"The game ends! Sampdoria tied Pescara away! The game before the winter break was ended with a draw. The league played twenty rounds, and Sampdoria, who experienced the coach change, found the right rhythm again after the new head coach took office... Currently ranked seventh in the league. Although she has not entered the top six of the league, there is still half a season left. With Sampdoria's current momentum, it is not impossible for it to reappear in the first league next season... And Sampdoria's star figure is of course high at the last moment of the first half of the league!"

When Cilio said this, the TV broadcast gave Gao Zheng a close-up shot.

He and his teammates were talking about something while walking down the court.

Because he always covered his mouth with his hands, no one knew what he was talking about, but judging from his expression, he was very relaxed.

"Maybe I'm asking my teammates where to go for Christmas...ha!" Cilio guessed blindly.

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"Hey, Gao, how do you spend your Christmas holiday?" As he walked into the player's passage, Obiang asked him affectionately with his arm on Gao Zheng's shoulder.

"I haven't thought about it, maybe I'll stay in Boriasco."

"It's really boring. I finally had a holiday. Shouldn't I relax?"

"I think the family is very relaxed..."

"Don't do this, Gao, you are a twenty-year-old young man, you need to vent your excess energy!"

Gao Zheng was happy: "I think it's okay, Pedro."

"I'm going to go to Mallorca, don't you go with me? There are yachts and lots of pretty girls! And carnival parties!"

"Forget it, Pedro, I don't want to be in the gossip tabloids." Gao Zheng shrugged.

Obiang laughed: "You Chinese are so shy!"

Gao Zheng silently complained in his heart that Chinese people are not shy, and the entertainment method of Jiuchi Melin was invented by our ancestors of the Chinese. What you are playing now is the rest of our games...

But he still said with a smile on his face: "Alberto and I made an appointment to get together on holiday."

Obiang knew who Alberto and the others were mentioned by Gao Zheng, who were teammates of the reserve team last season. However, he didn't have a deep relationship with them, and the group of people played too lightly, so he waved his hand and said, "Then I wish you a happy holiday!"

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Instead of giving the players a holiday after the Pescara game, the club chose to have a player dinner before Christmas.

The holiday will officially begin after the dinner.

Although Gao Zheng did not arrange a vacation in other places, he had received a call from Masi, and they made an appointment to gather in Genoa during the Christmas holiday.

"I knew he would call Icardi, but fortunately I called you, but fortunately I was not fighting alone..." Seeing Icardi beside Gao Zheng, Masi said to Sanpitro and Tozo beside him.

"Okay, Alberto, if I don't call Mauro, he will be forgotten." Gao Zheng patted Icardi beside him.

"I can prove it!" Sanpietro raised his hand and said. Sanpietro, born in 1993, can continue to play football in the reserve team due to his age, so he and Icardi are teammates of the reserve team. In the reserve team, Icardi really has no friends and always stay alone.

But Icardi didn't seem to appreciate it and glared at Gao Zheng: "That's because I focus on scoring goals in the reserve team, so I don't have time to make friends..."

Gao Zheng hugged Icardi, rubbed his hair and said, "Okay, okay, I know you scored twelve goals in the reserve team, it's so amazing!"

Icardi frowned and said dissatisfied: "Why do I think you are mocking me when you say this from your mouth?"

"Don't think about it all." Gao Zheng rubbed Icardi's hair hard again, "I sincerely congratulate you, you did a good job in the reserve team!"

"But you did a better job in the first team..." Icardi muttered in a low voice.

Gao Zheng, as if he hadn't heard Icardi's mutter, turned his eyes to Masi, Sanpietro and Tozo, and then found that there were fewer people: "Hey, did Leto not come?"

Masi and Tozo, Sanpietro looked at each other and said unnaturally: "I called the boy, but he said he had gone out for vacation and was not here..."

"What kind of vacation is David just unwilling to come," said Tozo next to him.

"Why?" Gao Zheng was surprised.

