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Raphael was indeed a little excited.

But if he knew that Toto compared his exuberant performance on the training ground to "a long-running husky", he would definitely have a good talk with Toto.

There are actually two reasons why Rafael is excited: he hasn't played a game for a month; Valencia has Mendieta.

Yes, Mendieta is still the main reason.

In contrast, his compatriot Claudio Lopez is not important at all, even "Little Worm" will be a strong contender for Argentina's No. 9 in the future.

But Raphael still only has Mendieta in his eyes, and even regrets that this is not the strongest Bat Corps, let alone the strongest Mendieta.

What is the situation in Valencia now?

Just changed coaches.

Although the old coach Aragones was able to bring No. 2 results in the league when he coached Valencia last season, this season's record is obviously not good, and the team will fall into the relegation zone.

At this time, the Bat Legion's board of directors' eyes are higher than the top, how can it be accepted? The old coach was fired 3 days ago, and the new coach Valdano just took office 3 days ago.

It is worth mentioning that Valdano is also a member of the roster of "coaches who collected stamps from Real Madrid in those years".

Valdano also has a bit of a story.

This guy is Argentine, and he played as a striker in his player era.In the last 3 years of his career, he played in Real Madrid. It belonged to the era of the Real Madrid Five Eagles. This guy played 85 times and scored 40 goals efficiently. This absolutely efficient data in that era left Real Madrid fans Made a very good impression.

After 3 years in the army, he retired once.

Valdano finally hung up his boots in Real Madrid, realizing the dream that many "children's dreams" players in the future could only hope to achieve.

Looking at it this way, Baldino can be regarded as a winner in life in the national team.

Not only that, but at the end of the national team, he also received a dream gift package-Argentina won the World Cup in 86, and he was also a member of the winning team.How about winning the World Cup a year before retiring?

The relationship between Valdano and the old horse is also quite good, but the coaching ability and the level of seeing people are several dimensions better than the old horse!

After retiring, Valdano first coached the Real Madrid youth team. After only one year, he got the opportunity to coach Tenerife, which was still struggling in the Second Division.He led the island team and successfully promoted to the first division within a year!

Then he did a big thing. In Argentina, he hired Redondo, who had terminated his contract with the team, for free.

The two masters and apprentices worked hand in hand and played for Real Madrid twice at the last moment in two years. Real Madrid lost the championship, and they made great contributions.

Didn't the previous article say that Barcelona gave Tenerife a bonus to let them snipe Real Madrid?

They did it quite successfully, so successful that Real Madrid brought the master and apprentice to Madrid together-after all, if you want Real Madrid to say "Little goblin, you have successfully attracted my attention", you have to hurt it first.

Valdano did a pretty good job in the first year of Real Madrid: Signed Laudrup, Amaviska and Canizares from rival Barcelona; reused Raul and promoted Guti; Zamorano scored a hat-trick to help Real Madrid beat Barcelona led by Cruyff 5-0, and finally won the league championship that season!

From retiring in 87 to winning the league championship in 94, is this a dreamy enough life?

But it was useless. In 95, Real Madrid chairman Mendoza resigned, and the new chairman Sanz came to power.

If I were to sum up the new chairman, Sanz, it would be in just eight words-he worked to death and was lucky.

After Sanz came to power, Florentino may have to look up to him in the field of coaching, because he has created the following great achievements:

Capello: Won the league championship during the season, but failed to win the Champions League and was fired.

Heynckes: Helped Real Madrid win the Champions League after an absence of 32 years. The league performance was not good and he was fired.

Bosque: After the coach was fired, he used the old man who was still a youth training coach to fight the fire. Three times in a row, he also became the old man's "most successful firefighting coach".

These names that we all respect when we see them now, in the eyes of Sans, they are called around and asked for.

From this point of view, being the chairman of Real Madrid is indeed a bit cool.

Although Florentino has also done extreme things in the field of sacking coaches, such as bullying Bosque as a good old man, attacking people's parents, and dismissing people insultingly, his patience is still a bit better than Sanz.

And Valdano, as a Real Madrid star, Sanz did not give him even a little bit of respect, Valdano could only dismiss get out of class sadly, and Capello took over the coach.

After class, Valdano stayed at home until Aragones was fired 3 days ago, and he took over the coach of the Bat Corps.

Rafael was gearing up for the fight, while Valdano held his first pre-match press conference after taking office.

Because of the good relationship with Lao Ma, everyone knows that the first reporter that Baldino was picked up by the press officer asked the question: "How do you evaluate Rafael? Can he surpass Maradona? "

We said before that Valdano has a very good relationship with Lao Ma, so how did he answer?

"I won't compare Rafael and Diego," Valdano said, "because they are not players of the same era. In our era, football was very different from what it is today, requiring more superb possession. Ability, Diego is the best. But now times are different, as an Argentine, I also watched Rafael's game against Chile, and I think Rafael will be the future of Argentina."

