Go! Goal! Fighting!
I've said this before. This could be our last match,
but the appearance of Coach Mu has given us hope.
Therefore, if we win this match,
if we get the right to move to the next level, then we can continue to play in this competition!
Come!
- Cui Ying!- Must win!
This way! This way!
Do you know?
I heard that the coach of No. 9 High is a retired player.
Their usual game performance has always been good.
It's practically impossible to beat them.
Even though our next opponents' Jiu Zhong
was the runner last year,
their skill levels are much higher than ours.
But we still can find an efficient way to beat them.
Jiu Zhong's teamwork is better than ours,
so the time that they're controlling the ball will be longer.
But our defense is pretty good,
always dragging them into the center.
Their positions are all placed too forward.
They caused us to have no space to play at all.
We will have no chance to set up an attack.
The whole field is around 100 meters long,
70 meters wide. With such a big space, the opponent can
effectively set up an attack play. But our abilities are not as strong as theirs,
so we must use distance to gain an opportunity.
Decrease their 100 meters attack field into just within 45 meters.
We'll occupy this small space,
and break their formation, making them unable to organize an effective attack play.
In this first half, you are only allowed to steal and break their plays.
Without my order, you must not organize an attack.
You must not pass the ball, run with the ball, and especially shoot through the goal.
Coach, isn't this kind of a gangster-style approach?
I like high-pressure strategies.
- Tackle him!- Pass it here!
- Here! Here!- Fighting! Fighting!- Give it to me!
How come I feel that our team is just kicking the ball out of bounds?
They are just stopping the opponent's attack. Seems like it's working.
But our half of the field is empty. Won't that be dangerous?
Look, look, there's even no one guarding it.
If their long pass can break through our defense, then they might have a chance.
Guard him!
They are playing a high line defense to limit our attack space. Stop getting entangled with them in the middle.
Keep him behind you and make a long through ball to back field.
Of course, the opponent can also find a way
to break our tactics. The most effective will be playing in the rear and crossing through.
Once they break it,
you can make a one-pass formation.
What can we do to stop them?
- Make it an offside.- That's right.
- Who's the central defender?- Me!
Remember this.
What we are doing now is pressuring, forcing, and stealing in a high line defense in the first half.
Half of the defense work is already being done by the midfielder.
That's why your most important task it to create an offside.
He's the last one. The other defenders should follow him.
If he moves forward, all of you should follow him.
You should watch their forward closely. Once the midfield pass the ball,
you should run forward
and isolate their forward out.
- They even created an offside?!- Question!
Who can tell Teacher Pei what an offside is?
How did you know that I'd be asking this?
Offside is...it's too complicated.
It's not easy to explain.
- Offside is like a false start.- Oh, I know.
False start is breaking the rules.
To simply say it, in defending a goal, other than the goalie,
the location of the last defending player becomes the starting line.
At the time the attacking team passes the ball,
if a member of their team
is standing behind this defender, this makes it an offside.
It's just like doing a false start.
Offside is creating
a different starting line nonstop
to make the opponent continuously do a false start; and hence, break the rules.
Never thought that a soccer ignorant could have a spring time (becomes knowledgeable).
Their team... This is not right.
The files show that they play very badly.
It says here that they had lost 9 goals before this.
High line defense, creating an offside,
they might have an expert guiding them.
It can't be that lady, right?
So the effect of making a false start type of foul is this huge.
What false start foul?
It's running in front of the starting gun.
Look, didn't that referee earlier blow his whistle because he broke the rules?
The one you're talking about are offside.
It's called false start foul.
It's very complicated. I can't explain it to you clearly at this moment.
But this group of kids have improved quite fast.
Looks like Mu Shuai is indeed quite great.
Coach Mu!
Are you playing phone games again?
- Yeah.- We must win this game today.
Even if it's a draw, we cannot move to the next round.
Right. But it's still not time to attack.
Then when is the time to advance an attack?
When we need to attack.
You don't make any sense.
This strategy is pretty awesome.
So is the coach.
It's just a high line defense and creating an offside.
They haven't really attacked yet. If this continues, we still won't move to the next round.
But previously, even with defense,
we couldn't do it like this.
Okay. The first half has ended.
7 Steals, 12 Foiled attempts,
6 Offside, all successful,
but we never really attacked yet.
