shadow striker

The two went to the team bathroom connected to the locker room together, where they took a hot shower to wash away all the coldness brought to the body by the heavy rain.After a lot of exercise, a hot bath feels very refreshing.

Yue Yihuang and Francisco had known each other before the start of the season, but when the season started and the team started training, the two of them hadn't spoken much to each other.Until this moment, they were finally talking to each other loudly through a shower cubicle, without a trace of unfamiliarity.

"Yue, I see that you are often together with Nirva and Cassel. What do you speak...Spanish?"

"Yes, it's Spanish."

Yue Yihuang, who was blowing his hair under the shower head, answered loudly.

"Nirva is Argentinian, and his mother tongue is Spanish. But I always feel that the pronunciation of Spanish spoken by Argentines is very strange. Their stress habit is different from that of Spaniards, and they always say the middle voice in the second syllable. .And they always like to pronounce the sound of ll as che, which is easy to recognize.”

"Ha, I know that. It seems that someone who understands Spanish can tell where someone is from just by hearing the accent?"

"Yes. Many countries in South America will have their own specific accents. And people in some parts of Spain will also have their own slang. You can understand them more or less when you hear them."

"It seems that you know Spain very well."

Yue Yihuang was stunned when he heard that word, and then responded in a low voice.After thinking for a while, he continued: "My boyhood was spent in Spain. I also studied football there."

When Yue Yihuang said this, low laughter came from the shower room next door.Then, the sound of water stopped.

Knowing that the other party had finished washing, Yue Yihuang also turned off the water, smoothed the water from his hair down a lot, and then walked out of the shower almost at the same time as Francisco.

When the other party saw him, he seemed to give him an extra look, then quickly turned his head away, picked up his bath towel, wiped his hair a few times, and wrapped it around his waist again.However, after he walked to the locker room, he remembered a very serious problem, and laughed sullenly.

"I don't seem to have any dry clothes left."

When Yue Yihuang walked into the locker room, Francisco turned around and said this to him.Yue Yihuang was stunned and asked if he had a spare jersey.Francisco also shook his head with a smile.

"I have a spare jersey here. You can wear mine first if you don't mind."

With that said, Yue Yihuang opened his wardrobe with the key tied to his wrist.Drops of water dripped from the still-dried hair, dripped onto the collarbone, and then slid down his chest, past the two red dots on his chest, and slid down his waist until it disappeared into his chest. In the bath towel tied around the waist.

The scene in front of him made Francisco feel a little short of breath, his eyes darkened, and then he pretended to turn around inadvertently.But at this moment, Yue Yihuang stopped him again, making him turn around abruptly, only to see that the other party was holding a spare jersey and wanted to hand it to him.Accepting it in embarrassment, Francisco hurriedly thanked Yue Yihuang, then turned his back and put on his clothes.

Yue Yihuang was somewhat puzzled by Francisco's actions, but after thinking about it, he also turned his back and changed his clothes.

Because Yue Yihuang seldom cared about the weather, and it wouldn't make much difference to him if it rained or not, so he didn't bring an umbrella today. In the end, the two of them walked out of the stadium together under Francisco's umbrella.This was an experience that Yue Yihuang had never experienced in eight lifetimes, so he seemed a little unaccustomed to it.Francisco seemed to be in a good mood, he even turned on the music in the car and hummed softly along with the music.

Almost only six or seven minutes later, Francisco had already driven the car to the downstairs of Yue Yihuang's apartment according to the address Yue Yihuang said.

When he saw the apartment building, Francisco made no secret of his disbelief.He glanced at the apartment building, then looked back at Yue Yihuang, and asked in an unbelievable tone: "You... just live here?"

Yue Yihuang was not angry when he was asked this way, he just patted Francis on the shoulder in a funny way, and then said with a smile: "Hey, don't do this. Not all players are like you. I think, maybe Most players should be like me."

After Yue Yihuang said that, Francisco did not continue to make a fuss, but parked the car in the parking space of the community, and said with a joke: "At least I think that most players in the Italian Serie A team Shouldn't be like you. You're so mean to yourself."

After speaking, Francisco turned off the engine, and opened the car door under Yue Yihuang's suspicious gaze.

"Let's go, Yue. I thought you might invite me up for a drink? Let me see what you've made of your living environment."

"Oh, it's not a wonderful thing to do a raid on a single man's apartment."

Understanding Francisco's intentions, Yue Yihuang couldn't help saying such a sentence in an exaggerated tone, which made the offensive core of the New Torino team unable to restrain his laughter.

Although Yue Yihuang said that, his home can be regarded as very tidy.Or rather simplicity than neatness.His apartment is not big, but a one-bedroom, one-living room with a balcony is enough for him to live in.There are very few things in his room, even... there are only some things necessary for life, giving people a sense of calmness in cold colors.

In this regard, the place where Yue Yihuang lives is completely two extremes compared to that of Francisco.

The place where Francisco lived was originally a very gorgeous fifteenth-century building. After his decoration, the house looked even more gorgeous, with a warm and warm color.Comfortable yet palatially opulent.

Therefore, when he entered the apartment where Yue Yihuang lived, he would be very uncomfortable.Or in other words, he hasn't entered such a room for many years.

However, it is undeniable that, as an apartment where a single man lives, Yue Yihuang's house is already very tidy and clean.However, although tidy is neat, it reveals a feeling of being too cold, just like his person.

Fortunately, wine can still be found in Yue Yihuang's room.

