Your correct answer would be "They could barely look at Neto and Jesse as they explained that they loved football too much to give it up." This part in the excerpt explain's how Neto feel's about his fan's. He could tell that they didn't really care much about the football team. Hope it helps. :-)
previous chapter to what? I'm pretty sure what youre supposed to do is just name a vocab word from the last chapter you read from whatever book youre supposed to read