Chapter 793: A Real Man
When Paul Arce put down his cell phone and walked back to the room, his brows were still frowning and had not relaxed.
When the wife saw this, she asked curiously: "Who made the call?"
"Espinola."
The wife hesitated and announced a name: "Sosa Espinola?"
"Yeah."
The wife was surprised: "Why would he call you? Aren't you two..."
There is a secret that is not a secret: the relationship between the two "giants" in the Paraguay national team is not good. It may be an exaggeration to say that they are "like fire and water", but it is polite to say that they are "cold".
The reason is still the competition for the position of the national team leader.
Sousa Espinola is only two years younger than Paul Arce. The two can be regarded as players of the same generation, and the peak periods of their careers basically overlap. In terms of influence and fame, Sosa, who plays as a striker, obviously has an advantage over Arce. There is no problem at all in saying that he is Paraguay's leading star and the strongest ace.
Sosa has always regarded himself as such, and wants to obtain a status in the national team that matches his reputation, that is...the captain's armband.
But Paraguay's captain's armband is worn on Arce's arm.
As the center back of the team, it is natural to be the captain, not to mention that he is also the third captain of the Serie A giant Turin Bulls, with impeccable prestige and qualifications. It's just that because he is a defensive player, he is not as easy to steal the spotlight as a forward like Sosa.
The two men fought openly and secretly for the captain's armband, and each had their own supporters. For a while, Paraguay's domestic media followed suit and speculated, causing the entire Paraguayan football world to be in chaos. When both players were at their peak and rising, the Paraguay national team was still unable to reach the World Cup. It must be said that this has a lot to do with it.
Finally, under the mediation of Jorge Cáceres, chairman of the Paraguayan Football Association, former Paraguayan football star and legendary superstar, the two talents called it quits and ended the "armband war".
On the surface, it seems that Sousa took the initiative to give in, and Arce is still the captain of the national team.
But in fact, Arce is still brooding about this matter, and the same is true for Sosa, and the relationship between the two has not been repaired at all.
From then on, they were basically strangers, and even in the national team, they treated each other as if they were nothing.
Of course, the public also knows this. However, compared with the two people who caused trouble for the entire Paraguay national team before, now they can at least maintain a semblance of calm, and everyone is very satisfied.
I don't expect the two people to turn their hostility into friendship and stage a drama of reconciliation.
Arce's wife naturally knew the relationship between the two, so she was very surprised that Sosa would take the initiative to call her husband.
"No wonder you have this expression..."
Unexpectedly, my husband shook his head: "No, it's different from what you imagined. He called me to remind me to pay special attention to the Chinese team's Hu in the next play-offs."
My wife's eyes widened and her mouth opened wider.
"God, why is he so crazy that he can be so kind?"
Hearing his wife's exclamation, Arce shouted angrily: "You are crazy! This is the last chance for him and me to participate in the World Cup!"
The wife stopped talking.
Sousa Espinola is 31 years old this year, and her husband Paul Arce is 33 years old. If they cannot participate in the World Cup, wait four years, even if they can still be selected for the Paraguay national team, based on their With his ability at that time, how could he have a better chance of reaching the World Cup than he does now?
Arce snorted: "But do you want him to mind his own business? Does he think I will ignore the only person in the Chinese team who is a threat?"
At this point, what came to mind was what Sosa said to himself on the phone just now:
"Don't think too much, Arsay, I just don't want my last chance to be ruined."
"This is my last chance, Espinola!"
After Arce growled these words to Sosa, he hung up the phone unceremoniously.
Now sitting next to his wife, Arce repeated Hulay's name in his mind and remembered Sosa's description of him:
He is the most unpredictable.
Pretend to be a ghost!
I want to see what you can do beyond my imagination!
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Junpei Morikawa was lying in his room using his mobile phone to bypass the wall and browse topics of interest to him on social networks. Suddenly he saw Tatsuya Sugiyama popping up in the chat group of the Japanese Olympic team and said: "Hey, do you know? Yesterday I I encountered something that surprised me..."
Although several Olympic team players, including him and Tatsuya Sugiyama, have been selected for the Japanese national team, and have also joined the Japanese national team's online chat group. But they are all juniors in the national team, so they don’t usually talk in that group.
Instead, he is active in the Olympic team group. Although this Olympic team no longer exists, everyone still stays and does not quit. Instead, they use it as a "secret online base" for complaints and chats.
Sure enough, as soon as Sugiyama Tatsuya spoke, several people who had been diving before appeared in the group.
"What happened?"
"How unexpected?"
"Really?"
