Arthur's Football

The Confederations Cup in South Africa is a rehearsal for the World Cup in South Africa. In just half a month, the exposed problems remained high--the vuvuzela's disturbing sound of cheering, the news center under the canopy, the ridiculous venue, and security issues.

Although it was reported in Egypt that the hotel where they stayed was robbed, Arthur did not expect that the hotel where the Brazilian national team stayed also encountered the same problem.

It was after 9 o'clock in the morning, Arthur had just finished taking a shower, and was about to wake up Cyril, who was still lying in bed, when he heard something was wrong at the door, he just walked to the door and wanted to check, when he heard his male god scold him other side--

"Hey, what do you want to do!"

Arthur opened the door as fast as he could, and rescued his war scumbag by the way.

Really, if it was a little bit worse, the crowbar in the hands of the two thieves would have greeted the head of his male god.

The security of the hotel and the security of the Brazilian national team arrived almost at the same time, but there were also a large number of reporters following them.

Although South Africa's security was once again hacked into scum, the testimony of the two thieves forced Arthur to absorb another wave of traffic.

Arthur didn't care about these, he just thought it was necessary for him to give a safety science course to the male god.

Unavoidably he felt embarrassed, Arthur decided to teach Cyril under the guise of teaching.

Cyril looked at his uncle innocently, I know, I know all this, I obviously receive a special training every year, have you forgotten?

Cristiano said with a serious face to the child who didn't listen carefully after seeing it: "Cyril, be serious!"

Cyrillic:"……"

Cristiano gushed: "Who knows where we'll play football one day? And you can't always have someone to take care of you, in case you get kidnapped..."

Cyril glanced at his silent uncle, and could only listen obediently.

Cristiano couldn't be happier!

Because of this incident, Victor, who was eager to love his son, almost exploded. There were two more bodyguards at the door of Arthur and Cyril's room late at night.

Knowing that it was useless to negotiate with his father on this issue, Arthur accepted the arrangement.

Of course, this does not affect him watching the rest of the game.

Sky Sports also bought the broadcast of the Confederations Cup. In the game between Brazil and Italy the next day, the camera frequently hit the Brazilian team's family seats before the game.

Arthur was holding Luca in his arms, and Cyril was sitting next to Cristiano. As for Kaka's parents, brother and brother's fiancée, they were directly isolated from the camera.

Andy.Gray also joked: "Although Kaka's wife Caroline didn't cheer for her husband who went out, I don't think the stars of the Brazilian wags are dim at all, after all, there is Cristiano - oh, and Arthur. "

Obviously, even though the Portuguese has left the Premier League, the "chicken numb" stalk still lingers.

Brazil's opponent in this field, Italy, had already lost to Egypt in the previous group stage, and Brazil has confirmed that it has qualified for the group.

Italy, whose initiative is no longer in its own hands, is fighting to the death, but the goddess of victory is obviously on the opponent's side.At 37 and 42 points, Fabiano scored two goals alone, and 2 minutes later, Fabiano's reappearance in the Italian penalty area made the overly nervous Dossena score an own goal.

Italy 0:3 Brazil in the first half.

Cristiano shook his head the moment Dossena sent the ball into his own net.

Arthur looked at Buffon helplessly.

He knows that Italy's defeat in the Confederations Cup, a four-time trophy winner, was no accident.

The sinking of Italian football has just begun, and it is far from reaching the bottom. There is still a long way to go before the blue sweeps Europa again and dominates the world.

This is indeed a pity, but Italy's exit also made Arthur think of the Three Lions.

Since winning the trophy at home in 1966, the Three Lions have fought for many years, but there is still only one star on the white jersey.

"What are you thinking?" Cristiano asked in a low voice.

He could see Arthur's mind wandering after the first half.

"I'm thinking about the 10 World Cup." After Arthur finished speaking, he found Cristiano looking at him with fighting spirit. "Portugal will definitely go farther than you!"

Regardless of whether England is the king of the qualifiers, in fact, Portugal's record over the years is not bad, at least better than England anyway.

Arthur raised his eyebrows slightly, and Cyril had already said seriously: "God bless England! We will hold the cup!"

This slogan made Cristiano laugh, and he poked Cyril's little face affectionately, "Why don't you say that the world is under your feet? I think it must be that your song is not good. You never sang this song. Bring back the victory."

Cyril pouted, but was speechless.

Arthur disagreed and said; "Cyril is right, England will go further this time."

Cristiano stopped arguing the subject with Arthur.

There's nothing to argue about. When the time comes to play game after game, they will either fall on the way to meet each other, or keep winning until they represent their respective countries in the final.

This is what Cristiano likes.

As he also likes Arthur's response after his transfer, that makes him fight!

As for how the media interpreted Arthur's words, he would not listen.

