Chapter Four: Wearing Their Names

Dark-gold text appeared: [Echo condition: Three different players must make goal-line clearances, followed by no fouls in the final fifteen minutes.] Shen felt anger instead of hope. Goal-line clearances could not be planned. Allowing shots to manufacture them would betray the match. He could explain none of that. “Forget Gu,” he told Coach Han. “Play our game.” Luo was knocked down twice without a whistle. He rose and tried to force another dribble. From the stand Gu shouted, “You learned to look up. Haven't you learned when to stop?” Luo recycled the ball, moved laterally, then attacked space on the opposite side. Three passes later, he cut back for Han Xiaobei to equalize.