The entire Lazio team arrived in Getafe to prepare for the Champions League final against Bayern Munich, which is the biggest thing in Getafe these days.
The warm welcome they received when they arrived in Getafe was shocking after it was broadcast on TV.
The spectacular scene made people think that they had actually won the championship.
"It's unbelievable that Chang's popularity in Getafe is so high... The welcome his team received in Getafe was spectacular!"
Sports news was being played on the TV in a fast food restaurant, and a picture of Lazio Audi vs. Getafe appeared on the news.
The cheers of the Getafe fans could be heard clearly outside the TV.
This is a fast food restaurant located in Madrid.
This is the time when the store's business is at its best, and the waiters and diners are busy shuttling back and forth in the store.
But there are some exceptions.
A young man wearing a fast food restaurant uniform was not doing anything, but looking up at the TV hanging on the ceiling.
He seems to care about all the news about the Champions League final.
Chang Sheng and Jose Passarella appeared on the screen, and the news anchor introduced: "Chang Sheng and Jose Passarella both made their debut in Getafe. At first, Jose Passarella was just a
As a substitute forward for the youth team, who would have thought that he would now be the world's top central defender..."
At this moment, the TV screen suddenly went black and the sound disappeared.
The young man was stunned for a moment.
A voice rang from the side: "Gorka, finish your work before watching TV!"
The young man whose name was called turned to look at a fat middle-aged man behind the ordering counter. That was his manager.
"What are you looking at? We are all too busy!"
So Gorka lowered his head and went to clean the house.
The disdainful voice of the fat manager came from behind: "Do you know how many young people in Spain can't find a job now? Even if you finally find a job and don't work hard, there are still many people waiting to replace you outside the door!"
Gorka did not refute, nor did he angrily attack Chang Sheng like he did on the Getafe C team's training ground.
He just lowered his head and quickened his busy pace.
Because as the fat manager said, the unemployment rate in Spain is very high today, especially among young people.
Many young people simply cannot find jobs.
A person like him who has devoted more than 20 years of his life to football knows nothing but football, and it is even more difficult to find a job.
It has been four years since he retired. During this period, he has held many jobs. He was a gas station employee, a car wash worker...and now a fast food restaurant employee.
While everyone was cheering for the victory, Gorka, the former Getafe youth genius, was naturally forgotten by everyone.
These people won't even remember that there is such a person and such a thing.
Even Gorka himself, most of the time these things would not surface, if it weren't for the fact that the Champions League final was being held in Madrid and Lazio came to Madrid to prepare for the game...
No one in this restaurant knew about Gorka's national football team. They didn't know that this usually taciturn colleague was once a talented player that Getafe fans had high hopes for, and the Getafe club only produced it in thirty years.
His future life has already been set. He will debut in Getafe, perform well, then jump to a bigger team, and then climb up step by step, and finally become a top star in Europe, with an easy annual income.
He has millions of euros, lives in a mansion, drives a sports car, embraces beautiful women, visits luxury stores and various nightclubs, and frequently appears in newspapers and news... He is a real football star.
If he hadn't met the Chinese, he thought it would be like this...
But now, that's not the case at all.
And until he retired, he did not achieve anything famous.
After leaving Getafe, he went to the youth team of Atletico Madrid. He originally thought that this was a step out of his misery. With his level, he would easily stand out at Atletico Madrid, and then be selected for the first team and play a real professional role.
League.
What's the result?
In Getafe, he is the only one like him. He is carefully protected by the stars.
The club meets all his requirements, he can enjoy privileges in the team, and the entire team's offensive tactics are developed around him. He is a real star in Getafe.
But in Atletico Madrid, no one cares about him anymore. The privileges are gone, which makes him very uncomfortable.
If the tactics don't focus on him, he won't adapt even more, and his performance will plummet.
And the most important thing is that Chang Sheng is right, his body is not adapted to higher intensity confrontation.
In Getafe, he has privileges. With the training level of Getafe's youth team, he does not need much physical confrontation.
But when he went to Atletico Madrid, which was the youth team of a Spanish giant, he had never heard of how fierce the competition was.
Unable to adapt to physical confrontation, he was gradually left out.
In the end, he failed to enter Atletico Madrid's B team and chose to leave again.
At the instigation of his father, he spent the next few years playing for various lower-level league teams in Spain.
Even for teams in the Spanish Third League that he looked down upon before, he has played for them.
But I can't always kick it out.
Later he was seriously injured in a game.
This injury cast a huge shadow on his heart.
After returning from injury, he became even more afraid of physical contact.
