinese team will win this game, but good tactics can make up for the lack of player skills, Camacho firmly believes.

Like the locker room on the other side, the coach is explaining above, and the players are not lacking in various small movements below.

Zheng Zhi is sitting upright, and looks like he is listening to the coach's speech seriously, but he is secretly sending text messages to his girlfriend in China.When he was complaining to his girlfriend about the bad taste of Korean food, Zheng Zhi was suddenly patted on the shoulder, and Zheng Zhi shivered, thinking that his little trick was discovered by the assistant coach—the assistant coach of the national team They are all selected by Camacho, and they are all foreigners. This group of foreigners is good everywhere, but they are too rigid. They say one is one and the other is two. You will not be accommodated if you make a mistake, and they are not humane at all. .

But when Zheng Zhi looked up, he found that it was not Gaspar who caught him, but his teammate Li Weifeng.Zheng Zhi and Li Weifeng each formed a group of people in the national team. They are the two biggest forces in the locker room. When there are foreign enemies, they will fight with each other. When there are no foreign enemies, they will fight each other, because both of them have people , so even Camacho couldn't do anything to them easily. Most of them turned a blind eye on weekdays, which aggravated the arrogance of the two, and the entire national team was almost divided by their power.

Seeing his old enemy appear, Zheng Zhi suddenly became angry, "What are you doing?"

Li Weifeng raised his eyebrows and patted the shoulder of the person sitting next to Zheng Zhi. The team member immediately stood up and moved aside to make room for Li Weifeng.

After sitting down, Li Weifeng said to Zheng Zhi in a low voice: "The new kid is very tricky, have you heard?"

Zheng Zhi glanced at him: "Young people, you can hang out well outside, how can you not be young and energetic? Aren't Huang Bowen and Zhang Chengdong like this before, and they are still obedient now."

Li Weifeng smiled when he heard the words, quite meaningfully: "You mean, give him some flair?"

"Didn't your people start to isolate him?" Zheng Zhi shook his phone: "It's not like I'm empty in the locker room over there."

"But I'm afraid it won't work in isolation. I heard that Huang Bowen and Zhang Chengdong have already attached him. He flew to Italy immediately after the game. He is not in our territory. There was a P in the previous set. "

"Then what's your idea?"

"Let's change our trick?"

Zheng Zhi's eyes froze: "Take a black foot? No, at least not now. I have to finish the game with those sticks first. Damn, if the Korean police didn't stop me just now, I would have kicked their bones. , Koreans are fucking bad!"

Li Weifeng sneered: "Who said he broke his leg? I mean, during the game, don't let people talk to him, let him try to see what is meant by 'many people are powerful'. If there is no accident, we will have to work together for a few more times in the future." It's been a month, and it won't hurt to make this kid more obedient."

Zheng Zhi thought for a while, then nodded: "It's up to you. But what if he becomes more and more stubborn? This group of people studying abroad have this problem. They think that the world is big and they are the biggest. The more you oppress him, they will The more you bounce back."

Li Weifeng smiled contemptuously: "Others are looking for death, what can we do?"

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Fifteen minutes into the game, Lin Zhigao gradually felt various discomforts: the quality of the turf was too poor, and the pace of the game was too slow.

If it's just that, that's all. A good player can always adjust his state in time to match the team.However, if it is isolated, isolated, and deliberately seen as air on the court, then the feeling is different.

Sensitive Lin Zhigao could faintly smell this smell in the air now.

From the beginning of the game until now, he has not touched the ball once, but this is not at all due to him, nor is it due to tactics, but because no one passed the ball to him on the court, and no one communicated with him.

Lin Zhigao earnestly carried out Camacho's tactical arrangement, but the other teammates seemed to have made an appointment and did not cooperate with his actions at all: when he ran to the side, his teammates would pass the ball to the midfield, even if the midfielder There wasn't a striker guarding it.He ran into the opponent's penalty area without the ball, and he had a chance to shoot, but the football just didn't fly to him.No one notified him of every contraction and counterattack of the team, not even a gesture.

Later, he couldn't bear it any longer, and stretched out his hand for the ball, but no one passed it to him. At first Lin Zhigao thought it was an internationally accepted gesture and the players of the national team couldn't understand it, but when he opened his mouth to ask a question from himself Lin Zhigao understood why the defender who ran past him didn't pass the ball to him, but the opponent ignored him. Lin Zhigao understood that he was isolated on this field.

They definitely colluded to isolate themselves on the court, Lin Zhigao believed so.And there are so many ways to communicate with each other in modern society - mobile phones, someone definitely texted or called these players and asked them to do so.

