The Day I Played with Ronaldo

On the morning of April 9th, the Pinettina training base. "If you want to rest for a few more days, I can understand." Mancini said to Ricardo who had changed his training equipment.

"I've had enough rest. Stella has already left the ICU ward, and now I don't need someone to watch her every day." Licado said.

"But she has no family or reason in Rome, no one takes care of her," Mancini said, "Anyway, I'm not going to let you play in today's game, you take a good rest for a few days, and when Shidela is better, you can invite someone else." The babysitter takes care of her. I just ask you to catch the next round of the Milan derby."

"Her manager will take care of all this." Licado replied.

In addition to temporarily letting people from the company come to accompany Shi Dela, he also negotiated with Li Carduo, and both parties paid half of the money to hire a senior nurse for Shi Dela.

Stella had a car accident on April 5th and left the ICU on April 8th. Ricardo returned to Milan on the evening of April 8th to prepare for the league game against Bologna on April 9th.

"In short, I won't let you play tonight. Not only you, Ronnie and Adriano will also not play. I want you to recharge your batteries for the next round of the Milan derby."

Li Carduo nodded and accepted the arrangement. "Don't worry, Robert, I will adjust my state as soon as possible."

Mancini made the stunning decision to play Ricardo, Ronaldo and Adriano away at Bologna in order to save time for the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against AC Milan. They all sit on the bench.

Ricardo is very tired these days, even if he can play tonight, he can't maintain his condition; Adriano has just recovered from his injury, so he may not be in a good condition. It's okay for them to let Ronaldo sit on the bench, it really takes courage.

In this 30th round of Serie A, Martins and Cruz started. Inter Milan played a defensive counterattack, and finally defeated Bologna 1-0 away with the goal of the "Chinese boy" Recoba who came off the bench.

In another game at the same time, AC Milan, who also stayed for the Champions League, was tied 1:1 by the underdog Brescia at home, basically declaring that the dream of defending the league champion was broken.

In another key game later, Juventus challenged Fiorentina away, fell behind three times and tenaciously pulled back three times, and finally drew with their opponents 3:3.

The news made Inter Milan's players cheer and their confidence doubled. They and Juventus have the same 66 points, once again occupying the top spot with a goal difference advantage.

With only the last 8 rounds left in the league, there is no room for mistakes. Whether it is for Juventus or Inter Milan, it will be more difficult in the future.

Relatively speaking, Inter Milan's schedule is a little more friendly. Except for the away game against Juventus in the 32nd round, the remaining 7 games are against underdogs, either teams in the relegation zone, or teams that have no hope of relegation in the European war. As long as Inter Milan does not make mistakes, they will win Winning the next 7 games should not be a problem.

And Juventus will also challenge Lazio and AC Milan in away games, and play Parma at home. These few games are tough games, and their fault tolerance rate is much smaller than that of Inter Milan.

It can be said that the initiative has been in the hands of Inter Milan itself.

As long as they don't lose against Juventus and don't make mistakes against underdogs, they will be able to securely win the Serie A championship this season.

But these are things for later. First of all, they have to work hard to go further in the Champions League.

The stumbling block in front of them is called AC Milan.

In the 105 years since the establishment of the team, this team wearing red and black arrows has won 17 Serie A titles, 5 Italian Cup titles, 6 UEFA Champions League titles, and 2 European Cup Winners' Cup titles. wealthy.

And the grievances and grievances between them and Inter Milan are too much to describe in words. As we all know, Inter Milan was formed in 1908 by a group of "defected" AC Milan members.

So far, Inter Milan has only 13 Serie A titles, 4 less than AC Milan; 7 Coppa Italia titles; and only 3 Champions League titles, only half of AC Milan. In addition, Inter Milan won the UEFA Cup 3 times.

In contrast, the honor received by Inter Milan is slightly inferior.

However, Inter Milan hoped that this season, the gap in the number of honors won by the team and AC Milan would be narrowed!

This may not be the strongest and most balanced season for Inter Milan, nor is it the season with the strongest attack or defense for Inter Milan, nor is it the season with the best luck, nor is it the closest to the league championship or the Champions League. of a season.

However, in this season, Inter Milan still remains unbeaten in the league! Only lost one game in the Champions League!

They have enough confidence to win everything!

On the morning of April 11, a special person walked into the team locker room at the Pinettina training base.

This is a hale and hearty old man, tall, with light golden hair, a square face, serious small eyes, thick sword eyebrows, and even a smile exudes a touch of majesty.

"Hello Chairman!" Zanetti first greeted in surprise.

The rest of the players also shouted: "Hello, Chairman!" "Why are you here, Chairman!" "Mr. Chairman, you look good!"

"You are not bad, you are all good guys." The 62-year-old Giacinto Facchetti did not look old at all, with his back straight, smiling and waving to the boys.

"Licado, I heard that your girlfriend was injured and hospitalized, is she okay?"

"Ronnie, are you going to remarry?"

"Christian, how are you doing?"

"Marco, you are still so energetic."

"Alvaro, the goal the night before yesterday was brilliant."

Facchetti greeted the players one by one, and after walking around in the locker room, he said loudly: "Tomorrow night, you will face your old opponents again. Do you have the confidence to win them?"

"Yes!" the players shouted.

"When you meet AC Milan, you don't have to say anything, just do it." Facchetti swears, and the locker room burst into laughter.

Before the laughter stopped, Facchetti quoted Prisco: "My dream is that in a derby that decides the title, Inter Milan scores a goal a second before the end of the game, 1-0. Beat AC Milan. Hopefully the goal was offside, or handball, but better offside and handball."

The laughter grew stronger.

"However," Facchetti laughed, "if Ronnie beats Dida with a pendulum and kicks the ball into an empty goal, I can accept it."

The laughter continued, several players slapped Ronaldo on the shoulder, and Ronaldo laughed from ear to ear.