When Mazzarri heard the words "Héroes and Cassano are fighting," he shuddered.

The thing he feared most had happened...

Those vicious reporters, upon hearing this, swarmed like sharks smelling blood. They pushed Mazzarri aside and rushed to the sidelines, raising cameras, both video and still, and even their phones, snapping away at the scene.

Poor Mazzarri was like a small boat in a storm, tossed about by the waves, seemingly on the verge of capsizing...

"Did you get it?"

"Make sure it's clear!"

"Close-ups! Get closer!"

"Fantastic! This is just fantastic! Haha!"

"Great news for tomorrow!"

"See, I told you! Waiting here, we'd see a good show!" The reporters pressed their shutters while discussing excitedly.

Looking back at the excited reporters, Mazzarri felt like dying…

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Chen Héroes’s first punch didn't hit Cassano directly. The other man was more agile than he'd imagined, quickly tilting his head to dodge. Still, Chen Héroes’s fist grazed his cheekbone, making Cassano feel a burning pain.

This punch completely enraged Cassano, and he charged at Chen Héroes like a madman. But to outsiders, it looked like a mouse fighting an elephant.

Cassano’s valiant counterattack landed a direct kick on Chen Héroes’s thigh, but this kick didn't slow Chen Héroes’s momentum. Chen Héroes didn't even sway. Unaffected, he completely ignored Cassano’s kick and landed another heavy punch, this time successfully hitting Cassano’s shoulder and knocking him to the ground.

He was about to pounce and unleash his specialty—sitting on the opponent and beating him senseless.

Just then, Captain Paolo Cannavaro, having heard the news, arrived and grabbed him.

"Enough! Héroes!" he shouted.

Cassano was tough enough, too. Struck in the shoulder by Chen Héroes’s heavy punch and falling flat on his back, he didn't lie on the ground for ages like Zhang Wei had. Instead, he wanted to get up and cause Chen Héroes trouble!

He didn't seem to notice the huge difference in size between himself and Chen Héroes...

He was also being held back by others.

But neither of them was willing to give up. Chen Héroes dragged the captain forward, trying to find Cassano. And Cassano was flailing wildly in the crowd, trying to break free.

Just then, Mazzarri finally arrived, panting for breath. Without even stopping to catch his breath, he roared, "Stop it, all of you!!" At the same time, he directed assistant coach Viviani to call security.

"Get those reporters who are watching the fun out of here!"

At this point, he couldn't care less about offending the media...

No matter how you try to please the reporters in this situation, they won't stop publishing news about the fight. So the best thing to do is to prevent them from filming more—who knows what else Chen Héroes and Cassano might do?

The head coach's authority played a crucial role at this moment. After hearing Mazzarri's voice, Cassano suddenly stopped struggling. And Chen Héroes didn't torture poor Paolo Cannavaro any further...

But neither of them was convinced, glaring fiercely at each other across the crowd, not forgetting to shout insults.

"Don't think I'm afraid of you, you big fool!" Cassano raised his arms and yelled.

"That's just great, because now I have a reason to beat you up, you idiot!" Chen Héroes retorted, clenching his fists.

"I don't need a reason to beat you up. You should ask around, what kind of person is Cassano!"

"No one's interested in your business, you moron!"

"Alright! Have you two caused enough trouble?!"

Mazzarri stepped into the center, glaring at the two.

At this point, he didn't care whether the reporters were still there or not. He just wanted to resolve the conflict as soon as possible.

"You're professional players! Not three-year-old children! Look at what you've done! Fighting with your teammates? Is this what you should be doing!" Mazzarri was truly angry. He had just been patting his chest in front of the reporters, guaranteeing that these two would become good friends, and these two bastards were sabotaging him behind his back?

Chen Héroes was unconvinced. He pointed at Cassano and said to the head coach, "He deliberately kicked Sha Wa with the ball during training first!"

"I just kicked him, so what! If you've got the guts, hit me! You big fool!!" Cassano suddenly went crazy again, yelling impulsively, and wanting to break through his teammates' obstruction to provoke Chen Héroes.

"Did everyone hear that? He asked me to hit him... This is the first time I've heard such a cheap request!" Chen Héroes was about to throw a punch again. Fortunately, Cannavaro had not relaxed his grip and had been holding Chen Héroes around the waist, preventing him from breaking free, though he was still under great pressure...