Yue Yihuang took out two cans of beer from the refrigerator and threw one of them to Francisco.The beer can made a beautiful arc in the air and was finally caught firmly by Francisco.He pulled the tab of the beer can smoothly, and then took a big gulp.

Seeing Francisco's actions, Yue Yihuang also smiled, pulled the tab and took a big gulp of beer.

There doesn't seem to be much room in his house for entertaining guests.The wooden chairs in the kitchen didn't seem to be very enjoyable to make, so the two of them stood in the living room, the sound of swallowing beer in their throats could be heard in the air.Yue Yihuang finally realized that for such an international star, such a reception was really too chilling.

So Yue Yihuang thought about it and invited Francisco to his bedroom.

Although Yue Yihuang's bedroom was decorated very simply, at least there would be a very comfortable sofa in it, and he didn't pay much attention to it.However, when he invited Francisco into the bedroom, he forgot the photos he had posted on the bedroom wall.Those photos... are treasured by him as treasures, and he almost takes a look at them every night before falling asleep.

So, almost when Francisco walked into Yue Yihuang's room, he was attracted by the photos pasted on the wall.

Those photos are mostly boys of similar age, wearing sportswear, on the lawn.And football is the absolute protagonist among them.Of course, there will also be some non-football-themed photos, such as the photo of two young boys pretending to be adults, leaning against a row of bookshelves.

The sharp-eyed Francisco almost recognized the only little boy of Asian descent in the photos when he saw them for the first time.He looked at those photos curiously, and turned his head to look at Yue Yihuang from time to time, and asked incredulously after a while:

"These... are all photos of you when you were a child? God...you looked like a girl when you were young."

After Francis finished speaking, Yue Yihuang's entire face turned dark.

But it is obvious that Francisco did not recognize that besides Yue Yihuang in these photos, another little boy who appears in almost every photo is the most popular Argentine loan star in football today. Igles belongs to the Spanish giants club, Barcelona.

At this moment, Francisco just put all his attention on the photos of Yue Yihuang's youth in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe that the young boy who looked so delicate and looked not much different from a little girl would actually be here A few years later it grew into what it is now.

Yes, in today's Yue Yihuang, he can vaguely find the shadow of that young man with a bright smile on his face, but... his temperament seems to have undergone a transformation.Now Francisco can't tell what kind of difference there is in the temperament of the two, he just feels novelty.

He even asked Yue Yihuang very politely if he could send him a photo on the wall so that he could feel the wonder of the Creator when he was free.

result?Of course it was rejected by Yue Yihuang with a black face.

Francisco, however, didn't care at all.Instead, a completely unrelated question came to mind.

"By the way, what's your full name? It can't be just a simple Yue?"

"Of course not. But the pronunciation of my Chinese name may be difficult for you to remember."

As he spoke, Yue Yihuang spoke out his name, and incidentally explained what the order of first name and last name looks like in Chinese.

"So, Yue isn't actually your name, it's just your surname?"

"Yes."

"So, I still have to remember your name. For my teammates, it's really a very bad thing to only know the last name but not the first name."

After speaking, Francisco took out his mobile phone, turned on the recording function, and very earnestly asked Yue Yihuang to say his full name again.

Yue Yihuang was a little surprised by Francisco's seriousness, but afterwards, after chuckling, he said his name three times in a row.After finishing speaking, Francisco turned off the recording function of his mobile phone, and said to him with a smile:

"The next time we meet, I will be able to call your name accurately, I promise you."

That day, Francisco didn't stay at Yue Yihuang's house for a long time before going back.

Everything that happened on that rainy day seemed to be just a small episode, and it passed quickly.

However, this little episode seems to have left some minor sequelae for Yue Yihuang.

Yes, after that, Francisco would always call Yue Yihuang by his name every time he met him, just like Yue Yihuang called him when he was training with him in Barcelona.

This gradually aroused the suspicious eyes of other teammates in the Turin team.

On a windy afternoon, Yue Yihuang was dragged into the locker room by one of his teammates, who pressed him in a small corner and asked him what was going on.

Under this kind of intimidation and questioning, of course Yue Yihuang couldn't resist all the moves.So the teammates were indignant, especially Nilva and Cassel in the Spanish trio of the Torino team. After a long time, the name they had called for a long time was actually Yue Yihuang's surname?This was really bad, so within a few days, everyone in the Turin team called Yue Yihuang by his name, "Yihuang".

This made Yue Yihuang suspicious, he only said his name once or twice in an emergency, how could the whole team remember it?

It wasn't until he heard a certain team member playfully playing a very familiar audio on his mobile phone during the break, and followed the audio to correct his own pronunciation that Yue Yihuang suddenly reacted.It turned out that Francisco guy spread the recording of that day!

Yue Yihuang desperately used his eyes to follow the figure of that guy, but saw that the guy was still practicing the skill of dribbling when everyone was resting.After Yue Yihuang's sharp eyes touched the figure of Francisco, those emotions disappeared in an instant.He stared at Francisco's extraordinary action, and his next action appeared unconsciously in his brain.

【Fake right foot, then gently sweep the ball backwards, then turn around and bring the ball forward in an arc. 】

Such a series of actions appeared in Yue Yihuang's brain, and...he watched Francisco face the obstacles in a straight line on the lawn, and made the series of actions that appeared in his consciousness.

Although...Francisco's backward turning movement in the end was slightly different from what he thought, but the extremely high degree of coincidence almost scared Yue Yihuang.He took a sharp breath and lowered his head in disbelief.When he raised his head again, he found that Francisco was looking at him, with a charming smile...