Chapter 260

I'm going to be 26.

Wearing Dortmund's No. 18 Jersey, Lars ricken reminded himself again.

Born in Dortmund, he has received professional football training in this heavy industrial city since childhood. However, his style is totally different from that of this city. He has exquisite footwork skills, excellent organizational ability, good personality, good academic performance, and typical all-round development of morality, intelligence, sports, beauty and labor. He is a three good student in everyone's eyes.

As a child, he was the future standard bearer of Dortmund's high hopes.

When he entered the first team at the age of 17, coach Heathfield gave him the chance to make his Bundesliga debut.

Three days after his debut, he qualified and scored his first goal in the Bundesliga. Six days later, he made his European debut against Inter in the UEFA Cup, scoring his first European goal.

Since then, ricken's development in Dortmund has soared like a rocket.

He can play forward, he can play shadow forward, he can play right

At that time, the head coach Heathfield gave him enough space to grow, gallop and show his talent.

As a result, he became a genius in the eyes of everyone.

He shot Ferguson's Manchester United in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final at Old Trafford.

He once came on as a substitute in the Champions League final at the Munich Olympic Stadium, played with Italian goalkeeper Peruzzi with an amazing shot, and personally buried the strongest Juve in Europe at that time.

At that time, he was only twenty years old.

At that time, everyone felt that he would be the best talent of German football in the next decade.

Into the national team, the media hype, fans come from all directions... Everything has become a matter of course.

But the plot seems to be drifting.

A serious injury, let him bid farewell to the game for two months, also left him a psychological shadow.

After returning to the field, he has some resistance to physical contact, which makes his play less and less threatening.

But everyone is still full of confidence in him, believe that all this will gradually improve.

But no one thought that the team suffered turbulence and changed managers frequently, which made ricken, who was lack of self-confidence, become more and more timid.

What scares him even more is that new players are emerging, constantly challenging and even occupying the positions that originally belonged to him, whether in the club or in the national team.

Ballack of the same age, with his outstanding performance in the club, has gradually occupied the core position of the national team's midfield. Even daisler, who is four years younger than him, has become the main force on the right side of the national team.

No one talks about him any more. No one cares if ricken can get back to his old form.

What makes him feel more threatened is that the team introduced Rosicky from Sparta Prague, who was brilliant in the European Cup. This Czech midfield, nicknamed little Mozart, has stirred up the backbone of the team's midfield, won the love of more and more fans, and become the core of the team's midfield.

What about me?

What's the matter with me?

Ricken has been asking himself again and again, but on the pitch, he can only continue to play the role of a helper.

The stability of Samuel after taking over the team has made the management ambitious. In two transfer periods, he spent 100 million mark to build the golden trident of young Kohler, Everton and Amoruso.

Plus Rosicky, Kyle, metzeld and other strength of the international players to join, so that the strength of the team increased.

Ricken can obviously feel the improvement of the team's strength, and he can also feel the eagerness of everyone in the team.

But he is also very clear that he needs to do better to prove his value in the team and get a ticket for the national team to the world cup in South Korea and Japan.

In Calderon stadium, when Atletico Madrid gradually regained their form and kept pace, Dortmund played more and more difficult.

Play ball control, play pass and cut, that's the Spanish team's specialty, Dortmund can't play.

But to let Atletico Madrid continue to control the situation is tantamount to chronic suicide.

Yang Kohler, who is two meters and two meters tall, is not as effective in tactics under the defense of the same tall central defender Pablo ibanese. Amoruso and Everton are also closely watched.

Rosicky is in Marcos Senna's close defense, in addition to the foot shot, no bright spot.

At this time, there must be a person to stand up, break through the iron wall of the sheet corps, and try to put the ball behind the goal guarded by the Czech goalkeeper.

This person, can only be him!

He needs to turn the tide at the crucial moment, as he did when he shot Manchester United and Juve.

He's a bumblebee, all his life.

He has to do it both in public and in private.

So, when he saw Rosicky holding the ball, but was marked by Marcos Senna, trying to find the ball point, he immediately ran over and raised his hand for the ball.

Rosicky accurately passed the ball to ricken's feet, and stopped very comfortably, which immediately flashed an idea in ricken's mind to kill him!

It's like against Manchester United, against Juve!

With that in mind, ricken immediately pushed the ball forward.

Xabi Alonso was a little surprised and stepped back for the first time, but Deco next to him posted it quickly.

