June 20 soon came, and for the whole day, Cristiano was in a very nervous state, and Scolari was a little worried, so he went to Juan to talk to them and ask what the situation was, and Juan was stunned when he heard it.

"Isn't it normal for him to be nervous?"

"Are you sure?" Scolari also raised his eyebrows, after all, although the bear child was nervous, he would never show it in front of him, and he could digest it in minutes.

"Of course it's fine," Juan smiled, "he's just a little ...... Hometown timidity. ”

While most of the memories he left at Sporting Lisbon were not very good, it was here that he grew up and then made his metamorphosis at Manchester United.

And now, he's back at Sporting Lisbon's home stadium, the Alvared Stadium.

Juan had also heard about Cristiano's not-so-good years and teenage years, but he also knew that the Portuguese No. 17 had come out of his shadow anyway.

"Anyway, you better go talk to him." Scolari is very worried, after all, Cristiano is now the hope of the whole Portugal, he is indispensable on the side, as one of Portugal's more powerful attacking methods today, if there is a little problem with Portugal's No. 17, it will affect the performance of the whole team.

Juan nodded, turned around and went to look for his little teammates, Cristiano and Quaresma were pressing each other's legs and stretching, and they both straightened up when they saw Juan coming towards them.

He smiled and slapped Cristiano: "Come, I have something to say to you." ”

Cristiano was stunned, touched his head and followed him to the edge of the court: "What's wrong?" ”

"The coach doesn't worry about you." Juan said bluntly, "He's worried about your current situation. ”

Cristiano was stunned, then smiled: "It's okay, I'm not playing for the Red Devils against Lisbon." ”

Juan raised his eyebrows and looked at him for a moment, and then saw that Cristiano's hair stood up a little before continuing: "That's the best, you can be steady." ”

After all, this time he came back to win glory for the country, and in the end, at Sporting Lisbon, the Portuguese youngster still had a very good time.

As night fell, the bus drove quietly and the Portuguese fans outside were already shouting loudly, with some hysteria, especially when they saw Juan coming out in a training outfit.

"Juan!" "Juan! Will you play today?! ”

Juan paused, nodded in the direction of the fans, and then boarded the car amid loud cheers and uproar, his arrival was clearly a surprise, and the fans were even more concerned about tonight's game.

"Actually, the situation in Spain is not very good right now." On the bus, the players were either listening to music with headphones on or waving to the fans chasing cars outside, only the coaching staff gathered around for a final emergency discussion meeting – and Scolari said the first sentence at the end of the day.

To this, Juan gave this answer: "When did the situation in Spain get better? ”

Spanish football has not produced any representative figures for more than 20 years, and the only ray of hope and light for so many years is Raul, who is the pillar of the whole of Spain, and it can be said that his form directly affects the performance of the whole of Spain.

It's just that for Raul, the national team is already a burden, and the only role is to affect his own performance, and Raul's injury probability will increase after the density of the game increases, but how old is he? Obviously, Spain still has something to hold up.

"In the last game against Greece, if it wasn't for Bellerón's shocking long-range shot, it was still a question of whether Spain would have won the game."

"That's true...... However, it has to be said that Greece is also a difficult opponent to deal with, and Spain can win very hard. ”

"I can only say that it would have been much better if Guti had been there in that game."

Listening to the coaching staff criticizing the Spanish team one by one, Juan couldn't help but smile bitterly, after all, the team is full of his friends, no matter how you say it, when Scolari turned his head, he said directly: "Spain is not easy to deal with, especially in this game, if they lose, they can only go out with Russia." ”

When it came to this, the whole audience was a little embarrassed, after all, when the group first came out, everyone thought that Spain was determined to occupy a position, and then Portugal occupied one, then their group was happy, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Spain is in danger

If they win this game, it's okay, but if they lose, they really have to fight Greece on goal difference.

"Indeed, it was said in ancient books that the mourning soldiers will win, and we still have to be careful to guard against them." Scolari said very sternly, and received a blank gaze from almost everyone.

