I Want to Be the King of Football

Technical: Poor; Physical: Poor; Tactical: Poor; Mental: Fair.

When the whistle for the end of the training sounded, Su Dong slumped on the grass, panting like a cow.

Coach Lionel Pontes came over and handed him a freshly released assessment report, with dismal results.

Su Dong shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly at Pontes.

The Madeira coach took out another assessment report and handed it to Ronnie.

The youth team talent didn't get much better either.

Technical: Good; Physically average; Tactical: Poor; Mental: Poor.

Lionel, are you mistaken? Why is my psychology so bad? I worked very hard the whole time. I didn't even stop for a moment during the fifteen-minute match. Ronnie seemed very aggrieved.

Pontes nodded and said, That's true, but it's not enough just to be focused and dedicated. Look at the comments.

Su Dong leaned over and looked at the comments with Ronnie.

The concentration is acceptable, playing football is too selfish, obsessed with expressing oneself, and easily impatient.

Ronnie was instantly speechless.

It was his first training session with the first team and it was really bad.

If it is said that the worst player in the team is Su Dong, then he must be ranked second from last.

Ronnie has more chances to get the ball than Sudong, because Sudong, as a striker, has been facing Brazil veteran Cruz.

This defensive central defender came from AC Milan. Although he is a little older, he is experienced. It is not too easy to deal with a rookie like Su Dong. The entire team's game was frozen without the ability to struggle.

This is also the reason why all the three categories of Sudong are poor.

The most important thing about Ronnie is the psychological level. He is too anxious to express himself.

Sometimes the more anxious it is, the easier it is to have problems. This is a big trouble, and we must try our best to overcome it. Pontes advised.

Ronnie nodded, not knowing if he had listened.

He is still very proud in his bones and doesn't think he will lose to anyone, but today's training in the first team made him feel powerless.

I used to watch from the sidelines and always felt that following the first team training was the same thing. It was very easy. Sometimes I even thought those mistakes were too stupid, but when I personally participated in it, I felt completely different. Yes. Ronnie frowned.

Obviously, the first training session of the first team brought him a great touch, or a blow.

What about you? Pontes looked at Su Dong.

Me? Su Dong smiled bitterly, The only thing I feel is tired, I have tried everything to get rid of Cruise, but there is still no way, I think he can guess what I am thinking, always It was frustrating to be one step ahead of me, and I felt like I was going to break down.

That's right. Pontes laughed.

Both Su Dong and Ronnie felt very strange, how could it be right?

Pontes squatted down in front of the two and looked at the two young players who looked very immature in front of him. Although he performed a mess in the training just now, he was still full of confidence in them.

You know? Whether it's the media, fans, or players of the youth team, it's easy to think of the first team as too simple, so simple that when you kill the Quartet in the youth team, you will take it for granted that you are in the first line. The team can do the same, but in fact, it's not like that at all.

The expression on Su Dong's face became serious.

Good at listening to other people's advice, this is a good advantage of him.

You may think that the difference between you and the first team is the difference in strength between you and Quaresma, and a little more is the difference in strength between you and Jardel, but in fact?

Pontes didn't intend for them to answer,

He gave the answer himself.

The gap between you and the first team is you, and the gap between the two dozen Quaresma and Jardel, there is a huge gap that many people can't even cross in their entire lives.

Su Dong suddenly thought of Edgar Marcelino at this time.

He was a genius in the youth team, but when he arrived in the first team, he seemed unstable and could be sent back to the second team at any time.

The first team is never a place to train people, it is the youth team and the second team. When it comes to the first team, whether in training or competition, everyone will do their best to express themselves, every touch, every defense. , and even every run, they're doing their best.

So you will find that even in the first team training, the rhythm is very fast, the passing is so fast that you can hardly catch the ball, the players run very fast, you hesitate a little bit, the opportunity is gone and the ball is broken.

What Pontes said was indeed the personal experience of Su Dong and Ronnie.

You are the best in the youth team, but when you get to the first team, you will find that you can only be at the bottom. Do you know why?

Su Dong and Ronnie both shook their heads.

Strength is part of the reason, and the other part is because you are used to the way and rhythm of the youth team. You need to integrate yourself into the first team, try your best to keep up with the teammates around you, keep up with the pace and rhythm of the whole team, keep up with The way other people play, and then integrate into it and play their own strengths.”