Valdano went on to make a long speech and blew Raphael angrily, with the intention of killing, and Toshack was so angry that he groaned.

But thinking about Raphael's character, Lao Tuo won't be angry anymore.

Why are you so angry, if you brag like this now, tomorrow that kid will directly use his performance to make you scold inwardly with a smile on his face.

The time came to the second day, December 12, which was Deportivo's last home game day before Christmas.

"We want to present our Christmas greetings to the fans. There is no better Christmas gift than a victory, do you understand?" Lao Tuo said.

The players responded one after another.

After playing this game, they can have a few days off, enjoy the company of their families, and enjoy Christmas.

Because of this, many players brought gifts today.

Juan reminded Rafael early, so Rafael also prepared a gift.

When Fran saw him coming with a big box, he came over with a smile, and then unceremoniously picked up his share.

Raphael's cabinet is also full, and there are even several large bags of gifts that have been screened in the mailroom.

"The gift must be opened after the game is over. If you lose the game—" Fran threatened everyone.

Raphael's gift has been claimed by everyone. Looking at the uniformly packaged blue and white gift box, everyone is curious and has an ominous premonition——

Rafael, he must have given the whole team the same gift perfunctorily!

Jaminia was the first to ask, he is annoying, and if Raphael doesn’t answer, he can keep yelling, so Raphael answered him clearly before he pressed him, “Yes, I am All are treated equally and the gift is the same for all.

So what's inside the box?

Everyone →_→ looked at Juan.

Juan was silent.

He didn't dare to say it.

Without waiting for Jaminia to ask again, the assistant coach began to urge them to go out to warm up, and everyone had to put aside the gift and focus on the game in front of them.

Rafael had just gone out to warm up amid the cheers of the home fans when he saw a player in a white jersey running towards him.

After a closer look, it turned out to be Claudio Lopez, "The Bug".

This is one of the two most famous "Claudio" in the Argentine striker, the other being Caniggia.Unlike the "Zonda" who became famous in Europe in the 90s, today's "Little Worm" has just landed in Europe.

Lopez was obviously not suitable for Aragones' system before, and his efficiency was not good, which was disliked by some fans of the Bat Corps.

Unlike the speed Caniggia is known for, Lopez is a more elegant and intelligent killer.

He has a high golf quotient, good technique, and is also a left-footed madman, but his right foot is not inferior.As a striker, his header skills are a bit poor.Although the speed is not as good as Caniggia, it is not slow.

That is to say, looking at "Little Worm" from Raphael's point of view, he is a striker with few weaknesses.

This "little worm" will suffer a lot from the more famous Batty and Crespo in the future. Occupied a spot.

"Little Worm" is also Passarella's key promotion target, but because of his recent poor performance in Valencia, he was not selected, but chose Rafael.From this point of view, the two are still in conflict.

"Rafael, can we exchange jerseys after the game?" Lopez asked.

"Of course," Rafael liked to keep his voice crisp, "I wish you a Merry Christmas."

Lopez's surprise was so obvious, he looked at Rafael for another two seconds before running away.

Rafael raised his eyebrows, unable to understand why Lopez looked at him so strangely, but now he is more willing to focus on warming up.

And when Lopez ran back, someone asked him immediately, "This kid agreed?"

"Yes!" Lopez smiled.

"It looks like a bad person to talk about."

"Okay? The real person doesn't look as unruly as the poster."

"The poster, it's all for effect, and he doesn't have any tattoos on his arms."

Lopez watched everyone's chattering discussions and simply shut up.

Rafael is indeed different from what he thought. Whether it is the image of an arrogant young man who is innocent and dares to challenge the "God" portrayed by the Argentine media, or the rebellious and aggressive image portrayed by the Spanish mainstream media, they are all the same as Rafael. There is a big gap in the impression that I just left on him.

But it was just this moment of effort that made him hear a piece of gossip.

"Fran showed off to the captain, saying that Rafael was poached from our Valencia!"

"Youth training camp? Isn't he wanted by Boca?"

"They were in Valencia after they moved to Spain. The school recommended it to us at the time, but missed the time. I heard that they wanted to go to Real Madrid for a trial training, but because the Real Madrid youth training camp was in the red light district, his sister disagreed..."

At this moment, Mendieta could only let out a long sigh, letting Laco take advantage of it for nothing.

By the time the Valencia players returned to the locker room, Valdano was already pointing at the tactical board.At the same moment, Toshack got a very bad news——

This idiot, Jaminya, suddenly had diarrhea, and he couldn't make it to the game!

Everyone laughed at this guy, but as the head coach, Toshack had to inform the referee team immediately that they were going to change the starters.

Camille was selected by the screen, and Rafael and Rivaldo had to quickly decide who would replace Jaminha.

"I."

Raphael pointed to himself, when the opportunity came, he would do his part.

Rivaldo rolled his eyes, too lazy to argue with him.