Chapter 188: Chapter 188
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Huang Kaiwen yawned and answered the phone.
“Kevin, you didn’t come to the team today, are you injured?” Ancelotti asked with concern.
“Yeah, I got injured during a home workout, but it’s not serious,” Huang Kaiwen replied casually.
Next, the team was going to Belgium to play in the UEFA Champions League.
Huang Kaiwen really wasn’t interested in Brugge.
And even if he wanted to play, his Immunity Card wouldn’t hold up.
This kind of minor team, better let the teammates handle it.
If push came to shove, Huang Kaiwen was considering claiming he had a fear of flying like Boateng.
Luckily, Ancelotti didn’t ask further.
He said, “Well then, you just rest up.”
After hanging up, Huang Kaiwen went back to sleep and didn’t wake up until noon.
He was awakened by hunger.
While washing up, he saw two stubborn strands of hair sticking up in the mirror.
Huang Kaiwen turned on the faucet, wet his palm, and successfully subdued the stray hairs.
He came downstairs only to see the note left by the Miss.
She had already gone to work.
She had left him breakfast.
Albert was tinkering with the plants in the yard.
Huang Kaiwen didn’t want to bother the old butler.
So, he just made do with the sandwich for lunch.
Looking at today’s newspaper,
Huang Kaiwen saw that the Milan Derby still dominated the front page.
Yesterday’s Milan International Youth Literature Award could only be found in the back pages.
“Milan Sports Newspaper” on page two featured a photo of Huang Kaiwen receiving an award and wrote: “Yesterday, the first Milan International Youth Literature Award was successfully held.
Over 100 writers from around the world were invited to participate.
Ultimately, Kevin won the grand prize with his outstanding work.
Kevin’s speech left a deep impression on us.
A remarkable writer must have experienced many hardships to produce such moving texts.
Kevin’s journey to this point has not been easy.
After going through so much, Kevin cherishes his current life, aids others, is actively charitable, cares for the disadvantaged, and boosts employment in Italy.
It’s hard to imagine a 22-year-old being so exceptional.
Here, we suggest that Kevin be awarded the Grand Knight’s Medal of the Order of the Star of Italy.”
Huang Kaiwen’s scalp tingled reading this.
This medal was specifically prepared for foreigners.
Huang Kaiwen knew about this because he had seen Zhang get awarded the Knight’s Medal.
The Order of the Star of Italy is split into five ranks.
The highest is the Grand Cross Knight’s Medal mentioned in the newspaper, followed by the Grand Officer Medal, Commander Medal, Officer Medal, and finally, the Knight’s Medal which Zhang had received.
Zhang had been a commentator for Serie A for many years.
By spreading Italian culture, he got the lowest rank, the Knight’s Medal.
Perhaps the comparison isn’t illustrative enough, so let’s compare it to soccer players.
Although Italian nationals receive the Medal of the Republic and foreigners the Order of the Star of Italy, the levels and award difficulties are similar.
Italian players who win the World Cup and European Cup are awarded the lowest level, the Knight’s Medal, team captains get the Officer Medal, and coaches only the fourth level, the Grand Officer Medal.
Huang Kaiwen didn’t even know how much he had contributed,
to make it into the few slots for the highest rank, the Grand Knight’s Medal, every year.
The preciousness of the Grand Knight’s Medal exceeds that of the entire Italian World Cup team’s combined.
Could it be that he, Huang, is more important than the entire Italian World Cup winning team?
Therefore, the saying that extreme adoration leads to darkness isn’t without reason.
Huang Kaiwen wasn’t sure if “Milan Sports Newspaper” was trying to flatter him or setting him up.
That public relations money was too easy to earn.
“Corriere dello Sport” was a bit more level-headed in its report: “Kevin and Barbara’s foundation has raised over one hundred million euros, supporting up to a thousand orphans, and his actions have received high praise from the Pope.”
Huang Kaiwen sneered.
He felt like he couldn’t detach himself from the Vatican anymore.
It was unclear who was parasite to whom.
Moving further into the article, he saw several comments from football legends about him.
Van Basten: “Of course I watched the Milan Derby, but I don’t want to comment on anything.
Kevin is great, and I don’t think I’m qualified to assess him.
Just because I played earlier doesn’t mean I played better than Kevin; that’s my opinion.”
Baresi: “Materazzi is right, it takes an army to stop Kevin, not giving him the Ballon d’Or would be criminal.”
Albertini: “Of course I know Kevin, I’ve retired, not left Earth.
It’s no surprise Barcelona wants Kevin.
Paolo Maldini told me, a healthy Kevin can dribble past the whole team in practice, he’s that kind of genius.”
Lorenzo Buffon: “After retiring, I worked as a scout in Milan.
When I heard the coach signed a player who had never played professionally for a salary of 2.5 million euros, I thought he had gone mad.
Later I realized the coach was right, Milan got a great deal with Kevin.
You know, Gianluigi Buffon is my cousin’s grandson, I had recommended him to Milan before but they didn’t see his talent.
Now that kid is the best goalkeeper in the world; he’s really great.
Then I saw Gianluigi pulling the ball out of the net six times in one game against Kevin.
No, Gianluigi just faced an unstoppable force.”
Lineker: “Kevin made me realize I was just crap back in my days; as time goes by, I feel I’m getting worse.
Kevin performs more high-level maneuvers in one game than I did in my entire career.
Gerrard and Lampard are excellent, I’m glad the United Kingdom has such players, but they aren’t comparable to Kevin.”