ball magic

Rafael's return to the national team is a top priority for all Argentine nationals.

How big is it?

Even the president has to discuss it, and it hasn't gotten the headlines yet

The person who grabbed the headlines with him was Maradona.

The grievances between Maradona and Rafael are well known, but Maradona, Redondo, and Batty have not yet completely fallen out.

So this time Maradona's attitude when accepting the media is: "I will go to the candy box, I will cheer for Argentina, because I love it deeply, but this does not include Rafael, he will use his performance Prove that he deserves this jersey! Deserves Argentina!"

The media knew very well that Maradona said that he no longer opposed Rafael's joining Argentina, of course, because he was powerless to oppose it.

Because Maradona is only the spiritual leader of all Argentines, it is the right of the current national team coach Bielsa, not him, to recruit players.

Whether he protests or not, it will not change the fait accompli.

But Maradona didn't just forget it, where is the candy box?

That is his super home field, where there is his throne, and there are subjects who support him!

He will turn that stadium into Rafael's nightmare!

Maradona's attitude actually somewhat relieved Grondona.

He was able to get Raphael back quickly without setting up any obstacles, not because he cared about an America's Cup, but because he cared about money!

Lots and lots of money!

Coca-Cola, their second largest sponsor, said that as long as Rafael is not selected for Argentina, I will reconsider our cooperation.

Pepsi wants to replace it, but the prerequisite is that Argentina's number one star will wear the Argentine jersey again, and the jersey must also have their logo.

Their biggest sponsor, Adidas, also expressed dissatisfaction with them. They gave sponsorship far more than before, not because Argentina's performance in the World Cup deserved more from them, but because of Rafael!

Protests from major sponsors also allowed Grondona to see Argentina's future "money scene".

As long as Rafael returns to Argentina, he can have such influence, so can they get more sponsors?

Grondona's mind was spinning quickly.

After holding the cup at Inter Milan, after the old Robson fired at them, he borrowed a donkey to go downhill and asked Bielsa to list the big list for this call, and Raphael and others were successfully selected.

If you look at the starting roster, you will know that Bielsa's lineup is now dominated by Inter Milan, which has just won the Triple Crown. Veron didn't even make the cut.

Grondona agrees with Bielsa's decision!

Although his mind is full of dollars, it doesn't mean that he doesn't want Argentina to achieve results or win the cup.

Bielsa's call-up list is extremely young, and Redondo, the oldest, has just celebrated his 30th birthday. If the America's Cup training goes well, they can look ahead to 2002!

As soon as Raphael's plane landed, there were a large number of media waiting for them, as well as Simeone who came to pick up the plane with the staff.

As we all know, Simeone is the captain of the Argentine national team. At least after Bielsa took office, he did not deprive him of the captain's armband.

This is obviously a wise decision. After all, in Bielsa's national team, there are both the Boca gang and the River Plate faction. If you don't choose a captain from a neutral background, what awaits Bielsa is two words of infighting!

If they can't tell the difference, and the trouble gets out of hand, these two gangs will not keep their own law and order.

Now players from River Plate have an obvious advantage, and the rest of the selected players either have a good relationship with Raphael, or they are very good.

The captain Simeone belongs to a very good rank. Why does Bielsa have to change the captain?

With such a guy as the captain, Rafael enjoys benefits

The captain not only came to pick them up from the plane, but also told Rafael in front of the reporter that he had arranged him and Aimar in the same room.

The captain even said to the reporters on the scene: "I am very happy that Pabrido was selected, because it means that I am finally relieved. It is a nightmare to be in the same room with Rafael. After all, I don't want to see the Ezeiza training base. The view at 5am."

Look, the captain has found out all the reasons, which shows how far he can be a man!

How could Raphael not support such a captain?

Rafael was also interviewed by the Argentine media at the airport. It was also at this time that he learned from the reporter what Maradona was pushing.

Raphael was also polite, and responded directly: "He can come and see if he wants to. It's not his turn to judge whether I deserve this jersey or not."

Simeone secretly glanced at Raphael, kind!

