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Passarella didn't find Raphael when he came to the restaurant to eat, which made him a little puzzled, "Has Rafael arrived? Has he not gotten off the plane yet?"

"No," assistant coach Savilla told him, "the staff said Rafael had had breakfast and left."

Passarella was a little strange, "It's so early? Could it be that he's starving?"

"It should be hungry," Savilla explained, "Diego (Simeone) said that after he arrived at the base, he took a shower and went out for a run. The staff who picked him up calculated that he should have run for more than one hour." Hour."

"Did you work so hard?" Passarella shook his head, "I'm still too young and inexperienced. Only by working hard and earnestly during training can I impress the coach."

Raphael left everyone with a good impression of hard work when he first arrived at the base. Don't you also want to show him the coach?

This also made him feel a little pity, "It's a pity that he still wants to go to the youth team. Before the end of the World Youth Championship, the chairman does not plan to let him be selected for the national team again."[1]

The World Youth Championship and the America's Cup were held almost at the same time. Rafael went to the youth team, of course he couldn't play in the America's Cup, and vice versa.

The reason why Argentina could not arrange to recruit Rafael in the warm-up match this year, but let such a young player come off the bench in the world preliminaries is also because the America’s Cup qualifiers and World Cup qualifiers are held at the same time, and the national match days are used in the main match. .

What about Raphael?

He was another shining gold that made Spain covetous.

Therefore, both Grondona and Passarella believed that they must summon Raphael as soon as possible.

They should keep this kid forever, so that he can only soar on the pampas grassland.

Savilla boasted, "Rafael is still young, and he may only use this method to please you. Otherwise, what else can he rely on in the national team?"

Passare understood Savilla's hint.

Raphael offended a lot of people by blatantly bombarding Maradona, but because of the antagonistic relationship between him and Maradona, the profile was tantamount to flattering him and standing on his side.

Here I will explain to you the relationship between Passarella and Maradona in detail.

We have said that Argentina has not only factional disputes (Boca vs River Plate), but also ideological disputes.

Here are two coaches who have had the deepest influence on Argentina, and one of them is Menotti.

In 1978, Argentina won the Hercules Cup for the first time, and Menotti was the coach of the team.

He advocates offense, technical flow, and even more team football, and he also established a football system that belongs to Argentina.

The other is Bilardo.

Bilardo used to be an obstetrician and gynecologist. Because of his love for football, he gave up medicine and entered the football world and achieved success-he served as the coach of Boca Club and the Argentine national team successively.

Bilardo is an out-and-out result-oriented head coach. He does not pursue good-looking scenes, but only pursues victory and wins. In 1986, he led Argentina, which was not the favorite to win the championship before the game, all the way to the final, and finally won the cup!

In other words, these two are not only the relationship between the predecessor and the successor, but also the only two coaches in Argentina who have won the World Cup.

And the only two successful people have completely opposite ideas!

What about Passarella?

He is a disciple of Medino, so he naturally belongs to Medino's family.

It was Passarella, the captain, who won the first World Cup for Argentina in 1978!The meritorious captain of Argentina has played 440 games in his career and scored 134 goals. He is an out-and-out top guard with a knife!

No matter how you count the best team in Argentina's history, his name will definitely be on the list!

Ordinarily, Passarella's strength is no match for Chile, and his status is extremely lofty, but his status has been challenged!

The kid who challenged his status is called Diego Maradona!

In 1978, Medino felt that the old horse was too young and did not take him to the World Cup, which made the old horse miss the gold cup.According to rumors, it was Passarella who persuaded Medino to let go of such a talented player as Lao Ma!

In the World Youth Championship a year later, Lao Ma shocked the world.

After the 1982 World Cup, Menotti stepped down, and "Big Nose" Bilardo took over the Argentine coach, and the old horse ushered in the spring-Bilardo decided to build a team with Maradona as the core.

The old horse is not hypocritical, he wants to compete with Passarella for the captain's armband.

And Bilardo did not discuss with Passarella, so he deprived him of the captain's armband and gave it to his beloved disciple Maradona.

The old horse did not disappoint Bilardo. During the 7 years when Bilardo coached Argentina, they worked together as mentors and apprentices, and together led Argentina to win a World Cup championship and a World Cup runner-up.

