Chapter 190 There Is a Fire in My Heart that Has Been Burning for 8 Years

Latest website: "The national football team defeated Brazil 3:2, a revenge that has been prepared for eight years"

On the night of July 10, 2034, at the Shanhai Stadium in Shanhai City, the 24th World Cup ended in the first semi-final. In this game, the host China team relied on Hulay's brace to defeat the powerful defending champion Brazil 3:2.

This is a game that will be recorded in the history of Chinese football and even the history of world football. Because in the history of the World Cup, a team was finally born that was neither a European team nor a South American team that reached the finals. This team came from... Asia!

I think there must be many people who haven’t watched yesterday’s game, right? There are statistics after the game. The ratings of this game on a single CCTV channel reached a terrifying level. Let’s retell the process of that game, but I still want to mention one thing - in the 74th minute of the game, Hu Lai scored. After scoring the ball and rewriting the score to 2:2, the Chinese team continued to attack.

Some people may be wondering - isn't it normal to continue attacking after taking the lead? Is there any need to mention it specifically? If you are confused and watched the Spanish-Portuguese World Cup four years ago, you will know why I mentioned this detail in particular. Four years ago, in the quarter-finals of the Spanish-Portuguese World Cup, the Chinese team faced the Netherlands. In that game, the Chinese team relied on Hulay's goal to equalize the score in the 83rd minute.

You see, the person who equalized the score was Hu Lai.

Other aspects are very similar to last night's game: after equalizing, facing a strong opponent, the Chinese team chose to continue attacking.

But four years ago, the Chinese team, which insisted on attacking, was seized by the Dutch team at the last moment of the game to counterattack and succeeded in a sneak attack.

Regarding that failed game, in the past four years, you must have seen it in various reflective articles, analysis videos or online reviews.

Knowing this, you will understand why I mentioned that detail in yesterday's game - judging from the Chinese team's choice after 2:2, it is obvious that they did not learn any lessons from their failure four years ago.

I believe that at that time, many people, including myself, had inevitably thought about the failure four years ago and were worried that the team would repeat the same mistakes again. The shadow of the past hangs in the mind of every Chinese fan.

Many people are thinking when watching the game:

Why?

Why did the Chinese team's head coach Qin Linqin make adjustments to strengthen the offense and weaken the defense immediately after the equalizer?

Why do the players of the Chinese team rush forward to attack without hesitation?

Aren't they afraid of being beaten by the Brazilian team?

Judging from the subsequent adjustments of the Brazilian team, it is obvious that the Brazilian team also hopes that the Chinese team will press forward and attack.

At that time, there were already some voices criticizing the Chinese team for doing this on the Internet, and there were quite a few.

I can completely understand the anxiety and uneasiness of Chinese fans in that situation, because the lessons learned were just four years ago.

So the question remains:

Why?

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Hu Lai woke up and opened his eyes and saw the ceiling in the hotel room.

He felt as if he had had a long, long dream, and now that he saw the ceiling, it still felt a little unreal.

He tried to enter the system, but nothing changed before his eyes.

This adds to the sense of unreality.

It's like...as if everything that happened before was just a dream.

Thinking of this, he turned over and sat up, picked up the charging mobile phone from the bedside table, and unplugged the charging cable.

Then go to the photo album.

Open the latest video.

The shaking camera shows the Chinese team's locker room.

Everyone was celebrating to the passionate music, some were dancing, some were singing, and some were howling incomprehensibly from time to time.

At this moment, captain Wang Guangwei walked to the center of the locker room and slapped the massage table hard, making a dull sound like beating a drum.

"Listen to me! Listen to me!" he shouted.

Hu Lai, who was filming the video, immediately shouted: "Quiet! Quiet! Xiaoyu! Turn off the music! Xiao Linzi, put on your clothes!"

Then he added: "Captain Wang, you can just say a few words. Everyone has to continue playing music and dancing!"

There was a roar of laughter in the locker room, and then it actually fell silent.

Xia Xiaoyu turned off the music and everyone looked at Wang Guangwei.

Wang Guangwei said loudly: "First of all, let us thank our head coach - Brother Lin!"

He pointed to Qin Lin, who was standing against the wall.

Hu Lai's camera followed Wang Guangwei's hand and put Qin Lin in the camera.

