ball magic

On January 1, the night sky in Milan was filled with red fireworks. Countless Milan fans celebrated the victory on the street, but this night the blue and black fans were like wounded animals, curled up in their dens, carefully licking Licking their wounds, listening to the sounds of celebration in the city that disgust them, patiently dormant.

This night is difficult for any Inter Milan player.

Because of the schedule, they can't even get time to breathe, and they have to prepare for the league in 3 days.

These players who were already feeling the pressure doubled the pressure in the training match the next day, and it was from Raphael

Watching the team go out obviously stimulated their little ball masters.In this day's training match, Stam was knocked down twice by Rafael

If this wasn't for team training, if this wasn't for Rafael, the Dutchman would have already shoveled

but who would do that

Even if someone pushes Raphael down in normal training, he has to apologize immediately.

Old Robson could clearly see that Rafael had formed his own mountain in the team. South Americans, including Ronaldo, believed in him, and the Italians appreciated him. This is obviously the future of Inter Milan.

Moratti is obviously not mistaken, Raphael is enough to shoulder the captain's armband in the future.

On January 1th, Inter Milan, which had just been hit hard by Milan 25 days ago, ushered in their 3th round of the league. Their opponent was Empoli.

This is Rafael's comeback battle. For this reason, this game has also become one of the focus battles of this round.

During the warm-up period, Inter Milan was ridiculed by Empoli fans a lot. They ridiculed the Nerazzurri and even abused them.

Raphael was deaf to all this.

After the game officially started, at the moment of kick-off, he put all his energy into the game.

When 90 minutes passed, Rafael circled the court with a mocking smile.

The 50% victory revived the morale of the team and made all the players breathe a sigh of relief

Bergomi waved to everyone, and asked everyone to walk with him to the small away fans stand to say goodbye.

Raphael and his teammates stood shoulder to shoulder, and under the leadership of the captain, he sang the team song with the fans, letting the singing wash away all the haze.

This was the last match of January, and despite being eliminated in the Coppa Italia, Inter Milan still leads Juventus by 1 points in the league.

There was no international match day in February, nor any cup matches, and Rafael played 2 league games with the team throughout February

In these six rounds, they not only swept Lecce 60 times, but also tied Fiorentina 1-1, and they still failed to win Parma, which has a real teenager Buffon after 90 minutes of fierce fighting.

But in these 6 games, Inter Milan has 5 wins and 2 draws, and still got a precious 17 points

On February 2, after the 28rd round of the league, Inter Milan, which went all out in every away game, did not make mistakes under pressure, leading Juventus by 23 points and continuing to lead the standings

The Fifa national match day came, but Raphael, who was not recruited by the national team, was forced to take a holiday by the old Robson.

"You have to rest for a week. I don't care what you do. It doesn't matter if you fly back to Argentina. In short, if you are not allowed to come to the base, I will not allow them to let you go." Old Robson said.

How will Raphael spend these few days of vacation?

He had already finished filming the commercial, and he also refused to allow Oriol to add more business trips to him.

"Let's go back to Laco," Juan suggested cautiously.

Raphael was stunned, and then said resolutely, "Let's go back, we'll go back after buying the presents."

Since it was an international match day, most of Deportivo's international footballers were of course called up to the national team, but this proposal was still approved by Rafael, because Deportivo still has unlucky ghosts, for example, because of Rivaldo's outstanding performance. And Jaminia, who was unable to be selected for the national team.

They bought a lot of gifts, and returned to the seaport that was ridiculed as "Little Sea Village" with Juan in silence.

Since he was going home, it was naturally impossible to stay in a hotel. He was brought home by Juan, and received a fanatical welcome from Juan's family.

That night Raphael called Fran, and the next day Juan was still driving the second-hand car that his father had discarded, carrying Raphael with gifts, walking along the familiar streets and looking at the familiar scenery , came to their most familiar base.

When the gatekeeper who often delivered packages to Raphael saw the familiar car, he was stunned

"Juan" uncle shouted at the car.

"David" Raphael waved to him after rolling down the car window.

At this moment, the gatekeeper's eyes were red, he was choked up and could barely speak, he ran to the car

Juan stopped the car, Raphael opened his hands after getting out of the car, hugged the chubby David, and almost stained his clothes with his snot and tears.

Raphael laughed silently, and he patted David's arm vigorously, "We brought you a gift, Italian ham and chocolate."

David finally stopped his tears, he also smiled, wiped away his tears in a little embarrassment, collected his emotions again, and said choked up, "Didn't you send a gift at Christmas? I opened it and delivered it myself. into the hands of each of them."

"It was a Christmas present and it was always different," Rafael said.

David nodded vigorously, "They will be happy, this will definitely be the talk of the base for the next month."

After clearing his face, Juan did not drive the car to the parking lot, but drove to a small office building. When their car stopped in the office building, a staff member recognized it immediately, and the whole base was boiling in the next moment up

Rendoiro walked out of his office that did not match his chairmanship amidst the noise of everyone, and was also stunned when he saw Raphael surrounded by enthusiastic staff

There are many players who walked out of the Riazor Stadium, but most of them left without looking back, and very few returned here again.