After the World Cup defending champion Italy was eliminated by Brazil, another favorite Spain was also unexpectedly out--

Spain actually lost 0:2 to the United States!

This time Spain was upset and eliminated by the United States, once again showing the charm of football in front of Arthur: football is round, and everything is possible.

After Italy and Spain were eliminated, the 6 Confederations Cup final was between the Americans and Brazil.

American coach Bradley copied the tactic of eliminating Spain when he played against Brazil, attacking wildly at the beginning, trying to score the first goal.

Cesar, who has kept zero opponents in three consecutive games, failed to stand the test this time. In the first half, Brazil's gates misfired several times, and finally Dempsey and Donovan each scored a goal. In the first half, Brazil 0:2 behind!

This surprised all the media at the scene. Dunga looked stern, and Kaka, the captain, kept motivating the fighting spirit of his teammates.

In the past season, Arthur rarely saw Kaka so embarrassed, so angry, and so eager to win.

He looked at the captain's armband on Kaka's right arm, and he understood the weight of the armband.

Brazil's family members were very quiet in the midfield, and Kaka's mother was even praying for victory.

In the second half, the Samba Army began to control the rhythm. Fabiano, who had scored twice against Italy before, stood up first and scored a goal, which also sounded the clarion call for a counterattack on behalf of the Brazilian Army!

And it was their captain, Kaka, who passed the key goal to Fabiano!

Encouraged by this goal, Fabiano scored another goal in the 71st minute of the second half!

After the equalizer, Fabiano excitedly ran to the family seats to celebrate wildly. In stark contrast, the American team looked a little dazed.

Arthur shook his head slightly. The field was changing rapidly. In less than the last minute, no one can say that they have secured the victory, but the Americans have lost their fighting spirit.

Then the Brazilian team continued to attack, and finally Lucasio used a header to seal the world for the Brazilian team in the 84th minute!

Cristiano warned Cyril: "Look, the header is still very useful at critical moments, remember to practice well, I will check."

Cyril looked at him in puzzlement. He is a good header. Cristiano praised him last time, and the coach also said that he is definitely at a very good level among his peers.

As soon as Cristiano looked up, he found Arthur looking at him.

Under the gaze of those blue eyes, he silently looked away.

Such an obvious shortcoming, of course he wanted to make up for Arthur.

He didn't want to think that one day, when he faced an opportunity to lock the universe, he just missed it...

A few minutes later, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and the family seats were filled with joy. Brazil won the championship 3-2 and successfully defended the Confederations Cup!

The Samba Army also became the first team to win the Confederations Cup three times, which will be recorded in football history!

Arthur looked at the delighted Brazilian after Kaka ran to the family table and family and they embraced.

This is the first important cup championship brought to Brazil after Kaka became the core of the Brazilian team. He defended the glory of the football kingdom, and he is happy for Ricardo.

At the awards ceremony after the game, Brazil, as the champion, naturally became the biggest winner, winning 5 out of 4 awards.

With 3 goals and 2 assists, Kaka was elected the best player of this Confederations Cup and won the Golden Globe Award.

After spending a celebratory night with Kaka, Arthur and Cristiano took Cyril and boarded the plane to Kenya early the next morning.

Before getting off the plane, Cristiano was prepared to eat in the car or live in a tent. He never expected that the local staff of the Wellesley family would send them to the hotel——

A five star hotel.

He was absolutely shocked!I was so shocked that I had to secretly bite my ears with Cyril: "Do we live in such a nice place?"

"Otherwise?" Cyril blinked, and his eyelashes often swept across Cristiano's cheeks.

"I thought we were going to live in a tent—" Cristiano glared at the little guy after he finished speaking, because Cyril's bright green eyes were full of smiles, and he must be making fun of him.

Cyril immediately restrained his smile, "I don't know either, why don't you ask Arthur?"

Cristiano asked decisively.

Because the Arthur he knew was actually an extremely thrill-seeking person.

That drag racing incident made him understand that this chick only looks good, but one of Arthur's strengths is honesty.

Facing his "interrogation" with Ricardo, he confessed without any concealment that he is an extreme lover.

But at that time, Cristiano only knew that he loved stimulation, and the specifics were learned from Eve who was frightened by that too real dream a few days ago——

There is no bungee jumping holy place in the world that Arthur has not challenged.

Surfing, skydiving, deep diving, and mountain climbing are all pediatrics, and he has also played wingsuit flying!

He didn't even know what it was at first!After learning about it, he wasn't at all surprised why Eve was so frightened.

Now Arthur actually honestly arranged this trip that was supposed to be an adventure trip, a trip that pursued shock and excitement?

"Because the three of us are players, there are still ten days before the new season will start. I don't want to make any of us feel uncomfortable because of this journey. What we should do is relax and take a vacation. Rather than taking risks." Arthur confessed.

Cristiano looked into Arthur's eyes, which were full of brilliance and piety.

