Chapter 243 Where Is the Former Genius Now?

The arrival of the Lazio team in Getafe to prepare for the Champions League final against Bayern Munich is the biggest thing in the Getafe area these days. m

The warm welcome they received when they arrived in Getafe, after it was broadcast on television, was shocking.

The spectacular scene makes people think that they have actually won the championship.

"It's unbelievable how much popularity there is in the Getafe area... the welcome his team received in Getafe was spectacular!"

A TV in a fast food restaurant was playing the sports news, and there was an image of Lazio Odida Getafe on the news.

The cheers of the Getafe fans could be heard clearly outside the TV.

This is a fast food restaurant located in Madrid.

This time is the best time for business in the store, and the waiters and diners are busy shuttling back and forth in the store.

But there are exceptions.

A young man in the uniform of a fast food restaurant is not doing anything, but looking up at the TV hanging from the ceiling.

He seems to care about all the news about the Champions League final.

Chang Sheng and Jose Passarella appeared on the screen, and the news anchor introduced: "Chang and Jose Passarella both made their debut in Getafe. At the beginning, Jose Passarella was just a A substitute striker for the youth team, who would have thought that he is now the world's top central defender..."

At this moment, the TV screen suddenly went black and the sound disappeared.

The young man froze for a moment.

A voice sounded next to him: "Gorka, finish your work before watching TV!"

The young man whose name was called turned his head to look at a fat middle-aged man behind the order counter, who was his manager.

"What are you looking at? We're all too busy!"

So Gorka put his head down and went to clean up.

The fat manager's disdainful voice came from behind: "Do you know how many young people in Spain can't find a job now? After finally finding a job, you still don't work hard. There are still many people waiting to replace you outside the door!"

Gorka did not object,

Nor did he rush towards Changsheng angrily like he did on the training ground of the Getafe C team.

He just lowered his head and quickened his busy pace.

Because like the fat manager said. Unemployment is very high in Spain today, especially among young people.

Many young people simply cannot find work.

A person like him who devoted more than 20 years of his life to football can do nothing but play football, and it is even more difficult to find a job.

It has been four years since he retired. During this time he did a lot of work. Gas station workers, car wash workers... and now this fast food restaurant worker.

When everyone is cheering for Chang Sheng. Gorka, a former Getafe youth genius, is naturally completely forgotten.

These people don't even remember that there is such a person. Such a thing.

Even Gorka himself, most of these things would not have surfaced, if it weren't for the fact that the Champions League final was held in Madrid and Lazio came to Madrid to prepare for the game...

Not a single person in the restaurant knows Gorka's national game. They didn't know that this usually taciturn colleague was once a talented player who was once highly expected by Getafe fans and the Getafe club came out every 30 years.

His future life has been set long ago. He made his debut in Getafe, performed well, then jumped to a bigger team, and then climbed up step by step, and finally became a top European star. The annual income is easily several million euros, living in a luxury house, driving a sports car, and hugging beautiful women on the left and right. Going in and out of luxury stores and various nightclubs, frequently appearing in newspaper news... is a real star.

If he hadn't met that Chinese, he thought it would be like this...

But now, that's not the case at all.

And until he retired, he didn't make a name for himself.

After leaving Getafe, he went to the youth team of Atletico Madrid. He originally thought that this was a step out of his misery. With his level, he must easily surpass others in Atletico Madrid, and then be selected for the first team and play a real career league.

The results of it?

In Getafe, he is the only one like this. She is cared for carefully by the stars.

His requirements are met by the club, and he can enjoy privileges in the team, and the team's offensive tactics are all developed around him. At Getafe he is a real star.

But at Atletico Madrid, no one cares about him. The privilege was gone, which made him very uncomfortable.

If the tactics are not centered on him, he will not be able to adapt even more, and his performance will plummet.

And most importantly, Chang Sheng is right, his body is not used to higher intensity confrontation.

In Getafe, he has the privilege. With the training level of the Getafe youth team, there is not much need for physical confrontation.

But when he went to Atletico Madrid, it was the youth team of the Spanish giants. He had never heard of how fierce the competition was.

Unsuited to physical confrontation, he was gradually left out.

In the end, he failed to enter Atletico Madrid's B team, but chose to leave again.

Encouraged by his father, he spent the next few years wandering in various low-level league teams in Spain.

Even if it was a team in the Spanish C League that he looked down upon before, he also played.

But always can't kick it out.

Later he was seriously injured in a game.

This injury cast a great shadow on his heart.

After returning from injury, he was even more afraid of physical contact.