When Raphael hugged everyone and gave gifts, he saw Rendoiro walking in front of him and extending his arms to him.

Raphael showed a smile and chatted with him a few words.

"You are really good at Inter Milan this year, we are all proud of you." Rendoiro said sincerely, without mentioning Argentina or the players who were called up.

Fran arrived quickly, and as soon as he saw Raphael, he gave him a big hug, and then complained frantically, "I thought you were going to the locker room first, I arrived so early like a fool, wait you an hour"

Everyone laughed, and Fran said that he waited for an hour. That was the time when Raphael would appear in the locker room before. In Deportivo, it has an exclusive name "Raphael time".

Raphael could feel Fran's excitement, because the guy's chest was throbbing.He just patted the captain on the shoulder hard, diverting the captain's attention with a gift.

Rafael and them went back to the locker room, and saw Lao Tuo waiting in front of the locker room. It was Toshack who was smiling but had slightly red eyes.

Raphael stepped forward and gave his mentor a big hug.

Toshack kissed the cheek of this beloved disciple affectionately, and the first sentence was to ask him if he was tall again.

Jaminia behind him immediately took the lead in laughing, and Rafael glared at the idiot, and honestly told Toshack, "It's still 187 centimeters, but I weigh 78kg now."

This slightly proud tone made Toshack laugh, but he still pretended to be serious and said, "This is not enough."

"I will work hard, you know, and I will never let you down in terms of hard work."

Toshack looked at Raphael's sincere eyes and smiled again. Of course he believed Raphael's words, and he never let him down in his efforts.

Rafael hugged every former teammate, greeted some new players who joined Depor this season, and gave all the gifts.

In the end, Toshack looked at Rafael and Fran lying on the court, enjoying the unique sunshine of the Iberian Peninsula, and the sea breeze with a unique flavor of Deportivo, chatting about La Liga, Serie A, and players , By the way, listen to their gossip.

Toshack watched all this with a smile, and waved to Juan, who was loved by the staff and who was being questioned.

Juan ran back immediately, just when he thought that Lao Tuo was going to ask him about Rafael, he did not expect that Lao Tuo actually cared about his state and the attitude of old Robson towards him, which made Juan's eyes roll Brush it red

"You can learn a lot at the big club, but if you still don't get the chance next year, I would suggest buying you back, or loaning you back. You are a child of Riazor, and we always hope that our children can be better. Good." Lao Tuo said.

Juan, whose hair had already grown to the length of his ears, immediately hugged Lao Tuo.

He went home and felt the warmth brought by his family.

Raphael saw this scene, but he didn't speak.

"He's a good kid, but he still has to work hard to get opportunities." Fran said, and said with a deep meaning, "Even in Deportivo, he may not get more opportunities, everything has to be fought, he is still too young .”

"He has the potential to become a top midfielder, let's see what happens next year," Rafael said.

Jaminia looked at Juan with his chin up, always feeling that the kid was lucky.

Midfielders, especially young midfielders, unless they are as talented as Raphael, who has been so strong since the youth team, it is usually difficult to get a chance.When the team chooses them, it means that they must be ready to pay their tuition fees at any time.

If it was the former Depor, a player like Juan would naturally get a chance.

but now decco

Depor is not just a wealthy killer. They were double champions last season. Although they lack experience in third-line combat this season and were eliminated by Manchester United in the Champions League, they still have a lot to do in the league.

Therefore, the current Deportivo has only such a small piece of soil that can give young players the growth, and the competitive pressure is no less than that of a giant like Inter Milan.

In the evening they had a barbecue party at Jaminia's house.

At the party, Rafael was almost clinging to Jaminia's cub the whole time.

Raphael also liked Xiao Jia so much that he prepared a special suitcase gift for him, which made Jaminia mumble, thinking that his son was more popular in front of Raphael than his father.

The local media in Deportivo flocked to the party after the party. Raphael did not refuse the media thousands of miles away as before, because this is Deportivo, he is the darling here, and naturally he has to give back to the fans here.

"The team gave me a holiday just to let me rest better. Deportivo is like home to me and Juan, and Juan and I want to come back and see. As you can see, our chairman, staff and My friends still welcome me back and everyone is happy."

The interview was short, but the response was huge

When it was broadcast on TV, hundreds of Depor fans walked out of their homes, and they soon discovered that they were not alone, the "Riazo Blue" fans would quickly organize the fans together, and these "Galician Blue Devils" ignited Blue fireworks, like they do in the game, and then they all chanted Rafael's name loudly

When they came to Juan's house, there were already tens of thousands of Deportivo fans

Raphael had already stood on the roof of Juan's small building, he watched the blue converging, and the voices from all directions also converging

It's the same blue, it's the same voice

Amidst the shouts of everyone, Raphael's eyes were sore, and his chest was trembling.

This is not the Riazor Stadium, but these fans still gave him more love and tolerance than after scoring at the Riazor Stadium.

Now what can he give back to the fans?

He has bid farewell to Depor's blue and white jersey.

The only thing he could do was raise the blue scarf handed to him by Juan's father with both hands, and bowed deeply amid the cheers of the fans who saw this scene.