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On July 13, 2014, the World Cup final was held at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Simeone's native Argentina reached the World Cup final under Messi's leadership, and their opponent was the German national team.

This is the third time these two teams have met in a World Cup final, with the previous two wins each:

In the classic 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Argentina led by Maradona defeated Germany 3:2 and won the Hercules Gold Cup.

The second and last confrontation was the World Cup in Italy four years later. As a result, Argentina, which had Maradona, lost 0:1 to Germany in the final, and the hope of the defending champion was shattered.

Although Simeone sat in front of the TV to watch the live broadcast of the game, he was clearly absent-minded.

Almost half of July has passed, and the World Cup is coming to an end. Those players who only participated in the World Cup group stage have returned to the team, and the players who participated in the knockout rounds are also returning one after another. Atletico Madrid's training camp is more lively than before every day, and the people are getting more and more organized. It must be determined.

But until now, the most important piece of the puzzle in Simeone's mind has still not been implemented.

This made him a little unintentional to pay attention to whether Argentina can beat Germany to become the world champion, and whether Messi can successfully become the king with this World Cup.

Although it was the final, the two sides played very cautiously, and the scene was not exciting. In addition, Simeone had something on his mind and often ran away.

Argentina had a goal in the 30th minute, but Higuain was offside. Simeone realized that his national team scored a goal just after the ball was blown away...

"Dad, can you concentrate on watching the game?" Son Giovanni Simeone rolled his eyes at his father next to him. "This is an excellent opportunity for us to hit the World Cup!"

Simeone made an apologetic gesture to his son.

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In this way, both sides had some opportunities, but they didn't seize them, and the game time passed by every minute.

Until the end of the ninety-minute game, the score was 0:0.

After the start of overtime, Simeone could finally focus on the game. After all, he couldn't be in a hurry about Gao Zheng's matter.

But the World Cup champion is very likely to be decided in thirty minutes.

As an Argentine, he still hopes that his country can win the World Cup.

In the 97th minute of the game, the Argentine full-back Rojo sent a diagonal pass from the left. The striker Icardi, who played for Inter Milan, faced Neuer single-handedly. Missed the goal!

"Oh!" Simeone patted his thigh regretfully.

"Icardi missed a great opportunity! He could have tipped the scales in favor of Argentina! The striker who was so good at Inter Milan last season failed to score the ball this time! He himself is very sorry... ..."

The TV broadcast gave Icardi a close-up, his head in his hands, watching the football go wide of the goal, which is incredible.

"Speaking of which, although Icardi's performance in Inter Milan was very good last season, his performance in this World Cup is quite mediocre... He has not scored a single goal in the final. If you count the last few rounds in the league, His scoring drought is a bit long..." said a commentator on Spanish TV.

In the direct dialogue between Sampdoria and Inter Milan in the 33rd round of Serie A last season, Icardi scored a goal. But that was the last goal he scored. Until the end of the league, he didn't score in five rounds of the league. The number of goals in the league was finally fixed at 21 goals.

With his outstanding performance in the first thirty-three rounds of the league, he was selected for the current Argentine national team. He once played a starting role in the group stage, but failed to score. He was also a substitute in the team at other times.

In this final, he replaced Higuain in the 77th minute.

He almost became a hero in Argentina.

"I have to say that there is indeed a gap between Icardi and Gao." Giovanni said suddenly.

Make Simeone look sideways at him.

"If Gao had been under his chance just now, the ball would have scored with a high probability." The eldest son said angrily.

"But Gao is not Argentinian," Simeone reminded his son.

"Yeah. Too bad he's not Argentinian, his national team is so shitty, I don't think he'll be in the World Cup until he retires... I mean as a player, not in those commercials Cards..." said Giovanni. "I think if Icardi scored that goal just now, he might be able to beat Gao, because Gao will never participate in the World Cup..."

At this moment, Simeone's cell phone rang. He looked down and saw that it was his sister calling.

"Dad..." Giovanni complained helplessly. At the critical moment of watching the game, no one wants to be disturbed.

"Sorry." Simeone picked up his phone and walked out of the living room, and he only answered the phone when he came to the yard outside the house.

"Dear brother, get ready to negotiate contract renewal with Atletico Madrid!" Natalia's cheerful voice sounded from the other end of the phone.

Simeone froze for a moment before realizing the meaning behind this sentence. He exclaimed: "They signed Gao?!"

"Yes, that's right! Cerezo just called me to inform me of the news. The two clubs have reached an agreement, and now it's just a matter of the physical examination and signing!"

"Has Gao himself agreed to join Atletico Madrid?" Simeone asked eagerly, as he noticed that Natalia was talking about an agreement between the two clubs. There is no shortage of precedents in world football where teams agree to each other, but the players themselves refuse to agree to transfer due to various reasons.

"His agent has already negotiated with Atletico Madrid. I told you, the only thing left is the physical examination and signature of the player himself!"

"But how can the club come up with 90 million..."

"Not actually ninety million, my brother. The final deal was seventy-five million euros, a figure that Sampdoria agreed to in exchange for our guarantee that it would be paid in two years."

"But 75 million is not a small number. Where did the club get so much money?"

"Ha, here I have to talk about the credit of the Chinese!"

"Gao? What does this have to do with Gao?"

"No, it's not Gao, it's Gao's compatriots, a super-rich consortium in China, they contacted Atletico Madrid on their own initiative and are willing to provide part of the funds for the transfer of Atletico Madrid in exchange for further cooperation between the two parties." Chance……"

"This..." Simeone was surprised. He didn't expect the funding problem to be resolved in this way. But if you think about it carefully, it makes sense. As a Chinese player who is so successful in Europe, Gao Zheng's influence in China must also be huge, probably the same as Messi's status in Argentine football. It is not surprising that Chinese companies are willing to spend money to let this player land in La Liga and join the future cooperative team Atletico Madrid. Although this company paid a huge amount of money, it got the opportunity to cooperate with Atletico Madrid, and at the same time gained a good reputation in China. No matter how you think about it, it is a good deal that can make a profit without losing money.

Simeone doesn't care how the club solves the funding problem, whether it's sponsorship from Chinese companies or other methods, he only cares about the result, as long as Gao Zheng buys it, it's a good thing.

After he put down the phone, he didn't suppress his emotions any more, but roared excitedly.

Then he returned to the living room with a smile on his face, but found that his son's mood was not right, so he asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"Germany scored! Gotze! Just now, we were behind..."

Giovanni said with a sad face.

Only then did Simeone turn his attention to the TV and found that the game was going on, but the real-time score in the upper right corner had indeed become 1:0, with Germany leading.

Now the game is 115 minutes, and there is not much time left for the Argentine team and Messi...

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