He is restraining his behavior by the standards of a professional player.

"Eve will thank me," laughs Cristiano, who has to text Eve, and look, it's still good to have him as a player.

Arthur smiled knowingly.

The next day, accompanied by tour guides and bodyguards, they went to the Kenya Elephant Orphanage in two vehicles.

The moment Cyril got off the car, he exclaimed!

There are many young elephants here, as well as near-adult elephants learning to adapt to life in the wild.

"The elephants here come from all over Kenya and they are all orphans."

Cyril looked again at the baby elephants not far away who were being taken care of by the breeders, and then at his uncle, with watery eyes in his green eyes, shining brightly in the sun, which made Cristiano's heart ache.

"Can I donate them?"

"Of course. If you wish, I can set up a foundation to deal with this."

Cyril nodded quickly, his little face turned from heavy to relieved and then to joy because of Arthur's words.

Cristiano touched the corner of his mouth and coaxed him, "I can sponsor, of course, you can also call on everyone to donate to this orphanage on your social account."

"Can I do it?" Cyril asked in surprise. He never thought that his social account could be used for public welfare.

"Of course." Cristiano leaned over and kissed his forehead.

Arthur also gave him a positive look, "Of course you can, maybe you will also like to shoot commercials."

Cyril is a proud and center-of-the-center kid who loves the limelight.

Cristiano looked at Arthur immediately, "Do you mind if he accepts the commercial?"

"Of course not," Arthur patted Cyril's shoulder lightly, "I hope he is happy."

"Then let me introduce him?" Cristiano said, looking at Cyril, took off his sunglasses and gave him a Wink, "Little baby, everyone is a little disappointed that you didn't make a cameo in my commercial last time, next time you will Don’t shoot commercials with me? There is an advertising fee, last time Luca had 50 US dollars for milk powder, I think it should be enough for the baby elephants here to eat milk powder for a year.”

"Really? $50?"

"Of course. Oh, only if your uncle agrees."

"Arthur?" Cyril immediately looked at his uncle. Although his real guardians were his parents, Arthur was almost the one who fulfilled his responsibilities.

"Of course, I'm glad you're caring," said Arthur.

Shooting commercials for Nike, what has he to worry about?

The tour guide beside them twitched the corners of their mouths. Just taking an advertisement is enough for the baby elephants here to eat milk powder for a year?

He looked at Cyril's face, and swallowed all his words of envy and jealousy.

The boy had a beautiful heart worthy of his face.

So did his family.

The tour guide became interested in them and listened more to their topics. After seeing a trainer holding a football to train the flexibility of a baby elephant's trunk, and their conversation turned to football, the tour guide speculated that they might be players.

The tour guide looked at the grown-up man wearing sunglasses and a hat, and thought of the appearance of Cristiano just taking off his sunglasses, he always felt a little familiar.

Chris?Arthur?Cyrillic?He's going to check it out tonight.

They went to the Giraffe Park in the afternoon, which was also established in Kenya to protect endangered giraffes.

Cyril watched them through the binoculars contentedly, using their thorny tongues slowly in the safe area, looking for green leaves to eat on the trees.

Arthur took out his heavy equipment, and Cristiano looked at his camera and lens and learned to take two pictures. The effect... His serious face asked Arthur to delete it!

Drinking water and food were flown in from the UK, and Arthur borrowed the kitchen of the restaurant to prepare dinner for them.

Cristiano upholds the spirit of "eat and cherish", eats very slowly, cherishes it very much, and feels wronged——

"It's a lot cheaper than Ricardo! I hope that guy eats a lot in the past ten days, and finally his body fat percentage exceeds the standard, and he has to be tortured by Clegg!"

Cyril suddenly laughed like a flower.

Arthur shook his head with a smile. He thought that Kaka might not be in the mood to eat extravagantly this season.But he made a small joke, "It seems that your only good memory of British food is from my craftsmanship."

"Must! When you look at Bregas, you shed sad tears when you first came to London, but I'm used to it. The food was not so good when I was in the youth training camp." Cristiano looked at the seemingly Taking his time, Cyril, who actually gnashed his teeth and chewed the beans, said deliberately: "Cyril, have you finished eating the beans obediently?"

Cyril pursed his lips, Chris did it on purpose!He doesn't even like beans himself!

The next day they went to visit the black and white rhinos, where there were countless pink flamingos flying in the sky or hunting for prey. Overlooking Lake Nakuru in the baboon line, the entire lake was full of dense flamingos .

Cristiano lamented that the birds here are so beautiful, and his wife is so beautiful, while taking pictures with his mobile phone.

Arthur looked at the pink flamingos and understood.

Cyril said with lingering fear: "Patients with trypophobia definitely don't like this place. If it's too high, the birds below will appear too small and too many."

