Chapter 239: A Letter from a Fan
The 20002001 season of the Spanish Serie B finally ended with an unexpected ending.
Getafe, Sevilla and Real Betis finished in the top three of the league and they also qualified for promotion.
The defeat of Atletico Madrid surprised many people and shattered their glasses. This is something that everyone didn't think of before the season, and they didn't dare to think about it.
At the end of the season, Prince Kiko, who had played for Atletico Madrid for eight years, announced his departure from Atletico Madrid, and countless Atletico Madrid fans scolded him for his poor performance this season as the culprit of the team's promotion failure.
The warmth of the past is gone.
And Atletico Madrid's head coach Marcos. Alonso was also dismissed. It is not yet known who will succeed them, but Atletico Madrid are searching the world for their new manager.
This time they have only one requirement for their new manager, and that is to lead Atletico Madrid to a successful promotion after one season.
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Disappointed, Atletico Madrid licked their wounds alone, while the Getafe had a new journey ahead.
Because although the league is over, they still have a Copa del Rey game to play.
Two-legged Copa del Rey semi-finals.
In the Copa del Rey semi-finals, they are the only second-division team.
The other three teams are all in the first division.
Getafe's opponent in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey is Zaragoza, a first-division team.
After Getafe's successful promotion, there was little interest in the Copa del Rey. The league winner is **, **after the end. Nature is the emptiness of powerlessness.
Getafe fans are feeling a little bit that way right now.
Or maybe they're in a particularly good state of mind right now. Even if Getafe are eliminated from the competition, it doesn't matter.
Anyway, they were promoted, and the league title was won. They are content to get such a result at the end of the season, Copa del Rey? They don't even think about it.
Judging from the team's holiday arrangement, it seems that the team also has this idea and does not take the Copa del Rey to heart.
Because after the league ended, Chang Sheng gave his team a full two days off!
In these two days. There is no training, let them have fun and relax.
And to know. and Zarago's semi-finals, five days later. After deducting two days of vacation, there are really only three days to train.
Look at it this way. I don't think Getafe is going to give up the rhythm of the Copa del Rey.
So is Everwin really going to give up the Copa del Rey?
Of course not.
For him, there are two more tasks left in the Copa del Rey semi-finals.
Lin Mo has been promoted from the second level to the third level, the third level needs 10 million experience to advance to the fourth level, and the two Copa del Rey semi-finals will reward him with 600,000 experience.
After finishing the league, he completed the task that Atletico Madrid regretted.
There is nothing better than taking revenge by pushing Atletico Madrid down the abyss of despair with your own hands.
This task allowed him to gain 500,000 experience, in addition to a match skill [Primary Defense]: the success rate of defense in the match is increased by 5%, and the energy consumption is 30.
Defeating Badajoz 3-1 away and winning the championship one round ahead of schedule allowed him to complete the task of "Championship Covenant". Gained a million experience, plus prestige rushed straight to worship. There is also a match skill [Offside Trap].
Now he has 3,57,000 XP, which is not far from the 12,000,000 XP he has leveled up.
However, with four second-level competition skills, it is still quite useful.
But Lin Mo in the second level has five competition skills, and now he has only got four.
There is also a competition skill called [Great Wall of Flesh] that has never appeared.
Chang Sheng realized that not every competition skill would appear, and he would definitely let him get it.
Quests to gain certain match skills may require special events to trigger. Otherwise, you will be unlucky, and you may not be able to meet it in your life.
He didn't know what plot was missing, in short, one of the five competition skills was missing, which made Chang Sheng very helpless.
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The lights were on in the editorial office of the newspaper Local Life in Getafe all night. Editors and reporters alike are all busy.
When the new morning light came in through the window on the east side, everyone realized that they had spent the whole night.
But no one felt tired or unhappy because of overtime.
Everyone was full of passion and enthusiasm.
Because they have just finished producing a special edition of the Getafe season review.
This season is something to remember forever for every Getafe.
Not only did they get promoted to the First Division, they also won the league title for the first time.
In addition, they reached the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, beating and knocking out a strong team like Celta.
They also had an absolute advantage in the two meetings with Atletico Madrid, the big brother of the Madrid region, scoring three goals in both legs and beating Atletico Madrid!
Of course, we can't forget the difficulties that Getafe have faced this season.
Economic crisis, debt crisis, and non-payment of salaries for three months in a row......
But it is precisely because of these difficulties that Getafe have achieved such a result in the end that shows how remarkable they are.
With such a wonderful season of memories, everyone in the editorial department forgot about fatigue, and even after staying up all night, they were still full of energy.
Carlos. Mediano, sitting in his office, continued to be busy, his curtains closed, so he didn't know it was actually dawn outside. In the dimly lit office, only a desk lamp was on, and the room was filled with smoke, and the ashtrays were already full of cigarette butts and ash, even overflowing.
He was reading a letter from a reader that the editor had sent him.
