soccer king

Qin Xiong joined Arsenal after reaching the top of Asia in early August, and everything seemed to be going very well.

But on the last day of August, everything didn't seem to be developing on the expected track.

Due to pre-season preparations and physical condition, he was hidden for more than half a month. He retired due to injury in the first minute of his debut in England.

The outside world must have the media to add insult to injury to him.

Some football critics even labeled Qin Xiong as a parallel importer, thinking that Arsenal had made a bad acquisition.

A young rookie who blindly believed in the "magic" performances at Ajax.

Maybe his magic is just luck, just the occasional flash of light.

When he came to the British arena, he showed his true colors.

......

Qin Xiong returned to the apartment, where his personal team was waiting for him. The fitness coach re-planned the content of his future training with injuries. The physical therapist is Chinese. He began to study sports medicine, and he prepared a cool herbal medicine to be applied to the wound to help Qin Xiong get out of the injury faster.

Qin Xiong called Alihan and informed him that he was unable to return to China to participate in the fourth group match of the World Preliminaries.

Alihan was very concerned about his injury, and he was relieved when he learned that it was just a contusion and he would recover within a week.

Fortunately, the opponent of the Chinese team in the fourth game was not strong. It was Malaysia, which was conceded 8 goals by the Chinese team in early June. The only difficulty was that the Chinese team had to be a guest in this game.

After finishing these, Qin Xiong changed into casual clothes and went to have dinner.

Living in a high-end community in North London, Qin Xiong would regularly patronize a mid-to-high-end restaurant outside the community.

He likes the quiet environment there. Every time he eats, the restaurant is full of people, so he can sit alone in the corner without being disturbed.

Today, he took the fork and didn't start it for a long time.

He was reminiscing about games, thinking about English football.

He was indeed a little pretentious before the injury, thinking he knew English football, even after Vieira had reminded him before, but in fact that reminder did not represent any substantive points.

Be careful?

What are you looking out for?

Thinking about it now, this injury made Qin Xiong roughly understand the difficulty of English football for technical players.

Why is it that a midfield master like Veron, who can flourish in the world's first league Serie A, can't get along in the Premier League?

Perhaps it is the excessive aggressiveness of the Premier League when you can't tell whether the opponent is rushing the ball or rushing!

The defense in the Italian arena is not focused on grabbing.Let the technical players have space to control the ball, as for whether they can break through the past.That's the fight of sword and shield.

However, in England, the overall rhythm is faster, the coverage of the player's running area is higher, and the aggressiveness of taking the initiative to grab the ball leaves less time for you to handle the ball.

But if it is a competition that is absolutely within the rules, Veron or Qin Xiong should be more comfortable.

Because the opponent is rushing up and grabbing, you can strike and get rid of the opponent in a split second!

Qin Xiong also thought so before.

Until the moment he was kicked by Neil Harrison!

Yes.The opponent here will easily lose the center of gravity of the body and press up. Ideally, as long as you control the ball and turn around, it is easy to get rid of the opponent in an instant.

But the opponent is aiming at you instead of the ball at your feet, so you can ensure that the opponent cannot touch the ball, but you cannot avoid your body being violated by the opponent!

Of course not all opponents do this.

But how do you know that the opponent in front of you is absolutely rushing to the ball?

With such worries, the mind will subconsciously protect.

It is very dangerous in the England arena if you want to stop with a static brake and strike later.Maybe you will pay the price of being violated by your opponent and injured.

The knuckles of the index finger of his left hand tapped his forehead rhythmically, Qin Xiong still didn't touch the food on the plate, he told himself the conclusion of his thinking.

Need to change the game habits.

Waiting for the opponent to come up and grab it like before.The habit of exposing defensive flaws and then breaking through must be changed.

Or refer to the successful midfielder here.

Manchester United's Scholes, Liverpool's Gerrard.Chelsea's Lampard.

Their style of play is open and close, and they rarely make delicate ball control breakthrough changes. Why?

Because they know how to avoid getting into entanglements with their opponents.

