I Want to Be the King of Football

With Christmas approaching, the usually bustling Alcochete becomes empty.

The team ushered in the Christmas holiday, and many players also have round-trip airfare subsidies, so they all went home for the New Year.

Ronnie, for example, returned to Madeira last night.

Although Jose Semedo has no subsidies, his family is in Setubal, close to Lisbon, so he also went back.

Su Dong and Pepe politely declined Ronnie's warm invitation and chose to stay in Lisbon.

Albertini returned to Milan, but André Cruz did not return to Brazil, but chose to stay at home with his wife and children.

Professional players travel around the world all year round, often for one or two months of training, and there is really little time to spend with their families.

Although the team was on holiday, and the teammates and friends who were training together on weekdays all returned, Su Dong and Pepe came to Alcochete for training every day. Without Tonito as a free driver, they could only choose to play.

The two of them weren't the only ones doing extra training during the holidays.

Quaresma also comes to Alcocheti every day. He and his family live in downtown Lisbon. After seeing Sudong and Pepe coming to Alcocheti, the talented Portuguese winger who drove by himself. Offered to pick them up.

There were only three of them at first, but by the afternoon, there were two more.

They are all players from Sporting Lisbon's youth team. One is Nani, a winger who also has Cape Verdean blood. He has just turned sixteen. He is quite familiar with Ronnie and has talked with Su Dong several times. .

After turning 16 in November, he was officially transferred to the second team, and will train with the first team during the winter break and the second half of the season. award.

There is also a man named Joao Moutinho, a midfielder whose characteristics are a bit like Hugo Viana, who has gone far away from England. He is good at midfield organization and passing, and his defense is also good. It is the successor of Hugo Viana.

This is a very interesting place in the football world.

Hugo Viana himself is still a rookie, but he has already begun to have a successor in Sporting Lisbon.

Moutinho's playing characteristics and style, from Rui Costa to Hugo Viana, are basically in the same line.

There is also Nani. At first, some people said that he was like Quaresma, but then everyone said that he was very similar to Ronnie, whether it was blood or playing characteristics, he was very similar, so he had Ronnie’s successor. title.

However, so far, there has been no successor to Su Dong in the youth team.

It is worth mentioning that a friend of Su Dong and Ronnie in the youth team, central defender Jose Fonte will also be officially transferred to the first team after the winter break, because Boloni's performance against the current first team's central defender is not good. very satisfied.

Jose Fonte is a very strong central defender, and Su Dong believes that he will have a good performance in the first team.

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A few people come together to train, in fact, you help me, and I help you.

In addition to some regular training, Su Dong focused on strengthening the header from the side pass.

Pepe defended closely, Quaresma and Nani were responsible for the ball from the flanks, Sudong and Pepe competed for the landing spot.

The reason why he practiced this set is because Su Dong finally chose Klose's [Air Overlord] under the fierce temptation of Maradona's [God's Left Foot]. He felt that the most urgent thing for him now was to strengthen himself. 's header.

As a center, scoring is what he needs to consider most.

On the training ground, the two wings kept taking the ball, and Su Dong and Pepe in the penalty area kept judging where the ball would land, and kept fighting for the top.

In this kind of repeated training, Su Dong gradually integrated and mastered Klose's [Air Overlord], and continuously improved his ability to predict where the ball would land.

Try to improve your header strength as soon as possible.

The first game of the second half of the winter break was against Mourinho's Porto.

Sporting Lisbon is now a lot behind Porto in the standings. If you want to reverse in the second half, you must win this strong dialogue.

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When Su Dong and others were sweating on the training ground, two Spaniards came to the sidelines.

One of them is familiar to Su Dong, the Spanish scout Garcia.

The two of them stood on the sidelines and looked at the teenagers in the stadium who were practicing during the holiday, and they couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

It's no wonder that in the past few years, Lisbon Sporting Youth Academy has produced many talents, and the football atmosphere is really good.

Garcia laughed and said, Did you see that? That's Quaresma.

Following Garcia's gesture, the middle-aged Spanish easily recognized Quaresma.

Perhaps it is a preconceived impression. He thinks that the Portuguese talent is really good. Whether it is stopping the ball or making a cross, he is very good. More importantly, he is still very young.

The other dark-skinned boy looked a lot more frizzy, especially in handling the ball, and the stability of technical movements was not good enough, especially after making a sudden stop and smash, and then suddenly cross.

But the problem is, the quality of this cross is still very low.

He should be an African-American player, with good health, fast speed, and a bit of street football-like technique. He is very casual, not stable enough, and the quality of his crosses is not high... Hey!

