Chapter 205 The Little Golden Man

The TV broadcast gave a close-up of Cassano's little golden man, lasting for five seconds. The whole world could see what Cassano was holding—it looked like it was covering its face with both hands, but in fact, the palms were slightly open, revealing a gap in the middle, and one eye of the little golden man.

Obviously, it was made in reference to Busquets's action against Inter Milan.

Everyone except Barcelona fans laughed, and laughed heartily—Chen Hero and the others were really too harsh! The matter had been over for so long, and they were still thinking of ways to provoke the other party!

"Obviously, this celebration action by Chen Hero and Cassano has been premeditated for a long time! Perhaps they have been thinking about it since they were eliminated by Barcelona last season! Haha!"

"This is like a TV series of celebration actions! When Chen Hero scored the second goal, they made a fake move of Cassano faking a fall to frame Chen Hero. Now that Cassano has been awarded a little golden man, it is obviously a commendation for his acting skills..."

"Chen Hero is using this method to express his dissatisfaction and satire of Barcelona's good acting skills! But this kind of humorous counterattack is always better than scolding off the field and hitting people on the field..."

"I have a hunch that this little golden man that Hero and the others are using to celebrate goals in this game will become popular online, and maybe we will soon see imitations appearing on eBay! Look closely at this close-up... It's quite exquisite, but I don't know if it's made of real gold... If it's really gold, then Hero has really gone all out to satirize Barcelona! Ha!"

The TV broadcast was also very interesting. After giving a close-up of the little golden man, they switched to several Barcelona players to see their opinions on the celebration action.

First was Busquets—he had recovered from the initial dizziness of colliding with Chen Hero, and obviously noticed what Chen Hero, Cassano, and Arshavin were doing on the sidelines, but he didn't watch the live broadcast, so he naturally couldn't see the hidden meaning on the little golden man, but his face was still ugly. Because anyone with half a brain knew what it meant.

Alves's face was even more unsightly. The previous celebration action was aimed at him, and he could see that this celebration action was also satirizing him. It would be strange if his face looked good.

As for the other Barcelona players, not everyone cared so much about the Napoli players' celebration actions—many people didn't even see what they were doing, they were still immersed in the frustration and despair of losing the ball at the last moment of the game.

In the past year, Barcelona had been smooth sailing, except for being defeated by Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey, losing one championship. But they could easily say that they didn't use their full strength in that game, and the goalkeeper was a substitute. Moreover, the Copa del Rey was indeed not as important as the league and the Champions League.

The opponents they encountered couldn't even last a round in their hands. They hadn't encountered any resistance at all.

They didn't expect that in the Champions League final, which they were sure to win, they would encounter such tenacious resistance, and they lost the lead when there were only a few minutes left in the game!

Their own performance had been very good, and they didn't know how to improve any further. Even so, they still lost to Napoli, which was a huge blow to their confidence...

Guardiola stood on the sidelines, staring blankly at the field.

During Chen Hero's dribbling, he had been working hard on the sidelines, twisting his body, wishing he could rush onto the field to help the team defend. When Chen Hero scored the goal, he jumped up, but this was not excitement, it was frustration and anger—you didn't stop him all the way, and you let him score such a beautiful goal!

When the Napoli players started celebrating, he didn't know what to do.

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Messi was one of the most frustrated people, because he found that he might lose to the person he least wanted to lose to in this highly anticipated game...

He was unwilling when he thought of the ugly face of that damn bastard after winning.

But what could he do if he was unwilling? Try to score another goal? There were only a few minutes left in the game, and he didn't know if he could do it. Scoring a goal was not up to him alone.

In fact, what hit him the most was not that Chen Hero had scored thirteen goals in seven games. Before this final, all the media were hyping Chen Hero's achievement of scoring ten goals in seven games. The difference between ten goals and thirteen goals was just a number, and it couldn't shock Messi into speechlessness.