How could Passarella, who was stripped of the captain's armband, let it go?He directly withdrew from the national team with a weird "stomach problem" reason.

This also made Passarella miss the 86 World Cup.

So there were many entanglements between these two people. When Passarella became the head coach of the national team in 94, the first thing he did was to exclude players from the Maradona family!Even including the "reconciliation" with Maradona after the 94 World Cup qualifiers, it is difficult to be called Redondo of the Maradona faction!

But Passarella doesn't care about this, he still has Almeida, he still has Simeone, without Maradona's people, will he be unavailable?

In Argentina, where talent is abundant, he only needs to do multiple-choice questions, not single-choice questions.

This also allowed Passarella to start promoting young players. In addition to Rafael, there are actually "Little Donkey" Ortega and Hugo Morales selected this time.

But Rafael remains the youngest, most anticipated and the one who has never been called up to the national team before.

He doesn't even have the experience of playing in the National Youth Team, and his body is as clean as a blank sheet of paper.

Passarella is very satisfied with this blank piece of paper. This is the disciple he expected. Although he is a little younger, it is an advantage for Passarella. He originally wanted to recruit Raphael last month. So that Rafael broke Maradona's appearance record.It's a pity that last month, "public complaints boiled over" for Raphael's selection to the national team, and the matter was left alone.This month Raphael had the opportunity to show his loyalty.

Simeone is actually a good guy. He can slap Rafael on the field, regardless of whether this is the future of Argentina, and he can ask Rafael for a jersey after the game.

What about the national team?He can take the initiative to ask to live in the same room with Rafael, and he will also lead Rafael into the locker room.

It's just entering the locker room, not blending in.

He's fine.

So what is "entering" the locker room?

He was the one who took a rare ten minutes to catch Raphael's thoughts and introduce him to his teammates' personalities.

For example: "Zanetti is a nice guy, you can even bully him, but he is very popular, if you really bully him, someone will beat you!"

"Thorin is a domineering guy with a good relationship with Zanetti, he is the guy who will beat you up!"

"Almeida looks like a villain, but he has a good relationship with me. He won't bully you."

"That boy Ortega is also very arrogant, he likes what's in the cup, but he probably doesn't like you, your positions overlap..."

Simeone said in general, and Raphael didn't listen very carefully, so Simeone became angry, "Little devil, are you listening carefully?"

Rafal gave him a look and let him understand.

Simeone scratched his hair and said distressedly, "Why don't you go on the road? Fernando also told me a lot, I shouldn't pay attention to him, let him talk to you by himself!"

Raphael raised his eyebrows and asked, "You have a good relationship with Redondo?"

"Redondo? Did you call him that? Shouldn't you call him Fernando after asking someone for his jersey?"

When Simeone said this, he felt that he had discovered something interesting. He said with a smile: "I will tell him when I return to Madrid. Since we both play football in Madrid, the relationship is actually okay. Although we don't meet often, it will be bad when we meet. .”

Raphael: →_→

It's just being done by Real Madrid.

"What kind of eyes do you have, such a stinky face! It's okay, I'm too lazy to tell you. In short, you should be a low-key person and play high-profile football, but don't wear Sorin in the crotch, absolutely not!" Simeone remembered the last time he was pierced Xiaomen's experience had to remind him.

Seeing that he had no nonsense to say, Raphael put on his shoes and prepared to warm up in advance.

Seeing his expression, Simeone could only follow him resignedly and lead him to the locker room.

The locker room was empty, because no one would come to training an hour earlier, and even if there was extra training, it would not be at this time, but should be left after training.

Raphael looked at the empty dressing room, and finally stopped in front of No. 10 wardrobe.

As a young player selected for the national team for the first time, Rafael got the jersey number "28". The No. jersey belongs to Batistuta.

Batty was born in 1969 and is 27 years old this year. He is currently at the peak of his career. He plays for the Fiorentina club with fluttering long hair and is wild and unruly!There may be 100 types of strikers, but Batistuta is definitely the one that can best ignite the flame of passion in a man's heart!He is also the God of War in purple in the hearts of countless Chinese fans.