Everyone in the locker room shouted: "Thank you, Brother Lin!"

"Thank you Qin for your guidance!"

Amid everyone's cheers, Qin Lin waved his hand with a smile.

"Secondly, thank you to all the staff and coaches of the national team!"

Hu Lai shouted "Thank you everyone" while turning the camera of his mobile phone to take pictures of the coach, team leader and other staff of the Chinese team.

"Then, I want to thank you!" Wang Guangwei waved his arms and pointed in a circle, "My teammates! If it weren't for your efforts in the game, we would never have been able to defeat Brazil today! This opponent means so much to us extraordinary!

"Ever since that game eight years ago, I have often regretted that we failed to think about beating Brazil at the last moment. This regret is like a thorn in my heart! So thank you , help me pull out that thorn!"

Hu Lai laughed when he saw Wang Guangwei, whose face was red as if he had been drunk, patting his chest and saying heart-wrenching words to everyone in the camera.

Not a dream!

it is true!

"Holy shit, why are you still watching..." At this moment, Wang Guangwei's voice sounded next to him. It was a little different from the impassioned voice in the video. He was shy and a little angry.

Hu Lai raised his head and saw his roommate who had just washed his hair and teased, "I want to make sure I'm not dreaming."

"Damn, then go watch the news. Now the whole internet is full of news about us reaching the finals."

Hu Lai smiled miserably: "What's so good about the press release? It's better to look at Team Wang's impassioned speech. The most important thing is authenticity!"

Wang Guangwei waved at him as if to shoo away flies: "Climb, crawl, crawl!"

Hu Lai laughed and jumped off the bed and went to wash up.

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"The National Football Team defeated Brazil 3:2, a revenge that was prepared for eight years" allows us to travel through time and space and go back to eight years ago. 202 Los Angeles, Pasadena Stadium. When the referee blew the full-time whistle, the Chinese fans in the stands of Pasadena Stadium let out deafening cheers to celebrate the Chinese team's 3:3 draw with Brazil.

Everyone is celebrating, whether it is fans or commentators, and of course the Chinese team players themselves.

I don't think anyone who cheered at that time could have imagined that this draw would become the game eight years later.

The boys of the Chinese national team realized earlier than ordinary people how inappropriate their performance was after Hu Lai equalized the score.

But actually, I would say that is nitpicking. Who can ask the Chinese team, participating in the World Cup for the first time, to think about defeating Brazil completely after falling behind three times and tying again three times?

Otherwise, why am I just an ordinary fan, but the players of the Chinese team can create the history of Chinese football and Asian football eight years later?

They were really ashamed of their original performance, and they were really worried about the draw in that game.

If He Feng hadn't said this at the end of yesterday's game, many people would have never heard of it.

I can completely understand why the players of the Chinese team never mention it, because if they say it, ordinary people will only listen to it as a joke, or they will think that the Chinese players are just showing off. No one will believe their sincerity.

Just like Hu Lai said in an interview at the beginning that his dream is to lead the Chinese team to win the world championship.

Cup same. How many people ridiculed him, humiliated him, and misunderstood him?

Now, after he really helped the Chinese team reach the World Cup finals with two goals, Chinese fans online have only one voice for this team:

champion!

Everyone, you see, we now dare to think about things like winning the World Cup...

But this is under the premise that we have just defeated Brazil and reached the final. Before the start of this World Cup, Chinese fans were not as vocal about winning the World Cup and their thinking was not as unified as it is now.

As for the players of the Chinese team, not long after they drew with the Brazilian team eight years ago, they had already begun to reflect on why they did not defeat Brazil in one go.

They began to reflect eight years ago with the goal of defeating Brazil. I believe they work hard to train and compete with this goal in the club.

Why am I so sure?

Look at the performance of all the Chinese team players in yesterday's game, especially the players who experienced the 3:3 match eight years ago, look at their performance.

In fact, strictly speaking, the two times the Chinese team met the Brazilian team in the World Cup were the same game.

Eight years ago it was the first half, eight years later it was the second half.

After yesterday's game, the World Cup competition between this generation of players from both sides has truly come to an end.

So back to the original question.

Now you know why after the Chinese team equalized the score in the 74th minute, the whole team looked like they were going to fight the Brazilian team to the end, right?

Because these young men from the Chinese team have a fire in their hearts that has been burning for eight years.