What made him feel a deep sense of frustration was Chen Hero's thirteenth goal. Even Messi himself would find it difficult to score such a goal. Especially when facing that level of defense, he was afraid that he would be dragged to the ground when Busquets grabbed his shoulder...

He was unwilling to admit this, but it was true, that Chen Hero's scoring ability was really a little better than his own...

But suddenly, he realized.

He had always believed that he was the most powerful person in the world of football, and perhaps only Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid could occasionally threaten him.

Now there was one more person, which should be a good thing, right?

Who would want to live in a world without opponents forever? Now Barcelona was so strong, and he had won the World Footballer of the Year for two consecutive years. Many people said that if this trend continued, it would not be difficult for him to win a third consecutive Golden Ball award.

He was really worried that if this continued, he would lose interest in the game and in football. Playing football would just become a routine. He didn't want to be like those geniuses who were brilliant for a few years and then quickly fell into decline.

If there were strong opponents, then continuing to work hard would become meaningful... In that case, Chen Hero's sudden emergence might be a positive sign for him, telling him not to continue lying on his past achievements and sleeping soundly.

A strong enemy had appeared, and you should cheer up, meet him! Defeat him!

Wasn't the meaning of life, or football, in this?

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Messi figured things out, but the vast majority of Barcelona players couldn't figure it out—why could Napoli steal the Champions League title from them? Why could that annoying, arrogant bastard score a hat-trick in the final?

This final had too many things they couldn't understand.

But there was no time for them to continue standing there, racking their brains.

There were still a few minutes left in the game, and they had to continue.

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The Napoli players celebrated a little crazily.

After Chen Hero, Arshavin, and Cassano finished their performance, they swarmed up and surrounded the three people, cheering wildly.

The highest honor in European football clubs was getting closer and closer to them, almost within reach, and everyone couldn't hide their excitement.

But at this time, the most important thing was to be calm, not excited.

"Guys, guys! Listen to me!" Captain Paolo Cannavaro waved his arms vigorously and shouted loudly: "The game is not over yet! We are only leading by one goal! We must not take it lightly now. We are determined to win this victory! We must not give it away at the last moment! So in the next game, we will continue to defend!"

Then he turned to Chen Hero: "Hero, you stay in front. You don't have much effect on defense when you come back, but staying in front can continue to threaten Barcelona. Now they are scared by you! As long as you are still there, even if you don't receive the ball at all, their defenders won't dare to let you go and run up to attack. So you are there, is the biggest contribution to our defense, understand?"

Chen Hero nodded: "No problem at all, Captain! I guarantee to nail them firmly in the backfield!"

Paolo Cannavaro nodded and said to the others: "Napoli's first Champions League title in history is only a few minutes away! We must not let Hero's hat-trick lose its meaning! Grit your teeth and hold on, guys! Barcelona is not our opponent at all!"

Taking advantage of the celebration, Napoli held a small tactical meeting and decided on the team's tactics for the next few minutes.

This time Mazzarri did not participate, it was entirely the players who made the decision based on their experience.

This decision was extremely correct, and Mazzarri did not make any more adjustments after seeing the players' performance.

He just called Pazzienza from the bench and prepared to arrange for him to play without even giving him time to warm up. Pazzienza was a defensive midfielder, but his main purpose on the field was not to defend, but to delay the game time.

One substitution, if you procrastinate a bit, you can waste half a minute of time. He decided to use this last substitution spot at the last moment.

At this time, even if he was scolded for deliberately delaying the game, he would admit it. What he wanted was the championship, delaying was delaying, deliberately was deliberately, so what!

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In the eighty-eighth minute of the game, Messi's long shot flew directly over the crossbar, winning him the selfless applause and praise of the Napoli fans. It also gave Napoli a chance to make a substitution.

Pazzienza came on, replacing the exhausted Arshavin. As the team's main player, Arshavin had started every game this season. He had started thirty-four of the thirty-eight league games, and almost every game in the Champions League as well. His physical strength had long been exhausted, and he was able to stay on the field entirely because of his willpower.

