[Football] Crown of Thorns

Generally speaking, there is nothing special to memorize in this warm-up match. It can only be said that Uncle Bento used this warm-up match and two days of training to observe the state of the players he summoned. There is a psychological one, and nothing else.

Of course, for Gama, Uncle Bento gave him 10 minutes to perform in the warm-up match, and he lived up to this opportunity, because after his performance ended, many players began to take the initiative to talk to him. Hello, and their squad leader Ronaldo even took the initiative to exchange phone numbers with him.

This is the real experience that strength dominates everything.

Gama smiled and waved goodbye to Veloso.

After this training camp, they each returned to their clubs and will work hard for the league or cup competition, and then they will not gather again until the draw for the European play-offs of the World Preliminaries.

After returning to the club, Gama first went to the coach Pettit to report, chatted with the coach for a while, and then went to the team doctor for an examination, and then Gama returned to Joanna.

Qiongna, who received a call from Jia Ma in advance, prepared a large table of delicious food for him. Looking at the delicious food, Jia Ma sat down on the sofa and turned on the TV to watch his favorite historical topics after eating contentedly.

When Joanna finished packing the kitchen and came over to sit on the sofa beside him, Gama looked up.

"Anything on your mind?"

Joanna bit her lip, looking like she wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it.

Gama got up and sat down, "Speak!"

"Shiko..."

Joanna lowered her head, bit her lip and her eyes were a little red.

Sighing softly, Jia Ma moved over to hug her, "It's okay, let's talk!"

"Dad is calling."

Speaking of Joanna and Jia Ma's father, Jia Ma was slightly startled, "What happened?"

"Actually, it's nothing, it's just that he saw you on TV..."

Joanna shook her head.

Looking at Joanna's sad expression, Gama thought for a while. He didn't have any feelings for Ernesto's father, but for the sake of Jona and Gama, he could accept everything from this father.

"Is he in debt again?"

Gama asked tentatively.

Joanna burst into tears.

Hearing her cry, Gamala wiped her tears with a tissue, "Okay, it's not pretty if you cry like a little cat."

"People are not beautiful..."

Joanna twitched in tears and retorted.

"Nonsense, my Joanna is a beautiful woman, beautiful and gentle."

Jia Ma persuaded her and patted her shoulder lightly.

Qiongna, who cried for a while, wiped her face in embarrassment, and Gama rubbed her black hair, "Qianna, you are the most beautiful girl in my heart, don't be like this, you can talk about anything and find a solution."

After persuading him for a while, Joanna finally replied, "He drank a lot of wine at Uncle Renner's again, and owed a lot of wine debts. They saw you on TV while they were drinking, but in the end they were caught by everyone. The one who laughed at him said when he got excited that you would invite him to watch the game..."

Jia Ma sighed softly, "Silly girl, why bother with such a trivial matter."

"But……"

Joanna bit her lip and shook her head.

She knew that Gama was very kind to her, but to their father, she could feel that Gama had a kind of indifference to his father from the bottom of his heart, which reminded Jona Gama that he didn't seem to care about their father Ernesto at all. So she didn't dare to promise anything casually.

"Book him a boat ticket and an air ticket, and let him come to Porto to watch the game. Every round of the game, the club will give out tickets to relatives and friends. In the past, no one came to see me. I gave the ticket to others, so there is no difficulty in getting the ticket. of."

"But..." Joanna looked up at Gama sideways, "If he..."

Jia Ma smiled, "It's just that I can afford to drink now, but too much alcohol is bad for your health. You should try to persuade him to quit drinking as much as possible. If he can't stop drinking, he can drink less. If he wants to stay All right, I'll find another house when the time comes," Jia Ma's lips twitched lightly, "Don't worry, my salary has increased now, and I also have income from advertising endorsements, so I can support you."

Joanna nodded silently, determined in her heart that she would also work hard and earn more salary, and Xico couldn't bear it all. Xico's mother passed away when he was young, and he suffered a lot since he was a child. The family worked hard in Porto alone, and she also knew a lot of stories about the players this year, knowing how difficult it was for Chico to get to this point, she can no longer drag Chico down.

Gama, who didn't know what Joanna was thinking, still put all his energy on the court and looked forward to the draw for the European play-offs.

2009年10月19日14时，2010年世界杯预选赛欧洲区附加赛抽签在苏黎世进行。

Today is Monday, because there was a league game last night, so I rested this morning and started training in the afternoon.

There was a Portuguese Cup match on Wednesday the 22nd, so Gama told Joanna that he would not be going back for three days, and maybe he would have to live in the dormitory this week.

