football is not round

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Mengxi Stadium is still in the fifth round of the National Men's Football League. The two sides of the match are Shengcheng Picture-in-Picture Football Club and Shenbei Football Team of the same city.

In the second half of the game, the two sides were still evenly matched, and the scene was anxious.The head coaches of the two sides dispatched troops, and the head coach of the Shengcheng PIP football team, Pi Luke, unexpectedly left the last substitution spot to Li Weifeng, a young central defender who had just been promoted to the first team in the new season.

And Li Weifeng, who came off the bench, seized the opportunity to equalize the score in front of the goal. Now the score is [-] to [-].

When the game came to overtime, the Shengcheng team took a free kick in the frontcourt, and Li Qingcheng took the penalty.The ball reached the penalty area of ​​the Shenbei team, Li Weifeng jumped high and hit the football, the football changed its original direction and flew towards the goal of the Shenbei team. . . . . .

The audience was suffocated for a moment, whether it was the fans in the stands, or the balcony of the box, even Piruk in the coach's bench felt like he stopped breathing for a moment.

The day before the match, Shengcheng PIP Football Club was on the training ground.

"Li..." the assistant coach called Li Weifeng.

Li Weifeng ran to him quickly, "Water?"

"You're on the roster tomorrow, substitute, are you nervous?" The team translator asked first.

"Hmm." Li Weifeng didn't get nervous like other new players, and he even needed to confirm what he heard.

"You will stay and practice with James for a while, and practice setting the ball and heading for the top. Is there any problem?" The interpreter continued to ask.

"No." Li Weifeng nodded.

The assistant coach took out the tactical board and began to instruct Li Weifeng on the running position and coordination skills when attacking and defending the set kick, and the translator was on the side to assist.

Li Weifeng read it carefully, and from time to time communicated with the assistant coach in simple English with the cooperation of the translator for the parts he had objections to or ambiguity.

After a while, the head coach Pi Luke also came here and handed Li Weifeng the red training vest that symbolized the starting lineup.He signaled Li Weifeng to conduct confrontation training first, and then Pi Luke communicated with the assistant coach on tactics.

After the training, James, who was training alone on the side, took Li Weifeng to start training alone on the header of the set ball.James communicated in broken Chinese and Li Weifeng's poor English. Fortunately, football itself is a language.Although the communication was a bit difficult, Li Weifeng still benefited a lot.

Even if Li Weifeng enters the British Super League in the next few years, he will still be the team's first choice for attacking set kicks, which has a lot to do with James' passing and leading.

After the training, Li Weifeng returned to his room with his tired body.I joined the first team this year, so I was assigned a single room instead of a two-person room like before.Li Weifeng usually goes to training, but although he didn't have the chance to play a few days before the game, he was also closed with the team.

"Mom, what are you doing?" Li Weifeng called his mother.

"How are you cooking? Just finished training?" Li Weifeng's mother cared about her child on the other end of the phone.

"Well, I just practiced with James."

"James is really nice. I have brought you several times. Next time I go home, remember to bring some ginseng and mail it back to the UK." Li Weifeng's mother instructed. Although ginseng is quite expensive, Li Weifeng's mother is also very grateful to James for his help in training.

"Well, I see. Not to mention that Lao Zhan's family quite likes this game." Li Weifeng said happily.

"I can't afford the expensive ones, but your father knows ginseng, so he can still buy good ones."

"That's right, Mom."

"what's up?"

"I will be on the roster for the game tomorrow, as a substitute."

"Well, don't hold back."

"It may not be possible to play. Tomorrow's game should be quite intense. Last season, the Shenbei team lost at the end and did not advance."

"If you know you can't get in, you have to go all out to prepare, do you hear me?" Li Weifeng's mother urged.

"understood."

"You are still young, you must restrain your temper. Who in the team is not your big brother."

"Oh, I see."

"Have you remembered the tactical moves of the game?" Li Weifeng's mother kept asking.