The captain was almost certain that the candy box that day was Rafael's away game alone!

The rivalry between Rafael and Maradona is about to be staged, Redondo and Batty have received little attention, and Aimar has become a little transparent.

But that's good, they would rather not pay attention than show Raphael's limelight.

When they finally got out of the airport and got in the car, Simeone couldn't help but shook his head and said, "That's all right, I think Diego Maradona is going to be mad at you again."

Raphael showed a sarcastic smile at this.

Simeone:

This expression is really familiar.

He took advantage of the opportunity to sneak a glance at Aimar, in fact, he didn't know whether the relationship between the two was that kind.

If so, is it because Aimar's eyes are covered with cow dung on the pampas grassland when he falls in love with that stinky fart king?

Staying at the Ezeiza training base again, the treatment of Rafael and Aimar this time is different from that of Little Beet.

At least the room is a little bigger, the windows are a little bigger, and the bed is a little more spacious.

That's right, the biggest changes are only these three.

Because the senior bosses in the team all have the rooms they are used to living in, they are ranked according to their seniority, and the good rooms have long since disappeared.

Moreover, the seniors came to the base earlier than them, so even if Rafael successfully transitioned from Inter Milan's small ball tyrant to Argentina's small ball tyrant, the accommodation conditions still did not improve.

However, Aimar strolled around the room contentedly, and said to him in a tone that sounded like he wanted to treat this place as a long-term site: "Kili has been living in the same room for four or five years. Maybe we can live in the same room." lived here for a long time."

This is obviously Curly's ambition.

Raphael loved it.

He liked it so much that when he looked at this room, he automatically added a filter.

When they simply packed their luggage, Redondo came to ask them to go out for dinner.

When he and Batty return to the national team, of course they have to show something, and it must be arranged to invite the whole team to dinner.

Bielsa is not Passarella, and their match against Mexico was only a friendly match, and the main match was still more than ten days away, so Redondo easily asked for leave for the whole team.

The restaurant was found by Redondo. Facts have proved that the Bernabéu prince's family is worthy of being in the beef business, and his taste is quite good. The barbecue restaurant he chose was unanimously praised by everyone.

However, Redondo is still Redondo, and the dinners he saves are obviously different from those of Simeone and the others.

There was red wine, it was impossible to drink to the fullest, and he even brought everyone back to the base before 9 pm.

This made Simeone whisper in Raphael's ear: "When you become the captain in the future, you can't learn from him. That's why he didn't become the captain."

Raphael gave him a blank stare.

Redondo didn't become the captain because the captain was Maradona, it's as simple as that, it has nothing to do with his character!

Although you are a good captain, being the captain has nothing to do with your personality!

It was a little early to return to the base, and the boss had already started to discuss the formation of a game to play cards.

This is also an important part of the internal team building of the Argentine national team, and of course the small ball bully has to participate.

So Batty asked Rafael if he would go, and Simeone immediately pushed him away, "What do you want to do? You want to lose your pants, and you bet with him yourself, so don't hurt us."

Batty looked at Zanetti and Abidal in a daze. Could it be that Raphael is so good at playing cards?

Obviously, he trusts honest people like Zanetti and Abidal more than the character of the captain.

As a result, the honest people nodded their heads one after another!

Abidal also advised everyone: "Listen to our advice, if Rafa hadn't been tolerant enough, Vieri and Ronaldo would have lost their pants many times."

It sounds so miserable...

Batty immediately hooked Simeone's neck, walked to his room and said, "Let's go and play with us."

Raphael looked at Batty's back and raised his eyebrows. Zanetti rubbed his hair as a comfort when he saw Batty, and then left him without hesitation and joined everyone's game.

Rafael, who was left behind, looked at his own deer again, and he saw him snickering, obviously happy to see Simeone demolishing him.

He handed his hand to Aimar, "Do you want to go back to the dormitory or go for a walk?"

Is this the problem?

Isn't your hand the best hint?

Aimar can only hold his hand and wander around the Ezeiza training ground with him in winter, which is not a bad feeling.

