Football: The immortal legend on the green field

At this time, Shen Bin didn't know that he had caused such a big stir in the Chinese football world. He slept at home until 9 o'clock in the morning, and then made an appointment with Zhang Feng to accompany him to visit his first coach Ge Jiayang.

When they were going out, they happened to meet Li Meng who was looking for Shen Bin to find out about his situation in the football team, and the three of them went to the teachers' apartment building of the District Education Commission together.

They call it a visit, but in reality they just sit with the elderly. They find it difficult to do even something as simple as saying a few complete sentences to them.

An old man with serious sequelae of a stroke sat in an old rattan chair, one hand stroking the shiny cane leaning beside him, the other hand drooping on the armrest of the rattan chair.

Looking at Li Meng pulling Zhang Feng's ears, constantly complaining that he did not tell her the news that Shen Bin could play football again at the first time, and did not inform Shen Bin of her move, her little mouth complained like a machine gun, and while complaining she stared at Shen Bin with her cute big eyes.

Shen Bin felt a little embarrassed, he knew that Li Meng was indirectly expressing her dissatisfaction with him by punishing Zhang Feng. The three of them had formed a small group with Li Meng as the center since they were young, and the two boys had always been her followers.

Zhang Feng is the happy guy, while Shen Bin plays the role of the thug among the three. Whenever there is a conflict with other children, Li Meng is responsible for the quarrel, and when it comes to fighting, it is Shen Bin's responsibility.

The old coach Ge Jiaxiang looked at the three children playing and fighting kindly, with a smile occasionally twitching from the corner of his mouth.

After Zhang Feng kept begging for mercy, Shen Bin began to tell Ge Jiaxiang about the interesting things that happened in the team.

Seeing the old coach's wife coming out of the kitchen with two steaming plates of food, the three of them stood up to help. The two boys cleared the table and arranged the dishes, while Li Meng went to the kitchen to serve the dishes and get the bowls.

Ge Jiaxiang's wife poured him a glass of more than one or two liang of white wine, and poured drinks for the three children. Shen Bin and his family felt as casual here as if they were at home.

The old man was their first coach. Although Zhang Feng only stayed in the team for a month and gave up football due to lack of strength, Shen Bin was recommended by the old man from the district sports school to the Longjiang Jiajia team.

Later, he coached him for a few months. I remember when the old man was transferred from the regional sports school to the Longjiang Jiajia team, Shen Bin was inexplicably happy about this for several days.

Unfortunately, the old man had to bid farewell to his beloved football career and beloved job due to health reasons not long after.

There were only a few dishes, four plates with sweet and sour cabbage, fried pork slices, a large plate of tomato and egg, a braised fish, and a large bowl of pickled mustard and shredded pork soup.

Although the meal was simple, Shen Bin didn't care. In their memory, such a meal was a complete reward.

When he was a child, if they performed well in training, competition or study, the old man would take them back to his home and ask his wife to cook a meal similar to the one now as a reward for them.

One can imagine that for Shen Bin, a child from a single-parent family, sitting around the table under the care and attention of adults, listening to their praises and eating meals that tasted completely different from those in the school cafeteria, it must have been a happy time worth remembering and cherishing.

After the meal, in order not to disturb the old coach’s lunch break, the three of them sat for a while, chatted about some small things, and then said goodbye.

After walking out of the Education Committee dormitory yard that was separated from the entire residential area by a high wall and standing on the street, Shen Bin was silent for a while. "Coach Ge has aged a lot since his retirement. I'll have to come and visit more often in the future."

On the way back, Shen Bin received a call from the team, informing him to report back to the team as soon as possible. The person who informed him was the team leader Wan Anlong. From his excited words, Shen Bin felt as if something had happened.

After Shen Bin finished the call, he said goodbye to his two friends, hailed a taxi and returned to the team.

After arriving at the hotel, Shen Bin had been sitting in his room for less than half an hour when he suddenly received a notice from the team, asking all team members to pack up their belongings and gather in the lobby on the first floor.

The team explained that in order to ensure the fairness of the competition, they notified Liao Province Tianlun that they would no longer stay in the same hotel with the Yanjing Guards before the competition. All team members had to hand in their communication devices, take their personal belongings, and change hotels.

After the team members came out, they boarded two large buses that had been waiting here early in the morning, and then went straight south along the street.

The first person in the team to notice that something was not right was Shen Bin, after all, this was his home base.

After leaning against the window and repeatedly observing the signboards flashing by on the side of the road, he quietly raised his doubts. He thought that the direction the bus was heading was getting further and further away from the competition venue.

His words caught everyone's attention.

The team bus took them to a strange place, and the players were dumbfounded. They went from an ordinary hotel chain to a resort prepared for professional players.

When have the young players ever enjoyed such high treatment?

But after all the laughter, they couldn't laugh anymore. As the games were too intensive, all teams stopped all pre-match training since the start of the games. I don't know what happened today, but after everyone settled in, the team actually notified them to go to Wutaishan Stadium at 4 pm for field adaptation training.

The team members were all confused. They had to change accommodation, change competition venue, and even the game time was postponed. Now they had to train. What was going on?

This resort is right next to the Wutaishan Gymnasium. The team members walked to the Wutaishan Gymnasium under the scorching sun and first conducted a half-hour recovery-oriented training. The content of this training was unremarkable, basically jogging and various off-ball training.

The players, who had long been accustomed to this set of tactics, had no energy at all and just lazily tossed around following the coach's instructions.

Several guys in the team who were usually very active stopped talking much, and the atmosphere began to become dull.

Many team members took the opportunity to drink water at the side of the field to frequently ask people what had happened.

Half an hour later, the assistant coach began to assign the players to groups for the competition. Shen Bin and two forwards and three midfielders were assigned to the attacking side, and all of them were the main players of the team.

The personnel assigned to the attacking side were pulled aside by Gao Haiyang to receive his pre-match instructions. In order to calm the situation, the old coach Guo Jiangping also came to this side.

Gao Haiyang instructed all team members to organize the training content with Shen Bin as the only core.

The players, who had already worked up a sweat under the scorching sun, began to show their dissatisfaction, especially Dai Zhao, Wang Dong and other veteran players, who vented their dissatisfaction with the training session and the arrangement by spitting and cursing.

Seeing this situation, Guo Jiangping began to lecture them seriously, "This is a decision made by the coaching staff and the club. When the game comes, the club owner will be there in person. If anyone disobeys management, the club will deal with them seriously, up to and including expulsion from the team. In tomorrow's game, not only will Shen Bin be the only core player on the field, but he will also be the captain on the field."

The team members who participated in the training with resentment completed their movements slowly, which invisibly prolonged their training time.

The internal team confrontation training, which was originally scheduled to last half an hour, was extended to one hour.

Guo Jiangping stood at the side of the field with his elbows folded and a blank face, looking at the listless players on the field. After a long while, he said helplessly: "Let's stop here today. ... Disband."