"Remember, there are a few new ones for tomorrow, so I also remember. I just practiced more, and Lao Zhan also taught new things."

"Okay, okay. I see. You go to bed early at night. If you can't sleep, drink some milk."

"Well, it's okay, I hung up. I lay down for a while, and then I went to eat."

"Okay, I'll tell your dad later."

"Yes." Li Weifeng put away the phone.

Li Weifeng took a short rest, then packed up and went to the cafeteria for dinner.

"Ding dong... ding dong..." The doorbell rang.

"Who is it?" Li Weifeng shouted loudly.

"I."

Li Weifeng knew it was Zhang Jing when he heard it, and walked over to open the door while arranging his clothes.

"Let's go to eat." Zhang Jing said.

"Okay." Li Weifeng took back and closed the door, and walked to the cafeteria with Zhang Jing.

"Are you on the bench tomorrow?" Zhang Jing asked.

"En." Li Weifeng was a little delighted.

"Congratulations, buddy." Zhang Jing said with his arms around Li Weifeng, very excited.

"You are no better than me, and you scored the first goal in the game." Li Weifeng said to Zhang Jing.

"Our two brothers finally waited until today." Zhang Jing said with a long breath.

The two happily went to the cafeteria to have dinner.

In the evening, James came and knocked on the door.

"Come in," Li Weifeng opened the door and let James in.

James came in with a bottle of milk and put it on Li Weifeng's table.

"Brother, I can't sleep well, drink this." James said, then looked around the room, and left.

"Got it." Li Weifeng sent James off.

"You can keep the windows closed, but don't turn the air conditioner too low." James instructed in English, and then left.

Twenty minutes into the first half of the game, the coach in charge of the day-to-day called their substitute players to start warm-up training.

"Xiaofeng, let's go." Li Xu lined up with Li Weifeng who sat at the end.

"En." Li Weifeng tightened his shoelaces again, and followed his big brother to the off-court track behind his own goal for training.

Looking at the team's game from this angle and identity, Li Weifeng is still fresh.The games that Li Weifeng watched for ten years were either in the East Stand or the West Stand.Then there is the ball boy who watched and picked up the ball on the sidelines.

As a substitute for the first time today, Li Weifeng felt a little nervous when he came here.When he was changing clothes and listening to tactics in the locker room just now, he didn't have much sense of reality.

The two sides fought fiercely in the scene, and the game became [-]-[-] at the beginning, with the Shengcheng team taking the lead.Li Weifeng is doing warm-up exercises according to the daily coach's arrangement, and from time to time, he keeps his eyes on the court to observe the movement of the game.

Li Weifeng didn't feel a free kick of more than 30 meters.In fact, there are not many players in the top domestic leagues who can play in this position, let alone the first division now.It wasn't until the football kicked out by Jose hit the Shengcheng team's goal post and flew into the goal according to an unusual trajectory, that Li Weifeng was stunned by the sight in front of him.

"I'll go, when did Jose become so strong!" Li Weifeng muttered.

"I can do it too." Li Xu said to Li Weifeng unconvinced.

"Brother Xu will definitely do it," Li Weifeng was shocked and did not forget to flatter his big brother.

"What the hell, with our Qingcheng here, it's not my turn." Li Xu sighed.

"Haha." Li Weifeng laughed dryly.

Before the end of halftime, Li Weifeng returned to the bench again. First, Li Weifeng was almost stretched, and there was little chance of a tie at the moment.

During the halftime, the head coach Piruk arranged it step by step.New tactics, strengthen the center to grab points, and Ike will be the center support.

The offensive coach walked up to Li Weifeng and patted Li Weifeng with his body.Li Weifeng raised his head and looked at the coach, only to hear the coach say: "Xiaofeng, get ready for the second half and pay attention to the details of the center forward's style of play."

"En." Li Weifeng nodded, and began to recall the details of the coach's arrangement in his mind.

