The Midfield Master

In the training session on the second day, Xia Ze and Zhang Wei came to the training ground early. Gretel appeared on the training ground earlier than them, and entered the locker room with the head coach Martins.

When Gretel entered the locker room, he glanced at Xia Ze slightly, then turned his gaze away, with a very calm expression on his face, as if nothing happened yesterday.

The training is going on as usual. Today's training Gretel seems to be very focused and relaxed. He is usually fierce and fierce, but at this time he is willing to joke with others, and his smile is very natural.

This made Xia Ze and Zhang Wei very puzzled, not knowing what caused Gretel to undergo such a change.

After the training session in the morning, according to past habits, the roster for this week's game should also be released. This weekend Maritimo will play an away game against Rio Avi, a mid-lower team in the Portuguese Super League.

This is their second game within a week, the 14th round of the Portuguese Super League, and the last game before the winter break.

After this game, the Portuguese Super League will have a one-month winter break, and each player will also have a three-week holiday.

Zhang Wei was already on the verge of moving, planning his itinerary after returning to China, but Xia Ze didn't think about it, because he knew that he should focus on preparing for the next game, and he didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the last game.

But to be honest, in the past week or so, he has been troubled by too many off-court factors. First, grandpa had a sudden illness and had to undergo heart bypass surgery, and then he found out about Gretel's gambling, and brought up the past hidden in his heart.

During these two days of training, Xia Ze was a little restless, although he had tried his best to adjust.

After training, Xia Ze went to watch the game roster with Di Keao and Zhang Wei for the first time. For some reason, he was always eager to know whether he would start playing as soon as possible.

When they appeared on the bulletin board, some teammates looked back at Xia Ze with rather weird eyes.

"Ozawa, why is your name not there?" Zhang Wei looked at the big list on the bulletin board and said in surprise.

Xia Ze's heart was also cold at this time, his eyes had already scanned the competition list three times, but he still didn't find his name.

His mind was in chaos, and he didn't know what to think at this moment. He came to see the roster because he was worried that he would be on the bench, but he didn't expect that he didn't even have a place on the bench, so he didn't make the roster.

Based on his performance in the last two months, even if his performance in the first half of the last game was mediocre, he would not be out of the squad. This made Xia Ze wonder what it was like, and Martins never told himself what the reason was.

"Look, Gretel wasn't on the big list either!" Zhang Wei's startled voice came to mind again.

Xia Ze turned around slightly, raised his head and glanced at the bulletin board, with a smile on his face, and said mockingly: "It seems that I am not alone."

Zhang Wei and Di Keao looked at Xia Ze strangely, knowing that he was feeling uncomfortable, so they could only pat him on the shoulder and give him some comfort.

...

"Xia Ze, do you know why I didn't include you in the competition squad?" Martins looked at Xia Ze sitting in front of him, with a smile on his face, and asked him peacefully.

"Mr. Martins, I don't know." Xia Ze expressed his doubts directly.

Martins looked at Xia Ze, the smile on his face gradually faded, then sighed softly, and said: "Xia Ze, you are very good, but too many things happened to you this week, at your current age , can’t handle their relationship with the game well.”

Xia Ze raised his head and looked at the young coach in his 40s with a confused face.

"This is the last game of the first half of the season. You have done well in the past two months, but you still don't know how to face failure." Martins continued.

"Mr. Martins, I think I have come out of the failure of the last game!" Xia Ze heard this,

Can't help but refute.

"Xia Ze, I can see that you are still brooding over the failure, so I didn't let you enter the squad. I wanted you to be really ready before the next game. I hope you can understand."

Martins was not angry because Xia Ze refuted him. Instead, he explained to him very sincerely and patiently the reason why he was not allowed to participate in the next game.

Xia Ze actually knew that he was not ready for the next game. He just wanted to use his actions to make up for the failure of the previous game, but he didn't figure out why the team was in a good situation in the last game. lose.

After pondering for a while, he raised his head, looked at Martins, nodded slightly and said, "Okay, I understand, Mr. Martins, then I won't bother you."

Martins looked at Xia Ze's leaving figure with a slight smile on his face. He felt that the failure a few days ago came very timely for Xia Ze.

This gave Xia Ze a smooth start to his career, and after he suffered his first defeat, he had enough room for thinking, allowing him to understand the true meaning of the game.