As Argentina's main striker, Batty naturally has the No. 9 jersey.

After taking a look, Raphael found his locker, changed his clothes, and started to go out to warm up.

Simeone was reluctant, because he was more willing to practice after the training, and "taught" Rafael, "Boy, even if you want to perform hard, you should find a suitable time. You will waste your energy in advance, so it is better to train." Let's talk after it's over."

Raphael had already changed his clothes, glanced at him, and walked out.

Simeone didn't want to be an old mother, but he was entrusted by others, and this stinky boy was still a bit to his liking, so he still followed, watching Raphael's meticulous warm-up.

After watching for a while, Simeone also joined in, because it was silly to have nothing to do, and because the way Raphael started to practice shooting, it put a lot of pressure on him.

This brat is several years younger than him, and works at least twice as hard as him. It's fine if he doesn't see it. How could he remain unmoved after seeing it?After all, he always believed that he was never inferior to anyone in terms of fighting spirit and hard work.

When Batty came to the training ground, he was surprised when he saw Simeone and Rafael. He had just recovered from his injury some time ago, and he came to warm up in advance because he didn't want to accidentally get injured and affect the interests of the club. Players are paid.

It turned out that he was not the first one to come. The earliest ones were actually Simeone and the popular fried chicken that has been popular in Europe recently, Raphael.

"Ho, Rafa~" Batty greeted Rafael solemnly, but with a relaxed smile on his face, he didn't seem to be any different because Rafael might have an impact on his national team position.

Yes, of course Rafael can challenge his position as the main striker of the national team, and Batty knows this well, because after Rafael let his old friend Redondo suffer, he began to watch Rafael Seoul game.

This is undoubtedly a talented player, but Batty is not nervous, because Argentina has too many good forwards, he doesn't need to be able to score goals better than Rafael, he just needs to adapt to Passarella's tactics better than him need.

Raphael stopped and walked towards him.

Simeone looked over and found that Raphael reached out to Batty like an adult, "Gabe, hello."

"I won't shake hands with you." Batty smiled and opened his hands to Raphael with a smile on his face. "This is not suitable for me. Oh, you don't look as thin as Fernando said."

So, Raphael thought, Mr. Fernando Redondo, who couldn't be selected for the national team, you are actually an unknown big mouth, right?How many people have you gossiped about me with?

After saying hello, Batty began to warm up and watched Rafael practice shooting openly.

He was observing Raphael's mana methods and habits.

Batty soon discovered that it was not without reason that the young man in front of him could overwhelm Ronaldo on the La Liga Golden Boot list. Raphael's shot carried a kind of contempt for goalkeepers-he likes to hit dead corners, and he can also shoot accurately. into a corner.

This is the confidence that only top shooters have, and, arrogance.

And the shooting skills are very comprehensive.

Although it was just observation, Batty came to a conclusion that made him feel stressed when Rafael changed multiple angles, different distances, and various shooting methods.

About ten minutes after Batty joined, several people came on the court in one breath, including Almeida, Sorin, Zanetti and Ayala.Not far behind them, there are Ortega and Gallardo.

Raphael, who was wiping the sweat on his forehead with his long sleeves, almost immediately saw the little guy behind the crowd——Ortega.

When Juan asked him about the relationship between Aimar and him, Rafael described it as "he will be my substitute".

This is a joke, and it is also the future in Rafael's heart.But at the moment in the national team, he is likely to be Ortega's substitute, or Batty's.

As Batty's substitute, he can barely be convinced, but as Ortega's substitute?

He doesn't do it.

Simeone saw Raphael's longing gaze on the No. 10 jersey before. Although the No. 10 jersey does not belong to Ortega, in the South American qualifiers, Ortega is playing No. 10!

He was a little worried that Raphael would conflict with him, and he would have to stop this kid...

Ortega also saw Raphael standing in the sun with slightly curled hair on his forehead.Obviously handsome, but without any kindness - Raphael looked at him coldly, even hostilely.

Ortega raised his eyebrows, very good, he doesn't like Raphael either!

Passarella coached River Plate from 89 to 94 before becoming the coach of the Argentine national team.

Ortega, who was a player of the River Plate youth team, was discovered by Passarella and promoted to the first team.

