Chapter 45: The Dilemma
"Lisbon is here! Wake up your sleeping teammates and get ready to get off the plane!"
Li Sheng, the leader of the Hope Star football team, shouted. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Fatty, wake up, Portugal has arrived!" Yang Fan pushed Xiao Dong up.
Gao Xiaodong slept soundly, with a lewd smile on his face, and he didn't know what spring dream he was doing.
“…… Fatty!Fatty!Fat...... Smack!"
Yang Fan couldn't wake up Gao Xiaodong, and slapped him on the thigh.
"Ouch!" Gao Xiaodong opened his eyes in a daze, covering his face with his hands, "You hit me?!"
Yang Fan said with a smile: "Lao Tzu hit your thigh, what are you doing covering your face?" Nima, you are Rivaldo." ”
Gao Xiaodong just had a very strange dream, he dreamed that he secretly kissed the face of the squad leader Zhao Xiyuan, and was slapped by Zhao Xiyuan, but he didn't expect it to be Yang Fan.
Gao Xiaodong was furious and said, "Lao Tzu is dreaming of marrying a daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law was beaten away by you." ”
Yang Fan smiled: "When you arrive in Portugal, I'll find you a big Yanma." ”
Gao Xiaodong said: "What are you doing, if you want to be a bustard part-time, then you might as well make money as a duck part-time." ”
Yang Fan gave Gao Xiaodong another punch in the shoulder and said, "Dead fat, leave some virtue under your mouth." ”
Gao Xiaodong returned Yang Fan's punch, "Long hair, you can't show some mercy to your subordinates." ”
At this time, the plane had already landed, and Li Sheng said: "Yang Fan, Gao Xiaodong, don't make trouble, get ready to get off the plane." ”
"Okay. ”
"It's ready. ”
Gao Xiaodong and Yang Fan lazily opened their seat belts, picked up their luggage, and followed everyone outside.
"Wow! the airport is so small!"
"Blonde beauty!"
"There are also people who pick up the airport! There are quite a few people. ”
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Many of the hopefuls are in Portugal for the first time, and they are all talking about it.
Chen Qiang, the president of Xinglong Sports and Culture Company, explained: "The pick-up staff was organized by Mr. Huang An, the president of the Portuguese Chinese newspaper and the leader of Chinese fans. ”
"Hello President Zhang Liang, hello Mr. Huang An. ”
The players of the Star of Hope shouted hello to Zhang Liang and Huang An, who were the leaders of the pick-up staff.
"Welcome to Portugal, Chinese football depends on you. ”
Huang An waved to the players with a red face.
Huang An is a native of Qingtian, doing wholesale business, there is a wholesale mall, the first Chinese football team was founded by him, Zhang Liang, and Chen Qiang, and enjoys a good reputation in the Chinese football circle.
Zhang Liang, president of Lusa Chinese Daily, said: "Welcome, welcome, you have created a ****** of football study abroad. History will remember you. ”
Chen Qiang smiled and came over to shake hands with Huang An and Zhang Liang, and said, "Thank you for your hard work." ”
Huang An said: "It's still you the hardest, we are running errands here, the accommodation has been arranged, let's take the bus." ”
Zhang Liang said with a smile: "Our reporters and editors are also here, let the players and coaches say a few words." ”
Chen Qiang smiled: "No problem, I'll pick two for you." ”
Chen Qiang called the captain Zhang Chi and coach Liu Xu to accept an impromptu interview with the reporter of "Portuguese Chinese Daily", and he and Li Sheng organized the players to get on the bus.
The interview ended quickly, and the players took a bus and browsed the exotic atmosphere of Portugal all the way, to the training base of the Portuguese Chinese football team, a disused wholesale warehouse on the outskirts of Lisbon converted into players' apartments, and an artificial turf pitch, where the players of the Hope Star meet once a month to train under the leadership of head coach Scaloni.
From Yanjing to Lisbon, the team members flew in the air for more than 20 hours, and most of them felt dizzy and had no appetite for dinner.
The players slept, but Chen Qiang, the head of the Hope Star in Portugal, and the head coach Scaloni had no way to rest, they just received the news that among the 15 clubs that had agreed to cooperate with the Chinese Football Association, Porto, Boavista, Maltimer, Ave River, and Istoril 5 clubs defaulted on the contract and refused to accept Chinese players.
