Chapter 119 Cabral's Call

In the end, Chen Hero didn't voluntarily surrender himself, but the staff responsible for managing the training equipment at the club discovered it anyway—they found that a mobile dummy wall was missing when they were checking the training equipment.

They couldn't find it after checking the warehouse, and they searched other places for a while, but they still couldn't find it, so they reported the matter to the club, and head coach Dalglish also found out.

Losing training equipment can be a big deal or a small one. It could have been stolen, or maybe it was forgotten somewhere… But who knows what you would steal a mobile wall for.

After a careful search, they finally found the broken mobile wall in the bushes on the west side of training ground number two…

A corner of the head of one of the dummies in the middle of the wall was missing, and there were traces of cracks on the edges. It was just thrown in the bushes like that.

Through this clue, everyone quickly found Chen Hero and Suarez. Since they had been found, Chen Hero had nothing to hide, so he confessed everything…

It was at this time that the coaching staff learned that Chen Hero was doing extra free kick practice.

What surprised them even more was that the mobile wall made of hard plastic was actually kicked to pieces by Chen Hero!

How much power was there in Chen Hero's kick!

Considering that Chen Hero's extra free kick practice was also contributing to the team, and that he took the initiative to admit his mistake and said that he would pay out of his own pocket to add a batch of new training equipment to the team, Dalglish finally forgave him.

He just told him not to wait until he was caught red-handed to admit his mistake next time…

However, he was still very happy about Chen Hero's free kick practice, and this happiness completely washed away his dissatisfaction with Chen Hero secretly throwing away the damaged training equipment.

Dalglish's joy was reasonable—the more awesome Chen Hero was, the brighter Liverpool's future would be. Of course, he hoped that Chen Hero would be even stronger and more comprehensive.

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In this way, it had become a normal routine for Chen Hero to practice free kicks for half an hour at the training base after each training session. Everyone had gone from the initial surprise to being used to it now, and they had also accepted Chen Hero's sudden extra practice.

Suarez still insisted on being Chen Hero's teacher, but his insistence only lasted three times, because he found that Chen Hero and he were not on the same path at all.

His own free kicks were very particular about the left and right arcs, which is what everyone often calls "banana kicks", which go around the wall from the left and right sides and then fly into the goal.

But he found that Chen Hero's shooting power was very great, and within thirty meters, he could not accurately control the arcs on both sides—in fact, this was deliberately done by Chen Hero. When he was practicing free kicks in the copy, he had practiced all styles as part of the practice content. So he could kick elevator balls, falling leaf balls, and banana balls, but he himself preferred falling leaf balls and elevator balls.

If he didn't deliberately act like this, then his powerful falling leaf ball would seem very strange afterwards—if he had been kicking banana balls in front of Suarez before, how could it suddenly mutate into a falling leaf ball?

So he had to deliberately let Suarez see that he was not good at kicking banana balls, and no matter how Suarez taught him, he was not the material for kicking banana balls.

Suarez also discovered this. He complained that Chen Hero always used too much force when kicking free kicks, so how could he kick beautiful arcs?

Chen Hero didn't listen and went his own way. He even shamelessly said, "I just like the feeling of powerful free kicks! Violent aesthetics is so cool!"

Suarez finally had no choice but to give up. Because he found that he couldn't reverse Chen Hero's habit—he really liked being forceful, which could be seen from many of his goals. He always liked to shoot with force, and those very light shots were rare. When fighting for headers and breakthroughs, he always used his body first, and then used his skills if his body didn't work.

"Damn, we're not on the same path!" Suarez, who was battered by the cruel reality, finally had to give up the idea of being Chen Hero's teacher in annoyance. "You stick to your violent aesthetics and work hard! I wish you some success in a season!"

After saying that, he left.

"Thank you!" Chen Hero shouted at Suarez's back.

Suarez gave him the middle finger—he thought Chen Hero was teasing him. But he was wrong. Chen Hero really thanked him. Although he was helping in the wrong way, he was sincerely concerned about himself before he came to help him. Otherwise, who would care about you!

For this reason alone, Chen Hero had to thank Suarez.

Suarez left, and Chen Hero was the only one left on the training ground. Now he could really start his pretense of extra practice.

He hooked the soccer ball over with his foot, then took a step back to build momentum, and kicked the soccer ball. The soccer ball barely rotated in the air. It went over the wall and looked like it was going to fly directly out of the crossbar, just like Suarez had seen before.

But when it approached the goal, the soccer ball fell down, and then flew into the goal, grazing the bottom of the crossbar!

When Chen Hero saw this ball, a smile appeared on his face. This felt good, exactly the same as kicking in the simulated training in the copy!

After confirming this, Chen Hero didn't seriously train any free kicks.

Because he didn't need to practice free kicks here at all. He was just putting on a show. Telling his teammates that his free kick skills were honed through this kind of extra practice…

In the next few days, he began to try all kinds of random kicking methods, kicking however he wanted.