When he went around and was about to go back to the dormitory, Aimar suddenly laughed out loud.

Rafael glanced at him, and heard him say: "I think the game the day after tomorrow is the most exciting I've ever seen, even more exciting than the Argentine derby, it's interesting to think about it."

The Argentine national derby is the confrontation between River Plate and Boca, also known as the century derby, and it is also a derby that never allows away fans to enter the stadium to watch.

The visiting team fans who step into the home team's stadium have already stepped into hell with one foot.

Not to mention the Argentine domestic league, but only to say that in the history of the Copa Libertadores, Boca Juniors won 80 home games. With such a super devil's home stadium, they are the out-and-out home dragons of South America!

Curly was obviously waiting to see his jokes. Raphael didn't care about his attitude, but asked him: "Hernan Crespo, I almost peed my pants when I was born in Riverbed for the first time in a candy box, how about you?"

"A little weak in the legs." Aimar admitted that he had nothing to be ashamed of.

That's Candy Box, and it's been making legends since the day it was built.

He then looked at Rafael, "You have already played an away game at home in Monument River Plate, how did you feel at that time?"

What does it feel like?

Raphael looked down at him, "Didn't you see it clearly on the court?"

Emma couldn't help but smile.

That day, Raphael's whole body exuded the same message to kill them all!

He managed to silence the 75000 fans in Monument Stadium that day.

This made Aimar whisper: "It's been two years, and you are different from the past."

Argentina is not only fans of Maradona, only Boca fans.

The current Raphael's style of play is more mature and his confrontation ability is stronger. Such a Raphael conquering the candy box will only conquer the monument more easily.

Raphael smiled silently, taking this sentence as perfection.

On June 1999, 6, Bielsa met his players. On this day, they only arranged a recovery training session and let the players find their own status.

There is no pre-match tactics class, and no other arrangements.

Because Bielsa is convinced that as long as his players are not too bad, they will easily win tomorrow's game.

When the time came to June 1999, 6, when the bus of the Argentine national team drove into the Boca area, almost everyone looked at Rafael.

Because the residents of Boca District stood on the colorful roofs of their homes and on the side of the road, holding up banners, expressing their "welcome" to Rafael with boos.

The dense crowd made Simeone speechless.

You must know that among all the players, he is the player who has played the most games on behalf of Argentina, that is, as the saying goes, he is old.

Usually Boca fans would only entertain their sworn rivals River Plate and the Brazilian team in this way, but now all of this has become exclusive to Rafael.

Rafael didn't ignore these fans. He likes to be by the window, but he looked out the window quietly, watching the "enthusiasm" they showed.

Simeone has been his teammate for two seasons, of course he knows that this kid is not pretending to be cool, he really doesn't care.

So how did this overly calm heart grow?

Aimar also glanced at his partner beside him.

Yesterday he kept saying that he wanted to see his jokes, but before the stadium arrived today, he was already worried about him.

Raphael can ignore everyone's eyes, but he can't ignore him. Instead of comforting Aimar, he asked him in a low voice: "Do you remember the road built on top of the house?"

A lot of ears quietly pricked up around, the road on the house?

Emma's eyes widened.

Of course he remembers!

He was terrified when he climbed up, thinking that the house would collapse at any moment!

"It's about to be demolished there," Rafael said. "We can go there to set off fireworks after the game."

This proposal is really...

Aimar nodded with a smile, he is not worried at all now.

"Rafa," Bielsa, who was obviously eavesdropping, turned his head and looked over, "I think your proposal is good, but next time before you say it in public, please remember to ask me for leave first. If you win the game, I will approve it of."

This immediately caused a burst of laughter in the car.

With Bielsa's character, it was not easy for him to say some witty things, and they laughed and cherished it.

Raphael smiled at Bielsa, looked out the window again, and saw the blue and yellow stadium that looked like the Swedish flag.

This is the Alberto J Armando Stadium.

But whether it is the locals or the commentators explaining the game, they will only call it a candy box.

It has such a sweet name because it is flat on one side and towering on three sides. The vertical and steep stands look like candy boxes.

