Fame with a ball

"The plane takes off in an hour."

"I do not go."

"We got a waterway, which has just been approved by the Brazilian government." John spoke very quickly: "I will call Dr. Martens and ask him to prepare the operating room, and we will check and perform the operation as soon as we arrive in Belgium."

"John, I can't go."

"Oh, it's okay, you don't need to walk, we use to fly."

"John, the day after tomorrow I will be more..."

"Just because of your swollen and deformed foot?" John sneered, "Are you going to play in the Paralympic World Cup in the future?"

Lin Zhigao sighed and rubbed his face, then covered his head with his hands, he was torn between whether he should continue to deceive himself, or resist the pressure and reveal the bloody truth.

The last words Dr. Martens said before he hung up the video connection still echoed in his head: "If there are indeed fragments of bone and tendon in the patient's body, every minute they stay in the body is worth more ankle nerves. The danger of damage. Once the motor nerve is damaged, what will be the consequences, don't I need to repeat it again?"

Nerve damage in limbs is not the same as bleeding or fractures. If the latter two recover well, there is no difference from before the injury.However, if the nerve damage is mild, it will affect the sensitivity of the body. It will be difficult to perform some superb golf skills that can be skillfully used before. You can directly announce to hang up your boots, and then go to play amateur football with the children; make it a little heavier... If the ankle congestion is left untreated for a long time, if the nerves are necrotic due to ischemia for too long, not only will the recovery be hopeless, but the muscles will also deteriorate over time. pass away and shrink.

The team doctor of the national team and the world-renowned Dr. Martens, Lin Zhigao is definitely more willing to believe in the former emotionally, but intellectually...

Was he really misdiagnosed?Although this kind of thing sounds unbelievable, it is not uncommon in world football. Ronaldo, Nesta, Kaka, Redondo, Vieira, Drogba, and former Chinese national team member Shao Jiayi have all become clubs. Or a victim of the national team doctor.

Looking at his right foot, which was a little more swollen than yesterday, Lin Zhigao stood up from the sofa and tried to focus his whole body on it.

But immediately, a piercing pain came from his right ankle, and his body staggered suddenly. If John hadn't supported him with his sharp eyes and quick hands, Lin Zhigao would have fallen to the ground.

John raised his eyebrows at Lin Zhigao.

With such feet, even if he really stays in Brazil, can he last for 90 minutes?Lin Zhigao sighed: "Let me call Camacho."

John smiled: "Call again on the road."

……

Lin Zhigao's original intention was to ask Camacho for instructions on the way to the airport, but after chatting with John for a while, he called his parents to inform him about it, and before he dialed Camacho's number , John has actually notified him that he is going to board the plane... Well, a private jet, a private airway, and of course a private boarding pad.

Of course you are not allowed to make phone calls on the plane, so Lin Zhigao just sent a text message to Camacho "I'm going to Belgium to check my feet", and then turned off the phone, and when he contacted him again, he was already in Belgium.

"Belgium?" Camacho couldn't help shouting: "What are you doing there?!"

Lin Zhigao licked his lips: "Uh, I'm in Dr. Martens's clinic right now. Yes, that Martens you know, he saw my MRI scan and said that my right foot is very It may be a fractured ankle, now I am going to do a re-examination, if the diagnosis is confirmed, an operation is required immediately."

"A broken ankle? That's impossible!" Camacho said in shock: "There is nothing wrong with your right foot!"

"Anyway, it's either the team doctor's misdiagnosis or Dr. Martens' misdiagnosis," Lin Zhigao smiled wryly: "Boss, to be honest, does my foot really look like there's nothing wrong with it?"

Camacho was silent for a while, and then he said: "But you can't go to Belgium without asking me for instructions. In less than 30 hours, we will play against England. If you are not here, let the Chinese team go to Belgium." what to do?"

"The Chinese team is probably inseparable from Lin Zhigao who can score goals normally, but who is injured and can't even walk? I think I can't play a role even if I am on the court."

"I've got to ask my superiors," said Camacho at last. "I can't do this kind of thing, you know."

Lin Zhigao nodded with a wry smile, but soon he realized that his actions were invisible to Camacho, so he said: "I understand, boss, it's not easy for us."

