Chapter 1168: Caroline's Call for Help
Beating Serie A giants AC Milan by three goals away from home surprised and excited the Manchester City players.
A 3-0 away win would all but guarantee City a place in the quarter-finals.
So after the game, the Manchester City players were relaxed.
They will go straight to the airport after the game to catch the night's flight back to Manchester.
Manchester City now play away games in the Champions League, which is called a private jet provided by Mansour, which allows them to enjoy the highest level of treatment during their journey, and get better service and rest than a civil airline plane.
Mansour gave the private jet to the club on his own behalf, and was then pulled into a Manchester City livery, painting the exterior of the plane sky blue with the City crest on it.
Manchester City is the only one in Europe that can enjoy this kind of treatment...... No other club can compete with the deep-pocketed Manchester City club.
This approach also ensures that Manchester City are in a little better form when playing away from home than usual.
Emerging from the dressing room at the San Siro, the City players boarded the waiting Manchester City bus, which took them to Malpensa Airport and back to Manchester.
This is true in every away game, not just Manchester City, but other clubs as well. The bus of the respective team is like their locker room, it is sacred and has a special meaning, so even if the team goes to play an away game, it will not accept the bus arranged by the opposing club, and must be called the bus of their own club, as if they will lose the game if they don't do so.
Therefore, every time an away game is played, the team's buses will also depart from their respective cities in advance and drive to their destinations.
The players are then picked up and dropped off in the city of the game.
Sometimes, if the weather is bad, the planes and trains are not working, and the players have to take the bus to play the away game.
For example, last season, Manchester City travelled from Manchester to Milan for a semi-final away game, but due to an Icelandic volcanic eruption, flights were grounded. Manchester City were only able to travel south from Manchester on their club's bus, through the undersea tunnel beneath the English Channel, via France, over the Alps and to Milan.
It was a very hard trip, the players were physically and mentally exhausted, and they did not play well in the game, losing the game, and laying the groundwork for the eventual elimination of the competition.
It's so tiring to ride in a car, let alone drive.
So bus drivers are very hard, and bus drivers often play for a club until retirement. The drivers are seniors and are highly respected at the club, and the players love their bus drivers, some of whom joke with the bus drivers or give away the jerseys they wear.
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As soon as Rongguang boarded the bus, the mobile phone in his pocket rang.
He originally thought it was Debora calling, but when he picked it up, he realized that it was an unfamiliar number.
After hesitating, Rongguang hung up the phone.
For this kind of unfamiliar number call, Rongguang basically doesn't answer it now.
Because either a reporter calls in hoping to be interviewed, or an avid fan who doesn't know where to get his phone number to express his reverence...... Or maybe some companies want to cooperate with them through this call......
So he doesn't answer any calls from the number Rongguang doesn't have in his address book now.
Shortly after hanging up, he received a text message.
It's still from an unfamiliar number.
"Rong, I'm Caroline, are you going to answer the phone right now? I have something to tell you. ”
Glory didn't expect Caroline to text him, he and Caroline had known each other for a long time - Kaka hadn't married Caroline at that time, the two of them had just met, and they met Glory and Lucas on vacation in a seaside town in Brazil.
The four of them happened to stay in the same hotel, so they met like that.
But knowing each other, he never had any contact with Caroline, he didn't have Caroline's phone, and Caroline didn't have him. Caroline is Kaka's girlfriend, and she naturally has nothing to do with Glory, so Glory doesn't have to contact Caroline.
I didn't expect Caroline to call him......
Glory didn't understand why Caroline was calling him, but he dialed it back anyway.
"Hey, Caroline? I've just finished the race, I'm on the bus, I'm going to the airport, what's the matter with you? ”
Rongguang didn't say a few words to Caroline, and after the phone was connected, he got straight to the point.
"Kaka and I just watched that fight, Rong." Caroline said in a calm tone. "Your watch is outstanding, I want to ask you for a favor, but I don't know if you'd like to ......"
"You say."
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Rongguang kept holding the phone, but his expression gradually became strict.
The relaxed expression on his face from winning the game before is gone.
Not only that, but his chest began to rise and fall violently, and his voice became heavier.
Sneijder, who was sitting next to him, heard this reaction and turned his head to look at Glory in surprise.
Glory's face has darkened......
"Okay, I see, thank you for calling me, Caroline. I will. ”
After saying that, Rongguang hung up the phone.
"What's wrong?" Sneijder asked with concern.