"You just said a proverb?" “……”

Inside the Alvared Stadium, the fans had already begun to enter the stadium in an orderly manner, and when they saw the players' buses coming from afar, they were still excitedly waving their national flags or scarves in their hands - and they didn't know what they were doing with their scarves in the summer - shouting "Come on Portugal!" ”

"Welcome to Alvared Stadium!" The commentary in the live broadcast room was very excited, after all, this is the first time that Sporting Lisbon's home stadium has ushered in such a big international event, "The players of both teams have entered the dressing room to prepare, this is also the first time Cristiano Ronaldo has returned here since leaving Sporting Lisbon, I don't know how he feels in his heart?" ”

"We can see that there are a lot of fans holding posters of Ronaldo and Figo, but if we take a closer look, it seems that there is no Juan? This is really surprising...... Oh forget it, when I didn't say it. As the camera swept by, Juan's poster group appeared.

There was a group of fans - apparently a higher proportion of women than men - waving a photo of Juan or a banner in their hands, jumping up and running a song made by Manchester United for Juan, which made the live broadcast room a little surprised: "Juan himself does not seem to have formed an industrial chain, and his posters have not been listed until now, so fans who love him can only use photos to relieve the pain of lovesickness." ”

Juan, who was criticized by the live broadcast for not forming an "industrial chain", what is he doing at this moment?

He was talking with Cristiano, saying that it was all right for the bear child to be quiet all the way in the car, which was simply impossible - everyone knew that this kid was a chatter, and he couldn't stop talking.

"Cristiano, what's wrong with you?"

In the face of Juan's very concerned inquiry, the Portuguese teenager opened his mouth, lowered his head and said nothing.

“…… Forget it," Juan said to himself, leaving the stadium after the game anyway, anyway, Cristiano's problems should be solved after leaving.

But just as he was about to leave, he was grabbed by a hand, and before he could turn back, he heard the child ask worriedly, "Juan...... You say, will the people outside boo me? ”

Hearing the child ask, Juan's first reaction was to laugh.

So you're afraid of this? Probably frightened by the scene of the pig's head being thrown when their captain returned to Camp Nou, so he kept worrying about it.

"No, it won't." Juan couldn't help but pat his head with a smile, in order to avoid making his little teammates angry by really laughing, Juan held back very hard: "No matter what, you came back this time to win glory for the country, and no one will boo you...... And you go with a clear conscience, what are you afraid of? ”

"But ......" Cristiano was still a little worried, Juan smiled helplessly at everyone, and pulled the children who had just changed their clothes out of the locker room.

Standing in the players' tunnel, filled with Portuguese singing outside, Cristiano took a deep breath at Juan's signal, and then secretly looked at the situation on the field from the backstage.

Juan didn't lie there in shame like he did and look through the gap, but stood there very generously, and the photographer at the entrance of the player's tunnel seemed to notice them, and just as he was about to go here, Juan was already smiling and stretching out his hand to show quiet, and then pointed to Cristiano's location, and the photographers retreated.

Although their profession required them to step forward at this time, the honor of the country made them reluctant to retreat and leave, leaving them with a quiet space.

When they all retreated to the exit of the players' tunnel again, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and looked at each other: "I don't know what Juan is doing, is he taking Cristiano for pre-match training?" ”

"Possibly, maybe it's some kind of custom that works."

"But what is Cristiano doing on the ground?"

"Whatever, what is he doing, anyway, after the game, we just ask in the post-game press conference?"

Cristiano finally had enough of the situation outside, he got up and touched his head, the worry on his face was much less, Juan smiled and rubbed his head: "Relieved?" ”

"Hmm!" Cristiano nodded heavily, and was about to say something, only to hear Juan say lightly: "Okay, you and Coach Scolari go to the post-match press conference." ”

"Huh?" Cristiano was stunned, "Shouldn't it be you or the captain who is going?" ”

"It's better for you to settle some things yourself...... "Juan patted him on the shoulder very heavily, "Let's go, go back to the locker room, it's time for the coach to speak." ”

As soon as they returned to the dressing room with the front foot, Coach Scolari came in and coughed softly: "Today's starting line-up...... goalkeeper Ricardo, defenders Miguel, Carvalho, Andrade, Valente; midfielders Deco, Dias, Ronaldo; Forwards Figo, Postiga, Quaresma. ”

After he finished reporting the list, several people were stunned, and then looked at Juan - listening to this configuration, Coach Scolari wants to play an aggressive 4-3-3 formation today, and the most important thing is that the person who mobilizes the whole team's offense and defense and organizes the team's offensive system seems to have become Juan.