The coach in charge of the offense squatted down, pointed at the tactical board, and gave Li Weifeng a few more pointers.Li Weifeng kept nodding his head, and asked a few words from time to time to communicate.

After the opening of the midfield, Li Weifeng came out from behind and sat on the bench.When Li Weifeng left the waiting room, he felt that he drank too much water, so he went to the bathroom before going to the stadium.

At this time Li Xu had already run out to warm up, and now Li Weifeng was sitting beside Chen Lei.

"Are you nervous?" Chen Lei patted Li Weifeng and asked.

"Hehe..." Li Weifeng smiled dryly.

"Get ready, you will be playing soon." Chen Lei said to Li Weifeng.

"No way," Li Weifeng was a little confused.

"If you can't open the situation, you need your frontcourt fulcrum. To open the situation, you go up and practice." Chen Lei explained.

"Oh."

"Go and warm up." Li Xu ran to the bench and said to Li Weifeng while changing clothes.

"Got it." Li Weifeng tightened his shoelaces and ran to the sidelines to continue warming up.

After warming up for less than 10 minutes, the offensive coach ran over, "Xiaofeng, come here quickly."

Li Weifeng quickly ran to the coach, "Get ready and play immediately," the offensive coach said to Li Weifeng.

"Yes." After Li Weifeng agreed, he hurried to his place on the bench to change into the game uniform.

"Burst," Li Weifeng changed his clothes and ran to the opposite of the head coach Piluk, and greeted the head coach Piluk with his body.

Pi Luke looked up at Li Weifeng, then continued to look down at the tactical board on his lap.The assistant coach next to the head coach pointed to the tactical board and began to arrange tactics. Li Weifeng listened carefully.In fact, the offensive coach has already told himself in the middle of the midfield, and now the specific tactics have not changed much.Mainly because I am not afraid of offside, I have been standing in the penalty area of ​​the Shenbei team and running around the penalty spot.When the ball is kicked off on both sides, I am in charge of fighting for the front points near the goalposts on both sides.When setting the ball, I am responsible for fighting for the back point of the penalty kick that misses the back post, and I pay attention not to offside.

"You go up and remind Ike to play outside the penalty area and play more flexibly." The interpreter ordered from the side, and at the same time asked how to say this sentence in English.Li Weifeng learned English relatively well when he started school, and he has been taken by James recently, so his English is not bad.

Li Weifeng and the translator repeated the English twice, then got up, turned around and rearranged the clothes in the shorts, tucking the clothes.Li Weifeng walked towards the center line, Pi Luke hugged Li Weifeng from behind and whispered a few words.

Li Weifeng responded dully, his mind kept circling his playing position and running tactics.

"Di..." After the whistle sounded, Li Ping ran towards him.

"Come on," the translator behind him shouted to himself.

"Come on," Li Ping and Li Weifeng clapped hands, encouraging him.

Li Weifeng ran to the penalty area of ​​the Shenbei team and shouted: "Ike."

Ike ran to Li Weifeng, Li Weifeng put his arms around Ike and whispered the changed tactics, Ike nodded and ran out of the penalty area to meet his teammates.

Li Weifeng, who had just played, kept recalling his tactics, and then ran hard, surrounded by Shen Bei's defensive players, unable to get rid of them.

"Don't keep thinking about getting rid of the opponent's defense. Remember that you need to run. Then find a running route and run to take off as quickly as possible." Li Weifeng recalled James' usual advice to himself.

After playing for a few minutes, Li Weifeng gradually adapted to the atmosphere on the field, and grabbed the front point when he made a cross, and then slid to his teammates in the middle, almost scoring a goal.Another time he grabbed a cross, Li Weifeng completed the shot himself.With the success of the competition, Li Weifeng's confidence has also increased.

"Di..." The referee called the Shenbei team a foul at the half-court position and gave the Shengcheng team a set kick.

