The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 588 A Lifetime Regret

On the evening of July 2010, 7, in the World Cup final of the Spanish national team at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, when the game progressed to the 11th minute, Cesc Fabregas scored the ball from the top of the penalty area to the right, and Iniesta The anti-offside was successful, and after stopping the ball with his right foot, he volleyed into the far corner with his right foot about nine meters away from the goal, scoring the lore goal for Spain.

This goal not only made Iniesta famous, but also made Tottenham Hotspur's core midfielder, the Spanish international Cesc Fabregas, worth soar like a rocket. [-] kilometers away, in a luxurious villa in La Finca, in the rich west of Madrid, the capital of Spain, sitting in front of the TV, watching the Spanish players celebrating wildly, could not help but burst into tears, with his whole head stretched out. Into the legs, only the curly hair was exposed.

He has a name that is familiar to all fans around the world, Raul Gonzalez.

As the flag of Real Madrid, as the superstar of the Galacticos, Raul has been the main player of the Spanish national team since his debut. No matter how his teammates change or change, he is the hope of all Spanish fans.

But in the past, Spain has not been able to achieve too convincing results, but even so, Raul is still supported and loved by Spanish fans. They are more willing to believe that this is not Raul's responsibility, but The responsibility of the Spanish national team as a whole.

When Raúl was at Real Madrid, in order to make room for the superstars who joined him, he kept retreating, away from the penalty area he loved, and his task in every game changed from the original goal. , Transformed into helping the superstars score goals, and even helping the team defend, but all of these, he silently endured.

But behind this, with the blowout of Spanish youth training talents, the strength of this national team is constantly improving. Raul's performance in Real Madrid, as well as his age, finally allowed Aragones to win in 2008. He chose to give up, but ironically, the Spanish national team without Raul won the European championship.

On that night, Raul asked himself countless times, is it really his own problem?Is he really a cancer of the Spanish national team?Is it really because Spain won the European Championship after he was expelled from the national team?

No one would believe this kind of nonsense, even after Spain won the European Cup, even with top scorers such as Torres and Villa, there are still countless fans, countless media reporters, Countless professionals are appealing, hoping to recall Raul.

"We owe Raul a championship. He should come back to the national team and enjoy the current results, because without his hard work and dedication back then, it would be impossible to have the achievements of the Spanish national team today!"

History is moving forward, and all the remarks that tear history apart and forget history are nonsense!
If there was no Raúl back then, if one person supported the banner of the Spanish national team, it is hard to say whether Spain would still have the achievements of today. Perhaps today Raul has become a burden to the national team, but it should not be because of this. I think he is a cancer of Spain, because whether Raul is in the national team or in Real Madrid, he has never been a problem for the head coach.

Therefore, after Aragones won the European Cup, Hierro, the former teammate and captain of Real Madrid, took over the management of the Spanish national team, and the former head coach of Real Madrid, Del Bosque, took over the leadership of the national team. .

In this case, all Spanish fans, even fans all over the world, know one thing very well, Raul is coming back!
Bosque and Hierro's home is not far from Raul's house, they often meet, and after they both took over the power of the national team, Bosque gave Raul a promise, as long as he shows a little bit, as long as he To be able to participate in the game and maintain his form, he will definitely appear in the big list going to South Africa, which is what he deserves in return.

Raul knows Bosque very well, he is a typical Real Madrid man, he values ​​emotion and tradition, so he understands Raul's situation, and also understands Raul's difficulties, so whether Raul is in Real Madrid or in the Spanish national team At the most difficult time, there must be Bosque among the crowd who stood up to defend Raul.

Hierro also told Raul that the president of the Spanish Football Association, Vera, also supports Raul's return to the national team, and Hierro is Raul's big brother in Real Madrid, the old captain, and the object and role model that Raul has been learning all his life. , when Hierro was expelled from the Bernabeu, Raul defended and fought for the big brother countless times, and when Raul was scolded for being a ball bully and a cancer at the Bernabeu, Hierro also stood up to feel sorry for Raul time and time again, thinking that What the so-called Real Madrid fans did to him back then is now passed on to Raul, who thinks that Raul alone bears the mistakes of everyone in Real Madrid.

Raul found Florentino, found Pellegrini, and everyone sat down to talk, so there was news from the outside world that Raul was leaving Real Madrid, which was indeed an option at the time.

Frankly speaking, after Hierro's lessons, although Florentino doesn't like Raul, because he always feels that Raul represents the past Real Madrid, not the current Real Madrid in his mind, but this Once he did not embarrass Raul, he even promised that as long as Raul is willing, he can stay at the Bernabeu for any time.

Pellegrini also gave his promise that he would give Raul a fair chance.

So Raul stayed because he had spent his entire career at Real Madrid and he hoped he could retire here, but it turned out he was wrong.

