Beast King Costa

Chapter 257 Provocation
The morning of February 7th.

Diego and David Luiz returned to Lisbon from the Azores as scheduled.

It's like returning from a small village in the outskirts to a modern big city.

When the two of them returned to the Benfica club to report, they found that they were not the first players to report to the club.

Quim, the second goalkeeper who put on the national team uniform and competed in the World Cup in Germany for the Portuguese national team, was chatting with Moretto in the lobby of the club's office building.

The No. [-] goalkeeper, who is two years older than Moreto, has been identified as the team's main goalkeeper by the new Benfica coach Fernando Santos.

This can be said to be the first time that Quaim has been reused by the team's head coach since he joined the Benfica club, so Quaim's face looks as if he has married a new wife.

"Hey! Diego, David, you are finally here."

Moreto introduced Quim very enthusiastically: "Diego, played for Braga last season, a center forward who turned out to be out of nowhere. Oh... last season, when we played against Braga in the second half, we had a match. However, you should still have an impression? David, a young Brazilian central defender, has already played the main role in the newly promoted Vitoria in Brazil at the age of 18. Coach Santos thinks highly of him."

"Hi Quim."

After all, Diego and David are newcomers to the team. Facing Quim, the national team goalkeeper who has played for Benfica for more than five years, his attitude is quite humble.

However, to the surprise of Diego and David Luiz, their humble attitude did not gain Quim's respect.

I saw Quim nodding lukewarmly and saying: "Oh! Diego, David, hello. Come on in the new season and try to stay in the first team."

Diego was dissatisfied, and he responded calmly: "Sorry, we are players in the first team of Benfica, thank you!"

"Oh? Diego, do you think there is still a place for you in the first team?"

Quim sneered: "Francisco Fonseca, the main center of the Mexican team in the World Cup in Germany; De Lai, a famous talented forward player in the Portuguese Super League, is also the main shooter in the Russian Super League, and Gremio's Talented center Diego Souza... Now that the team is overflowing with talent in the frontcourt, do you think there will still be a place for you?"

"Is there a place for me, everything speaks with strength, you don't need to tell me!"

After saying this, Diego didn't care about Quim anymore.

After nodding with Moretto, he went to report with David Luiz.

"Hey……"

Moretto also sighed helplessly.

Ever since Quim learned that he would become Benfica's main goalkeeper in the new season, this guy's spirit immediately soared to the point where his mother almost didn't recognize him.

Even when talking to himself, his tone became more and more arrogant.

Maybe some people are like this. Once they fly up the branches and become phoenixes, they immediately reveal the essence of the dark side in their bones and become another person.

Therefore, Moreto has the same attitude as Diego: everything speaks with strength.

After Diego and David Luiz came to the place to report, they met more teammates-Petit, Nuno Gomez, Simão, Portugal's main international players; Luisson, the Brazilian international, Angola's "national hero" Mantolas, Greek international Calagonis, Kate Solanis... all present.

"Diego, David, you are finally here!"

Nelson, Assis, and Beto were also present, and several teammates who went to China for a friendly match with Diego and David Luiz have come to the team to report.

Nelson enthusiastically introduced Diego and David Luiz to his teammates.

"David is a Brazilian. Before coming to Benfica, he played for the newly promoted Vitoria in Brazil. He was the main player at the age of 18. Although there is no Kleber Anderson or Ricardo Rocha in the new season, we have more players like David. A young and talented defensive backbone like Wei."

"As for Diego, everyone is familiar with it. The talented center who came to Portugal from Brazil in the second half of last season has suddenly emerged in Braga and led Braga..."

"Come on, Nelson, we all know this kid. He's a good fighter."

Before Nelson finished introducing Diego, someone interrupted Nelson on the spot, his tone was very indifferent, obviously he didn't like Diego very much.

Diego took a closer look and saw that the strange speaker was none other than Fabrizio Milico, the Italian fringe international player.

The Fiorentina striker did not go to Germany with the national team to play in the World Cup. He was dropped by Lippi at the last minute.

But judging from Italy's poor performance in this World Cup, Milico is even more fortunate that he was abandoned by Lippi, otherwise he would have to take the blame with the national team.

Having spent a complete vacation, Milico is obviously very energetic, and he is ready to make trouble as soon as we meet.

But Diego also had a good rest, and he wasn't afraid of anyone picking things up at all.

