Chapter 48: Finding Reinforcements
Chapter 48
In the morning, Gao Xiaodong was woken up by a burst of sad music. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
The apartment is just a temporary rest for the players of the Portuguese Chinese club during training, and the sound insulation is very poor.
For Gao Xiaodong, who has just changed the bad habit of waking up early, it is unforgivable to be woken up.
"Bang bang bang!" Gao Xiaodong slammed the bed board a few times and shouted: "What kind of ghost music is played, and you don't let people sleep." β
"Bang Bang Bang. There were three knocks on the door outside, "Sorry sir, I'm disturbing your rest." β
Gao Xiaodong looked at his phone, it was already past nine o'clock, and this seemed to be to blame others.
Put on her big pants, get up, open the door, and a small Chinese girl wearing a short-sleeved white shirt and short jeans is standing cautiously at the door, and repeats again, "I'm sorry sir, the music was accidentally amplified and disturbed your rest." β
Gao Xiaodong scratched his head embarrassedly, smiled, and said, "That...... It's not an intrusion...... This one...... The music is good, what kind of tune?"
The girl was startled by the man's roar, and when she saw that the fat man in front of her was even smaller than herself, and she looked very cute with embarrassment, she was a lot more vigilant, and said, "This is Fado, a Portuguese folk song." β
"Oh, are you a staff member here?"
"Yes, I am a clerk at Xinglong Sports and Culture Company. β
Gao Xiaodong glanced at the mop in the girl's hand, "The clerk still brings the cleaner?"
The girl said: "This training center has just been built, and there are not enough people here, so I will do more." β
Gao Xiaodong touched his stomach and said, "Where is there food around here?" β
The girl pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "There is an egg tart shop in the town, but Manager Chen asked me to cook for you when I left in the morning. β
"No, I don't know or speak Portuguese, you can just get me something to eat, instant noodles." β
I heard that Chen Qiang still remembered to ask people to cook for him when he left, and Gao Xiaodong's disgust towards him decreased a lot, but since there is free food to eat, even if the food is bad, he still has to eat.
"I'll do it for you, you wash it first. β
The girl turned and walked away lightly.
Gao Xiaodong washed his face, brushed his teeth, changed his clothes, and the girl also cooked a meal, a full portion of paella, which tasted good, and it definitely couldn't be called ordinary.
Girls who look ordinary have good cooking skills, Gao Xiaodong sighed, wiped his mouth, and then remembered that he didn't ask the girl's name, "My name is Gao Xiaodong, everyone calls me fat, what is your name?"
Gao Xiaodong was full of affinity, and the girl soon lost her sense of restraint, and said: "My name is Xiao Le, and everyone else calls me Xiaole." β
Gao Xiaodong said: "The name is so good, that Xiaole, when will your Portuguese football team play?"
Xiao Le said: "Saturday training, Sunday competition, the game will be played for more than half a year." β
Gao Xiaodong continued to inquire about the news and said, "I will also play for the team in the future, I don't know how the strength of the team is?"
Xiao Le said: "We have just formed a team for a few years, two years, the strength is average, last time it seems to have lost five or six goals, and the manager is angry." β
Gao Xiaodong was a little dizzy, he knew that Chinese teams were generally more dish, but he didn't expect it to be such a dish, it seemed that he couldn't stay here for a long time, and he had to find a way to go to a powerful club.
"Do you know what the amateur league is played here?" Gao Xiaodong asked.
Xiao Le shook his head and said, "I don't know, it seems to be the Lisbon region, when they come to train later, you can ask them." β
Gao Xiaodong decided to go to Lisbon to take a turn, buy a computer, mobile phone card, bus card and other necessities, feel the exotic atmosphere here, and brag after returning to China.
However, Gao Xiaodong doesn't understand Portuguese at all, and his English has been returned to the teacher, so he is like a blind man here, he doesn't know anything, and it is really difficult to go out shopping and play.
