champion light

Chapter 99 Before the Game
Rong Guang has been trying long-range shots in the youth team games.But it's not the kind of long-range shot that stands still, but is always under the opponent's defense.

It's the same situation he simulated when he was practicing alone.

Use your own speed to sway your opponent away, open up space, and shoot without hesitation.

After four attempts, Rong Guang blasted away the youth team's goal with a long shot.

Fabiano, who was closest to him, went up to give him a high five.

Seeing that the stars of the first team have such a harmonious relationship with Rongguang.

The players of the youth team are completely out of temper.

When Rong Guang first joined the first team, many of them were very unconvinced.Just like Kleber, they think that they are better than Rongguang in every aspect. Why did Rongguang go to the first team in the end instead of themselves?

This kid is really lucky!
But by luck he can't go far!

They are full of jealousy.

Now that emotion is gone.

Because they realized that they and Rong Guang were not from the same world at all... just like they were not from the same world as Kaka.

They all saw Rongguang's efforts and performance.

Those performances on the court, they ask themselves, they can't do it.

Then Rongguang has done it, and they are qualified to play the main force in the first team.

When the team did not start training, he was already training alone.

During everyone's lunch break, he trained alone on the training ground.

When everyone finished training and rushed to the colorful nightlife in Sao Paulo with excitement, Rong Guang stayed and continued training on the training ground.

There is only a row of woods between the youth team training ground and the first team training ground. They are not blind and have seen the glorious extra training.

Occasionally, they can do it once or twice.But persevere, every day, rain or shine...no one can do it except glory.

Since they can't do it, don't be dissatisfied with their success.

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See Rong Guang and his teammates simply celebrate the goal.

Mauro on the sidelines said to Osvaldo: "Rong's progress is really fast. This week's long-range practice has paid off so quickly."

Osvaldo nodded.

Although Rong Guang used four long-range shots to kick the football into the goal, there are great accidents and chances in the way of long-range shots. No one can guarantee that every long-range shot can score a goal, even the best players in the world.

What matters is the glorious changes and progress in the process.

Both Osvaldo and Mauro saw it.

In the last game against San Caetano, Rongguang was obviously looking for a feeling and groping.

In this game, Rongguang's four-footed shots seemed full of confidence. He was no longer looking for the feeling of long-range shots, he was just looking for goals.

In a week, I learned the basics of long-distance shooting.

Such learning ability...

Osvaldo shook his head.I have been shocked by Rong Guang's learning ability more than once, and it is nothing new to say "it's really scary" now.

"There are still three days left, continue to strengthen his long-range shooting training. Waiting for the next round of competition, we will give Fluminense a big surprise."

Osvaldo said.

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Rong Guang only played half of the game before being replaced.

But not because he's underperforming.

Not only him, Kaka, Fabiano, Baptista... and other main players of the first team have all been replaced.

They need rest.

The purpose of the warm-up match is for them to find the state of the game, but it does not require them to go all out in the game.

Because of the World Cup, this season's Brazilian National Championship was postponed until mid-August.The end date has not changed or December.

From mid-August to mid-December, in four months, all 26 rounds of the regular season will be played, in addition to three rounds of playoffs.The competition is very intensive.

So many games are played twice a week, almost every three days.

The game is intensive and the players need to rest.

The purpose of maintaining and inspecting the state has been achieved.

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Before the match against Fluminense, Rong Guang still took the time to carry out his own training.

The daily long-range shooting practice on the training ground cannot be stopped.

Rong Guang also insists on doing leg muscle strength and waist and abdomen muscle strength training in the gym every day.

In addition, training in the evening to go home and climb stairs with weights is still going on.

On the rooftop at night, Rong Guang was still playing maracas.

From being only one meter away from the wall at the beginning, Rong Guang is now able to kick a football towards the wall at a distance of three meters from the wall.

He did feel his leg strength and waist strength increasing.

In those long shots against the youth team, Rong Guang felt deeply.

The speed of his shots has also improved.

For the upcoming No.11 tournament against Fluminense, Rongguang can't wait.

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While Rong Guang was training hard for the match against Fluminense.

The media hype about the game also started.

In the Rio-Sao Paulo Championship in the first half of the year, Sao Paulo once challenged Fluminense away. The score at that time was 0:5. Sao Paulo's away defeat was a shame.

That game also led to the resignation of Glory's first coach, Valdemar de Oliveira.

Now that the two teams meet again, Fluminense fans naturally have to take this game as an example.

The media in Rio led readers to review the game with great fanfare, calling it a "classic matchup"-for the Rio people, the game that beat the Sao Paulo people can indeed be called a "classic".

Rio people and Sao Paulo people like to compete in politics, economy, culture and football. It is not surprising that there are such contradictions.

Sao Paulo is the economic center of Brazil, and Rio de Janeiro is the cultural and tourism center of Brazil.Sao Paulo is a modern metropolis, the largest city in South America, and Rio de Janeiro prides itself on being the "City of God".

The antagonism is even more pronounced in football.

That's how the now-defunct Rio São Paulo tournament came to be.

There are so many strong teams in Rio State, and Sao Paulo is not to be outdone.