Li Weifeng thought about his position at the back post, and then ran near the penalty spot.He looked towards the midfield and saw captain Li Tie waving his hand to signal an attack.I should still grab the position of the back post, Li Weifeng thought about how to run over.

"Beep..." A whistle sounded.

Li Weifeng moved back quickly, but it turned out to be full of people, so he didn't squeeze past.His clothes also felt being pulled tightly. Seeing that Li Qingcheng's ball had already flown into the penalty area, Li Weifeng took off on the spot, staggered, and didn't jump too high. He was caught by the players of Shen Bei's team and pushed out of the penalty area.

Li Xu ran to Li Weifeng's side, gestured to his elbow, and said to Li Weifeng, "What are you afraid of as a striker? You can move more." After speaking, he patted Li Weifeng's head, and then quickly ran to his half-court position.

Li Weifeng didn't leave Shenbei's penalty area too far. After all, the Shenbei team is now fully defending, and the formation is squeezed very flat in Shenbei's half.

Midfielder Li Qingcheng took the ball and began to accelerate towards the right sideline, and Li Weifeng followed to run towards the front post.Li Qingcheng made a sudden stop and turned around, and then made a cross. Li Weifeng accelerated and jumped to fight.Li Weifeng didn't grab it after taking off. After landing, Li Weifeng saw the ball was grabbed by Li Xu outside the penalty area and volleyed directly.Looking back, he saw the goalkeeper of the Shenbei team throwing the football out. Seeing that the ball did not fly too far, Li Weifeng accelerated to grab a supplementary shot.

Look at football again, into the net. . .

Li Weifeng didn't think much about it, just a draw, and there was no time left.The goal of your own team is: victory!

Li Weifeng quickly ran into the Shenbei team's goal to pick up the football.As soon as he picked up the football, the goalkeeper of the Shenbei team pulled Li Weifeng's clothes to grab the football.Li Weifeng turned his arm back hard, got rid of the goalkeeper of the Shenbei team, and continued to run towards the midfield.

Teammates around came to pat Li Weifeng one after another.

"Good," Ike said, patting Li Weifeng on the head.

"Looks like buddy," Li Xu also ran over and hugged Li Weifeng and ran back to the midfield side by side.

"Okay, Xiaofeng." Yu Han who was nearby also ran over and said.

"Okay, hurry up and score one more." Team captain Li Tie also ran over and patted Li Weifeng on the head and said.

Li Weifeng really had an empty head at this time, he just wanted to return to the midfield and continue the game, time was running out.

Li Weifeng put the football on the kick-off point in the center circle, and ran outside the center circle, on the left side of the center line.After calming down at this moment, Li Weifeng began to think about the goal just now.

"Well, it's in." Li Weifeng really felt it. Li Weifeng looked up at the big screen in the stadium, which showed the score: [-] to [-]. "Well, I'm in, I'm in." Li Weifeng muttered in a low voice.

"Boom boom boom" "Li Weifeng"

"Boom boom boom" "Li Weifeng"

"Boom boom boom" "Li Weifeng"

"Boom boom boom" "Li Weifeng"

"Boom boom boom" "Li Weifeng"

The sound of cheering finally drifted into Li Weifeng's ears.Li Weifeng stood with his back to the east stand, facing the football in the middle circle.Li Weifeng was always ready to continue running towards the heart of the Shenbei team's penalty area, but at this moment he was finally distracted by the shouts from the stands.

"Did I celebrate just now?" Li Weifeng suddenly realized this question.

I remember that when I lived with Zhang Jing in the youth team, I designed many goal celebrations.After Zhang Jing scored a goal in the last game, he just raised his left hand high and ran back. He was laughed at by himself for several days, but he seemed to have really forgotten to celebrate just now.

"Hehe..." Thinking of this, Li Weifeng laughed unconsciously.

"Scoring another goal is a lore. I must celebrate wildly." Li Weifeng swore secretly, holding his left hand tightly.

