Chapter 208: A Pre-Game That Is Different From Usual
After the tactical meeting, the players of the team returned to their rooms.
Before the final, even the most optimistic Brazilians had no heart to have fun.
This is the final of the Copa Libertadores, and the opponent is Boca Juniors, the bitter hosts of the Brazilian team.
The combination of the two factors made many players feel that this game was unlucky.
It's better to go back to your room early to wash and sleep.
Glory and Kaka also returned to their rooms.
Since Osvaldo had a whim and arranged for Glory and Kaka to live in the same room, every time he participates in a game, whether it is home or away, as long as it involves staying in a hotel, Glory has lived in the same room with Kaka, and there has never been an exception.
Osvaldo remembers this very well......
However, after being teammates for so long and being together for a week, Rongguang and Kaka no longer need to deliberately avoid each other.
At the very least, when there is one person in the room, the other person does not have to hide from the room.
Now both of them can stay in the room, but they both treat each other as air.
But before this game, something was different.
Sao Paulo has reached an agreement with AC Milan to move to AC Milan at the end of the season.
Since then, he has left Brazil and started to explore Europe.
This and the next one will be his last two matches in Sao Paulo.
He spent 10 years in São Paulo, working his way up from junior to youth to first-team.
Now it's time to say goodbye to his parent team, and although he wants to go to AC Milan, it doesn't mean that he is ruthless to his parent team.
He was still a little reluctant.
As he approached his farewell, Kaka was extraordinarily sentimental.
Even the glory, which usually looks annoying, now looks a little pleasing to the eye.
No matter how many grievances he has with him, he will not be able to be teammates in the future.
He no longer has to live with Rongguang before every game.
If there is any dissatisfaction, when this season is over, it will all disappear.
The competitive spirit that he aroused will also be silent for the time being, right?
But in fact...... Kaka found that he liked the feeling of competition.
The rookie who is always full of fighting spirit, if there is no noise in his ears, I wonder if he will adapt to it?
Kaka couldn't tell how he felt about the glory now.
At first, he heard that Rongguang regarded himself as an opponent, but he didn't take it seriously.
Later, when he found out that Rongguang was really able to threaten himself, he began to get serious.
By now, he found that this was no longer a matter of whether Glory could threaten him, it was that Glory was already on a par with himself......
As long as you relax a little, you will immediately be caught up by him and then thrown away!
So in the past year and a half, he had to do his best, and he didn't dare to relax for a moment.
Sometimes he gets tired.
But looking back on the past year and a half, the progress and achievements I have made are worth it.
And all this is because of that rookie who doesn't know the height of the sky.
Kaka doesn't know if he went to Europe by himself, will he miss this rookie?
However, Kaka felt that even if he went to Europe, he should see him again. Because Brazil ...... After all, it's not what a top player is looking for.
The rookie should definitely go to Europe as well.
Thinking of this, Kaka sighed a little.
Because he is a Brazilian player, he is so easy to be favored by European teams.
Replaced by glory, because he is a Chinese, his reputation in European football is far worse than his own.
But if he leaves, maybe no one will be able to hide his light anymore, right?
Maybe just have to wait another year before I can see him on the European stage......
Kaka thought about it and blurted out to Glory's back, "Hey." ”
Glory ignored him.
Kaka was not surprised, he said to himself: "There is something I think it would be better to tell you about it." After this Copa Libertadores, we won't be teammates. ”
Hearing this, Rongguang finally reacted, he turned his head and looked at Kaka sitting on the **.
"I'll be waiting for you in Europe."
Kaka said.
Rongguang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Neuropathy ......"
With that, he turned back and stopped paying attention to Kaka.
Kaka didn't pay any attention to Glory anymore, even if he was scolded by Glory for being insane, he just smiled slightly.
This is really leaving, if it was before, Rongguang scolded him like this, even if he didn't scold back, he would clench his fists and feel unhappy.
And now, he just smiled.
There will be no more bickering like this in the future.
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The candy box stadium on the second day was full of people.
The 49,000-seat stadium was almost full.
As far as the eye can see, it's basically blue-yellow – the dominant color of Boca Juniors.
And the tricolor of São Paulo is like a sporadic wave in the blue and yellow sea, and you can't see it at all if you don't pay attention.
Boca Juniors fans started making noise before the game even started, chanting the name of every Boca Juniors player in the stands and then singing again.
It has been fully demonstrated to the media that the Candy Box Stadium has been an integral part of Boca Juniors since ancient times, sacrosanct.
Any Brazilian team that wants to beat Boca Juniors at the Candy Box Stadium will not end well!
The Sao Paulo players were able to see how these avid Boca Juniors fans cheered on their teams and caused problems for the visitors as they warmed up.