Every time teams from the two states meet, it's an eye-catching matchup.

Not to mention the civil war of the Thirteen Club.

Both Fluminense and Sao Paulo are well-known giants in Brazil, and their match will inevitably attract media attention.

The mentality of the Fluminense fans and the Rio state media shows that they are very relaxed, and they are optimistic about Fluminense beating Sao Paulo.

Their confidence comes from two aspects. One is Fluminense's own results. They have won in the last two rounds.

On the other hand, it comes from the results of Sao Paulo.In the last two rounds, Sao Paulo has lost.

Comparing the two, anyone can easily draw the conclusion that "Sao Paulo is in a slump" and "Fluminense is in good shape".

Fluminense, who is in good form, meets Sao Paulo, who is in a downturn... Is there any suspense in this game?
Compared with the optimism of Rio State, the media in Sao Paulo are still arguing about Osvaldo's double midfielder tactics.

"Scoreboard" published an article signed by Grayson again, criticizing Osvaldo's whimsical tactics.

"...If you use goals and assists to measure a player's performance, Rong's performance in the last game against San Caetano can barely be called 'excellent'. But at the same time, Kaka is in trouble. So this is the truth of Osvaldo's tactics-one is good, and the other is definitely bad. These two people are absolutely impossible to coexist. The result of coexistence is that one of them will be sacrificed! Sacrifice Rong or sacrifice Kaka?"

At the press conference the day before the game, when the reporters found that Osvaldo had once again put Rong Guang and Kaka in the starting list at the same time, they all felt that Osvaldo was hopeless.

"Maybe he was thinking of his old feelings and didn't want to beat Fluminense, so he came up with such a way to say that it might not be possible?" Grayson sneered while spreading his hands at the press conference.

The team that Osvaldo coached before coaching Sao Paulo was Fluminense.

To put it bluntly, he is still an "enemy" of St. Paul.

Because in the Rio-Sao Paulo Championship in the first half of the year, the tragedy that Sao Paulo lost to Fluminense 0:5 in the away game was caused by Osvaldo leading Fluminense...

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Kaka has been chatting with his teammates in their room all the time - he really doesn't want to stay in his own room, because he was assigned to a room with Rong Guang again.Since the away game against the international team, he and Rong Guang have been arranged to live in the same room before each game.

Kaka can't stand living with Rongguang, but he won't directly trouble Rongguang either.If you can't afford it, then hide.

But he can't just stay in his teammates' room all the time.Everyone else needs to rest...

He was here all the time and disturbed others instead.

So he could only get up and say goodbye.

Seeing Kaka's back, Ricardinho shook his head.

"The coach really figured it out, let the two of them live together... Isn't this intensifying the conflict?"

Lugano, who shared the room with him, frowned.

Ricardinho sighed: "I'm not surprised that they really fought one day."

Kaka reluctantly returned to his room. When he opened the door, he didn't see Rong Guang in the room.

This surprised him.

Before, every time he opened the door by himself, Rong Guang would write at his desk in the room.He didn't care what Rongguang wrote, so he didn't know that Rongguang was actually writing a letter.

The glory is not here today.It stands to reason that this is what he hopes, because he can be alone in the room, but he is very surprised, not quite used to this scene...

Where did that kid go?
Some players will choose some entertainment items to relax themselves before the game, or play game consoles, or pray, or...do something that makes Kaka blush just thinking about it.

But based on the experience of Kaka and Rongguang living together so many times, Kaka knows that Rongguang is not any of the above-mentioned people.

On the eve of games, he was always lying on his stomach in his hotel room, writing.

It really makes people wonder if he is not writing a novel...

This time, he was not there.

Where will he go?

Kaka couldn't help thinking about it.

But he soon realized his problem - why should I care what he does?

He shook his head and started to go into the bathroom to take a shower.

The sound of rushing water soon sounded in the bathroom, and steam filled the bathroom.

Kaka stood under the shower, letting the hot water wash over him.

He clenched his fists in the water.

In tomorrow's game, I must show a convincing performance, and I will definitely not be caught up by that kid again!
Kaka swore inwardly.

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When Kaka was enjoying a hot bath and relaxing himself physically and mentally.

Rong Guang, who had gone to nowhere, was torturing his body desperately.

He carried a football filled with sand on his back, and tied sandbags under his feet, sweating profusely in the hotel stairwell where no one would normally come.

In the empty stairwell, the sound of dense and heavy footsteps and heavy breathing continued to resound, echoing in the stairwell.

Then the footsteps disappeared, leaving only the sound of heavy breathing.

Rong Guang sat on the steps, leaning against the wall.

His whole body, from head to toe, was drenched in sweat.

He took off his shoes, and the sweat inside had accumulated and could be poured out directly.

After pouring out the sweat from both shoes, Rong Guang put on the shoes.

Taking a deep breath, he stood up and started on the road again.

And at the place where he stopped briefly just now, there was a butt-shaped water stain, and the water stain on the wall could also vaguely see the back of a person...

The sound of heavy footsteps and breathing echoed in the empty stairwell again.

(End of this chapter)