It's pretty professional.
Teacher Lu taught me.
Then that's right.
Right?
We must first establish a state where we won't lose before we can have the chance to win.
You won't understand such a profound truth even if I told you.
It's true I don't quite understand.
- Coach Mu. - Call me Mu Shaui!
Mu Shuai!
Can I trouble you to go to the coaching area to watch the game?
Why are you standing so far away?
The coaching area is for you people who cannot understand the game to sit on.
From here, I am at a higher point and can see farther.
The opponent cannot take it anymore. They will attack more during the second half.
Your task is to guard closely that No. 10.
He likes to change direction when he takes the ball. You guard him but don't easily attempt to tackle.
As long as you can guard him, they can't organize an effective attack play.
Understand?
Go.
Just these?
I've already told you the rest. Just do it like the first half.
When do we start our attack?
When I give you the signal.
What sign?
Stick to him!
Guard him!
We can't be sure. Maybe we can win this.
Right. No. 9 High has been attacking many times but they all failed.
Fighting! Fighting!
Cui Ying High School: 0 - Qin Island No. 9 High: 0
Kick it!
Shoot!
Show all your speed in the expense of energy.
Sprint afterwards. If you can dash fast enough,
you can make the one-pass formation. There's 15-minutes left now.
In this 15-minutes, you must use up all your energy.
Coach Mu's defense was quite good.
But ending in a draw won't let us advance either.
- I know.- Then when do you plan to attack?
Here! Here! Give it to me!
Kick it!
Wang Jingke!
Here! Here! Hurry and give it to me!
Stick to him! Stick to him!
Aiya, don't let him pass!
Don't attack. Please don't attack.
Guard him! Guard him!
There's a chance now...
If we didn't attack, you guys still had a chance. But when we do, you guys will surely lose.
We won! We won! We won!
- Ding Yu! Ding Yu! We won!- We won! We won this time!
Ding Yu, Ding Yu...It's okay. We won this time!
They scored! Mu Qi!
Hey, Principal Zhong.
- Why did you come?- Of course, I should come. I came here to give you guys an additional boost.
I had no idea you had such a passion for soccer.
- We're losing!- There are still three minutes left.
We cannot even break their defense within 80 minutes.
With only three minutes left and everyone exhausted, we don't have a chance.
Their defense is not something that can be broken by just skills.
This is a win because of tactics.
Our tactics are inferior to theirs.
[Scores for Cui Ying High School and Qin Dao Jiu High School: 93 to 14]
We won! We won!
Cui Ying High won!
Do I look too crazy?
Teacher Pei, where did that Mu Shuai come from?
I also don't know him prior to this.
It seems that Principal Zhong personally invited him here.
May I ask you a question?
Just ask anything.
Is it because you love soccer
that's why you opened a soccer training school?
I've loved soccer ever since I was a kid.
I did jobs related to soccer in the past.
A major reason for opening this soccer training school with my friend is because of the kids.
Does that mean you like kids?
Kids are the future.
I want there to be more and more kids like me
who loves soccer. I want them
to receive scientific and accurate
soccer concepts while they are still small.
This way, when time passes, it will form a good soccer atmosphere.
I believe
Chinese soccer will one day
pass Asia and go towards the world (cup).
I'm going to give you a thumbs up.
For our Cui Ying Charter High School to have a coach like you,
I feel that it's their blessings.
You're not only professional but also have sentiments (for sports).
I only love it.
You must protect your skin more. This way, you can maintain
your image as a teacher. Got it?
I didn't expect
that that weird uncle really had some skills.
He's the enemy you mentioned before that seemed to always be clashing with you?
Yes, it's him.
Today, he angered me a lot again.
But a good thing, we won the game.
Isn't it just a school competition?
This is not just some competition.
This is a game with no chance of winning,
but we miraculously won in the end.
I feel that this is a good starting sign in my time as a trainee.
Hey...Classmate Pei Xiaoduo...
If you hadn't said it, I was starting to feel that something was off.
What's off?
Say, you went to that school
so that you wouldn't have to teach
and even became some team's manager.
But we can skip these things. I discovered
that you seem to be quite happy.
Principal Zhong said it already.
Managing a team can increase and improve my managing
and student guiding experience.
This is in preparation to when I get to have my own class in the future.
