Chapter 6

Raphael quickly took a shower and came out, the locker room was already lively, his popularity was very good, and many of them had been familiar with him since childhood, everyone present greeted him with a smile, and some people whistled: "Look at our Raphael, if this watery and tender look is seen by those little girls, it is estimated that there will be no bones left!"

"A handsome and stylish man like me is always easy to attract the attention of others, in fact, I am also very distressed, alas, I don't think you will understand this sad mood, hahahaha!" Raphael smiled as he changed his training clothes.

"Come on, they're just a novelty," said Niccolò Pandaleone, who spoke to him, vomiting: "These little girls don't understand anything now, and when they grow up, they will know that men with material are worthy of dependence." He straightened his chest, as a defender he was very confident in his figure, and he also touched Raphael's head very easily, "Especially tall men!"

No, it seems to have a murderous aura!As soon as he turned around, he found Manuel's knuckles crackling, "If you want to die, you can say it, don't be so subtle," next to him, a group of short teammates looked at him with unkind eyes.

"It's a mistake, a mistake!" Niccolò hurriedly raised his hands in friendship.

"Brothers, beat me to death, don't save my face!" Raphael shouted, gloating.

A group of people took advantage of the fact that the coach did not come, and there was no proper way in the locker room, when the door opened, a tall teenager walked in, and everyone suddenly quieted down, and the teenager looked at them with some embarrassment.

"Hi little Lucas, good morning. Raphael, who had just wiped his hair, saw him and raised his paw in greeting.

Lucas Ariel Ocampos smiled at him: "Good morning, clouds. ”

Raphael's greeting turned on a switch, and everyone nodded to him, but Ocampos was in a complicated mood and responded one by one.

Ocampos did not train at River Plate since he was a child, he came from Quilmes, a city in the south of Buenos Aires, and was brought here in July last year in his hometown youth team against River Plate youth team, because of his excellent brace, when Rafael was still recovering from injury, as Ocampos, who is also a right-footed player who played the left winger position, naturally took his place, when Rafael did not come back, he did not say that he was in the team, but he was also harmonious, but after Rafael returned to the team to start resuming training, the atmosphere in the team was a little strange。

Perhaps because of the conflict between the two positions, these people who have a good relationship with Raphael began to look at him unpleasantly. Ocampos was very disdainful at first, who is strong and who is the boss on the football field, and it is not based on relationships, he just needs to show himself well, and the coach can see it. As for teammates, no one has a rule that everyone must be friends off the field, does it? Despite this thought, he still had a very bad sense of Raphael at first, and in his eyes he was basically a weak B image who had no strength and did not dare to deal with challenges.

But since Rafael returned to the team half a month ago, he has realized that some things are different from what he imagined.

Speaking of which, Rafael seems to be grateful to him for returning to the team early, although he is in a particularly awkward mood when he thinks about it now.

They were in an intra-squad practice match that day, Ocampos' kick-up shot was kicked off by a defender, the ball flew out of bounds, and Rafael was doing a restorative workout on the sidelines alone, and the football was coming in his direction, and Ocampos was doing something incredible when he thought about it now.

Rafael didn't seem to notice the arrival of the football at first, and when he found out, the football was already close at hand, but he didn't panic, the football flew from his left front, he turned his back to the goal, raised his left leg to receive the ball and raised the ball forward, and then landed with his left foot to support his body, he calmly twisted his waist sideways, and at the same time picked up his right leg and hit the falling football hard.

Volley hard!

The football drew a white mark in the air, and flew quickly towards the forbidden area, and then, bent an exaggerated arc, Walter, the goalkeeper at the time, opened his eyes wide, and before he could react, he obviously saw that the football had flown out of the boundary, and in a blink of an eye, the ball actually returned to the field, and then in a blink of an eye, it went straight to the goal, the speed of the ball was too fast, and by the time he realized something, it was too late!

Banana Balls!

Everyone watched in amazement as the ball bounced off the left post and into the net, and Walter set the stage throughout.

The people on the court were stunned, only Raphael continued to exercise without taking it seriously, and after two or three seconds, he seemed to react, and then turned around and waved at them: "Sorry, Walter, conditioned reflex, hehe." ”

But you're facing away from the goal!!But you're less than 10 meters away from the corner flag!!But it's a long-range shot from a near-zero angle!!Do you want to be so light-hearted?!!But you're facing away from the goal!!But you're less than 10 meters away from the corner flag!!!But you're less than 10 meters away from the corner flag!!!But it's a long-range shot from a near-zero angle!!!Do you want to be so light-hearted?!!Does that make them all look stupid?! Ocampos didn't know what was going on in his mind at that time, he just felt his heart beating fast, and he especially wanted to grab that guy's shoulder and shake it desperately and roar by the way.

Not to mention him, even the coaches on the sidelines opened their mouths in disbelief.

Anyway, after that, he saw the coach take Rafael for a medical examination, and then let him return to the team completely.

