Fox in the Penalty Area

Chapter 2028 Regret

See Farias convert a knife mountain ball into an attacking opportunity with an excellent continuous pull ball turn, and pass the ball to Vukovic.

The eyes of the first assistant coach Jesús Valentine on the sidelines lit up.

His expression also showed obvious signs of rising.

But when he saw Farias reaching out for the ball next, after receiving a pass from Vukovic, instead of passing the ball to Hou Lai, he chose to shoot himself and shot the ball outside the range of the goal frame back…

His brows were wrinkled again, and he sighed heavily: "This kid! Still going the old way!"

Parotti, who was next to him, laughed: "Look at the positive things, Jesús. At least after he passed Tonini beautifully, he didn't continue to rush forward with the ball, but gave the ball to Milos. Then Running in space without the ball."

Hearing what Parotti said, Valentin nodded: "That's right, if he was in the past, the ball would have been taken directly to the penalty area, and he would never pass the ball unless there was no way to break through. Now it is obvious There was still room to break through, but he took the initiative to pass the ball... So is your experiment a success?"

In order to convince his colleagues on the coaching staff to agree to his treatment of Farias, Parotti told them that it was just an experiment. Anyway, their result will not be worse, because they have decided to leave collectively after the end of the season.

I'm leaving anyway, so what else can't let go?

Let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

Experiment with Farias in a different way. Since the previous high pressure, punishment, criticism and preaching didn't work, then do the opposite, listen to Parotti, and turn to "treat" Farias "gently", even if he does not perform well in training and games , and don't criticize him.

Some people objected at the beginning—doesn't this mean that he can make mistakes unscrupulously? Because even if he made a mistake, no one would criticize him, but would praise him instead. Wouldn't he be ignorant of good and bad, and go further and further down the wrong path?

In response to such doubts and objections, Parotti responded:

have no idea.

Try it out.

It was so simple and rude, everyone was dumbfounded-they thought that their boss would understand the reason with emotion, took out a lot of data as an endorsement, and then used various scientific methods to convince them.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a child's play of "try and talk".

If it wasn't because their fate for this season had already been decided, these people would have to have a good fight with Parotti.

Of course, Parotti also explained to them why it was "try and talk".

It's because Parotti really didn't know what to do, and he didn't know if it was right to do so.

But since one direction doesn't work, why not change direction?

Although I don't know if this direction will work, at least we won't "hit the wall" in the wrong direction before.

Now it seems that, although it is not obvious and perfect, Farias has definitely shown a positive side.

Facing Valentine's question, Parrotti still gave the same answer as before. He shook his head and said, "I don't know...Young man, how can it be so easy to change. Sometimes he makes you see hope, but it's yours." Wishful thinking, maybe tomorrow he's back in the past...but it doesn't matter."

Seeing that Valentine was about to speak, Parotti stopped him quickly, but continued:

"Growth is like this. It's not a straight line going up, and it doesn't oscillate up and down like an electrocardiogram. It's a spiral curve: good and bad, sometimes progress, sometimes regress... It's all normal. The key is to be in his growth Seeing positive things along the way.”

Because Farias did show a positive side in training, **** Valentine's current mood did not refute Parotti's remarks.

But at this moment, there was a sudden exclamation on the training ground.

Valentine's attention was drawn, and Juan Ramirez was already sitting on the ground.

※※※

Captain Juan Ramirez also walked in naked while Farias was showering.

The shower behind the locker room at the training base is not big enough to allow all the first-team players to shower at the same time, but it is not small enough to only have three or four shower heads.

At this time, Farias was the only one in the shower room, but after Ramirez came in and saw this scene, he went straight to the shower head where Farias was.

Then chose to take a shower next to him.

Farias didn't notice this at first, his eyes fell on Ramirez's right thigh.

In this afternoon's training, the culprit that caused Ramirez to suddenly sit down on the ground and interrupt training was there.

Thigh muscle strain.

After knowing the result, Farias couldn't help but think of the fact that Ramirez passed him a knife mountain ball during training.

It turned out that at that time, his muscles had problems.

I'll just say...

Farias murmured in his heart, as captain Ramirez, he shouldn't wear such small shoes as himself during training.