After a series of complex examinations such as nuclear magnetic resonance, CT, X-ray, and ultrasound, Martens solemnly informed John and Lin Zhigao: "Your right foot is undoubtedly a fractured ankle, and there are fragments of injured tissue in the injury. It's not dangerous, but don't talk about the game until it's cured. It's better not to even have recovery training. My suggestion is to have the operation tonight. If the operation is successful, you can return to normal in a month or two. .”

"Please arrange the operating room and the ward now." John said to Martens, "I hope you can perform the surgery yourself."

"Don't worry, my friend." Martens smiled: "Of course I will perform the operation, and it will be the highest standard within my power."

Lin Zhigao opened his mouth: "John..."

"Don't regret it, don't say 'no'." John glanced at Lin Zhigao: "Also, you are already in Belgium, and I won't let you go back."

Lin Zhigao once again grabbed his hair into a bird's nest.

At this moment, his mobile phone rang suddenly, but the calling number displayed on the screen was not Camacho's.

Smiling apologetically to John and Dr. Martens, Lin Zhigao stood up and limped out the door to answer the phone.

"Hey."

"Are you in Belgium?"

"...Yes." Lin Zhigao recognized that the voice of the national team leader Cao Jingwei came from the other end of the phone.Someone who doesn't like him, who he just doesn't like either.

"Now, take the nearest flight back to Brazil." Cao Jingwei said coldly: "Otherwise, I will remember your big mistake."

"What?" Lin Zhigao asked in surprise, "Didn't Camacho tell you about my situation? I just had an examination. My right ankle is not just a soft tissue injury, but a fractured bone. The doctor asked me to Operate as soon as possible."

"No, you don't have a fracture. The team doctor Zhang Peng just assured me that he has conducted the most detailed examination on you, and there is nothing wrong with your right foot."

"He misdiagnosed me." Lin Zhigao took a deep breath and suppressed the irritability in his heart: "I saw with my own eyes on the X-ray that there is a crack on the top of my right ankle bone. I can't be wrong."

Cao Jingwei raised his voice: "Are you questioning the team doctor of the national team?"

"It's not questioning, it's conviction." Lin Zhigao couldn't help but raised his voice: "If they were really professional enough, I would have had surgery now! It's not like staying in Belgium and being scared of expensive consultation fees In the dead man's clinic, pray that the bones in the wound don't hurt my nerves casually!"

Cao Jingwei's voice suddenly turned cold: "Do you know who you are talking to?"

"The leader of the national team?" Lin Zhigao sneered.

"It's the entire national team and the Chinese Football Association, Lin Zhigao, and maybe the General Administration of Sports will be involved." Cao Jingwei said in a calm voice, "We've had a meeting to discuss your right foot, maybe the team doctors are There was a little negligence in the diagnosis, but it is definitely your fault for leaving without saying goodbye! Your unorganized and undisciplined performance has made the national team shame along with you!"

He thought that after they knew the truth, they would show him even a little bit of guilt. As long as there was a little bit, he could comfort himself and say, "All my efforts are valuable", but... Hearing it with his own ears All of this made Lin Zhigao feel a little bit of grief and indignation from despair.

"So." Lin Zhigao asked coldly, "What is your opinion on how to deal with me?"

"You fly back to Brazil now, immediately! We can conduct a third inspection on you, but even if you can't play and can only sit on the bench, you must appear in the game against England!"

"What if I can't make it back?"

Cao Jingwei threatened him: "Your violation of discipline can make us kick you out of the national team directly!"

"Then do it like this!" Lin Zhigao replied coldly, and then hung up the phone viciously.

……

On July 2014, 7, the day before the China VS England match, according to World Cup practice, the two teams held pre-match press conferences and announced their respective starting lineups at the press conferences.

England’s press conference ended smoothly. Because of the lessons learned from the Japanese team, Roy Hodgson, the coach of the Three Lions, was very polite to the Chinese team. He repeatedly said: “The Chinese are very respectable opponents. Those who underestimate them will suffer in the end - this is a truth that has been repeatedly verified in this World Cup, so of course the England team will use their best strength to deal with them."

But at the press conference of the Chinese team held afterwards, Camacho dropped a blockbuster, which made the news media all over the world dizzy.

