green knight

Chapter 63: The same dreamer
The following November is a tightly scheduled November.

On the first day of November, Juventus host Bologna.In the first half, Vidal's long-range shot opened the scoring for Juventus. In the second half, Li Zihan came off the bench and continued to write magic. He sealed the victory for Juventus with a goal he dribbled through.Only in stoppage time, Bologna pulled a goal back.

Three days later, on November 11th, they will usher in the first national derby of the season.In the No.[-] round of Serie A, Juventus played against the giants Inter Milan at home.

On November [-], in the fourth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Juventus played against Denmark's North Sealand at home.Although the opponent is not a strong team, they drew with Juventus in the last round, and then this round of group matches will determine the fate of Juventus's group qualification.So this can also be said to be the key event in Group E of the Champions League this season.

After playing the Champions League, on Singles' Day on November 18, they will go away to play against the underdog Pescara in the league.Then they can rest for a week, and the next round will be No.[-] against another of their mortal enemies, the Blue Eagles Lazio.

So the first half of November is a week of double matches, and it will be better in the second half of the month. Although there is also a week of double matches, there is already a week of rest.

Such a tight schedule is also related to the tradition of Serie A, because they will usher in a nearly one-month winter break in the second half of December.Serie A is different from the Premier League. The Premier League is more inseparable during the Christmas period, and many of them are derbies or rival battles, so they are called "Christmas Wars" by fans.The purpose is to stage a series of regular games for the fans when they are enjoying the Christmas break. The tradition of English fans is that the whole family spends Christmas in the stadium watching games.

The Serie A will be suspended for Christmas and let the players go home for the New Year. Along with Serie A, there are La Liga and Bundesliga. Just half a month, while Serie A is almost a month.

Therefore, the Italian Football Association will play many games before the winter break, and then this period is the time for fighting in the European arena, so this has resulted in such an intensive schedule of double matches a week.

But the players are also willing to accept it. After all, after this period of time, they can enjoy the month-long New Year holiday with their families.For the players, this is a kind of enjoyment. You must know that not only the Chinese have the tradition of family reunion during the New Year.

Some well-connected players will take advantage of this time to spend a few days in England to visit their players and friends, and watch a few exciting Premier League games by the way.But this is more or less a bit frustrating, making friends all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred in it
On the eve of the start of the new round of competition, the two teams were not very excited, but the Asian media had already been extremely excited.

I thought that Juventus' next game would be the Italian national derby against Inter Milan. Although this is one of the highlights of Serie A every year, the Asian media will not be so excited. After all, the influence of Serie A is declining. For a few years, their derby battles were not as hot as La Liga and the Premier League.

The reason for this is that there is a Japanese in the Inter Milan camp, who works as a defender.It happened to be opposite Li Zihan, who played forward in Juventus.

As early as a few days ago, the Chinese and Japanese media had already quarreled.

Of course, the Chinese media is on Li Zihan’s side as always. After all, in the embarrassing football circle, they are very good to Chinese players who play abroad. This is one of the reasons why domestic league players don’t like returnees. There are not many players.

"Li Zihan will play his first derby, the Italian national derby."

"The Japanese defender will face the onslaught of Super Lee."

"Changyou Yudu will be the next defender to fall at Li Zihan's feet."

And the Japanese media is even more arrogant.

"This is just an Italian national derby, not an Asian derby. Nagatomo is not the best player in our country, but he is much better than that Chinese kid."

"China Li's miraculous performance of scoring goals in every game will be defeated by my country's Tiewei."

"I think he (Li Zihan) should learn from Nagatomo. After all, Nagatomo has played in Serie A for two seasons, and he (Li Zihan) has only played a few games."

"There is no comparison. Nagatomo was a late bloomer, and his dream finally came true after going through a lot of hardships. His life experience and understanding of football are not comparable to that lucky substitute boy."

The Chinese media and netizens also fought back one after another.

"How many goals did Li Zihan score? How many goals did Changyouyou score?"

"Li Zihan scored more goals in the airport game than a Japanese player scored in his lifetime."

"I think it's really ridiculous. One is Juventus' future head shooter. The heir to the famous Zebra No. 26 jersey, the second on the current Serie A scorer list. One is Inter Milan's backup defender, the uncle of [-]. When He and Hanniang in our family are not at the same level in his playing years, one is a rising star, and the other is a past, present, and future backup guard."

In this way, the "discussion" between the two sides became more and more intense.