Whoever wants to provoke trouble, Diego just said: I will accompany you to the end!

I saw Diego still responded with a half-hearted smile: "That's right! Fighting ability is better than some people's scoring ability! Anyway, my scoring ability is much better than fighting ability."

"puff……"

Nelson always thought that Diego was quite humble, but he really didn't expect that Diego would be ruthless, and his lip service is quite good.

"you!!!"

Fabrizio Milico almost rushed up to fight with Diego, but Petit and Simao quickly caught him.

Captain Pettit reminded quite seriously: "Milico, you have to pay attention to team discipline!"

"Captain, this little boy..."

"It was you who provoked others first."

Pettit deserves to be the captain of the team, and he is quite fair when dealing with conflicts within the team.

But his impression of Diego is also mediocre. After all, the reason why Ricardo Rocha and Kleb Anderson will be cleared out of the team, in the eyes of many of Benfica's main players, must be because of Diego's commitment to the club. Chairman Felipe Vieira's joining conditions.

I saw Pettit tell Diego very seriously: "Diego, since you are already a member of Benfica, I hope you can restrain your temper and get along well with everyone. As for your goal scoring ability? Better than your fighting ability, I hope you don’t just talk about it, but show it in the game.”

"I will speak with my strength, Captain, don't worry!"

"Ah."

Petit did not continue to talk to Diego, but turned around and warned all the Benfica players who had already played for the team last season.

"No matter what happened last season, it's all in the past. Diego is already a member of Benfica, we are teammates fighting side by side, I don't want any conflicts in the locker room related to last season! Once there is something unpleasant Even if coach Santos doesn’t punish me, I will deal with it as the captain of the team! In the new season, our goal is very clear—to revive the glory of the Flying Eagles with one heart and one mind!”

"Revive the glory of the Flying Eagle Legion!!!"

"Revive the glory of the Flying Eagle Legion!!!"

"Revive the glory of the Flying Eagle Legion!!!"

……

As the captain of Benfica, Pettit has the right to speak. His mobilization, whether it is new players or old players, all echoed.

Diego secretly admired it in his heart: With such a captain who knows how to deal with people sitting in the locker room to coordinate work, there will not be too many conflicts when getting along with the old Benfica teammates in the new season.

Just as Diego followed everyone to respond to captain Petit's mobilization, he unexpectedly discovered that Nuno Gomez and Simao were looking at him.

Although their eyes were strange, at least they were not as hostile as Quim and Milico.

So, Diego smiled at them and nodded.

Diego's approach to dealing with people is very simple - if you respect me, I will respect you, if you don't respect me, then I will fight you to the end!
Nuno Gomez and Simao also smiled at Diego. It can be seen that the two Portuguese internationals did not have too much prejudice against the conflicts that occurred when they played against each other last season.

But Diego didn't know what these two core Benfica players seemed to want to communicate with him.

Since they spent a lot of time together, Diego immediately went up to ask the two bosses what they wanted to say to him.

"It seems that everyone is here."

"Coach Santos!"

"Hello, Coach Santos!"

While the Benfica players were in the conference room responding to Captain Petit’s mobilization, Fernando Santos walked with his coaching staff, including some players who were not in the conference room just now, such as Quim and Moreto. Into the conference room.

"Now that we are all here, let's start the meeting! After the meeting, we will leave directly after lunch, and we will go to Spain for training. The club has already made an appointment with our potential warm-up opponents. We will play five warm-up matches , I hope everyone is ready!"

I saw Fernando Santos telling the players solemnly: "I can tell you this! Everyone has the opportunity to take the main position! As for which players will enter the main frame in the new season, it depends on everyone's performance in these five warm-up games How! So, I hope everyone will show their best performance during the training camp in Spain, and the coaching staff and I will judge everyone's performance with the most professional eyes!"

Even, Fernando Santos also made an "offensive" to Benfica's core players last season.

"We have a lot of international players in our team. But I can tell every international player: You may be excluded from the main frame by me! What I need are players who are willing to work hard for the team, not because of who If you are more famous, let whoever plays the main force! Do you understand?!"

"clear!!!"

Although every core player of last season said "understand", as the new coach, he just met the core players of the team and came to such a "dismissal", who would feel uncomfortable in his heart.

Perhaps, Fernando Santos' coaching journey in Benfica may be as bumpy as Ronald Koeman?

(End of this chapter)