When Gao Zheng drove the car out of the training base, he was surrounded by a group of Atletico Madrid fans.

He got used to the scene, so he pulled over and opened the window, ready to take the postcards, jerseys, scarves and other items handed by the fans and sign their names.

If someone wants to take a group photo, he will also cooperate with his face turned to the side and face the fans with their cameras or mobile phones to help them take selfies.

But he won't be so indefinite to meet the fans' demands, because then he won't be able to go home for an hour.

The fans know that, too, so it's the people who came up in the first place to be satisfied.

The others will have to catch up early tomorrow.

But today's situation is a little different, but no one in the fans who gathered around asked Gao Zheng for autographs.

One of them stood up and said to Gao Zheng, "Gao, I want to apologize to you. ”

“？？？” Gao Zheng was confused and didn't understand why an Atletico Madrid fan would apologize to him.

If Barcelona fans apologized to him, he thought he could imagine it.

"Allow me to introduce myself first, my name is Danielle Herrera and I'm just a regular Atletico Madrid fan."

Gao Zheng turned off the car, pulled on the handbrake, and looked at this posture, this ordinary Atletico Madrid fan may not be able to finish what he has to say in three or five sentences.

"I apologize to you because I ...... Well, I actually hated you before. ”

This made Gao Zheng unexpected, he didn't expect that among the fans of Atletico Madrid, there were still people who hated him. He always thought that with his performance, he should have won the love of all Atletico Madrid fans......

He didn't know what to make.

The fan named Herrera continued as if he had no regard for Gao Zheng's feelings: "I hate you because you're a Chinese...... I'm ashamed to say that I know it's not right. But at that time, I was like a devil. I blame Chinese for losing my job and having a bad life, so I hate everything related to China, including you...... Therefore, I want to apologize to you, now I have recognized my former narrowness and insignificance. ”

Gao Zheng looked at Herrera and found that the fan was very sincere when he spoke, and there was no wandering eyes.

He had thought before that his identity might cause him some trouble, after all, racism is not uncommon in Europe. He saw it when he was in Italy. Although Europe has vigorously advocated political correctness against racial discrimination in recent years, it has not actually made the situation better, but it has changed from the previous overt discrimination to covert discrimination.

If you can't see it, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, and those who look down on Chinese people in their hearts will not really discriminate against you because of politically correct propaganda, but they don't dare to discriminate openly, and maybe they will be more discriminatory in their hearts.

Although he knew that there would definitely be people who discriminated against him because he was Chinese, he didn't take it too seriously because he didn't think it was a big deal. After all, he doesn't care what others think in their hearts.

But if someone dares to express this discrimination in front of him, then he is not easy to bully.

I just didn't expect him to hear it from a Atletico Madrid fan today.

Herrera continued, "I know, I didn't come to you, and you certainly didn't know that someone like me had ever done such a thing. But I feel like I should still come to you, say sorry to you, and apologize to you for my previous bias against you. ”

Gao Zheng felt that the Atletico Madrid fan in front of him was still responsible, and indeed as he said, if he didn't come to him, he would definitely not know that there was an Atletico Madrid fan named Herrera who hated himself because he was Chinese.

"I just wanted to be able to express my apologies to you before we played Barcelona and to let you know that there is someone who has changed his mind about you and the whole Chinese because of your performance...... I hope that this personal transformation of mine will give you a little bit of strength and help you beat Barcelona and do wonders. ”

Herrera said very sincerely, Gao Zheng didn't expect that there was such a story behind this, he replied with a smile: "Thank you for your frankness." Rest assured, as I told reporters, we will win and we will definitely advance to the semi-finals. ”

"I'll be cheering you on in the stands." Herrera concluded.

"Thank you!"

The two sides said goodbye.

On the way home, Gao Zheng was still thinking about Herrera, he didn't expect that his performance on the court would convince someone and make him change his prejudice against Chinese.

I have to say that he has scored a lot of goals in the game, won a lot of games and won a few titles. But at this moment, his sense of accomplishment is the highest.

As a Chinese, he represents China's image abroad.

If you can change a person's original prejudice against China because of your own performance, you are indeed very proud.

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After Gao Zheng left, Herrera turned to his companions and said, "Guys, will I do what I say?" I apologize to Gao in person! I've corrected the mistakes I made in the past, and I'm a new me! ”

His companions opened their arms and embraced him: "Well done, Danielle! We are so proud of you! ”

"Let's cheer for Gao in the middle of the week and hope he can do a miracle!"

"Now, let's go have a drink! To celebrate Danielle's new life, haha! ”

"Well said, to celebrate the new students!"

A group of people hooked their shoulders and left the gate of the Mahada Onda training base, talking and laughing.

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Gao Zheng's words quickly spread to Barcelona, and Messi was also surrounded by reporters after training, wanting to hear his opinion.

"Gao is right, we haven't forgotten that game. After all, it is indeed too rare to lose so badly away from home. Just yesterday, we were all talking about that game and reminding ourselves not to forget. Even though we won the first leg by three goals, I don't think that means we can qualify early, the arguments out there are too optimistic to be our real ideas. Messi said with a serious expression. We will use that 4-0 match as a lesson to prepare for the second leg against Atletico Madrid. We're going to forget about the score of the first leg and give it our all. ”

After saying that, Messi waved goodbye to the reporters.

Looking at his back, the reporters sighed: "It's really Messi!" It was not at all surprising that such words came out of his mouth......"

Another reporter laughed: "Gao seemed to want to use that 4:0 to boost morale, but it reminded Messi and the other players of Barcelona to raise their vigilance." It's really a recipe for stealing chickens, ha! ”

"Thank you so much!"

The training ground was filled with cheerful air. Catalan journalists are more comfortable with Barcelona reaching the last four.