It's cheating, but Hazard

Chapter 73 73 Ways to Promote Relationships (Daily Transition)

The next morning, we were still in the restaurant of the training base.

Charles had just taken today's breakfast from Ruth when Harvey waved the newspaper, motioning Charles to come over quickly.

Today, Xiaer's breakfast was a torrijas, a glass of juice, a Spanish omelette, and tortillas.

Among them, the Spanish omelette is not just fried eggs, it also contains potatoes and salt.

"what happened?"

Harvey took a sip of juice and asked, "Have you read today's newspaper?"

Busquets also came over with his breakfast. "What newspaper?"

Harvey put down the cup and shook out the newspaper. "This is it."

Charles leaned his head over, "Champions League Fantasy: Charles shed tears at the Allianz Arena, Manchester United was forced out."

"Ahem," Busquets choked. "What kind of rubbish tabloid is this?"

"Barcelona beat the Bundesliga giants 3-0 at home in the first leg, and Guardiola's team was able to go to Germany with a huge advantage," Charles tried to suppress his smile and wanted to take the newspaper directly from Xavi.

Seeing this, Harvey pushed Charles' hand away and said, "Let me read the AS newspaper."

"However, unexpectedly, this away game turned into a nightmare journey for Barcelona."

"In the first half, Bayern scored two goals. After entering the second half, Barcelona was still attacked by the opponent. For various reasons, Guardiola had to send Messi and Charles to ensure that Barcelona scored more goals and secured the qualification."

"Sure enough, within five minutes of Charles coming on, he continued his brilliant performance, assisting Henry and helping Barcelona to extend the total score to two goals again."

"However, in the 75th minute of the game, Charles injured his knee in a head-on challenge with Van Bommel."

"Guardiola had no choice but to replace Charles, using up all his substitutions."

"At that time, Charles was in so much pain that he collapsed quickly."

"However, towards the end of the game, Messi's ankle was stepped on by the goalkeeper during a shot."

"Afterwards, according to media reports, Messi shed painful tears on the way back to the locker room. Perhaps the Barcelona golden boy realized at that moment that he might have to bid farewell to the rest of the journey due to injury."

"As expected, a day later, Barcelona issued an official statement confirming that Charles and Messi would need surgery and that they would be away from the pitch for up to five months."

Charles sat in the chair, looking at Busquets and Xavi with a mixture of laughter and tears, feeling as if the beads of AS were jumping onto his face.

But before Busquets could express his opinion, Guardiola walked in with a grim face.

"All the AS newspapers from this morning have been handed in. I don't want to hear anyone talking about this any more in my dressing room."

"Real Madrid was eliminated in the quarter-finals, so they instigated their mouthpiece to make such vicious reports."

"It seems funny, but as a team cursed by malicious reports, I don't want to hear anyone talk about it anymore."

After Guardiola took away all the copies of AS, the three looked at each other.

Charles had to bring up a new topic, "Uh, the fifth round of the World Cup qualifiers is about to begin."

France's opponent in the fifth round of the World Cup qualifiers is Lithuania.

On March 28th, the French team will challenge Lithuania away, and then continue to face them at home on April 2nd.

For this match, after the Champions League draw yesterday, Domenegue held a press conference and announced the roster.

Charles was among them.

"Yes," Xavi took a sip of juice, "On the 28th, we are going to the Bernabeu to play against Türkiye."

“What about you, Sergio?”

Charles ate a fried egg and asked Busquets.

"No. 28, playing against Türkiye." "I saw on the news that you will also wear No. 10 in the national team."

Harvey laughed.

Charles was a little embarrassed when he heard this. "Oh, so that's the case. Don't you have a new player, Mata, who has been selected for the national team?"

……

Two days later, the La Liga match day came again.

Barcelona beat Malaga 6-0 at home.

Xavi scored a goal and had a hat trick of assists.

Eto'o scored 2 goals, Messi, Henry and Alves each scored.

After the game, Charles quickly boarded a plane to meet up with the national team, and then boarded a plane to Lithuania.

When we arrived at the hotel, most of our teammates had already arrived. A few had not yet arrived and would probably have to wait until the next day and fly directly from the club to Lithuania.

This time in the hotel in Lithuania, Charles and Benzema shared a room.

When he saw there were two beds in the hotel, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

There was nothing else to say. The main reason was that he had just learned from Xavi that the players of the Spanish national team also shared a room with two people, but with double beds.

That's right, there is only one bed in the room.

When Charles heard the news, he was stunned.

According to Xavi, the national team coach wanted to promote friendship among the national team players in this way.

Charles didn't know what the Spanish coach was thinking.

Because in Europe, many beds are small and narrow.

The width of this kind of bed is only slightly wider than the pillow, and the length is generally not enough for an adult to stretch their legs straight.

To put it more intuitively, it is like a children's bed, small and narrow.

In the European concept, when a person sleeps alone, he should lie on his side, curl up his legs, and rest his head on his clasped hands.

Only in this way can one communicate with God in dreams, and therefore Europeans before, including the pope and kings, all slept half-sitting.

To be more realistic, many Europeans suffered from lung diseases due to the dust and coldness caused by open fires for heating and cooking in the kitchen.

Sleeping in a reclining position is safer and more comfortable, and you don’t have to worry about choking on your tongue.

They also believed that lying flat was similar to being dead, and that it would be easier for them to be taken away by the god of death.

As the German saying goes - "Im Bett sterbet d' Leute (People die in their beds)".

Moreover, due to various historical reasons, couples in ancient Europe did not sleep in different beds, and abstinence was popular, so they often slept in single beds.

Generally speaking, in Europe, wide beds and big quilts are symbols of desire and depravity, while narrow beds and small beds represent safe reality.

It was not until modern times that European beds became larger.

However, many European hotels now still have narrow or small beds, no matter how big the rooms are.

The so-called double bed is similar to a single bed. If two people sleep together, they will probably fall to the ground if they turn over.

But when Charles thought about it, he felt that it made sense.

After all, being able to allow two grown men to sleep on a "double bed (1.2 meters * 1.9 meters)" that is only a little over one meter wide and still maintain harmony within the team will definitely promote friendship among the team members.

Well, this is probably one of the reasons why the Spanish national team, which has two sworn rival factions, Barcelona and Real Madrid, can avoid internal strife and maintain sincere cooperation.

(End of this chapter)