Also under Passarella, Ortega made his debut.

In 1993, 19-year-old Ortega became the main force of River Plate. At the age of 20, he boarded a plane ticket to the United States. At that time, he was already regarded as Maradona's successor.

In fact, Ortega had heard of Raphael when he was a teenager.Although we are not in the same echelon, Ortega still paid attention to such a kid who can play and kick, and has a beautiful sister.

When Rafael suddenly appeared in La Coruña, Ortega inevitably began to pay attention to him.

Now that Raphael has been selected for the national team, although it is impossible to break Maradona's record for the youngest international appearance (16 years and 120 days), it is only a few days away from Maradona.In contrast, Ortega is ashamed to be selected for the national team at the age of 19?

Everyone is jealous, and Rafa is no exception, and Ortega, who feels that his unstable position in the national team has been impacted by Rafael, is no exception.

Raphael just looked at Ortega like no one else for a few seconds before turning around and continuing to practice. He didn't mean to greet this group of teammates actively.

Simeone looked at his back, gritted his teeth, and gave up the idea of ​​introducing him-what a fart!Even the shadow looks arrogant without seeing him!

Batty hesitated, but didn't move.

Because tell him directly, everyone does not want such an "introduction".

When Passarella's assistant Savilla and other coaches came to arrange training, everyone practiced in peace.

Passarella was very satisfied with what he saw, and his eyes quickly fell on Raphael.

The child's face was red, and he knew that he had been training for a long time at a glance, which made him ask Savilla a little curiously.

It is also the first time that Savilla sees players who take the initiative to train before the start of the team's training, but everyone has different habits, which will not affect the quality of training, and he will not interfere.

Now Passarella asked him, and he said like this: "The equipment manager said that he came early, and then asked him for the ball. He checked the time and it was more than an hour early. Diego came with him."

This made Passarella not only extremely satisfied with Rafael's eyes, but even more satisfied with Simeone's.

good, very good!The former "iron-blooded captain" and today's "iron-blooded coach" appreciate Simeone even more.

This afternoon's training session is recovery training.This is still an arrangement made taking into account the physical condition of these European players.

In the nearly 10 days of national competition days, players will spend 2 days going back and forth, plus 1 day of recovery training, leaving not much time for preparations.

Originally, Passarella did not intend to personally preside over such a mere recovery training session, but out of respect and curiosity for Rafael, he still walked to the sidelines in person.

Savilla told him some other news at this moment, such as the eye contact between Rafael and Ortega, and the current position where Rafael has not introduced himself in front of the whole team...

Passarella didn't care, "It's okay, as long as there is no fight."

"But Raphael's character—"

"It doesn't matter," Passarella looked at him. "He will only play one game. Even if he conflicts with Ortega, it's okay. Which capable player will be willing to be inferior?"

He himself has personal experience!

He and Maradona have not had any conflicts with each other, and the two have been in trouble, not to mention there are conflicts between Ortega and Rafael?

But being targeted by Raphael, it can only be said that Ortega is not strong enough, otherwise Rafael should be targeting Batty, right?

Hearing what Passarella said, Savilla also asked in confusion: "Are you so optimistic about Raphael?"

"Otherwise? Why am I so eager to let him be selected? He will never play in the America's Cup, but in the 98 World Cup, with him, no one will accuse me of refusing to let Maradona participate in the 78 World Cup. mistake'!"

Savilla shut up, he didn't want to delve into this topic.

After the training session, Simeone still planned to ask Raphael to go back together. Raphael waved his hand casually, which meant to continue training.

Simeone didn't know how intense his usual training was, and frowned on the spot.

Batty patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, he's fine. I don't see any difference in his shooting from before."

Simeone doesn't have such sensitivity as a midfielder. He glanced at Batty and said stiffly: "Who is worried about him? I just haven't seen such a dog temper!"

Batty turned around and looked at Raphael who was "drawing the bow and archery" to complete a beautiful long-range shot, and said with a smile: "This kid's long-range shot still has room to improve."

"Do you think everyone is you? He is still developing." Simeone subconsciously said, but after he finished speaking, he saw Batty's playful smile, which made him glared at Batty, "I am praising you , didn't you hear?"