Lin Zhigao was suddenly a little annoyed. He was not afraid of running without the ball for half a court, as long as he thought the running was worthwhile and beneficial to the offense, then that would be fine. Unless football is completely artificial, it would be too infuriating.

He turned his head and glanced at the game time. There were still 10 minutes before the end of the first half. Lin Zhigao never stopped running, and his mind was running countermeasures at high speed.

After a few minutes, Lin Zhigao broke through to the opposite half, raised his arm high, and stretched out his hand for the ball.

No one passed the ball to him.

Li Weifeng's team launched the third attack in the first half and finally scored a goal. Currently, Lin Zhigao's team is one point behind.

Lin Zhigao went back to the midfield to assist his teammates in the counterattack. He could feel the tacit cooperation of others and isolate himself alone, but...

Lin Zhigao grinned: Don't you guys want to pass the ball to me?Then I'll make it more obvious for you.

When Lin Zhigao reached out to ask for it for the third time, he was standing in the opponent's penalty area, less than ten meters away from the goal.And between him and the goal, there is only one goalkeeper.The attack initiated by one's own team is being firmly defended by the opponent's four defenders. Chen Tao is holding the ball at his feet and blocking three people in front of him. Lin Zhigao is actually not far in front of him on the right. It's not that he didn't see Lin Zhigao Gesture——The gesture was so eye-catching. Lin Zhigao was walking around the penalty area with his arms raised high. Same player.

Chen Tao wanted to pass the ball to Lin Zhigao, but he couldn't pass it, so he could only watch helplessly as the football under his feet was cut off by Zheng Zhi, then turned around and continued to defend.

In the following first half, Lin Zhigao started to ask for the ball for the fourth and fifth time.Every time he was in a very good position, with no or few guards around him, facing the goal, while his teammates, those who dribbled the ball, were guarded fiercely by the defenders of the other team.

However, the weirdness on the court has not changed at all, it still continues, and Lin Zhigao still has not received any pass.However, in private, the players who are already young and energetic, and have not been polished so smooth, are secretly thinking: This, is this a bit too much...

Having the same idea with these players is the head coach Camacho, who is gloomy at the moment, looking like he wants to get angry.He is not blind, so he can naturally see the current situation on the field. The team he leads is completely overwhelmed by the opponent. Every time a decent attack is launched, as long as those ball masters stretch their feet, the football will automatically Run to the other side's feet.

It was obvious that our side had the upper hand at the beginning, but look at the current score on the field, 0:2!But the opponent took the lead!

Not to mention the treatment Lin Zhigao received on the court, everyone can see that he was deliberately isolated and suppressed by other players.Although it is not the first time that he feels aggrieved as the head coach of the Chinese team, Camacho really feels that there are not many times when his heart is so suffocated to this point.

But no matter how much he wants to get angry, no matter how much he wants to clear out those guys who don't play well and only intrigue, he can't do it.Because, the Chinese team is not what he decides...

If his attitude is too tough, these guys may even sue him directly.It’s not that this incident has never happened. When the Asian qualifiers just started last year, Camacho felt that Li Weifeng’s playing attitude was too improper. He formed gangs in the locker room. He was not active in training and often came late and left early. On the court, he scrambled for the ball and did not run much, and asked for leave every now and then, so Camacho talked to Li Weifeng and told him that if he didn't correct his attitude, he would be expelled from the national team.

Li Weifeng was indeed honest for a while at that time, but within two months, he relapsed again.Camacho did what he said, and really issued a statement to Li Weifeng to withdraw from the team, but less than a day after the statement was released, a high-level person called Camacho's cell phone.

The executives told Camacho on the phone that they hoped that he would give Li Weifeng another chance, and he would definitely not let everyone down.He also said that Li Weifeng's occasional small mistakes are nothing, but generally he is still a good player.The key point is that the top executives finally said on the phone that if Camacho's impromptu change will bring any bad changes to the Chinese team's game, then the Football Association will also consider whether the contract with him should be terminated early.

Camacho had no choice but to keep Li Weifeng.It was also from that time that he became a little discouraged and stopped paying attention to the infighting within the team.

Once again, Camacho felt that he was really sad as the head coach.He also once again realized why so many of his peers can't work as the head coach of the Chinese team for long.

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During the intermission, Lin Zhigao sat alone in the corner of the locker room. No one took the initiative to talk to him, and he didn't bother to talk to others.

Standing in the middle of the locker room, Camacho said a lot of things implying that the players were not united enough, that they didn't cooperate well enough on the court, that they couldn't fully implement his tactics and so on.Although he didn't mention those people by name, most of the players sitting below knew well that the coach was dissatisfied with their isolation of Lin Zhigao.

