World's No.1 Football Manager

Chapter 402 Miracles
Antonio has been very annoying recently. To be precise, he has been in a bad mood for a long time.

Antonio, who is about to enter his 20s, has been at the Maritimo Club for nearly [-] years.

He has the purest Maritimo blood.

Father, grandfather, uncle, and uncle are all port workers in Madeira. Maritimo, which represents the working class, is the belief of their family for generations, just like God.

No matter how hard life is, as long as they can go to the pub to buy a cold beer on weekends and watch a Maritimo game on that small 18-inch TV, that is the happiest thing in their lives.

He entered Maritimo’s youth training camp when he was 10 years old. At the beginning, he had a lot of friends around him, but during the harsh training, more and more people left.

He was never the most talented, but he was the hardest working and the most desperate on the court.Because under the influence of his parents, he loves this team deeply and dreams of playing for this team one day.

In order to realize his dream, he has suffered so much, suffered so much, and worked harder than others!
He gritted his teeth silently and persisted. When he couldn't stand it, he went to church to pray to God, or used tattoos to alert himself. The pain from the needle prick on the skin made him awake and reminded him of his dream and the hardships he had walked along the way.

It was because of his firm belief in God and his determination not to give up until he reached his goal that he persisted until the end. He entered the first team at the age of 18 and stood out in one fell swoop. He gradually grew into the main force of the team, became the backbone of the defense, and later became the captain and the leader of the team.

Now he is already the representative of this club, a detached existence in the club.

But in recent years, Antonio has become more and more dissatisfied.

Maritimo was originally a Portuguese super team. Although it can't compete with the top three of the Portuguese Super League, it can at least stay in the middle of the league for a long time, and occasionally enter the European qualifiers.

As a representative of the poor, Maritimo has no money, but has been living in his own way, insisting on the localization strategy, looking for talented children in Madeira Island, training them into excellent players, and continuously contributing to the club batch after batch.

This way of life, although it is impossible to become rich and wealthy, at least live well, which makes this poor team rooted in Madeira a sense of belonging.

There are thousands of poor children on the island of Madeira. They regard Antonio himself as an idol, a goal and a hero, and they look forward to one day riding like him at the Dos Barlores Stadium (the home of Maritimo).

However, such a dream is becoming more and more difficult to realize. The Portuguese Super League has no foreign aid restrictions, and more and more foreign players are filling the field.

These foreign aids do not belong here, they are just mercenaries, without the slightest sense of belonging, they just regard this place as a springboard to jump to the five major leagues!
The existence of foreign aid has compressed the living space of local young people. Those poor Madeira children have to face the competition from all over the world, and it is becoming more and more difficult to stand out.

And with the influx of foreign players comes a more dire threat: foreign capital.

Antonio watched foreign capital like a bloodthirsty beast, stationed in one Portuguese club after another, sucked their blood, and then threw off the shriveled body to look for new prey.

Antonio was worried, terrified, anxious, and frightened, but there was nothing he could do.

As a devout believer, he prayed to God more than once to expel these messengers of Satan and heretics with malicious intentions, but his prayers were not effective, and what was even more tragic was that his club became the habitat of evil forces.

After Chinese capital acquired Maritimo, the team began a tragic fate.

First, a large number of low-level Chinese players flooded in, crowding out opportunities for Madeira children to play and stay in the team.

And the team's record was inevitably affected. From the previous top five in the European theater, it fell all the way until the last round of last season. With the advantage of goal difference, it barely became the third from the bottom, which was worthy of relegation.

What is more terrifying than the record is the chaos of the team.

The contradiction between Chinese capital and Portuguese local forces is irreconcilable, the club management is fighting with each other, and the development goals are chaotic. No one really thinks about this team.

And the coach has changed three times in two years. Instead of stopping the club's decline, the more he changed, the worse it became.

Now it's even more broken, and a Chinese kid who hasn't grown hairy yet has been found. Is the club planning to give up treatment completely? !

Thinking of that Chinese kid, Antonio felt a strange feeling in his heart.

At first, he was very angry. He felt that the Chinese capital was crazy. They actually recruited a kid to be the head coach of the Portuguese Super League team.

Soon, he learned about the coach's resume.This young man actually led a little-known youth training team to win the Sao Paulo State Championship.

Surprised and disapproving, I felt that there must be some experts behind the scenes, or the full support of the capital, otherwise it would be impossible for a young man with no professional experience to do it, let alone, he is only a Chinese!
When the Chinese came here, there was an incident of vomiting at the reporter, which further deepened Antonio's impression of this young man's unreliability. However, this straightforward character was quite in line with his temperament and appetite.

After that, it was the confrontation match. Arranging a confrontation match just after training resumed was a little unreliable, but he still fought hard on the court as always. He performed well in the first quarter, but he was abused by a group of children in the fourth quarter.

He was very angry, and felt that the Chinese coach must have come prepared on purpose to humiliate these old players on purpose.

Therefore, he did not give that young man named Gao Yuan a good look in the locker room.