"Lin Zhigao is not in my starting lineup." Camacho said: "He will not play in tomorrow's game."

After the audience was silent for a full minute, the frenzied flashing lights almost blinded Camacho's eyes.

A Chinese reporter rushed to ask questions, his voice sounded like he was shouting rather than shouting: "Is it because Lin Zhigao's foot injury has recurred? Or has his ankle never recovered?"

"Yes..." Camacho swallowed, and when he was about to speak, Cao Jingwei, who was sitting next to him, took the microphone, coughed and said: "Lin Zhigao went to the team without the approval of the team." Belgian, at the critical moment of the game against England, he actually acted like this, this is really selfish!"

Cao Jingwei's words made the venue into a mess:

"Why is Lin going to Belgium?"

"The core of the team made a move to leave the team at a critical moment in the World Cup. Is there any inside story?"

"What kind of punishment does the Chinese team plan to impose on Lin Zhigao?"

"Do you still have confidence in China for tomorrow's game?"

"Quiet, quiet!" Cao Jingwei patted the microphone until everyone calmed down and listened to him, then said slowly: "The team doctor of the national team has been actively treating Lin Zhigao's right foot. His injury He will recover soon, but Lin Zhigao doesn’t believe in the team doctor’s diagnosis, he insists on going to Belgium to find a famous doctor to treat him, that’s why he went to Belgium.”

Most people are swinging left and right, they are dubious:

"Could it be that there was something wrong with Lin Zhigao's foot during training?"

"Will Lin Zhigao really abandon the World Cup for such a simple reason? It's unlikely!"

"In order to make Lin Zhigao recover as soon as possible, the national team did not dare to arrange too much training for him. The team's physical coach only dared to let him exercise for three hours a day, and yesterday the head coach Camacho wanted to let him rest and prepare for the World Cup. , and even gave him half a day off! Lin Zhigao is simply suspicious and refuses to trust anyone!"

Cao Jingwei began to act with righteous indignation: "Just after he went to Belgium, I reminded him that the national team needs him and China needs him. Only he can bring us victories and championships. Let him not abandon him. However, Lin Zhigao rejected me cruelly! He even felt that we were hurting him by arranging him to start against England. He put his gains and losses above the country and brought incalculable losses to the national team , when he returns to the team, we will definitely punish him severely!"

The scene of the press conference at this moment can be regarded as an ecological performance in the circle of reporters: some people rushed to rush to press releases, wanting to release the shocking news as soon as possible; some people turned on the camera and recorded every sentence of Cao Jingwei ; Some people were immersed in astonishment and haven't recovered yet; some people have already started to curse Lin Zhigao...

Some people still couldn't believe all this. They ran to the stage and eagerly asked Camacho as if grabbing the last straw: "Mr. Camacho, is this the truth? Lin Zhigao really went to Belgium ? He really won't start?"

Camacho twitched in his seat uneasy, and under Cao Jingwei's gaze, he finally nodded his head with difficulty and said, "Yes."

Countless faces showed despair.

An old CCTV reporter put his right hand on his forehead and lamented: "This is the end of the Chinese team!"

……

"0:5!The Chinese team was massacred, and the absence of the core is the main reason" (French "L'Equipe")

"Lin's Disappearance Caused China's Disastrous Defeat, Insider Why There Are Many Discussions" (Italy's Gazzetta dello Sport)

"Broken Fracture or Minor Injury? "(Spanish "World Sports Daily")

"The Three Lions won the promotion!Hodgson: Too bad Lin wasn't there" (The Times, UK)

Compared with the objective and questioning attitude of the European media, all parties in China seem to be boiling oil, spending all their heat on criticizing Lin Zhigao: "14 Billion People's Cry: This Liar!" "

"Lin Zhigao becomes a deserter at the last moment! "

"Team leader Cao Jingwei criticizes Lin Zhigao for being selfish"

"Chinese Team Returns to Beijing, Half of the Players Criticize Lin".This news is absolutely true - after China was eliminated by England in the quarter-finals, the national team flew back to Beijing the next day. Before boarding the plane, CCTV reporters interviewed them, and many people showed ambiguous attitudes on camera Qian said: "Lin Zhigao, he loves his body too much, and he may be a little suspicious." This kind of remarks from within the national team directly catalyzed the development of domestic public opinion to a more extreme situation.

