Chapter 19 The first football league
Chapter 19 The First Football League
He Taiping is a very extreme person, which is especially reflected in his personality. Every time during wars, this man would hiding behind the commander, or take a group of people to fight. But when it comes to making money, eating, drinking and having fun, he would suddenly become enthusiastic, always bravely and lead by example.
So after deciding on the new entertainment program, He Taiping led Horn and the others to stay in the door from the next day, but he sent Xingkong out from time to time to ask for some materials. After accepting the bribe of food from the skeletons, the greedy Hydra also revealed his experiences. According to what he said, the ones preparing behind closed doors were several new sports events.
In fact, the undead are still passionate about football and bowling, but no one will think that there are many new sports events when they are born. In a sense, the undead who lacks entertainment is more curious than other races, and what makes the ghosts even more crazy is that this new event can also allow ghosts to join in as long as they have a little bit of control over their minds.
As a result, the entire Undead City began to become a sea of fanaticism. Many itchy ghosts even planned to sneak into the house to peep, but were stopped by Christine and Angel. A few days later, He Taiping, who had completed the props, finally appeared in public, but to the disappointment of many Undead, the man did not carry any new sports goods around him. The only thing he brought was a new suggestion about football.
"League, what is that?" When I heard this new term, the undead could not come to any more conclusions except looking at each other. After gradually becoming familiar with football skills, although they had held several football matches, they were all small-scale matches, and the participants were basically friends. The only result of the match was the bones on the ground on the ground after the game, but I don't know the souvenir left by a bad guy...
"The so-called league is when everyone forms fourteen teams, get points through turns, and then decide the championship with points." He Taiping knew that they didn't understand, so he immediately took out the materials he wrote a few days ago and handed them over to the undead to read carefully. A few minutes later, these undead focused on the detailed descriptions and whispered to discuss.
"Who are you doing?" Helen's voice came from a distance, interrupting the noise at the scene. After five or six days of rest, the Ghost City Lord had returned to his former form, but his luster was still slightly dim. Seeing that Constance was not nearby, she naturally landed on He Taiping's shoulder, and gently wrapped around his neck like a ribbon...
"Dear sister, if you do this, I will have nightmares at night." Looking at the face that was so close, He Taiping suddenly felt that the things wrapped around his head and neck seemed to be more like snakes than snakes. However, Helen liked this kind of contact. She touched her brother's cheek intimately, but her eyes fell on the explanation material: "League? It looks quite interesting, so how can I miss my share!"
A few minutes later, the City Lord decided to set up the first football club, representing the City Lord's Mansion to participate in the league, and personally named it "Elf and Ghost". Although this name is a bit inexplicable, under the leadership of Helen, the Dead have also established several teams based on their own departments. Therefore, if you hear those strange names, such as the "Infantry Battalion of the City of Dead" club and the "City of the City of Dead" club, don't feel strange...
Since the team has been established, the next thing will be much easier. Perhaps because there are not many things to manage in the Undead City, Helen, who is energetic, simply takes over the league arrangements and organizes and plans on his own. He Taiping is happy to be the manager of the hand. He expounds the key points and then devotes himself to the new research and inventions.
After that, the Undead City started the league organization with extremely high efficiency. These undeads do not need to rest or eat, and have magic to create a venue, so their work efficiency is extremely amazing. When He Taiping led Drizzt and the others out of seclusion again, the first league game was played in the temporary stadium, and attracted 80% of the undead in the city to watch.
The two ghosts who served as live commentators were two ghosts. Their high-pitched voices were used to attack the enemy in the past, but today they were used to explain the football match. The two teams participating in the game were the "Elf and Ghost" club under Helen, and the other was the "City Defense Forces First Team" club led by Sue Ge. Of course, all the people participating in the game were skeletons, and those ghosts who could not enjoy the fun of playing football could only fill up the nearby openings - according to He Taiping's estimate, they would become the first group of real fans.
Accompanied by the Ghost Referee's whistle, the "Elf and Ghost" team kicked off first. After a few simple passes, Curo, who received the ball, directly hung the ball to Jacques in front. The latter cleverly passed, flashed the two defenders who came from the flying tackle, and then passed the ball back to Curo who arrived. There was almost no adjustment, and Curoyang moved his leg and shot the ball...
With a light "bang", Sue Ge, who acted as the goalkeeper, jumped up and hugged the flying object tightly in his arms. But before he could raise his arms to celebrate his first save, a deafening hilarious sound came from the stands. Sue Ge looked back at the ball net in shock, and it was a football still spinning, and then the one in his arms was...
"Legs, leg bones?" At this moment, He Taiping in the stands couldn't help rolling his eyes, then covered his stomach and laughed wildly. He had only heard of kicking off shoes when playing football, but never kicking out the leg bones. It seems that in future football matches, there will be a rule that prohibits kicking the bones at the same time when shooting, otherwise he will be given a yellow card warning.
But he soon discovered that the rules to be added in football matches in another world were not just one. After a fierce flying tackle, a certain unlucky skeleton would lose half of his body, and then he had to appear and start pieced together his body; the result of the header was that two skeletons who had lost their skulls were still running all over the field... Looking at the scene in front of him in a daze, He Taiping couldn't help but feel a little amused. It seemed that he would have to look at the hope of real football matches in another world, and he would have to postpone it for a while.
"Isn't this good? At least I haven't seen everyone laugh so happily for a long time!" Helen sat beside him, sighing softly with a hint of relief, "Andrew, maybe I should be very grateful... I have, my team has scored another goal! Damn Sue, he may lose to me five hundred gold coins this time!"
"Oh, what do the undead want money?" He Taiping shrugged helplessly and turned his attention to the game field. As both sides became more familiar with the progress of the game, the game finally had a little professional flavor; while the audience was hilarious at the beginning, they gradually cheered for the hot scene, and began to exclaim, applaud, stand up, curse, complain, and roar! Several ghosts even fought for whether a ball was offside, although their physical attacks were ineffective...
Ninety minutes later, the "Elf and Ghost" club won the first league victory with Kulo's second scoring, and the final score was frozen at 4-1. But the victory and loss were not what the two teams care about the most. They experienced the fun of the game, bowed to the stands on all sides to thank them, and the audience stood up and cheered, hugged warm applause. At this moment, the entire stadium fell into fanaticism; at this moment, the cold undead suddenly felt hot all over, and their chests seemed to be about to burn - that was a kind of happiness they had never experienced in their lives in the past hundreds of years!
"This is just the beginning, and they will gradually experience more fun." Looking at Helen cheering for his team, He Taiping leaned gently on the back of the chair and showed a meaningful smile. The charm of football games is not just in the stadium, it is the biggest difference between it and many other sports...
As the league progresses, the confrontation between clubs will become more and more intense; the audience will also have clear barriers to form a group; then, players with excellent football skills will become stars and be sought after by fans; and in order to improve the team's performance, the club will also begin to explore players and start to fight openly and secretly in the transfer market... All this will make this sport deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and will make the undead fall in love with it. At that time, who will still feel that long life is a torture, and who will still feel that life in Undead City is so boring?
Chapter completed!