Chapter 230: Failed to Ally (1/2)

Chapter 230: Failed to Ally

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Either of the two reasons given by Hua Liu would be sufficient for Dai Li to be made the group leader.

As for these three, being recruited by the national team was impossible. They hadn't didn't qualified for the national training camp, while Dai Li could gain a firm foothold in the national team. This showed that he was much stronger than them, and thus could be eligible to be group leader.

Besides, Dai Li was Li Xue's favorite disciple, who was the second in command on the national track and field team. Xue was very influential throughout the whole country due to his numerous disciples and longtime followers. Relying on his relationship with Li Xue, Dai Li could make himself the group leader.

Considering this, Baojun Sha suddenly felt a sense of loss. He had trained for quite a long time to be the group leader. Now, the chance was taken by someone else before he could even get his hopes up.

He took a deep breath and cleared his mind. He had to console himself, ”Dai Li is happy on the national team, and certainly won't want to return to the provincial team. I think he was just drafted for the National Games. After that, he'll surely return to the national team.”

”Well, let's talk about the National Games.” Hua Liu continued, ”Dai Li is a coach. After coming back, the team will assign him athletes to train, right? Sha, who do you think will be sent to him?”

As if Baojun Sha was aware of something, his expression suddenly became serious.

Hua Liu continued, ”When Dai Li comes back from the national team, our team will definitely assign him the best athletes. On our team, there are three top athletes: Kun Shen, trained by Sha, Tinshan Chen, trained by Li, and Yueyang Zhu, trained by me.”

Guodong Li interrupted Hua Liu and added, ”Sha, if I remember correctly, Kun Shen has been training with you for four years! Yueyang Zhu with Hua Liu have been for over three years. Although Tinshan Chen has only been training with me for nearly two years, his training is just starting to pay off.”

Looking at these two guys, Guodong Li added, ”Dai Li will choose one of them, which means taking away our two-year efforts. Will we be reimbursed? And at this key sports event, it seems that Dai Li will take an athlete trained by us to the National Games and steal our achievements.”

”You two took me here just for this?” Baojun Sha sat up and continued, ”To be honest, we would be quite lucky and thankful if our three athletes could even pass the National Games' qualification. To get good rankings would be impossible.”

”But we can't allow Dai Li to take away our trainees!” Hua Liu said firmly, ”Sha, at this special moment in time, we three should unite together against the outsider! We cannot allow Dai Li to rob our athletes.”

”Unite together against the outsider?” With a sly smile on his face, Baojun Sha said, ”Dai Li will only choose one man, and the probability of any of us is one third. I don't think my athlete will be lucky enough to be chosen by Dai Li.”

”What do you mean, Sha?” Guodong Li looked anxious.

Smiling at him, Baojun Sha added, ”Didn't you just say that Kun Shen had been training with me for four years? Actually, it's been four years and eight months! Kun Shen is twenty four. He's the oldest among the three athletes!”

Looking at Hua Liu, he continued, ”Hua Liu, Yueyang Zhu, who you train, is about twenty two, right?”

”Yes, he will be soon,” Hua Liu nodded.

”As for Tinshan Chen...” Turning to Guodong Li, he smiled, ”Wasn't Tinshan Chen chosen by you from Qingcheng Sports School two years ago, Li? Later, you managed to get him onto the youth team. One year later, he was directly selected for our provincial team. I suppose that he's no older than twenty, right?”

When talking about age, Guodong Li became a little uncomfortable.

Baojun Sha continued, ”All three are practically the same in skill, but they're different in age. If you were Dai Li, which one would you choose? The twenty-four-year-old, the twenty-two-year-old, or the one under twenty?”

It was known to all coaches that the younger an athlete was, the more potential they had. When facing three athletes at the same level, anyone with common sense would choose the youngest.

Holding his stray and patting Hua Liu's shoulder, Baojun Sha said, ”Don't worry, Liu. Even if Dai Li came back, he wouldn't choose Kun Shen or Yueyang Zhu. I assure you!”

Guodong Li clenched his fists with anger, because Baojun Sha had figured out his plan.