Golden Greenery

Although Nimes is the provincial capital, it is still very small, with a population of only 200,000. The Costier Stadium of Nimes Club is also very small, and the 18,000 seats cannot form a complete and continuous circle of stands.

Nimes vs Max Dodd Friends, due to the arrival of Zhuo Yang and Meng Er, the retirement match that should have been unknown attracted a large number of media, including reporters from many other European countries and China. Many fans came from out of town, making this small stadium a sell-out.

Nimes Club became famous because of this, and many scouts and agents even came to the court.

The Dodd Friends team uniform was designed by him himself. It consists of a large diamond-shaped pattern of red, black and blue squares, which looks like a large, gaudy patch. Dodd said that the black represents his ancestral home in Algeria, the red represents Nimes, and the blue symbolizes Fort Maadi.

Dodd said that after retiring, he planned to study painting and determined to become a realist painter. Seeing this jersey, Zhuoyang felt that Dodd's dream would be difficult to realize.

Zhuoyang and his second brother also met an acquaintance, Dennis Lauren, who was one of the "C-level Five Elders" in Madiburg.

Lauren, who is 37 years old this year, is the oldest among the five seniors. He did not leave that winter, but voluntarily went to the B team to compete in the German third division to supplement the defensive vacancies in the B team caused by the large number of transfers from the first team.

In the summer of 2006, Lauren retired and did not have a retirement match. He became the press liaison officer of the Madiburg Club and often released some official news and made official responses on behalf of the club. Because they often go back to Hannover, Zhuoyang and Lauren meet often.

Among the five senior players at that time, Dennis Lauren, who played as a defender, and Jerry Braun, who played as an attacking midfielder, were relatively strong, while Dodd, Dunbar, and Tommy were less powerful. Five years later, 37-year-old Lauren and 35-year-old Dodd retired, but the other three are still racing on the court.

The 33-year-old Jerry Braun was loaned to Hannover's fellow city team Meppen. Now he is the captain there and led the team back to the Third Division from the Northern League. Zhuoyang knew him well, and he also knew his brother, Hanover Police Constable 3rd Class Warren Braun.

After 34-year-old Italian midfielder Kenny Dunbar left Madiburg, he returned to his hometown team Foggia in Serie C and S1. Dunbar met Zhuoyang several times when he went to Milan with the team to play in the FA Cup preliminaries. Of course, instead of playing against A Milan and Inter Milan, Foggia's opponents are Como and Sanoli.

I have never seen the 34-year-old Dutch midfielder Anthony Tommy again. I heard from Lauren that Tommy is doing well in the third-tier Dutch league Maastricht and is the captain and assistant coach there.

Lauren also received an invitation from Dodd.

After arranging the things at hand, I flew over. The three old brothers also received the invitation, but unfortunately they all had their own reasons why they couldn't leave. They really couldn't leave.

Back then, the five elders of Class C were also a small gang, and their relationship with each other was similar to that of the Six Musketeers. Men in their thirties and forties are basically in the busiest stage of their lives. They have a lot of tedious things to do at home and outside. Their absence makes Dodd somewhat regretful.

But the arrival of Zhuo Yang and Meng Er undoubtedly more than made up for this regret, and it also made it even more precious for Zhuo Yang to be here in person.

The black-faced Dodd took the microphone and choked up his thanks to everyone, thank you to Nim and Madibao, thank you to Zhuo Yang and your second brother, and thank you to your family and friends. "Thanks to my friend Zhuo Yang, he is the greatest player in football today, the only one."

"Congratulations, Zhuoyang. You deserve the World Footballer and European Golden Ball. Please allow me to cheer for you."

"vivejohnyoung!" Dodd shouted.

"vivejohnyoung!" the whole audience thundered.

"vivejohnyoung!"

"vive!vive!vive!"

‘Vive’ means ‘Long Live’ in French and is also the French’s most enthusiastic cheering slogan.

"Thank you all for the welcome. It's a great honor to be here. But today's protagonist is Max Dodd, our dear Mr. Blackface." Zhuoyang said: "Blackface is my friend. In fact, he is in Madibao He was everyone's friend because he was such a nice guy and everyone liked him. I learned a lot from him, including football, and blackface. "

Zhuo Yang was talking politely, but Dodd’s friends said: Damn it, Black Face didn’t brag.

There is nothing to say about the game, it is just a retirement game, no one will play it for real. Zhuoyang and his second brother are not the kind of people who like to be in the limelight but will not seek out that kind of inexplicable limelight. They are not piglets.

In the Friends Team, there are football bigwigs like Zhuo Yang and Meng Er, as well as Lauren who has been retired for a long time and comes to join in the fun. There are also a few teammates with whom Dodd has a good relationship, as well as other friends of his, who are not even professional players.

There was a fat guy who I heard was working as a car salesman, but Zhuoyang doubted that he would be able to fit into the cab of any car given his waist size. The fat guy insisted on playing as a winger, so Zhuo Yang specially passed the ball to him a few more times.

Although running is slower than walking, the breakthrough effect is really good, because no one dares to challenge him, for fear that he will fall to the ground and be unable to get up, which will lead to a lawsuit.

Under Zhuo Yang's careful attention, Blackface Dodd scored the last two goals of his professional career. After the game, he burst into tears again and wiped Zhuo Yang's floral jersey into a mess.

Because of Zhuoyang's participation, the retirement match of the unknown French player Max Dodd is more famous than the retirement match of all players of the 1998 World Cup winning team France.

Because of Zhuoyang's arrival, Nimes Club urgently launched a 'Club Special Contribution Medal', which was awarded to Max Dodd on the spot. After obtaining the consent of Zhuoyang and Dodd, Nimes Club collected the No. 18 jersey with a large patch.

Because of Zhuoyang's visit, the Madiburg Club, which had been negligent beforehand, immediately issued an official announcement thanking French player Max Dodd for his contribution to the team. Denis Lauren, the club's press liaison officer, expressed his gratitude to many people on the spot. Thanks and best wishes.

The retirement game was just a time for Zhuo Yang to come over and catch up with old friends. He is now used to such a scenery surrounded by flowers. But although he didn't say it clearly, he had another purpose hidden in his heart.

Football is about football. Even though he knew there was little hope, Zhuo Yang still wanted to help his second brother's flowers bloom. There are not many opportunities to play football with his second brother, so Zhuo Yang is looking forward to today even more. It's like buying lottery tickets. People who buy them every day are very calm because they know it's impossible. Only those who buy once in a year will have ups and downs in their hearts, as if the beauty is tonight.

In a game that needs no description, Zhuo Yang kept looking at his second brother expectantly, but until the game was over and until the crowd faded, his second brother would continue to do what he should do.

Flowering on site? That's just a legend!

The second brother is a naturally smart person. He is well aware of his brother's intentions. The second brother is also a thoughtful person. He does not want Zhuo Yang's anxiety to turn into worry, so under Zhuo Yang's constant questioning eyes, the second brother My brother always acted as if nothing had happened, even unaware.

But no means no! Because, second brother’s flowers don’t bloom like this~