Thinking of this, some players with good consciences began to reflect psychologically. They disregarded the upcoming big game and racked their brains to deal with a teammate in an important match to experiment with new tactics. Kind?Can they stand up to those domestic fans?Can you live up to your conscience?

When Camacho left the locker room and the players started preparing for the second half, Huang Bowen came to Lin Zhigao.This big boy who was a few years older than Lin Zhigao acted a little embarrassed and uneasy. He hesitated for a long time before he said: "I'm sorry for the first half of the game."

Lin Zhigao smiled, and said indifferently: "Isn't it just that you are not allowed to pass the ball to me on the court? I can see it."

Huang Bowen's expression became even more ashamed. He lowered his head and said: "You have never been in the national team before, so I don't know. The interpersonal relationship here is actually very complicated. If we are too independent, we will not be able to stay. I received a text message before halftime, and I wanted to tell you, but there were people watching at that time, and I couldn’t tell you the news. But in the second half, I will try my best to pass the ball to you in the second half.”

Lin Zhigao shook his head, patted Huang Bowen on the shoulder and said, "You don't need to pass it on, I have my own way."

Huang Bowen was stunned for a moment: "What way..."

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In fact, Lin Zhigao's method is very simple, don't you guys not pass the ball to me?Then I'll grab it!

Those who rob the opponent's players even rob their own players.

After a year of training in the Premier League and more than half a month of training in the Juventus training base, the intensity of training Lin Zhigao has undergone is not comparable to that of the domestic Chinese Super League. His speed, physical strength, and even skills , Almost all surpassed this group of people by a large margin.

Li Weifeng had just received a pass from his teammate and hadn't launched an attack yet. He felt his eyes blur and his feet were empty. When he looked down, he found that the ball under his feet had been cut off.

What the hell just happened?Li Weifeng couldn't even react.

And when he raised his head to pursue the person who dared to break his ball, he only saw Lin Zhigao's back who had already run far away.

Lin Zhigao felt contempt for Li Weifeng's slow speed like an old woman, and dribbled the ball past Zheng Zheng, and two defenders came to block him. He directly flicked the football forward, and the football passed through The defense of the two.

Then Lin Zhigao accelerated instantly, rushed out from the double-teaming of the defenders, received the football, dribbled the ball and ran to the goal like no one else, and kicked the middle and lower part of the football with his right foot!

The black and white football drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then flew into the net.

And what about the goalkeeper?He even misestimated the direction of Lin Zhigao's shot and jumped to the other side.

After scoring the goal, Lin Zhigao just raised his eyebrows, then turned around and retreated.

Li Weifeng cursed secretly behind him, he also wanted to block Lin Zhigao's shot just now, but he couldn't catch up with the opponent's speed at all, when he rushed to the goal, Lin Zhigao shot all the balls in.

Lin Zhigao's goal was beyond everyone's expectations. No one could have imagined that he could easily pass through the goal with multiple handles without the help of his teammates.

Some people were secretly annoyed, some people were waiting to see the good show, and some people gradually became excited in their hearts.

A smile appeared on Camacho's face. He looked at Lin Zhigao's vigorous fighting spirit on the court, smiled and shook his head and said, "This kid is really..." Unexpected.

Although today was only the first meeting with Lin Zhigao, and he had never had any personal contact before, Camacho decided almost at this moment that he liked this Chinese boy.

This is due to eye contact, and Camacho's good impression of Lin Zhigao because he watched too many game videos, but the most important thing is his admiration for Lin Zhigao's mental attitude--in the face of adversity, in the face of hostility , Be a lonely hero, finish a game that belongs only to him.

Camacho knew that Lin would be in a very difficult situation after this game, and he might even face verbal and physical... er, violence from other personnel after returning home.But Camacho could tell that Lin Zhigao didn't care.

This kind of personality is really hard to find in Chinese players. Most of them have become slippery, making it impossible for you to use them well or not.

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Scoring a goal is definitely not in Lin Zhigao's plan, especially when the goal can be pierced so easily.

No. 70 minutes of the game, Li Weifeng's team finally learned a little bit after being robbed of the ball by Lin Zhigao three times. The person with the ball saw Lin Zhigao approaching and passed the football out, or shot directly, regardless of whether he scored or not. into it.

The current score is 2:2. Lin Zhigao scored 2 goals alone to tie the score.

Because it became difficult to grab the ball from the opposing player, Lin Zhigao thought about starting from his own side.Anyway, they didn't treat him as one of their own. In a game by themselves, who could stop him from playing happily?

Feng Xiaoting made a breakthrough with the ball, and when he turned around, he found that there were three people in front of him, and another person behind him was Lin Zhigao, who belonged to the same team.