Every football player is eager to leave a name in the history of football.

What they desire is not only personal honors and national team honors, but also hopes to have their own named skills, or ways of scoring goals.

For example, the well-known "Roben Cut", "Messi Corridor", "Fried Balls", and "Marseille Roundabout".

But there is also a shot that can arouse infinite memories and yearning, called "Battie goal!"

This is Batty's unique shooting method. Only his ground-breaking long shots outside the penalty area can be called "Barty goal".

How many long-range shooters are envious and looking forward to this?

But there is only one Batty, and "Batty goal" also belongs to Batty alone.

At this moment, Batty just looked at the figure of the younger generation who was constantly practicing and said: "I also had such a time back then, although it was for-"

"Make money!" Simeone couldn't stand it and gave this guy who was actually a basketball fan a blank look. [2] Seeing that Raphael's work was not over for a while, he bumped Batty's shoulder with his elbow, "We Want a drink?"

There is a small bar in the training base, but the amount of alcohol will be limited, Batty readily agreed.

Let's save extra training for later, he doesn't want to risk the injury recurring.

In the end, only Rafael and two poor caddies were left on the training ground.

When the sun was about to set, Rafael, who was hungry, finally noticed the expressions of the two children who were also hungry, which made him feel apologetic.

"Sorry, I didn't notice the time, are you hungry?"

The two teenagers who looked like twelve or thirteen nodded fiercely. Raphael asked and found out that they were all from the River Plate echelon.

The two children looked at him with admiration. One said, "Rafa, your shot is awesome!" The other said, "Rafa, did you really play midfielder before? Boca people have really bad eyesight!"

Rafael looked at the heads of these two little winter melons who were actually 14 years old and said, "Hurry up and pack up the ball. I'll help you carry the goal. After you pack up, I'll treat you to some good food."

He was referring to the "bar" recommended by Sanchis who sent him here yesterday to ask for his girlfriend's autograph. There are skewers sold there, but it's not a free supply of players, but he doesn't want them to go over the wall for their appetite. Get out of base and mess around.

The eyes of the two little guys lit up instantly!He ran all over the field with short legs to pick up the ball!

Raphael raised the corner of his mouth slightly, carried two small goals by himself, and sent them into the equipment room with them.Of course, it was inevitable to answer various questions from these two chattering, sparrow-like sycophants on the road.

"Rafa, why did you switch to striker?"

"Do you have a girlfriend? My sister is beautiful!"

"I heard that you didn't sleep after getting off the plane and ran all night?"

"Idiot, what Ed said was to allow those 2 hours!"

"You are the fool! And your sister is not as good-looking as my sister!"

"Your sister is only 9 years old!"

Raphael was about to scold them both when he heard a suspicious whisper. He swore with his vigilance and intuition in his previous life that this was definitely the damned "rabbit" who saw his jokes!

"If you keep arguing, you two won't even want to eat skewers!" Raphael threatened viciously.

The two riverbed sycophants fell silent for a moment.

Rafael and them put away their equipment, went to the locker room, took a combat shower in 5 minutes, dried their hair, put on a hat, and took the two boys to the "bar".

Simeone, who is eating and drinking so unhappy: [The smile gradually freezes.jpg].

How does this kid know "bar"!Who told him that!stand out!

Then, he saw the two dwarfs cowering behind Raphael.

"Gabe," Rafael and Batty greeted each other, and waved Simeone by the way, as a greeting.

"Look at this kid's attitude towards me!" Simeone complained dissatisfied.

Batty laughed and said, "Then what do you call him? You should call him Rafa and give him respect. You see he chose to shake hands with me. He hopes to be equal to us."

Raphael looked at Batty silently, this psychologist, can you lower your voice?

Batty met his gaze and winked at him, and the two little sycophants were already yelling "Cool!" "Gabe is so handsome!"

traitor!

The author has something to say: [1] It must be an international A-level competition, and youth team competitions are not eligible.

[2] Batty is a basketball fan. Argentina is also a basketball powerhouse. He once won the Olympic gold medal in the hands of the American Dream Team!

Two more! A massive second update of 7000 words!

This chapter briefly introduces the shit in Argentina, and the next chapter is about the competition...