There are two types of flamingos, the big one is 1.4 meters long and 1 meter high, and the small one is 1 meter long and 0.7 meters high. Now in their eyes, they are so small.

"There are 200 million flamingos here, one-third of the world's flamingos live here, of course many." The tour guide said.

They finally went back to Yaxia and looked at the various animals by the lake. Arthur identified them for Cyril, and Cristiano listened with his ears up.

He may not know as many as Cyril.

"This is the African bald stork..."

"This is the yellow-billed stork..."

"This is a pelican, with a long body and large wings, with a wingspan of up to 3 meters. Most of them are white. There are full webs between the four toes..."

"This is the crowned crane, the king of cranes, with a dignified body. They fly gracefully and are loyal to love. Once they are married, if one party dies, the other party will always go to rescue them. When one party dies, the other party will cry endlessly. Do not find another new love."

Cristiano looked at Arthur when he said "faithful to love", staring at him for a long time with his eyes under the sunglasses.

He thought that if Manchester United's official tweets this year still hold the vote for "Which of the following animals is Arthur the most like", he will retweet this time and suggest that they add a crowned crane.

Extraordinary, loyal and single-minded, what a beautiful animal.

Before they left, Cristiano asked Arthur to take a photo of him and Cyril, and asked Cyril to take another photo for him and Arthur.

The little guy taking pictures...has more talent than him.

This night they watched a dance performance full of local customs in the hotel and tasted the special barbecue in the hotel.

"It's not as delicious as yours." Cristiano commented in a low voice, "But it's much more delicious than Ricardo's."

"Are you trying to say that Argentinian barbecue is better than Brazilian barbecue? My recipe was given by Natalia."

"No, I don't admit it, it's just that your cooking is more delicious than Ricardo's! He must also like it, but he is stubborn. I want to take a picture for him!"

Both Arthur and Cyril laughed, obviously aware of his bad intentions.

On the second day, they moved to Amboseli National Park, where they tracked elephant herds and looked at Mount Kilimanjaro.

That is the top of Africa, nearly 6000 meters above sea level.

Arthur stared at it deeply. This is a rare equatorial snow mountain.

"No climbing, you promised Eve." Cristiano saw his gaze and warned him.

Arthur promised him politely, "I won't."

Cyril thought for a while, but didn't explain that Arthur and Andrew had already climbed the mountain and obtained certificates.

In the last "safety class", Cristiano's "nagging" left him with lingering fears.

On the third day, Cristiano lived in a tent, the ultra-luxury version.

There are small animals around the hotel. Cyril tempted a hyrax with his face, and Cristiano even touched it.

Arthur is equally welcome, and by his side is a duiker who seems to want food from Arthur.

"Some tourists violated the regulations and fed them." Arthur said.

Cristiano didn't ask if it was bad, he just leaned in.After the duiker ran away as soon as he approached Arthur, he said to Arthur with a deadpan, "Are you sure?"

Aren't you more attracted to them?

Arthur and Cyril laughed again, and Cristiano felt that the sunshine of Africa filled every corner of his heart, and there was no more darkness.

In the afternoon, they visited the chimpanzee sanctuary and began to look forward to the next day's #findsimbatrip#.

It is said to be looking for Simba, but in fact, it can see lions.

That is the most spectacular scene in the entire African migration - the wildebeest crossing the Mara River.

The crossing of the Tianhe River is full of cruelty and blood, the crocodiles in Hanoi are perilous, and many predators on the grassland are waiting for opportunities.

Cyril's face turned pale when he was crossing the river, and Cristiano pointed to a lion that should be very young from the mane and said to him: "Look, your Simba, he has two younger brothers."

Arthur also looked over. It should be three sub-adult male lions around 3 years old who were kicked out of the lion group, between adults.

Cyril looked at them for a long time before looking at Arthur, "Are they brothers? Will they be together forever?"

"The lions form an alliance, whether they are blood brothers or not, they will fight side by side and live and die together. They are still young and will be stronger, and they will have their own territory. At that time, they will also fight for mating rights. , but they will still live and die together, and will never leave.”

He stared at Cyril and said: "African lions on the grassland either died from poaching, or died in hunting, fighting for mating rights, or fighting for spiritual land. Their lives are not complete, but they are brave, strong, fearless, Guardian. They also appear in our family coat of arms, symbolizing courage, strength, authority and fairness."

Cristiano listened quietly.

He knew that Arthur liked lions, whether it was the three lions on the Community Shield, or the two little golden lions on the left and right sides of the crown on the league championship, or the three lions shield on the Three Lions jersey.

Apparently for Arthur—

Lions, not just lions.

The author has something to say: PS: This article refers to various Wikipedia and Baidu Encyclopedia animal entries.

According to the lion documentaries I watched, basically the lions in the grassland have a good end, no matter male or female.

The ups and downs of the Lions League are full of drama, but the endings are all tragedies.