7. Chapter VII
Ronaldo received an anonymous text message on the bus.
- It's not going to be an easy game, be careful against the Dutch defenders or you'll get hurt.
Who sent this? It can't be a scam text message...... Looking at the number he had never seen before, Ronaldo chose to be cautious and not respond, and then handed over the phone to the assistant coach. He put his hands behind his head and fell into the silence that preceded the battle.
Hurt? absolutely not. I don't want to miss a single World Cup game......
The tone was set from the opening two minutes of the game between the Netherlands and Portugal.
Van Bommel faced Cristiano Ronaldo, who was holding the ball, and fouled the referee on duty, the Russian Ivanov, with a rough behind-the-back tackle, showing him a yellow card.
The sound of Yan Jing tearing open the gummy bear bag in the stands was drowned out by the referee's whistle, and amid the roars of the Portuguese fans around him, he took out a strawberry-flavored candy cube and threw it into his mouth and chewed it leisurely.
I don't know if Ronaldo has seen his text messages, if they are treated as spam text messages, there is no way.
On the field, Ronaldo took the ball on the left side, and Bora Luz, who was in charge of defending him in the Dutch team, saw that he was about to be thrown away, and hurriedly stretched out his foot and stepped towards Ronaldo.
Ronaldo suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, and the content of the strange text message before the game was suddenly reflected in his mind.
"Beep-!!"
The referee's whistle blew again, and Ronaldo was already on the pitch, clutching his right thigh with a painful expression. The camera zooms in and you can clearly see the marks on the strong legs.
Portugal's team doctor rushed in to take Cristiano Ronaldo off for treatment, and the referee showed Bora Luz a yellow card, and it was only the sixth minute of the opening period.
After a brief treatment for Ronaldo on the sidelines, the team doctor persuaded worriedly.
"Chris, I'm building yì you'd better ......"
Ronaldo stood up and interrupted the team doctor's words with a resolute expression, his thigh still aching, but he didn't allow himself to miss the game like that.
"Go and sue the referee, I can play. ”
Just a few minutes after Ronaldo's injury, Yan Jing received a text message from Mendes.
-- Your pre-match reminder to Chris doesn't seem to work.
Ronaldo's number was obtained by Yan Jing from Mendes, and his magical talent for prediction seems to have conquered Mendes. When he told Mendes that his big employer, Cristiano Ronaldo, was likely to be injured in the game, Mendes provided him with the number.
-- You know your employer's temper best, and there's nothing I can do about it.
Yan Jing glanced at Ronaldo, who was limping and running on the field, and sent another text message to add.
-- The key now is that if he doesn't go down and get full treatment, the problem will be in trouble.
It took two minutes for Mendes to reply.
- He'll be off the pitch if his body really can't support him on the pitch anymore.
A few minutes later, Ronaldo had to come out again for treatment for leg pain, this time with a bandage on his thigh. Just when everyone thought the Manchester United supernova would be off injured the pitch, he re-entered the pitch.
Yan Jing shook his head with the gummies in his mouth.
It's too reluctant, and if he were Scolari, even if Ronaldo would have quarreled with him over this, he would have replaced him. Not only for the sake of the players' bodies, but the threat of Cristiano Ronaldo to the Dutch team has been greatly reduced after the injury.
But the wounded Portuguese seemed determined to prove themselves. In the 22nd minute of the game, the injured Cristiano Ronaldo sent a through plug with his back to the goal after stealing on the right side of the front. Deco, who received the ball, passed the ball into the box near the bottom line, Pauletta knocked back with his right foot with his back to the goal, Mani got the ball and shook the Dutch defenders in succession, and then fired a right-footed shot from 13 meters in front of the goal, and the ball went straight into the top right corner of the goal.
Portugal 1-0 Netherlands!
Portugal in the Gend Stadium resounded with earth-shattering cheers, Yan Jing once again felt a piece of green gummies and stuffed it into his mouth, and he watched from the big screen as Ronaldo instigated the goal.
Although he was extremely happy, he still subconsciously covered the wound on his thigh.
Will he really be able to hold on? That's probably the concern of all Portuguese at the moment.
In the 31st minute, Costinha brought down Cocu and received a yellow card.
The next minute, everyone's fears were still here, Ronaldo himself sat down in his own penalty area in a state of nobody, and he stroked his right thigh in pain.
Yan Jing could hear the sound of the Portuguese fans around him gasping, and Scola on the sidelines looked solemn.
The team doctor stepped forward to observe briefly and then stopped giving Ronaldo a chance to speak, and made a substitution gesture towards the coach's box.
It is clear that Ronaldo can no longer continue to play.