However, what he never imagined in his dreams was that this pagan from the east would say that he was sent by God. If the other party said that he was sent by Satan, he might still believe it, but God sent an oriental man to save his team?That's not the way to joke!
That night, Antonio regretted very much why he didn't punch the Chinese man hard in the face. He even ran to the church early the next morning to confess to God that he hadn't resolutely fought against evil heretics.

However, when he arrived at the training ground, the Chinese coach approached him mysteriously, and before he got angry, he said some inexplicable words.

"To prove who I am, God will perform miracles on you during training!"

Could it be that this kid is really crazy?It is very likely that he has severe mental illness plus delusional disorder. In other words, if he hadn't escaped from a severe mental hospital, he probably wouldn't be able to do the stupid thing of spitting out a reporter's chewing gum!
However, a miracle really happened like this!
In the team's physical function test, Antonio's 10-meter speed actually reached 58 seconds!

You know, he has never been a player who is good at speed. When he was young, the fastest time was 13 seconds!

His heart was beating so fast that he couldn't hear a word of what his teammates said around him. He was in a daze, and he only remembered that the Chinese was looking at him with a half-smile.

It must be a coincidence, yes, it must be...a coincidence...

The next day, the Chinese found him again, and this time his heart was beating violently.

"Don't you believe it? God will show more miracles in training!"

On the training ground, he was suddenly very eager to rush up the field and attack.

You must know that as a defensive player, he has always been very clear about his position, and he never rushes in.

But today's strong desire to attack is like the temptation of blood to sharks, making him unable to control himself.

He couldn't restrain his desire, and broke through to the frontcourt unconsciously, and he was able to get by!
In his life, he never dreamed that such a thing like five people would happen to him one day!

"Don't you believe it?" After the game, the Chinese asked again.

Illusion, it must be an illusion!I do not believe!
"Then tomorrow's training, you continue!"

In this way, for the next few days, Antonio's body appeared completely different visions from before!
Antonio is tough on the surface, but he is very generous in his heart. It is also true that whoever has such a thing happened to him will not take it calmly.What's more, Antonio is a devout believer.

"God, is that person really sent by you? I don't believe it, but what happened to those miracles? Please enlighten me!" Antonio prayed in pain in the church.

In the locker room a few days later.

"You still don't believe it?"

"You are the devil! The changes that have happened to me are all the devil's witchcraft!"

"God's patience is also limited. Since positive miracles can't move you, then you can taste God's punishment!"

During this day's training, Antonio seemed to have completely lost his athletic talent and ability, lost his speed, lost his stamina, his long pass was outrageously deflected, his short pass was astonishingly poor, he made mistakes in judging the ball's landing point, and even hit his face with a header!

Antonio sat depressed in the locker room until everyone had showered and changed and left.

He waited anxiously in his heart, as if waiting for the verdict of fate.

Sure enough, after an unknown amount of time, the Chinese entered the locker room.

"Did you know you were wrong?"

"What the hell did you do to me? Why is my body completely out of control!"

"It's not me, it's God! He told me to punish the false believers who say nothing!"

"No, I don't believe it. How could he find an oriental atheist who hasn't even read the Bible as a messenger!"

Gao Yuan sighed, "Oh, so you don't believe that God is everywhere!"

Antonio was silent.

"Let me tell you a story. There was a flood in a village, and everyone else ran away. Only the devout priest refused to leave the church.

When people persuaded him to go, he said God will come to rescue me!
When the water overflowed the steps of the church, the villagers rowed their boats to pick up the priest, but the priest refused, God will come to rescue me!
When the water overflowed the glass of the church, the rescuers came to the rescue in a Zodiac boat, but he refused again, God will definitely come to rescue me!
The water grew bigger and bigger, and finally reached the roof of the church. The priest stood on the roof, but he still refused the helicopter that came to rescue me. God will definitely come to rescue me!
In the end, unfortunately, the priest drowned.

In heaven, he saw God.

He accused angrily, I am so devout, why don't you come and rescue me!

God is very helpless, I have sent a boat, an assault boat and a helicopter to rescue!I saved you three times but you refused them all, what else do you want from me? "

After listening to the story, Antonio was lost in thought, as if he was chewing on the deep meaning behind the story.

"God, believe it or not, since you resist the existence of God deep in your heart, then God will not force it, so let everything go as usual!"

After finishing speaking, Gao Yuan snapped his fingers.

At that moment, Antonio suddenly felt that his state was back. Although he was not on the court, the familiar feeling took over his body again!

Gao Yuan didn't say anything, and turned around to leave.

"Wait!" Antonio's voice sounded behind him.

When Gao Yuan looked back, he saw the villain covered in tattoos prostrate at his feet.

"O Messenger of God! Please forgive me! I would like to be your faithful disciple!"

Antonio prostrated devoutly on the ground, and suddenly felt a pair of hands holding his shoulders, pulling him up.

"Antonio, from now on, you are my knight, let us complete the task of revitalizing Maritimo together!"

(End of this chapter)