Chapter 521: Rumours

Xu Tingsheng returned to his school for a visit. Knowing that he had been in Yanzhou over this period of time, Vice-Principal Niu had asked that he come over to chat. Yet, upon his arrival, he was instead dragged off by Old Niu right away to participate in Yanzhou’s opening ceremony for this year’s National University Football Competition.

Yanzhou University presently took its football team very seriously.

Thanks to Xu Tingsheng’s killer sure-hit goals back in his first year of university, Yanzhou University had solidly suppressed Jianhai Technological University for the first time in the qualifiers for the Yanzhou district. While they had lost to Jianan University in the following match and unfortunately failed to make it to the main round, it had still been a historic breakthrough for them.

Last year, Yanzhou University had easily defeated Jianhai University whose entire midfield had collectively graduated in the preliminaries and managed to draw a weak seed in the next match. For the first time in the university’s history, they had carved out a path to the main round of the National University Football Competition.

Xu Tingsheng had been one of the team members back then. Still, after that game, he had ceased to participate in the school team’s training and competition because he was busy.

While not expressly stated, he had already effectively withdrawn from the school team.

Their first appearance in the main competition had not been all that outstanding as they had been eliminated in the group stage with two draws and one defeat. Still, like China gaining a place in the World Cup for the first time, this was already consolation enough for their elders back in Yanzhou.

The spirited higher-ups of Yanzhou University had made a pretty unexpected...