After South Africa arranged the wall under the command of the goalkeeper, the referee signaled that Gago could start.

Taking a deep breath, Gago trotted two steps and then came to the front of the ball. He rubbed it hard against the ball placed on the lawn in front of his left foot. When he kicked the ball out, the arch subconsciously made a side pulling action.

"The left foot is in the instep, and the upper left corner of the goal..."

In the official match of the South African Federation Cup, Adidas' Kopanya carried the wishes of countless Argentine fans around the world, bypassed the two-story wall and swung towards the goal on the left.

South African goalkeeper Kehune originally thought that this ball should be hit to the right side of the goal. After all, although Gago is known as having all-round left and right feet, he often uses his right foot when he debuts. In the past, most of the free kicks were taken with his right foot, and there were only a handful of them when using his left foot.

But this time he miscalculated. When Gago was running, he saw his shoulder shaking movement. He knew what he was thinking and immediately adjusted his pace and let his left foot kick out this free kick.

A "bang" made everyone's heart tighten. The ball bypassed Kehune's palm and hit the inside of the post, then bounced into the net!

“goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”

"A direct free kick, the ball entered, Fernando Gago, the perfect arc, accurate to the limit, and if you go one point, you will bounce out."

"God favors Argentina, fourteen years later, another Maradona came to Pampas Fernando Gago. This goal will make all Argentinians crazy about him and fall in love with him!"

After seeing the ball enter the net, Gago went directly to the corner flagpole and kicked it up. After kicking three consecutive kicks, he was knocked down by Messi who rushed over.

Then, all the Argentine players came over to celebrate the goal, the time was 89 minutes, which was the final final victory. Basilé off the court was also excited to hug Maradona. The two of them attracted the shots even more than on the court.

"I knew that kid could do what he was like most. Don't tell me that he was the 'successor of Redondo'. From today on, you should call him 'Maradona II'!"

Old Ma waved excitedly to the fans in the stands and said, after moving forward at Gago's position, he promoted Gago more than once.

"Give it awesome!"

At this time, Basile reacted, curled his lips at Maradona, and then quickly made a gesture of retreating to the players on the field.

There is less than a minute before the end of the game. Even if two or three minutes of injury time is added, Argentina will be able to enter the finals and win the championship by keeping the advantage of this goal for five minutes. The US team, which was tortured by them in the group stage, could not stop them.

Seeing Argentina, who was in sight of victory, blocking South Africa, which launched a desperate counterattack, tightly blocked the penalty area, Gago directly retreated his position to the midfielder. In addition to Samuel's command in the backcourt, he finally survived the referee's whistle to the end of the game.

"Congratulations to Argentina, they eliminated the host South Africa team, three days later. In this stadium, the two teams qualifying for Group B will have a showdown again. Will the result change this time?"

"The unpopularity did not appear again after all, and Argentina was not overturned like Spain. Relying on Gago's direct free kick worth a thousand gold, Pampas reached the final of the Federation Cup for two consecutive times. However, Argentina was defeated 4:1 in the last 2005 Federation Cup, making Adriano's reputation a success. Will Argentina miss the championship again this time? Do they hope to win their second Federation Cup championship?"

"The most popular Union Cups are France and Brazil. They both have two times, while Argentina has only won once, in the first session in 1992. At that time, Pampas led by King Maradona swept the heroes and looked down on the world. After that, Argentina reached the final twice, but failed to win the championship. Can Gago help the team win the championship in this event again after 16 years?"

After the game, the reporters rushed into the stadium regardless of the rules and interviewed Argentine players who entered the finals. If they followed the usual rules, they would definitely not get any news. They had a deep understanding of the stadium facilities in South Africa.

Gago, who scored the only goal in the game, naturally surrounded the most people. Fortunately, Maradona saw his plight and came to clear the ball. With Lao Ma as a target, Gago could finally enter the passage and return to the locker room.

"Diego, can you tell me about your outlook for the final?"

"The champion belongs to Pampas, and I predict the score is 3:0. Like the group stage, the US team is definitely not our opponent. Against them, even Fair can easily defeat it with only half of its skills..."

