Frenzy [football]

[I wish you would answer questions about me honestly when facing the media as before, like when you were at Juventus. ] After saying this, Lei Yi looked at Nicholas for a while, but before the other party said anything else, he said: "I'm going back."

As he said that, Lei Yi, who had already changed into the Tottenham training uniform, trotted towards the locker room, and then ran faster and faster.Seeing the back of Lei Yi running towards the locker room, Nicholas moved his thin lips, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just watched Lei Yi's figure disappear from his sight in silence , and then turned to the players on the training field and blew the whistle to signal the end of the stretching training...

In the locker room, Lei Yi, who had just changed into the training uniform, did not "go back" as he said.The moment he walked out of the locker room with his bag on his back, he had already received the ticket confirmation from Alitalia in his mailbox.Checking the passport he carried with him again, Lei Yi strode out of the training base, called a car for himself, and went to London City Airport.

In the afternoon of this day, there was a Lazio home game in the third division.Since his coach told him not to come to training today, he simply went to Rome and went back to his Rome Olympic Stadium to watch a game he wanted to watch!

Lei Yi, who always thinks about it, thought so, and went to the airport with a high fever.

Fortunately, Europe has not been ravaged by any rare infectious diseases these days, so although Lei Yi's body temperature is high, he still boarded the plane smoothly.He has only been in London for more than a month, but he seems to be very familiar with the journey to and from Rome.He knew how long it would take to fly from London to Rome, and he also knew exactly how long it would take to travel from downtown London to downtown Rome.He even knew which flights from London to Rome departed from Heathrow, and which departed from London City, Stansted, Gatwick.

It was as if... before his heart could settle down in London, he had already flown back to Rome.

But this time, he didn't dare and didn't want to tell his favorite coach, Mr. Pablo, that he came to the Olympic Stadium in Rome to watch the Lazio game.He just wanted to sneak over, take a look and leave.

As a stadium jointly owned by Roma and Lazio, the Stadio Olimpico can accommodate as many spectators as is rare in Serie A.Not to mention, Roma and Lazio, like some of the few wealthy clubs in Europe, have already started the expansion of their home courts before the "World Cup" was officially promoted.

Now, there is only half a year left before the official start of the first World Cup. All intercontinental club competitions on five continents have carried out drastic schedule reforms to make time for the World Cup. The renovation of the club's home stadium has also been roughly completed.

But this team, which won the Champions League runner-up honor a few months ago, has now become a "Serie C team".

The former top scorer of the Blue Eagles thought he had understood this very clearly, but when he really bought the ticket on the spot and passed the security check to enter the stadium, he could really feel the almost Desolate shock.

This is a stadium that can accommodate 15 people after being converted into a professional stadium, but the game is about to start, and there are less than [-] fans who are actually sitting in the auditorium of the stadium.

Although it is said that at the end of last season, most of the fans who held the Lazio United season card chose to renew the card, which means that there are more than 4 people who bought Lazio's season ticket for the new season.And in the opening game of the new season, fans chose to come to the stadium to watch this Italian Serie C match in order to express their support for Lazio.

But after a few league rounds, as the enthusiasm of the fans faded, it finally appeared that it would continue for the whole season.

On the east side of the stands of the stadium, there are still many traces of the stadium that have not been completed.Scaffolding, and a barrier to seal off an entire area, was a construction site that Lazio had stopped after falling into financial trouble.

Lei Yi once heard people say that the top management of the Roma team decided to complete the reconstruction of the stadium alone after Lazio became unsustainable, but after the start of the new season, it seems that their work has not really progressed.

Huge, even grand stadium, less than 2 spectators, as well as those isolation belts and scaffolding, all of which make people feel extremely empty when looking at the entire stadium from the auditorium, even those The diehard Lazio fans in the stands of the North Stand continued to wave flags and chant for last season's Serie A champion team before the start of the game, which could not change the coldness and emptiness.

Lei Yi can still clearly remember how crowded it was in the last round of the league last season.But now, it takes echoes to fill the entire stadium with the die-hard fans who have remained loyal to Lazio even when she has fallen so suddenly to the third division.

The strong contrast easily caught Lei Yi's eyes red, but this time, he didn't cry.

Standing at the entrance of the auditorium in a daze for a long time, Lei Yi just pulled the brim of the hat he was wearing backwards to the front, then lowered it, and then walked down to the nearest seat except for the wheelchair seat. Close to the Lazio player's bench and the coaching staff's seat, press your body on the railing before the game starts, so that you can get as close as possible to watch the players who are being led by the coach Mr. Pablo on the field. Former Lazio players warming up.

Lei Yi's eyesight is very good, and it is precisely because of this that even if he can't see the faces of every Lazio player clearly while standing in the audience, he can still use the opponent's body and perform warm-up exercises The body shape at the time judged the identity of the other party.But at this moment, he found that in the current Lazio team, there are almost very few people he can name.

All of these are constantly reminding Lei Yi that the Serie A champion team last season no longer exists.

Even... after the players returned to the locker room after the pre-match warm-up, their coach did not accept media interviews on the sidelines as he did last season.That is of course because no TV station will care so much about their league matches anymore.

But after the game started, Mr. Pablo, who stood on the sidelines and directed, still contributed all his enthusiasm as if he was directing a Serie A match, or even a Champions League knockout match.He was standing there, a place that was very familiar to Lei Yi sitting in the second row but was so far away from him at this time, reminding the players on the field to pay attention to defense and telling them to cheer up and attack the opponent. The defense line, or tell them where there is another opportunity.

The mobile phone that Lei Yi put in his pocket rang and vibrated again. It was Lei Yi's current coach Nicola. He called Lei Yi not long after he got off the plane. I don't know if he discovered it again. , Think of something.This experience is quite novel.But now Lei Yi doesn't want to answer his call at all.He just wanted to take a good look at this place, watching this sour and astringent Italian League C match that softened his heart.

He watched the team beat the opponent 3:1 after losing most of last year's championship lineup; watched the players go to the gathering place where the die-hard fans gathered after the game. The North Stand, thanking the people there as before, even closer to the fans; watching his former team take three Division 10 points after nine [-] minutes of action.

This means that they are one small step closer to the second division.

Maybe they will be able to return to Serie A in a few years, or maybe... Lei Yi can see Pablo lead Lazio back to the Champions League, and even hit the World Championship.

But by that time, the former Blue Eagles top scorer may not be at the peak of his career.

As long as you think about it, you can't help people feel sentimental or regretful.

Lazio's opponent in this game is from a small town in southern Italy that Thunderwing has never heard of.Maybe the players in this team were all Lazio fans before that.If this is not the case, you can't explain why this little-known team will gather around Pablo and Gazzola after the game and ask them for autographs one by one.

Lei Yi sat in his second row for a long time. It was so long that the two teams in the game all went back to their locker rooms. It was so long that the fans around him left the stadium one after another. Volunteers from the stadium came to collect the beer glasses and beverage cans left by the fans when they left, and the security guard who had been here for a long time shouted at him from a distance to let him leave the stadium quickly.

It was at this time that his mobile phone rang again, and the person who called him was still his current club head coach, Nicola.

This time, Lei Yi chose to answer the phone.And after the call was connected, Nicholas' voice full of anger rang in his ears almost at that moment.

"Where did you go! leiy ha!"

"I..." Hearing the imposing voice of the other party unexpectedly, Lei Yi, who had become unresponsive due to fever, couldn't react at all.So he soon heard the other party's second question that could almost be called aggressive.

"I asked where you went! Now, please answer my question!"