The days of playing football with Da Luo

Chapter 446 New Coach, New Players

Playing in the Continental Cup, it is almost time for the start of Real Madrid's summer training camp.

However, Ricardo, Kaka, and Baptista asked the team for another two weeks' leave to postpone joining the summer training camp.

Now the team is in chaos. Capello announced his resignation at the end of June. On the surface, he resigned voluntarily. In fact, it was Lafayette who put pressure on him.

Lafayette is looking for a new coach candidate, and it is estimated that he will be in place before August.

However, the team's signing work is proceeding slowly, and the pace of signings can only be accelerated according to some requirements of the new coach after the new coach takes office.

So far, Real Madrid has only signed one player, 2700 million euros to buy Dutch midfielder Sneijder from Ajax.

Instead, several players left. For example, Harvey Garcia left sadly, Beckham has gone to Los Angeles, and Roberto Carlos has already joined Fenerbahce on a free transfer.

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Baptista and Kaka each took their wives to the beach for vacation, while Ricardo returned to Brazil to continue the process of acquiring the club.

The team he selected was Botafogo, a traditional giant in the state of Rio de Janeiro.It is one of the four major clubs in Rio de Janeiro. Among the famous football clubs of the twentieth century in FIFA, Botafogo ranks 12th.

Although it has a long history, has had brilliant records, and has trained famous players such as Garrincha, Zagallo, Alberto, Gelson, Jairzinho, etc., Botafogo's recent state is not good. good.

In 02 they were relegated to the second division, and they returned to the first division in 04. In history, they have won 2 national championships and 18 Rio state championships.

Ricardo's purchase of Botafogo was of course carefully considered.

Botafogo's recent record is not good, the financial situation is relatively poor, and the price of buying is relatively cheap; while Botafogo has a fan base, a good youth training system, and complete training facilities, which are enough to realize his vision.

In the end, he bought a 3900% stake in Botafogo for $90 million and assumed more than $6000 million in debt.

Then you can do something drastic.More than 20 young players aged 14-18 selected in China's draft activities can be sent to Botafogo for training immediately.

The draft will continue, and the football school he opened in China will also send in a steady stream of outstanding students.

Licardo is very clear that these measures of his cannot help the rise of Chinese football.The rise of football needs the power of the country to promote it.

But being able to cultivate a group of excellent players and help Chinese football temporarily improve its record is considered a contribution.

In this life, he can only play for the Brazilian national team, so he can only use this method to help the motherland in his heart.

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When Ricardo returned to Madrid after his vacation at the end of July, Real Madrid's trusted coach had already arrived.

The candidate was unexpected by many people, but it is also reasonable-Chilean engineer Manuel Pellegrini signed a 5-year contract with the team and will lead Real Madrid in the new season.

But how long he can stay in this handsome position is still unknown.

After Pellegrini took office, the team's signing work began in full swing.

Robben joined from Chelsea for 3600 million euros, Heinze joined from Manchester United for 1250 million euros, Drenthe joined from Feyenoord for 1400 million euros, and Pepe joined from Porto for 3000 million euros.

Metzelder, Dudek, and Saviola also joined in free transfers one after another.

Cassano, Cicinho, El Guerra, Pavon, Raul Bravo, Reyes, De La Reid, Diego Lopez and other players are either on loan or permanently transferred away.

What Riccardo regretted was the departure of Cassano and Cicinho.

The bad boy Cassano is full of spirituality, he can enrich the team's frontcourt style of play, but unfortunately he is unwilling to continue wasting time on the bench.

Cicinho is a full-back with strong assisting ability and high potential. He is completely different from Ramos and Salgado and can play according to different opponents.However, Cicinho lost his main position after a serious injury last season, and also lost the trust of the club's senior management, so he could only leave sadly.

A few days after Ricardo resumed training, the new coach Manuel Pellegrini came to chat with him.

I have said a lot of saliva, but the core meaning is: I recognize your status in the locker room, I hope you can support me, and it is best to persuade your brother, Kaka, and Baptista to support me together, and we will lead the team together To get many, many honors.If you don't support me and dare to treat me in a positive way, don't blame me for banning you, blah blah blah.

It has long been heard that Pellegrini is not good at handling the relationship with big-name players. Through this private conversation, Ricardo confirmed this.

Pellegrini's words were more irritating, but Ricardo didn't want to confront him either.

Pellegrini came from a grassroots background and never coached a wealthy club. He only started to become famous in Villarreal, but Villarreal is only a team that has just been promoted to the first division. Thousands of miles away.

Many coaches are good at leading weak teams to leapfrog challenges, but they are not good at bringing giants to their proper positions.Riccardo feels that Pellegrini is this type of coach for the time being.

Of course, in another time and space, Pellegrini will have better development later, and he has also begun to accumulate some experience in coaching giants.

But at least so far, Pellegrini still looks a bit naive.

But that's okay.Licado thought to himself, as long as you don't mess around, it doesn't matter if I support you?My goal is to be a champion, and so is your goal.We have a common language.

If Riccardo was determined to get Pellegrini away, and Pellegrini couldn't stay for three months, he would pack up and leave in despair.The current Ricardo has such a status in Real Madrid's dressing room.

But Ricardo didn't want to risk the team's performance.He would rather support Pellegrini's coaching.

He was not afraid of Pellegrini's threat, but simply wanted to win more championships.

Although Pellegrini is not good at dealing with the relationship with big-name players and does not know how to coach giants, as a head coach, he has two brushes.This is enough.

So Riccardo looked for the team's new players one by one, and talked to the bosses of several factions, saying that he would support Pellegrini, and hoped that everyone would support him too.

He even talked to Ronaldo once, hoping that Ronaldo can be more serious in training and give Pellegrini enough face.

With the team's current lineup and Pellegrini's coaching ability, Real Madrid has great hopes of defending their title this season, and it is very likely that they will go further in the Champions League.

"I announce that Ricardo will become the team's second captain in the new season." In training the next day, Pellegrini announced.This is his return to Riccardo.

And this decision has also been supported by the entire team.As Real Madrid's top scorer last season and the number one contributor to winning the championship, it is only natural for Ricardo to become the second captain.

(End of this chapter)