At half past five in the morning, I rode my bicycle and headed for Lazio's training base.

Before planning to rush all the way to the training base, Long and Short Legs took a picture of the city that had just been dyed with the warm light of the sunrise and the streets were still very deserted, and passed it to his good friend Tigos.

[Rome at half past five in the morning! 】

After doing this, he took advantage of the fact that there was no one on the street to argue the classic proposition of "can a bicycle ride the speed of a motorcycle".

In fact, long and short legs have always been a favorite among players. In the winter, even if Europe has adopted winter time, which allows them to train an hour late every day, or even play an hour late for the morning game, he still has all kinds of powerful grudges when he gets up.

On the days off, he likes to sleep until noon, or wake up at □□ o'clock in the morning, and then wake up in a daze with a pillow and quilt.

For long and short legs, you can let him stay after training and practice, you can let him play or practice in the sun on his rest days, but it is best not to let him get up early, whether it is winter or summer.

But now, he has been up so early for a month and a half in a row and went to the club's training base to train in advance!

It was almost half an hour later that he received a text message from Tigos in reply.

[So early!? You're ten minutes earlier today than yesterday!! Wait for me! I still have half an hour to get to the training base!! 】

By this time, the long and short legs had already come out of the locker room. Now, as we approach the end of May in Serie A, the weather in Rome is starting to get hot and hot, and as it is close to noon, the sun will be able to lightly stun the poor man who has forgotten his sunglasses.

It's best to come out early in training during a month like this! The moment you walk out of the locker room, you won't feel so cold! The long and short legs that ran to the sideline sent a text message back to Tigos:

【Okay!】 Then I'll move my body first, and then practice the switchback run! 】

Although Lei Yi didn't tell anyone, he didn't have any joy in his heart when he beat Torino without Yue Yihuang and Francisco in the Serie A a month ago. Even their head coach, Mr. Pablo, said that his performance in that game was better than that of the Russian Ogudowski, who is the top scorer in Serie A this season, but he still did not feel the slightest satisfaction.

When he beat Torino at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Lazio's home stadium, he felt nothing but unspeakable loss.

That's because he understands that he will never be able to defeat the Turin team he wants to beat the most.

Enzo once said to him when he was confused: As a player, once you choose, you have to be firm in your choice, and you should not and cannot regret your choice at any time.

And at that time, he also said to Sù Enzo: Okay. I don't regret choosing Lazio.

So he didn't try to think about it, he didn't try to imagine what it would be like if he left Atletico last year instead of Lazio but Real Madrid.

He just worked hard to train, worked hard to get better, worked hard to play every game he played.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Leiy, who had been practicing alone for a long time, was full of body and energy, and wanted to be Superman every day, and his club teammates began to practice together. At this time, their manager, Mr. Pablo, was in his office to receive the club manager who had come here today.

"This year we finished in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. The club hopes that we can do that next season and even reach the last four of the Champions League. ”

The manager of Lazio spoke this Mandarin to the Argentine Pablo, who is the head coach of the team. So Pablo replied, after a moment's thought:

'I know the fans expect more from us than in the last eight of the Champions League this year and I know they want us to go one step further in the Champions League. This is a very understandable expectation. After all, we also reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League last year and we have HA this year, so although we met Liverpool in the quarter-finals, it shouldn't be a ......'

When the Lazio manager heard this, he understood that he must have misunderstood, so he laughed and repeated "man, stop" twice to interrupt Pablo's self-summary.

"Man, I'm not here to tell you that the club is not satisfied with your coaching skills. In fact, we couldn't be happier with you! There's just one thing you'll probably know later today, but I still think I'll have to sue you right now. Otherwise, you might get too excited and faint in front of your players. Listen to Pablo, you have to be mentally prepared. Otherwise, you may really lose control of yourself. ”

Pablo, who has always been full of momentum in every game, no matter how strong the opponent is, will not feel that he will be weak, even half a point after hearing this, Pablo looked at their team's club manager with a skeptical, even questioning, look.

Apparently he felt that what the other party said was too appalling. But only half a minute later...... The Argentine was so excited that he almost overturned his desk when he stood up!

“leiy！ Leiy come here!! The boss said there was something urgent to call us! It's a big and big thing!! ”

During the rest of the two training sessions, the long and short legs, which had been tired for a long time, were finally able to pill their arms, lie flat on the lawn, and fold their feet to hum a song and bask in the sun and blow the wind. It was at this time that Darmian rushed all the way from a distance, and the full-back, who had the best 100-meter sprint performance in the Lazio team, pulled his long and short legs with a "I'm happy" face on the lawn under the shade of the trees, and dragged him to the manager's office.

"Wait, wait, don't drag like that!"

The long and short legs are straight, and I feel that I am being dragged up like this by someone coldly, and I really can't even adjust my posture! So after he shouted this, Dami paused, and then ...... And then Damian he only gave himself two seconds!! But even after being dragged all the way to Mr. Pablo's tactical commentary room by Damian, their coach couldn't wait to start saying loudly before anyone was due:

"It's half past three this afternoon! No one is allowed to take a lunch break! Come all here! ”

Emma, Mr. Pablo's crazy appearance has never been seen before, and he was frightened as soon as he entered the door, not to mention that when he stood there with a look of "I'm already scared" and made eye contact with the manager, the manager of their family actually looked at him and said loudly: "It's half past three this afternoon!! ”

Long and short legs almost split on the spot in front of his club coach and teammates!

So...... What exactly is going to happen at half past three this afternoon?

"There will be exciting news on the official website of FIFA at half past three this afternoon!! I can't believe it! They actually solved it all silently! Boys! From next year! Our Champions League group stage has to start two weeks early!! You have to be vigilant at all times! Motivate yourself to do better every day! Because, next season we must reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and we will not allow any mistakes until we reach this goal!! ”

May 22, 2041.

On the eve of the final match of the 2041~2042 Serie A season.

3:30 p.m. EDT.

Almost without warning, FIFA's official website released a promotional video.

Have you ever fantasized about a fantasy league? 】

When you click on the play button of this promotional video, the first line you see on the all-black playback screen is a sentence that matches the language you selected when you entered the page.

Before you have two seconds to think, a football blockbuster is staged. The emblems of this season's Champions League quarter-finalists have appeared in their cities one by one. With the emblems of these eight teams appearing one by one, their wonderful performances in the Champions League also appeared in front of them. Then, the entire continent of Europa was outlined by silver lines.

The European retro font "europe" looms in that vast land.

Then, the globe on the screen began to turn, and the emblems of the quarterfinals of this season's Copa Libertadores appeared in their respective cities, so the goals of these eight teams with different styles of play in the Copa Libertadores were also shown on the screen......

The clip is so brilliant that too many people can't compare it with the initial sentence of the short film, "Have you ever fantasized about a fantasy league?" "Combined, just looking at it with bright eyes, watching the exciting, deeply exhilarating images in the short film appear in front of me one by one.

So the huge earth did not rotate again, but people's eyes followed the team emblems that appeared in the picture one by one to the map of Central and North America.

And then there's Asia! Then...... Africa again!! In the end, the earth in the picture spun around at a great speed, freezing a qiē in the city where the champion team of this season's Oceania Champions Cup is located!

[It is after next season that the World Championship Cup is about to begin.] 】

These are the words released by FIFA's official website at the end of that promotional video.

It is after next season that the best teams from all five continents will come together.

They will compete for the title of a truly the best team in the world.

Fight for glory!