[Football] Crown of Thorns

After the game, C Ronaldo attended the press conference with the coach.

For the Portuguese coach Bento, the reporters didn't seem to have much interest, but instead turned all their questions to Ronaldo.

Wearing a blue orange tracksuit and carrying a black shoulder bag, Ronaldo looked extraordinarily high-spirited, as if his gelled hair shone under the lights of the press conference.

A reporter first asked, "You were named the best player in this game, what do you think?"

"Of course I will be very happy to be selected as the best player, but the happiest thing is that we can win the game."

Ronaldo pursed his lips and answered with a smile.

"In this game, the Portuguese team worked hard in possession and offense. You also worked hard, but only scored one goal. What do you think?"

"Portugal is a team. Our whole team has worked very hard. Côte d'Ivoire's defense is very tenacious. We have tried our best to get three points... We must work harder to get all three points in the next game against North Korea. Get out..."

…………

At this time, the players who returned to their residences fell asleep and slept until dawn.

Gama only watched the interview about their team leader when he got up in the morning and turned on the TV. Indeed, although the team leader's aesthetic vision seems to be a bit problematic, he was still quite handsome at the press conference last night!

After leaving the room, Jia Ma decided to find food to fill his empty stomach, but when he walked to the stairs, he saw their team leader at a glance.

The team leader was walking slowly down the stairs with Pepe, who was his teammate in the club and the national team. The two of them were talking about something, and the team leader burst out laughing.

Spotting Gama's figure, the team leader waved to Gama sideways, "Hey, Xico, you can call you that! I heard Fabio call you that."

You have shouted like this, let me say you can't shout!

Jia Ma was speechless, "It's up to you."

"Xiko, you performed well last night."

"so……"

Gama glanced at him.

"Hey~~" The team leader smiled brightly, "I'm a man of faith, I've already signed the jersey, and I'll give it to you later!"

"Thank you then."

Gama laughed.

Pepe on the side patted the captain on the shoulder, "I heard that you also promised a pair of custom-made sneakers."

Ronaldo laughed, "I've already called my agent and asked him to do it. By the way," he turned his head and looked at Gama, "Shiko, custom-made sneakers must be measured on site, so it is estimated You have to wait a while."

"It's okay, I'm in no hurry."

Gama pinched the bridge of his nose in embarrassment.

The three of them went downstairs to the restaurant while chatting. Many teammates were already here.

Anyway, after winning the first round, everyone felt more relaxed, and the overall atmosphere was more pleasant.

"Hey, Shiko, here, here~~"

Coentrao and Veloso sat together, raising their hands to call Gama.

Gama waved at the two of them, then ran to pick something from the buffet table, and walked over with the plate.

"Xiko, the dribble in yesterday's game was really good!"

The three friends got together and chatted while eating.

"well enough!"

Jia Ma shrugged, "I didn't do that on purpose, I was just anxious to avoid being surrounded..."

Today they can take a little rest to relax and recover, and they will resume training tomorrow, so everyone is very relaxed.

"By the way, did any of you watch the match between Brazil and North Korea?"

In a restaurant full of people, someone suddenly asked.

"I did not see."

Almost in unison, everyone answered this way.

Only their team leader blinked and said, "I saw it."

"Wow aren't you tired?"

"not bad!"

Peipei, who was sitting at the same table with him, laughed, which aroused the dissatisfaction of their team leader, "What are you laughing at?"

So now a lot of people laughed.

Jia Ma looked at everything in front of him and asked, "What's the matter?"

Coentran opened his eyes wide, "You don't know?"

"what do you know?"

Gama was puzzled, "Is there anything I don't know?"

Veloso smiled, "Don't you know about Ronaldo and Kaka of the Brazilian team?"

Gama thought for a while, "They all play in Real Madrid and are teammates of the club. I know that!"

"They have a good relationship."

Coentran shrugged.

Jia Ma looked at your inexplicable expressions, "What's wrong with your relationship, you laugh so strangely."

As a result, he got a wink from Veloso and Coentraan after they looked at each other, "Hehe~~"

"Problem!"

I really don't know what's wrong with these foreigners. It's because my friends are so weird, laughing so weirdly.

But after laughing, everyone talked about the game again.

"Hey, Paul is right again."

"Really?"

In the next restaurant, there was noisiness and discussion about Paul again.

Gama felt that he was very miserable because he didn't know what his teammates were talking about.

As a result, when he asked the little friend in front of him, he got two blank eyes and the answer "Xiko, are you from an alien planet?"

"Rely on it!"

Seeing that Gama expressed his friend's anger that he couldn't abandon him alone, the two friends began to explain Paul's background to him.

"You mean that Paul the octopus from the Oberhausen Aquarium in Germany had an 2008% prediction accuracy rate during the Euro 80, and this time Paul the octopus started to predict again, so?"