It didn't matter even if he directly bombarded the wall. And the club also learned a lesson. If Chen Hero wanted to practice free kicks, they would give him a newer alloy mobile wall, which was just a row of metal frames with a human-shaped outline, so it wouldn't be easily kicked to pieces.

He tortured the wall in this way, constantly experimenting with many strange ideas, such as whether it was possible to make the front half of the soccer ball fly according to the trajectory of a banana ball, and then suddenly deflect like a falling leaf ball when it was close to the goal, so that the goalkeeper would be even more difficult to defend against.

Chen Hero was excited about this genius idea of his. If he could master it, wouldn't he be unparalleled in the world, and he could take the heads of enemy generals with free kicks as easily as reaching into a bag to get something?

He suddenly found the best way to kill time during extra practice these past few days—that was to work hard to practice and overcome this technical problem.

However, after practicing for several days, he found that this was just a joke—no matter how awesome he was, it was impossible for him to really violate the laws of physics. It was impossible to make the soccer ball both turn sharply to go around the wall in a high-speed rotation, and make it become erratic due to air resistance and uneven airflow disturbance like a stationary flying state!

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While he continued to practice, the league was also going on at the same time.

Liverpool once again showed their fluctuating state.

They could just beat Arsenal 3:2 at home, and then lose to Sunderland 0:1 in the next away game.

After watching this dull game in the box, Niang said to Chen Xing, "I'll draw up a list for you when I get back, including who we want to clean out and who we want to bring in, and then you go prepare the money."

Chen Xing nodded, and added at the same time, "Don't clean out everyone at once. You have to consider the possibility of internal turmoil in the team, as well as the acceptance of the fans…"

"I know that. We didn't expect to complete a major overhaul in one season and give Liverpool a new look."

In the post-match press conference, Dalglish once again faced questions from the media, and he once again took all the responsibility for the loss on himself: "I take full responsibility. The players performed very well, but unfortunately their luck was a little bit worse… We were not well prepared for the away game against Sunderland. This is my responsibility…"

The players and Dalglish didn't know that the club's top management was already brewing a major cleansing.

Liverpool's locker room this summer was destined to be uneasy…

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Chen Hero didn't score in the away loss, and his footsteps temporarily stopped, but his opponents didn't stop. In the match between Arsenal and Newcastle, Arsenal once again reversed the score and won. Van Persie scored the equalizing goal in the match.

His personal league goal count for the season had increased to twenty-six goals.

The gap between him and Chen Hero had widened to four goals again.

The media were all focusing on the battle between Chen Hero and Van Persie for the top scorer after the match. Everyone said that from the results of this round of matches, Van Persie still had the advantage. His advantage was not his own ability, but the strength of the team he was in. Arsenal could provide opportunities for Arsenal, but Chen Hero would be hampered by Liverpool's poor state. After all, he was just a forward, not a midfielder. He didn't have the final say on many things. It depended on whether the midfield could provide support for him.

Obviously, Liverpool had not given Chen Hero the maximum support…

But Chen Hero didn't complain about his teammates. He just said that he was unlucky. As for the competition between him and Van Persie…

"There are still ten rounds of league matches left. I'm not worried about this problem at all." He looked very relaxed.

But everyone had different opinions on this.

"He must be pretending to be calm…"

"Is Hero playing mind games with Van Persie?"

In short, everyone didn't disbelieve in his ability, but doubted Liverpool's ability.

Chen Hero was very powerful, but no matter how powerful he was, he couldn't compete with an entire team.

He was able to defeat Messi last season because the entire Napoli team was wholeheartedly paying for him, willing to be his supporting cast, passing the ball to him, and helping him score.

But in Liverpool, whether it was from the team's tactics or the players' personal abilities, they could not meet such requirements.

Chen Hero not scoring was bad news.

But it wasn't all bad news.

There was still good news.

The good news was that Chen Hero received a call from Cabral.

"Come pick me up." Cabral's words in the phone were very concise.

"Pick you up? Where to?" Chen Hero was confused.

"Liverpool John Lennon Airport."

"Eh?" Chen Hero was stunned for a moment. "You're in Liverpool?" He suddenly reacted. "I'll be right there!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone in a hurry, threw on his clothes and rushed out.

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Cabral looked at the phone that was already making busy signals and shook her head helplessly. She hadn't finished speaking yet…

How could she call Chen Hero only after she arrived in Liverpool? Wouldn't she have to wait at the airport for a long time?

She called Chen Hero before boarding the plane. She was about to board the plane, and she wouldn't be able to call after she turned off her phone, so she called in advance to tell Chen Hero that she was coming to Liverpool.

She didn't expect Chen Hero to be so anxious that he didn't even finish listening to her words before rushing out…

However, she didn't continue to call back either. It was good to let Hero wait for her for a while.

She turned off her phone and began to follow the crowd to board the plane.