This kind of backsliding behavior made Chen Qiang and Scaloni very angry, the 40 players who came to Portugal have agreed on the distribution plan in China, and now Porto, Boavista, these 5 clubs are in default, the original distribution plan of the Hope Star must be pushed back, and the opinions of the other 10 clubs must be sought, which is obviously not solved at once, and Portugal's leagues at all levels and youth leagues will kick off in late August, and the time is very urgent.
Chen Qiang was very angry and said to Andrews, the Porto scout who came to inform him: "Mr. Andrews, I don't care about other clubs for now, is it too much of a loss of identity for you to do this." ”
Andrews spread his hands helplessly and said: "Yes, this is a very unrighteous act, and it is not in line with the tradition of our club, but, you know, a lot has happened this summer, and now we in Porto are worried about internal and external troubles, and we are no longer able to help your country develop players." ”
Chen Qiang also has to watch Portuguese football news every day, knowing a series of changes in Porto this summer, saying: "The resignation of Coach Adrian will not affect the youth team." ”
Andrews smiled bitterly: "Mr. Chen Qiang, don't you know that in the past season or so, Porto has fired four head coaches, and now the new coach Ferreira has just taken office, he doesn't want any changes in the youth training, he just wants a smooth transition." ”
Chen Qiang said: "This is the president of Porto, the great da." The agreement that Costa negotiated with our Chairman Long, has Chairman Costa also become a treacherous man?"
Andrews smiled bitterly: "Mr. Chen Qiang, you don't know about the Golden Whistle operation, right?"
Chen Qiang said in surprise: "Operation Golden Whistle? It's been almost two years since this incident, what's the matter, is Chairman Costa in trouble?"
Andrews said with a serious expression: "It's a bit troublesome, Mayor Lorrero, the president of the professional football league, has been arrested, which may implicate President Costa." ”
Chen Qiang was speechless, Porto lost the championship last season, and there were so many problems this summer, it is normal to be unwilling to involve energy for the affairs of Chinese players.
Scaloni is Benfica's academy coach, Benfica and Porto are bitter enemies, and he gloated: "Mourinho's Champions League and league titles in '04 are not clean, Porto should be stripped of these two titles." ”
Andrews sneered: "Mr. Scaloni, it's a pity that it's not up to you. ”
"History will give justice to the opportunists," said Scaloni. ”
Andrews said contemptuously: "Even if Porto is deprived of the Champions League, Benfica will not be able to win it, you want to win the championship, let's talk about it in a hundred years." ”
Hearing the phrase that you can't win the championship in a hundred years, Scaloni's face suddenly grew, in Benfica, this is a taboo topic, in 1962, Benfica coach Vela Gutman, who had just led the team to defeat Real Madrid to complete the Champions League defense, proposed a salary increase to the team and was rejected, the Hungarian left the team with a "curse": "Benfica will not win the European championship in 100 years!" This sentence was regarded as an angry word at the time, but I didn't expect that this sentence was like a curse, and it actually affected Benfica for 44 years, and then Benfica entered the Champions League final 5 times, lost to AC Milan twice, and became Inter Milan in the big international era and Manchester United after the rebirth of the Munich air disaster. In the 1990 Champions League final, Benfica legend Eusebio came to Gutman's tomb to pray, but Benfica still failed to win a Champions League title.
Scaloni said with a gloomy face: "It doesn't matter if Benfica wins the Champions League or not, at least we will never compete for the Portuguese championship next season." ”
Andrews said disdainfully: "You just dream, I guarantee with my life that Porto will not be relegated." ”
Chen Qiang heard that the two were arguing again, and he felt irritable for a while, and said, "Please don't fry anymore, let's solve our problem first." ”
Andrews spread his hands and said, "Mr. Chen Qiang, I have said everything I want to say, and I can't do anything about the club's decision." ”
Chen Qiang said dejectedly: "Forget it, Mr. Andrews, you go, I'll think of a way." ”
"I'm sorry, Mr. Chen Qiang. Andrews gave Chen Qiang an apologetic smile and turned to leave.