Frenzy [football]

The player, who has received a lot of extra attention in recent days due to various negative headlines, did not make his usual visit to the club's training base a day after the FA's heavy fine against Thunder Wing was handed down.

He didn't get there early, and he wasn't even seen until training started.After Nikola's entire team gathered, his coaching staff members walked up behind him and said softly: "Ha didn't come today, I have already contacted the guard, they are sure that they have not seen ha until the position just now .”

Regarding this, Nicholas, who used to treat Lei Yi indifferently just because he was late for a few minutes, didn't seem to have any signs of getting angry.He just replied after being informed by his teaching assistant: "I see."

On this day, Tottenham appealed to the FA for the punishment they gave Leiy Ha.A number of media outlets that continued to follow up on the incident reported this development.

And the hot discussion on the Internet surrounding this matter did not stop so simply. In fact, the appeal that Tottenham submitted to the FA, which everyone expected, shocked fans and netizens alike. The debate on this matter has reached another level.

However, as the party involved in the punishment incident, Lei Yi was lying alone on the lawn of the park on this rare sunny day, the shadows of the trees were mottled, and the breeze swayed gently on his face, which made people squint their eyes , and because of this, the eyelashes trembled slightly.

He needs to think, think a lot that he didn't have time to think after the World Cup in June.

For more than four months, he was always in a hurry, passively accepting the changes that made his past incomprehensible again and again.Before I had time to think through everything, I was already anxious to make a choice.It was like being called by the coach to play a Champions League final after a night of sleepless nights. He was in a trance and couldn't exert the strength he should have.

Now, he has time to think.Thinking about the interrogation he suffered at the police station in Rome, thinking about every warning his friends said to him at that time, and thinking about his mood when he decided to come to Tottenham.

He thought about each of his hopes and the disappointments that followed.

Those memories full of resignation and powerlessness made his chest feel heavy, pressing him painfully.He didn't know how to alleviate the feeling, but he didn't want to stop there.That's because he wants to think everything through, to know that he gets the answers he wants.

Three days passed like this. Although three days were not enough for him to figure out everything, it was enough for the FA to reject their appeal after receiving Tottenham Hotspur's appeal materials.

But that was no longer important to Lei Yi, and it was no longer his concern.

Because in his opinion, there is actually no difference between a fifteen-game ban and a twelve-game ban or even a ten-game ban.

And, no matter which one it is, he will not be able to play the ball for a long, long time.Since this is the case, why does he still go to the training base to participate in training every day after receiving the punishment ban?

In fact, Lei Yi was not such a self-disciplined and hardworking player.Compared with many of his friends, he is actually not that "professional".However, after Yue Yihuang and his partner Francisco retired, Lei Yi, who finally helped Lazio to avenge Turin in Serie A but was at a loss, began to get up at [-] o'clock every morning to give himself extra training.

That's because Yue Yihuang's retirement made him understand that even though he has worked very hard, he may still fail to catch up with such an important game and opponent for him.

It is this sense of urgency and the regret that cannot be easily forgotten that made Lei Yi change a lot. In the past two years, his "Appointment at 05:30 in the morning" with Tigos also made people forget that he used to be a lazy sleeper. Also likes to be lazy a lot of the time, not much different from other teenage boys.

For Lei Yi now, it is more important to think carefully and make a decision than to participate in training as usual.

It looked like a dull day, but it was not like that.He dug out his collection of video highlights of Garrincha's games from a century ago, and watched them over and over again, which made him so familiar that even if he closed his eyes, he could reproduce every move of the opponent in his mind. video.

He wanted to use this to find an answer. He felt that the old friend who had disappeared for many, many years seemed to want to say something to him, but found that he couldn't grasp it so easily.

When his eyes were opened all of a sudden, and the images playing in front of him were exactly the same as what was going on in his mind, Lei Yi stood up suddenly, and dug out his passport from his room!Then he found a few short-sleeved tops and pants that could be used in Rio de Janeiro in the summer from the cabinet, and stuffed them into a slightly larger backpack.

He wants to go to Brazil!He wants to see Garrincha!It's today!It's now!

London,

Tottenham training base.

"Ha still didn't come today?"

Nicola asked his assistant coach on the way from his office to the training ground.Although it only takes two or three minutes to walk from here to the training ground, the Frenchman couldn't help but ask his assistant in advance.The latter gave the same answer as the previous two days.

"I'm sorry, at least ha hasn't shown up at the training base until now." The assistant coach replied, and then asked: "Do I need... I can talk to him? Or we can ask the club's physical therapist Go talk to him? He should be seeing his physiotherapist at 09:30 tomorrow morning."

After getting this proposal, Nicholas hesitated for a while, and then he said: "Ha may need more time alone."

After speaking, the two continued to walk forward. When they saw the players waiting for them on the court, Nicholas paused and told his assistant coach: "If there are reporters When asked about Ha's recent situation, everyone has to answer that he has been training seriously in the training base recently as usual, you know?"

When Nicholas and his assistant coach said these words, he would not have thought that the boy who seemed never to be shaken by anything had already gone to London Heathrow Airport and was waiting for a flight there. Flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Of course, Lei Yi's club coach Nicola was not the only one who didn't think of this.In fact, even his good friend Tigos did not expect that the long and short legs would go to Rio de Janeiro at such a critical moment, which seems to have nothing to do with the current predicament he encountered.

In the less than half a season since his transfer to Tottenham, Lei Yi has visited this airport many times.Most of the time, he comes here to take a plane to Rome, Italy, because he wants to watch the games of the current Italian third-tier club Lazio from time to time.

But now, he is planning to fly from here to Brazil and go to Garrincha's hometown.

He hadn't been there for a long time, Lei Yi even felt a little nervous while waiting to board the plane.It was an indescribable closeness to homeland.It's not the same as when Lei Yi first returned there when he was 16 years old.He was less excited than nervous.Still sad, but more depressed.

That's because he found that he was not as powerful as he thought, nor was he omnipotent as he thought.

The road into that small town in Brazil that seems to have left no trace of time for more than a century is very bumpy. The coach bumped badly on the muddy road, and Lei Yi couldn't sleep well on the plane But he fell asleep peacefully when the long-distance bus came to this road, and he woke up in a daze until the car drove to the terminal and all the people on the car were gone, and the driver came to ask him to get off the car.

This is the small town of Paugrande, 50 kilometers away from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A poor and backward, but simple and simple, quiet and peaceful place.

Here rests Mane Garrincha, the source of people's joy, and this is where it all began.

This time, Lei Yi, who came here, brought a football with the Tottenham team logo to his friend.Prior to this, he had also brought footballs with the logos of Porto, Atletico Madrid and Lazio to his most special friend, and in this way told the friend who had passed away for many years that he is now Where and what kind of place continue to play football.

Sometimes he would bring a few footballs to the nearby children, because that was the gift that Garrincha and Lei Yi, who were still playing barefoot, wanted most.

"Just like what I told you back then, after Dominguez said that to me, I thought I must go to Europe to compete with those arrogant guys. Now, I'm about to leave Brazil. It's been five years."

After clearing the weeds around Garrincha's tomb, Lei Yi sat down, facing the tombstone.

The summer wind was blowing slightly, making people feel lazy, and the humid air made the skin sticky at this temperature, but Lei Yi didn't hate this feeling at all.

"I think I've done well at three of the four clubs I've been at, and I've had good friends. Good, good friends. But when I saw those games in Botafogo, I wonder if staying in Brazil, staying in South America is really such a bad idea."

Listening to the mountain stream and the sound of birds in the forest, Lei Yi sat in front of Garrincha's tomb, thinking for a long time...