Just when the European Cup was in full swing, on the other side of the ocean, on the other side of the ocean, the America's Cup, a football event belonging to North and South America, was also in full swing.

At the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, the Argentine team, which had been favored by all walks of life, fell in the final again.

They played 0:0 with Chile and lost 2:4 in the penalty shootout, and Messi once again missed out on the championship trophy.

The result of this game not only broke the hearts of tens of millions of Argentine fans, but also completely broke Messi's heart.

After the game, Argentina captain Lionel Messi announced a news that shocked the football world - quitting the Argentine national team!

'My international career is over and I made this decision for myself and for the sake of a lot of people who want it. I tried very hard to win the title with Argentina, but unfortunately it didn't work out that way. ”

When the decision was announced, Messi's eyes were red and his voice choked.

Obviously, this decision is very difficult and very painful for Messi.

However, the fans of Argentina did not understand him.

After this game, on the Internet and in the newspapers, it was all the voices of Argentine fans who condemned Messi.

Even if it is not his responsibility to lose, as the captain of Argentina and the most famous and powerful player in the Argentine team, he has naturally become a punching bag for fans to vent their emotions.

For Messi, this is not the worst situation.

Worst of all, in the semi-finals of the European Championship a few days later, Portugal led by C-Fall reached the final.

Once Portugal wins the final, the outside world will inevitably compare Ronaldo and Messi again.

And Ronaldo, who holds the European Cup trophy, is naturally more convincing than Messi, who failed again, so Messi's doubts will only be greater.

As early as the 2010 World Cup, there has been a voice in the outside world that Messi is a system player.

His success stems from Barcelona's strong tactical system and a large group of strong and tacit teammates.

As soon as he leaves Barcelona, he immediately loses his magic.

This voice was not mainstream at first, but after the two World Cups in 2010 and 2014, and the three Copa America failures in 2011, 2015 and 2016, it gradually spread around the world, and even gained more and more people's approval.

The Argentine team can be called luxurious, but in this case, Messi's performance is far from his performance at the club, which makes one have to doubt his true strength.

Is Messi's strength really overrated?

In fact, there is another voice, mainly from Argentine fans.

They think that Messi's inability to work in the national team may be due to the fear of injury and affect his ability to make a lot of money in the club, or perhaps because he immigrated to Spain too early and has no feelings for Argentina.

In short, Argentine fans feel that Messi has not shown his full strength, otherwise Argentina will not be able to lose again and again, especially in the Copa America, they have lost to Chile twice in a row in the final, and each time they were dragged into a penalty shootout by the opponent and lost.

But if Messi can score a goal, the final result may not be the same.

For Messi, failing to achieve results in the national team, and even making the decision to quit the national team, has a great impact on his personal image and commercial value.

Withdrawing from the national team can easily give the impression that he is a deserter and a coward, while failing to succeed in the national team can easily lead to a stronger belief that he is a system player.

Messi wants to prove that he is not a system player, it is very simple, he just needs to leave Barcelona and go to another team to prove himself.

Therefore, while withdrawing from the Argentine national team, Messi also had the idea of leaving Barcelona in his heart.

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Messi's difficult situation has also affected his fans, and the fans who support Messi do not necessarily support the Argentine team, but they naturally feel the same way when they see their idol so sad.

Therefore, the last thing they want to see right now is Portugal winning the European Championships.

When they thought of the appearance of Ronaldo fans jumping on their faces after the Portuguese team won the championship, they felt sick in their hearts.

Therefore, a large number of Messi fans ran to the Internet to make statements that belittled the Portuguese team and supported the Spanish team.

Compared with Ronaldo, they would prefer to see Lin Quan's Spanish team win the championship.

First, Lin Quan has a good personal relationship with Messi, Lin Quan was born in the La Masia academy, and he is Messi's younger brother, there is not such a strong smell of gunpowder between the two, and the contradiction between the fans of the two sides is not deep.