"Coach......" Juan was about to stand up and say something, but Scolari tapped him on the shoulder and motioned for him to sit down: "I know you all are skeptical, why should I use Juan as the centerpiece of this game. ”

Although Juan has always been cultivated as the core of Portugal and the next captain, but since Juan's physical problems, he has automatically and consciously relinquished his position, the most obvious manifestation is that when he used to play, he shared a room with Figo, and now he is with an assistant coach.

Scolari also knows that Juan will not be able to work hard for the national team for long, but now the priority for the Portuguese team is to win this game.

Although they had set a place for qualifying, when he thought of the possible sniping in the quarterfinals, he felt that it was better for him to win this game safely in order to avoid the possible first place in several other groups.

"Juan has at least been trained for the national team, and at the club he's doing the work." Scolari explained, "I'll be on the pitch later, and you'll listen to Juan." ”

In fact, he also knew that compared to him, an outsider, Juan's prestige among the players would be greater, and at the beginning he was still doubting whether Juan could control those veterans, but after two consecutive games, if he couldn't see the team's confidence in Juan, he wouldn't be worthy of being the head coach.

In time, this man could become a legend in Portugal.

- It's a pity.

Although Scolari thought so, his face did not leak at all, and his voice was still very steady: "Also, you must pay attention to defense during the game, especially Belleron and Raul, in the eyes of the whole court, the danger of the two of them is the highest." Well, that's about all there is to say, let's go, come on Portugal! ”

"Come on Portugal!" The audience responded with a bang.

The players of the two teams stood in the players' tunnel one after another, and when they saw Juan, many people in Spain on the other side were stunned, some smiled at him friendly, and some turned their heads with a cold snort, Juan glanced at the past one by one, and finally walked towards Spain.

…… Cassie's hand was about to break.

Although he didn't start this game, the person wearing the substitute vest was still alive and kicking, swearing that the position of the national team in the future must be his! Juan couldn't help but sneer and patted his head: "The World Cup is yours, who makes you yourself not know to cherish." ”

In the 02 World Cup, Casillas played as the No. 1 goalkeeper and swallowed six eggs, but this really can't be blamed on Cassie, he was only twenty-one at the time, and such a young goalkeeper is also rare to see in the World Cup.

"Phew." Cassie was indignant, he just didn't want to mention that if he hadn't met Portugal in the group stage, Spain would have been so miserable, eating six goals in three games?

"Alright, Igor, you go and sit outside, lest the staff call you later." Raul deliberately came from the front to pat Cassie on the head, he is the captain of Spain, and he can't leave his position at will, but he can still come and see it in the name of Cassie.

Cassie was slapped a few times by him and ran away, Juan looked at his back helplessly: "Raul, you are really ...... Great work. ”

"I guess you're going to have to work harder next season." Raul meant something, Juan glanced up, he was now standing at the back of the whole team, and the other Juan was standing quietly in the middle and back of the Spanish team, looking inconspicuous at all, as if he had noticed his gaze, the person in front of him glanced back, pursed his lips and smiled in the direction of the two of them, and Huang turned his head back as if nothing happened.

"......" Juan and Raul looked at each other and bent down at the same time.

"You mean, the people of Belleron are hard to get along with?" Juan asked quietly.

"It's not too difficult to get along with, it's just that you know he's no different from an ascetic." Raul replied in a low voice. "It's not a matter of a day or two that Real Madrid want to buy him, but he has always refused to leave, preferring to take a pay cut to stay in Deportivo La Coruna...... How to say it, he looks like he is going to die in Laco, and his personality is a little weird, but he is not a bad person. ”

Juan raised his eyebrows, his voice a little strange: "You mean...... Could he be A Coruña Riwen and José? "Actually, there is nothing wrong with Guti, at least it proves his absolute loyalty to the club, but the biggest problem arises.

Raul nodded heavily: "And he seems to be more opinionated than Jose, Luke, it's the same Luke who has been sitting on the bench, isn't he also from Deportivo La Coruna?" However, he seems to be planning a transfer, and as a result, Belleron has not spoken to him until now......"

Sounds like a bit of an idea. Juan raised an eyebrow: "If that's the case, I'll pay attention to it." ”

Raul nodded, turned and ran back to the front of the team to the shouts of Morientes.

"Juan, that's the captain of Spain?" When he returned to the group, Cristiano finally couldn't help but stick his head out, "You look so young!" ”

"He's still young, what's wrong?" Juan didn't know where his point was, so he could only say so.

"How old is he to be the captain of the national team?"

