Chapter 160 – Ibuprofen – 5
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Since 2002, festivities erupted in Korea upon the news that Korea advanced to the World Cup semifinals for the first time in 40 years – beating rival Japan in the quarterfinals.
Special articles about the World Cup national team pour in every day.
[Korea defeats Japan and advances to World Cup semifinals!]
└ Kiyahooooot-! This is me!!
└Japanese!
└ Wow… I won this;;
└ Beomleluya carried hard. It’s been a while since he showed his form from his time at Mallorca.
[9 saves alone! Yoo Young-beom was selected as Man of the Match immediately after the game. ‘The moment I saw Jesus on the bench, I relaxed. I felt like I had to do something to keep Jesus’ injuries from getting worse.’]
└ ㄷㄷ Human Totem
└ He is also Chuksindu’s successor.
└ Gat kimchi, which is like hearty soup just by sitting on the bench…
[Joo Jesus roars at Baek Dong-su’s header goal in the 80th minute of the second half.]
└ Look at how much you like Jesus-type Jjin ㅠㅠ
└ ㅠㅠ This guy was sincere about National University ㅠㅠ
└ Honestly, I think Jesus will be a blackmailer for the rest of his life ㅇㅈ?
└ ㅇㅈㅋ
[Special Feature] The next opponent is Spain, which won the evaluation match! What are the chances of Korea advancing to the finals?]
└ I am satisfied with making it to the semifinals. When I watched the Spanish game, Luis Garcia went crazy.
└ 222
└ 333, I think it would be good to go to the finals, but it will be difficult due to the Jesus-type injury.
The advertising industry and broadcasting stations also began making efforts to recruit national team players.
[A broadcasting station desperate to recruit players from the Korean national team.]
└ It would be legendary if they recruited Jesus type.
└ ㄹㅇㅋㅋ The place where Jesus type broadcast was cast 4 years ago still airs rebroadcasts whenever they get the chance ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ But does the broadcasting station have the money to cast Jesus’ brother?
└ … I am currently employed. Above, it is said to recruit Joo Jesus. But they don’t give me enough money to recruit them.
└ ㅉㅉ This is why I don’t get a job.
└ It’s not that you can’t do it?
└ Stop hitting my bones, you will be killed.
The moment when the Korean people were satisfied with advancing to the semifinals and took defeat in the semifinals for granted.
The news of Jesus Christ participating in the semifinals hit the media.
[Joo Jesus takes painkillers and plays in the semifinals. ‘Our World Cup is not over yet.’]
└ What the fuck bro, why are you doing this?! Don’t do that!! Are we satisfied with the semifinals? Are you going to quit playing soccer?!!
└ㄹㅇ;; I’m suddenly scared. Jesus is a type of person who thinks terribly about his own body…
└ Do you have any grudges against Spain? Or did you put honey on the finals? Jesus isn’t that kind of brother…
└ As for those who criticized Jesus for not being patriotic, let them put their heads down and reflect. They have no patriotism at all.
└ ㄹㅇ It turns out that he was a man who was more serious about the World Cup than anyone else ㅠㅠ
└ Patriotic striker ㅠㅠ
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When the game against Japan was over and the semifinals were left, I made a video call to Yohan for the first time in a long time.
Touuu-! Toowoo-!
Even though the signal didn’t even ring a few times, Yohan picked up the phone right away. Yohan’s cute face with plump cheeks filled the smartphone screen.
“Dad… ?”
Yohan rolled his eyes back and forth, feeling a little awkward looking at his father’s face on the smartphone.
“Yes, Dad, Johan, how are you?”
Let me smile at Yohan and shake his hand.
Soon, water formed in the child’s bright eyes.
“Uuuuu! Dad… When will you come!!”
Yohan kept whining that he missed me, and seeing him like that made me get teary-eyed.
“Yes, Dad, I will be back soon. “Johan, are you listening to your mom?”
While wiping away tears by pressing the corners of your eyes with your hands.
Yohan was so excited by the story I brought up about Yuna that he poured out his complaints about his mother.
“Maa is an idiot! “I always tell Yohan to study!”
Yuna approached Yohan’s excited voice.
“… Yohan, are you dad? “Can you please change my mom?”
“Hey-! “John has a cell phone!”
After hearing Yohan’s whining and Yuna’s voice persuading Yohan on the other side of the cell phone.
“You can play without studying today.”
“Maa-! The best!”
I started a video call with Yuna and her.
“West, are you okay with your injuries? If you were injured in the first place, shouldn’t you have contacted me at least once? Do you know how worried I was?”