...

On the second day, Martins led 18 first-line players including Zhang Wei and Di Keao to the Rio Ave. Players such as Xia Ze and Di Ke'ao who were not selected as daimyo alone will have one day off.

In fact, they have entered the winter break from this day on.

A bit depressed, Xia Ze went to the bar to watch the game with Hua Yan, Monica and her bearded brother. Although Xia Ze couldn't play, he still had to support his team.

"Xiao Ze, how is your grandfather's condition?" Hua Yan asked Xia Ze with concern. She didn't talk about the game or anything else, she just wanted to distract Xia Ze's attention and make him feel more relaxed.

"My mother said that the operation was a success. It's getting better now, but I can't leave the hospital yet." Xia Ze pulled the scarf covering his face. The winter in Madeira Island is still quite cold, and the cold wind blows on his face like The knife is cutting, so when people go out, they basically cover their faces with scarves.

"Then I'll spend some time with my family when I go back this time. I also want to meet your grandpa." Hua Yan said lightly.

"Are you going to Guangzhou too?" Xia Ze was a little surprised.

"Well, David said he would take me to play in Guangzhou..." Hua Yan hesitated when he said this.

Looking at Hua Yan's appearance, Xia Ze smiled strangely with his mouth under the scarf, shook his head and walked into the bar.

Monica and the bearded man were already in the bar. Seeing Xia Ze come in at this time, Monica ran over happily and hugged Xia Ze. Poor Xia Ze didn't even have a chance to react, so he gave Monica a bear hug.

He had a bitter face, a look of dumbfounding, as if that beautiful girl took advantage of him.

The other people in the bar were attracted by Monica's cheers, when they saw Xia Ze hugging the beautiful and lovely Monica (in fact, it was Monica hugging Xia Ze intimately) ), with varying degrees of expressions of envy, jealousy, or anger on their faces, and under these different expressions, there is a subtext - let this kid take advantage.

Seeing everyone in the bar cast unkind glances, Xia Ze could only smile awkwardly and twitch his brows slightly.

After a long time, he broke free from Monica's embrace, walked to the counter, pulled off his scarf, and ordered two glasses of hot beer from the bartender.

The young male bartender poured two glasses of beer neatly, and when offering them to Xia Ze, he deliberately raised his head and gave him a blank look. But when he saw Xia Ze's appearance, he was stunned.

"You...you are Xia Ze?" The bartender's voice was obviously surprised.

"Hello." Xia Ze just smiled slightly.

"Oh, it's great to see you here today, and we're still wondering why you didn't play." The bartender, who had a bad face, immediately smiled in surprise, excitedly.

The other people in the bar, after the bartender's excited words, turned their faces again, and when they realized that it was Xia Ze who they despised just now, everyone smiled awkwardly, and then raised their glasses to Xia Ze. Ze signaled, welcome.

Xia Ze looked at them who were originally unfriendly, but now he showed a sincere smile and gestured to himself. He couldn't help being a little speechless, so he could only raise his wine glass and gesture to everyone.

Although Xia Ze is a rising star in Maritimo recently and has become the darling of the fans, they are not as crazy as those female fans. Players often come to drink in this bar, so they are not surprised. After a friendly gesture, they returned to their respective chats.

"Xia Ze, are you not injured?" the bartender looked Xia Ze up and down for a while, and said with concern.

"It's okay, I'm just a little tired. The coach asked me to rest for this game." Xia Ze said with a slight smile.

Seeing that Xia Ze was fine, the bartender felt relieved and started chatting with Xia Ze. Obviously he liked and was very interested in Xia Ze.

Maritimo's away game against Rio Avi started amidst the chats among the crowd. Maritimo lost two main midfielders, Xia Ze and Gretel, and seemed a bit weak in offense, and the strength of the opponent, Rio Avi, was obviously not as good as Maritimo.

The offensive of both sides is only on the surface. It seems that every player has been distracted by the upcoming winter break and has no desire to fight.

In the end, after 90 minutes of boring battle, the two sides shook hands 0-0. In the past two rounds, Maritimo could not win or score, and the ranking dropped from fourth to fifth, 7 points behind Benfica in third place.

In this game, the Portuguese Super League officially entered a one-month winter break, and the next Portuguese Super League game will restart on January 12, 2014.

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