The team doctor helped the Manchester United winger off the field, and Ronaldo scolded his uncompetitive thigh in his heart, and unconsciously tears had soaked his eyes.
He greeted the audience with tears in his eyes, and Yan Jing stood up with the Portuguese fans around him to give him encouraging applause.
Benfica winger Simão came on as a substitute for Cristiano Ronaldo, and the attacking threat on the Portuguese wings was not much, while Arjen Robben of the Netherlands was very active up front.
Before the end of the first half, Portugal's Costinha tackled behind the midfield. He was supposed to get a second yellow card and was sent off, but the referee on duty still showed him a red card.
Since then, the game has taken a turn for the worse.
In the end, Portugal defeated the Netherlands thanks to Maniche's goal, which became the first classic game of the 2006 World Cup. However, the reason for his classic is not how good the scene is, but the rough and fiery action of both sides and the equally crazy frequency of the referee's cards.
According to the statistics of the immediate number after the game, the Russian referee Ivanov showed a total of 4 red cards and 16 yellow cards!
In the final stages of the game, there were two large-scale player clashes, and Portugal's victory had to be said to be extremely tragic.
After the game, Ivanov's law enforcement was questioned by many media outlets, and Yan Jing also criticized the Russian referee for his lack of control of the game in his column.
Yan Jing came to watch this game not just to enjoy the fun of football. He had previously been in contact with Dutch midfielder Sneijder to discuss his move to Borussia Dortmund in person. Sneijdertonguò's agent, Guido Albers, said euphemistically that he was now only thinking about the World Cup and didn't want to think about anything else. If Dortmund really wants to, he hopes to make contact with the Netherlands after they have finished their World Cup campaign.
Just after the Dutch team lost the game, Yan Jing threw the empty gummy bear bag into the recyclable bin, and then he stood in the crowd and dialed Albers's phone.
"I know Wesley must be in a bad mood right now, so I'm not going to look for him tonight. It might be better for him to wait until tomorrow morning when he calms down and then discuss the transfer. But Mr. Albers, can we talk about it first?"
Albers was naturally a little sad about the Dutch team's elimination, but it was clear that he was not upset for the Netherlands, but because his employer could not play more in the World Cup.
Now that he had a new job, Albers quickly gathered up and answered in a relaxed tone.
"No problem, Mr. Yan Jing, I'll arrange for Wesley to meet with you tomorrow morning before returning home. Ajax said they had received an offer from Borussia Dortmund, and for the €4 million figure, I think not only they, but Wesley wouldn't have been satisfied if he had known. ”
"Well...... I will be in touch with Mr. Zolke again, and you know that I have no right to call the shots. Yan Jing sloppily said, "As the head coach of Dortmund, I mainly want to know the wishes of the players. What does Wesley think about coming to Germany to play?"
"When I first signed Wesley, I had a personal development plan for him, and in that plan, only the major European leagues would be where Wesley would end up. You must know that the Eredivisie has long lost the appeal of the past. ”
Albers did not answer Yan Jing directly, but it is very simple to understand his words - Sneijder cannot stay in the Netherlands to play forever, so the player himself is not excluded from playing abroad.
After understanding what Albers meant, Yan Jing said in his usual confident tone: "I believe that for Wesley, if he wants to play in the mainstream European league, Dortmund will be the best choice for his first stop." ”
Albers was noncommittal to Yan Jing's words, and he brought up another topic.
"No offense, but Dortmund's debt problem ......"
Oh my God, why do you mention this again.
Yan Jing pinched the phone and twitched the corners of his mouth, basically when talking to the players' agents, they would mention Dortmund's financial situation. But it was precisely because of this that Yan Jing had already thought of an answer to this topic, so he smiled without thinking.
"Borussia Dortmund have a good future, we will release our financial statements for last season to the public, and we have a long-term plan to repay our debts. Unlike last year, we have received support from a number of banks and the government, and now we have plenty of money to invest in the team to strengthen the team. Of course, this is done without increasing the team's debt burden. ”
Yan Jing is not responsible for Dort's financial management, so he can't give a definite number for the specific situation. Although what he said was not too convincing, it made people unable to find fault for a while, and for Yan Jing, it was enough to achieve this effect.
Yan Jing's answer did not completely dispel Albers's doubts, but he did not question them explicitly, and politely changed the subject.
"I see, Mr. Yan Jing. You said that Dortmund has a good development prospect that Wesley should come to, can you elaborate on that? Because not only Dortmund, but several other teams are also pursuing Wesley, I think it's important to make a direct comparison. ”
"Other teams?" Yan Jing became alert, "Can you tell me which teams I am?"