Reborn on Top of Football

In the summer of 1997 in Liaoyang, the citizens of Liaoyang were sad and happy. On the one hand, most of the enterprises in Liaoyang were okay except Liaohua directly under the central government and Qingyang, a military industrial enterprise. Other large and medium-sized enterprises were basically half Downtime. Even if the city didn't say it, those who were a little concerned about current affairs felt that the dark clouds were overwhelming, making people breathless. On the other hand, the country's resumption of Hong Kong has been humiliated for hundreds of years, and it is encouraging.

By the end of June, a news shocked the citizens of Liaoyang. The Liaoyang stupid food, which has been remembered with the image of a big head and a lack of eyes, has again produced moths: it sponsors the municipal high school football league for ten days and is free of charge at the city stadium. This gives great comfort to the restless citizens. According to the laws of developed countries in Europe and the United States, as long as the economic situation is not good, movies and tickets are sold.

Therefore, at the opening of the first day, the Liaoyang City Stadium full of 30,000 people turned out to be full. A rough estimate is close to 20,000. This is not the kind of unit allocation and must be in place at the City Games. This low-level game is entirely voluntary. Although there are some player parents, school teachers, etc., but how many are there? The enthusiasm of ordinary citizens was completely hooked.

The leaders of the Municipal Education Bureau and the Sports Bureau did not expect to have so many viewers. At best, this game was a 15-second "good news" advertisement on Liaoyang TV station. The more the audience, the greater the impact. Two The unit's leadership couldn't hide his smile. The process of opening speeches, announcing the start of the cup, player representatives and referees sworn a fair game. At 6 pm on July 11, 1997, the match between the City One College Team and the Lighthouse Two High School Team officially began.

A high school team has a geographical advantage, which is the key high school in the city anyway, as a party of the opening match. Beacon 2 High School is a lottery decision, and City 1 High School and City Vocational 3 High School are in a group. The strength of a high school is not good, but with the sign of the key high school, it has mixed with the seed team. Of course, the selection of this game is also because the strength of the second high of the lighthouse is a little worse than the first high of the city. It is not so ugly to lose a high leg in the first game of a high school. There are also leaders from the city watching the game.

So at the beginning of the match, the two evenly matched teams started a fierce offensive and defensive battle, and the citizens and fans at the scene applauded. For many years, the city has never held such a large-scale, fairly regular high school football league. Liaoyang is a small city with a population of just over one million, which is incomparable with Shenyang, the provincial capital of 8 million, and Dalian, which has a population of 5 million. Liaoyang fans take buses every time Liaoning team and Dalian team match, and their sadness is beyond words. So this time I watched the game at the door of my house.

For the vast majority of audiences, there is no stance. Even if the game is held in Liaoyang City, there is no preference for the members of the Beacon 2 High School. Whoever plays beautifully will face whoever wins.

When the Liaoyang Stadium was first built, it was a comprehensive medium-sized stadium, so the stands are not the east-west orientation of the standard football stadium, but the north-south orientation. When the two teams played fiercely and the public fans cheered, a thin figure appeared in the full-fledged fan team in the South Stand. This person is the iron waist of the Chinese football team that later became famous-Li Tie.

In 1997, Li Tie was still in the Jianlibao team of Zhu Guanghu in Brazil, but after participating in an international game, he was optimistic for the current national team coach Qi Wusheng, and was selected in the 1998 World Cup Asian qualifier, which is the top ten China. In the team, it became the main back of the team, and at this time Li Tie was only twenty years old. In July, the national team completed a period of training and vacation, Li Tie did not return to Brazil, waiting to start the top ten games in September. So I went to Liaoyang's relatives' house to relax. Seeing the news of the Liaoyang High School Football Cup on TV, thinking that it's okay anyway, let's take a look at the level of this group of peers.

In the first half, the two teams confronted fiercely, the players were very excited, the offensive and defensive rhythm changed very fast, and of course there were many mistakes. These players are playing for the first time in front of so many spectators. Excitement is inevitable, but the lack of experience in the competition, especially the Liaoyang Stadium is a small stadium, the audience seat is about ten meters away from the edge of the stadium, for these young players The pressure is also great.

The referee on duty is very strict. He is the teacher of the city sports school. Of course, in front of so many citizens and leaders, he must strictly enforce the law. The teacher who has many years of sports school career knows very well that the temper of practicing sports is generally not good. If fouls on the field cannot be controlled, football will become Sanda and heads-ups will become group fights. Fortunately, this group of players patronized and excited, not thinking about fouls or anything. In the first few years of the professional league, the Chinese football field is relatively clean.