These letters have been initially screened by the editors and found to be valuable.
He needed to find hot spots in the news through these letters.
Now that he is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, he has little time to go to the streets to find news. But he can't just start making up the news in his office, like other undisciplined journalists.
News is in life, and definitely not made up.
He loves to read these letters from readers, which makes him feel like he is experiencing a lot of different lives.
When he picked up an envelope, he noticed that the envelope had been marked by the editor: "I recommend taking a look." ”
He was curious.
There are so many letters from readers, and not one of them has been marked on the envelope.
Does this mean anything?
He opened the letter and looked very seriously.
With the reading. His brow furrowed tighter and tighter.
The letter was not long, and he read it quickly, but his brow did not loosen because of it. Mediano lost interest in continuing to read letters from other readers.
He leaned forward. His left hand propped up his chin, and his eyes didn't know where to look.
After holding this position for a long time, he felt like he had just woken up. Wake up from your musings.
He looked at the watch on his wrist and realized that it was already morning. Then he pulled out his phone and started making a call.
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Chang Sheng was woken up by a phone call.
Yesterday the league officially ended, and he gave the team two days off, and he also gave himself two days off.
After a season of nervous and physical tension, this time can finally have a good rest.
Today's original plan was to have a good time with Avril, relax, not talk about football, and don't want to be in the Copa del Rey. Just play with Avril, and do whatever she wants. Wherever she wants, she will accompany her.
But first, let him get a good night's sleep.
Now, even though the morning sun was shining into the room, he was still lying on the sofa in the living room until his phone rang.
When the phone rings. For a moment, Chang Sheng thought it was the alarm clock that woke him up, reminding him that it was time to get up from bed, and then hurriedly washed, nibbled on a steamed bun, and drank a bowl of porridge. Before dawn, I braved the wind and snow outside to squeeze the bus to go to work on the other side of the city.
He opened his eyes and saw the bright sun and blue sky outside the window, and then remembered where he was at this time.
But his heart was still beating uncontrollably, and there was even a layer of sweat on his back.
It's like the illusion was a terrible nightmare.
The bell was ringing tenaciously, and Chang Sheng was completely awake.
He grabbed his phone from the coffee table and connected it.
"Is there anything you can do by calling me so early, Mr. Editor-in-Chief?"
"Let's make an appointment to meet, Chang, I want to show you a letter." Carlos on the other end of the phone. Mediano said in a slightly tired voice.
"What's wrong?" Chang Sheng asked.
"I want you to help fulfill the wish of a little fan, a little bit of a hand, right?"
"Of course, a little bit of a gesture."
"Shall we meet at that bar at noon?"
"Noon......" Chang Sheng's voice was a little hesitant, and he looked at the bedroom door.
During the two-day vacation, he had to accompany Avril, starting with lunch.
Noon was not the time for him to socialize.
"Didn't you say no on the phone?"
"I don't think I can tell ...... clearly"
"Then you can come downstairs in my apartment now, and we'll meet."
"No problem."
The phone hung up.
Chang Sheng began to get up to wash, get dressed, and then go downstairs to meet people.
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Chang Sheng thought that helping to fulfill the wish of a small fan was just a trivial matter, at most it was to sign a name or something, or take a group photo.
But when he saw the letter from Mediano downstairs, he felt that this was not a trivial matter......
"There was no postmark on the envelope, and I guess he must have stuffed it himself into the special mailbox of our newspaper...... And it's just stuffed in. I think he probably doesn't want to bother you with this before the last game, Chang. ”
Mediano explained to Chang Sheng.
The young fan who wrote the letter was a supporter of Chang Sheng, and he expressed a wish to the newspaper in his heart, he knew that the newspaper and Chang Sheng had a good relationship, so he hoped to get a copy of Chang Sheng's autograph.
It's just an autograph, and it's not surprising that people wait downstairs in Chang Sheng's apartment every day, expecting to get his autograph and someone to take a picture with him.
It's nothing remarkable.
But the other party is a fan who can't come here in person to ask him for an autograph.
Because this man named Jonathan. Mejía. Louis's little fan, is a leukemia patient.
And time is running out.
Because he said in the letter that he didn't know when he would leave suddenly, maybe he would sleep at night and not wake up in the morning.
The whole family is a big fan of Getafe.
And he himself is particularly fond of the manager of Chang Sheng.
To be honest, there aren't many kids who don't like stars and don't like managers.
So this made Chang Sheng a little surprised.
At the lowest point of the season for Getafe, the young fan did not give up his support and hope for the team.
He prayed to God every day, but instead of his health getting better, he prayed that Getafe would be able to get out of the crisis and be promoted to the first division.
Before the final round of the league, Getafe was promoted early and won the title early, and he finally didn't have to suppress his emotions anymore. So he wrote the letter and chose to send it away on race day.
He's just hoping to get a signature for Chang Sheng, so he won't have any worries ......)
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