Chapter 540 Messi quits the national team, Lin Quan’s secret weapon

While the European Cup is in full swing, on the other side of the ocean in the Americas, the America's Cup, a football event in North and South America, is also in full swing.

At the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, the Argentina team, which had been highly anticipated by all walks of life, once again fell in the finals.

They played 0:0 with Chile and lost 2:4 in the penalty shootout. Messi once again missed the championship trophy.

The result of this game not only broke the hearts of millions of Argentine fans, but also completely saddened Messi.

After the game, Argentina captain Messi announced a news that shocked the football world - retiring from the Argentine national team!

"My international career is over and I have taken this decision for myself and for many people who wanted it. I tried very hard to win titles with Argentina but unfortunately it didn't work out that way. "

When announcing the decision, Messi's eyes were red and his voice was choked.

Obviously, this decision is very difficult and painful for Messi.

However, Argentina fans did not understand him.

After the game, on the Internet and in newspapers, all the voices of Argentine fans denounced Messi.

Even though he was not solely responsible for the loss, as the captain of Argentina and the most famous and strongest player in the Argentine team, he naturally became the punching bag for the fans to vent their emotions.

For Messi, this is not the worst situation.

The worst thing is that in the European Cup semi-finals held a few days later, Portugal led by C Luo reached the final.

Once the Portuguese team wins the championship in the final, the outside world will inevitably compare Ronaldo and Messi again.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who holds the European Cup trophy, is naturally more convincing than Messi, who failed again. Therefore, Messi will only be questioned even more.

As early as after the 2010 World Cup, there has been a voice from the outside world that Messi is a system player.

His success stems from Barcelona's strong tactical system and a large group of teammates who are strong and understand each other well.

Once he leaves Barcelona, ​​he will immediately lose his magic.

This voice was not considered mainstream at first, but after the failure of the two World Cups in 2010 and 2014, and the three America's Cups in 2011, 2015, and 2016, it gradually spread around the world and even gained popularity. More and more people are agreeing.

The Argentine team's configuration can be called luxurious. However, in this case, Messi's performance is far from his performance in the club, which makes people have to doubt his true strength.

Is Messi's strength really overestimated?

In fact, there is another voice, mainly from Argentine fans.

They believe that Messi is ineffective in the national team, perhaps because he is afraid of injury, which will affect his ability to make a lot of money at the club, or because he immigrated to Spain too early and has no affection for Argentina.

In short, Argentine fans feel that Messi has not shown all his strength, otherwise Argentina would not be able to fail again and again, especially in the Copa America. They have lost to Chile twice in a row in the finals, and every time Each time they were dragged into penalty shootouts and lost.

Whenever Messi can score a goal, the final result may be different.

For Messi, his failure to achieve results in the national team and even his decision to withdraw from the national team had a great impact on his personal image and commercial value.

Retiring from the national team can easily make people think that he is a deserter and a coward, while failing to succeed in the national team can easily make people think that he is a system player more firmly.

It is very simple for Messi to prove that he is not a system player. He just needs to leave Barcelona and go to another team to prove himself.

Therefore, while withdrawing from the Argentina national team, Messi also had the idea of ​​​​leaving Barcelona.

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Messi's difficult situation has also affected his fans. Fans who support Messi may not necessarily support the Argentine team, but seeing their idol so sad, they naturally feel the same way.

Therefore, the last thing they want to see now is Portugal winning the European Cup.

They felt sick in their hearts when they thought about Ronaldo's fans jumping in the face after the Portuguese team won the championship.

Therefore, a large number of Messi fans took to the Internet to make remarks that disparaged the Portuguese team and supported the Spanish team.

Compared to Ronaldo, they would rather see Lin Quan's Spanish team win the championship.

First of all, Lin Quan and Messi have a good personal relationship. Lin Quan was born in La Masia's youth training camp and is considered Messi's younger brother. There is not such a strong smell of gunpowder between the two, and the conflict between the fans of both sides is not deep.

