Ball, not kicking like that

Jewell 2022-04-20 09:01:55

Last night, I got together with my old friends from junior high school and talked about the 2006 World Cup in Germany. At that time, it was the second year of junior high school, and there were few people in the class to play football, but the heat wave of the World Cup made the girls' hearts of cherishing spring upside down. Although they don't know how to play football, it doesn't prevent them from being crazy about the handsome guys on the court, so most of the girls in the class come to the court to let the boys teach them how to play football. Thinking of my impatient self at that time, it is no wonder that I can only live and die with my right hand.

I actually liked football before that. When I was in elementary school, a cartoon called "Football Kid" made me fall in love with football, and I began to watch the Chinese Super League, which was still called Jia A at that time, with adults. Only at that time, I could only run in the sunset with a ball after dinner.

In the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, I was looking forward to the progress of the Chinese team. Zhou Xingchi's movie "Shaolin Soccer" also appeared at the right time, which gave me a kind of imagination that the Chinese team could conquer all obstacles and win the Hercules Cup.

"It's all my people on the court, how do you fight with me?" This is the clamor of Xie Xian's strong male in the final in "Shaolin Football", and it was this sentence that pulled me out of my naive obscenity , tore apart my vision completely. The weak Chinese team lost all three games, did not score a single goal, and only included two impartial goalposts, which ended the journey in an extremely unbearable way. The Italian team also suffered the blackest whistle in the history of the World Cup, and was eliminated by the South Korean team with hatred. Later, I revisited "Shaolin Soccer", although many scenes still made me happy, but this sentence made me more and more unable to let go. The World Cup stadium has never belonged to the Chinese team. It is full of people who are in awe of football. How can you fight against them? And Italy does not belong to the stadium of the World Cup in Korea and Japan, because the stadium is full of unscrupulous people, how to fight them? This line became all my memory of the 2002 World Cup.

In the movie, the six brothers used to have stunts, but now they can only be down in the rivers and lakes. "Why is my father not Li Ka-shing, why am I so handsome, but my hair is going to fall? You two are so ugly, but you don't lose your hair?" Yes, why did the German team never win the cup? Why did Zidane use a headbutt to call the curtain? Why did Beckham hide his face and cry on the bench? Why am I less and less interested in football? How can there be so many reasons in this world, it is an eternal truth that heroes are late, and newcomers are born in large numbers, but we don’t want to admit that we are growing old together with those golden generation.

"If you don't have a dream in life, what's the difference with a salted fish?" When I saw it in 2002, I only knew how to smirk at the screen. Now I see this sentence again, but I can't smile. People will change, no matter how decisive you were at the time, time will smooth out everything about you. I have met good brothers because of football, and because of football I have learned the spirit of fighting and not giving up. Football has brought me so many memorable touches, and the wonderful games will also touch my heart. But when I grew up to the age of 2, everything changed, and I actually thought that playing football was a very boring thing. Why do you feel boring? Maybe I'm tired of it, or maybe I don't really like football that much, it's all just a taste. My hobby of football is like licking a lollipop. I thought it tasted good at first, so I kept licking and licking. But when I'm done licking it, I just say, oh, it's over, and then I throw away the rest of the stick without any regrets.

Graduation is approaching, and everyone doesn't know where to go. Some people want to try to take the civil service exam, "it's hard to find a job now" is their voice; some people are still throwing their resumes aimlessly, "I don't know what I'm suitable for" is their reason. And I am now in a company drawing drawings, writing reports, everything is stable and step by step, but I don't like it. It's another World Cup, but this time we can gather a few buddies to indulge together, not to talk about the current situation, but to talk about pure football? If life is likened to a ball game, am I just a competent goalkeeper, who will block water and cover up, but never think of taking the initiative?

I wish someone would pat me on the shoulder and say, "The ball isn't kicked like that".

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Shaolin Soccer quotes

  • Sing: [singing] Using Tai Chi Kung Fu to make steamed buns - what a brilliant notion. Fill the pot from heaven with sweet buns; fantastic when done. You're a Kung Fu master, I can see, and your homemade treats look so tasty.

  • Sing: [after his team gets brutally beaten by Team Gangster] Why don't you stop them? They're being unlawful!

    Golden Leg Fung: I'm the referee! I won't stop them!

    Sing: What do you mean by that? You basically want us to die!

    Golden Leg Fung: [blows his whistle] You! Out of the game!

    Sing: Have you gone nuts?

    Golden Leg Fung: This is a test! If none of you can pass it, then you can't play in the soccer league!

    Sing: Well, this is a soccer game! This isn't a war!

    Golden Leg Fung: The final soccer game is a war.