After listening to the explanations of the friends, Jia Ma asked in surprise.

"That's right!"

Coentraan bit his spoon and nodded.

"It must be fake."

Gama snorted.

There is no such thing in the memory in his mind, and he hasn't read these gossips since he was a freshman. I really didn't expect that foreigners are really good at playing, even such things can be played.

"Anyway, Paul's predictions were almost all right, and he guessed right last night, right?"

Coentran asked Veloso.

Veloso shrugged, "Maybe!"

"Actually, the North Korean team played quite well in this game and even scored a goal."

"However, I heard that if the players of the North Korean team can't play well in the game, they will be sent to the mine to dig coal after returning home!"

"Ah, is it true?"

"Didn't you watch the replay this morning? The North Korean team member cried like that before the game. It looks so pitiful!"

"It doesn't matter if you haven't played yet!"

So they turned on the TV in the dining room and started looking for reruns.

"Look, it's this shot, look at it..."

Jia Ma has been digging the stock in his memory, while looking up, "Wow, I'm really crying!"

"However, that's exciting!"

"It looks sad to me."

The group of Portuguese players began to discuss whether the North Korean player was sad or excited, and the noise made the coach Bento who came in startled.

"What's going on here?"

"Haha, they were watching the game between Brazil and North Korea."

The staff explained it to him.

"The North Korean team is our opponent in the next game. The boys are very active!"

Bento happily said this to his assistant.

Gama, who was full, looked around all this, and for some reason, there was a twitching feeling that everyone was drunk and I was sober—to say it again, foreigners are very strange!

…………

"Want to go out and play?"

After finishing breakfast, Coentraan asked.

"Don't go."

Gama shook his head.

Many of the players’ families here came to South Africa, but Gama’s sister and father didn’t come. Joanna didn’t dare to come so far. In addition, she and her father didn’t know any foreign languages ​​other than Portuguese, so they decided to go to South Africa. did not come.

Because of the rest today, many players went out to join their families.

"I'm not going out either."

Veloso also shook his head.

"Your family didn't come?"

"No."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"What?" Jia Ma thought for a while, "Do some recovery training, and then read a book, probably like this."

"Me too!"

"Tsk, you two are really boring."

After Coentraan said this, he was violently beaten up by two friends at the same time.

"Woooo..."

After beating someone, the little friend dropped the 'victim' and walked out of the restaurant lightly, "I have a game with me, why don't I play a game."

"OK!"

Behind them, the poor little golden retriever had tears in his eyes, "You two heartless bastards!"

In the restaurant, everyone: Hahaha~~~

In the second round of Group G, Brazil played against Côte d'Ivoire. Since this game was played before the match between Portugal and North Korea, the Portuguese players sat together to watch the game.

This time, Gama finally saw how their captain valued Kaka, the core of the Brazilian team.

From seeing the team leader standing in the corridor talking to Kaka before the game, to constantly praising Kaka's performance after the game started.

In the 25th minute of the game, Kaka made a breakthrough pass from the middle, and Fabiano shot from a small angle and scored.

The team leader jumped up excitedly and shouted that Kaka is great.

However, with such an excited team leader, Jia Ma found that his teammates were not surprised at all. Everyone was watching TV calmly. Only Pepe naturally yelled, "You are blocking the screen, sit down." .

In the 50th minute, Fabiano scored twice.

In the 64th minute, Kaka made a pass from the left, and Elano outflanked and scored two consecutive goals.

"Damn it, we played so hard, the Brazilian team scored three goals so easily."

When I saw this, I don't know who murmured.

Although the Brazilian team is indeed stronger than them in terms of strength, the Portuguese present were a little sour when they watched their opponents who were so difficult to win were easily scored by the Brazilian team.

Although Drogba headed back a point in the 80th minute, Brazil's victory was unstoppable.

Of course, when Kaka was sent off with two yellow and red cards in the 88th minute, the Portuguese team captain jumped up angrily again.

"Asshole, that guy flopped, Kaka didn't touch him at all."

The angry squad leader waved his fist, wishing he could rush in and beat the guy who flopped.

Everyone saw Brazil's No. 10 slowly go from smiling to crying as he walked off the pitch.

"Damn it, damn it!"

Gama looked at the captain who lost his composure—I didn't expect him to have such a good relationship with Kaka, hey, so Kaka couldn't play in the last match between them and Brazil?

"Alright, alright, Cristiano, whether or not Kaka can play in the third match," Pepe pouted, "Brazil won the World War II and qualified ahead of schedule. The next step is up to us."

In this Portuguese team, Pepe may be the only one who can talk to their team leader like this, and the team leader can obviously listen to Pepe's words.

He nodded, "Well, we must win the North Korean team, and also win the two games to qualify ahead of schedule."

"That's right!"