In the dense defensive area, ricken's dribbling speed could not get up, and was immediately given close by Deco.

At the moment of Deco's deception, a picture suddenly flashed through RIKEN's mind.

Four years ago, in the ninth round of the Bundesliga match at the ALM stadium in Bilefield, he first blocked Bilefield's Greek defender Stratos's shot into his own goal and staged an own goal to help Bilefield open the record.

Then, in the 80th minute of the game, he was injured in a fight with the other side.

That game was not only his career nightmare, but also Dortmund's.

This defeat, let Dortmund suffered three consecutive losses, five games, the first nine rounds only got two wins, three draws and four losses, only got nine points, as the defending champion, but fell to the relegation zone of the table.

Since then, Dortmund opened the prelude to turbulence!

What happened four years ago, at the moment when Deco was close to him, came to RIKEN's mind, which made his pace with the ball stagnate. As soon as possible, he soon woke up, but he was in a cold sweat.

It's too big!

Deco is very smart, close after no action, but when the Brazilian midfield saw ricken big, without hesitation out of the foot.

The ball is broken!

The whole Calderon stadium was filled with cheers.

After breaking the ball, Deco had already ignored ricken, caught up with the ball for the first time and brought it forward.

When ricken stabilized, fear filled his whole body.

He's clearly aware of what it means to let Deco carry the ball to his own backcourt.

"Back to defense, back to defense!" Ricken exclaimed, ignoring the others and chasing back quickly.

But Deco seems to have eyes behind him. Before he catches up, he kicks the ball to the left.

Jankulovsky pushed forward quickly, got the ball and went on.

This damn Czech is faster than Rosicky!

Ricken, who had lost sight of Deco, swept past the Brazilian midfield and continued to chase back.

He has only one idea now, absolutely can't let Atletico Madrid score, absolutely can't!

In any case, we can't let the nightmare of four years ago reappear.

KaKaLa came to the left to meet him, and jankulovsky passed the ball to Kaka's feet accurately.

See the Brazilian skilled to stop the ball, a smart turn, put Kyle behind.

DANGER!!!!

A burst of exclamation!

Everyone knows that Kaka is a right foot, a get rid of Kyle, directly can start to hit the door.

Ricken knew it, and he could see clearly that Kaka was turning behind him and just swung his right foot to hit the door!

At this moment, ricken had ignored the others and went straight to the ground with a slide shovel.

Another cry of surprise came!

But ricken couldn't hear clearly. He just vaguely remembered that he had shoveled something

Is it a ball?

It seems not!

Then a clear whistle came to his ears from far and near.

When he turned his head, he saw the referee with the silver whistle in his mouth running quickly. His right hand was sticking into his left chest pocket. It was like a magic trick, and he got a red card!

Ricken was confused at the moment.

When he looked back, he saw Kaka lying on the ground, holding his right leg, and clearly saw the bloodstain of the shoe nail.

finished!

It's all over!

He heard the whole Calderon stadium hiss, as if it was a monster, to devour their own stadium.

Regret, fear, panic

He tried hard to hold back, but his tears still came out.

Red card!

He clearly saw that the head coach of the court Samuel tightly covered his mouth, a look of disbelief.

He also clearly saw that every teammate showed an incredible look.

This is the irony of reality.

He aspires to be a hero, but turns out to be a sinner.

He stood up like a walking corpse, accepted the comfort of his teammates and left the field mechanically.

He felt the warm embrace of coach Samuel, but he was still cold.

At the moment when he entered the players' channel, he saw Kaka who was carried off the court. Atletico Madrid's team doctors were dealing with him urgently. It didn't seem to matter.

He also saw the right back of the bedspread regiment standing in the free kick position on the court, waiting for the perfect free kick in this position.

He can't imagine that if this goal is scored

When he went to the visiting team's dressing room, there were deafening cheers on the pitch.

He heard the announcer chanting Dario sRNA's name on the stadium radio.

There is no doubt that the Croatian right back seized the opportunity and calmly sent the ball into Lehmann's goal.

finished!

It's all over!

Ricken pushed the heavy door of the dressing room weakly and walked heavily to the seat in front of the wardrobe.

Like an ostrich, he buried his head deep between his legs and jammed his ears on both sides of his thighs, so that he could not hear the tsunami from the bedspread fans outside.

But he couldn't help sobbing and finally wailed.

The super genius who made the whole of Europe work for him is dead!

He's 26 years old（ (to be continued.)