When the bus stopped at the special channel, under the leadership of Simeone, everyone got off one by one.

Both sides of the car were full of media. The moment Rafael got off the car, they burst into loud voices, hoping to attract him to look in his direction.

Aimar could also tell from their voices that they were from all over the world.

It was also at this moment that Aimar clearly realized that this was no longer a friendly match!

The moment Rafael got out of the car and stepped on the candy box court, the flashing lights were like silver waterfalls.

Because all the media present and even all the players knew that this was the first time that he, an outcast from Boca, stepped into the Candy Box Stadium as a professional player.

When they entered the special passage and avoided the media cameras, Simeone hooked Raphael's shoulder and asked, "How do you feel?"

Raphael glanced at him, "You want me to hear the truth?"

Needless to say!

Simeone glared at him.

Raphael pointed to the top of the special passage, "I can't wait."

Those media speculations were correct.

Unlike Monument Stadium, this stadium has special meaning to him.

Because it's home to his youth team, and since he was a kid he dreamed of getting into the first team, starting here...

It's just that such a dream was shattered by his parent team when he was 14 years old.

But the candy box is still a candy box, and it still has a special magic power for him.

Just his goal, with a small correction already made.

Simeone ruffled his blond hair.

He already had a hunch that this was not a friendly match, but a friendly match.

Raphael said he couldn't wait.

But before he and his teammates entered the field to warm up, the Argentine fans who had entered the field, or Boca fans, couldn't wait to sing the song of Maradona.

All this is because Maradona has appeared in the stands!

This is their unreserved support for Maradona!

The singing is uniform, like a large-scale religious ceremony.

Maradona in the stands also continued to pay tribute to the fans around him.

When the players entered the field, Maradona was already smoking a cigar, watching the singing instantly turn into endless boos, and they all flocked to the same figure!

At this moment, Huang Jianxiang, the commentator of CCTV, was introducing the situation on the spot.

In this summer without the World Cup and the European Cup, the Copa America is the most watched national team cup.

Especially when Rafael returns to Argentina, all fans are looking forward to the confrontation between Argentina led by Rafael and Brazil led by Ronaldo.

It is precisely because of such attention that CCTV bought the rights to broadcast this America's Cup and chose to broadcast the friendly match live.

The young Huang Jianxiang also came to Argentina to explain the game on the spot.

This is also to prepare for the interpretation of this America's Cup.

"South American fans are famous for their fanaticism. Among many stadiums, Candy Box can become the most devilish stadium in South America. There is only one reason for fanaticism!

Listening to the boos, it's like a torrent sloping down!This stadium also has the steepest grandstands in the world!I'm standing in the media area, it's like I'm standing in mid-air!

But looking at these bouncing fans, I can tell you responsibly that the vibration they made made me feel like I was in an earthquake, the whole stands and the whole stadium were shaking! "

"See those white pieces of paper pouring down from the high stands?

This is the traditional repertoire of Argentine fans.

The final of the World Cup in 78 was held at the Monument Stadium. At that time, white pieces of paper fell from the sky just like now, so that white pieces of paper could be seen everywhere in the stadium.

It was also the most beautiful scene in the history of the World Cup. "

"Look behind me, the fans who didn't get the tickets are climbing the barbed wire. Every year in Argentina, a lot of fans are injured or even die because of climbing the barbed wire.

For football, they paid the price with their lives! "

"All the boos, fanaticism, abuse and banners should be dedicated to the visiting Mexican team, but the Boca fans gave it all to Rafael in the blue and white striped shirt!"

With the voice of the commentary, the camera freezes on the banner with red letters on a black background in the main stand.

"It says Raphael in Spanish, welcome to hell!

And the Boca fans really decorated their stadium as a hell that only belongs to him! "

The camera froze on the banner for a few seconds before turning to the court.

The next moment that appeared in the camera was Raphael who was still warming up calmly in the "hell".

Let your aggression be like fire, and I will not move like a mountain!

Even though he has explained Rafael's games for two years, Huang Jianxiang can't help admiring him at this moment.