Back then, when he joined Napoli from Zenit Saint Petersburg, he was already famous, but in fact he was Chen Hero's add-on to Napoli, a "dowry." Chen Hero played an important role in Napoli, and Arshavin's role was not low either.

Now it seemed that Chen Hero's insistence on Napoli bringing Arshavin was obviously correct. Even if Chen Hero was leaving next season, Arshavin could still contribute at least two seasons of high level performance to the team...

Arshavin obviously knew why Pazzienza was replacing him at this time, so he didn't jog off the field, but walked slowly, looking very tired. In fact, he was really tired.

The Barcelona players ran to complain to the referee that Arshavin was deliberately delaying the game.

Viktor Kassai naturally knew how upset the Barcelona players were after losing the game. In order to ease their anger, he ran up and gave Arshavin a yellow card.

As a result, this gave Arshavin room to play... He turned around and gestured to the referee with a puzzled look, asking him why. He said that he was really tired, he wanted to run, but he couldn't run at all, his legs were cramping, and if his coach had substituted him later, he would have cramped...

Instead of leaving, he continued to stand there and argue with the referee.

Seeing him like this, the Barcelona players didn't want to let it go. Who were they? They were professors of acting. How could Arshavin's little trick be hidden from them?

So they rushed up to ask Arshavin to leave the field, while continuing to put pressure on the referee, hoping to send Arshavin off with a red card. Although it might be a little late to have one more player than the opponent at this time, maybe it was an opportunity?

The Napoli players saw that their teammate was being bullied, so they also rushed over to help. But they were very cunning, they didn't push or shove, which would give the other side a chance and an excuse to put pressure on the referee. They just protected Arshavin, opened their arms, and roared.

They looked really wronged. But everyone knew that it was just pretending. Anyway, everyone was acting, so why not just show off their acting skills?

And Arshavin saw a good opportunity and didn't continue to delay. After seeing that his teammates had successfully diverted the hatred, he turned around and walked off the field, without delaying any longer. But the pace was still unhurried, which made the Barcelona fans on the stands want to jump down and strangle him...

After Arshavin left the field, the argument on the field was naturally unnecessary. As soon as they saw their teammate escape, as if someone had greeted them, the Napoli players who had been shouting loudly around the Barcelona players all dispersed in the blink of an eye...

It was as if they had never been there before...

And by the time the Barcelona players reacted, two minutes had passed...

It went straight into injury time.

What made them feel a little relieved was that the fourth official on the sidelines gave a long injury time of five minutes, which obviously took into account the conflict in those few minutes.

As a result, Napoli was very dissatisfied, and Mazzarri and assistant coach Viviani took turns to protest to the fourth official.

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"Isn't it just five minutes? Since we can defend for ninety minutes, we can defend for five minutes too!" Captain Cannavaro shouted loudly, encouraging the whole team. Then he pointed at Chen Hero: "Don't come back! Keep staying in front for me!"

Barcelona launched a full-scale attack, but because of Chen Hero's existence, their full-scale attack was as awkward as it could be.

At the fifth minute and thirty seconds of injury time, Barcelona was still attacking, and huge boos rang out from the stands, which were made by the Napoli fans.

"Half a minute has passed in injury time! It's time to blow the whistle!" The Italian commentator shouted anxiously, fearing that Napoli would be broken through by Barcelona in the last few seconds...

Fortunately, what they were worried about did not happen...

At the fifth minute and thirty-eight seconds of injury time, Barcelona's Messi dribbled the ball and was tackled to the ground by De Jong. The Barcelona players opened their arms and ran towards the referee, wanting a free kick.

But referee Kassai raised his hands high, then stretched them out horizontally, and blew the whistle to end the game!

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I will update three chapters today, and I will continue to update three chapters tomorrow~

Is this continuous burst great? How many days has it been going on?

I am asking everyone for monthly tickets!!