"Of course it's true!" Tatsuya Sugiyama told everyone in the group that club senior Sosa Espinola specially invited him to dinner just to spy on key intelligence about the Chinese team.
After he finished speaking, everyone in the crowd also talked a lot and expressed their opinions and emotions:
"Has Hu Lai actually reached such a height? Can his opponent take him so seriously..."
“Thinking about the situation when he played against us, it’s really unbelievable and embarrassing...”
"I knew Hu Lai was very strong, but I didn't expect him to be so strong!"
"If you are not in Europe, it is really difficult to understand Hu Lai's current level. In front of him, Park Soon Tae is already on the verge of losing his temper..."
……
Junpei Morikawa didn't read a word of the rest of his emotions, because he had already grabbed his mobile phone and jumped out of the bed. He didn't even bother to put on his slippers and ran to Wang Guangwei's room barefoot!
While running, he shouted: "Lao Wang! Lao Wang!"
Before Wang Guangwei could react, Zhang Qinghuan from upstairs was called out by him. He leaned over the railing and looked down: "Morikawa, why are you so surprised?"
Morikawa Junpei looked up and saw Zhang Qinghuan, and waved to him: "Brother Huan, come quickly, I have a big report!"
Then Xia Xiaoyu and Wang Guangwei both walked out of their rooms one after another. Xia Xiaoyu was still wearing pajamas. He was obviously going to bed to go to bed, or had already fallen asleep...
Then the three of them looked at Morikawa Junpei in front of them, and Zhang Qinghuan said: "What do you want to report? Could it be that you brought the imperial army to us?"
Junpei Morikawa ignored Brother Huan's joke, or he didn't realize what it meant at all. He unlocked his phone and handed it to the three people.
The three of them looked down at the same time, then shook their heads and waved their hands: "I can't understand Japanese."
Only then did Morikawa Junpei realize that Sugiyama Tatsuya must have spoken Japanese in the group...
So he translated to the three people concisely and concisely: "Sugiyama said in our team group that Sosa asked him to find out about Hu Lai."
The three people looked at each other and didn't react for a while.
Seeing this, Junpei Morikawa said anxiously: "Oh, Sosa is the main forward of the Blue and White Munich, the Paraguay international!"
Wang Guangwei was the first to react: "Sosa Espinola?"
"That's him!" Morikawa Junpei slapped his thigh.
"So Paraguay has started to inquire about our information?" Xia Xiaoyu also realized the seriousness of the problem.
"Actually, it doesn't count as asking for information. After all, that kid Hulay is the only one our Chinese team can do internationally. It's normal to be interested in him and want to know him. If I were the head coach of Paraguay, I would We will also give priority to collecting information related to Hu Lai..." Zhang Qinghuan touched his chin and said in deep thought.
As he was talking, he suddenly asked Morikawa Junpei: "Sugiyama Tatsuya said this in your internal group, and you turned around and told us, are you really a man?" (Note 1)
Junpei Morikawa said confidently: "Man. It is Paraguay who competes with you for the right to qualify for the World Cup, not us Japan. What I betrayed was not Sugiyama, but Paraguay. But I am not a Paraguayan, so what does it matter if I sell them?" What?”
After listening to his logical and self-consistent answer, Zhang Qinghuan gave him a thumbs up: "Morikawa, you are truly a good friend of the Chinese people!"
Wang Guangwei nodded beside him and said: "This news is indeed very important to us. I will pass it on to Director Shi."
Wang Guangwei is definitely not being polite to Morikawa Junpei. He was right, the news was indeed important. Public opinion is very confused now. Some people say that Paraguay is a ruined country and should not be feared. It seems that in order to counter this voice, many people are now starting to tell everyone that Paraguay is very strong and winning against the Chinese team is just like playing for fun. People simply look down on us and so on...
I won’t talk about the first point. No one in the Chinese team thinks that Paraguay is a broken settlement and its strength is not as good as it used to be, so there is nothing to be afraid of.
This is mainly the second point of view. Maybe some people in the team really think that Paraguay will be proud and underestimate the enemy, and feel that this will give the Chinese team an opportunity to take advantage of it.
But now the news delivered by Junpei Morikawa at least proves one thing - Paraguay has no intention of underestimating its enemy. After all, they have asked their club teammates to get information about the Chinese team. Is this something that a proud opponent can do?
Telling Director Shi the news will help the national team coaching team unify their thinking and prepare in advance.
From this point of view, Morikawa Junpei has really made a great contribution!
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Note 1: Dahuang: It means "it doesn't matter" in Japanese. It is written as "dahuang" and its pronunciation is similar to dai′jio′bu. (End of chapter)