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Chapter 163 New season goal: Champions League top 8

"beautiful!"

"I love you, Stone!"

"Good job, come on!"

When Shi Hao scored a free kick in training, the Porto fans who were watching by the training ground expressed their love for him with applause and cheers.

Yes, love it.

When Shi Hao expressed his loyalty to the team and desire for honor with a slightly weird accent but very fluent Portuguese at the press conference on July 7, Porto fans quickly fell in love with him. A big boy with dark hair, a little shy like a neighbor's kid, and a cute smile.

Without the trouble of language barrier, Shi Hao quickly integrated into the team after the team started the summer training camp.Head coach Victor Pereira was very satisfied with this, and praised Shi Hao's adaptation speed several times during training.

But Shi Hao hasn't got the yellow vest, which symbolizes the main force, for the time being. Before coming to Porto, this is beyond his imagination.

Including him, many Chinese fans have overlooked one thing - Porto is a giant!Porto is a giant!Porto is a giant!Important things should be said three times!
As one of the founding members of G14, Porto has a much higher status than Bologna!This team has won 26 Portuguese top league titles, won the Europa League twice, and won the Champions League twice in 1987 and 2004!
Therefore, Shi Hao took it for granted that he was already the absolute main player in Bologna, and he must be a core player in Porto, but he was completely wrong!

Look at how luxurious Porto's lineup is.

The two Brazilian full-backs, Sandro and Danilo, who have attracted the attention of European powers, and Mangala and Otamendi, who became famous as teenagers, are at the center back.

The midfielder is even more star-studded, blinding Shi Hao's kryptonite eyes, the vice-captain, the Brazilian monster Fernando, the Belgian international Defour, the main force of the Portuguese national team João Moutinho, and the Argentine international Luis Gonzalez. s.The wing players include Russian international Izmailov, Portuguese international Barrera, and Colombian talented teenager James Rodriguez.The strikers include Colombian international Jackson Martinez, Brazilian international Hulk, old Portuguese international Lederson, and talented Brazilian teenager Colvin.If they hadn't sold Falcao at a sky-high price last season, the competition for strikers would have been even more intense.

Competing with these people for a main position is not usually stressful.

Of course, Shi Hao still fully believed in his own strength.In the latest patch of the famous FM Football Manager game, Guarin, who transferred from Porto to Inter Milan during the winter break last season, has a CA (realistic ability) of 151 points, and due to his high-profile performance in Bologna, his CA has been raised to 157 points. (By the way, his potential is -9.)
Guarin can play the main force in Porto, why can't he?

Shi Hao believes that when he gets more used to Porto's tactics and maintains a good state in training, he will definitely not be able to escape from the main position.

Pereira likes to use the 4321 formation. Shi Hao can play both sides and the front, so he still has some advantages when competing for the main position.

Moreover, there were rumors that Hulk might leave the team this summer. Shi Hao conceited that this rumor should be very reliable, because his arrival made the team less dependent on Hulk's ability to attack cities.

In short, although he was reluctant before coming here and felt far away from the mainstream football league; but he really felt very happy to come to such a star-studded team, and he could learn new things every day. Keep him motivated.He vowed to become the absolute core of Porto this season, play his worth in the Champions League, and make those giants in the mainstream leagues willing to pay his termination fee and give him a big new contract.

After the training, Shi Hao wearily called a taxi to the apartment Luo Yunhui rented for him.

The environment of this apartment is very good. Most of the residents in it are urban white-collar workers, and shopping and transportation are relatively convenient.It's just a bit far from the team's training base.

And Shi Hao has never had time to take the driver's license test. Although he has thought about buying a car, he still plans to wait until he settles down in a wealthy family before seriously thinking about buying a house or a car.

So he takes a taxi to and from training every day. This small expense is nothing to his current income.

Back at the apartment, the door was ajar.Shi Hao pushed the door open and entered, and greeted a skinny boy inside: "You came back early today."

That boy was half a head shorter than Shi Hao, and he was sitting at the table and practicing pronunciation with difficulty with an introductory Portuguese textbook.He put down the book when he heard the voice: "The training volume of the youth team is smaller than that of the adult team."

Shi Hao nodded: "That's right."

This young man is called Li Shuai, and he joined on loan from a certain domestic team earlier this season. I heard that Jose Guilherme, the coach of the Porto youth team, appreciates him very much.

According to Luo Yunhui, there was an agent with a lot of contacts in the country who planned to sign a contract with Li Shuai. In order to expand her social circle, she promised that agent to help take care of this young man, so when renting the house, she consulted Shi Hao's After the opinion, they simply put the two together.

Shi Hao felt that it didn't matter, he would not be excited about "meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land", and he would not reject it.Although they are about the same age as Li Shuai, their status in the team is very different, and there are not many topics that they can usually communicate with.

After returning from training every day, he would simply say hello to Li Shuai in the same field, chat casually, and then go to his room to enter the system for training.

It was the same today. After pointing out Li Shuai's pronunciation of a few words and answering Li Shuai's questions about football, he went back to his room and locked the door behind him.

"Enter the dreamer system."

There is no change in the system hall, only a shiny silver sneaker is added on the trophy display shelf-this is the proof that he won the Serie A silver boot last season.

According to his habit, he first looked at his own attributes - there was a small increase in individual data, but the overall change was not large.

Then look at the taskbar.

Currently there are still two main missions in progress, "Dream of Greenery" and "Road to Superstar".

The side missions are refreshed at the beginning of the training camp at the beginning of the season.

"Sub-task: Carrying dreams 3. A great star must not only carry his own dreams, but also dare to carry the dreams of others. Porto is an ambitious team, help Porto fans realize their dreams! Mission objectives: Leading Porto to the top 2012 of the UEFA Champions League in the 2013-8 season. Task success reward: 10000 dream points, 800 prestige points, 10 free attribute points. Mission failure penalty: 12000 dream points will be deducted, and all basic attributes will be deducted by 1 point."

"It's a terrible task..." In the previous two seasons, Porto has been eliminated in the Champions League group stage.This time, to reach the top 8, it would be strange to take such a big step.At any rate, let's set a "group qualifying" goal first, right?
(End of this chapter)