July 1, 2012 (Italian time) was destined to be a sad day for Italian football. That night, Italy lost the European Cup final in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and lost the game with a humiliating total score of zero to four.
Tonight, the streets in Italy are empty and no one can sleep. The shock of defeat is full on everyone's face. Almost everyone is either hungover in the bar or curled up at home wiping tears.
At this time, in an empty amateur stadium with lights in Palermo, Sicily, the boy was running stubbornly and slowly, round and round, slowly, but never stopping, caressed by the gentle sea breeze.
He could see the disappointment on his face, which was as delicate as a sculpture, but his eyes, as bright as an eagle under his two thick eyebrows, exuded a soul-stirring look and perseverance.
He didn't stop until after one o'clock in the morning, dragging his tall and straight back slowly away under the shining lights.
The boy's name is Chen Long, and he is an ordinary local child. His father is Chinese and his mother is Italian. He is an authentic mixed race of East and West.
More than two hours ago, he was sitting alone in front of the TV at home, watching Italy defeat Kiev, watching Spain lift the European Cup for the second time in a row, and watching his former friend Mario stay in the competition.
I shed tears...
What? Friend Mario? Isn’t that Mario? Mario is actually his friend? Yes, that’s true.
Chen Long originally had a crazy future, even crazier than today's Ba Shen. We have to go back in time to fourteen years ago, in the summer of the 1998 World Cup, when the four-year-old Chen Long saw Ronnie racing like lightning.
After his performance, he fell deeply in love with football. That was when he became obsessed with football.
At the age of four, Chen Long showed super talent for football and was admitted to Inter Milan's youth team at the age of five. This news caused an extraordinary sensation in Italy at the time. At the age of five, he played for the Inter Milan youth team. At that time, the youth team
The members are all four or five years older than him, so you can imagine how talented Chen Long is in football.
But that year, I don’t know if Ronaldo’s bad luck with injury was also passed on to Chen Long. Before a game, after he ate a colorful candy, his physical strength instantly decreased to five minutes. The result is astonishing.
However, a child who can only play football for five minutes can only be kicked out.
Also kicked out was the now-famous Balotelli. At that time, Balotelli was on trial training with Inter Milan. He was roommates with Chen Long, who was four years older than him. In just three months, he and Chen Long became friends.
Deep friendship, until now, Chen Long has been Balotelli's mysterious friend...
The fate of the two people who were kicked out had completely different fates. The one who was kicked out later went to the La Masia youth training camp, then returned to Inter Milan, went to Manchester City, and then to the Italian national team, becoming a real Barcelona.
And the other, then….
*******************. After Chenlong returned home, he took a steaming bath first, and finally entered his bedroom cleanly.
Chenlong has an unusually large wardrobe, but he is not a rich second generation, so naturally it is not filled with expensive clothes, but is used to store his uniforms. There are probably many professional players wearing uniforms, but if you can see
You will definitely be shocked when you go to his closet. There are no less than a hundred pieces of various football uniforms in his closet! Of course, the most dazzling one is the Inter Milan one hanging in the center.
His No. 9 jersey has Ronaldo printed on it. This is his biggest idol. For fourteen years, this jersey has been hanging there quietly...
Since he was abandoned by Inter Milan, no professional team has looked for him again in the past 13 years. No one will want a five-minute waste, no matter how talented you are and how outstanding your skills are, it is useless and is not needed in football.
waste.
That piece of candy thirteen years ago changed his life. He only had five minutes of physical strength. What a joke God made, and it was made with an innocent child who was only five years old?
The only way to increase physical strength, the answer given by the doctor at that time was to continue running exercises to increase lung capacity, but the running speed must be kept within the range of 5 kilometers per hour, which is almost the same as walking speed. So Chenlong
Every day's life consists of studying, running, sleeping, and secretly practicing football.
Chenlong has been running for thirteen years, but his physical strength has not increased substantially. In the past thirteen years, his physical strength has increased almost every second. After thirteen years, his physical strength has only increased by fifteen seconds.
That's five minutes and fifteen seconds.
But that poisonous but sweet candy also brought him a bit of comfort. This was only confirmed by Chen Long when he was ten years old. Since eating that candy, his physical strength has indeed become five minutes.