"Probably 23 years old." Juan suddenly felt a little bad, but before he could speak, he heard his little teammate smirk and say, "Oh, no wonder, I thought all the captains were as old as our captains." ”

Juan immediately subconsciously turned his head to look at the front of the line.

Although Cristiano was at the back of the line because of his habits, and the captain needed to be at the forefront because of his status, which should be inaudible, Juan saw it with his own eyes......

Captain, the pole of the small flag of the national team is going to be crushed by you.

Juan sighed helplessly and patted the child's head: "Hurry up and stand in the back, behave well during the game, and pass the ball to the captain more." ”

"Okay," Cristiano grinned, "take care of the elderly, I know, don't worry!" ”

Juan didn't even bother to look back at the captain, in fact, his teammates had already begun to laugh, and they all had to endure it very hard, as far as Juan could glimpse, they all shivered like they had goat madness, and Spain on the other side was not much better.

Alas...... How does he feel that Cristiano is ready to end his career every day?

"Two teams of players enter! Let's take a look at the starting lists of the two teams in this game......" There was an exclamation in the live broadcast room, "Scolari can be regarded as bold, although Postiga and Quares are remarkable in the final table, but it is not to the point where he can rest assured that the two of them will be combined again on the field, right?" ”

"And he actually let Ronaldo retreat to the midfield, is he crazy......"

"Juan's position seems to be on the front side, what is Scolari going to do?"

"Compared to the Portugal squad that has given us a lot of surprises, it's more normal here in Spain." The commentator looked at the list in his hand, "In fact, Spain's choice of goalkeeper may be risky, although Canizares is a veteran and more secure, but in terms of strength, it is still Real Madrid's young player Casillas who has a higher success rate of saves." ”

"Seth probably just wants to experience the sensation of a heartbeat." The commentary partner said very cautiously, "Besides, in the 02 World Cup, when Cassie played for the country for the first time, it seemed that the commentators at that time didn't believe him very much. Maybe it's officially because the table of the last World Cup is really not very good, so Seth avoided Cassie. ”

"I understand the reason, but there are too few starters produced by Real Madrid this year, right?" The commentator looked at the information, "Let's take a look at today's Spanish starters, goalkeeper Canizares is from Valencia, and at the back, Capdevilla is from Deportivo La Coruna, Elguera is from Real Madrid, Puyol is from Barcelona, Marchena is from Valencia, ......"

"Midfielders: Alberta da Valencia, Xavi Barça, Belleron Deportivo La Coruna, Raul Real Madrid in front, Atletico Torres, Morientes Monaco." The commentary partner sighed, "There are only two people in the entire starting list, of course, Barcelona is not much better, is the era of the two giants in La Liga now over?" ”

"Not necessarily." Although the commentary said the word of possibility, it used the most affirmative tone, "Barcelona and Real Madrid spent a lot of money to build, and it is absolutely impossible to be pressed below for a long time, waiting to be seen." ”

"Alright, let's get back to the game...... Spain kicks off, and the person with the ball is Xavi, and the core of Barcelona's midfield seems to have begun to gradually sharpen its momentum, and can judge and deal with the team very calmly. But for now, the biggest problem he has to face is not the team...... It's Juan, Juan Díaz. ”

"Dias is in a more forward position today, almost close to the midfield, what does Scolari want to do, transform Juan?"

"In fact, as far as Juan's current situation is concerned, it is useless to renovate, so it is better to use it directly...... Ah, wait, Juan cut off Harvey's ball! ”

The whole stadium boiled in an instant, and many fans didn't even have time to stand up when they saw a popular flash on the field and fell to Cristiano's feet!

"It's incredible, how he did it! We've found that Juan barely leaves any gaps in one-on-one situations, and he rarely runs up front, always intercepting the ball at the back and passing it directly to those around him, but we've seen accidents, such as when Manchester United played away at Real Madrid...... Uh, Juan started running! ”

Juan transferred the ball to Cristiano and began to run to the front, of course, he did not say that he looked down on his young teammates, nor did he doubt that he could intercept through guò, but Juan couldn't help but worry about who the people on the other side were.

Regardless, it's true that Cristiano can't get past Puyol. And Belleron, if you let the ball get to the feet of Belleron, then Spain will be much more difficult to play against than they are now.

However, when he started to run, a figure around him also kept following, Juan glanced at it a little and was stunned, and couldn't help but slow down.

