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Chapter 4 Insufficient Faith, Please Recharge

He was already used to all this, but now that football is so unpopular, Shi Hao is still a little depressed.

After thinking for a while, he stood up, picked up the ball, and when the football reached the highest point, he poked his head forward and clamped the football between his back and the back of his head.

Then he straightened up and the football fell down. With a tap of his heel, the football flew up lightly and over his head.

This time he pads the ball lightly with his thigh, and then catches it with his right shoulder. After the ball falls, his right foot flicks across the top of the football, and then goes back below to catch the ball.This black and white elf seemed to be alive, dancing beside him...

Out of excitement, he imitated the tricks played by the stars seen in the video, but the effect was quite good. Many children stared at him dumbfounded.

Shi Hao chuckled, didn't continue to perform, jogged with the ball all the way, and left the square.

After running for half an hour, he was already sweating profusely, panting like a cow, and his legs seemed to be filled with lead.To make matters worse, the left ankle bone also began to hurt like a pinprick.Half of the sweat on his face was due to the pain.He began to miss the time when he played football for the thousand and first time.What a blessing to have a healthy leg.

Fortunately, he had arrived at his destination at this time, so he could take a rest.This is a vocational school. Because it is directly under the Department of Education, it usually has a lot of funding, and its students are not bad. It is still rich, so the football field is well built and the size is relatively standard.Although it is not real turf, the artificial turf is also well maintained.

It was already summer vacation, so there was no one on the field.

Shi Hao checked some information about Inter Milan's China tour draft activities on the Internet.

This draft is open to all amateur players under the age of 18 in the country. Active players from all echelons registered in professional teams are not allowed to participate. Those whose clubs have been disbanded or have been removed from the team like Shi Hao can try their luck .

Seeing this, Shi Hao felt that during the draft process, he would definitely meet a few young players who had received professional training, and maybe he would also meet the active youth echelon of the professional team.After all, the review is conducted by people, and where there are people, there will be mistakes and fraud.

The sub-venues of the draft are located in 10 cities, and the Hewu City where Shi Hao is located happens to be well-known in the gang, so there is no need to travel thousands of miles.

The items in the draft, in addition to the goalkeeper, the four items of juggling, dribbling, long pass, and shooting are all necessary. The fifth item is to separate the offensive and defensive teams and play half-court offensive and defensive drills for a quarter of an hour.This half-court offensive and defensive drill allows free play, you can play tricks and show off your skills.

The event guests will score these five items, and select a total of 10 people (including 44 goalkeepers) with the most outstanding performance in each position in 4 cities, and then play a standard 11-a-side game in groups at the Magic City Stadium. All have 45 minutes of performance opportunities.

Finally, the scores of the five items and the scores in the game are weighted, and the best one is selected from the six positions of goalkeeper, central defender, full-back, midfielder, full-back/winger, and forward, and flies to Margenta, Italy. Inter Milan's youth training base camp in the town - Giacinto Facchetti Sports Center trains with the Inter Milan youth team.Those who perform well in training have the opportunity to get a professional contract.

However, a professional contract is just a dream, and Shi Hao, who has been in contact with professional football circles, knows this very well.

What professional football requires is body, strength, speed, practical skills, the ability to read and understand the game, and the ability to execute tactics... No matter how good a player is in the draft, he may be a stump in the actual game.

Therefore, although general professional clubs need to gather popularity and attract fans through various draft activities, they may not really pay attention to the players selected through the draft.

Just like a first-class street basketball player, he can play one-on-one with NBA players, but if he is really allowed to play in the NBA, it will be a disaster.

For Shi Hao, the goal of participating in this draft is not for that illusory professional contract, but to realize his promise to Liu Xiyu and the little dream left.

Even if there is no such draft, he will train hard, because he feels that he did well in the college entrance examination this time, and he should be able to meet his mother's requirements and be admitted to a key university.

From then on, he will make one last effort for his dream, strive to join the school team first after entering the university, participate in the amateur league, find opportunities to prove himself, and join the professional team again.

After resting for a while, Shi Hao started his special training.

On this field, the training conditions are naturally very simple, and there is no training equipment at all.In addition to juggling, practicing other sports requires equipment, such as the triangular cone for practicing dribbling, which can only be replaced by moving some bricks and placing them on the plastic track.

Another example is shooting and long passing. There is no small goal and no tires, so you can only find a place by yourself and bombard the wall.

During the practice, I have to run around to pick up the ball by myself, but I can't run fast because my ankle keeps hurting.Such training is naturally extremely inefficient.

But now it can only be like this.

One afternoon passed, when the sky was dark, Shi Hao was so tired that he didn't even want to move a finger.

But Shi Hao still gritted his teeth, ready to do the last set of shooting practice.

He retrieved the ball and slowly dribbled it toward the podium of the field.There is a closed iron door under the rostrum, which is just right for shooting.

After dribbling the ball to a distance of more than twenty meters from the iron gate, Shi Hao adjusted his posture, resisting the severe stabbing pain from his supporting left ankle, and shot the goal.

Watching the ball fly towards the iron gate like an arrow from the string, suddenly the red battery logo appeared in front of his eyes, and the electronic baritone also sounded in his ears: "The power of dreams is not enough, please recharge as soon as possible. Currently 86 %."

Shi Hao was so tired that his legs were weak, but he was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.

He raised his head and looked around for the source of the sound, but there was no one else around, and the red battery sign disappeared again.

Shi Hao sat on the ground and collected himself. Seeing that there were no other abnormalities, he got up to pick up the ball.

"What the hell... Could it be that the pressure of the college entrance examination is too great, and I have a schizophrenia?"

He continued to complete his shooting training. When the last ball was shot, the sound and the red battery sign appeared again, but the sound changed to "Dream power is insufficient, please recharge as soon as possible. Currently 87%."

What is it?Shi Hao shivered.Could it be something unclean?
Thinking of this, Shi Hao couldn't help shrinking his neck, picked up the ball and ran back home.

When I got home, my parents had already returned.Seeing Shi Hao was sweating profusely and still hugging the football, he immediately scolded him.

Especially his mother, Chen Shuxian, has hated football ever since her son was kicked and broke his leg. He never sees the word "football" in his daily life. Anyone who dares to mention football-related topics in front of her should be prepared to be scolded like a dog. Mentally prepare for showering.

In the past two years, Shi Hao had often quarreled with his mother because of this matter.

But today he is not in the mood to argue, and he still feels chilly in his heart.But throughout the rest of the night, the damn sentence "Dream power is not enough" did not appear again, and Shi Hao gradually relaxed, thinking that it was just an illusion caused by his fatigue.

(End of this chapter)