After the away game with Royal Cateron, Hulay did not return to Leeds, England with the team, but went directly to Barcelona to meet Zhang Qinghuan, then took a flight from Barcelona to Dubai, and finally arrived at Jincheng.

There, they will gather with their national teammates to prepare for the next two China Cup matches.

The China Cup is held on the international match day, so it does not need to delay club matches like the Asian Cup. Clubs must also release people unconditionally, which will not affect the national team players to come back to participate in the game.

In fact, the original idea of ​​the China Cup is to take place during the Spring Festival every year, which is regarded as a New Year gift for Chinese fans.

However, once this idea was put forward, it was rejected at the internal meeting.

The reason for the negative is not because of the fear that the Chinese team will add to the obstacles to the national fans during the Chinese New Year. After all, today's Chinese team is still unbeaten in the World Cup no matter how it is said, and will not be defeated in a game with its opponents.

But during the Spring Festival...is there a national team match day?

No.

What is the national team game?

Don’t think about the trouble of recalling the overseas players. At that time, the Asian Cup hadn’t been played, and everyone hadn’t realized how serious the consequences of having them run back on the non-national team match day. For the opponents of the Chinese team, it is not a national team match day, and there is no way to recall players who played in the European League. If you can't send the strongest lineup, you can only use the second team or even the third team to fool the China Cup.

This is a fatal blow to an emerging event-it is equivalent to being labeled "unprofessional" and "influenced" since the first edition.

What will happen to the next game?

Therefore, competitions must not be organized during the Spring Festival.

Must and can only use the national team game day to hold.

As a result, the two national team game days at the end of March were finalized for the China Cup.

The four teams are divided into two groups. The semi-finals will be played first. The winners will play the finals on the second day of the national team match. The semi-final losers will compete for three or four places.

And along with Hu Lai, besides Zhang Qinghuan, there was another person.

That is his teammate at the club, Dominique Laski.

The Polish striker is naturally also selected for the Polish national team, he will go with the team this time in the China Cup.

It can be seen that the Polish national team still attaches great importance to this event, and the main players that can be called have been called back.

Laski has a mediocre performance in the first half of the season, but he is also a frequent visitor to the Polish national team. After all, he is also the strongest in Poland at this age.

With his overall improvement in the second half of the season, it is impossible for the national team to lose him.

In fact, the Polish national team was planning to let the international players from all over Europe return to the country to gather, and then take a plane to Jincheng, China.

But Laski applied to the national team and followed Hu Lai together, so that he can save a day on the road and make it easier for him to rest and jet lag.

The national team didn't refuse, and they simply agreed.

Hu Lai naturally has no objection, his teammates go with him, how could he refuse? Besides, Laski is quite likable. If Charlie Potter had that big mouth, he might have found excuses to refuse...

So just like that, Hulai took Laski and Zhang Qinghuan to meet at the Barcelona airport.

Seeing Laski standing next to him, Zhang Qinghuan did not speak, but first bowed his head and asked Hu Lai on WeChat: "Does he understand Chinese?"

Hu Lai glanced at the phone and replied directly in Mandarin: "Don't worry, Brother Huan, he can't speak Chinese."

"Oh, that's good..." Then Zhang Qinghuan reached out to Lasky and said in English: "Hello, nice to meet you."

What surprised Zhang Qinghuan was that Lasky was a little...excited. He grabbed Zhang Qinghuan's hand with both hands and shook his hands vigorously and said: "Hello, hello, I finally saw the legendary ‘HuanBro’" (Note 1)

Zhang Qinghuan listened to this slightly weird appellation and turned to look at Hu Lai.

Hu Lai hurriedly explained: "The meaning of'Brother Huan', Brother Huan."

"I understand. I'm just wondering why he calls me that?" Zhang Qinghuan frowned and asked.

At this moment, before Hu Lai had time to answer, Lasky next to Zhang Qinghuan gave a thumbs up and praised: "BroHuan, NewBee!"

Zhang Qinghuan was full of black question marks: "Hu Lai, don't you say that he can't speak Chinese?"

Hu Lai was also a little embarrassed, and quickly explained: "He will say this...oh, two sentences, one awesome sentence, one **** me."

Zhang Qinghuan's mouth twitched: "What is bad for your kid, teach this!"

Over there, Lasky grinned and gave Zhang Qinghuan a thumbs up with a smile, while repeating words like "niubi".

"Why does he always say that I am awesome?" Zhang Qinghuan is very puzzled. Although he has already played the main force in Sarria, Sarria is not even qualified for the European war, and his influence is limited to La Liga. . It stands to reason that it is impossible for him to have a fan in the distant Leeds city, right?

"Uh, this..."

Seeing Hu Lai want to speak, Zhang Qinghuan simply bypassed him, walked to Laski, and chatted with him in English: "Hello, I hear you speak Chinese?"