Secondly, Lin Quan's style of play is very close to Messi. The better Lin Quan's performance, the better he can respond to the outside world's doubts about Messi.

Lin Quan didn't know about the war between fans. He was busy training set pieces and planned to make good use of the set pieces in the next game.

The French team's defense is very fierce, and the number of fouls will probably be high, especially since the opponent is likely to target them.

In this case, practicing more set-pieces can further enrich Spain's offensive options, and also allow the opponent to make defensive shots.

Lin Quan wants to practice set pieces, and his teammates are very supportive.

De Gea volunteered to come over and cooperate with Lin Quan in training, but when he saw Lin Quan holding the ball and walking towards the center circle, he felt very confused.

"Brother Lin, are you planning to practice super long-range free kicks?"

De Gea visually measured the distance between the two, which was probably more than 40 meters.

How could anyone practice such a long free kick?

"Yes, I'll try my feet and get a feel for it!"

Since the last time he took a Mikhailovich-style free kick in the game, Lin Quan has been trying to find the feeling of a free kick at that time.

But unfortunately, that kind of free kick was not easy to kick, and his subsequent attempts were unsuccessful.

De Gea nodded and said nothing more.

Whatever Lin Quan wants to practice, just practice with him.

It's just that such a long distance requires a lot of strength to shoot.

If the force is too great, the angle of the ball will be difficult to suppress, and there is a high possibility that it will go higher than the goal frame.

If the force is not strong enough, even if it hits the goal frame, the ball will be easily saved by the goalkeeper because the ball speed is too slow.

So De Gea didn't take it too seriously, but if Lin Quan's serving point was pushed ten meters forward, he would definitely take it seriously.

Lin Quan placed the ball on the lawn, took seven or eight steps back and then stopped.

He looked up in the direction of the door, took a deep breath, and started to run.

There was a loud bang, and Lin Quan's left foot hit the football hard.

The football flew into the sky with a 'whoosh' and flew towards the goal.

De Gea's attention was very focused. When he saw the flight path of the ball, he immediately judged the ball's landing point and quickly moved in the direction of the landing point.

However, De Gea had just moved a step when he felt something was wrong.

The trajectory of the ball was a little erratic as it fell, sometimes left and sometimes right, and it felt like it was a little different from the position he predicted.

At this time, as the distance got closer, De Gea could clearly see that the football was spinning strongly when flying in the air.

Because of the Magnus effect, when the football is spinning at high speed, the actual flight trajectory is likely to be completely different from the trajectory predicted by the goalkeeper.

As an experienced goalkeeper, De Gea has not seen this kind of free kick before.

However, he rarely saw a free kick that spun so strongly that he could not figure out the football's subsequent flight trajectory.

De Gea began to sweat on his forehead, and for a moment he didn't know which direction to pounce on.

However, just when he hesitated, he only heard a swish sound, and the football fell into the net not far from him.

"nice shot!"

After seeing the goal, the teammates who were watching on the side shouted loudly.

"David, were you distracted just now? Why didn't you react at all?"

Fabio looked at De Gea curiously and was puzzled by De Gea's complete lack of a save just now.

After all, De Gea is also Manchester United's main goalkeeper, and he was almost bought by Real Madrid.

Such a top goalkeeper shouldn't make such a low-level mistake!

"Haha, could it be that you thought of some girl and got distracted?"

Ramos made fun of De Gea with his unflattering words.

He also felt that De Gea's performance just now was too abnormal and did not look like a normal performance.

"Ahem, I wasn't distracted. The ball was not easy to hit just now. I was a little hesitant, but the ball was too fast and I scored before I could make a decision!"

De Gea is an otaku with a thin skin. After being teased by Ramos, his face turned red like a monkey's butt.

"Really? Is it so mysterious? Kakashi, your reaction is quick, go and try it!"

Ramos shouted to Casillas, who was sitting on the sidelines.

