The days of playing football with Da Luo

Chapter 497 Neymar

"Galaxy battleship takes off! The blue army lost to Moscow."

"Hat-trick in the final! Ricardo became a god!"

"Best player, top scorer, Ricardo has won two personal honors."

"Average 1 goal and 1 assist per game, 4.3 dribbles, 5.2 threatening passes, the best player deserves his name."

"Pellegrini: We are strong and will defend the title next season."

"Mijatovic: The team is already perfect, there will be no big moves in this transfer window."

"Florentino: I don't know if Ronaldo is interested in joining the European champion team."

"Ricardo: We are the strongest on earth. It would be great if Ronaldo joins, not afraid of competition."

The media are still consuming the last heat of the Champions League final, and the players have left the team and started vacationing.

Ricardo wanted to fly back to Brazil right away, but he still had a series of commercials and photoshoots to shoot, several TV shows that were not easy to shirk, and several evening parties to attend.

As a top player who has won the double title again and again this season, he is now in the limelight.Due to his handsome appearance and youth, his current market value is even comparable to the veteran football king Ronaldo.

In August, he had to go to Asia. Lao Yang helped him open up the Asian market, so he had to show his face and attract a wave of fans.

On the TV show, he talked eloquently: "... I said a long time ago that the two young players I am most optimistic about are Ronaldo and Messi. Now they have indeed become my biggest competitors. Next season, they will also It will be the opponent who can pose the biggest threat to our title defense. It is always very interesting to play against these high-level opponents. It is because of them that football will not be lonely..."

Once back at the hotel, he was too tired to move his fingers.But under such circumstances, he still insists on training every day.

After finally finishing his busy schedule, he was finally free to return to Brazil.

After staying at home for two days, he came to the Botafogo club to listen to the team's development report in the past six months.

Botafogo won No.3 in the Rio State Championship, and is currently ranked 6th in the National Championship. The results are acceptable, only 4 point away from the top 1, and they are expected to win the Copa Libertadores next season.

The $2500 million that Ricciardo allocated at the beginning of the season has almost been spent, most of it on young players.Ricardo's trip also has another purpose, which is to invest another 800 million US dollars in transfer funds to fulfill his promise.

After a meeting with the club's top management, Ricardo, led by Vice Chairman Jairzinho, inspected the team's new training equipment, the youth team's new training ground, etc.

On the sidelines of the youth team's training field, he smiled slightly when he saw a boy with a non-mainstream hairstyle.The boy has skills far superior to those of his peers, and has a near-perfect sense of the ball. On the training ground, he often staged good plays with three or four players in a row.

The coach of the youth team quickly stopped the training, and the children surrounded them both excitedly and with a little fear.

Ricardo greeted them, and finally his eyes fell on the non-mainstream boy: "What's your name?"

"I'm Neymar!" The non-mainstream boy puffed up his chest and replied loudly, "Ricardo, can you take a photo with me?"

"Of course." Licado smiled.

Jairzinho, who was next to him, introduced to Ricardo: "We spent 500 million dollars to poach this kid from Santos. His agent is a vampire, but fortunately, now we have all his money." Ownership. His skills are outstanding among children of the same age. If you have watched him play football, you will understand that he is a true genius, and his future achievements may not be lost to you."

"Since he is so good, let's promote him to the first team next season. I believe he can handle it." Ricardo smiled.

Neymar smiled in surprise, and almost rushed up to hug Ricardo.

Ricardo satisfied the group of young people's request for group photos and autographs, and then went around the training ground of the lower age group.

16-year-old Neymar, Coutinho, Casemiro, Alisson, 11-year-old Jesus, Malcolm, they are Botafogo's greatest wealth.On them, the club spent more than $1000 million.

Botafogo paid $450 million to beat Inter Milan, who were also interested in Coutinho.

The price for digging Casemiro was relatively small. After all, Riccardo had an unusual relationship with Sao Paulo, and he only paid a symbolic $50.

Alisson was transferred from Internacional for $110 million.

As for Jesus and Malcolm, they didn't spend much money.

When they mature and operate in Europe, Botafogo will be able to achieve profitability.

Ricardo will not let them go to Europe prematurely. For example, Coutinho, if he hadn't spent so long at Inter Milan, he probably would have been kicked out a long time ago.It will be better for their development to wait for them to come to Europe when their skills and bodies are mature in their 20s.

Botafogo will absorb a lot of European elements in training and management, so that these players can seamlessly connect after going to Europe.

In addition to these little guys, Licado also met with the little players from China.The second batch of Chinese young players has arrived. This batch is 4 people, and there are still no outstanding seedlings among them.

But Ricardo was not disappointed.With such a large population in China, there must be a few geniuses, as long as you keep looking, you can always find them.

There are also two older players.Ramires bought from Cruzeiro and Thiago Silva dug from Fluminense, the two of them spent a total of 1300 million US dollars.They are the backbone of this Botafogo team and have done well in the league.

Of course, Ricardo is very clear that Botafogo cannot keep them for a long time, and they have already attracted the attention of many big European clubs.

Ricardo was very aware of the strength of the two of them, and wanted to introduce them to Real Madrid, but Real Madrid had no non-European quotas, and they couldn't obtain EU passports, so they had to give up.

After the trip to Botafogo, Riccardo came to the beach in Rio de Janeiro to enjoy the winter sun, sand and beauties.

The happy days were relatively short, and soon it was the day when the Brazilian team assembled.

Ricardo did not participate in the two warm-up matches before the world preliminaries, but he still responded to Dunga's call for the world preliminaries in mid-June.

On June 6, without Ronaldo, Brazil drew 15:2 with Paraguay in an away game.Kaka scored twice and the stars shine.

Three days later, they returned home and beat Argentina 3-1, with Ricardo scoring the only goal of the game.The Brazilian team continues to lead the standings in the South American region of the world preliminaries.

After the game, Ricardo was about to go on vacation, but was stopped by Dunga.

(End of this chapter)