, but his skills have improved by leaps and bounds. As long as any star's technical moves are demonstrated in front of him more than ten times, he can easily simulate them. This brings him unexpected surprises. After simulating more than a hundred times, he can easily
Can copy the opponent's technology with complete proficiency!
So at the age of ten, Ronnie's cow tail, riding a bicycle, pendulum style, passing the ball, wearing crotch, hitting the wall to coordinate, burst of speed, accelerating and changing directions, sudden stops and turns, etc., have been imitated almost to the point of incomprehension.
The state... If Ronnie knew that there was someone as perverted as him in the world, he would definitely feel more comforted after retiring. Unfortunately, Chen Long is a five-minute cripple who will never be on the stage.
At the same age of ten, he finally couldn't hold it any longer and joined the first team, the Boys, and eventually became the team's ace, but only for five minutes.
It was also from the age of ten that Sicily also had a new beautiful legend, Chenlong, the king of field battles, the five-minute ace.
You can’t play professional football, right? We can still play amateur football! Even if we are the king of amateurs, we are also kings!
In Italy, a country where football is popular, there are too many amateur teams. There are thousands of amateur teams in the port of Palermo in Sicily alone. The amateur teams in Sicily are always willing to invite him as a substitute.
, like temporary workers.
For example, whoever the team will play tomorrow, they will prepare a uniform for Chen Long, let him join the team, play at the last moment of the game, and score a goal for 10 euros. After ten years, Chen Long is also happy to accept this
After all, he can play more games, earn money, and finally build a good reputation.
Teams in Sicily now almost exclude Chen Long's name when betting on football, because Chen Long often scores a goal in the last five minutes when he is on the court. In the end, almost all teams just invite him
Playing outside Sicily...
Obviously, if Cristiano Ronaldo is the working emperor of professional football, then he is the working emperor of the amateur league! But Ronaldo's teams are definitely not as many as his, and his uniforms can even be included in the Guinness Book of Records...
Chen Long stood quietly in front of the closet, carefully selecting the uniforms for tomorrow's game. Chen Long wanted to find three uniforms today because there were three games tomorrow, and all three teams called him for help.
***************************The next day, a wonderful weekend, Chenlong rode his bicycle to the football field very early. The first game
It's nine o'clock in the morning. He needs to rush to the game. Yes, he also needs to rush to play football. Fortunately, today's three games are all in Palermo. If they were out of town, he would have to catch the train. Of course, his income
It will also increase accordingly. You can say that he is the most unprofessional professional player temporary worker, or the most amateur professional player temporary worker. Every team will first clarify whether he has other games before inviting him.
, if there is, they will all split the game time, which has to be said to be a weird miracle in Sicily.
"Here we come," the leader of the Victoria team standing aside greeted him.
"Well, what team are we playing today?" Chenlong brushed his long, shiny black hair with his hand, and Mance asked logically.
"A strong team that has just transferred to Messina is preparing to play in the Sicilian Regional League. The old rules are that you will score goals with all your strength in a while. This time the bet is high, 5,000. We are going to win. You get 200. Of course, the premise is that you
If we score a goal, we still have to win. Otherwise, it will be 10."
"No problem, I have to make sure not to be beaten into pieces before I go on stage, otherwise I won't be able to save myself. I don't want the two hundred I got to turn into ten yuan." Chenlong smiled with a relaxed and natural look on his face.
, turned around, looked at the steps behind, and sat down.
For him, the first eighty-five minutes of a game have nothing to do with him, because he is a spectator, but it is closely related to him, because if the team loses badly, he will not get much benefit.
, the most he can score is ten euros. He has also communicated with other teams, letting him play for five minutes first, score a pre-emptive goal, and then defend to win the game. But this effect is still not as good as playing in the last five minutes.
The effect is better, because at that time the opponent no longer has much physical strength, which is more suitable for Chenlong to use.
Game start.
Games where bets are placed always make people excited. Although Chen Long did not place bets, he had a chance to win the bets. Therefore, a game that he should not be worried about often had to worry about it because it was his turn.
When he came on the field, he didn't want to miss out on his chance and earn two hundred euros in vain.
The game was more than strong, but not exciting enough. It was a typical Italian style of play. Chenlong stumbled and waited until the 85th minute, and the score was one to one.