"Nino?" Juan is so surprised for a reason, Fernando Torres is not a defensive player, he should be waiting in the Portuguese penalty area with Raul and Morientes at this time to be serious, how could he suddenly run out?

"Long time no see." Torres took the time to give him a smile back, and the relationship between the two of them is also very good, after all, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid often meet in the first team or the academy, either fighting or making trouble, and it is quite happy.

- It is worth mentioning that the tall guy in front of him who is a little shy with a blonde smile is actually a black-bellied master, the kind who can kill his own friends without blinking his eyes, and Juan almost fell for his routine once.

Seeing that there seemed to be something wrong ahead, Juan took a deep breath and immediately accelerated, Torres chased after him, and in an emergency, Juan patted him on the shoulder when he passed Carvalho, Carvalho turned his head in a daze, only to feel a gust of wind whistling in front of him, he didn't understand it, Torres was coming.

Whatever happens, at least it's always right to stop Torres, right?

The newcomer Carvalho thought so, and took a step to stop the person directly, Torres was caught off guard and collided directly with the person, and his nose hit the person's shoulder blade, and suddenly the pain was so painful that he could only cover his nose and take two steps back, his eyes were filled with physiological tears, which also made Carvalho stunned for a while.

This guy is so good-looking......

Wrong! Carvalho shuddered, he thought of his teammate Juan in the same color, and suddenly sobered up a lot.

Good-looking people may be more pleasing to the eye as opponents, but once there is a standard "good-looking people must not be messed with" template among his teammates, Carvalho quickly came to his senses and took three or two steps back.

Anyway, he's managed to intercept this guy now!

After getting rid of Torres, Juan quickly crossed the half-time, and at this moment Cristiano was trying to break through the defense with Quaresma and Postiga, but no matter what method they used, the back four rarely had problems, after all, they grew up in such a brutal and fierce environment as La Liga.

Cristiano tried a second break, but his proud footwork didn't seem to work at all in front of Puyol, who was as calm as a rock, and Cristiano knew why.

The person in front of you...... He has a teammate named Ronaldinho, and if you want to count footwork, the football wizard is the best in the world.

After another failed attempt to break through, Cristiano protected the ball at his feet with a bit of a wolf, but in fact, his dribbling was not very good, and it was very likely that the opposing player would cut the ball away every minute, so in order to avoid such a situation, he had to retreat.

As he took two steps back, Puyol followed almost immediately, and Cristiano looked up in a hurry to see a Portuguese shirt from far and near, and he subconsciously split the ball with his eyes lit up.

The ball was less than five centimeters away from Puyol's toes, but he could only watch as it flew away, and Puyol's pupils contracted sharply.

Juan Díaz.

He is actually very different from this person, after all, he is also a backfield player, and it is inevitable that there will be comparisons, but Puyol carefully compared, when he first played, did he have such a good appearance, did he have such a calm attitude.

The final result was negative.

Defensive players like them are actually getting better and more mature with their play, but Juan Díaz seems to have shown unreasonable calmness from the start.

And compared to the average defensive player, he is also a little too aggressive.

Let's take it now, in the next moment of getting the ball, Juan just raised his feet high, the posture was very familiar, Puyol had even tensed his muscles, Cristiano took advantage of the confusion to look back at the person behind him, and he was entangled for a moment.

Is he going to save the ball, or is he going to run away?

The Portuguese youngster was still puzzled, when he heard a hissing in his ears, something tearing the air and passing by, he only felt that his forearm seemed to be burned by fire, and when he looked up, Canizares was getting up in frustration, taking the ball out of the goal and throwing it out angrily.

Portugal 1:0 Spain!

“Gooooal！！ Juan Díaz! He seems to have fully started to show his aggression and in any case this is the most goal-scoring midfielder I've ever seen, and the most technically sophisticated midfielder I've ever seen! ”

With the roar of the on-site commentary, the Portuguese people in the audience boiled like a pot of boiling water, the national flag was waved in their hands, and many fans even happily grabbed the people around them and began to kiss and hug.

Juan ran two steps along the sideline after scoring a goal, and was quickly overwhelmed by his teammates, who all came up to hug him and congratulate him, and only Cristiano, who didn't have a long brain, rushed to him and hooked him: "Juan, carry me for half a court!" ”

Juan reluctantly patted the youngster's buttocks and ran away with him for a while before he stopped.