"Shut up, both of you—!" Mazzarri roared.

He put the whistle in his mouth and blew it without hesitation. The shrill whistle echoed throughout the training ground.

"I don't care who's right or wrong, just be honest with me! Teammates, is there any conflict that can't be resolved? I was just telling those damn media that you could become friends, is this how you answer me?!"

Cassano snorted.

Chen Héroes pouted, "Who wants to be friends with him?"

"You shut up, Héroes!" Mazzarri rarely spoke to Chen Héroes in such a stern tone.

Chen Héroes opened his mouth to retort, but Mazzarri interrupted him.

"You've been in the team for a season now. How did you feel when you were a newcomer and were ostracized by Lavezzi and others?"

Chen Héroes was silent.

"And you, Antonio! Do you still want to return to your peak? Did you come to Napoli to fight or to play football?"

Cassano looked up at the sky, with an "I don't care" look on his face.

That look made people's teeth itch, wishing they could give him another punch.

"I don't care what grudges you have, now you must accept punishment! Go, run ten kilometers!" Mazzarri pointed to outside the training ground. He was playing hardball. Even internal team punishments never involved running ten kilometers.

Everyone was stunned for a moment—isn't this too harsh? How could they have the strength to train after running this much?

Cassano turned his head and walked straight off the field. He wasn't going to honestly accept the punishment, but chose to leave early!

"Where are you going!" Mazzarri shouted.

"Home!" Cassano left without looking back.

Chen Héroes also walked towards the sidelines.

"Are you going home too?" Mazzarri asked.

"Of course." Chen Héroes shrugged at his head coach. He didn't think he was wrong. Since the other party wasn't willing to accept the punishment, why should he?

"Very good!" Mazzarri was furious. "Starting tomorrow, you two report to the reserve team!"

If he didn't show his authority, these two bastards would really think that Napoli was their world!

And the other teammates and coaches next to him were all dumbfounded. None of them had expected the story to develop like this…

Even Arshavin, who had started the fight, was stunned, not expecting it to turn out like this…

Honestly, after Cassano hit him with the ball, he was a little unhappy, but he didn't expect Chen Héroes to stand up for him…

Even to the point of being punished to the reserve team by the head coach for sticking up for him…

Mazzarri turned around and looked at the dumbfounded players, thinking that the beginning of this pre-season training was really terrible! He just didn't know if this would affect the team's performance in the new season…

"Okay, nothing to see! Go back to training, let's continue!"

Although the players obediently returned to the training field, even a fool could see that they were all absent-minded.

Mazzarri sighed secretly in his heart—was it really a mistake for him to bring Cassano to Napoli? Was his handling of this really right?

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The reporters who had been kicked out of the training base were arguing with the security guards outside the gate.

They protested against Napoli's rude treatment of reporters.

"We have the right to know everything!"

"We're just conducting normal interviews!"

"Didn't you say it was open to the media for fifteen minutes? It's only been ten minutes!"

"You can't do this! You have no right to do this!"

"We have the freedom of news coverage! You are interfering with the freedom of the press and freedom of speech! I can sue you!"

A group of people were pushing and shoving with the security guards at the gate, protesting, when they saw a car driving out of the training base. Through the open car window, everyone could clearly see Cassano's profile.

The reporters who reacted quickly had already dropped the security guards and quickly took out their cameras to take pictures!

Cassano had indeed created another "masterpiece"! On his first day of training with the team, he left early and went on strike! It was truly explosive!

"Haha! I told you, wherever there's a *Cassanate*, there's definitely no shortage of news!"

Just as a group of people were talking, they saw another car driving out behind Cassano's car. The windows of this car were tightly closed, so they couldn't see who was sitting inside, but that didn't matter. Because everyone recognized this car—it was Chen Héroes's car!

"What's going on today… Even Chen Héroes too…"

"Big news! Big news!"

"I have to go back and produce this news report quickly!"

The group of reporters immediately abandoned the security guards they were still arguing with and ran away in a short time, like a tide receding.

Leaving only a group of dumbfounded security guards.

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PS, where are the monthly tickets, where are the monthly tickets, the monthly tickets are in the pockets of all the readers~~~

The interactions between Chen Héroes and Cassano are actually very joyful~