After saying goodbye to his inexplicable young lady, Santiago turned and walked towards the house behind him, which was his home in Buenos Aires, a small one. Seriously, Santiago hasn't been back here for more than a year, and even if he sometimes goes back to Argentina, it's almost always a sleepless frenzy with his friends, hanging out in all kinds of luxurious places, where will he have time to come back here?

Boca was the first port in the city of Buenos Aires, where a large number of European immigrants arrived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mainly Italian Genoese, and the area is famous for its tango and cafés. One of the most emblematic streets in Boca is Tango Street, which is lined with reliefs by Argentine artists on both sides of the walls, and was transformed into a pedestrian street museum in 1959 to allow pedestrians to experience the art scene during their strolls.

You can imagine how much silver it costs to buy a two-story cottage on this valuable territory, but as a former playboy Saint Tiago naturally does not skimp, he likes tango!

Around the middle of the nineteenth century, there were black immigrants from Africa and Genoa, Italy, as well as gauchos from the Pampas steppes and Mulato from the Caribbean, mostly laborers working on the docks or sailors on ships. With the rise of inns, bars, cafes, dance halls and red light districts in Boca, these dock workers and sailors gathered in pairs to dance and have fun, at that time it was just men and men, and later some women joined in, and began to flirt, and gradually became a common culture of the lower classes, popular in the red light districts and lower class bars, and thus the tango was born.

Therefore, the initial stage of tango is a vulgar dance, its musical style is both the beautiful and lyrical serenade of the Genoese and the folk dance of the gauchos, and with the passage of time and the continuous penetration of the immigrant culture, these dances gradually merge to form a unique tango, showing the soulful, beautiful, rough and sad atmosphere of civilian life.

However, at that time, Europeans were full of contempt for tango, believing that it was not elegant, but after continuous transformation and sublimation by artists, tango gradually evolved from a vulgar dance to an elegant performing art.

And Santiago was also quickly conquered by Tango at the beginning, there is no way, who let the former owner of the body be a native of Boca!

Pushing open the door and looking at the dust in the room, Saint-Tiago sighed helplessly, and after calling the housekeeper to clean up, he collapsed on the bed and fell asleep from exhaustion. Since arriving in China, he has not had a good rest, and finally returned to Buenos Aires and went to the Boca club in the dust, and the fatigue accumulated along the way can be imagined.

Meimei sleeps well, and tomorrow she will go to the club to negotiate the contract with the team manager Mr. Bianchi, and prepare to start her new life, which is simply beautiful! As for that pretty young lady? Who knows! Saint Tyco just took her words as a joke!

Time passed without anyone noticing, and in the dream, Santiago returned to his carefree childhood, the old unit building and the inferior soccer ball in his arms became an important part of this beautiful dream, he was running and jumping on the playground between classes, and suddenly the earth shook violently, and the sky turned upside down like the end of the world, everything collapsed in an instant!!

When the mobile phone vibrated to wake up Santiago it was already the next morning, the warm sunlight shone in through the window, lazily sprinkled in the room, the quiet air was the smell of fragrant coffee and hot tango wafting on the street, Santiago was slightly distracted before rubbing his sleepy eyes and picking up the phone and answering it lazily asked, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

The other end of the phone paused for a moment after hearing Santiago's words, and seemed to soothe his mood before he said, "Santiago? I'm Sergio Batista, I think you should come to the Olympic training ground, Bianchi told me you've changed a lot lately, and I want to be able to take a real look. ”

What the!!? Sergio Batista!!

Saint-Tiago's whole body was thrilled when he heard the self-introduction from the other end of the phone, and he immediately promised on the phone: "Okay, Mr. Batista, I'll go at once!" ”

After hanging up the phone excitedly, Santhiago was eager to call Bianchi to thank him, but knowing that he didn't have much time, he immediately pulled out his car keys from a drawer, put his gear in order, and drove towards the town of Myrtle. The town of Mettre is next to Buenos Aires, and Santiago was slightly relieved after looking at the time in the car, knowing that he would be able to arrive before two o'clock in the afternoon, in this case, he did not have to panic too much, he had to maintain a relatively relaxed state to have a good performance when he arrived at the stadium.

Speaking of which, Santhiago really has to thank Boca General Manager Bianchi, yesterday he thought it was Mr. Bianchi who asked casually, but he never expected that there would be news the next day! Sure enough, it's a real Argentine football boss! Talking has weight! It seems that as long as you hug this thigh tightly, even if you are fleeing and coming back, you can mix very well!

Someone must ask who is Sergio Batista? Sergio Battista is a former Argentine footballer who was a regular member of the Argentine national team when they won the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, wearing the No. 2 shirt in the Argentine national team, playing in the 1986 and 1990 World Cup matches and playing as the main midfielder, with a good sense of position, strong aggression, and played an important tactical role in the team.

(Note that he's Batista, not Batistuta!) ）

After retiring as a player, Batista entered the coaching industry, having coaching experience in Uruguay and the United States, and more importantly, Batista is familiar with the tradition of Argentine football, which is the foundation of Argentine's dominance in youth football. Therefore, the Argentine president, who attached great importance to this gold medal before this Olympic Games, appointed Batista as the coach, and Batista has so far lived up to expectations and successfully led the team to break through from the qualifiers.

Before that, Batista had recruited Santhiago into the team, but Santiago's performance was not good at that time, so Santiago's name did not appear again in the second and third training camps, and Santiago had little hope for this, but this time Bianchi helped Santhiago get a chance.

Of course, as for whether it can be officially selected, it depends on the performance of Santiago in the afternoon!

The journey to the Olympic team's training ground was not smooth, and the rush hour at noon meant that San Tiago had no choice but to deal with the long traffic...... Fortunately, he went out early enough to avoid the embarrassing situation of being late.

Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina, where superstars such as Maradona and Di Stéfano have gone to the world, and although it is also known as the Paris of South America, only football is everything in this city. It's a city that belongs to football and has been named one of the top 10 love travel destinations in the world by well-known travel magazines, but women come here for tango and love, while men come here in search of football and faith.

Buenos Aires has 78 teams, large and small, but none of them share a single stadium, and the training ground of the Olympic team, the destination of the trip to Santiago, is the Maradona Stadium in the town of Métre, next to Buenos Aires, which was once the home of the Argentine Youth Club. The Stadio Maradona was certainly not a glamorous stadium, in fact it was a bit of a mess, and in 1976 when he made his professional debut at the age of 15 when it was still a wooden façade, the stadium eventually became his name.

When the youth club moved out of the area in the early '80s, the Argentine government had planned to rebuild the Maradona Stadium for $5.8 million, but financial problems led to the renovation to begin in 1995 and was finally completed in 2003.

Although the time span is frustrating, it has gradually become lively after the renovation, as it has become a training ground for the Argentine Olympic team. In 2004, it was here that the 17-year-old Messi contributed an 8-0 victory for the fans of the Argentine U20 national team, opening the road of the second generation of legends.

Pulling the car to a steady stop, Santiago closed the door and walked into the stadium with his satchel on his back.

National Olympic team, I'm back!