Second, Lin Quan's style of play is very close to Messi, and the better Lin Quan's performance, the more he can respond to the outside world's doubts about Messi.

Lin Quan is unaware of the big battle between fans, he is busy training set-pieces, and intends to make good use of set-pieces in the next game.

The French team is very fierce in defense, and the number of fouls is probably not small, especially since the opponent is likely to target them.

In this case, practicing more set-pieces can further enrich Spain's attacking options and also allow the opponent to throw a mouse.

Lin Quan wants to practice set-pieces, and his teammates are very supportive.

De Gea volunteered to come over and train with Lin Quan, but when he saw Lin Quan holding the ball and walking towards the middle circle, he felt very puzzled.

"Brother Lin, are you planning to practice ultra-long-range free kicks?"

De Gea visually measured the distance between the two, which was probably more than 40 meters.

How could anyone practice a free kick so far away?

"Yes, I'll try my footwork and find out how it feels!"

Since the last time he took a Mihajlovich-style free-kick in the game, Lin Quan has been trying to find the feeling of a penalty at that time.

Unfortunately, that kind of free-kick was not easy to play, and his next few attempts were unsuccessful.

De Gea nodded and said nothing more.

What Lin Quan wants to practice, he just accompanies him to practice.

It's just that it takes a lot of power to shoot at such a distance.

If the force is too great, the angle of the ball is difficult to press, and there is a high possibility that it will be high above the goal frame.

If the power is not strong enough, even if it hits the goal frame, it will be easy for the goalkeeper to save because the ball speed is too slow.

So De Gea didn't take it too seriously, but if Lin Quan's serve was pushed ten metres forward, he would definitely take it seriously.

Lin Quan set the ball on the lawn, took seven or eight steps back and stopped.

He glanced up in the direction of the goal, took a deep breath, and began to run.

With a loud bang, Lin Quan's left foot slammed heavily on the football.

The soccer ball flew into the sky with a 'boom' and flew in the direction of the goal.

De Gea's attention was very focused, and when he saw the trajectory of the ball, he immediately judged where it landed and quickly moved his feet in the direction of the landing point.

However, De Gea had barely taken a step when he sensed something was wrong.

The trajectory of the ball was a little erratic when it fell, flickering left and right, and it felt a little different from the position he predicted.

By this time, as the distance closed, De Gea could clearly see that the ball was flying in the air with a strong spin.

Because of the Magnus effect, when the ball is spinning at high speed, the actual flight trajectory is likely to be completely different from the trajectory predicted by the goalkeeper.

De Gea, as an experienced goalkeeper, is not unfamiliar with this kind of free-kick.

It's just that he rarely sees a free kick spinning so strongly, so he can't figure out the next trajectory of the ball.

De Gea began to sweat on his forehead, and for a moment he didn't know which direction to pounce on.

However, just as he hesitated, he heard a thud, and the ball fell into the net not far from him.

"Good shot!"

The teammates who were watching on the side saw the ball and shouted loudly.

"David, did you just get distracted? Why is there no reaction at all? ”

Xiaofa looked at De Gea curiously, puzzled by De Gea's lack of making a save just now.

De Gea is also Manchester United's main goalkeeper and was almost bought by Real Madrid.

Such a top goalkeeper should not make such a low-level mistake!

"Haha, could it be that I thought of a girl, so I was distracted, right?"

Ramos said something out of tune, teasing De Gea.

He also felt that De Gea's performance just now was too abnormal and did not look like a normal performance.

"Ahem, I wasn't distracted, the ball was not easy to save just now, I was a little hesitant, but the ball was too fast, and I didn't wait for me to make a decision to break the goal!"

De Gea is an otaku with a thin skin, and after being teased by Ramos, he blushes like a monkey's ass.

"Really? Is it so mysterious? Kakashi, you're quick to react, go try it! ”

Ramos shouted to Casillas, who was sitting on the sidelines to rest.

Casillas gave him a blank look, what a deal, Lao Tzu's name is Kashi, not Kakashi.