The Italian media, who had been hyping up the "Italian National Derby" for several days, suddenly found that their Asian media counterparts were even more excited than them, so they rushed to find out the truth.

Later, they learned that their Asian counterparts regarded the game as a confrontation between two players, and it was hard for them to understand.After all, in Europe they have seen too many matches between players from two grievance countries, just like Argentina and their old enemy Brazil, but it was not as intense as this time.

Only when they were slow to respond did they realize that it turned out that the media from both sides brought in the historical grievances between their two countries.

And the Italian media also joined in. They don't care so much, as long as there are stories to write, they will have sales and money.

The Italian media quickly dug out Nagatomo Yuto's personal information. After all, he has been in Serie A for two seasons, and he is relatively familiar.

Nagatomo Yuto was born in a poor family in Japan. His parents divorced in his early years, and his mother lived with her three children. The mother worked very hard and often had to work several jobs to support her three children.At that time, Nagatomo Yuto vowed to study hard, get admitted to university, and find a good job in the future so that his mother, sister and younger brother can live a happy life.Just like countless children in rural China, in their eyes, studying hard to get into university is the only way out.

By chance, Changyouyou joined the school's football club, but he has always played a dispensable role as a cheerleader.It was not until the second year of high school that he served as the team's main guard.The performance of the team was not good. After graduating from high school, he chose to go to Tokyo to realize his university dream. He did not choose to join a sports school as a sports student with his friends from other teams.

In Tokyo, Nagatomo Yuto football and study have always been his main theme, and he himself is also working very hard.Finally, by chance, I joined the Tokyo FC team that had just been promoted to the J1 league that year.With his talent and hard work, he quickly became the team's main left-back. Later, Nagatomo, who entered the national team and won the Asian Cup, attracted the attention of European teams.

In 2010, the dream continued, and he joined Cesena, which had just been promoted to the Italian Serie A.A season later, on the first day of the summer of the 2011-2012 season, he joined the giants Inter Milan.

All this is the dream of a poor child.Although his annual salary of 60 yuan is not much, it is considered a lot of money in Japan, and he has no expenses. Most of all the money is sent to his mother and his older sister and younger brother.He realized his childhood dream.

The famous Italian sports media "Italian Football" used this sentence to describe Li Zihan and Nagatomo Yuto: "Leaving aside the nationality and national grievances of both parties, the life trajectories of these two people are almost surprisingly similar. Both are unfortunate families. , are all moving forward step by step for their dreams, and they are the inspirational dreams of two impoverished boys with dreams."

In an interview with L'Equipe, Nagatomo said: "I don't make any judgments about what the outside world says. I just think that football is football. It should not be affected by some external factors. Football is a It's a great sport, it has nothing to do with history and politics. I'm not familiar with Li Zihan, but I've seen reports and games about him, he's a great player, and if I can play during games, I'll work hard Guard him. It has nothing to do with my country, it's just a matter of professional integrity, I'm an Inter player, I love Inter, he's a Juventus player, that's all."

"I can't represent my country, and Li Zihan can't represent his country, unless one day we can wear the national jersey and meet on the court at the same time."

Nagatomo Yuto's words undoubtedly made the Japanese media very dissatisfied. In their view, this is a performance of bowing their heads and admitting defeat.

And Li Zihan also knew about the outside world, after all, he was also starting to buy newspapers now.In an interview with Raphael, a reporter from "All Sports", he said: "I agree with what Nagatomo Yuto said. Although there are many problems in our two countries that need to be solved, this is the job of those politicians. We are just a player. Our team is fighting with the fans. I hope everyone can clearly understand that this is a game between Juventus and Inter Milan. Of course, in order to support our fans, I hope that I can also contribute to the team's victory. .”

At this time, Li Zihan and Changyouyou both maintained a tacit understanding, perhaps because they have similar experiences, so they have similar ideas.

[When I wrote this chapter, I was a little tangled, the writing was too poor, I guess it was not handled well, a little tangled, false.Unknowingly, a month is over. Xiao Qi published a new book on June [-]th, and it officially passed the review on July [-]st.It's just been a month, and now it's on the new book list. Thank you brothers and friends for your support to Xiaoqi this month, and I hope everyone can continue to support it. If you have any comments and suggestions, you can write them in the comment area. I am too frustrated as a novice. I hope everyone will forgive me. .Sincerely, Xiao Qi! 】