On this day, many teammates came to the club ahead of schedule. Although Gama is the only international player in the team, the players of the Boavista club, who are mostly Portuguese, are very concerned about the draw for the play-offs. The problem.

"Who do you think we will draw this time?"

While waiting, everyone talked about it.

Hearing Sana ask him, Gama thought for a while, "It must not be Bosnia and Herzegovina."

"why?"

"Because it's hard to fight."

After knowing that he was selected for the national team, Gama carefully studied the issue of the play-offs. In this play-off draw, FIFA divided 10 seeded teams and 16 teams according to the latest international ranking released on October 4. Unseeded teams, of which the seeded teams are: Russia, Greece, France, Portugal; the unseeded teams are: Ukraine, Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia.

Among these teams, Gama believes that the Bosnian team is the most difficult to play. The current Bosnian team should be the strongest since their independence. In this Bosnian team, there are Dzeko, Misimovic, Ibisevic and other Bundesliga stars, the Bosnia and Herzegovina team led by them is strong. Last season, the Bundesliga Golden Boot Dzeko scored 10 goals in 9 games in this world preliminaries. He is quite strong, so no matter which team encounters the Bosnian team, it will face the big problem of how to defend him.

The overall strength of the other three teams is much worse, so if the Portuguese team wants to be sure of qualifying, of course they have to find a soft hand.

Tuya, who was sitting next to Jia Ma, thought for a while, "I hope so."

Sana pouted, "I don't know if the spell can be broken."

As soon as he said this, the whole team looked sideways.

Sana, who was stared at by everyone, snorted a few times, "What are you looking at? It's been published in the newspapers these days. It sounds scary. We and France have no hope."

"To shut up!"

All the players scolded Sana in unison.

Jia Ma crossed his legs, put his arms on his knees and put his hands on his chin, and complained silently: When it comes to superstition, foreigners are not much worse than Chinese people in China. There are all kinds of strange rituals, dresses, and which way to go first in the competition. Legs, and even the player's zodiac sign are taboo.

And in the history of the World Cup, there are countless superstitions and spells, etc., which will be pulled out by various media every time to see which one will be tricked.

What a shame.

And in this play-off, there is also such a so-called curse.

The highlight of the media hype these days is: Who will fall under the spell in France and Portugal?

翻开世界杯史册，近些年来有一条“魔咒”不可谓不神奇：自1990年以来，上一届世界杯前四强必有一支无缘下一届比赛。1990年世界杯四强英格兰无缘1994年世界杯；1994年四强瑞典无缘1998年世界杯；1998年四强荷兰无缘2002年世界杯；2002年四强土耳其无缘2006年世界杯；2006年世界杯法国和葡萄牙都打入四强，所以这次的倒霉鬼会是谁呢？

Purely from the perspective of historical results, Portugal is more likely, because none of the cursed teams made it to the finals in the previous four sessions, while France was the runner-up in the 2006 World Cup.

As the draw ceremony began on TV, the players sitting in the restaurant couldn't help but get nervous.

In this atmosphere, Gama also lowered his legs and stared at the screen seriously.

When the hosts on TV read the names one by one, the restaurant fell silent.

The draw results for the 2010 South Africa World Cup European qualifier play-offs are as follows:

Ireland VS France; Portugal VS Bosnia and Herzegovina; Greece VS Ukraine; Russia VS Slovenia.

After the restaurant was quiet for a while, Sana burst out laughing, "Crow's Mouth!"

He pointed at Gama and shouted.

Jia Ma's lips twitched and he fell to the ground. An arrow was shot in his knee, which hurt so badly.

The air in the entire restaurant seemed to pause for two seconds, and then someone burst out laughing, and then everyone laughed.

Jia Ma, who was lying on Captain Tuya's shoulder, was too wronged, this is June Feixue!

Tuya couldn't help laughing, and then he comforted Jia Ma, "It's just a coincidence, and it has nothing to do with you."

"Of course it has nothing to do with me, if it really does."

Gama rolled his eyes.

But in his heart he sneered twice. Judging from this draw, it is strange that the AFC didn’t do anything. France has Platini, so it is impossible for France to draw the strongest team among the four unseeded teams. The Bosnia and Herzegovina team, except for France, Portugal is not very popular in European football, and it is not necessarily luck to draw Bosnia and Herzegovina.The other teams are probably the same depending on their strength, and it doesn't matter which one they meet.

"The first round of play-offs is on November 11th, and there is still about a month to go."

Tuya said after laughing.

Jia Ma nodded, "I'm going to do my best."

"come on!"

"Ok!"

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