However, Casillas is also very curious about what De Gea said, so he also wants to come and see if Lin Quan's free kick is really as mysterious as De Gea said.

"Okay, I'll try, David, go down and rest!"

Casillas changed into a pair of dry goalkeeper gloves, put them on, came to the goal, replaced De Gea, and gestured to Lin Quan, indicating that Lin Quan could continue.

Xiaofa picked up a ball from the sidelines and passed it to Lin Quan with a big foot.

Lin Quan's right foot was raised, and the football seemed to be stuck with glue, so it stopped on his instep and was easily removed by him.

"Good stop!"

The teammates who ran over to see the excitement were coaxing, everyone is a professional player, and you can know at a glance how other people's stopping skills are.

Lin Quan smiled and arched his hand at his teammates, thanking everyone for their support.

This action made the teammates laugh even harder, and they all waited eagerly, waiting for Lin Quan's performance.

After breathing for a while, Lin Quan placed the ball on the lawn, almost in the same position as last time, and retreated the same distance.

With a bang, the football flew high into the sky.

Here it comes!

Casillas pulled himself together and stared intently at the football.

However, under the watchful eyes of him and more than two dozen Spanish internationals in the stadium, the football flew higher and higher and finally disappeared from the head of Casillas.

“……”

There was some silence on the field for a while, and everyone looked at each other.

"What? Lin: How did you learn Morata, put up anti-aircraft guns? ”

Ramos shouted loudly, everyone is looking forward to your performance, and as a result, you have this show for everyone?

What a waste of everyone's expressions!

When Morata heard Ramos's words, he immediately protested:

"Brother Ramos, I don't want to hear what you're saying, my anti-aircraft gun hasn't been so high!"

Morata's expression of serious protest made everyone a little unbearable, this guy loves to jerk off on weekdays, and his teammates don't know how many opportunities he has created, but if his ability to grasp the opportunity is a little better, I am afraid that he will already dominate the scorer list of the European Cup!

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't hold it down, come again!"

Lin Quan was also a little embarrassed, just now the ball was only concerned about pursuing power, but the part that touched the ball was not well controlled, and he performed an anti-aircraft gun to fight mosquitoes in public.

"It's okay, it's just practice, it's okay to make mistakes!"

Casillas not only did not laugh, but comforted Lin Quan.

Some young players are thin-skinned and are likely to be out of shape when they are watched by a lot of onlookers.

Lin Quan's free kick is too far away, it is extremely difficult to kick well, it is normal to play badly, and it is abnormal to kick well.

If he could have done it every time like his first free throw, he would have killed all sides with this free-kick.

So Casillas not only did not underestimate Lin Quan's ultra-long free kick in his heart, but also had some expectations.

If Lin Quan's free kick really works, it will definitely be good news for the Spanish team.

In a game, if you can take one chance, you can probably change the outcome of the game.

After hearing Casillas's words, Lin Quan took a deep breath and adjusted his mentality.

This time he paid attention to the parts of the ball that touched it, and the ball that was thrown out did not put the anti-aircraft gun again.

However, the ball did not spin enough, the trajectory of the ball was too easy to predict, and there was no human wall between him and the goalkeeper, so Casillas easily took the ball off.

"Well, there is progress, but only to this extent, there is not much threat to the goalkeeper!"

Casillas still gave a word of encouragement, it was not easy to hit the target at such a distance.

And the power of the ball is quite large, when he received the ball, he misjudged the power of the ball and almost didn't hold it.

If you get rid of it, it will probably be a fatal mistake in the game.

Lin Quan didn't speak, and immediately made a third attempt.

This time, his run-up and free throws were perfect, and when the football was thrown, Lin Quan felt it in his heart.

Sure enough, Casillas made a save, but was shaken by the erratic nature of the ball in the falling phase and failed to save the ball.

"Good guy, you really can!"

On the sidelines, teammates were stunned after witnessing the goal with their own eyes.

"This could be our team's secret weapon, right?"

(End of chapter)