Since last year, the successive victories have even forced the world's top teams to a tie several times, only occasionally losing one or two games. This kind of life has spoiled the Chinese fans, and some of them have begun to be intoxicated. In the dream of "China is already a football powerhouse", as long as someone dares to wake them up, they dare to fight him with fists and teeth.

Most of the media are criticizing Lin Zhigao. They accused him of screaming after a small injury. They reported at length: "Lin Zhigao's extremely selfish and disunity behavior caused the Chinese team to suffer huge losses, and made the Chinese team suffer a lot. The fans are disappointed, and he should be punished by the public for this." Some people even called Lin Zhigao a "national sinner" irrationally.

A small number of media or individuals who agree with the public opinion of foreign media and feel that "it is very irrational to draw conclusions before the truth has been thoroughly investigated" are labeled as "worshiping foreigners" and "unpatriotic" and are criticized on the Internet. ridicule.

So some people can only temporarily close their mouths, not making any sound, so as not to be rejected and isolated.But they never stopped doubting in their hearts—all over the country were "falling forests" overnight, what made them so consistent?What does not allow the public to have a second voice?

……

Lin Zhigao was woken up by the sound of "Dididi" from his mobile phone, which had troubled him for a long time. He couldn't sleep, so he had to open his eyes.

Several hours after the operation, Lin Zhigao, who was still troubled by the anesthetic, was too lazy to reach for his mobile phone, but his intuition told him: the ringing of calls and text messages was too frequent, which was a bit weird.

Finally, after a long beep of "Di——", his mobile phone ran out of battery and automatically shut down.

After rolling his eyes for a while, when Lin Zhigao felt that the anesthetic had faded a little in his body, he sat up from the bed slowly and moved his right leg as little as possible, then turned his head and looked around, and pressed down on the bed Head button.

The first ones who came to his ward were not the doctors or nurses he had imagined, but John and... Lin Changan and Qian Hongyan.

"Dad, Mom?" Lin Zhigao asked in confusion, "Why are you here?"

"Before you entered the operating room, I arranged for them to fly to Belgium from China, and now it proves that my decision was not wrong." John smiled at him: "Does your foot feel okay?"

Lin Zhigao said truthfully: "It hurts."

Lin Zhigao's original intention was to be coquettish with his parents and John, so that he would have the confidence to force them to charge his mobile phone, pour water and get food, but what Lin Zhigao didn't expect was... Qian Hongyan choked up when she heard this. With a sound, he turned and walked out covering his face.

"What happened to my mother?" Lin Zhigao was puzzled: "Did I say something that shouldn't be said?"

"No, yes, uh, when we arrived this morning, we saw the tendon and bone fragments that the doctor cleaned up for you yesterday. They were a bit bloody." Lin Changan forced a smile: "Your mother was frightened."

But John glanced at Lin Changan, and said slowly in English, "I don't think it's a good idea to hide it from Lin."

Lin Changan sighed, wiped his face, and said to John: "You tell Gao Gao, I'll accompany his mother." Then he also turned and walked out of the ward.

"What did you hide from me?" Lin Zhigao had a bad feeling: "Did something bad happen?"

"Maybe you want to check your phone first." John handed him the charger: "That should clear up part of your confusion."

Lin Zhigao charged the phone, and then turned it on—more than 100 unread text messages and dozens of missed calls popped up at the same time. This astonishing number shocked him a lot.

The people who texted and called him included Jiang Shupeng, Sun Dawei, Huang Bowen, Zhao Peng, some of my friends in China who had a decent relationship, as well as Messi, Ronaldo, Kaka, Van Persie, Villa Dee and other foreign friends, everyone has several text messages and at least one phone call, all talking about the same thing...

It took about half an hour for Lin Zhigao to roughly read the text message.As the number of reading articles increased, his anger burned more and more vigorously. When he saw one of them, he almost threw his phone out of breath: "How dare they, how can they—"

"Maybe you still want to watch this." John found the remote control and turned on the TV in the ward: "I recorded the BBC China news report this morning."

