ball magic

After the lunch break, they were woken up by the teaching assistants, and after a brief preparation, they took the bus to Meazza.

There is a lot of noise in the bus. It is unrealistic for players to keep quiet in the bus in an era when mobile phones can't provide enough entertainment and grab players' attention.

But there are three aliens in the bustling bus - Raphael, Zanetti, and Juan.

They are reading.

In the "awe" of teammates with disgust and speechless eyes, read the book.

At first, everyone was still a little uncomfortable. When complaining behind his back, West found another way and said: "Actually, Rafa is also good at reading books. I can't imagine him playing with us."

Let Raphael play cards, fool around, and talk dirty shit with them?

He would rather let Raphael read a book!

Everyone thought about that scene, and they all agreed with West's point of view with genuine emotion and heart.

At first it was only Raphael who read the book, and then there was a "licking dog" Juan.

The football circle is so small, and the nickname Juan got in Deportivo was quickly spread to the entire locker room and even the entire Pinettina because of Ronaldo's relationship.But no one has ever dared to call Juan like that—he is covered!

Juan read books in Italian.

He doesn't know Italian like Zanetti himself, Zanetti even has an Italian surname, and he doesn't have any language problems at all.He is different, Italian still has to be learned.

As for Zanetti, Zanetti is a recent addition.

Zanetti, who was considered by Juan to be well-born, was actually born in a poor family. His father was a plasterer, but his girlfriend Paula's father was a university professor.

Zanetti had no interest in reading books before, but he was a professional player.But since he heard Raphael and Juan talk about stocks, everything changed—he heard from Juan a figure that clearly exceeded all of Juan's net worth!

Zanetti loves playing football, but it doesn't mean he doesn't love making money, so after asking Raphael, he found that Raphael threw him a bunch of books.

"I can give you advice, but you must at least have a concept, understand what we are going to do, and why we can make money."

Mourinho looked at the three people with completely different styles in the whole bus, and finally his eyes stayed on Raphael.

He admitted that Raphael was a special one.

When he arrived at the home court, changed his clothes and warmed up under the leadership of Mourinho and other assistant coaches, Rafael, who had a cold face, finally fixed his eyes on the opponent he was most looking forward to today——

Alessandro Nesta.

Nesta during the Lazio period, Nesta who has entered the peak this season, and Nesta who is about to become the world's number one central defender.

That may not be fair enough.

Because although Nesta was strong during this period, he was only compared with himself after his serious injury-Nesta suffered a serious injury in 98 and had to recover for half a year.Although this injury did not affect him becoming the world's number one central defender, it did affect his career.

But Raphael is very clear that as long as Nesta does not change his style of play, injuries are doomed to be inevitable.And the only thing that can restrict this man from becoming stronger is injuries.

In fact, it is precisely because of injuries and the strange Buff that he was injured as soon as the big game comes, it is still hard to say whether Cannavaro can win the Golden Globe.

Such an opponent is what Rafael expects.

Even though he looked the same as usual, even his heart didn't even speed up a single beat, but only Raphael knew that his blood had been ignited with excitement and expectation!

Nesta has a slender figure. According to the evaluation of Gazzetta dello Sport, he is a typical Mediterranean beauty, exuding a classic and elegant atmosphere.

But Raphael would not use such a nasty description. The Nesta he saw was not immature, young, and looked no different from the elegant central defender who would play for Milan in the future.

We can be understood as precocious.

Or it could be said that Nesta is so capable of freezing age that there is no obvious change for more than ten years.

Nesta didn't notice Raphael, he was still warming up seriously.

The captain of the "Blue Eagles" youth team at the age of 18 was promoted to the first team in 94.At first he played as a full-back, but soon conquered the then head coach Zeman with his outstanding performance, and gained a firm foothold in the first team.

After the Swede Eriksson took over the coach left by Zeman, Nesta was still reused.

The 21-year-old is a central defender who needs a lot of experience and grows through failures and mistakes. Nesta is undoubtedly a genius!

His performance is the same as his appearance, without any youthful atmosphere that a teenager should have, but quickly conquered Lazio and even Italian fans, and has a place in the national team.

The reason why Raphael is looking forward to this game is because this season is a season in which Nesta is famous all over the world.

What is the fastest way for a central defender to become famous?

Freeze World Footballer, Ballon d'Or winner, Ronaldo!

In fact, this is indeed the fact that the 21-year-old Nesta did freeze Ronaldo in the second round of this season, and he is still the "alien" Ronaldo!Helping Lazio is 3:0 Inter Milan, becoming famous in one battle!

Of course, the reason why Ronaldo is Ronaldo is also because he is Nesta's most troublesome opponent.

It doesn't matter, Raphael thought in his heart, he has plenty of opportunities to fight Nesta——

As long as he frequently makes threats, or intends to enter the penalty area!

Rafael's chest was full of blood, but after taking a deep look at Nesta with his blue-gray eyes, he withdrew and devoted himself to the warm-up more seriously.

He must be fully prepared, so that every bone and every muscle of the body is fully warmed up.

He wants to give it his all.

Because he met the best opponent.