What he needs to do now is to score a goal and win.
He was very careful, not wasting his energy at all, and walked slowly to the forward area.
He is waiting, waiting for an opportunity that belongs to him.
The ball was fiercely fought for in the midfield and could not be rolled to his feet. His temporary teammates naturally knew how to snatch the ball and then send it to his feet comfortably, allowing him to complete the goal.
Chenlong never ran fiercely, but slowly walked back and forth, like a cheetah waiting for an antelope, ready for the final blow.
But time passed by minute by minute. More than two minutes had passed, and the ball still had not reached Chen Long's feet. He was also anxious: the ball was either changing positions in the midfield, or it was playing in his own half.
The ball was out of bounds and couldn't be passed to me at all. It seemed that I needed to retreat to get the ball.
After Chen Long thought about it, he suddenly quickened his pace and ran back quickly. The defensive players also subconsciously followed him. You must know that no matter who the new player is, they cannot take it lightly. After all, physical strength and uncertainty are at stake.
No one dares to be careless there.
Sure enough, Chen Long's retracement changed slightly. His pull caused the defender to move forward, and the team's passing route became shorter and there were more opportunities for the ball. However, the ball still could not come smoothly.
to his feet.
More than three minutes passed, and Chen Long still didn't get the ball. But at this time, Chen Long got a chance to get a boundary ball! It was about ten meters past the center line. Chen Long ran without hesitation.
He walked over and stretched out his hand to signal the players to throw the ball to him.
In fact, there is no need for him to signal, the ball can only be solved by throwing it to him, because time is running out, and if Chen Long doesn't score, the game will be over.
His teammates threw the ball forward to him without hesitation. Facing the fast ball, Chen Long instantly adjusted his posture. He had no intention of stopping the ball, but looked at where the ball was coming from.
He chose to use his body as a cover, and while unloading the ball with his right foot, he knocked the ball directly from the right side of his body, and then accelerated in reverse direction from the left side to bypass the defender.
In the flash of lightning, Chen Long's movements were completed in one go. With a simple and effective move, he passed the ball behind him and easily broke through the opponent's defense like a loach.
What Chen Long had to do at this time was to hold the ball, then accelerate, accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate again. He took the ball and drove it diagonally toward the goal 40 meters away.
In that moment, the opponent's defender was completely shaken off by Chen Long. Chen Long had already dribbled the ball to the edge of the penalty area, forming a one-on-one situation with the goalkeeper.
The opponent's goalkeeper immediately chose to attack. Chen Long ignored it completely, glanced at it with the corner of his eye, and kept moving forward. When he was still one meter away from the goalkeeper, he raised his right foot and made a push to the left side of the goal.
Action, the goalkeeper judged the right direction and quickly slid in the same direction, trying to block the direction and angle of the shot. But what surprised him was that Chenlong's next action was to use his left foot to flexibly move the ball to the right.
After making a move, the man and the ball passed him at once, and finally he kicked the ball into the empty goal with his right foot.
Wow??, I won, I entered. The team leader or the gamblers in the field burst into excitement and cheered continuously.
On the other side of the coaching bench, someone exclaimed in disbelief: Why did such a strong person only come on the field at the end? This is simply an awesome professional player...
On the field, the tall defensive personnel of the opponent were staring at Chen Long on the field with extremely hateful eyes...as if their own money was being ruthlessly stolen by the opponent, full of resentment.
Chen Long slowly walked back to the center circle, completely ignoring the opponent's gaze. Because he only had a little energy left and had no time to appreciate the opponent's interpretation of him.
All he has left to do is to stay on the court leisurely and wait for time. Defense is definitely not his task. If the biggest player in football history is called Ronaldo, then he is more leisurely than Ronaldo because of the rest.
It really has nothing to do with him anymore, he just needs to watch his teammates defend and wait for the end of the game time.
Of course, no one would have trouble with money, so everyone except him worked hard to the end, and he got his wish of 200 euros. Of course, this is not his last income today. He still has two games to play,
Although the total playing time is only ten minutes.
At this time, the opponent still didn't understand why Chen Long didn't come until the end. They could only say that if they knew that Sicily had a five-minute ace, they wouldn't have carelessly entered the competition.