I feel that what she said was indeed reasonable.
You're really successfully brainwashed.
So many fruits, you bought them?
No.They were bought by your mentally retarded fan.
Chong Yue?!
Oh, right. These were also bought by him.
I realized that it was always juniors courting you.
Men younger than you chasing after you.
Teacher Pei Xiaoduo,
I am seriously reminding you.
You must keep your distance with the students.
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Hey, wait a minute! What are you doing? What's the meaning of this?
Oh, yo, Mr. Mu. Hello.
The money that you owe us is past due.
That's why if you still won't pay your debt,
then we might go into the legal process.
It's not that I don't want to pay.
Isn't it just because I had a problem with my capital? Or else I wouldn't be borrowing money from you guys.
Give me a few days?
- How many days?- Hey, why are you so serious?
When I borrowed money from you guys, you didn't have this attitude.
Why are you being hostile now?
You're the one who borrowed money and aren't paying right now.
If you can pay up, then I can change my attitude back.
I'll give you 10 more days. If you still cannot pay by that time,
we then will have the right to take care of your assets.
Hey, Auntie Zhang.
I received them already. The water, electricity, and gas and also the broadband, all of them are here.
How can I not pay up?
See, you told me to leave the house by May 1,
and I didn't delay even for a day, right?
It means that I'm still a person with integrity, right?
That's why for my last rent and
these utility bills I owe you, I definitely will pay them.
Ah, be at ease.
Okay then. Just give me a few more days.
Okay. Thank you, thank you.
Okay. Okay. Bye-bye.
What are you doing?
Mu Shuai, I want to talk to you!
- Can you let me talk first?- You listen to me talk!
Yesterday, I researched and compiled files of our opponents the whole night.
And I also made analyses and summaries. I hope that you can take the time to have a look.
I'm really afraid of you already.
Next time, if you're going to block my car, can you please first call me?
So that I can step on the break earlier, okay? What if you got hit by my car?
And also, do you always think of timetables when you wake up?
Then I'll just call you Big Timetable next time.
No matter if it's older boy cousin or younger boy cousin,(Both timetable and older guy cousin are read as Biao Ge)
I just wish that you will take the time and have a look at these.
Cui Ying Charter High School's soccer team at it's last game at the small cluster
won by 1-0 over last year's second place team,
a favorite of this season's competition.
From being near death at the small cluster games to being reborn.
During their game with No. 9 High,
our school's player was able to do 7 steals...
Brother, I've finished borrowing the books. Let's go home now.
Let's go.
Give me your books, Ill carry them for you.
No need. Can you first take care of your own matters?
-Hello -Is this Qin Minghao?
This is the No. 2 Prison.
Your dad refuses your visit this month.
Thank you.
It's about our... dad?
Dad refuses our visit again.
Why?
Does he not like us?
How is that possible?
He probably doesn't want us to visit that place.
Don't worry. We will him soon.
Don't cry.
Bro, you're just in time.
Hurry, help me write them.
Do you plan to listen to that coach from now on?
Let's not talk about that first. Hurry and help me finish this homework.
If I don't finish them, I'll be dead.
If you're my bro then answer me first.
Then I'll tell you, okay?
It's not that I must listen to him, but I have to listen to him.
The principle hired him.
It's not easy for the principal to finally have an interest for the team.
She even personally came to watch the game.
So if Mu Shuai is on the team, then the team will not be disbanded.
Everyone can then still play together.
Yesterday, you went to watch it, right?
Don't you also feel that it's not bad?
You're saying that with that Mu guy, you guys are playing better?
Bro, isn't this what we wanted?
Hurry and show weakness to Mu Shuai. Hurry and return to the team.
It was hard for us to move to the next round. We can't be defeated on the first game.
Already calling him Mu Shuai, huh?
Wang Jingke, you're a traitor!
Just like this then, let's severe our relationship.
Don't talk to me about severing relationships.
You're the one who gave up on playing soccer.
Regarding the current school sports league,
our Regional Director is giving it much attention.
Yes. Yes. Yes. If not, you wouldn't be here.
Oh right. I heard that in the last competition, Principal Zhong
- personally participated in it.- Yes, she's already giving it too much attention.
Director, you're here.
- Hurry and please sit.- Sit. Sit. Sit.
