Fox in the Penalty Area

The Fox of the Restricted Area Volume 4 Chapter 4 Hu Lixin's Decision The Olympic team started the last training camp before the U23 Asian Cup in the cold weather of the capital.

Lin Zhiyuan's "catfish" really injected fresh vitality into the team.

Although he and Hu Lai reached an agreement before the signing office, it was difficult to make everyone in the team look at him pleasingly.

There will always be someone trying to challenge Lin Zhiyuan in training.

Especially every time the shooting training eases, it is when the atmosphere on the training ground is at its highest.

Everyone held back their energy and wanted to enter the door guarded by Lin Zhiyuan.

And Lin Zhiyuan also used this opportunity to show everyone his ability, why he can be the main force in the echelon of the German football club, why he can become the main force of the reserve team as soon as he comes to the South China Tigers reserve team, and help the team win Chinese Super League reserve team champion.

Although his words are sometimes annoying, it doesn't mean that he can only talk. He has real talents and practical learning.

After he saved his teammates' shots many times, even those Olympic team players who were not comfortable with this man had to admit that Lin Zhiyuan had two brushes.

As for the duel between him and Hu Lai... There are winners and losers in the training, sometimes Hu Lai's good shots can be saved by Lin Zhiyuan, but sometimes, even if Lin Zhiyuan tries his best, he can't figure it out. To the side of Hou Lai's goal.

It's really like what Lin Zhiyuan himself said, the performance in training doesn't count. This kind of training performance can't prove who wins and who loses, we still have to wait until the actual game.

Even his direct competitor, former main goalkeeper Song Kun had to be impressed by Lin Zhiyuan's strength in training. He might lose the position of the main goalkeeper because of Lin Zhiyuan, but he has nothing to say, after all, his ability is really outstanding.

After seeing Lin Zhiyuan's performance, he realized the gap between domestic training and Germany's high-level professional football training...

It's a kind of sad reality.

As a goalkeeper, he is considered a leader among his peers in China, otherwise it would be impossible for him to be the main force all the way from the National Youth Team to the National Olympic Team.

But this is after all the premise of playing domestic football. Compared with the vast ocean outside, domestic football is like a small pond.

As a returnee, Lin Zhiyuan has many things that make people uncomfortable, but his strength is not black.

The strength is not as good as others, and the position has been robbed, so you have to admit it.

Just like Guan Xinyan, if you don't admit it, you can't even get in the training list now...

Regarding Xin Yan's lesson from the past, Song Kuang feels that he can still stay in the Olympic team, which is not bad.

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After the training camp, the Olympic team will collectively fly to Dashun City, Haining Province. This U23 Asian Cup will be played in four cities in Haining Province. Dashun City is the headquarters of the Chinese Olympic Team. This is also the last warm-up match before the U23 Asian Cup.

After this warm-up match, the U23 Asian Cup will officially start.

As the host and seed team, the Chinese team was automatically assigned to Group A. The opponents in the same group were Qatar, Uzbekistan and Oman.

The current U23 Asian Cup serves as an Olympic qualifier, and it is stipulated that only the champion, runner-up and third-place teams are eligible to participate in the Olympic Games held in Madrid in August.

In other words, if the Chinese team wants to qualify for the Olympics, at least they have to reach the semi-finals to have a chance.

This is a very difficult task for the Chinese Olympic team.

Even if they win the East Asian Cup, it does not mean that they have the strength to reach the semi-finals of the U23 Asian Cup held in China. After all, the mental state of the teams participating in the East Asian Cup is completely different from when they participated in the U23 Asian Cup.

But as the host of this competition, the fans naturally have reason to have high hopes for the team's performance.

Since the 2012 Olympic Games held in their own country's capital, the Olympic team has never been able to participate in the Olympic Games. As for the time eleven years ago, they were promoted without a test by virtue of their status as hosts.

As a result, the team performed very poorly, did not qualify for the group, lost all three games, failed to score a single goal, and had their heads shaved.

At that time, the patriotic enthusiasm of everyone in the local Olympic Games was aroused, and they also had high hopes for the performance of the Olympic team.

As a result, the Olympic team handed over such a report card, and naturally they were scolded bloody by fans and the media all over the country after the game.