Although Ramirez had come to persuade him before, he did not listen. But in fact, Farias still respects the captain in his heart, so he gave the captain enough face on the surface.

Otherwise, he can ignore the captain completely.

There are not many people on this team who can earn his respect from the bottom of his heart.

Before the Champions League semi-final against Vesuvius, the captain was injured, which is definitely not good news...

"What's wrong?"

Just as Farias was secretly looking at Ramirez, he heard the captain's voice.

"Ah? Uh..." Farias didn't expect that his eyes would inadvertently stay on the captain for too long, which would inevitably attract attention and... misunderstanding.

He could only care about the captain's injury casually: "Your injury..."

"Oh, it's just a muscle strain, not a big deal." Ramirez grinned. "If it was really serious, you wouldn't see me here."

"Where should that be?" Farias was purely curious.

"On the TV news about me being out for the season." Ramirez made a not-so-funny joke.

Farias didn't know what expression or answer to respond to this hellish joke.

Ramirez didn't care about this, he continued: "Hu also gave me a special ointment for treating strains. He said it was a secret ointment handed down from his hometown... I don't know if it works, so let's use it as a placebo. It wasn't really that serious…”

When Farias heard the captain say that the injury was not serious, he asked subconsciously: "The semifinals..."

He thought he would see the captain say "no problem" to himself in a very calm tone.

But what he actually heard was:

"The semi-finals will definitely not be able to catch up..."

"Ah?" Farias didn't expect the captain to say it so simply.

Seeing his puzzled look, Ramirez explained: "The injury is not serious, but we have to rest for almost two weeks, so we must not be able to make it to the two rounds of semi-finals."

"But if you can't make it to the semi-finals..." Farias frowned.

The team's main defensive midfielder, captain, and "champion cornerstone" cannot play. The Madrid Pirates want to break through Vesuvius, I'm afraid...

"I trust my teammates."

Hearing Ramirez's words, Farias looked at him again.

"I believe they can reach the final." Ramirez repeated to Farias, and seeing that the surprised expression on Farias' face did not disappear, he asked with a smile: "What is your reaction? "

"Uh, I..." Farias didn't know how to answer.

"It's not the same as you imagined?"

Farias nodded: "I thought that if the injury was not serious, you would insist on playing in the semifinals..."

"Then I'll turn a not-so-serious injury into a serious one. You know I had a serious injury four years ago before the semi-final, right?"

Farias nodded.

In the second round of the Champions League quarter-finals of the 2029-2030 season, the Madrid Pirates challenged Manchester Athletic away. Towards the end of the game, Juan Ramirez sprained his knee on a key play. However, at that time, the Madrid Pirates had used up all the substitutions, and Ramirez could only grit his teeth and insist, otherwise the team would have to play more with less and be very passive.

His persistence allowed the team to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League, but it also made his injury very serious. He not only missed all the remaining games of the club that season, but also affected his performance in the World Cup, and even affected the new season...

It can be said that both Ramirez himself, the Madrid Pirates and the Spanish national team have paid a very heavy price for this injury.

"At that time, I thought that as a captain, I was called the "champion cornerstone", and I should take the initiative to take responsibility at critical moments. In any case, I should not be weak when the team needs me..."

"Shouldn't it be like this?" Farias couldn't hold back, interrupted the captain, and asked.

This incident made him particularly fond of memories~www.novelmt.com~ You must know that he was only fifteen years old four years ago, and he was still playing in the youth team in Argentina?

Because this is Juan Ramirez's "brilliant deed": he continued to play for more than ten minutes in the case of a knee injury, helping the team withstand the onslaught of Manchester Athletic and finally advanced to the semi-finals.

How many people can achieve such perseverance?

Not to mention, without Ramirez, the Madrid Pirates almost overturned in the Champions League semi-finals, if it wasn't for Hu Lai...

But without Hou Lai and Ramirez, Spain really overturned in the World Cup group stage.

These all prove how important "championship cornerstone" Juan Ramirez is to the team.

Whether it is the media or self-media, this matter has been repeated many times.

Anyone who mentions this matter will only have deep admiration for Ramirez.

But then, Ramirez said something that almost made Farias' jaw drop:

"But now I often regret my 'arrogance' at the beginning."

(end of this chapter)