In the first half, Li Tie looked a bit boring. Although his faces were smiling, the two teams played a 2: 2 in the first half anyway. The goal alone was very exciting, but it was difficult to make Li Tie look ahead. bright.

Ten minutes of intermission, a high school team took the lead in substitutions and changed two at a time. The first one to play was a black and thin big man, which was about the same size as Li Tie. It should be a forward.

That ’s it, this second ... Is this a caddie? How did this get on the court? Hold this head, up to 1 meter 4. Li Tie looked left and right subconsciously, and found that the fans next to him were also blank. Little players have not seen the game, but it is a primary school game. It's really surprising that there was such a big thing in the high school competition. And it looks like he played in the frontcourt. Did he give up his life in high school or gave up, or is this little guy's family very good?

Soon the game started, one minute into the second half and a high school goal. The right back passes to the front waist, the front waist points the ball to the left forward, the left forward is the little man, did not wait for the defender to come up, took a step horizontally, suddenly kicked a straight pass, passed from between the two central back Before the penalty area, when the goalkeeper and defensive player of the second high of the lighthouse did not respond, a dark shadow happened to be in place, and the ball was a volley against the oncoming ball. The only action the goalkeeper made was to turn his head and see the football jumping in the net.

"Hello!", The stadium was full of fans howling.

Li Tie shot with both hands: "Pretty!"

This black and thin stunned it, but suddenly appeared in the appropriate position, one shot shot clean, the key is that the sense of smell in front of the door is too sensitive.

This black and thin is Ma Dong, a little hurt during training before the game, so coach Zhang arranged for him to appear in the second half. Ma Dong, who is highly skilled in himself, relies on his abundant physical strength and high concentration of attention to attack the wave as soon as the second half opens, successfully breaking the goal.

However, this is not Ma Dong's only performance. In the next game, cheers continued to ring on the field. In the 5th minute, the left forward made a bottom pass, and the ball was pushed in front of the goal. The football went straight to the far point. In the 18th minute, after a quick transition in the frontcourt, the goal was shot by a midfielder from the midfield. The goalkeeper hit the ball with two fists to the right, and the left forward received the pass. Ma Dong ghostly grabbed the position and stopped the ball on his chest. With a left foot flick, he turned around and turned his right foot to make a volley shot. The goalkeeper determined that the direction was wrong, and the score turned to 2: 5. In the thirty-fifth minute, the backcourt passed to the right-back, the right-back passed back to the midfield, the midfield transitioned to the left-back, the left-back suddenly kicked, and passed to a goal and a half-high ball in front of the goal. Ma Dong, who is next to the second guard of the lighthouse, has already flew up at this time, leaping to the top, 6: 2! This is not over yet. One minute before the end of the game, the left forward dribbled in the frontcourt and pulled out a shot. The defender raised his foot to block it. Unexpectedly, it was a fake move. To make up the position, unexpectedly the left forward split the ball horizontally, and Ma Dong formed a single shot to the goalkeeper. Ma Dong volleyed the ball. The goalkeeper unconsciously extended his leg. The football touched the goalkeeper's leg and changed direction. The guard was caught off guard and watched the football sink into the goal again.

The fans at the scene were crazy, and the loud cheering wave was higher than the wave! Is this a high school football match? Is this my illusion? This is a competition with regular coaches and strict law enforcement. This is a competition with bonuses, not a show or a farewell match. Seven goals in a game, five goals for one person, Nima, is this China's Ronaldo?

Li Tie hadn't been able to sit still anymore, his hands became red, and his throat shouted. The level of excitement in this game, the atmosphere of this scene, is this catching up with A? The fans and citizens around have long been crazy, and at the VIP seats where they can see, the leaders have long stood up, shouting, clapping, and jumping, regardless of the image. No one discriminated against the lighthouse second high, they all applauded the first high school, specifically the black and skinny black man who was yelled out by the on-site commentator and applauded Ma Dong.

With the final whistle, Ma Dongmeng rushed to Wang Ai, hugged Wang Ai, and then ... highly raised, resting on his own shoulder, Wang Ai really became a caddy at this moment. , While crazy MMP in his heart, while holding Ma Dong's hair, this guy is crazy today.

This is the most dazzling day in Ma Dong's 18-year career. More than 20,000 fans cheered and cheered for him! This feeling is so wonderful!

However, Li Tie did not see this scene. There were too many fans when he left, so Li Tie quietly left the game before the end. Riding the bus all the way back to the relatives' home, Li Tie hadn't eased from the excitement, simply picked up the phone, and the middle of the meeting, the voice of a middle-aged person said: "Hey, who?"

"Dad, it's me, Li Tie."