Simply impressive.
Even back in their locker room, the rudimentary dressing room couldn't effectively block out the sound outside, so they could still hear the singing of the fanatical Boca Juniors fans.
It was as clear as if it was singing in their ears.
This kind of huge momentum makes every Sao Paulo player a little uneasy - this is actually a little trick of Boca Juniors. But it's not original, a lot of clubs do.
It's about making the visitors' dressing room look dilapidated and causing them all sorts of problems in the build-up to the game.
In England, there is no hot water in the away dressing room at a club stadium, which is fine in the summer, but if you go to the stadium in the winter, the players will either not be able to shower after the game or simply take a cold shower.
There are also some stadiums where there is no air conditioning in the away team's locker room, and even the ventilation facilities will be turned off when the away team is preparing for the game, so that it is as hot as a steamer in summer and cold like an ice cave in winter, so that the opponent cannot prepare for the game with peace of mind and lose the game.
The candy box stadium is still just doing tricks and feet on the sound insulation, which is already very gentle.
Despite this, facing the nemesis of the Brazilian team, again at the opponent's home stadium, still made the Sao Paulo players nervous.
The fact that there was no hot samba music playing in the dressing room before the game shows how nervous the Sao Paulo players are.
If you put it on hold, no matter home or away, samba music will always be indispensable in the locker room.
To the rhythmic music of samba music, the Brazilian players of São Paulo danced and played various games with football.
That's the standard form for Sao Paulo's players.
And now......
"Did they really warm up?" Head coach Osvaldo has this question.
Mauro nodded: "Of course." ”
"Then why is your body still so stiff? I felt like they were frozen in the Buenos Aires winter. Osvaldo frowned.
"I'm so nervous......" Mauro was also helpless about it.
Osvaldo was silent.
This problem has arisen since São Paulo's opponent was Boca Juniors. And Osvaldo didn't do anything about it, and he was ashamed to say it.
Boca Juniors' advantage over Brazilian teams is not a matter of one or two games, but has accumulated over ten or twenty years.
In the face of this huge gap, whether it is Sao Paulo or other Brazilian teams, there will be a sense of tension and inhibition when facing Boca Juniors.
Osvaldo turned his gaze to Kaka.
He found that Kaka was doing okay, which made him feel a little relieved.
Kaka is one of the attacking cores of the team, and as long as he performs normally, there is still a lot to fight for in this game.
Of course, Kaka alone can't do it.
In addition to Kaka, there is another person who is also important.
Osvaldo set his sights on the glory of Kaka, who was a few men away.
To his surprise, Rong Guang, who he thought he would not be nervous, lowered his head and muttered to himself at this time.
This is a typical sign of nervousness.
How could that kid be nervous?
Osvaldo thought it was incredible.
What kind of personality is Rongguang, after spending so much time with him for a year and a half, Osvaldo feels that he already knows him very well.
Glory is the kind of player who gets bigger and harder, and the stronger the enemy, the stronger he is.
Playing a team like Boca Juniors and the final of the Copa Libertadores, he shouldn't be nervous.
But now, what is his performance not nervous?
Osvaldo forcibly suppressed the idea of asking Glory what was going on, and if a player is nervous, asking him what he is doing will only make him more nervous and overwhelmed.
So it's better to pretend that you don't know the way.
But in this way, I am afraid that the only thing I can count on is ......
Osvaldo looked around the locker room before coming to a conclusion.
…… It's just Kaka.
He was a little disappointed, but there was no better way to do it.
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Lucas found that the glory around him had been babbling all the time, muttering something in his mouth, but he couldn't hear clearly.
It's already nervous enough, and it's even more annoying to have such a fly-like buzz around you.
So he touched Rong Guang with his elbow: "Hey, Rong, can you shut up?" ”
Glory's chatter was interrupted, and he shook his head, "My voice is low enough, Lucas. I couldn't keep my voice out. ”
"What are you doing?" Lucas couldn't help but ask.
"Me, what am I going to say to those Argentine reporters after I win the championship on my back."
As he spoke, Glory pulled out a piece of paper from behind him and handed it to Lucas.
Lucas took it and looked at it, frightened.
The paper reads crookedly: "...... I said we were going to win the championship, and now we are the champions! How do you feel now? …… The first thing I want to thank after winning the championship is the Argentine media, thank you for cheering me on before the game......"
Lucas took his eyes off the paper and looked up at the glory in a daze.
"You're ...... So booked the champion? He asked in a very uncertain tone.
Glory's tone was much more certain than he was.
"Of course! Do you think I'm joking? When I said I wanted to win the championship, I wanted to win the championship! ”
There is a sentence that Glory did not say:
If I don't win this championship, how can I go to Europe!