Chapter 86: Rediscovering the Original Passion

"Long-range lob! Cheney didn't touch the ball... Oh! The crossbar rejected this sudden shot! Poor Botafogo fans, even the crossbar of their own home goal was helping Sao Paulo..."

Sao Paulo was not frightened by the shot but was instead enraged.

To express that kind of emotion in words, it should be: Yeah! How dare you resist?

Young people are indeed prone to drifting.

Not only was his mentality great, but his playing style was also great.

After Cheney kicked the ball out, Kaka once again played solo in the middle. Although his dribbling route had to go to the side due to the obstruction of the opponent's players, he still advanced a long distance forward.

Aluka was squeezed out of space by Kaka and quickly moved to the middle.

Everyone's attention was drawn to the left wing. Kaka faced three defensive players and directly turned the attack and defense into a game called "See who can run faster."

He pushed the ball hard towards the baseline, then sprinted, throwing away the three opponents by more than half their body, and then passed the ball to the center just as the football was about to hit the baseline.

This pass was made with his left foot. He didn't feel very comfortable, but the quality was unexpectedly high.

Fabiano outflanked him, jumped high, and scored with a header.

4:0.

"He scored again, the fourth goal, Kaka's assist, and Fabiano's goal. We are all too familiar with this scene. Sao Paulo's twin stars are definitely one of the most terrifying offensive combinations in football right now. Congratulations to Fabiano, he completed the hat trick! Kaka also made three goals with two passes and one shot! Before the game, many Botafogo media regarded the so-called revenge of the Sao Paulo team as a joke, but now, I guess none of them can laugh..."

The opponents couldn't laugh, so the Sao Paulo people naturally laughed happily.

Alvarez applauded vigorously from the sidelines.

Botafogo was starting to get a little frustrated, but what reassured him was that there had not been any serious fouls yet, which made him delay the decision to replace Kaka.

Botafogo serves.

This time they seemed to be on the same page.

Defend! Defend fiercely! Even if the game ends with a humiliation of 4:0, Sao Paulo will never be allowed to score again.

Isn't it just losing by four? Last time they lost to six of us... That's probably the mentality.

With the opponent's main defense, the pressure on Sao Paulo's defensive players was naturally greatly reduced, but accordingly, the offensive players led by Kaka became a little uncomfortable.

Sao Paulo's ball possession rate has been greatly improved, but the offense has been blocked one after another. The scene of Mars hitting the earth suddenly became ugly.

Kaka is best at attacking, but more than a year of indoor football experience and his increasingly stronger body have improved his ball control ability a lot, and he can at least protect the ball in the circle.

The game gradually came to a stalemate.

The best way to break through a dense defense: personal breakthroughs, set pieces...

Botafogo obviously knows this, so there are very few frontcourt fouls. Even if they have to commit, they are very particular about the area they choose. Kaka has two consecutive fouls. None of the free kicks were taken directly, but passed the ball, but unfortunately, they also failed to pose a threat.

Seeing that Sao Paulo could not attack for a long time, Botafogo fans were a little relieved, but they soon became frustrated and aggrieved by their complacent behavior of being four goals behind.

In the 75th minute of the game, the score was still 4:0, and Alvarez began to make substitutions.

"The Sao Paulo team is about to make a substitution. Falcao is playing. Many people should have heard of his name. He is a very famous indoor football player who won the Futsal Americas Cup in 1998 and 1999..."

Alvarez originally put Falcao in the squad just to let him feel the atmosphere of the game up close, but he didn't expect the game to go so smoothly. Now he is basically confident of winning but has reached a deadlock, simply send Falcao to take the exam and give it a try.

Falcao has outstanding advantages and disadvantages, and Alvarez has not yet figured out how to use him, but considering his familiarity with Kaka, placing him next to Kaka may achieve unexpected results.

Aluka is off, Falcao is on, ostensibly playing as a left midfielder, but actually playing as a left midfielder.

Kaka raised his palms, shook his hand, and then said: "Don't be obsessed with controlling the ball, get rid of it quickly, and then decisively play the ball. Don't be nervous. Don't forget that you are Pele in the indoor court. Don't tell me if I change the venue, you won't be able to play football."

Falcao nodded, "Don't worry, Kaka, I can still kick the football out of the swamp."

"Gun~"

Falcao stunned the audience with his first touch of the ball.

Baptista made a long pass from the backcourt, but Kaka did not stop the ball and directly knocked it to Falcao.

Falcao lightly picked the ball with his toes, and the football flew up obediently and over the defensive player's head, but the football failed to land because Falcao caught up and picked it again. The football flew up again and crossed the ball past another defender.

"Falcao continuously picked the ball past people. He used his feet to make many technical moves that people may not be able to make with their hands. Such a breakthrough is so wonderful..."

Kaka did not find it wonderful at all.

If Falcao picks the ball and immediately passes the ball or dribbles the ball forward quickly, then this is of course a successful and pleasing breakthrough. But if he slowly controls the ball at his feet after passing the ball, then this breakthrough is really a breakthrough. All that's left is pleasing to the eye.

And soon it was no longer even pleasing to the eye.

Falcao was knocked to the ground by two defenders as soon as he stopped the ball.

"Boy, be honest, this is not how you play football..."

Kaka was afraid that they would conflict, so he hurried over to separate them, and the referee's whistle also sounded.

Free kick from Sao Paulo.

Kaka pulled Falcao up, looked at the angry expression on his face, and said: "It seems that you are not really prepared."

"Don't worry, I'm not that fragile. We have thought of all this, haven't we?" Falcao forced himself to calm down, "So, how do you kick this ball?"

"Do you want to try it?"

Falcao's free kick skills are still good, but the angle is very tricky. Looking at the direction of the goal, he still shook his head, "No, it's a bit far, and you are the first penalty taker. I don't dare to take away my good friend's job."

"Then cooperate with me."

The two stood together to take the free throw. Before the point, everyone made a running gesture, but in the end, only Kaka started running.

This place is about thirty meters away from the goal, and the position is on the left. If you focus too much on your footwork to curve the ball, the ball speed will be very slow, so Kaka chose to hit the goal with an outside kick.

Many people have no concept of a free kick of more than 30 meters. Let's put it this way. In some universities' football classes, in addition to throwing the ball, the most important thing in the final exam is to kick the ball away. If the football exceeds 25 meters that reaches the ground means passing, and thirty meters means a perfect score. Based on what Kaka has experienced, many young men in their early twenties can barely even pass, and perfect scores are even rarer.

So when the football flies out from a person's feet, crosses a distance of more than thirty meters, and draws a wonderful and fast arc into the upper right corner of the goal, the shock is something you will never feel sitting in front of the screen.

Falcao stood behind Kaka, watching him take off his feet, watching the football fly up, watching the football enter the goal, and watching the goalkeeper's desperate expression. He felt as if he was back to the place where he met football for the first time.

Falcao is a bit rough around the edges and cannot accurately describe his current state of mind. If it were Kaka, he would definitely be able to easily summarize that kind of literary and artistic state of mind with his excellent language skills.

That's called rediscovering your original passion.

(End of chapter)

[ERROR: There is an error. Starting from 2001, the teams participating in the Copa Libertadores will no longer participate in the Brazilian Cup. Therefore, Sao Paulo will not play the Brazilian Cup in 2002. Many others were written on mobile phones. There are a lot of typos. Please forgive me.]