Qin Xiong thought that the team was close to stability.
Through the pre-season training to the last two months of the game, almost three months or so, he began to gain respect and recognition within the team through training, communication with his teammates, and performance in the game!
He did not need to be treated like the moon surrounded by stars. He just wanted to play well.
When his Real Madrid teammates regarded him as the core of the arena, someone they could rely on, and gave him the support he deserved, the team's offensive system at least had become stable and orderly. Everyone had their own roles and understood what they needed to do.
Qin Xiong wanted to thank the captain, Raúl. His role as a go-between could not be ignored.
The team's defense had also improved. Capello's dual defensive midfielders defensive system had begun to show results. The remaining problems or hidden dangers were only the players' individual state and experience.
Against such a background, Qin Xiong did not expect a bomb to explode in the locker room first!
Just after defeating Tarragona, Qin Xiong returned to the visiting team's locker room to take a shower. He changed his clothes and was ready to leave. He and his teammates were surprised to see Cassano standing neatly at the door of the locker room with a face full of anger.
Qin Xiong was a more attentive person.
He had probably guessed Cassano's anger.
From the beginning of the second half of the game, Cassano had been warming up on the sidelines.
Then, this warm-up time continued until the end of the game.
The entire second half lasted 45 minutes.
Capello arranged the same treatment for the alien Ronaldo. He also warmed up on the sidelines for 45 minutes and did not get a minute of playing time in the end.
Qin Xiong just did not know what Cassano was doing standing at the door.
After a while, Capello came back from the post-match press conference. Just as he walked to the door of the locker room, he heard Cassano roar at Capello in a rage!
"Shameless, you shameless thing. I defended your face when I was at Roma, but I didn't expect you to treat me like this! "
Everyone was stunned!
Maybe Cassano did have a reason to do so.
He was a ticking time bomb to begin with, but who would have thought that he would be so foolish!
This was because Cassano had once said that Capello was like his father!
Capello did not respond to Cassano's outburst. He simply turned around and left.
In that case, the team did not have to wait for Capello to lecture them again. They left the locker room together and set off on their way home.
The media recorded the story of the outbreak, which quickly spread throughout Madrid, Spain, and even European football.
When the Real Madrid team returned to Madrid, the preliminary punishment for Cassano came out: isolated training!
Capello would never be soft-hearted when dealing with such matters!
This was very different from Qin Xiong's roar at Capello during the match.
In any case, Qin Xiong had gone all out for the sake of his team's victory.
But after Real Madrid had achieved a more satisfactory result in the game, Cassano's outburst was of a private nature, so Capello did not hesitate to cut him down.
After the punishment came out, not many players in the team sympathized with Cassano.
There might even be players who gloated in their hearts.
After all, Capello had given Cassano a lot of opportunities since the start of the new season.
For a club like Real Madrid, opportunities were always precious.
Everyone did not want Capello to have one or more of such direct players, which was bound to carve up the opportunities of other non-direct players.
The Real Madrid media was like a shark that smelled blood. Not only did they describe Cassano's outburst and break with Capello as evidence of another turmoil in the Real Madrid locker room, but they also implicated Ronaldo.
Ronaldo also warmed up on the sidelines for 45 minutes but did not get a chance to play.
His agent did complain, but that was the agent's job.
Ronaldo's agent believed that Capello's approach was disrespectful to the player because Ronaldo was a star player who had made a great contribution to Real Madrid and had been training hard since the beginning of the season. He did not deserve such treatment.
But Ronaldo himself was calm.
The 30-year-old Ronaldo had matured a lot. His good friend Carlos said, "Ronaldo now knows how to wait for an opportunity to prove himself."
However, the news surrounding Ronaldo's transfer was still rampant, and Beckham's future had also become an unresolved issue.
Real Madrid was bound to go through such a phase of elimination and renewal after the reconstruction in the summer. Qin Xiong looked at the matter calmly and rationally.
Especially for a club like Real Madrid, there were too many old officials from the previous dynasty. Someone was bound to be eliminated in the new era.
He just did not expect that the first person to be officially eliminated would be Capello's direct player, Cassano.
The atmosphere at the training ground in preparation for the Champions League was a little strange. Qin Xiong was not used to it. He was used to a lot of things in Madrid, but he was still not used to the political culture of the locker room.
Real Madrid was too special!
The leadership group in the locker room also had a lot of say!
It could even be said that a competitive decision, from the top to the manager and then to the locker room, needed three levels of support to be perfectly implemented!
Punishing Cassano was a competitive decision.
On Monday, Real Madrid officially announced the decision to isolate Cassano for training.
When the club's athletic director Mijatović announced the decision to punish Cassano, he said that Real Madrid must show the courage of strict management on the matter.
"It's sad to punish a player, but we have to take some measures. Real Madrid is the biggest team in the world. It is necessary to abide by internal discipline. The players should also implement it. Cassano's offensive behavior is serious enough, so we have to make a decision to punish him. The players should know that they must maintain respect for the coach and their teammates."
On the eve of the Champions League on Tuesday, Real Madrid's three veteran players, Raúl, Guti, and Carlos, all made the same sound: support the club's decision!
Finally, when it was time for Capello to attend the press conference before the Champions League, Capello, who had not responded to Cassano's outburst in the locker room last weekend, finally spoke.
He did not reveal how he would advise the club to deal with his former favorite pupil. He only admitted that the team had asked for his consent before making the decision to suspend Cassano's training.
"It's too bad for both sides that something like this happened. It's always unpleasant to make such a decision, but this matter has come to an end. Cassano is currently training alone. I don't think this kind of thing will affect the team's performance in the Champions League. On the contrary, I believe it will strengthen our cohesion like never before. When you are forced to do something, such as punishing a player, you can't be happy no matter what, because it's too bad for anyone to have something like this happen. "
That day was considered the start of the countdown for Cassano's departure from Real Madrid!
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