Chapter 1082: What to Fight For
The team's training was over, and Rong Guang did not follow the rest of his teammates back to the locker room, but continued to stay on the training ground. His teammates also left after greeting him, and they were all used to Glory staying to practice after normal training.
But when everyone was gone, Rongguang didn't start his training.
He stood on the training ground with scattered soccer balls at his feet, a goal in the distance, and crooked corner cones next to him.
He looked at this incomparably familiar scene in a daze, there was no diagonal in front of him, and it was blurry.
His mind was still echoing today's words of Sister Mo.
Do you still want to wear the jersey of the Chinese team now?
When he heard this, Rongguang was surprised at first, but he didn't expect Sister Mo to come to him specifically to ask him if he was willing to join the national team.
Next, he felt that this question was not difficult to answer.
The concept of "national team" is very vague in his life, he did not join the Chinese national team, but his current career is still very successful, he is one of the best players on the planet, he has won almost all the honors he can get at a young age, he no longer has to worry about money, not only him, but also his family, the living conditions in the village have also been greatly improved, after the road is built, the villagers have found their own way to get rich......
In short, both he and the people around him are very happy.
The glory days are also very simple, training in the club every day, playing one or two games a week, trying to win those games, and then training and playing...... And so on.
On every international break like this, he doesn't have to travel as long distances to play a game as his team-mates.
In City's dressing room, he heard his team-mates complain about their national team games on more than one occasion.
Especially the warm-up matches for the national team...... Flying halfway around the world just to play a few dozen minutes in a warm-up match against a team whose name I've never heard of, and to risk injury.
At this time, he only needs to train at the Carrington training base according to his previous fixed schedule.
When their team-mates return to club from the national team exhausted, they may be on the bench for the upcoming club competitions because they have played for the national team. But he never had such worries himself.
National team matches?
Haven't they all been the same with it or not?
But at that time, an incident from the past suddenly came to Glory's heart.
He remembered that he had worn the jersey of the Chinese team.
It's just that I participated in a youth level competition that time.
When he first wore that jersey to play, to be honest, Rongguang felt that it was no different from himself wearing the Sao Paulo jersey and the Werder Bremen jersey to play games, both of which were football games, and they could only play eleven people on one side.
The jersey didn't get heavier or anything.
There is no difference, he helped the Chinese national youth team to victory, not because of any sense of honor to win glory for the country, nor for patriotic feelings.
That's just because he wants to win every game, whether it's a national team game or a club game, it's the same in his eyes.
The difference may simply be that his teammates have changed from all kinds of foreigners to Chinese.
Until that day.
He can't remember the exact date anymore.
All he knew was that after the Chinese national youth team reached the final of the World Youth Championships, one day he finished training with the team and then returned to the hotel.
At that time, the hotel was very lively outside, gathering a large number of Chinese fans wearing Chinese team jerseys, some of them were local overseas Chinese and students in the Netherlands, and some came from China.
They waved the five-star red flag and sang "Sing the Motherland" or "National Anthem".
The scene was lively.
The boys of the national youth team were shocked by the scene in front of them.
Then the bus stopped steadily at the foot of the steps, and Rongguang was the first to step down from the bus as the captain.
But just as he walked to the hotel lobby, a figure suddenly rushed out of the crowd. He stumbled a little, and then rushed directly in front of the glory, and then knelt down!
And so he fell at the feet of glory!
He hugged Glory's legs and kept muttering "thank you".
Rongguang wanted to pull him up, but he didn't want to get up, and the whole person was almost lying on the ground, telling his joy that the Chinese team was able to reach the World Youth Championship finals, and telling his gratitude to Rongguang.
Rong Guang remembered very clearly, this man had some gray hair, obviously old, and some looked like his father.
Rongguang saw that he couldn't pull him up, so he simply knelt down with him, and just like that, he knelt face to face with the Chinese fan.
Thinking about it now, Rongguang didn't know how he knelt down so naturally at that time, and there was no psychological barrier at all.
Maybe it was the atmosphere and the excited words of the middle-aged fan that infected him.
Only now do I remember that when I knelt down for a fan, I don't know how much reaction the media would cause......
