Chapter 121: Fireworks

It turns out that if you want to really pass an effective and almost perfect low flat ball, you should not only pay attention to the points that San Tiago already knew before, but more importantly, the angle of the supporting leg when the ball is released and the following action with the ball.

First of all, you should keep your side so that the support leg is about 45 degrees angle to the ground, and you need to make sure that the action with the ball is close to the ground, otherwise it is easy to hit the ball high. Of course, the angle between the support leg and the ground and the movement with the ball are different for everyone's habits, and rigid copying will not have any effect, and if you want to be perfect at this point, you can only rely on thousands of exercises to find the one that suits you best.

Because of this, the low flat long pass sounds easy to do, but it is very difficult to do, in this regard, Riquelme is actually not optimistic about the temporary behavior of Stanti at this time, in his opinion, it is best for Stanti to think about how to deal with the pressure that will cover him on the pitch at this moment.

However, only two days later, Riquelme retracted his thoughts, and looking at the low flat ball that had already begun to take shape, Riquelme was amazed for the first time by the outstanding talent and ball sense of Santtiago, such rapid progress is not something that ordinary genius can do! This is not inferior to your own performance!

But Santi had no time to pay attention to Riquelme's exclamation, because for Santiago he was in a race against time! A race that can't be lost! In the face of everything that is to come, it is the game that will decide everything in the end!

Although the home-and-away final system gives both teams a more fair chance than a winner-or-lose format, it cannot be denied that the home-and-away final system makes the game more unpredictable, especially in South America, which has always been strong. In the history of the Copa Sudamericana final, there have been many examples of home fans acting impulsively in order to win the team, and in this case, the first Boca game in Brazil, which will have to travel long distances, is fully prepared.

The club's staff not only arrived early at the low-key hotel in Sao Paulo Province, Brazil, where Palmeiras Football Club is located, but also actively contacted the local police in São Paulo for security help. In this regard, the South American Football Confederation and the South American Club Cup officials are also very quick to cooperate, docking with Boca Club in all aspects, this positive situation is of course a good thing for Boca, who must be familiar with the venue in advance, but what the Boca generals did not expect is that Rao is so, and when they arrived in Sao Paulo, they were warmly "welcomed" by the Brazilian fans here.

From the airport to the hotel, Santhiago and his teammates were well aware of the enthusiasm of the Brazilians, and as the players stepped off the bus, there was not only a large number of media reporters, but also countless Palmeiras fans, who boos and cheers were given to the somewhat tired Boca players.

In the face of this hostile scene, Boca coach Ischea's forehead was bruised, and he ignored any reporters and walked straight to the Boca staff who were standing in front of the hotel with an embarrassed face.

"What are you doing!? Didn't I tell you we didn't want people to know where we lived? My God! Look at what you've done! I'm sure these Brazilians will be harassing my teammates endlessly at night! What a damn thing! ”

For Ischea, who had been preparing for the game for a long time, he was naturally angry when he encountered an unexpected situation before the game started. Prior to this, he and Bianchi had repeatedly explained that the staff who arrived in São Paulo first should keep a low profile, and be sure to ensure the privacy of this news while booking a location and a very good hotel as a place to stay.

He didn't want his players to be besieged by the Brazilians on the first day they arrived in Sao Paulo.

But it's good now, I'm afraid of something! Don't look at the current singing and boos of these Brazilians have no effect on their players, like clowns, but who can guarantee how long it will take for these Brazilians to stop! What if it was all night? If that's the case, then who is going to guarantee the quality of their players' rest?

In the face of Ischea's questioning and roaring, the staff's face immediately became ugly, he could only helplessly wipe his sweat, while stammering to explain, the staff soon explained the ins and outs of the situation in his increasingly angry words, and Ischea, who listened to all this, was also angry, and apologized to the staff while secretly scolding the brazilian shamelessness.

It turned out that the staff who arrived in São Paulo first in Boca naturally followed Ischea's instructions and did not confide any news to the media, but the problem was the hotel where he stayed. Although the Boca staff repeatedly told the hotel not to reveal the information that the Boca players would be staying here, the news was leaked for some reason, and it was soon surrounded by a large number of media and fans.

By the time Boca's staff found out about the situation, it was too late, and he hadn't thought about looking for a hotel again, but there was no better option than looking at a hotel near Palmeiras' home stadium. In such a situation, it is useless to go back and hold the hotel responsible, and Boca can only choose between a dilemma, whether to continue to stay or settle for the next best thing, and temporarily replace the hotel with relatively poor conditions.

The staff did not have the right to make a decision on this matter, and could only wait for Ischea herself to make a decision.

It is important to know that the hotel that a team wants to stay in is not as simple as ordinary people staying in the usual sense, not only to ensure that the players have enough connecting rooms, but also to ensure that the dining environment is not disturbed, there is a special space for interviews, and a series of issues such as the space for the team to hold press conferences need to be considered. Of course, the most important thing is the distance from the venue, so with all this in mind, the decision to change hotels on a temporary basis is not so easy, even if it is a matter of exaggeration.

In such a situation, Boca at this time can be regarded as a dilemma, looking at the disciples who can't hide the tiredness on their faces, but still smiling in front of the Brazilian media and fans, Ischea hesitated again and again and finally did not make the choice to temporarily change the hotel, but strictly ordered the players not to leave the hotel after checking into the hotel.

