Beast King Costa

Chapter 230 The So-Called Club Reason
Early the next morning, all members of the Benfica club boarded the bus from Qingdao to Jinan.

The day after tomorrow, Benfica will play the second friendly match of the "China Tour" in Jinan with Shandong Luneng, a veteran team of the Chinese Super League.

The whole journey from Qingdao to Jinan is about 350 kilometers, which is definitely a long-distance trip across multiple regions for the Portuguese.

But after Diego explained to everyone that "350 kilometers is the distance from the eastern part of SD Province to the central part, it doesn't even cross half of the province", the young people in Benfica were shocked and "wow".

Obviously, neither the Portuguese nor the Brazilians have a hard time understanding the concept of a vast land.

The total area of ​​most European countries is not even the size of a province in China. A small country like Luxembourg is not even the size of a county-level city in China.

Ever since, Diego also took advantage of the leisure time of the trip to popularize science on how vast China's land area is.

In order to give the boys a more vivid expression, Diego introduced the concept of geographic data: "From Sansha, the southernmost prefecture-level city in China, to Mohe, the northernmost city in China, the straight-line distance reaches 5500 kilometers!"

"My God! 5500 kilometers! And it's just a straight line!"

"It's an exaggeration! I think 550 kilometers is a long way."

"OMG! China is so big! I thought it was a long way from Qingdao to Jinan."

"It doesn't even cross half the distance in a large area?! Isn't it hard for Chinese players to play away games?"

"Yes! I feel that the away game to Madeira Islands is quite far away. I didn't expect it! The geographical distances of Chinese clubs are so far away."

……

Only then did Diego realize that his new teammates were all curious babies.

Even Moreto, who has been the starting goalkeeper in Benfica's first team for many years, is curious about all kinds of geographical knowledge about China.

In this regard, Diego is also happy to give you all kinds of non-professional science popularization-after all, when he was studying in later generations, Diego was a science student, and his understanding of geography knowledge can only be said to be so-so.

But Diego was surprised to find that none of his teammates seemed to have read a book. They were all unbelievably poor in geography and mathematics.

Young players in some echelons can't even understand the concept of 5500 kilometers... Some people only know feet, but don't know the unit of measurement of kilometers.

The most frightening thing is that these young players who don't know any concepts have a strong thirst for knowledge. They keep asking Diego all kinds of mentally retarded questions, which makes Diego very anxious.

But fortunately, Fernando Santos accidentally helped Diego clear the siege.

"Diego, come and sit by my side. I want to know something about the Shandong Luneng club."

"Come on!"

Diego was so happy that he finally didn't have to explain all kinds of very basic questions to these silly teammates.

Coming to Fernando Santos, Santos handed Diego a large stack of materials about Shandong Luneng.

Compared with the Qingdao team, Shandong Luneng's staff will be more professional. They translated some materials into Portuguese, but most of the materials are only in English. Unfortunately, Fernando Santos' English level is quite average, probably just "how are you", "how old are you" and "how old are you", that's all.

But fortunately, Benfica got a center forward with unlimited potential from Braga, and also got a "linguist" who can speak Portuguese, English and Chinese.

After roughly reading the English materials, Diego made a brief introduction to Fernando Santos with his own knowledge of the Shandong Luneng Club in later generations.

"Shandong Luneng Club is currently the leading team in the Chinese Super League, and the cup has already reached the quarter-final stage. It is very likely that they will be able to complete the feat of the double crown this season. They have a very complete youth training system. The head coach Tu Bakovic is from Serbia and is the most successful head coach in the history of the Serbian team Partizan Belgrade."

"Currently, the Shandong Luneng club has a number of Chinese national players in the lineup - midfielder Zheng Zhi, who has already been favored by the Premier League team Charlton, and striker Li Yinyu, who is currently far ahead of the Chinese Super League scorer list...foreign aid Rikov, Bassin and Iger are both from the former Yugoslavia region, and they fit well with coach Tubakovic's tactical philosophy."

……

After listening to Diego's introduction to the acquired opponent Shandong Luneng Club, Fernando Santos nodded thoughtfully.

"It seems that this opponent's strength is quite good. At least, the game the day after tomorrow will be more meaningful than yesterday's game!"

"Uh……"

Diego tentatively asked: "Coach Santos, are you dissatisfied with yesterday's game?"

"Not satisfied!"

Fernando Santos said very directly: "The opponent has no professional attitude at all. Yesterday's game was not even a warm-up - if I knew that the opponent treated this friendly match with that attitude, I would definitely advocate to the club to refuse to play against them. Let's play."

"Ugh."

Diego sighed secretly.

The Qingdao team didn't even have a regular main force yesterday, apparently in the league after the intermission period.The youth team can play like that, judging from Diego's understanding of the Chinese Super League team in later generations, it is already considered to be playing very well.

"correct!"

Diego suddenly thought of something important: "Coach Santos, when will we conduct trial training for the two Chinese players Yang Xu and Zhu Yifan?"

"Tomorrow when we conduct regular training at the training ground arranged by the Shandong team, Yang's agent will bring him over for a trial training. As for Zhu, he won't come for a trial training."

"what???"

Diego was quite surprised: "Zhu Yifan didn't come to the trial training? What's going on?"

"According to what his agent told our club's marketing department, it's because of Zhu's club - the BJ team doesn't want him to leave and has promised to let him enter the first team next season. Therefore, Zhu doesn't plan to Leaving China.”

"This……"

Diego scolded directly in his heart!

And it's because of the club!
And the club won't let anyone go!

After the Chinese team entered the 02 World Cup, were there not many players like Zhu Yifan who gave up even trial training due to club reasons?
There are not many Chinese players capable of playing in the top European leagues. The most helpless thing is that such a small number of players have been picked up by European clubs. The result!For the sake of record, their club won't let them go at all!

So yeah!

There are very few Chinese players in Europe, and we can't just blame the players for their poor strength.

In many cases, it is because the player's club does not support it!

(PS: The real situation is that Zhu Yifan did go to Portugal to try out Benfica club, and Benfica was also interested in signing him. In the end, Guoan felt that Zhu Yifan could take over the position of midfielder, so it didn't make it.

But at that time, it was true that many players were unable to stay abroad because their clubs would not let them go.For example, my favorite Guangyao Gold left foot, Xu Liang!At that time, it was because Liaoning Zhongyu refused to let people go. )
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