I'm Kaka Kaka

Chapter 7 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sao Paulo

The São Paulo youth team is now preparing for the São Paulo Youth Cup. The world's largest youth football tournament has gone through 31 years. The 32nd edition is about to kick off. At that time, 26 clubs from 1 states and 88 district in Brazil will send their youth teams to participate.

This cup has great influence in Brazil, and the Sao Paulo youth team is the defending champion, so the club attaches great importance to this competition.

Kaka is the substitute of Harrison, captain of the youth team, and should have been actively preparing for the cup.

However, now this tournament has nothing to do with him.

Because the Rio-São Paulo Championship has already started, and the lineup of the first team was stretched after several players were injured, and it was impossible to satisfy both the championship and the league. The head coach of the first team, Vatan Alvarez, had to urgently select players from the youth team.

Alvarez is in urgent need of a midfielder, so he wants to take away Harrison, the core midfielder of the youth team, but Edinho will not let him go. Alvarez has no choice but to pick someone from the bench.

Just like the original history, Kaka children's shoes were accidentally selected, promoted from an outer disciple of Sao Paulo to an inner elite, and became a glorious first-team...substitute.

Kaka was also accompanied by a striker named Burgess. The two left under the envious eyes of their teammates, and reported to the first team the next day.

This time Kaka will not come back.

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The next day, Alvarez came to the training ground early as usual.

Sao Paulo is a strong team in the Brazilian First Division, but the team's situation this season is not good, and now it is full of injuries. As the head coach, he is under a lot of pressure and arrives earlier than anyone else every day.

As a result, as soon as he came in, he found that someone was already running on the training ground.

Alvarez is weird.

He is very clear about the virtues of the people under him, or the style of most Brazilian players. He is hallelujah for being able to participate in training on time every day.

early?nonexistent.

Alvarez watched from a distance for a while, but did not go there. Instead, he entered his office, made himself a cup of coffee, and then pulled out a player report from the table.

Of course he recognized Kaka.

This report is the coaching staff's assessment of Kaka. Alvarez just glanced at it briefly yesterday. He originally planned to give it to his assistant coach to take a good look at it today, and then formulate a detailed training plan based on the performance of the two young players. Now that Kaka has attracted his attention in this way, he is of course willing to spend some time to observe carefully.

There is no coach who doesn't like hardworking young players.

Kaka's player report is very detailed. After all, he came out of his own youth training camp, and he has a comprehensive grasp of all aspects of him. Rory has a bunch of statistics and comments, which are more than ten pages long. However, Alvarez has rich experience, and quickly skipped some useless things, and found out the part that he cares about.

"Fast dribbling speed, good long-range shooting, slightly poor passing and defense... just returned from injury for more than a month, and has not participated in the game for more than three months, but the training is very serious, and I often practice by myself... The potential is outstanding, and it is recommended to focus on training..."

Alvarez came to the window with coffee, looked at the young man who started to practice long-range shots, touched his chin with satisfaction, and took a sip happily.

Then a face directly turned into a bitter gourd.

Damn, forgot to add sugar.

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Players from the first team arrived one after another, and a happy day was about to begin.

Captain Cheney led Burgess and Kaka, who was sweating profusely, into the locker room, clapped his hands, and after seeing everyone looking over, he said, "This is a newcomer from the youth team. Welcome everyone."

The teammates were fairly enthusiastic, and some of them applauded symbolically.

"Hello, everyone. My name is Burgess, and I play forward." Burgess, who was a little nervous, was secretly relieved when he saw that the atmosphere was not bad.

"Hi everyone, my name is Ricardo, I play midfielder," Kaka followed suit, "You can also call me Kaka."

In any case, they belong to the same club. Even if they don’t have friendship, they will feel somewhat familiar, especially Kaka, who is not very gregarious among Brazilian players. Anyone who has been in contact with them will have an impression. Many people greeted him friendly.

Cheney also began to introduce other teammates to the two, but most of the Brazilians' names were stinky and long, and everyone was used to being called by nicknames. What Kaka heard now might not be their real names.

"It's left-back Reynaldo."

"This is centre-back Lugano."

"This is Ameli, also a centre-back."

"This is striker Luis Fabiano. By the way, Luis has just joined our team and he is also a rookie."

"Fabbiano?" Kaka was taken aback.

If you look closely, it's really that buddy.

After all, he is a person who has achieved fame in the top league. This face has been seen on TV before. Although he is much younger, it is definitely the Fabiano who later joined the Sevilla team.

Among the Brazilian No. 9 in the post-Ronaldo era, apart from the famous Adriano, Fabiano is one of the more reliable ones. As for the others, to be honest, they are not worthy of that jersey.

Of course, Fabiano didn't know that he would become the head striker of the national team one day. He is only in his early 20s and has just been loaned to Sao Paulo from Rennes.

However, Kaka, another star in the team who will also be popular in the future, has always been concerned.

Baptista, a beast who will join Real Madrid and Arsenal and other giants in the future, but he is now playing as a defensive midfielder, and his ability to attack on the front line has not yet been discovered.

Fabiano and Baptista, plus Kaka, the Sao Paulo family alone has collected three little monsters with unlimited potential. The name of the Brazilian football kingdom is really not built.

After a brief acquaintance, everyone walked out of the locker room together. Various training equipment had been set up on the training ground, and Alvarez and the assistant coach were standing on the sidelines.

"Boys, come here." The assistant coach patted the folder in his hand and greeted.

The players came sparsely and lined up.

Alvarez said: "Do you know the new Ricardo and Burgess?"

Cheney said, "It's already been introduced."

"That's good, don't talk nonsense, start training." It can't be seen that the coach has a vigorous temperament and doesn't want to waste any time.

Warm up, technical and tactical training, tactical drills, and then group confrontation.

(End of this chapter)