Chapter 32

Cassano's hospitalization due to illness became the biggest news in Italian football these days, affecting even Napoli.

But no matter what, the team's first priority was the game. Under such circumstances, Mazzarri had to remind his teammates to refocus on the game.

Before the second leg match against Barcelona, ​​there was the thirty-second round of the league, with Napoli challenging Lazio away.

Before the start of this game, the players of Lazio and Napoli together pulled out a banner that read: "Antonio, we are always with you!"

In this way, they cheered for Cassano.

Although Cassano had played for a long time for Lazio's rival, Roma, in the face of life, the grievances in football were really not worth mentioning.

Although Mazzarri repeatedly warned his teammates not to be affected by Cassano's unclear condition and to use a victory to comfort Cassano.

However, the team was still affected by this incident, and most of the players seemed absent-minded. Cassano's specific cause is still unknown, so everyone only knows that it is a heart problem, but they don't know what the specific problem is, and what impact it will have on Cassano.

With these things on their minds, how could they concentrate on the game?

They drew 1:1 with Lazio away.

In fact, this result was good enough. You must know that Mazzarri sent out substitutes... Chen Hero only got the chance to play in the seventy-seventh minute of the game. In the subsequent ten minutes or so of the game, Chen Hero worked very hard, but he did not score. When the whole team was in poor condition, he was restricted by this, and his scoring was also affected. In addition, the time left for him was too short. Mazzarri let him go up not to score goals and kill Lazio, but to let him find the feeling of the game, just as a warm-up.

The person who scored a goal for the team was Sanchez.

Cassano has a heart problem and doesn't know how long he will be out of the game. Sanchez, who had been a substitute for Cassano and Arshavin, was also promoted to the main player. In order to keep Sanchez in shape, he started this game and was substituted in the sixty-fifth minute.

Because of Cassano's illness, Sanchez got the starting position. Some people might think that Sanchez is the happiest person, but that is not the case.

After scoring a goal, Sanchez lifted his jersey to reveal a t-shirt inside with words cheering for Cassano.

This scene showed that he was not happy because Cassano was sick.

In the post-match interview, Chen Hero was surrounded by reporters. Cassano's exclusive interview mentioned the help Chen Hero gave him in these days. He was the key figure for Cassano to regain confidence, and they were good friends. So everyone naturally wanted to hear what Chen Hero had to say to his good friend.

"I'm sorry I didn't score a goal, and I didn't bring him a victory..." Chen Hero shook his head and said helplessly. The whole team played average, and he couldn't do anything. "But we still have the Champions League, and I will score goals in the Champions League. I'm not afraid of Barcelona as opponents. I've already scored two goals at the Camp Nou, so why can't I continue to score after returning to the home court? I will not only dedicate the goal to him, but also dedicate the victory to him!"

After speaking, he poked the camera lens.

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Just after Napoli finished the game with Lazio, Cassano's more detailed examination results also came out. The cause was finally identified.

Due to the unclosed foramen ovale of the heart, insufficient blood supply to the brain caused stroke-like symptoms.

This is not a very serious heart disease, and it is very simple to cure. It only requires an umbrella blocking surgery. Under today's medical conditions, this surgery takes no effort and has no risk.

But this cannot make people feel relieved. Because Cassano may not lose his life because of this heart disease, but he may still face the end of his career early.

The recovery of heart disease can be long or short, which completely depends on the length of the heart patient's history of heart disease. The longer the history of the disease, the more difficult it is for the patient to recover. Not to mention that Cassano is also a football player. He needs to perform intense confrontations and exercises frequently, which put a lot of pressure on his heart.

In fact, unclosed foramen ovale is a very common heart disease. The foramen ovale is a normal physiological structure that exists during fetal development, not a congenital defect. It is the congenital channel between the left and right atria. The umbilical vein blood from the mother also officially enters the left heart chamber of the fetus through this channel, and then distributes it to the whole body to provide the oxygen and nutrients needed for fetal development. After the fetus is born, due to respiratory exchange—to put it simply, with the baby's first cry—pulmonary blood flow increases, and the pressure in the left atrium increases, compressing the foramen ovale valve to close it. The foramen ovale generally closes within the first year after birth. If the foramen ovale is still not closed in children older than three years old, it is called "unclosed foramen ovale". About 20% to 25% of adults have incompletely closed foramen ovale. Generally speaking, this situation will not affect life and normal life, so unclosed foramen ovale generally does not require surgery.