With the joining of superstars one after another, Raul has no place at all, and it is difficult for him to even get a chance to play. This makes Bosque have no reason to recruit people. Can he give up those who played in the national team? The main player who played and performed well, and choose a Raul who couldn't even play in Real Madrid?
To some extent, it was his most beloved Real Madrid in his life, which completely ruined his last chance to play for the national team, and also made him completely lose the chance to touch the Hercules Cup!

When Hierro left the team, the young Raul took over the captain's armband of Real Madrid under various controversies, and when he met the challenge of a famous superstar, he did not cry; He didn't cry when he stopped in the last [-] of the Champions League in [-]; he didn't cry when he was cursed by his favorite Real Madrid fans, called him a ball bully, called him a cancer, and even told him to get out of the Bernabéu stadium !
But now, when he watched Iniesta score the lore goal for Spain at the last moment of the game, and when the players of the Spanish national team boarded the podium of the World Cup champion, he cried , Crying very loudly, as if crying like a child.

It is impossible for him to have another chance to win the World Cup. His life is doomed to end with regret. This is fate!

His wife, Mammon Sans, took care of the children and fell asleep. Hearing her husband's crying, she rushed out of the room and saw Raul huddled alone, sitting on the sofa, crying loudly, while there was nothing on TV. The scene where Spain won the World Cup was played emotionlessly, and her tears couldn't help but flow down with big ones.

She knows better than anyone what her husband has suffered in the past few years, and he should not have been treated like this.

If Raul chose to leave the team after Hierro and Bosque left the team, I believe his career would be much better than now. At that time, Raul had no shortage of next homes, and there were a lot of wealthy teams. Want to get Raul.

He gave everything for Real Madrid, including his youth, including his career, but what did he get?
Mammon Sans walked over, sat down beside Raul, and hugged her husband tightly, as if a mother was comforting her injured child. She believed that Raul needed her now.

No one knows how long Raul has been crying. I haven’t counted it. Anyway, the live broadcast of the World Cup final ended very early, and it is unclear what time it is in the middle of the night. Raul is in the arms of his wife. , fell asleep deeply.

The next morning, it was another rare fine weather outside.

Although they are located in La Finca, a wealthy neighborhood, they can't feel the atmosphere that Spanish fans are crazy about, but they can imagine that all Spanish fans will feel like a holiday today, because Spain finally won a Hercules Cup.

Mammon Sans got up early to make breakfast for the children and her husband, and Raul, who she thought would sleep for a long time, woke up not long after she got up, her eyes were bloodshot, and the eye sockets were a little red and swollen, obviously Left over from crying last night.

After Raul got up in the morning, he didn't say anything. He just walked out of the living room and sat in the garden for two or three hours. When he returned home, he went to the living room to get his phone .

"Guines!" Mammon Sans listened silently, and Guinness Caravajal, this is Raul's manager.

"Please make a call to the Bernabeu for me and tell them that I hope to terminate the current contract early!"

"What did you say?" Guinez Caravajal on the other end of the line was visibly shocked, it was so sudden.

"Yes, you heard me right, Guinez, I'm leaving the Bernabéu!" Raul was very sure, his face, which always gave people a very weak feeling, was full of seriousness and determination at this moment .

Perhaps, this decision came a bit late for him, but he knew he had to do something.

He is Raul Gonzalez, the golden boy of Spain and the captain of Real Madrid. He must use his own strength and performance to tell everyone and prove one thing. Just a professional player, he has never been the top player of Real Madrid or the Spanish national team, let alone a cancer!
This is the only thing he can and must do now!
The World Cup is not over yet, Tottenham Hotspur's training camp has already begun, and with the end of the World Cup, the transfer market has also begun to surge, Tottenham Hotspur will receive some transfers almost every day fax.

Ye Qiu was still the same as in the past, leaving everything in the hands of Peter Kenyon. He specially arranged and supervised the team's pre-season training at the Theobald Training Base. Tottenham Hotspur has a large number of international players participating in the World Cup in South Africa, so Tottenham Hotspur will no longer go abroad for training this summer.

But on this day, he abandoned the training team, drove back to downtown London by himself, and came to the Bulgari Hotel in the south of Hyde Park, which is one of the most luxurious hotels in London, and who appeared here today, They are all big names who stomp their feet in the Premier League and cause earthquakes.

Before the start of every season of the Premier League, there will be a summit summit, which is basically arranged for the chairman or CEO of each club to attend, organized by the Premier League, with the purpose of coordinating the cooperation between the clubs , and at the same time arrange everything for the new season.

And the FA often invites various clubs to participate in some meetings, but the representatives or head coaches of the clubs are basically present, but this time the people who appeared at the Bulgari Hotel were obviously different, because they Not just a summit, but also the president of the club.