The middle-aged Spanish man was slightly surprised.

On the court, the quality of Nani's cross was really not high, but Su Dong, who was in charge of the midway response, responded very quickly. He immediately judged where the ball was falling, and took the lead before Pepe. Attack the door.

This caught the attention of middle-aged Spain.

This kid...

After noticing it, the middle-aged Spanish began to pay attention to Su Dong subconsciously.

He found that this training focused on training Su Dong's ability to respond to crosses, and his prediction of the ball path was always accurate and his reaction time was short. If you can do this in training, it won't be too bad in competition.

It's interesting, he is the Su Dong you said? the Spaniard asked with a smile.

Garcia nodded with a smile.

Su Dong is really standing out from the crowd. With his height, skin color and hair color, standing in the crowd, he was recognized at first sight.

He has played well this season and should attract the attention of many European teams, right? the middle-aged Spanish asked with a smile.

Garcia nodded, Yes, there are indeed many teams concerned about him, even giants like Manchester United, Arsenal, Inter Milan and Juventus, but there is a very serious problem.

what?

He hasn't played in the national team. It will be very troublesome to go to the Premier League. In other leagues, he has to occupy a non-European place.

The middle-aged Spanish suddenly realized.

The labor certificate of the Premier League team is a very troublesome thing. If you don't participate in the national team's game, if you want to get a labor certificate, you must show enough strength and performance. Otherwise, how to convince the Premier League team for you To run as hard as you can?

Especially for giants like Manchester United and Arsenal, it is not easy for them to obtain a labor certificate for a young teenager. For example, the talented teenager Kaka who participated in the World Cup Brazil national team, Ferguson did not. Law fights for him.

As for the non-European quota, this is also a very troublesome thing.

For teams in the four major leagues, especially upstream teams, the non-European foreign aid quota is very strict. Every team has foreign aid restrictions. Who would be willing to use a valuable resource for an 18-year-old teenager foreign aid quota?

For many teams, they would even rather spend a little more money to buy an EU player rather than waste a foreign aid quota, because that is a precious resource reserved for the most cutting-edge players.

Of course, there will also be some teams who don't care about their non-European status because they can't use up their foreign aid quotas.

His agent Mendes has been very popular recently. He has successively signed a number of Portuguese Super League teams such as Porto, Benfica and Sporting Lisbon. The agency rights of the star, and Sudong is one of Mendes's most valued players. Also running around and connecting with the team.”

After listening to Garcia's words, the middle-aged Spain nodded heavily.

It's really not easy. Watching him train, this body can have such speed and technology, it's really surprising and exciting.

Garcia was even more happy after hearing this.

This is a famous Spanish midfielder in the 1980s. Before Mendieta, Valencia's right midfielder was his unstoppable main position. At the same time, he has quite good network resources in Spain and has a very sharp vision.

If he is optimistic about Su Dong, it proves that Su Dong is definitely not bad.

...

The two were talking, and the training on the court temporarily came to an end.

Garcia called out Su Dong loudly.

At the beginning, Su Dong and his party went to the Bernabeu to watch the football. Thanks to Garcia for helping them get tickets, and taking them to visit the dressing room of Real Madrid, the relationship between Su Dong and Garcia was quite good.

Why are you here? Don't tell me in advance. Su Dong was a little surprised.

The last time I troubled Garcia, this time I must do my best to do the landlord's friendship.

I have something to do temporarily, come and talk to Aurelio. Garcia explained with a smile.

He didn't say anything, but if you think about it, you should guess that it is probably related to the players.

Garcia is a scout, not just a scout. There are many places where he can cooperate with Sporting Lisbon.

Have dinner together after talking? Su Dong suggested.

No, we have to rush back to Madrid, next time.

Su Dong felt a lot of pity, he didn't like to owe favors, he always felt that he still needed a meal to feel at ease.

Oh, by the way, let me introduce to you, this is the famous Valencia star, Javier Subirac.

Now Su Dong is even more convinced that Garcia must have something to do with the players.

Hello, Javier.

Hello, Su.

Which player from our team did you come here this time? Su Dong asked tentatively in a joking tone.

In fact, he is still a bit gossip.

Subirac glanced at Garcia, and was quite interested in this curious boy, he laughed and said, I've fallen for you!

Ah? Su Dong was slightly taken aback.

But it's a pity... Subirac changed his words, I don't work for any team now, so...

Su Dong smiled bitterly. He found that Subirats seemed to be joking with himself.