Juan saw the icy flames in Raphael's eyes.This made him almost instantly believe that there is an opponent Rafael is interested in in the Lazio team.

In a way, he thought Raphael was arrogant.

Although Raphael will go all out no matter what opponent he faces, not all opponents can inspire his best state.

He didn't know exactly who Rafael saw and which player he was interested in, but he knew that this would be an interesting game.

Lazio has changed coach Eriksson Swede this season.

No mistake, it is the future coach of the Three Lions, the one who was caught by the British media and dismissed from get out of class.

To be seen by the FA, Eriksson's ability is actually okay.

Before this season, Lazio's coach was the Czech Zeman.Under the leadership of Zeman, Lazio played the most offensive and beautiful football in the entire Serie A that fits the taste of Argentines-football that is offensive to death.

Zeman's favorite lineup is always 433, and 3 strikers are standard.

Also under the leadership of Zeman, Lazio's chief striker Signori won the Serie A Golden Boot 3 times!One of them was won by Basten, and he was re-elected the following year.

If you don't pay attention to Serie A, it may be difficult to imagine the significance of winning the League Golden Boot three times.

On the stage of the "Little World Cup", how many gods did not get one golden boot, let alone three?

But in the eyes of Lazio President Craniotti, playing well is not as good as a league trophy or a Champions League trophy.

So Zeman dismissed get out of class and was replaced by Eriksson.The Swede also brought some changes to Lazio, for example, the formation.

After the warm-up, the old Robson talked to the players for the last time before the start of the game, and the most talked about were the midfielder and the defense.

"Lazio's 442 is a diamond position, Rafa, Diego, Mathias, your task is to find a way to cut off Nedved, Arondo, and Forsey."

"Nedved is in good form this season, don't give him too many chances to shoot."

"Vladimir has the ability to be a game changer at critical moments, don't underestimate him."

Raphael nodded, looking as cool as ever.

The old Robson turned to the defense. "Although the striker composed of Robert Mancini and Signori is 30 years old on average, they are all forwards who play with their brains. Do a good job of defense and don't give them a chance."

The old Robson finally looked at the forwards.

Strictly speaking, look to his outstanding disciple Ronaldo.

"Today you will have an interesting opponent, their number 13, named Nesta. Alessandro Nesta. He is a typical Italian central defender, and only Italy can cultivate this kind of central defender. Outstanding footwork, excellent mental quality, excellent shoveling, responsible for the tackle, and fast recovery speed. This is an opponent that needs your attention."

This is the longest sentence old Robson said today. Ronaldo nodded to show that he understood.

Raphael glanced at "Rabbit Tooth" with those eyes that were beating with cold flames, feeling a little envious.

"Rabbit Tooth" saw Raphael's gaze, thought it was Raphael giving him encouragement, and immediately returned a "sweet" smile.

Raphael: ...

Bergomi failed to start today, and the captain's armband was worn on Zanetti's shoulders.

If nothing else, Zanetti will take over the captain's armband after Bergomi retires and become the 22nd captain in the history of Inter Milan.

Zanetti noticed Raphael's gaze resting on his shoulder, and couldn't help smiling at him. After they walked out of the dressing room, he walked up to Raphael and said, "You are too young. But I think In a few years the captain's armband could be yours."

"No," Raphael shook his head, "I'm not interested in the captain's armband."

Zanetti raised his eyebrows. He didn't believe it. In fact, even he wanted to defend the captain's armband, even if the opponent was Rafael!

Rafael emphasized again, "For me it makes no difference who is the captain."

Instead of being the captain, he just wants to be the ball bully.

Zanetti still didn't believe it, and neither did Ronaldo who heard it next to him.

He is a happy Brazilian, and he is too lazy to be the captain. Of course, many people will say that the striker is not suitable to be the captain of BLABLA, but Rafael does not want to be the captain?

That is impossible!

They were laughing and laughing in the tunnel of their home players, and soon attracted the attention of the opposite Lazio players.Especially Nesta, who was the last one to come out of the locker room, couldn't stop chewing, and was struggling to swallow the big piece of pizza, raising his eyebrows.

He heard the captain.

The default captain of the "Blue Eagle" looked at Rafael thoughtfully. Is this Argentine the next captain of Inter Milan?

Nesta swallowed the piece of pizza, at the moment Inter Milan's home commentator Scapini is already reading the squad list of both sides.

He could clearly hear the name of every Inter Milan player being pronounced, which would attract huge screams and applause, but none of this could compare to the popularity of No. 9 Ronaldo and No. 10 Rafael.

Who is Meazza's darling will be decided immediately.

To greet the "Blue Eagle" was booing.

Nesta is used to leading his own little caddy to come out amid boos and shaking hands with the opponent. When he walked in front of Raphael, he found that Raphael looked at him a little bit subtlely.

Nesta didn't bother to delve into what the look meant.

Anyway, no matter what the look means, he will do his job on the field-shovel him!

The author has something to say: climbing a tree is a stalk, which means waiting on the tree and waiting for a transfer.

I'm still waiting on the tree for Dybala's transfer...

Still a day on the tree QAQ~