As soon as the TV was turned on, a familiar figure appeared on the screen, and Lin Zhigao quickly recognized that it was Jiang Shupeng.

Jiang Shupeng’s situation was a bit uneasy. He seemed to be in a large underground garage, but he was surrounded by at least 20 reporters. The reporters surrounded Jiang Shupeng with microphones and cameras, preventing him from moving even a step. He threw countless questions at him, forcing him to answer: "Do you know about Lin Zhigao leaving the team for Belgium?"

"Did you give him an idea?"

"Where is Lin Zhigao hiding now? Italy or America?"

"Are you going to apologize to the people of the whole country?"

Jiang Shupeng kept his face tense all the time, didn't say a word, he just wanted to break out from the reporter circle to find his car, and then leave here.But no matter how crowded he was, people surrounded him, and then a reporter said something in his face, which directly angered Jiang Shupeng, who angrily grabbed the reporter's microphone and said loudly: "Lin Zhigao didn't lie. Anyone! Those people from the Football Association played tricks to blind your eyes! Why don't you go to Belgium to see for yourself, but just pour dirty water on an innocent person in the country?"

A reporter bared his teeth and said, "Don't you just find a Belgian doctor to collude with us and play for us?"

Jiang Shupeng seemed to be going crazy with anger, but he tried his best not to let it go, but pushed the crowd harder, and finally pushed a way, and he couldn't wait to walk towards his car.

At this time, someone shouted loudly behind him: "Selfish liar! Both you and Lin Zhigao really don't deserve to be Chinese!"

Jiang Shupeng's footsteps stopped suddenly, he turned around, walked towards the reporter who was yelling at him, and raised his collar and asked coldly, "Say it again."

The reporter was frightened by his momentum, trembled for a while, and suddenly yelled: "I'm going to hit someone!" Then he sneakily attacked Jiang Shupeng's abdomen and punched there.

Jiang Shupeng covered his stomach and frowned tightly, suddenly sneered, and punched back, hitting the reporter on the bridge of the nose!

Then, the scene was completely chaotic, several reporters and Jiang Shupeng started a scuffle, the camera flashed for a while and then blacked out. The host of the BBC made an expression of "this is simply terrible!", shrugged his shoulders and said with his mouth open: "In major cities in China, there are now such crazy fans everywhere. They were defeated by a failed game. The game lost its mind, and then began to hate their original national hero-Lin Zhigao crazily. Today Lin's manager is in a scuffle, maybe tomorrow Lin himself will be attacked, I think this possibility is really great .”

"I don't know why Chinese fans associate a person's reputation with a game. This is simply unimaginable in the UK, because even Maradona or Pele can't guarantee that their World Cup games will be perfect. Not to lose, right? In short, this matter is not over yet, because the most important person, Lin, has not yet appeared. There are rumors that he is undergoing surgery in a clinic in Belgium at the moment. Let us wish him good luck. Here It’s the BBC News Channel, and we have already sent a team of reporters to Belgium to look for Lin, and we will follow up with you in future programs.”

The video freezes here, and the content of the news video is over.

Lin Zhigao was engrossed for a long time, and finally took a deep breath: "Thank you, John. If you hadn't brought my parents here, I was really worried, really worried that someone would come to my house..."

John calmed his emotions with the deepest magnetic voice: "I am very happy to do this for you."

Lin Zhigao took out his mobile phone and looked through the address book: "I want to call Jiang Shupeng and tell him that I am very, very sorry."

"He's fine, and he's staying at another friend's house of yours. His name seems to be 'Sun'? It's the reporter you mentioned. He has remained silent during this storm of public opinion in your country. I contacted Your agent, he said to call him when you wake up."

"My fault." Lin Zhigao put down the phone, clenched his fists, his voice trembling: "I should have thought of it earlier, I should have taken some remedial measures from the beginning, I, I didn't expect them to..."

"Maybe you are at fault, but you are not the culprit." John expressed a kind of compassionate emotion in a hoarse voice, "Poor Lin."

"I have to do something." Lin Zhigao felt that reason was gradually returning to his head: "I have to do something."

"No matter what you do, I will support you."

"Maybe a press conference?" Lin Zhigao pondered, his eyes sparkled with anger: "Some people must pay the price for their unscrupulous words."