Su Dong understood.

Why did Marcelino and Quaresma enter the first team at the same time, and one of them was brilliant, while the other was in the doldrums?

Maybe at the moment of entering the first team, the strength of the two people is similar, but Quaresma integrated quickly, and quickly improved his game ability, and then played his own strength.

Unfortunately, Marcelino has been so bad at this that he has so far been underwhelming.

For those who can enter the first team, the most basic strength is not a big problem, at least not out of reach. The key is to be able to integrate into the team, keep up with the pace and rhythm of the team, and exert one's own strength, this is the most difficult of.

Do you know why the whole team, including the head coach, is so cold to you? Pontes asked.

Su Dong and Ronnie shook their heads again.

The reason is very simple. From the youth team to the first team, there will always be very few people who can cross this gap. Failure is a high probability event. Therefore, no one is optimistic about you, which is normal.

After Su Dong and Ronnie listened, they looked at each other again, and they could see the dissatisfaction in each other's eyes.

Their journey has not been easy, and they will never admit defeat easily.

Lionel, in general, how long does it take to integrate into the first team? Ronnie asked with concern.

Not sure, some people are fast, some people are very slow, and you are inserted in the middle of the season, which is very unfavorable, because the entire technical and tactical system of the first team has been established and is very stable, and everyone else has figured it out. , but you are still confused, which is why many teams don’t like signings during the winter break.”

Ricciardo has an advantage, that is, he has nearly two months of summer training and warm-up matches, but you don't have any, so there is no way to measure and demand yourselves by his standards, but Edgar's lesson It's worth learning from.

Using Quaresma and Marcelino as a positive and negative case, although intuitive, is somewhat inappropriate, so Pontes spoke very quietly, for fear of being heard by others.

You should have half a year, at the latest in the summer training camp, if you still can't fit in...

Pontes didn't finish his sentence, but the answer was very clear.

The first team gathers the best and best resources of Sporting Lisbon and gives players the best environment. It is impossible to keep those players who cannot contribute to the team.

If Sudong and Ronnie are still unable to integrate into the first team by the summer training camp and cannot prove their strength in training, Sporting Lisbon will of course not give them up, but they can only send them back to the second team for training.

And soon, the club gave a warning.

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On the first morning of the team's winter break, after the training session, Edgar Marcelino was called to the office of first-team coach Boloni.

Not long after returning to the locker room, he silently walked to his closet, packed his things, and left.

Su Dong was standing at the door of the locker room, watching him carry his backpack and walk through the barbed wire, his back was extremely frustrated and frustrated.

I don't know, after suffering such a blow, can he return to the first team? Su Dong said with concern.

Ronnie shook his head, If it was me, I would come back even if I tried my best, but the others... who knows?

After speaking, the Madeira boy turned and left.

Su Dong looked at the barbed wire, where Marcelino was no longer there, but he seemed to see the African-American player struggling and lonely across the barbed wire.

If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent!

...

In the first lesson of the training, he was met with a slap in the head, and Su Dong's good vision for the first team was also sobered up a lot.

Even his whole person calmed down.

Although it is with the help of the road to the championship, although he has some advantages that others do not have, in the final analysis, he is not enough.

But what is interesting is that with the improvement of the training level of the first team, his strength is also climbing bit by bit.

Slow, but at least faster than at Atlético de Portugal.

In addition, the value of the ball king is also faster, especially his matchup with Cruise, the efficiency is not lost to Ronnie.

After a training session, he can often earn thousands, or even over 10,000 ball champions.

This is a very gratifying harvest for Su Dong.

The only trouble is that he still seems out of place with his teammates in the first team, and he can't keep up with the rhythm.

Pontes reassured him that this kind of thing can't be rushed, and the more urgent it is, the more likely it will backfire.

Keep calm and rational, maintain a normal heart, move steadily, and improve yourself step by step. Slowly, you will come to that step.

Although Su Dong was impatient, he knew that Pontes was right.

After training with the first team for a week, and being abused by Cruise for a week, Su Dong forged ahead amid the interweaving of pain and joy, and did not dare to slack off.

After entering 2002, the Portuguese Super League quickly reignited the war.

Su Dong also ushered in his first game to join Sporting Lisbon.