Some even labeled them a "national humiliation".

But to be honest, as far as the level of Chinese football is concerned, the Olympic result is actually quite normal, far from being a national humiliation. If table tennis is wiped out in the Olympic Games, it will be considered a "national humiliation"...

After that, the performance of the Chinese Olympic team was not as good as the previous one. The 2016 Olympic qualifiers have been changed to the U23 Asian Cup mode, which was also the first U23 Asian Cup at that time. After the Chinese team appeared in the group stage, they lost to the Qatar Olympic team in the first round of the knockout round.

In the 2020 Olympic qualifiers and the third U23 Asian Cup, the Chinese team lost all three games in Thailand, failed to score a goal, and returned home without qualifying for the group stage.

The Olympic team that Hu Lai is now in was still U17 at the time, participating in the Asian Youth Championship.

The team's best result in the Asian Youth Championship was seventh, although they did not participate in the World Youth Championship. But after all, they are a little bit more promising than their predecessors. At any rate, they have qualified for the group stage.

At the same time, it also benefited from the high-level crackdown of the Football Association. The growth environment of this national youth team is better than their predecessors.

At least Shi Wuyin, who has been leading the team, has not been fired for various reasons. He has been leading the team, which also ensures the continuation of tactical thinking and the familiarity between each other.

Such a stable environment is something that the previous Olympic teams did not have. You must know that the Olympic team that participated in the Olympic Games that year suddenly announced a coaching change when it was only one month away from the Olympic Games. Yes, handsome Lauter Prinz. It is said that the reason for the coaching change was that Prinz, an old German man, did not listen to the Chinese Football Association, so the Football Association replaced an obedient local coach. It is a big taboo for military strategists to change coaches just before the battle. It is no surprise that all the Olympic teams returned after a disastrous defeat at the Olympics...

Now that the Olympic team led by Shi Wuyin finally achieved results in the East Asian Cup, they were quickly placed with high hopes by the Chinese people.

It can even be said that after seeing the outstanding performance of these young players in the 2023 season, if this Olympic team cannot break out of Asia and participate in the Olympic Games, then Chinese fans may fall into great despair.

After all, if such a talented team can't do it, who else can?

So even though the U23 Asian Cup has not yet started, the team is already under heavy pressure.

Of course, a team with Hu Lai is destined to have a different style of painting...

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When Hu Lai knocked Liu Yan off with fake moves in the team teaching competition, Chen Xingyi waved his arms and shouted: "Everyone stand up! Applause and cheer!"

There were cheers one after another on the sidelines.

"Hu Lai is awesome!!"

"Hu Lai's a dick!"

Song Kun, who was on the field to defend Hu Lai's shot, simply ran out of the goal and ran with his arms open in celebration.

He left Hu Lai an empty door.

Hu Lai shouted angrily: "Come back! What are you running for? If you have the ability, you can carry the goal with you!"

Everyone on and off the field laughed.

Seeing this scene, Shi Wuyin and Li Zhifei were also happy, and had no intention of going up to stop everyone.

The two of them knew that it was a player from the Olympic team playing tricks on Hu Lai, just because Hu Lai successfully passed someone outside the penalty area just now...

Everyone knows that Hu Lai is not good at surmounting others, so when he unexpectedly passed Liu Yan in training, everyone cheered, as if Hu Lai had accomplished such a remarkable thing.

Liu Yan who was passed over lay on the ground covering his face with his hands, looking very annoyed that he was passed over by Hu Lai! He knew that he would be wiped out by his teammates for several days...

Sure enough, Wang Zijian rushed over immediately, squatted beside Liu Yan and clenched his fists, as if holding a microphone and handing it to Liu Yan: "Hey, brother Yan, interviewing, how does it feel to be passed by Hu Lai?"

"Damn it, I thought he was going to pass from my left, so I moved the card ahead of time, but I didn't expect him to stir garlic under his feet and hit the football to the right... I'm so fucked!" lying on the ground Liu Yan shouted in grief and indignation.

Wang Zijian concluded: "I understand. I just played FIFA with me. I didn't expect to turn the joystick around like Francis. I guess Hu Lai doesn't even know how to get past you..."

