World's No.1 Football Manager

Chapter 466
Sure enough, as Gao Yuan expected, after the referee incident with Tondela, the Portuguese Football Association's attitude was much more polite.

Not only did Gao Yuan and Maritimo not find trouble in the subsequent games, even Fernando Gomez, the chairman of the Portuguese Football Association, personally inspected the Maritimo club and fully affirmed the construction and development of the club. He also highly praised the huge support of Chinese capital for the team.

His intention to show favor, like Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it!

The change in the official attitude of the Football Association also made Mendes calm down a lot.The ban can't be blocked, and the containment can't be contained. Now even the officials are on Maritimo's side. Even Mendes can only stare blankly.

After all, Mendes is just a businessman.

Soon, the league reached the 17th round, which is the last round of the first half of the league.

Maritimo will be on the road to challenge the strongest opponent in the league and the big brother in the "Portuguese Super Three"-Porto.

This round of competition is also a contest between No. 2 and No. [-] in the current league standings.

之前16轮战罢，马里迪莫14胜2平，积44分；波尔图13胜2平1负，积41分。

In this game, as long as Maritimo can score 1 point, he can guarantee to win the half-time championship.

Since the establishment of the New Portuguese Super League in 2002, there have only been two half-time championships in two seasons, and they failed to win the final league championship of the year.

In other words, the half-time championship has an indicator role as a weather vane for this season's championship!

In the mainstream European leagues this season, only Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich and Ligue [-] giants Paris Saint-Germain, together with Maritimo, have not tasted the taste of defeat for the time being.

As for the undefeated record in the history of the Maritimo team, it was broken in the 9th round, and now every round is breaking the record.

For the Portuguese League, this is a duel between the upstarts and the old kings, and it is also an important battle that will determine the championship.

This battle affects the hearts of fans in Portugal and China.

Chinese fans have long regarded Maritimo, led by Chinese generals, as the home team.The degree of popularity in China even exceeds that of the Rockets in the Yao Ming era.After all, there was only one Yao Ming in the Rockets at that time, but now Maritimo's investors are Chinese, the coach is Chinese, the manager is Chinese, and the core players are also Chinese!
Some domestic media jokingly said that Maritimo simply changed its name to "Chinese Team" and forget it!
Especially the turmoil that Gao Yuan personally stirred up some time ago had a strong ZZ meaning and ideological color.In the wave of opposing unilateralism and hegemony, Maritimo has become a vanguard of cultural export and a cultural symbol with a strong Chinese brand.Nowadays, when many people talk about Chinese football, the first thing that comes to mind is Maritimo, a century-old club in Portugal!
In every Maritimo game, there are countless Chinese fans and spectators waiting in front of the TV; every victory of Maritimo will arouse the cheers and applause from the ancient country on the other side of the ocean!

And these attentions also brought a huge amount of prestige to Gao Yuan. After the previous turmoil, Gao Yuan's prestige increased almost exponentially.The "nuclear weapon modifier", which was originally thought to be out of reach, has now become a realistic goal that is likely to be realized!
But the more this happened, the more Gao Yuan dared not spend reputation points casually.Like a miser, he carefully calculated the cost of every prestige point. Apart from the necessary expenses to maintain the players' physical fitness, he didn't waste any more prestige points.

So much so that in addition to the match against Benfica in the league, there was another draw, and he was not willing to use his reputation.

In this game against Porto, he doesn't plan to use his prestige points, he wants to use his ability as much as possible to lead the team to win!
The outside world is very hyped about the finale of the first half of the league.

After Maritimo's draw with Benfica, Porto coach Conceicao's eccentric remarks and Gao Yuan's merciless counterattack were found.

This wave of rhetoric has added a lot of gimmicks to the game and brought a lot of traffic.

This much-anticipated battle will be held at one of the most famous stadiums in Europe and Porto's home stadium, the Dragon Stadium.

Porto Football Club (FCP), is the most successful club in the history of Portuguese football, not one of them.

Regardless of the number of championships, historical status, or even the prestige of coaches and stars, Porto is well-deserved NO.1 in the Portuguese Super League.

Although the "top three in the Portuguese Super League" is recognized as a strong team in international football, the Porto people do not agree with this statement. How can there be any top three in the Portuguese Super League?It's just one super and two strong!
The first super is Porto. In the eyes of Porto fans, they are not at the same level as ordinary strong teams like Benfica and Sporting Portugal!

The Porto club was established in 1893. The team has a brilliant record. It won the first two Portuguese League One championships.In the following decades, although it was once suppressed by Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, since the end of the 80s, the Portuguese League has become the world of Porto, sweeping 28 league titles, 16 Portuguese Cup titles, and 20 Portuguese Super Cup titles.

In the European arena, they also won the Champions League twice. Unlike Benfica, which is a declining aristocrat whose ancestors have been rich, Porto's two Champions League champions, one in 1987, defeated Bayern Munich; the other was in 2003-2004.
In that Porto team, Maritimo's current goalkeeper coach, the legendary goalkeeper Baia, became the 11th player in Europe to win all European championships!

Compared with the other two teams in the Portuguese Super League, although Porto has many shining stars in the history of the team, what makes people talk about it is that this is the hotbed of world famous coaches.

Bobby Robson, Jose Mourinho, Villas-Boas... these names worthy of special mention in the history of football coaches have all left brilliant resumes in this team.

And now, Gao Yuan, the coach from a football desert country, is coming to the great Dragon Stadium to challenge Porto, which has bred countless famous coaches!

Princes and generals are kind to each other, and famous football coaches don't ask where they come from!

The Dragon Stadium is about to witness the take-off of an oriental dragon!

(End of this chapter)