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The Forbidden Zone Striker
Author:Lin Haitingtao
"Ryan Howard sir, in today's football world, strikers like you who only know how to score goals are finding it harder and harder to survive... Yet despite this, you've still achieved dazzling success. May I ask, what is your secret to success?" On a winter afternoon, Ryan Howard showed the highest honor he had just received to journalists from all over the world, and one of them asked him this question. As the reporters' eyes turned to him, Ryan Howard's thoughts drifted back to that afternoon in middle school, when he stood alone by the field watching his classmates play. They wouldn't let him join, thinking he was just there to mess around. He also remembered the coach's stern words: "Ryan Howard, if you can't put in ten times the effort of others, your talent is nothing but a worthless stone." And a scornful voice: "Modern football demands more and more from center-forwards, more and more all-around skills. What's the use if all you can do is shoot?" Finally, his thoughts settled on that moment, when dusk was just beginning to appear in the eastern sky. In the middle of an abandoned lot overgrown with weeds, a girl looked at him seriously and said, "Ryan Howard, you really do have talent, and it's amazing talent! Because you know where the goal is!" Ryan Howard stared into the girl's eyes and saw the setting sun behind him reflected in them. Sunlight shimmered and burned in her pupils, forming a halo, as if it would melt him into that light. Pulling himself back to the present, Ryan Howard returned to that warm winter afternoon. Facing the eager reporters, he smiled slightly: "Because I know—the goal is right there."