She expressed disappointment at hearing about her injury through her article. I acknowledged that I was insensitive on her part and apologized to her.
“Oh, sorry… I was so focused on the competition that I forgot to contact you…”
She furrowed her brows once at my honest apology, sighed, and forgave me.
“Ugh… “I’m going to show Hayun and Seoyoon the face of their father for the first time in a while, so just wait a moment.”
Let’s see Hayun and Seoyoon’s faces for the first time in a long time.
“Oh my… Look at how cute our little angels are…”
The slightest fear I had about playing in the semifinals with an injury disappeared.
“Jesus, you did your best, so don’t push yourself too hard.”
Yuna must have realized that I had decided to participate in the semifinals, and left something meaningful at the end of the phone call.
I lay in bed alone, organized my thoughts, and then fell asleep.
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The next day after speaking with my family.
I approached Coach Uttilike. He expressed his will to participate in the game after taking painkillers in the semifinals.
“Coach, I will participate in the semifinals.”
Coach Utilike, the coaching staff, and players who were close to me, including Yoo Young-beom, Ko Seok-jun, and Kim Dong-jun, all came forward to stop me.
“Hey! It’s crazy? “What if the injury gets worse?”
Among them, Go Seok-jun, who was the same age, was the most excited.
“The semifinals are the semifinals!! This is enough!! “The people are all satisfied too!!”
I firmly shook my head at Go Seok-jun’s words.
“No, I was not satisfied.”
Take this opportunity to break the curse of regression.
I had only that thought.
Injuries can reduce performance?
It doesn’t matter if it decreases a little.
It doesn’t matter if I’ll never be able to play soccer.
I have already saved enough money.
Maybe even if I use it all my life, I might die before I can use it all.
The most important thing to me is my family.
I couldn’t lose them through regression.
“I will definitely advance to the finals.”
So, this is a resolution I make to myself.
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The time when Jesus Joo strengthened his determination to participate in the semi-finals.
The match between Argentina and Egypt was held at the Guangdong Olympic Stadium.
There were fewer spectators in the stadium than expected.
The stadium, which can accommodate about 80,000 people, only visited half that number, about 40,000 people. Most of the spectators who visited the stadium were Argentine soccer fans wearing Argentina uniforms.
The Egyptian national team was already in a losing mood even before the game started. In an unfavorable situation that felt like an away team game, Argentina was shaken here and there.
35 minutes in the first half.
[Leo Lopez carries the ball! Leo Lopez destroys Egypt’s flank!!]
After Real Madrid’s Leo Lopez broke through Egypt’s side, Thiago Bautista, who is 190 cm tall, took down the cross and scored.
[Leo Lopez crosses!! Thiago Bautista’s header!!]
[Gooooo!! Thiago Batista breaks through Egypt’s strong gate and scores a goal!!]
Egypt collapsed like a sand castle.
Argentina after Thiago Bautista scored.
They used the momentum to push Egypt hard.
About 7 minutes after the first goal.
Egyptian midfielder Mustafa Muhammad lost the ball to Thiago Bautista, who scored the first goal.
[Mustafa loses the ball! Egypt is dangerous!]
Thiago Bautista, who cut the ball, looked at Leo Lopez’s position and sent a pass under his feet.
[Tiago Bautista’s pass! Heading to Leo Lopez!]
Leo Lopez does not touch Thiago Bautista’s pass towards him. It was passed between the defender’s legs.
The Argentine spectators who came to the stadium let out a gasp of admiration as Leo Lopez’s genius played.
“Ouuuuu-!!”
Leo Lopez got past the defender, entered the penalty box, and scored by kicking the ball low between the Egyptian goalkeeper’s crotch.
[Not long after Argentina scored, they succeed in scoring one more goal!!]
[Ah! The game in Egypt is getting more difficult.]
The first half ended with Argentina leading by two points.
The second half continues.
At the start of the second half, Egypt’s Pharaoh Mohamed Hussein scored a chasing goal and the team continued to struggle until the end, but in the end, Argentina scored one more goal at the end of the game, winning the game 3:1.
[Ah-! King Pharaoh Mohammed Hussein struggled to get by one goal, but it was not enough to overcome Argentina.]
Beep!
[The referee blows the whistle to end the game. In the match between Argentina and Egypt, Argentina will advance to the semifinals by beating Egypt 3:1.]
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Game over.
Argentina 3:1 Egypt
[Leo Lopez shows humility in response to a question comparing him to the Lord Jesus, the god of soccer. ‘I can’t reach him yet. There is a romance in his play that touches a man’s heart.’]