In fact, at this point, Ischea is undoubtedly thinking too much, where are there players who are willing to sacrifice precious rest time to go out and hang out under the continuous preparation and travel fatigue, not to mention that this is still Sao Paulo, it is Brazil!

Take Santiago, for example, after entering his room and leaving his luggage aside, he lay on the bed exhausted, not listening to what Riquelme was saying on the other side, he just wanted to sleep well at the moment, and then tomorrow he would adapt to the field with the team in order to prepare for the next day's game. In addition to training with the team for a few days of preparation, Santi also continued to train himself with high intensity, although the progress was very good, even Riquelme was surprised, but under the pressure his body and mind have reached the limit.

Lying on the comfortable bed, Santiago soon fell asleep.

But it didn't last long, and only half an hour later he was awakened by a loud noise.

"Bang !!"

With a loud explosion, almost all the Boca players were suddenly awakened from their dreams, panicked, confused and other emotions appeared on everyone's faces, and the same was true for San Tiago. Awakened, he stumbled to the window and peeked out, and then saw a scene that made him laugh and cry. Outside their hotel, a group of Palmeiras fans set off fireworks, singing and shouting, and the loud noise was the result of a huge firework explosion.

Obviously, the purpose of the Palmeiras fans is to harass Santo Thiago and other Boca players so that they can't rest well, not to mention, such a bad move was really guessed by the head coach Ischea!

Looking at the brilliant fireworks that kept blooming outside the window, Saint-Tiago, who was gradually coming back to his senses, was stunned by the actions of the Palmeiras fans. This time the Palmeiras fans really spent a lot of money, in order to create enough noise, these experienced fans knew that the role of singing was very limited, so they spent a lot of money to buy a lot of fireworks to set off, so that not only can create enough decibels of noise to prevent the Boca players from resting, but also can cleverly find an excuse to show that they are not harassing the Boca players.

After all, I'm singing outside the hotel where you're staying, and it's not right to scold, but I'm happy, and I won't get in your way if I set off fireworks! Even if you FIFA can't say it, there's no reason to stop us!

Indeed, in the face of the machinations of the Palmeiras fans, the staff of the Boca club quickly woke up, although they were extremely angry, but they really couldn't find any reason to put pressure on the South American Football Federation and the São Paulo police.

The fireworks went off from 11 a.m. to around 4 a.m., until the sky began to light up and the large number of Palmeiras fans dispersed, in their words, that it was almost time, and it was a perfect wedding fireworks

It is conceivable that under such perfect fireworks, the Palmeiras fans are happy and satisfied, but the players of Boca Juniors are miserable, almost sleepless all night, they look at the whitening skyline and can't say anything, they can only do meaningless curses. There is a limit to the sound insulation of a hotel room, and in the face of a grand, gorgeous fireworks show, it is clear that this fragile sound insulation will soon fail.

At eight o'clock in the morning, with dark circles under his eyes, the Boca generals appeared in the restaurant on time to prepare for the meal, the younger generals were fine, and they were still in some spirits, but a veteran like Riquelme, who was almost established, or who was already over thirty years old, was very uncomfortable, and it was obvious that he was holding on, and Santiago was even more so, his situation was even worse than Riquelme and others.

He wanted to get a good night's sleep, not only did he have no sleep, but he was sitting in the restaurant at the moment, and the sound of fireworks explosions kept echoing in his head, all the time

I have to say that the feeling is really terrible, almost devastating.

In the face of the morning specially made for themselves, the players mechanically fed into their mouths, no one spoke the whole time, the silence in the restaurant was terrible, the situation was like a group of walking dead, where there was still a little bit of the appearance of the top players of the A-League. Seeing this scene, the head coach Ischia couldn't hold back any longer, he knew that it would never work like this, seeing the situation of the players, he directly canceled the morning training with a big wave of his hand, and after letting the players rest at ease, he immediately personally handed out his protest to the South American Football Confederation, the organizer of the South American Club Cup, which was making final preparations.

Not only that, Boca Club and many Argentine media also strongly condemned the incident, after the media disclosure, the Boca team has received widespread attention, and those Palmeiras fans who have caused trouble have also been strongly condemned.

The South American Football Confederation is not slow to react to this, after learning of the incident, they immediately ordered the Palmeiras club official to come forward to solve the matter, for such an incident, the South American Football Association will not tolerate it, there is no mistake, it is difficult to say that the influence of the South American Club Cup is not enough, for this reason they also authorized the top clubs of various leagues like Boca to directly knock out the game, in order to support this cup competition, and now you Palmeiras are still doing this, isn't this smashing my South American Football Association's signboard?

The South American Football Confederation absolutely does not want to see anything happen in the final! The more crucial relationship between the Brazilian fans and the Argentine fans seems to have intensified in the final because of this incident, then it will be a big mess!

With the official intervention, Palmeiras FC soon responded, claiming that the night was just an incident for some Palmeiras fans to celebrate drunk due to the excitement of the wedding, but even then they were willing to apologize to the Boca players and said that this would not happen again. Sure enough, there was not a single Palmeiras fan outside the hotel where Boca collapsed that night.

But is that really the end of the matter? It's not that simple, and for the Boca players, who are due to start the first round of the finals the next day, they lost a very precious morning, which is not something that can be redeemed by an apology!