Principal Zhong, your school's soccer team is really a black horse.
In the past few days, their school's principal kept going to our office,
saying that they prepared for such a long time
and did a lot of work. Giving me a headache.
Although our win was indeed unexpected,
but this win did not came out of nowhere.
It's like this. For rebuilding the soccer team,
Principal Zhong especially invited a professional soccer trainer from outside.
For this soccer team,
Principal Zhong really put a lot of effort in it.
Your school's leader really gives a lot of support
to this soccer thing.
- Yes.- Principal Yang,
what's your take on this?
That... From our Cui Ying Charter High School's standpoint,
the most important thing is academics,
to increase our passing rate, right?
Regarding this soccer team,
our school has just recently been established. Right?
We're still not some strong team.
Saying that this soccer team
can get good results at this stage
is still very hard. Right?
Our country has always been promoting all-round education
and sports activities are an important component of an all-round education.
I feel that we shouldn't give up on it just because our soccer team is bad.
We still have to encourage students to progress in all aspects.
How are the grades of these students?
This is exactly the other problem that I was about to say.
It's not that I'm not encouraging them to have physical activities,
but it must be within
putting their grades as priority, balancing the other aspects,
and not affecting their learning just because of their training.
Right now, this team of ours, a lot of its members
have very poor grades. Some of them even failing all subjects.
What's happening?
It sounds like a fire alarm.
Come, Director. Director, hurry, hurry, hurry, here.
Here. Here. Here.
Where's the fire?
We've already investigated the matter.
This fire alarm thing
was caused by someone deliberately pressing the fire alarm button.
Before entering the meeting room, I saw you at the administration building.
Right? Say, was it done by you?
I don't know what you're talking about.
If you won't admit to it,
then think about the consequence by yourself.
Okay?
Principal Zhong. Hey, Principal Yang.
Coach Mu.
I am his head coach. I'm called Mu Qi.
Why are you here?
It's like this. I think about this fire alarm thing, you guys must have been mistaken.
When this alarm sounded earlier, Wang Jingke was with me.
We were inside the soccer activity office. I was giving him a lecture.
That's why I think that this person who deliberately pressed the fire alarm
couldn't be Wang Jingke.
Are you joking?
I saw him in the administration building that time.
I personally saw him.
- You saw him?- Right.
Then did you talk to him?
Huh?
A while ago, I was talking to him in the soccer activity office.
I'm guessing that you recognized him wrong.
Look at the students in this school, they all dress alike, right?
Look at this height, skin color, and also this hairstyle,
are all similar. I'm sure you saw it wrong.
How can that be? I'm wearing glasses.
Then you should wear binoculars.
If you don't believe me, you can ask Teacher Pei.
The three of us were together earlier. Isn't that so, Teacher Pei?
- Teacher Pei?- Huh?
Is what he said true?
Yeah, it's true.
The three of us were together.
Enough already. From what I heard, this was all a misunderstanding. Right?
Principal Yang Fan, don't get anxious. Do you want a drink of water?
No problem. No problem. No problem. I'm already used to it.
Student Wang Jingke, for you and your teammates,
I must make a request about your grades already.
Today, people from the City Education Ministry came to check on us.
To defend you guys, it's really going to be hard for me.
Right, Principal Zhong.
That... The one I gave you earlier...
The learning proposal and timetable,
Coach Mu Qi and I have already agreed on it.
That we will make our team members' game standings and their school grades improve together.
If our team can get a good standing in the city soccer league,
then we will enter the provincial league.
If they can get a good placing in the provincial league,
then they can get extra points in the college entrance exam!
I feel that this has a very good encouraging effect.
Isn't it Coach Mu?
Yeah.
Coach Mu, is this also what you wanted?
Yes.
Fine. Since you've already made your plans,
then do it accordingly. I'll wait for your good results.
Okay. Thank you, Ms. Principal.
There won't be a problem, Ms. Principal. Don't you worry.
- Go back then.- Thank you, Principal.- Let's go.
Be careful next time, okay?
Principal Yang, goodbye.
Principal Yang, you've worked hard.
You must get familiarized with this.
I don't need to know that.
You must take a look at it!
What's the use for me to read it? I won't understand it anyway. It's enough that you've seen it.
Then let me explain it to you then.