"He is not doing well now..." Maxi explained. "Maybe I feel a little inferior in front of us."

"Where did he go?" Gao Zheng asked.

After the end of last season, Leto was unable to successfully sign a contract with Sampdoria Club. He left the club when the contract expired.

"Boriasco..." said Masi.

"Isn't that our town?" Gao Zheng said strangely.

"Yes, you don't know that there is a team in this town, right?"

Gao Zheng shook his head blankly.

"In fact, there is indeed a team. I don't want to make a conclusion so early, but playing football in that kind of team is basically no different from leaving professional football." Massi spread his hands. "Boriasco Club is not even a professional club. Playing football in that kind of place is difficult to play unless it is talented."

"David probably knew it well, so he was unwilling to meet with us. He felt that we had already distanced himself from him." Tozo said.

This is the cruelty of professional football.

Even if he plays in a team that has won the national reserve team championship, he may not be able to gain a foothold in the first team.

On the road of growth, there are many people who have been with me who will slowly fall behind, and in the end, there are only a handful of people who can stand side by side on the professional court.

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The three of them finished supper together and the party ended here.

I didn't go to the nightclub to have fun until the early morning, nor did I find a bar to continue reminiscing about the past.

Gao Zheng refused Maxi's kindness to drive him home: "I'm really worried about your driving skills - I can fall asleep even when you drive. You said I have anything to worry about?" He explained. "I just want to take a walk around casually. Since I came out of Boriasco, I still want to see the night view of the big city."

Then he bid farewell to Masi and Icardi at the entrance of the restaurant, pressed the brim of the baseball cap down and raised the collar of the down jacket to block most of his face. In addition, it was night, the lights were dim, and if you didn't look carefully, you might not recognize him.

In this way, Gao Zheng strolled on the streets full of tourists.

This is the Christmas holiday, similar to the Chinese Spring Festival, and it is the most solemn festival for foreigners.

The streets of Genoa, which are very lively on weekdays, are even more crowded.

Christmas trees with colorful lights can be seen everywhere.

Gao Zheng saw this scene and heard a sound. A year ago, when he and Lao Zhao were sitting on the side of the road, he had decided to return to Italy to pursue his goals, but he was not sure about what the future will be like, whether it was him or Lao Zhao.

That night, Lao Zhao drank a lot of wine and said a lot of words, and Gao Zheng also sighed a lot.

The lively and joy of Christmas formed a sharp contrast with Lao Zhao's loss and confusion.

Today, he thought of Leto, who had a good relationship with his teammates in the reserve team at that time, won the national championship of the reserve team together, but now he is playing football in a small town team. It is hard to say whether he can get out in the future.

Although it should be a very happy time, Gao Zheng, who had ended the party, did not get better because of this.

While walking, he came to a small square, where many people gathered.

It turned out that many street artists performed in this small square, attracting the attention of tourists.

Some people are performing street magic, some are playing fancy football, and some people paint their bodies in metallic colors to imitate statues...

Gao Zheng browsed one by one and found a female singer wearing a wool hat in a corner. She was wearing tight jeans, a high-waisted jacket with fluff inside, and a pair of long leather boots. She sat casually on the speaker, holding a guitar in her arms, plucking the strings, and gently swaying her body, singing a song with a cheerful rhythm.

"... Since I came here, I felt happiness and fear, and found that I was making every possible mistake. Lalala, Lalalalalala..." (Note: Song from Vox Angeli's "New Soul")

When she shook her head and hummed "Lalala", she closed her eyes, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and smiled with a satisfied smile.

This look touched Gao Zheng and made him decide to stop and appreciate it.

From time to time, someone walked up to him and placed the coins in his hand in an open guitar box.

Gao Zheng also planned to do this. He took out a coin from his pocket, stepped forward, and half-squatted down and put the coin in.

Seeing this, the female singer looked up and replied to Gao Zheng with a thankful smile.

But Gao Zheng was stunned. The girl in front of him had a familiar face.
Chapter completed!