Ye Qiu's BMW stopped at the gate of the Bulgari Hotel, and a service person immediately stepped forward to take his car keys, intending to drive to the parking lot, while Ye Qiu walked directly into the lobby of the hotel, and then went to work. Accompanied by personnel, they entered the elevator and went directly to the private meeting place on the eighth floor.

Pushing open the door, Ye Qiu glanced at it. There were a lot of people scattered in the small venue, and he knew many of them. For example, the initiator of this gathering, Arsenal club chairman Pete Hillwood Sir, there is also Chelsea's owner Abramovich and the club's chairman Bruce Barker, old acquaintances.

There are also Manchester United's David Gill, and representatives of the Glazer family, as well as Mubarak, the agent of Manchester City's Abu Dhabi consortium, Cook, the club's CEO, and Rebono, the boss of the Premier League upstart West Ham United. Lev and so on.

Each of these figures is a powerful faction of the Premier League, and being able to invite so many people to the Bulgari Hotel at the same time shows the influence of the two major Premier League teams, Arsenal and Manchester United, who are the sponsors of this time. The rising giants, Chelsea and Tottenham are still a bit lacking in this regard.

Under the leadership of Ye Qiu, Tottenham Hotspur seldom participated in these aspects, and more focused on their own development, but if it was just because of this that Tottenham Hotspur's influence was ignored, That would be wrong.

If you want to describe the current influence of Tottenham Hotspur well, that is to say, Tottenham Hotspur may not have the right to make decisions on the agreements reached between all Premier League clubs, and what they say may not count, but if Tottenham Hotspur If Turnham Hotspur does not speak, then any resolution must not count.

Ye Qiu was able to attend such a meeting mainly because the relationship between Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal and Manchester United has always been very good, so Ye Qiu and Peter Kenyon participated in this meeting at the same time this time.

"Thank you very much for taking the time to participate, Mr. Ye Qiu!" Pete Hillwood and David Gill walked up side by side and greeted Ye Qiu at the gate. Although Manchester United and Arsenal are sworn enemies, in fact the two The relationship between the top management of the club is still very good, after all, they have quite a lot of common interests.

"If you invite me, I will definitely come!" Ye Qiu smiled and shook hands with Hill Wood and David Jill respectively.

Pete Hillwood immediately felt proud of himself. It happened that a few people saw Ye Qiu enter and moved closer to him. In addition, he organized the venue and organization, so he naturally took on the role of host.

"Come on, Mr. Ye Qiu, let me introduce you!" Pete Hillwood pointed to a young man nearby, who obviously didn't look like an Englishman. Although he had a bushy mustache, he looked a bit like a German. But Ye Qiu heard his accent just now, it doesn't look like a European, it should be a foreign boss.

And the answer is already very clear, either it is the spokesperson of Liverpool owner Ambani, or the spokesperson of the Qatar royal family behind Newcastle, because they are the only two groups that Ye Qiu does not know.

But the answer surprised Ye Qiu, because the person in front of him turned out to be the Crown Prince of Qatar, Tamim Al Thani.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Ye Qiu, I am your fan and your challenger!" Tamim Al Thani seemed to know how to socialize, and the first sentence after meeting was a joke.

"Nice to meet you!" Ye Qiu maintained a polite manner neither humble nor overbearing.

"Although I study in the UK, my English is still a bit..." Tamim Al-Thani laughed and laughed at himself.

"No, I think it's OK!" Ye Qiu replied with a smile.

He had seen media reports before that the Crown Prince of Qatar graduated from the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, which is less than [-] kilometers west of London. The Saint-Cyr Military Academy is equally famous and ranks among the top four military academies in the world.

And Ye Qiu was also thinking that perhaps it was because of his previous studies in the UK that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Qatar was so interested in Premier League football. After being unable to buy Manchester United, he moved to teams including Liverpool and Arsenal. In the end, Newcastle was acquired.

Of course, Ye Qiu would not be so foolish as to think that this was purely an interest, no one would have such an expensive interest, no matter how rich he was, so Ye Qiu had no doubts that Tamim Al Thani would acquire Newcastle. , Landing in the Premier League also has his purpose and interests, such as advertising for Qatar's right to host the World Cup and so on.

"Mr. Ye Qiu, to be honest, I admire you very much!" Tamim Al Thani said in a joking tone, "You not only successfully run a great company like Leaf Technology, you also To build Tottenham Hotspur into a big team, from the time I bought Newcastle, I have always had you as my goal."

Ye Qiu listened with a modest smile, he didn't know how to react, and he didn't know whether what this guy said was true or false.

Sure enough, he changed the subject, "So, I really hope to have the opportunity to cooperate with you, Mr. Ye Qiu. For example, in the transfer of players, I hope you and your team can consider our sincerity!"

(End of this chapter)