Every Tuesdays and Thursdays, they will undergo group studies.
Qin Minghao!
For different students, we'll be having politics, philosophy, and geography.
Did you see the game two days ago?
Although we weren't favored, we still won.
We successfully entered the next round.
A game similar to pretend play for kids.
Winning it must really be worth being happy about.
He's a professional.
What are you saying?
That ball earlier by Wang Jingke had strong and deep strength and i\was even rotating,
but he was able to stop it that easily
and effortlessly kicked it back.
He definitely is a professional.
What are you saying? You can't even defend that kind of ball.
Jingke!
- What is it, Mu Shuai?- Sit.
- Who were you talking to earlier?- Huh?
Oh. Qin Minghao.
He can play?
He just transferred to our school. He used to study at a private high school.
I even heard that he has a professional soccer training background.
He plays really well.
Why didn't he join our team?
I've invited him so many times already. I've already thrown away all of my dignity.
He just won't join. Maybe because his not satisfied with our team.
Mu Shuai, is our team really that weak?
It has always been weak.
Mu Shuai, how about we ask Ding Yu to come back?
Asking Qin Minghao to join is way better than getting a rotten Ding Yu back.
How was it?
I don't understand tea but it smells nice.
Thank you, Principal Zhong, for letting me taste such a good tea.
I also have good news for you.
I recently noticed a very good prospect for a striker.
If all goes well, we can at least get second place
in the end with the cluster games.
We can get second place in the cluster games?
Then... About the rules of this competition,
I also don't know them quite well.
To simply put it, if we can play well, then we can enter the top eight.
We can enter the top eight? Our school's team?
Right.
Being able to get into the Top 8 schools will be our school's best record.
You really made a big contribution.
With such a big contribution, will you resent having such small pay?
Principal, if you talk like that then you're treating me as a stranger already.
I came here not because of money.
Then that's great.
Actually, there is still a lot about soccer that I don't quite understand.
If you don't have anything planned after work,
let's have dinner together so that you can explain them to me.
That's fine, too.
Zhong Yan, these students --
- Teacher Lu.- Oh, Coach Mu is here, too.
Zhong Yan, these students are requesting to change classes.
They want to concentrate their time for training. Take a look --
You can just arrange it with their class advisers.
I support all of it.
Okay. Oh right, Coach Mu.
I was just thinking of discussing with you about the round-robin tournament.
We don't have much time left. I also wanted to chat with you about this.
How about we sit down and talk about it?
Discussing it here may affect Principal Zhong's work.
How about we go out for dinner?
Talking about it while eating. Okay? Let's go.
Principal Zhong, this...
The competition, of course, comes first. You guys go and have a chat.
Then we'll go now.
Hateful. Really picking this time to talk about it.
Here, Coach Mu, drink with me.
I'm driving tonight. I can't drink alcohol.
You're not giving me face (respect), is that it?
Coach Mu, I'll be frank with you.
Before you came to the team,
this team was really one big terrible mess.
Who was willing to care about them? Coach Mu, I really believe in you.
I've always believed that you could bring this team
towards a good direction.
Not like me in the past, alone and helpless.
But, I, more than anyone else, wished for our team to get better.
Why must you be like this?
You can just let go and not care about anything.
Coach Mu, you don't know.
Schools right now are not just assessed based on passing rates.
Parents are also giving importance to their child's well-rounded education.
Our school's soccer team is indeed a weak program.
Who will this directly affect?
Won't it in the end harm Zhong Yan?
Zhong Yan and I are classmates.
We almost had a romantic relationship while we were in school.
But a lot happened afterwards. In the end, we did not end up together.
Afterwards, I got married and got divorced.
After getting divorced, I was assigned to Cui Ying High School
to manage classes, and some clubs.
Zhong Yan also got assigned to Cui Ying High School
and became its principal. Say, after so many years,
the two of us meet again
and both of us are single.
This is definitely fated.
I also want to continue our previous fate.
That's why I continuously secretly takes care of her, help her, protect her.
I just can't see how other schools are better than ours.
I...and Zhong Yan don't have any relationship.
We were introduced by friends to each other.
She and I are just common friends.
Now, she's my boss already.
She offered me a pay to come to the school
to teach the kids soccer.
Other things have nothing to do with me.
Those messed up things, I also don't want to get involved.
