Me, Captain of China

Barcelona is indeed too noisy, the people here never seem to be quiet. This waiter just left, and two people quarreled again, this time with two gray old men.

"Carlos, did you watch it this week?"

"What video tape did I send you three months ago, would you just throw it in the corner like garbage?"

"God,"

"I really want to smoke you!"

The old man's voice sounded angry. I don't know if the video is really that important. Anyway, he kept chattering.

Another old guy waved his hand.

"Old man, I said, I forgot, forgot, forgot!"

He emphasized three times in a row.

"Not not!"

"Damn, you don't know how many people send videotapes to my office every day."

"I can't spend time on this every day?"

"A lot of things on the team are so busy that I'm so worried."

The two kept beeping in English, then came out of the balcony, ordered two cups of coffee, and sat down.

Zheng Zhi raised his ears and became interested, feeling that the two of them were talking about a very good player?

"I watched all 50 video tapes and pulled a bunch of people to watch."

"He is too thin,"

"That one,"

"You told me that he is 12 years old? I feel like he is 7 or 8 years old."

"It's not a problem, Maradona is also not tall? God, are you always confused?"

Hey, even Maradona mentioned it, who? Who are these two guys? Zheng Zhi became more and more curious.

"You can see that his feet can protect the ball tightly like animal claws. He is very fast and keeps his head down to run forward. In our opinion, he cannot know where he is going. But like Maradona, he has an outstanding vision, his head is turning fast, and he can quickly predict the development of the game. "

"When he took the ball, no one could grab the ball under his feet."

"His skill is absolutely no problem, but if he no longer grows, no matter how good the technique is, it is useless. After all, we are not playing youth games."

"I watched it with a few scouts, and there were many people who doubted him. Some people said that he was too sticky and his body was too small; others said he was like a foosball player toy, and he thought about him Not uniform. "

"So Barcelona wants to help him,"

"Trust me, he is definitely worth it."

Hearing this, Zheng Zhi completely understood.

God, these two old guys are talking about Messi! Besides Messi being described as such, who else can it be?

He recalled Messi that year.

Inevitably, the two guys in front of me, one is the agent Mingra, the other is Lexac?

It was those two guys who brought Messi to Barcelona.

1999-2000.

Counting time, it's time for Barcelona to find Messi.

"You help him grow taller. He did a check in Rosario early last year. Because there are too few hormones, it is difficult to grow taller, but it is not absolute."

At the time, nine-year-old Messi was only 1.27 meters (4 feet 2 inches) tall, nearly 10 centimeters (4 feet) shorter than the average height of boys of the same age. The doctor gave Messi some tests and confirmed that the reason for his lack of height was insufficient secretion of growth hormone, not the cause of genes. This is a vital piece of information, because if it is a genetic problem, drug treatment will not work.

About one such case occurs in every 20,000 people. Not much, but it ’s not uncommon.

Messi's prescription is to inject hormones every day. He had to use a pen-like device to inject the medicine from his thigh into his body. For a nine-year-old boy, it took courage to do so.

The doctor insists that this is a painless injection, which is more difficult to attract attention than being bitten by a mosquito. Whether Messi went to school or a friend's house, he always carried his medical equipment. Sometimes, the pain after injection even prevented him from training.

These treatments are expensive and cost about 1,000 euros per month. At first, Messi ’s father could still rely on national medical insurance to share some of the expenses, but after Argentina ’s economy began to slump in 1999, they could not rely on medical insurance. So the old folk team of Newell reached out to them, promising to help him in the future.

However, Jurgen Messi was frustrated and humiliated afterwards because he often needed to go to the club to claim medical expenses. According to the book "Messi" by Jim Leigh Ballag, Sergio Almiron, technical director of the old folks of Newell who won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986, often canceled the talks at the last minute. Sometimes he only pays Jurgen 40 pesos, and the price of a dose of medicine is 25 times this number.

Jurgen Messi was very disappointed. He took his son to Buenos Aires and participated in the trial of the Riverbed team, but the problem has not been solved. After that, it is the beautiful story of Messi and Barcelona.

But it is clearly not yet at this stage.

"Man,"

"Do you know how much it will cost to help him ??" Rexach was also full of doubt.

"High medical expenses, as the course of treatment progresses, medical expenses will rise and rise, the expenses will snowball a little, let him play in the professional league, conservatively estimated, this budget is about 13 million euros.

"God, he is not Maradona!"

Mingra was stunned. He didn't expect the cost to be so high. For a while, he didn't know how to respond to Lexac.

For more than ten million dollars, you can buy a very good star. Under the trade-offs, no one will choose except a fool.

"but……"

He still wanted to convince Rexach.

"Okay, AC Milan, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid all have intentions ~ www.readwn.com ~ Anyway, I still hope you think carefully, and should be as soon as possible."

"Sir, if you don't try, how do you know he won't be another Maradona?"

"And he doesn't have to be Maradona, as long as he is great enough."

"Is the Barcelona club's investment in every player a success?"

"More than ten million, not much. If you look far enough, you won't be rewarded if you don't take risks. You can hear from your words that you are only worried about his body and are satisfied with his technology, but great The same is true of Maradona ... "

Zheng Zhi suddenly stood in front of them and couldn't help but come in. Although he had nothing to do with Messi, since he heard it, he had to help to say something.

Rexach looked at Zheng Zhi, who was wearing a red Manchester United jersey, in surprise. His turn was speechless.

"Ahahahaha,"

"Ahahahaha,"

"Carlos, you laughed at me. Your eyes are not as good as a Manchester United fan. He is right."

"He is definitely worth the adventure in Barcelona!"

"Carlos!"

Lexac bowed his head in silence, he was thinking about what Zheng Zhi said, but he was asking:

"Where have I seen you?"