Casillas rolled his eyes at him, "Damn it, my name is Cassie, not Kakashi."

However, Casillas was also very curious about what De Gea said, so he also wanted to take a look and see if Lin Quan's free kicks were really as mysterious as De Gea said.

"Okay, let me try. David, go down and rest!"

Casillas changed into a pair of dry goalkeeper gloves, put them on, came to the goal, replaced De Gea, and gestured to Lin Quan to indicate that Lin Quan could continue.

Xiaofa picked up a ball from the sidelines and passed it to Lin Quan.

Lin Quan raised his right foot, and the football seemed to be stuck with glue. It stopped on his instep and was easily removed by him.

"Good stop!"

The teammates who came over to watch the excitement started to boo. They were all professional players. You could tell by just one glance how good other people's ball-stopping skills were.

Lin Quan smiled and bowed his hands to his teammates, thanking everyone for their support.

This action made the teammates laugh even harder. They all looked forward to Lin Quan's performance.

After adjusting his breath, Lin Quan placed the ball on the lawn, almost in the same position as last time, and retreated the same distance.

With a bang, the football flew high into the sky.

coming!

Casillas cheered up and stared at the football.

However, under the gaze of him and more than 20 Spanish international players in the audience, the football flew higher and higher, and finally disappeared from Casillas' head.

"..."

The field was a little quiet for a while, and everyone looked at each other.

"What are you doing? Lin, why did you imitate Morata and set off anti-aircraft guns?"

Ramos shouted loudly, "Everyone was looking forward to your performance, but you gave everyone this performance?"

What a waste of everyone’s expressions!

Morata heard what Ramos said and immediately protested:

"Brother Ramos, I am not happy to hear what you are saying. My anti-aircraft guns are not that high!"

Morata's serious expression of protest made everyone laugh. This guy loves to masturbate on weekdays. His teammates have created countless opportunities for him. If his ability to seize opportunities were better, he might have dominated the European Cup by now. The top scorer list!

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't hold it back, come again!"

Lin Quan was also a little embarrassed. The player who played the ball just now was only focused on pursuing power. As a result, he failed to control the part that touched the ball well, and performed an anti-aircraft cannon to kill mosquitoes in public.

"It's okay, it's just practice, mistakes are okay!"

Casillas not only did not laugh, but also comforted Lin Quan.

Some young players are thin-skinned and may not perform well when surrounded by many people.

Lin Quan's free kick was too far away and it was extremely difficult to kick it well. It is normal to kick it poorly, but it is abnormal to kick it well.

If he could really make every free throw like his first, he would have killed everyone with this free kick.

Therefore, Casillas not only did not underestimate Lin Quan's super long free kick, but also looked forward to it.

If Lin Quan's free kick really works, it will definitely be good news for the Spanish team.

In a game, as long as you can seize one opportunity, it is likely to change the outcome of the game.

After hearing what Casillas said, Lin Quan took a deep breath and adjusted his mentality.

This time he paid attention to controlling the part where he touched the ball, and no more anti-aircraft cannons were fired from the penalty ball.

But the ball didn't spin enough, the flight trajectory of the football was too predictable, and there was no wall between him and the goalkeeper, so Casillas picked the ball off easily.

"Well, there is progress, but to this extent, it doesn't pose much of a threat to the goalkeeper!"

Casillas still encouraged him, saying it was not easy to hit the target from such a long distance.

Moreover, the ball was very powerful. When he caught the ball, he misjudged the power of the ball and almost failed to catch it.

If this happens, it will probably be a fatal mistake in the game.

Lin Quan said nothing and immediately tried a third time.

This time, his run-up and free throw were perfect. When the football was thrown out, Lin Quan felt it in his heart.

Sure enough, although Casillas made a save, he was shaken by the ball's erratic fall and failed to save the ball.

"Good guy, it's really possible!"

On the sidelines, the teammates were all stunned after witnessing the goal with their own eyes.

"Can this become our team's secret weapon?"