But Rongguang didn't regret doing this, and he didn't regret it until now.
After meeting that fan, when Rongguang put on the Chinese team jersey again, he suddenly had a different feeling.
He would always see in a trance in front of him a middle-aged man who was so excited that he knelt incoherently, as well as countless Chinese fans like him, they were the background in front of the hotel that day, they were wearing red and white Chinese team jerseys, different colors, different styles, only one thing in common, that is, there is a red five-star red flag on the left chest of the jersey, which is the Chinese national flag.
Unlike other fabrics, this is a very hard cloth.
After playing so many games in this year's affairs, the previous glory has never kept his eyes on his chest longer.
But before the final, he was in the dressing room, standing in front of the mirror, and his eyes finally fell on the flag on his chest, staring for a long time.
He thought of the fan who knelt down to him.
A man of his age who could almost be his own father knelt down to him, and Rong Guang suddenly felt the weight of this kneeling.
He didn't know anything about the past of Chinese football, and he didn't know anything about the present of Chinese football, but from that moment on, he had the reason and motivation to win in this jersey.
For the sake of the uncle, for the sake of countless Chinese fans like the uncle, he should and must win when he wears this jersey.
Later, this similar feeling was only felt when he returned from a defeat away from the Champions League with Bayern Munich and saw the Bayern Munich fans singing the team song to welcome the defeat back at Munich Airport. But the impact is still not as good as the middle-aged uncle's kneeling.
His family is in the countryside, he has only knelt down to his parents, grandparents since he was a child, and he knows the weight of a man's kneeling, let alone such a middle-aged man.
He fought for this kneeling.
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Glory was already sitting on the turf of the training ground, looking cross-legged at the sky.
The western sky was already yellowed by the setting sun, and the eastern sky was cloudy and seemed to be raining.
He suddenly remembered it.
He and his teammates were happy to beat Argentina in the final of the World Junior Championship and win the World Junior Championship, but he never got to see the uncle who knelt down to him again.
But Rongguang believes that he must have been cheering in the stands like countless Chinese fans like him at that time, right?
Since then, he has never had the opportunity to play for the Chinese team, and five years have passed, does the original uncle still appear in the stands every time he plays?
Wearing the jersey of the Chinese team, waving the Chinese flag and singing the national anthem......
In China, there are countless people like him.
It's not a problem to put on the national team jersey again, it's just a jersey, and the sponsors still look down on their Adidas.
The question is what I am fighting for, and if I don't know the answer to this question, the national team jersey is really just an ordinary jersey for me, and it has no weight at all.
Now that Glory remembers the past, he figured out who he was supposed to fight for.
It's not the leaders of the Football Association, the leaders of the General Administration of Sports, or even the glory for the country, but the Chinese fans like thousands and billions of uncles.
Thinking of this, Rongguang had already made up his mind in his heart.
So he got up, but instead of turning away, he started warming up again, warming up his body, which had gradually cooled down.
He's going to start training, as always.
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Returning home, Glory told Debora about his day, starting with his encounter with Molly outside the training base, talking about his absent appearance at the training center, and finally figuring it out on the empty training ground.
Finally, he asks Debora what she thinks of her decision.
"Do you know how many sponsors are eager for you to join the Chinese national team, Rong?" Debora laughed. "If you do, it's time for me to renegotiate with the sponsors about the price of your endorsement contract."
Fight for the fans and earn some more money...... It's a happy outcome.
Rongguang nodded: "Then it's decided." ”
After saying that, he took out his phone and called Molly in front of Debola.
Soon, the call was connected.
"Have you thought about it?"
"Well, I've thought about it, Sister Mo. I ......"
But just as Glory was about to say his decision, Molly suddenly interrupted him: "Wait, Glory. Don't you wonder why I came to you out of the blue and asked you that question? Aren't you curious about why this qiē happened? You must know that the Football Association used to have a very tough attitude towards you, but suddenly you ......"
Rongguang also interrupted Molly's words: "These are not important, Sister Mo. The point is that I've found a reason to do it. I am willing, I am willing to wear the jersey of the Chinese team and fight for the Chinese fans. ”
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