Lasky didn’t expect Zhang Qinghuan to speak English, so he nodded happily, a bit like a husky: "Brother Huan, do you speak English? That’s great! Actually, I don’t speak Chinese, so I can speak these two sentences. 'I'm **** awesome', it's all nonsense..."

Zhang Qinghuan turned his head and glanced at Hu Lai, and when he saw that he was moving outside, he asked, "Why are you going?"

"Go to the toilet." Hu Lai didn't look back.

Zhang Qinghuan ignored it, and continued to chat with Laski: "Do you know what'niubi' means?"

Lasky nodded: "I know, nonsense, it means very powerful."

Zhang Qinghuan also nodded when he heard the words. Hu Lai didn't explain it. He thought that Hu Lai was using curse words to deceive his teammates into saying hello to low-level routines.

Now that Laski knows what Niubi means, Zhang Qinghuan is even more strange: "Then why do you say I am amazing? I remember this is the first time we met?"

Lasky quickly explained: "Oh, it's like this. I heard our team's Charlie, it was Charlie Potter who talked about you..."

"Speaking of me? Charlie Potter?" Zhang Qinghuan was already full of question marks.

Where and where are all this!

He has heard of Charlie Porter. Hu Lai’s teammates seem to have a good relationship with Hu Lai. But what does he have to do with me? Why did he talk about me?

Laski continued to answer: "Charlie said that he also listened to what Hu said. He said that when he was playing in China, one of his teammates was very good. He changed his girlfriend a day. He was eating out and witnessed three women for Fight for who can have **** with his teammates at night..."

The more Zhang Qinghuan listens, the more it becomes wrong, how does it feel that there is a subtle sense of sight...

At this moment, Lasky stared at him and said a little excitedly: "And Huan brother, that teammate...is you! You are the legend!"

Zhang Qinghuan was stunned for a few seconds, then looked back in the direction of the toilet:

"Hu Lai, are you special!"

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"You are not without virtue, Hu Lai!"

Flying in the cabin of the plane at an altitude of 10,000 meters, Zhang Qinghuan berated Hu Lai angrily.

"It's wrong, Brother Huan. Isn't it normal for young people to get together and brag about it?" Hu Lai said pitifully.

"Then why are you bragging about yourself! What are you bragging about me for?!"

"That won't work." Hu Lai shook his head and said firmly, "Being pragmatic, I have never done this kind of thing, how can I do such a shameless act of putting gold on my face?"

Zhang Qinghuan looked at his face for a few seconds: "You don't need to stick to your own face, it's stinking and shameless enough."

"Hey, how can you spit, Brother Huan? What I told you was the truth. That time, Lao Wang and I had a meal at Senwei Road, and we did see it..."

"That's not changing a woman in one day! You said me like a stallion!"

"Is the stallion bad? Besides, I'm a bit exaggerated at best, that is, I said one becomes a hundred...but I haven't really done it. I want to take your business to me. That is the relationship between zero and one. It is completely impossible to confuse whether there is or not. This is a matter of principle. Brother Huan, be honest."

Hu Lai said it very seriously.

Zhang Qinghuan couldn't laugh or cry. Faced with Hu Lai's sophistry, he didn't know what to say. In the end, he could only sacrifice his words again: "Hu Lai, are you special..."

Seeing that Hu Lai and Zhang Qinghuan were having a good conversation, Laski next to him became interested and asked Hu Lai sitting in the middle: "Hu, what are you talking about? Can you tell me?"

"Ah, it's nothing, I just looked forward to the'China Cup'. It's a pity that we are not separated." Hu Lai found a reason casually.

The matchup of the first China Cup has come out. The opponent of the Chinese team in the semi-finals is not Poland, but South Africa.

Poland's opponent is Mexico.

"It's okay, Hu. As long as you beat South Africa and we also beat Mexico, won't we meet in the final?" Laski said confidently.

Hu Lai smiled: "Mexico is the top 16 of the World Cup!"

Laski thought for a while, too.

Mexico is the top 16 of the World Cup, while Poland did not qualify in the group stage at the last World Cup, just like the Chinese team.

Both teams accumulated three points in the group stage, but the Chinese team got the three points through three draws. Poland actually won a World Cup-they defeated Australia from Asia by a score of 2:1 in the final group stage where they were determined to be eliminated ~lightnovelpub.net.

In terms of strength, Mexico is definitely better than Poland and better than the Chinese team.

So it is no easy task to defeat Mexico.

"Why don't we lose to Mexico and you lose to South Africa?" Laski suggested after some consideration.

Hu Lai pushed Lasky: "Don't curse us!"

Laski laughed—he was obviously joking just now.

"No matter what, I will try to help the team beat Mexico, and then join you in the final, Hu." After laughing, Laski looked at Hu Lai seriously.

"Okay, see you in the final!"

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Note 1: Bro is the colloquial abbreviation of Brother, meaning brother, buddy, and buddy.