The aura of glory was still very heavy, and he shook his head and said to Sneijder, "It's nothing, a little personal matter." ”
Hearing that it was a private matter, Sneijder stopped asking.
Rongguang didn't intend to explain, he was still upset about what he had just heard on the phone.
Caroline asks him on the phone to give Kaka a call and convince Kaka to cheer up.
“…… I guess it's only useful if you call, I used to discuss this with him. But now I don't dare to mention it anymore. The slump in form and the inability to play at Real Madrid were like a scar on him, which no one else touched. He and I have never quarreled over anything else since we met, and the only quarrel is because of this ......" Caroline's tone was a little anxious and helpless.
When Caroline called, Rongguang realized that Kaka's condition had been so bad.
He admits that he hasn't been following Kaka's recent situation for a while, but he has heard that he has not played much at Real Madrid because of an injury.
It turned out that it wasn't just because of the injury......
Rongguang felt that Caroline, who had never been in contact with him, would take the initiative to call him and ask for his help, which showed that the situation was indeed very strict.
Kaka......
Glory remembered that after his transfer to Manchester City, Kaka called to reprimand him.
Stoop!
That's how Kaka said about his move to Manchester City.
Now it seems, who is really willing to fall?
After hearing Caroline say this, Rongguang was angry, he was angry not because Kaka was in a slump and couldn't play at Real Madrid, and he was angry not because Kaka actually made Caroline so worried.
He was angry only because Kaka had fallen for himself.
In Rongguang's mind, although Kaka's current state has declined, his status in world football has plummeted compared to before, and it is no longer the state when he won the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or. Today's Kaka is also difficult to compete with Glory.
But Kaka in Glory's heart is the one who will not give up and will not admit defeat lightly, no matter how hard he tries to challenge him, he will also respond to himself harder.
Such a talent is the one that Glory wants to beat.
But now through the mouth of Caroline, Kaka's image in Glory's mind has become that of a person who can never get up after being knocked down by defeat......
Such a person...... Such a coward...... How can you be your own opponent?
Even if Caroline didn't ask for herself, Glory couldn't help but call Kaka when she heard this, and then scolded him bloody.
But now he can't, because now he is on the bus, there are people in front of him, left and right, and there are some things that he can't say in front of so many people.
So he could only hold his breath and go home.
This made Rong Guang look very unhappy, and his chest rose and fell violently, as if it was about to explode at any moment.
Sneijder, who was sitting next to him, felt it too. Although Rongguang said this private matter, it is inconvenient for him to ask again, but he is really curious - what is the private matter that makes Rongguang so angry, and even the joy of beating AC Milan by three goals on the road has been washed away?
Sneijder couldn't ask, but he kept guessing in his mind.
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Kaka came back from outside in a sweat and was surprised to find Caroline still sitting on the coffee table.
"You haven't slept yet?"
Caroline nodded.
"What's wrong?" Kaka asked, seeing that Caroline didn't speak, just looked at herself.
"Nothing. If you're sweating, go take a shower and go to bed early. With that, Caroline got up and said goodbye and went upstairs.
Kaka's gaze followed his wife's back, watching her go upstairs until he could no longer see it, and then withdrew his gaze.
He always felt that Caroline had something to say to himself......
Especially when he entered the door, Caroline looked into her gaze, and there was light in her eyes, which was the way her eyes flickered.
However, he did not ask, since his wife was unwilling to say, there must be her reasons.
Besides, maybe it's about that old topic?
He and Caroline really didn't want to talk about it anymore.
She couldn't solve the problem, and being so concerned made Kaka feel a lot of pressure.
Discussing with her doesn't make any sense other than making your love worse.
It's better not to say it, everyone shut up and be clean.
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Until the plane landed at the airport in Manchester, Sneijder didn't have a clue, he observed Glory from time to time during the journey, and found that Glory's love did not improve in the slightest, and he was still calm.
Not only did he make Sneijder feel unusual, but the rest of his teammates and coaches noticed it a little.
But no one asked Rongguang, and Rongguang didn't say anything.
He continued to exude negative energy at the airfield until he landed.
He then went straight home from the airport.
Everyone else thought it was strange - why was the glorious expression more ugly than losing the game, even if they had won the game?
Glory is the core of the whole team, so his smile will become the object of everyone's conscious or unconscious concern, and his affection will also affect others.
However, Rongguang seems to be completely caught up in his own feelings, and does not feel the reaction of the outside world...... I640