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"It's okay Cristiano, young people go through the same confusion and mistakes, and that's not something that can be corrected by any teaching - it's the only way to grow up," when Cristiano told the Jazz for the second time in a few days. When asking for help, Jazz comforted Cristiano like this, "Years and tribulations will teach him everything. Compared with them, words are pale and powerless. '

'But I hope he doesn't have to suffer, sir, I've been through it, I know how painful it is. ' said Cristiano, 'Even now, when I think about everything I experienced in Spain in the previous three years, I still feel that it was a nightmare from which I could not wake up.So I hope Chris only wins, I hope his life has nothing but victory. '

Jazz laughed softly, "Good boy, the canary will never reach the height of the eagle, not only because of size, but also because of ambition and wildness - Cristiano, if you really love him, you should learn to let him He greets his suffering. '

'I used to stop you from going to Spain because I hoped I could protect you and give you everything in the Premier League. ' Sir continued, 'but I'm glad you've always been a bad boy, and always disliked obedience--that makes you, and keeps me from loving you.Cristiano, we are always human beings and not gods, so yes, sometimes we make inappropriate choices because of our deep love—for example, being overprotective. '

Cristiano said nothing, frustrated at his own inability to do anything.

"Okay, my good boy," Jazz felt Cristiano's depression on the other side of the phone, he chose to change the subject, "I will go to the finals, maybe we can have a supper together after the end, when the time comes Will you take Chris and introduce him to me? '

'Oh, of course, of course. ’ promised Cristiano.

However, the final was not as smooth as they had imagined—no, maybe they shouldn't have taken things too easily, it was the final after all.

When the last minute of stoppage time in the first half, they got a wonderful opportunity.

When Chris received the long pass from the backcourt, he didn't have time to think too much, and two German defenders rushed over quickly, but it didn't matter, because he could see Christie, who had grabbed an excellent position not far away. Jarno also saw Quaresma who can pass the ball at the far end, and even saw Pepe on the return route from the corner of his eye.

He just needs to pass back or pick to Quaresma before the second defender arrives, and Cristiano has the opportunity to catch the ball from them.

Even if he is hot-headed, he can pass the ball directly to Cristiano, so that Cristiano can get a shot that is not perfect but can be tried-more concise and understandable than a primary school math book , and they have practiced this tactic more than once in training.

Cristiano's success rate in training can reach 85%.

Chris should have known this all too well.

But he didn't know why, he actually reacted a second late.

Then a second later, when he was about to do something, the second defender had already unceremoniously poked the ball out of the sideline.

"Thank God." The German commentator breathed a sigh of relief, "Great, the clearance was successful. You must know that if the ball is really handed over to Cristiano at this time, the situation will be very difficult. Although the score is still 0:0 , but I believe that Mr. Loew will know how to solve the problems we face when defending two Ronaldo - and I personally think that the good news is that young people are always easy to be controlled by anxiety. If Portugal replaces at this time Ronaldo Jr. for stability, then we will only have to face one Ronaldo again."

It is not unacceptable for a 19-year-old young man to participate in a game of this intensity, and it is not intolerable to make one or two mistakes, not to mention that his mistakes did not lead to the opponent's scoring, so it is naturally more forgivable-but forgiveness is not the topic of today, Victory is.

So what if everyone knew they should forgive Chris?Any opportunity in such a game is precious, let alone such an opportunity that is very likely to succeed?

No one knows how to comfort Chris, after all, everyone needs a little comfort at this time.

"I feel like everything is on our side."

It was Cristiano who spoke first, as always.

"We've had chances of this magnitude for the first time - almost the first time - in stoppage time, so that must mean something, doesn't it?" Cristiano rose from his seat, Walked to the middle of the locker room, looked at everyone slowly, "This means that the goddess of victory has favored us."

No one spoke.

"Our attack was getting better and better, we opened up the Germans and found their holes. We might not win once, but as long as we stayed focused and pressed we would always turn the score in our favour: 1: 0, 2:0, this is no problem for Portugal."

'You're not talking to yourself, Cristiano, when you say something in the dressing room, first you believe it yourself, then you can convince others. '

Cristiano kind of forgot who told him this sentence, but he thought it made sense.

'You have to make them realize that they are not doing it for themselves or you or some other individual - you have to let them know that when they are in Portugal, they are doing it to defend the dignity and the honor of Portugal.And at the club?At that time they were defending a city. '

So Cristiano said: "Don't think about the 'if', don't think about the result, it doesn't matter now. What matters is every attack, every pass, even every run - you are in Do it all for Portugal and its own hero story. Boys! Remember the feel and rhythm of the attack in stoppage time, we have shown that it can work!"

There was still silence in the locker room at first, but after a few seconds, Pepe was the first to stand up, walked over to Cristiano and held out his hand.

Cristiano immediately realized what it was, he breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately put his hand on the back of Pepe's hand.

Then the Portuguese boys realized something one by one. They followed their instinct and walked to Cristiano's side, putting their hands together one after another.

"Long live Portugal."

It wasn't impulsive, it wasn't grief or trembling.

It was a kind of suppressed excitement, with a little low, but it always made people feel enthusiastic-like a volcano on the verge of eruption, a night brewing a storm, or the last note before the climax.

In the end, everyone's hands spread away with the courage passed on to each other, but only Chris still held Cristiano's hand tightly.

Chris was so hard, he grabbed Cristiano that it hurt, and he was even sure that his hand would leave a few bruised fingerprints later.But Cristiano didn't say anything, and he didn't signal Chris to let go—he just looked at Chris quietly, maybe waiting for him to calm down, maybe waiting for him to release all the pressure on his own hands .

Until a moment, he suddenly realized why he felt that Chris' father had done something wrong - not because of his teaching, but because of tenderness and love.

They love Chris so much.

In the end, they couldn't bear to let him suffer or fail because of love, and they held the young man in their arms long before the failure had time to come-like a child who is afraid of thunder, and every time he looks for the elder's When hugging to avoid the thunder, the elders allowed themselves to hug him on the grounds of loving him.

Even though they both know that sometimes a child will never be terrified until they face the sound of thunder.

But they still can't do it, they can't force such a tender young man to suffer - that's how they allow themselves to destroy a young man under the pretext of loving him.

Cristiano suddenly withdrew his hand as if being scalded by something, and shook Chris away.

Chris looked at Cristiano in shock.

He had never been through this, his father had never treated him like this, Cristiano had never treated him like this even when he was most angry with him - he didn't know what he did wrong, whether it was because of what happened just now The delayed fighter finally angered Cristiano, who was looking forward to this championship too much.

Everyone else noticed this, maybe someone thought of it with Chris, so they wanted to go to dissuade Cristiano-you tolerated all his things, it was just a small mistake, what's the matter?

But Pepe pulled each other.

Only Cristiano knows what Chris needs.Pepe has always been so convinced.

And for a few seconds, Chris almost softened his heart and told himself to talk about it next time.

But luckily he didn't.

"It's your fault, Chris," Cristiano said coldly. "You are responsible for this. So now, Chris, I think you should apologize."

Chris froze, he didn't know how all this happened in front of him.

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