Really thanks to this meal today.
I'll leave first.
Mu Shuai, we'll go and practice now.
Okay.
Hey, wait. The ball near the door has no air already.
Put air in it later once you return.
Okay.
Going to practice already?
- Teacher Pei.- I'll go there quickly.
Mu Shuai, why are you still here playing video games? You're not going to the practice?
Let them first do 1 hour of exercise.
Once they are tired already, that's when I'll start training them.
How can they stil train if they're already tired? What logic is that?
Matters about training is decided by me.
You don't know anything so stop blabbing here.
I indeed don't know anything.
I just know that you don't have any passion about your work.
Wait.
You have passion?
Of course, I have. What are you doing?
I'm talking about work.
I'm also talking about work.
If you have a student that's lost, taking a wrong step in life, and persistent in going about things the wrong way,
will you use your passion to move him?
Give him your warmth?
This is a teacher's duty.
Those are the words I want to hear from you.
Get me this person. My team needs him.
Saying that much and you just want me to find a person?
No problem.
Fighting, Manager Pei.
It's not 5 minutes yet and you're back already.
Looks like the situation is not good.
He only said three sentences to me.
Only three sentences.
Let me guess which three sentences those are.
You don't need to tell me anything.
Don't pester me in the future. Goodbye.
Hey? How did you know?
Because these were also what I wanted to say to you.
You...
- Soccer team?- That's just an excuse for teacher to get near Brother Minghao, isn't it?
It really isn't. I just want to know from you guys
his hobbies and interests. What does he like?
How can I make him join the school soccer team?
Since he came here to our school,
he never played soccer.
And also, he never joined any activities related to soccer.
He and his little sister just transferred here and don't really talk much.
It seems as if they never really socialize with any of their classmates.
You said that he has a little sister?
Right. Teacher, you can try looking for his little sister, Qin Mingluan.
Sister, we'll go now.
- Byebye.- Teacher, goodbye.
- Hello, Teacher Lu.- Hello.
Teacher Pei, what's wrong? Seeing you frowning like that.
The coach wants a student named Qin Minghao to join the team,
but that kid has very stubborn attitude.
He's not that willing. That's why I'm fretting about it right now.
Just this thing?
Qin Minghao?
At 3 p.m. this afternoon, go to the soccer team to report.
I am not a member of the soccer team.
I am officially informing you that you're a member of the team already. Don't be late.
I won't be late because I won't be going.
- I'm sorry, Teacher. I'm going to my class now.- Hey!
How was it? You got rejected, right?
Let me tell you. This type of student won't really play even if he joined the team.
I'll be the one to tell the Principal. Just give up.
You give up then but I won't.
I won't let him belittle me.
You called me here just to let me convince my brother to join the soccer team?
Right. I think that these extracurricular activities for your brother will --
Teacher, this is my report card.
My grades are not bad, right?
Unless all my grades are failing
and teacher can make all my grades become A,
under that pretense, I can consider setting up
a meeting for you and my brother once.
But I won't interfere with the decision my brother makes.
The situation I mentioned will never happen.
I still need to buy books. I'll leave now.
Are they really high school students? Their language hurts more than yours.
They even think faster than me.
Blame me.
Blame you?
I shouldn't have given you such an important task.
Other than making timetables, what else can you do?
You... The two of them surely came from Mars.
Even the Principal cannot make them, what else can I do?
But...maybe our team is really too weak.
Maybe Qin Minghao doesn't like it.
A person who really loves soccer doesn't care who he plays for.
He said that he doesn't like to play soccer anymore.
No way. You think that playing soccer is like love?
If your boyfriend started to shift his loving affection to another one after just several days, that's normal.
But if a guy
fell in love with soccer, that's a forever thing.
Understand?
Ha? You... You're saying that I'm inferior to soccer?!
Right!
You...
He said it to me personally that he doesn't like it, then why do you want to force him?
- What are you doing?- This is called a reaction.
Whether you like it or not, you will make a reaction.
What do you mean?
Qin Minghao totally doesn't have a reaction.
You're saying that he's pretending.
I understand now. Next time, when telling you things,
I must say it very, very, very clearly before you can understand it.
That's why, I can repeat what I said earlier.
Hey, Teacher Pei. Run slowly!
Reaction!
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