Before Gago's front foot could enter the passage, Maradona's big mouth blew without drafting at all. The soles of Gago's feet slipped and he almost slipped.

"Fel, are you okay?"

Messi, who was walking with him, asked with concern.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just that the ground is a little wet!"

Gago smiled and waved his hand at Messi, and walked to the locker room first!

In the locker room, all the players celebrated again, and even Basil joined in.

However, on the next day, everyone started to enter closed training again, and now there is only the last final left. If they win, they are heroes, if they lose, they are sinners.

Fortunately, many players in Argentina participated in the last Federation Cup, and there are now three players who played in the final. Zanetti, Cambiaso and Heinze were the absolute main players at that time, but the result of that final was not so pleasant. Facing the peak combination of Kaka, Ronaldo and Adriano, Peckerman's Blue and White Legion was beaten up.

Before the finals began, Sanetti, who was the captain and the last representative, summarized and inspired the younger generations such as Gago.

"The last final was my most painful experience. It was the only time that the national team entered the finals of a major international event in fourteen years when I was in. I originally thought I could end the embarrassing years without a championship, but I was humiliated by Brazil 4:1. If possible, I really don't want to think about it again."

When Zanetti said this, the expression on her face was very ashamed. Indeed, if Gago hadn't ended the Argentina's uncrowned years in the Copa America, he and Ayala would have been the shame of "a failure generation".

"In the final, you don't have to be afraid of anything. Just treat him as an ordinary game. Our strength is more than one level higher than that of the US team. You must always remember that they were killed by us in the group stage. We will play with absolute confidence and exert our strength. The championship is ours!"

...

After Zanetti finished speaking, as the head coach, Basilé got up and began to set up the tactics of the finals. This time he did not make any changes, and the 433 main offensive lineup almost tricked himself in the last game against South Africa, after Brazilian understood that Argentina, who had just completed the blood change, should play a set of fixed tactics. If he really wanted to change the lineup, he would have to wait until the team's lineup was almost done before talking about it.

Although the strength of the US team is not as strong as that of Argentina, all the players this time have no underestimation. The performance of South Africa in the last game made the Argentine stars who were proud of winning the group stage become modest. They know that they are far from invincible. Even Spain has capsized in the gutter, and if they are not careful, the US team will not be able to defeat them.

The three-day rest adjustment time was adjusted. None of the Argentine players went out to play. After waking up every day, they went to the loan base to start training and strengthened their cooperation.

Of course, the most important thing is that the poor environment in South Africa makes Argentine players have no time to play.

It is this serious and hard-working attitude that prevents Argentina from being off guard because of its opponent's outbreak in the final.

On June 28th local time, at 8 pm, at the Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, Argentina made no contribution in the first half and was scored by a counterattack.

In the finals, the US team's strength increased by at least 50% compared to the group stage. Not only was it running around the game, but it was also very lucky. Dempsey's shot in the penalty area hit Demikalis and was reflected into the net.

Relying on this goal, the US team began to retreat from defense at all and maintained the advantage of one goal lead until the halftime break. At the beginning of the second half, Brazilian replaced Demikalis with Aguero. The four major strikers in the frontcourt, Messi, Higuain, Tevez and Aguero all appeared, and behind them were Gago constantly transporting shells.

Aguero was also lucky. He received a diagonal pass from Gago in one minute and scored at a low angle to score at a far corner, helping the team equalize the score. Then Gago's strange arc outside the penalty area, which seemed to be a pass or a shot, lifted the ball into the goal, helping the team overtake the score.

The US team then began to counterattack, but it was too late. In the 84th minute, Cambiaso received a header from Gago, scoring the victory for the team.

When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, all Argentine fans began to jump up excitedly, and they raised their hands high towards the sky to cheer for this championship.

When Sanetti took the trophy from Blatt, the cheers reached a extreme. When Gago was named the winner of the "Golden Ball" in this cup and won the "Golden Boot" with five goals, the cheers broke through one limit again.

Seeing Argentina completing its reorganization with Gago as the core, all the blue and white fans believe that the South African World Cup is no longer a dream, they have the strength to compete for it.

With this championship as a notice, the new Pampas announced to the world again! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!