But this is for ordinary people. Cassano is different. He is a football player. Football players have very high requirements for the heart. The heart load is large, and the symptoms are particularly obvious, so Cassano will have stroke-like manifestations.

Cassano is now twenty-eight years old, and he will be twenty-nine years old after July 12 this year. At this age, he has to recuperate for an unknown period of time due to heart disease. When will he be able to return?

No one can say for sure.

And even if he comes back, how much will his condition be?

If his condition plummets and he has no place in the Napoli team, what is the difference between this and retirement?

Even if he recovers quickly, who can guarantee that his heart will not have problems again in high-intensity games and training?

What if problems occur repeatedly?

Retire?

This seems to be the only option.

So in fact, even if Cassano's cause is identified, it is not an optimistic thing.

But Cassano's performance was more positive and optimistic than people imagined.

After the Napoli team returned from Rome, many teammates went to the hospital to visit their teammates.

Everyone who came out to face the media mentioned Cassano's mental state.

"He is very good. He even joked with me. As far as I can see, I don't think he is any different from before..." Captain Paolo Cannavaro told reporters.

Hamsik: "Antonio's mental state is very good, and I am also very happy."

Arshavin: "He said he would return to the team as soon as possible. I believe he is not comforting us..."

Sanchez: "He wants me to treat him to dinner because I took his main position... Of course, this is a joke. Everyone knows he likes to joke, but it's really great to see him joking like this!"

In addition to his teammates, players from other teams also took time to come to Naples to see him.

For example, Pazzini, Cassano's good friend when he played for Sampdoria, drove all the way to Naples to see his friend.

Napoli's general manager Bigon also made a special trip to the hospital to visit Cassano, and brought greetings from the club owner Aurelio de Laurentiis. In the name of the club, he told Cassano not to worry about anything. The club will cover all the treatment costs. He should take good care of himself. No matter how long it takes him to recover, Napoli will wait for him. He does not need to rush to recover and cause repeated illness.

In this wave of visiting fever, there was no sign of Chen Hero.

However, the media did not blame Chen Hero, because now everyone knows that the man in black who broke into the hospital that night was actually Chen Hero. According to Cassano himself, when he needed help most, and was most painful and desperate, it was Chen Hero who suddenly appeared and helped him regain confidence, so that he could face the cruel fate so positively and optimistically.

The media did not know what method he used to encourage Cassano, perhaps it had something to do with his attire? But the media racked their brains and couldn't figure out how this strange black outfit could bring confidence to Cassano...

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The media can't figure it out. This is an agreement between Chen Hero and Cassano.

In order to fulfill this agreement, Chen Hero is training crazily in the instance dungeon. The crazy scenes put a lot of pressure on Inzaghi and Maldini...

With such crazy training, he naturally has no time to visit Cassano in the hospital.

"I said Hero, if you train like this, do you still have the stamina to play the game? The game against Barca is not easy..."

"It's okay, I'll be resurrected with full HP and status after sleeping."

"Do you also believe in Chun Ge? ...Actually, if you are so crazy, you can't level up, and you can't do anything. Why do you have to work so hard?"

"There is a raging fire in my heart. If I don't vent it out, I'm afraid I will burn myself first."

"Who are you going to burn now? It's not going to be us, is it?"

"Haha! How is that possible? I'm going to burn Barcelona!"

Chen Hero was worried about not scoring a goal in the game against Lazio. He wanted to use goals to comfort Cassano and tell him to keep persisting and persisting. The closest game now is Barcelona, ​​so he naturally set his sights on this opponent.

Scoring a goal in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Barcelona, ​​eliminating Barcelona, ​​and leading the team into the semi-finals is the best encouragement for Cassano.

And for him, although Napoli lost the first leg, they still have two away goals. In this game, as long as they can win by one goal at home, they can eliminate their opponents. He doesn't think this is a very difficult thing to do.

Napoli, who returned to their home court, had super strong confidence and combat effectiveness.

There is an example to illustrate this. In the game where Napoli won Real Madrid by one goal at home, eliminating the La Liga giants and sending Real Madrid to the dream eight for six consecutive years, the linesman once said to the team captain Paolo Cannavaro: "You are all supermen on this field."

Yes, at home, Napoli never believe they will lose.

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ps, three updates tomorrow, five updates the day after tomorrow.

The reason why the number of updates is different in the two days is because I think it is better to read the last five chapters in one go...