And when I really trained with him, I knew that the near-zero angle shot on the field was not a coincidence, this little man who was only three months older than him, was fast, reacted faster, shot accurately, and passed the ball imaginatively, his body looked thin, but he was not as easy to be knocked down as he imagined, and everyone said that he was a right-footed player, but he found that the opponent's left foot was more flexible than his right foot, and he didn't just play as a right winger, he could show Xiàn in any position in the front court.

And is such a striker demon afraid that there will be no place in the team? Not to mention that the opponent works harder than him!

The psychological advantage of the past is gone, so every day Ocampos sees the other party with mixed feelings.

However, Rafael doesn't seem to care much about him, and will greet him very kindly when he sees him, and occasionally find him to pair up and train with him.

Because Raphael said that his physical development needs a good reference, what is with the red person will also become red, with the black person will become black...... Oh, Ocampos didn't understand it anyway, but it was clear that Raphael thought that being with him would help save his height (which he thought would be more appropriate......

"Anyway, I will never compromise with fate," Raphael said righteously in the face of Manuel's spurning, "People have to pursue, what's wrong with pursuing height? After all, I have to be responsible for my offspring!"

Ocampos almost didn't laugh out loud on the side, and there was a sense of superiority in the confusion. You must know that he is still four months away from being 16 years old, but he is already 185cm, and he is a standout among the short strikers in the team.

Because there was a game in the afternoon, the morning time ended in a simple pass and run training, and the head coach Jorge Gordillo announced the main players and substitutes for the afternoon game, Rafael, Manuel and Ocampos are both in the starting lineup, but Ocampos is the right winger, Rafael is the left winger, it seems that he is ready to fly on both wings, but the coach also pulled Rafael alone to instruct him, so that he can play a cameo as a center forward when necessary, this is a treatment that Ocampos does not have, Rafael is just too prominent in training, who can guarantee that he is just as good in the game?

But Ocampos, who was silently watching, didn't say a word, for some reason, this heartless kid who was always laughing just gave him an incomparably strong self-confidence, and he found that he couldn't imagine him becoming a soft-footed shrimp in the arena.

"Rafael, you said that you have eaten spinach during this time, and you have been training so hard, and you have stolen all the limelight, okay, now that the coach has re-acquainted you, should you restrain yourself a little in the afternoon and hand over the responsibility of pulling the wind to me?" Manuel said with his arm around Rafael.

"It's a matter of looks, so you should die. Rafael slapped his hand away, and cautiously glanced at the coach, "Hey, have you noticed that Coach Gordillo is always looking at me today, are you sneaking behind me again?"

"If I were a coach, I would look at you to see if you were dropped by aliens. For the first time, I saw a freak who was more dazzling after a serious injury. Despite the joy of his best friend, Manuel still felt magical, especially after Raphael changed from his right foot to a balance between his left and right feet, and even his main foot became his left foot. He knew that Rafael had been exercising his left foot during his recuperation, but he never expected the results to be so good!

It's so good that the whole person is reborn......

Presumably, the coach did the same as he thought, so he would start the first official game for Rafael's return - just to see what kind of energy he can burst out.

Is this God's unbearable reparation for a serious injury?

Manuel couldn't help but feel a little jealous, but thinking about his friend's go-up training at five o'clock every day, he wanted to open it again - no one should try to trick him into getting up at five o'clock anyway!-

The afternoon game was held in their academy, on the turf used for training, and the playing field of the youth league was basically like this, not so much exquisite, if you want to have the stands and have a camera to broadcast it...... It's better to get into the first team as soon as possible.

This is also related to the current situation in Argentina.

Although Argentina is a country with football in its bones, there are more than 3,000 football clubs in the country, and there is even a saying here that "you can change your religion, you can remarry, but you can never change the team you support." Our love for football is passed down from generation to generation like genes. "We were born with a soccer ball in our hearts. "You can imagine how important football is to Argentinians.

Ordinary people are eager to change their lives through football, and the club also hopes that the talents cultivated by its own youth training can meet the development needs of the club, and at the same time, they can also make a lot of money by discovering talented stars, so the entire football league has a good youth training tradition, and there are corresponding youth leagues between each echelon of domestic football clubs, which is also to allow young players to improve their football skills and grow better in actual combat.

But because of the recession of the domestic economy, the superstructure determines the lower foundation, and what money do domestic clubs have to spare, even if it is a league bully like River Plate, they are now living in debt. There are now 78 teams in Buenos Aires, but none of them share a stadium, which means the city has at least 78 stadiums, but if Argentina were to host the World Cup, Buenos Aires would not have a stadium that could match FIFA's requirements – not even their Monumental Stadium in River Plate, which was the venue for the 1978 World Cup final.

The overall environment is like this, and their training ground is not a rotten vegetable field, thank God.

Rafael will play in the six-tier youth match today, at home against the youth team of Argentine Youth Football Club, also from the city of Buenos.

Even though it may be just an upgraded version of the intra-team competition, Rafael is extremely excited, and God knows, he is going crazy to think about wanting to play a real game! He really has no interest in watching other people play! And after more than half a month of team training, he can finally get his wish!