But in modern football, if you dare not engage in physical confrontation, it is impossible to succeed.

In the end, Gorka was injured again, and this time he didn't even have the courage to come back.

Like a bereaved dog, he directly decided to retire.

In this way, he left his favorite football and was forced to start working around for a living.

After retiring, he chose to make a complete break with his past self. He didn't play or watch football, and he didn't care about anything related to football.

It seemed that this would make him feel better.

If it weren't for the recent Champions League final in Madrid, the TV is overwhelmingly about the Champions League, and he wouldn't pay attention to it again.

Because this time there are several "old acquaintances" of him.

The newscaster said just now that he really didn't expect that the backup striker of the youth team would now become the world's top central defender.

Yeah, he didn't want to fight either.

Back then, the one who was crushed by him had no chance at all, and was about to give up professional football. Now he is the world's top central defender, won the European Cup with the Spanish team, and won the Champions League across Lazio...

At the beginning, I clearly looked at someone who was more promising than him, but now I am cleaning in a fast food restaurant. And he has already stood at the pinnacle of world football?

And often. The rookie coach of the youth team who seems to know nothing is now a famous coach in European football. Wherever he goes, there is no lack of attention. He has led two different teams to win the Champions League, and married a big singer as his wife. He is really a winner in life.

life...

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After the fast food restaurant closes at night. Gorka was told by the fat manager that his probationary period was over and he was fired.

Gorka didn't roar or question angrily about this, and naturally he didn't rush to the manager and wrestle with him.

He silently accepted the result, and after receiving this month's salary, he turned around and went out to leave.

This kind of thing happened during the time he worked around in the past few years. Been through this many times.

With a small salary, Gorka did not choose to go home directly, but wandered the streets of Madrid.

As the Champions League final approaches, the streets of Madrid are filled with posters and posters of the Champions League final.

The fast food restaurant he works in is not far from Real Madrid's home stadium, the Bernabéu.

So the posters and advertisements here are particularly dense.

There are Lazio and Bayern Munich crests.

besides. Photos of the star players of both teams will also appear on these posters.

Ribery and Arjen Robben at Bayern Munich and Jose Passarella and Gotze at Lazio.

Gorka looked at Jose Passarella, who was stretching his arms to direct the defense on the poster. He had a striking captain's armband on his outstretched left arm.

I don't know much about the fact that I laughed at him back then, I just know that I laughed at him and despised him with disdain.

When I passed by a shop window, the TV inside was playing the video of this afternoon's pre-match press conference.

Sitting inside happened to be Lazio's head coach Chang Sheng.

Gorka stopped, stood in front of the window, and watched the TV.

"Afraid of Bayern Munich? Sorry, the word 'scared' doesn't exist in my dictionary. So I don't know what your question means."

Chang Sheng folded his arms around his chest, leaned on the back of the chair, raised his chin, and stared at the reporters under the stage out of the corner of his eye.

It hasn't changed much from when he first appeared in front of him.

The same rampant and arrogant, fearless, no one is willing...

On the first day when I came to Team C, I dared to fight with myself, the "ball tyrant" who dominated Team C...

Gorka suddenly laughed.

Thinking of my past self and comparing it with my present self, I suddenly feel that even being scolded by that damned Chinese is a kind of happiness...

Because at that time, I was still playing football anyway.

Being able to play football... what a blessing.

Chang Sheng on TV is still answering questions from reporters.

Although he looks like this, it doesn't affect the reporters' pursuit of him at all.

This is the real star, no matter how he treats the media, the media will catch up and lick his toes.

"Choose Getafe as a place to prepare for the game, but the training facilities and accommodation conditions there are not particularly good. Why would you consider going there to prepare for the game? You don't worry that the bad training environment will prevent the team from doing their best. Good preparations?"

The reporter saw that he was here to make trouble.

Gorka outside the TV can hear it.

He didn't believe that Chang Sheng would hear it.

That was a real mad dog.

But to Gorka's surprise, Chang Sheng did not fly into a rage, nor did he retort.

He smiled and replied: "Bad? In your dull eyes, maybe so. But for me and Lazio, this is the best place to prepare. Because, coming to Getafe is like Back home, me and my players feel very peaceful, we like it here, for us, this is the best place to prepare for the game. If we win the championship in the end, then Getafe will be a place to play .”

fight back?

Yeah... go home.

It's time for me to go home too.

Only then did Gorka realize that it was too late.

go home, go home.

The video of the pre-match press conference continued as Gorka turned and walked away.

Like he turned and left the fast food restaurant without looking back.

PS: Sorry, there are only three updates today...