Don't wait for the opponent to stand in front of you to grab. Before that, if you want to break through, you should break through decisively in advance. If you want to pass the ball, pass the ball immediately and then run.

Absolutely, never give your opponent a chance to get close, otherwise you will be waiting for unknowns, not you can pass your opponent with extraordinary skills.

"Sir. Are you dissatisfied with dinner?"

Qin Xiong's thoughts were suddenly interrupted, and he turned to look at the speaker.

He saw a black waiter.

The reason why he likes this restaurant.In addition to the quiet dining environment and good food, it also includes the service here.

The waiters here are uniformly dressed, with spotless vest shirts, neat bow ties, and a classic British butler style.

The black man looks to be in his 40s, with a soft complexion. The first impression he gives is that he is polite and considerate.

Qin Xiong shook his head slightly, not because he was dissatisfied with the dinner.

The black waiter smiled and said, "I noticed that your leg was injured, did it affect your dining mood?"

Qin Xiong looked down at his left calf, and said softly: "Mood? It should be very complicated. When you have experienced a morning full of expectations, but in the afternoon you are ridiculed, humiliated and racially discriminated against by thousands of people, and then you don't live up to it. Injured in full view, hehehe..."

When Qin Xiong saw that the black waiter put away his smile, his face became serious instead, with a trace of respect in his eyes.

He could tell that Qin Xiong didn't take the experience he said to heart, which belonged to an optimistic and positive black humor.

Qin Xiong stared at him and asked, "Your expression seems to tell me that you know who I am."

The black waiter nodded and said: "When I was young, I smuggled with my family to East London, where immigrants gather. I became a football fan when I was a teenager. I supported Charlton Club. I watched the news and knew that you are Arsenal player, but I don't know what happened in the game this afternoon. I apologize for what happened to you, but I can see that your mentality is very good and admirable. As the saying goes: life always Let us be bruised and bruised, but in the end, those wounded places will definitely become our strongest places!"

The corner of Qin Xiong's mouth raised a smile, and he thought carefully about the last sentence the black waiter said.

He asked curiously: "This sentence is great! Who said it?"

"Hemingway."

The black waiter replied with a smile.

Qin Xiong stood up and stretched out his hand to the black waiter, and introduced himself: "Qin Xiong, nice to meet you."

"Huck Dean, it's a pleasure to serve you."

Qin Xiong sat down again and said with a smile: "Huck, your temperament makes people feel that you should be a teacher."

Dean shook his head with a smile and said, "As a person who has been in prison, it is impossible for me to teach others, and I don't have a high level of cultural accomplishment."

Qin Xiong looked slightly surprised, and immediately said: "Your mentality is also very good, there should not be many people who can frankly say that they have been imprisoned."

Dean nodded and said: "Yes, but I don't care about other people's eyes. I was imprisoned for burglary. When I was in prison, I got the bad news of my mother's death. Her last words were to let me be a good person. Since then, I started to study in prison, hoping to let my mother in heaven rest in peace. Reading makes me calm, and it also makes me re-examine myself every day, and be a man worthy of making my mother proud. As for how others treat me, I don’t care. Don't care, as the saying goes: there is no nobility to be superior to others, the real nobility should be superior to your past self."

Qin Xiong's eyes flickered, and he recalled what Dean said again.

"Hemingway?"

Dean said with a smile: "I suggest you have dinner, athletes have high requirements on diet, and then I will tell you the answer."

Qin Xiong laughed dumbfounded, picked up the plate and handed it to Dean, saying, "Just heat it up."

Dean bowed gracefully to take the plate, and said to Qin Xiong before leaving: "You guessed it right, it was written by Hemingway in "True Nobility". I like his book very much. If you want, I will I can share my thoughts with you.”

Qin Xiong nodded and said, "My honor."

Seeing Dean leaving at a steady pace, Qin Xiong's mood, which was not depressed before, suddenly seemed to get better.

He kept muttering to himself.

"Where it hurts, it becomes the strongest place. The real nobility is better than the past self!" (to be continued~^~)