Hu Lai turned around and retorted: "Nonsense! This is clearly my plan, I premeditated!"

Wang Zijian pointed to Liu Yan: "Then you come back to meet Brother Yan again, and use your extraordinary skills just now."

Hu Lai shook his head and waved his hands: "That won't work. I can't use this extraordinary skill once."

"Is it plausible? One-off pass?"

"No, just like there are no two identical leaves in the world, neither is my extraordinary movement exactly the same. Just like a person cannot step into the same river twice, it is impossible for me to make two identical moves. An extraordinary move. I call this extraordinary move the 'Schrödinger's Pendulum'..." Hu Lai raised his head and said solemnly.

"I believe you ghost!" Wang Zijian jumped up, "What 'Schrödinger's pendulum', isn't it what I just said, made by rubbing the joystick randomly!"

Liu Yan lay on the turf and wept silently, feeling even more ashamed.

"Hahahahaha!" Everyone laughed when they heard the conversation between the two.

Even Lin Zhiyuan grinned and laughed non-stop with his new teammates. At first he just joined the Olympic team. When he saw everyone teasing Hu Lai like this, he still couldn't believe that the top scorer and tactical core of the Olympic team, It turned out to be a team favorite... But now he has completely kept up with everyone's rhythm, which makes him feel like he has integrated into the team.

The training ground of the Olympic team was full of laughter, just like the Chinese New Year.

So if you want to say that this team knows that everyone has high expectations for them, how much pressure will there be?

Maybe a little bit...

But it may not be so easy to expect them to be overwhelmed by the pressure all at once.

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"...Today is January 1, 2024, and it is New Year's Day... The boys of the Chinese Olympic team who are preparing for the U23 Asian Cup, how are they spending the New Year's Day at this moment? Please follow the lens of our reporter Walk into the Hongfengling Training Base and find out what happened..."

The training of the Olympic team was shown on the TV, and there was constant laughter.

"...It seems that the boys of the Chinese Olympic team are full of energy and relaxed. The base restaurant specially prepared a sumptuous festive meal for the Olympic team, ensuring that the boys in the training base can have a happy New Year's Day... "

In the last shot before cutting to the scene of the restaurant, Hu Lai on the training ground was picked up by Wang Guangwei and kicked towards his buttocks, but he dodged deftly, and then ran out of the scene clutching his buttocks. The players who stayed on camera burst out laughing.

Seeing this scene, Xie Lan was very happy: "Look how popular our son is!"

Hu Lixin didn't respond to her, she glanced at her husband: "What are you thinking? Are you staring straight in the eyes?"

"I want to resign." Hu Lixin continued to answer his wife's words with that look in his eyes.

"Resign? Okay, you should have resigned a long time ago. Let me tell you, what is there to do with that crappy job... I don't mean to look down on the security guards, I mean they leave you idle in the office... every day Going to work is just in a daze, is it interesting? Not interesting!" Xie Lan patted her thigh excitedly, ouch, her husband finally figured it out!

After getting excited, she asked again: "But have you thought about what to do after you resign?"

She did not consider the option of staying at home after her husband resigned, because she and her husband reached a consensus on the issue of "not eating children". But whatever work you do, you always have to get busy and move, and you can't rest at home, otherwise they are afraid that the rest will get rusty and something will go wrong.

"I want to take the coach qualification certificate test."

"Eh?"

"Then I went to primary school as a coach and taught children to play football. Isn't our country advocating football in schools now? But the lack of enough youth training coaches has always been a problem...I think it should be easier for me to find a job? "

Xie Lan asked: "I'm not against it, I'm just wondering why you suddenly want to go to elementary school to teach children how to play football?"

After she finished asking this question, she noticed that her husband's eyes had returned to clarity, but the direction of his gaze had not changed, and it was still the TV screen.

"When Hu Lai was young, I didn't let him play football. If I could teach him to play football at that time, he might have suffered a lot less. Now that he has grown up and can't go back, I will teach other children to play football. Right." Hu Lixin said. "It can also be regarded as making a contribution to this changed Chinese football."

Hearing this, Xie Lan smiled: "I support you!"