After completing the report, being assigned to the dormitory, and getting the key, Willard took the elevator upstairs with his suitcase.
Dormitories are all double rooms.
When he walked to his room, he saw that the door was open. Willard opened the door and walked in. He saw a player lying on the bed, holding a mobile phone and listening to music with headphones.
Seeing Willard come in, the player immediately sat up and said loudly while getting out of bed: "Haha, Alan Willard, welcome, I am Javier Pastore, currently playing for Paris Saint-Germain. Football. I also played football for the Hurricanes Athletic Team before, and the coaching staff asked me to live in the same dormitory with you and take care of you."
Velarde also immediately put down his luggage, smiled, hugged Pastore, and thanked him.
After Willard settled down, the two chatted and quickly became good friends. Because before Willard came, he asked his agent and several girlfriends to find out the resumes of all the teammates selected for the national team this time and even some gossip news, and read them to him.
I don’t have to remember everything, but at least I have a general understanding and impression. This conversation naturally makes Pastore feel very comfortable. Velarde's high emotional intelligence, coupled with the fact that Pastore also played for Hurricanes, the two quickly became good friends.
As the topic deepened, Pastore began to talk about the chaos of the Football Association, the factions of the national team, and the issues that need attention after he regarded Velarde as a friend.
Former Football Association President Grondona passed away, and now the Argentine Football Association is in a chaotic period of competition for the head. In the process of vying for the head of the Football Association, various potential competitors also need the support of national team superstars to form a public opinion offensive. Therefore, the national team players were naturally affected and divided into several factions, trying to differentiate themselves from each other.
Even Messi cannot be aloof. Several competitors are rushing to offer him an olive branch, hoping that Messi will express his support for them. Although Messi doesn't want to get involved in these nonsense things, he can't avoid others using him as a memorial. All kinds of rumors and gossip fly everywhere, and no one can tell the truth from the lies.
Willard thought to himself that foreigners are just too straightforward to talk to him about such an in-depth topic when they meet for the first time.
However, it was thanks to Javier Pastore's introduction that Velarde got a preliminary impression of the national team.
Previously, I heard some fans in China saying that the Argentine Football Association could compete with the Chinese Football Association. Velarde didn't quite believe it, but now it seems to be true.
However, Argentine talents are emerging in endlessly. No matter what the Football Association does, the Argentine national team is still the world's top team and the favorite to win various competitions.
Of course, Argentina's recent competitions have only been limited to favorites, and they have never really won the championship. Messi has already won 4 Ballon d'Or awards, becoming the player with the most Ballon d'Or awards, but he has not yet won the championship.
What is missing is the World Cup championship for the national team.
Last year's World Cup in Brazil reached the finals, but was kicked by Mario Gotze and shattered Messi's dream of becoming the world champion.
Argentina also missed the World Series championship again.
But now it's better, Willard comes with a plug-in to help.
He was originally a fan of Messi and felt that with Messi's skills and character, he was definitely worthy of being called the King of Football. He just lacked a World Cup championship.
Now Velarde will practice his skills with the America's Cup first and then help Messi win the America's Cup.
As time went by, stars from leagues from various countries also arrived one after another and reported to check in. Javier Pastore and Velarde gradually got to know all the teammates.
Except for a few San Lorenzo players who didn't deal with Pastore or had a hatred for the Hurricanes, everyone else welcomed Velarde.
Of course, only verbally.
As Pastore complained privately, this Argentine team has nothing to do with unity.
It is still difficult for the Pampas Eagles to achieve good results.
When he met Messi, Velarde was very happy. He thanked Messi for his recommendation and asked Messi to give him a signed jersey to treasure.
Messi is also excited about the arrival of Velarde.
Because he has carefully watched the video of Velarde's game and really feels that Velarde has world-class defensive abilities and can greatly improve Argentina's defense.
There is a certain truth to the saying that offense wins and defense wins championships. Doing better defense will also help Messi attack the city from the front, score more goals, and have a better chance of winning the championship.
In the evening, after all the players reported and checked in, head coach Martino called everyone for a pre-training meeting, and asked Velarde to introduce himself to his teammates, and then talked about things to pay attention to during the training camp. Discipline is dissolved.
It takes less than half an hour.
This surprised Willard.
I thought it would be like in China, a long and cumbersome discussion about spirit, fighting spirit, political stance, and discipline, but I didn't expect it to be so concise. That's okay, it's easy to fall asleep listening to those formalistic things.
The next day, the national team began training. However, the training intensity is not high. After all, many players fly back from Europe to participate in training camps, so it is not appropriate to train too much.
But that doesn’t include Willard.
Whether for club or national team, Willard is meticulous. What's more, this is also related to the national team training experience on the first day, and Willard doesn't know how much it is!
Although Willard did not perform additional training on this day, he completed the normal training seriously and earned Willard a reward of 200,000 experience points. Facts have proved that the daily experience of national team training is ten times that of the club.
On March 28, the Argentina national team flew to El Salvador in Central America, which is close to Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, to prepare for the friendly match the next day.
On this day, Hurricanes Athletic also played an away game against Banfield in the seventh round of the A-League.
Without Willard, the Hurricanes Athletic Team, playing on the road again, failed to defend its defense and was scored by the opponent. At the same time, he failed to score the opponent's goal.
In the end, the Hurricanes lost to Banfield 0-1 on the road, suffering their first loss of the season.
After the game, the media commented that it was precisely because of Alan Willard's absence that the Hurricanes lost.
The good news is that other competitors, such as Rosario Central, etc., have not been strong in the last two rounds.
Therefore, after the seventh round, the Hurricanes still ranked first in the standings with 18 points from six wins, zero draws and one loss. Rosario Central has drawn two games in a row. Although it has not lost yet and maintains an unbeaten record, it only has 17 points and can only be ranked third.
Ranked second is Boca Juniors, who have five wins and two draws like Rosario Central. They have a better goal difference than Rosario Central, so they are ranked second. Rosario Central can only be ranked third. .