"Di..." The whistle sounded, and Li Weifeng continued to run towards Shen Bei's penalty area without looking back.

With shouts of "one in", Li Weifeng looked at the big screen of Mengxi Stadium. The game time was nine 10 minutes.

"Not a few minutes," Li Weifeng reminded himself.

"Di..." The referee penalized the Shenbei team for a foul on the left side of the half and the Shengcheng team's right position, and gave the Shengcheng team a set kick.

Li Weifeng was still at the penalty spot, obviously feeling that his clothes were being pulled tightly again.Li Weifeng saw that the referee didn't pay attention to this side, and he didn't look back and swung his elbow vigorously back, trying to get rid of the pull.When Li Weifeng was tearing, he only heard Ike yelling at the referee loudly, and then the referee ran into the penalty area, and the tearing followed the referee to the Shenbei team's penalty area, and all movements stopped.

At this time, Li Weifeng saw that Ike's clothes were torn in half, and the referee began to admonish the players on both sides.Li Tie, the captain of the Shengcheng Football Team, casually walked up to Li Weifeng, and said in a low voice, "You stick to me, and I'll stand in your way. Let's run from the back to the middle."

Li Weifeng didn't respond when he heard it, and followed Li Tie silently.Seeing that the two members of the Shenbei team also followed suit, Li Weifeng knew Li Tie's physical fitness. Li Tie would definitely turn his body sideways to let himself run in the middle to grab a spot, and he used his body to block the interference of these two people.

"Di..." After the whistle sounded, Li Qingcheng was seen running up, and Li Tie turned sideways to give himself a gap in the running position, and at the same time blocked the Shen Bei players who were defending the two of them.Li Weifeng ran near the penalty spot and felt that this was where the football flew over. He just ran a few steps and became a run-up for the jump.Li Weifeng jumped up high and looked at the flying football: "Yes!" Li Weifeng shouted in his heart, swung his head and pushed the football towards the Shenbei team's goal, and the football flew to the far point of the Shenbei team's goal. . . . . .

Did Li Weifeng's header go in?Will the Shengcheng team get a draw, or complete the final lore?

Predict what will happen in the future, and listen to the next decomposition.

This chapter is over.

Postscript (interlude, tidbits, extra episodes):

On a night many years ago, two members of the provincial football youth team were lying in their dormitory, thinking about the future.

"The main force has been selling a lot in recent years, maybe our opportunity will come soon." Li Weifeng looked forward to it.

"Maybe, but there are still a lot of old people in the team." Zhang Jing was a little helpless.

"If we can definitely score goals and score a lot of goals, maybe Zhang Jing can win a golden boot for you."

"Just pull it up, as long as you can play."

"How can you do without a dream?"

"Ok."

"Don't worry, we will definitely score a lot and win the championship." Li Weifeng said firmly.

"Ah."

"By the way, whose celebration do you like?" Li Weifeng asked.

"Klaus' somersault, how about you?" Zhang Jing replied.

"I like Alan. Shearer's one-handed celebration is too iconic. Soft and strong."

"Well, I like it too, but I still choose Klaus."

"Hey, I don't have many chances as a defender, you must do it." Li Weifeng sighed.

"The defenders are all corner kicks and set-piece opportunities, not many?"

"Hey, now the defenders and forwards are dominated by foreign aid, so there are not many opportunities to play." Li Weifeng was very helpless.

"Don't worry, if I score the first goal, I will also extend my arm for you." Zhang Jing promised.

Shengcheng Picture-in-Picture Football Club was established for the third year in the fourth round of the First Division. Zhang Jing made his debut for the first time and scored a goal in the opening game.

Zhang Jing immediately stretched out his arm, raised his index finger, and pointed to the sky in celebration.Zhang Jing always remembered the promise back then, even if the promised brother forgot their promise that night and laughed at himself for forgetting to celebrate the goal.