At the door of the players' lounge, Li Zhao met an unexpected person.

"Brother Wu, why are you here?" Li Zhao asked.

"You won't forget our agreement, right? I bought a plane ticket specially to come here. I got here last night. I originally wanted to go and visit you during the day today, but I didn't meet you. Now you are playing a game.

I came over as soon as I finished, for fear that I would be late and not catch anyone." Senior Brother Wu said.

The person who came was none other than Wu Lei, and the agreement he mentioned was exactly what the two of them mentioned during the Asian Youth Championship last year. Later, Li Zhao forgot about it, but to his surprise, others still remembered it and implemented it. However,

The current situation makes Li Zhao a little ashamed.

"I'm sorry, I didn't play well in this game and let you down." Li Zhao said with shame.

"What can I say? In my opinion, you played very well in this game. You played very passionately and very hard. I have rarely seen such a passionate and motivated team in other teams in our country.

However, I should be the one to feel ashamed, but I should learn from you. Besides, the results of football matches are inherently unpredictable. How can we just focus on winning or losing? If it were the people from the national team playing

, maybe it will only get worse." Wu Lei comforted.

"Brother, you're not just saying this to comfort me, right?" Li Zhao said.

"What you want to say is part of it. But you must not become depressed just because of a game, which will make me look down on you. There is no football game where you can't lose, so you can't have the mentality that you can't afford to lose.

If you can't accept this little setback, how can we go forward in the future?" Wu Lei said, patting Li Zhao's shoulder again and saying: "Okay, I won't delay you. But don't you have one last game?

I will come again, and what I hope to see is a team full of fighting spirit."

"Okay!" Li Zhao said. After hearing what Wu Lei said just now, the melancholy in his heart was diluted a lot.

No matter what, the outcome of this game has become a foregone conclusion. When Li Zhao left the locker room with still heavy steps, the phone in his pocket rang, and it was a message from Li Ruolan.

"Xiao Zhao, I know you must feel very uncomfortable at this moment. In fact, I am the same as you. But this is nothing. There will always be various setbacks in life. Since you can't change it, why not look forward. Instead of

Instead of blaming yourself and repenting, it is better to think of ways to win the next game. After all, there is still a long way to go. You should not stop for this, but should stride forward. If you are still feeling depressed, maybe change

It's not a bad idea to relax a bit, welcome to my hot spring club." This was Li Ruolan's message.

"Yes, no matter what, we must at least play the last game well first." Li Zhao said silently in his heart.

Then he wrote back: "Thank you, will you mind if I bring my companions over?"

"We are always waiting for you!" Li Ruolan replied.

The next day, the news of Team C's defeat in this battle quickly spread in major news media, and major newspapers followed suit.

Some of these media expressed regret for their game results, some encouraged them, but at the same time, some questioned them. One of the most scathing reports came from Huaming Sports Daily, titled "The national football team failed in the match against Nigeria, and it hurts."

Who is responsible for missing the chance to win the championship?"

Although the article did not explicitly state who was responsible for this, many aspects pointed to Li Zhao, the captain of the National Youth Team. In particular, it mentioned that Li Zhao was late for the game. Some people also saw this, so they wanted to hide it.

Impossible, so there were all kinds of speculations. The article also further revealed the so-called news that he was at odds with head coach Su Maozhen. In the article, he even described how he was usually arrogant and unreasonable, and how he had many privileges.

, I just wanted to describe Li Zhao as a cancer of the team, and finally posted a picture of Li Zhao missing a penalty kick, wondering whether he was involved in some illegal transactions, etc.

"Who wrote this? It's too outrageous. You can just write it without any basis. Isn't this smearing us? The professionalism of some media people is really a mess now. There is really no lower limit to gain popularity.

"The next morning, when Su Maozhen saw this report, he said angrily.

"Yeah, even if it doesn't matter, he can talk nonsense seriously, and what he says is just like the truth. Why don't you write novels? Writing news is such an insult to talent." The assistant coach was also very worried and angry.

"Yeah, speaking of it, Xiaozhao is quite pitiful. He has been burdened with so much and yet he still has to be criticized," Su Maozhen said.

"Hey, do you think this kid has offended someone? Those media have no moral integrity and dare to say anything." The assistant coach said.

"It shouldn't be the case. He doesn't deal with the media much, and he's not the kind of person who likes to make trouble!" Su Maozhen said.

"It's hard to say, you don't cause trouble, but sometimes trouble will come to your door," the assistant coach said.

Not only the coaching staff knew about this news, but the players also knew about it. After all, the Internet is so developed now, and it is very convenient to get the latest news information. At this time, Li Zhao and several of his teammates were sitting around

Discussing this matter in the hotel's Internet cafe.

"Brother Zhao, do you think it's irritating or not? Such a report can be published legitimately. Are these people in charge blind? What good does it do them to smear a person like this?" Zhang Yuning was the first to notice him.

the opinion of.

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe this will be of great benefit to them, at least their sales will increase." Hu Jinghang said.

"Then why are you only targeting Brother Zhao and not mentioning not seeing me? Speaking of losing, it also has something to do with me!" Zhang Yuning said again.

"Because you don't have enough weight, do you think it has more influence if they report on you or Brother Zhao?" Hu Jinghang said.

Zhang Yuning was about to refute, but was stopped by Wang Ziyi: "Okay, you all stop and let's see what Brother Zhao said."

"Brother Zhao, what do you think?" Zhang Yuning hurriedly came over and asked, while several others also looked at Li Zhao anxiously.

Looking at everyone's eager eyes, Li Zhao sighed slightly, and then said: "I always feel that this matter is not that simple. It seems to be the result of certain people behind the scenes."

"Brother Zhao, those people you are talking about should be members of the Guo family. They are the only ones who would deliberately do such a thing." Wang Ziyi said. As for the relationship between Li Zhao and Guo Bin, although Li Zhao did not let him get involved,

, but I also know it very clearly.

"The Guo family alone can indeed do these things, but they cannot do it so openly. I suspect that the Xiao family, which is more powerful than them, took action. This time they happened to catch Brother Zhao making a mistake, so they planned to add insult to injury.

." At this time, the girl's voice came from outside the door. Everyone looked around, only to find that Dolsa was already standing at the door.

"Brother Zhao, what are your plans now? At least come forward to clarify." Zhang Yuning said.

"This may not be useful, and it may only make the situation darker and darker, so it is better to wait and see what happens, play the last game well, and use practical actions to stop their mouths," Li Zhao said.

"We have lost the qualification to compete for the championship. How meaningful is it to compete for the third and fourth positions?" Hu Jinghang said.

"If I said this yesterday, maybe I really thought it. But now I have figured it out, we can't just sink. The third place is the third place, and we are still qualified to play on the podium. And from a positive perspective

On the one hand, we should also fight the final battle well, at least in this way I will go back with a victory. Although the second place is in a higher level than the third place, I feel that the third place is not necessarily inferior to the third place.

Two names." Li Zhaodao.

"Brother Zhao, you have adjusted your mentality quite quickly. I was originally thinking of how to comfort you, but now it seems that it is no longer necessary." Doleza said.

"Now I have a new idea." Li Zhao suddenly said.

"What do you think?" everyone asked in unison.

"I want to take everyone to the hot spring resort here to relax," Li Zhao said.

"Damn, Brother Zhao, your span is too big!" Zhang Yuning said in surprise.

"I was originally thinking about how to tell the coach. Since no one is in the mood, let's forget it." Li Zhao said.
Chapter completed!