Lin Zhigao reached out to ask Feng Xiaoting for the ball, but Feng Xiaoting hesitated for a moment, and when he was about to pass the ball, his right foot suddenly hurt, and the football was broken.

It was Li Weifeng who suddenly ruthlessly tackled the ball from Feng Xiaoting's feet. He shoveled the football away, but Feng Xiaoting's right foot was also hit hard.

If this was in an official game, Feng Xiaoting would definitely fall to the ground, holding his right foot and screaming for pain, and he would tell the referee that the opponent fouled.But this was an intra-team match, so Feng Xiaoting just gritted his teeth and shook his right foot, thinking that he should not be injured, and then threw himself into the game again.

"I said, is it worth it for you to work so hard to please one or two people?"

Feng Xiaoting's heart was shocked, and just as he was about to refute, Lin Zhigao had already chased the football and ran away.

Not to mention Feng Xiaoting, whose inner activities were complicated at the moment, Lin Zhigao had already caught up with Li Weifeng at this time, and blocked Li Weifeng's attacking route with his not so strong and tall body compared to the opponent. He grinned and looked at Li Weifeng His gaze was as if the other party was a piece of fat that was about to reach his mouth.

Li Weifeng inexplicably felt the hairs all over his body stand on end. Before his brain could react, his body had unconsciously passed the football.

And he's passing the ball to...

Huang Bowen.

Huang Bowen wasn't even on Li Weifeng's team!

Li Weifeng suddenly felt that he must have had a brain cramp just now. In fact, it was not only him, but even Lin Zhigao, Huang Bowen who received the football from the sky, and even other players on the field felt that Li Weifeng must have been possessed by a mysterious alien just now up.

Otherwise, why would he, who has dominated the national team for many years, be so frightened by a smile that he can't even hold the ball? !

Of course, Li Weifeng himself refused to admit this.

Lin Zhigao decisively abandoned Li Weifeng and ran towards Huang Bowen. As for Huang Bowen, he had already surrounded the opponent's defenders in front of him. Seeing Lin Zhigao running from the front left, he weighed the pros and cons. Passed the ball.

Lin Zhigao had already turned around when he received the pass, and ran towards the penalty area at a speed that ordinary people couldn't match.

Li Weifeng was furious and yelled at his team members: "Stop him! Go and stop him!"

From the corner of Lin Zhigao's eyes, he saw at least three players approaching him at high speed, and he was about 40 meters away from the goal. Almost instantly, he made a decision.

The football stopped on the green lawn, Lin Zhigao aimed at the middle and lower part of the ball, and raised his right leg.

If the teammates who are familiar with him are here, they will definitely shout in their hearts: Lin is going to shoot again!

However, none of the players in the current national team are familiar with Lin Zhigao's shooting habits, so when they saw that Lin Zhigao was 40 meters away from the goal, even without a teammate around him, they still stopped and put on a passing posture When I was playing, I was smiling secretly: Hey, pass it, pass it to us!

To their surprise, Lin Zhigao was not passing the ball, he was shooting!

The soccer ball bounced off the grass like an anti-aircraft gun, whizzing towards the goal at a speed that was beyond the reach of the naked eye.

Everyone's heart tightened!

The goalkeeper was watching the surrounding terrain boredly, and was judging when an opposing player would break into the penalty area, when suddenly a cool breeze blew past his ears!He opened his eyes wide in shock and looked over, only to catch a glimpse of a black and white shadow!

"The ball, the ball actually went in!" Camacho, who was standing outside the court, was also shocked.

"What about the speed? What's the speed?!" Camacho asked, pulling the collar of the assistant coach's shirt.

The assistant coach said nervously: "Too, too fast. I forgot to measure the speed..."

"The speed is definitely more than 150 kilometers per hour! I swear by my eyes! It's definitely so fast!" Camacho stared at Lin Zhigao on the court with bright eyes and murmured, "There is hope for this competition, and there is definitely hope for winning Down! Damn the Chinese Football Association, if it weren't for them, I would have had such a good player a long time ago!"

The assistant coach said that he did not understand what the head coach Mr. Camacho said in the last sentence.

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When the game was over and Lin Zhigao walked back to the locker room with sweat on his face, he could feel that others looked at him completely differently.

Some people became more jealous, while the eyes of others became friendly, excited, and even adored.

Curving the corners of his mouth and smiling slightly, Lin Zhigao was a little intoxicated with himself: making others hate and making others love are actually a manifestation of personal charm.

So when he happened to meet Huang Bowen and Zhang Chengdong, and they greeted each other with smiles, Lin Zhigao also returned a friendly smile.

Don't reject the friendship that comes to you in vain. It is a fool who will only make enemies for himself.

Lin Zhigao must never be a fool.