But in modern football, if you dare not engage in physical confrontation, it is impossible to succeed.
In the end, Gorka was injured again, and this time he didn't even have the courage to come back.
Like a lost dog, he immediately decided to retire.
In this way, he left the football he loved and was forced to start working everywhere in order to make a living.
After retiring, he chose to completely break away from his past self. He stopped playing football, stopped watching football, and turned a blind eye to everything related to football.
It seemed like this would make him feel better.
If it hadn't been for the recent Champions League final being held in Madrid and the Champions League being all over the TV, he wouldn't have paid attention again.
Because this time there are several of his "old acquaintances".
The news announcer just said that he never expected that the substitute forward of the youth team would now become the world's top central defender.
Yes, he didn't want to fight either.
The loser who was crushed by him at the time and who had no chance at all and was about to give up professional football is now the world's top central defender. He won the European Cup with Spain and the Champions League with Lazio.
…
At the beginning, he clearly looked more promising than him. Why is it that now he is cleaning in a fast food restaurant, while he is already at the pinnacle of world football?
And Chang, the rookie coach of the youth team who seemed to know nothing, is now a famous coach in European football. He attracts attention wherever he goes. He has led two different teams to win the Champions League championship, and he is also married to a
Having a big singer as your wife is truly a winner in life.
Life...
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After the fast food restaurant closed in the evening, Gorka was told by the fat manager that his probation period was over and he was fired.
Gorka didn't roar or question angrily, nor did he pounce on the manager and get into a fight with him.
He silently accepted the result, collected his salary for the month, turned around and left.
He has experienced this kind of thing many times in the past few years while working everywhere.
With a small salary, Gorka did not choose to go home directly, but strolled on the streets of Madrid.
As the Champions League final approaches, the streets of Madrid are full of posters and posters for the Champions League final.
The fast food restaurant where he works is not far from the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, home of Real Madrid.
So the posters and advertisements here are particularly dense.
There are Lazio team emblems and Bayern Munich team emblems.
In addition, photos of star players from both teams will also appear on these posters.
On Bayern Munich's side it's Franck Ribery and Robben, while on Lazio's side it's Jose Passarella and Gotze.
Gorka looked at Jose Passarella, who was directing the defense with his arms outstretched on the poster. He had an eye-catching captain's armband on his outstretched left arm.
I don't know much about what happened when I laughed at him. I just know that I laughed at him and looked down on him with disdain.
When I passed by a store window, the TV inside was playing the video of this afternoon's pre-match press conference.
Sitting inside happened to be Lazio's head coach Chang Sheng.
Gorka stopped and stood in front of the display window, looking at the TV.
"Afraid of Bayern Munich? Sorry, there is no word 'afraid' in my dictionary. So I don't know what you mean by this question."
Chang Sheng crossed his chest with his hands, leaned on the back of his chair, raised his chin, and looked at the reporters in the audience from the corner of his eye.
Not much has changed from when he first appeared in front of me.
Still arrogant, fearless, and no one is a dick...
On the first day I came to Team C, I dared to fight with myself, the "ball tyrant" who dominated Team C...
Gorka suddenly laughed.
Thinking of myself in the past and comparing myself with myself now, I suddenly felt that even being scolded by that damn Chinese was a kind of happiness...
Because at that time, I was still playing football anyway.
How happy I am to be able to play football...
Chang Sheng on TV is still answering questions from reporters.
Although he looks like a dick, it has not affected the reporters' admiration for him at all.
This is the real star. No matter how he treats the media, the media will always come to lick his toes.
"We chose Getafe as a place to prepare for the game, but the training facilities and accommodation conditions there are not particularly good. Why would you consider going there to prepare for the game? You don't worry that a bad training environment will prevent the team from doing its best.
Good preparation for war?"
At first glance, this reporter was here to stir up trouble.
Gorka can hear it even outside the TV.
He didn't believe Chang Sheng would hear it.
That's a real mad dog.
But to Gorka's expectation, Chang Sheng did not get angry or retaliate.
He smiled and replied: "Bad? In your emotionless eyes, maybe it is. But for Lazio and I, this is the best place to prepare for the game. Because coming to Getafe is like returning to
It feels like home, my players and I feel very calm, we like it here, and for us, this is the best place to prepare. If we win the championship in the end, then Getafe will contribute a lot to this place.”
fight back?
Yeah...go home.
I...it's time to go home.
Gorka then remembered that it was already late.
Go home, go home.
The video of the pre-match press conference continued to play, and Gorka turned and left.
Just like he turned around and left the fast food restaurant, without looking back. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)
