[football] this god

Chapter 147

Argentina eventually stayed in the quarter-finals and failed to advance any further.

Leo was sad for their penalty shootout loss to Germany, but he is young and he can be calm about a loss for now - he is not like Messi in 2014, he is only now, he has at least one Ten years to make up for today's regrets.

But Maradona is different. Maradona's understanding of Argentina has always been in the world of guaranteed semi-finals. He is very dissatisfied with this loss-his most direct way of expressing it is to pat his butt and turn his head away. Refuses to talk to anyone who tries to talk to him.

He went back to the hotel with dissatisfaction and tossed and turned on the bed without falling asleep all night. He woke up with a stomachache in the morning, and planned to have breakfast and return to Argentina immediately. When helping him book a plane ticket, the content of the conversation of the people around him made him change his mind.

"Sir Ferguson is here." A young man said excitedly to the middle-aged man opposite him. "The news said that he will watch the match between Portugal and England this afternoon."

"I thought you didn't watch the Premier League." The middle-aged man seemed strange.

"I didn't watch it at first, but I changed my mind because of Ronaldo of Manchester United." The young man said, "Ferguson is indeed good-but he may be very embarrassed today, after all, one side is his baby Cristiano, and the other is his half. the motherland, England."

"Scotland can't come to the World Cup. I guess England is his home country." The middle-aged man joked casually, "He probably still supports England. Besides, England also has Wayne Rooney, which is also his treasure."

Of course Maradona knows Ronaldo of Manchester United. Although he has never watched the young man's game, he has heard about Ronaldo's outstanding performance in the European Cup final, so when this name is mentioned, he is so concerned. Continue to listen with a little interest.

"However, England is still out of the game. We have Cristiano." The young man said, "My only hope for tonight's game is that Cristiano will not show mercy just because Jazz is on the court."

Give up the hope and responsibility entrusted by the country for the sake of the club?Is that still a person?If he is really a good player, how could he give his fans such an illusion?

As a person with zero sense of humor, Maradona sneered at the young man's boring worries, and glanced at the young man by the way—the young man turned his head dissatisfied when he heard the very abrupt snort Look, but unexpectedly found that this person is actually Maradona.

He opened his mouth wide in surprise.

"Oh, oh my god, who did I see? Are you Maradona?" the young man asked in surprise.

Maradona nodded, "Your worries are meaningless. No one who can be called a human being will put water on the national team level because of the so-called club connection-that is treason. But you You are right, Portugal has Figo and Deco, and England does not have much hope.”——This is not polite, Maradona is just telling the truth.The words politeness and social norms are not in his dictionary.

The young man was so excited that his country was recognized by Maradona in the cause of football, he even ignored the first half of the other's words, "Of course! Yes! But neither of them is important, the most important What's more, we have Cristiano - you know him? He was the best player in the European Cup final."

"I've heard of him, but there are a lot of young players who are big when they start out and then fall into mediocrity - it comes down to the fact that no one understands their style when they first come out, and no one takes them seriously. Especially When you have people like Figo and Deco in your team." Maradona considers himself very objective - to be honest, he has not seen much praise for Argentina's own young people.What's more, he just heard the "worries" of young people, so he might not have a good impression of this player all of a sudden.

"No! Sir, you don't know Cristiano at all! You shouldn't belittle him like this!" The young man raised his voice, but when he realized that other breakfast eaters in the restaurant were giving him dissatisfied looks At that moment, he blushed again and lowered his voice, "He is the best, I haven't seen anyone of my age who is better than him!"

"Of course." Maradona was naturally stubborn. When he lost his temper back then, even FIFA would say that he would not be soft-spoken. Let alone an ordinary young man who met for the first time and had never known each other before?

"Messi from Argentina, he is the best kid I've ever seen." Maradona justified his young man - but even he couldn't tell whether it was because of Messi himself or because of him. Messi is Argentine, "You should see his performance as a substitute in the second game of the Argentine group stage."

In other people's words, I'm afraid I wouldn't dare to say more after hearing such categorical words from legends in football history.But the young man was also stubborn, even if Maradona said it himself, he was still unconvinced, "Of course I watched that game, but with all due respect, sir, even if there is such a pretty good performance, but he It's far from our Cristiano. You should watch our Cristiano win the golden crown for Portugal. That kind of strong performance and willpower are enough to explain the meaning of football and men. There is no doubt that no one in that Portuguese team was more eager and valued the honor of the country than him-too bad you are not Portuguese, otherwise I would say that Cristiano is the most perfect man in the world to inherit your mantle successor. But you are not, so you have lost one of the best successors."

Maradona was amused.

He has never been a yes person, so he hates this kind of person the most.If the young man gave up his argument because he said Messi was best, he might not look at him again, but the other party still insisted on his own opinion, which made Maradona find it much more interesting.

Because of this, he didn't even care about the young man's sentence "It's a pity you are not Portuguese". He even considered the context, thinking that the other party recognized his loyalty and respect for Argentina.

"Son, if he is really such a good young man as you said, then I guess you should never mention whose heir he is." Maradona became more pleasant than ever, "A real man disdains Be anyone's successor, they are born to be the founders. They don't follow anyone, they define greatness by their own life."

The young people probably did not expect that Maradona could be so amiable—although even his words just now did not fit the so-called amiability of the world, but after all, you have to lower your attitude towards Maradona. standard.

So the young man froze for a moment, as if he was embarrassed by his emotional agitation just now.

"Maybe you are right." The young man blushed a bit, "If you have time to watch our Cristiano's performance, you will know that he is indeed the best one - not only among his peers , even compared with his predecessors, he is by no means inferior."

"I don't think so. The younger generation of players now is less and less like us. They are always too young, but they are still as unable to take responsibility as children - they don't even realize their own responsibilities." Mara Dona said so.

The assistant sitting opposite vaguely felt that Maradona's words meant something, but he didn't know who he was referring to.

The young man said proudly: "Then you are wrong! Even if you have seen a hundred young people out of a hundred young people are like this, then Cristiano must be an exception."

Maradona was aroused by the young people, and for a moment he forgot that he was planning to return home immediately when he got up and brushed his teeth in the morning. He turned his head and said to the assistant sitting opposite him who was drinking juice leisurely: "I'm going to see Portugal this afternoon. For the match against England, prepare air tickets, hotel and game tickets."

The assistant blinked, as if waiting for Maradona to say "joking" next-but Maradona didn't, Maradona just stood up and went back to the room to check whether his luggage was packed.

This means that there is no discussion at all, and Maradona just wants to watch this game.

The assistant started calling with a sad face.

Although Maradona offended a lot of people in FIFA back then, there are still some people who respect him in private. In addition, more than ten years have passed, and many officials in FIFA back then He had already gone home to hold his grandson, and the young people below didn’t pay much attention to what happened back then, so the assistant got lucky and helped Maradona get a ticket in just 10 minutes—even though the international football The tickets in the hands of Lian's own people are also tight, but they still gave Maradona a ticket pretending to be generous with tears.

The assistant breathed a sigh of relief, and smoothly finalized the next air ticket and hotel, and after confirming that it was correct, he hurriedly left the restaurant to report the good news to the boss.

Until this time, the young man turned his head to look at the middle-aged man, and said with a sad face: "You said that now I chased after him and admitted that Messi is the best young man in the world, and Maradona would give me that ticket." ?"

The middle-aged man who also failed to buy a ticket to the quarter-finals decided to comfort the young man who was hit physically and mentally.

He said, "No play."