Dai Li slept in, got up, and waited until lunch time before leaving the dormitory and heading straight to the cafeteria.
After the afternoon training started, Lin Feixiang did not come. Li Dai had to sit aside and play with his mobile phone alone.
Out of boredom, Li Dai used his mobile phone to search for the latest news about Lin Feixiang.
There are no highlights in the news content. It is just that Lin Feixiang attended a certain event, Lin Feixiang advertised for a certain brand, etc. Occasionally, there are some Lin Feixiang gossip news. After Li Dai clicks in, it is either an advertising app or a 404 page cannot be found. It has obviously been deleted. Reports on training only say that Lin Feixiang has recovered from his injury and is working hard to recover.
"Are you training hard to get back into shape?" Li Dai smiled disdainfully. With Lin Feixiang's amount of training, even amateur players can't reach it, and recovery is out of the question.
"The national team doesn't care about Lin Feixiang's training attitude. He doesn't even send a training coach and lets Lin Feixiang do whatever he wants. Could it be said that Lin Feixiang has been abandoned by the national team? But why is Lin Feixiang mentioned in the recent news? Fei Xiang is training hard, isn’t this inconsistent?”
The more Dai Li thought about it, the more he couldn't figure it out. This feeling was like a lump in his throat, which made Dai Li want to find out.
After four years of waiting until the afternoon, Lin Feixiang had not yet appeared. Li Dai knew that he would not come today.
Li Dai glanced around and saw coach Ding Jihai taking a rest. Li Dai hesitated for a moment and walked over.
"Hello, Coach Ding, my name is Li Dai." Li Dai introduced himself first.
Ding Jihai raised his head and glanced at Dai Li: "You are the newly seconded coach, the one who follows Lin Feixiang. Do you have anything to do with me?"
"Coach Ding, you see, other athletes have training coaches, but Lin Feixiang doesn't..."
Li Dai had just finished speaking, but was interrupted by Ding Jihai.
"Did Lin Feixiang ask you to come to me?" Ding Jihai asked.
"No, I came here on my own. I feel a little strange..." Li Dai said.
"You are seconded here. Don't take care of things that shouldn't be yours. Don't ask for trouble." Ding Jihai's tone became stern, and he then asked: "Where is Lin Feixiang? I haven't seen him all day today. .”
"Brother Lin said that there is an advertising endorsement event that he wants to participate in." Dai Li answered truthfully.
"You have to spend a whole day for an advertising endorsement? Humph! You have fallen into despair and are hopeless!" Ding Jihai stood up and ignored Dai Li.
"Succumbing to self-destruction? It sounds like coach Ding Jihai is very dissatisfied with Lin Feixiang." Dai Li frowned again. He felt that things seemed to be much more complicated than he imagined.
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Dinner at the Beikou Training Center has always been sumptuous. This sumptuousness does not mean that the table is full of big fish, meat, abalone, ginseng, fins and tripe, but that every dish is exquisitely prepared and the taste is impeccable.
Dinner should not be too full, nor should it be too greasy, nor should it consume too many calories. It should be elegant and refreshing, and keep the original flavor of the ingredients as much as possible, which has become the main theme of dinner.
A portion of shrimps stir-fried with asparagus, thickened and reduced in juice, gave the dish a crystal-colored light. Adding half a portion of light white fungus soup immediately whetted Dai Li's appetite.
"I can't say that the chefs of the national team are much better than the chefs of the provincial team. That Lao Cai in our cafeteria only cooked a few tricks over and over again. He only got tired of eating after ten days and a half. Come on, look at this national team restaurant, there won’t be anything the same in two weeks!” Dai Li thought silently in his heart.
At this time, a figure suddenly appeared in front of Dai Li, pointed to the position opposite Dai Li, and asked: "Is there no one here?"
"No, sit down wherever you want." Dai Li said, raising his head and recognizing the other person immediately.
"Are you Xie Haitao?" Li Dai introduced himself: "Hello, my name is Li Dai. I have just been seconded."
Xie Haitao is also an athlete in the men's 110-meter hurdles, but he is a young athlete and can be regarded as a potential newcomer in the national team. Xie Haitao has only been a member of the national team for a little over two years. He usually only participates in some important domestic events and has not had the opportunity to step onto the world stage.
"I know you were seconded. Brother Lin asked you to come there personally. Have you known Brother Lin before?" Xie Haitao asked.
"We met once before." Li Dai didn't say much, nor did he reveal Yu Feifei's name.
Xie Haitao did not go into details. Coaches and athletes are in the same industry. It is normal for a coach to know several well-known athletes.
"I see that you went to see coach Ding Jihai today. Is it about Brother Lin?" Xie Haitao asked next.
Dai Li didn't hide anything: "I saw that everyone else had a training coach, but Lin Feixiang didn't, so I went to ask, but Coach Ding didn't seem to like me mentioning Lin Feixiang."
"Don't blame Coach Ding. He also hates that iron cannot be made into steel. In fact, Coach Ding is the most distressed when Brother Lin is like this. Because when Brother Lin was there, Coach Ding would go out drinking alone every three days. You know Coach Ding used to be a teetotaler," Xie Haitao said.
"There must be some hidden secret in this, right?" Dai Li asked.
Xie Haitao sighed, lowered his voice, and then said: "You should know about Brother Lin's injury. He stopped at the first hurdle after starting and was carried off the field."
"I know, I watched the live broadcast of that game." Li Dai said. In his mind, that seemed to be the last time Lin Feixiang appeared on the court, and then came the news that he had been recuperating from an injury.
"Brother Lin actually played with an injury that time, and the result was injury on top of injury. Later, Brother Lin had Achilles tendon repair surgery." Xie Haitao continued.
"I have also read news reports that the operation was very successful." Dai Li said.
"The operation was indeed successful, but Lin wanted to return to the game as soon as possible. He devoted himself to high-intensity training shortly after the operation, and his condition recovered quickly. But God gave him another prescription Just a joke, he was injured again in a team test match, the injury was still in the same position, and it was more serious." Xie Haitao said slowly.
"Sports rehabilitation is a big science, especially for athletes, many injuries will accompany them throughout their lives." Li Dai said casually.
Xie Haitao continued: "Brother Lin had to undergo surgery again."
"What about the results of the operation? Was it successful?" Dai Li asked.
Xie Haitao shook his head: "I don't know about this. I came here relatively late, and I heard some things from others. But the old man in the team said that the results of the operation were not ideal. After the operation, Brother Lin returned to the team and He started to become more and more negative, stopped training so hard, was often late, went to bars and nightclubs, and became self-indulgent, and slowly became what he is now."