This is difficult for Gao Xiaodong, he immediately borrowed Xiao Le's mobile phone to call Chen Qiang, and asked Chen Qiang to help him buy computers, mobile phone cards and other items, Chen Qiang learned the dirtiness and shamelessness of the fat man yesterday, and was worried that he would be wronged after buying it, so he asked Xiao Le to accompany Gao Xiaodong to go shopping.
Gao Xiaodong was waiting for this sentence, he smiled and gave his mobile phone to Xiao Le, and asked Xiao Le to answer Chen Qiang's call, Xiao Le was also in his early twenties, and he was also very annoyed by being bored in this training base, so he took Gao Xiaodong to go shopping and play very happily.
In the evening, Gao Xiaodong and Xiao Le came back, Gao Xiaodong was carrying large and small bags in both hands, so tired that he was swaying, as if he couldn't walk anymore, and Xiao Le was bouncing with his hands behind his back, very leisurely.
Before entering the gate, Gao Xiaodong saw a lot of people playing football on the court, as well as noisy shouts.
Seeing Gao Xiaodong, Chen Qiang shouted: "Gao Xiaodong, put down your things and come over to meet your teammates." β
"Howler. Gao Xiaodong saw that there was a ball to kick, and he was immediately energetic, and put his bag back in his apartment.
Xiao Le was dumbfounded, this dead fat man, complained all the way, but he didn't expect it to be pretended.
Coming to the stadium, Chen Qiang ceremoniously introduced Gao Xiaodong to the players of Portuguese, and then focused on introducing 6 of the players to Gao Xiaodong, who are all absolute main players who have played in regional semi-professional leagues, and the other dozen players are either college students or working boys.
After Gao Xiaodong listened to Chen Qiang's introduction, he felt empty, the Portuguese Chinese team with 6 semi-professional experiences were poured five or six goals, so how strong is Portugal's amateur football.
However, during training, Gao Xiaodong found out that the players with more than half professional experience were old and had no physical fitness, and the college students were too young.
This is the first time Chen Qiang has watched Gao Xiaodong play football, and he saw Gao Xiaodong like a fish in water in the confrontation game, scoring goals again and again, Chen Qiangqiang was happy, and after the training, he said to Gao Xiaodong: "At your level, you can definitely find the club that accepts you, don't worry, I'm in contact." β
Gao Xiaodong said: "I'm not in a hurry, I just want to play for the Portuguese Chinese team now and let them know how great Chinese football is." β
Chen Qiang nodded again and again, this fat man, although greedy and cunning, but very professional, said: "Tomorrow's game with the Bank of Portugal team, you are a strange soldier, you have to them hard." β
Gao Xiaodong rubbed his fists and said, "No problem, is the Bank of Portugal very strong?"
Chen Qiang said: "In Lisbon, he can rank in the top eight. β
Gao Xiaodong said: "There are several teams in the Lisbon region, and there are several divisions. β
Chen Qiang said: "There are four major divisions: Porto, Lisbon, SetΓΊbal and Algarve, each with 20 football teams, which is a national amateur league organized by Kebores, which specializes in running sports leagues. β
Gao Xiaodong said: "How to decide the champion, is the champion the national champion?"
Chen Qiang said: "Of course, it is the national champion, but this format is different from the professional league, the 20 teams in each division will be divided into two groups, and each group of 10 teams will play a round-robin match, and the group results will be arranged according to 1-10, and then the two groups will play home and away games with the same ranking, and the 1-20 teams in the division will be ranked according to the score." The top finishers from Portugal's four major regions will play a final round-robin to determine the winner of this season's Portuguese National League. β
Gao Xiaodong said: "What is the ranking of our PwC team in the Lisbon division?"
Chen Qiang sighed and said, "We formed the team late, there are few players, and there is no professional coach, so we are basically counting down." β
Gao Xiaodong was speechless, to be promoted to the amateur S-level not only to play 30 games, but also to win a national championship, if the Portuguese team can't win the championship, it is not interesting for him to stay here to play.
Chen Qiang looked at Gao Xiaodong silently and said: "Actually, amateur competitions are just kicking and playing, and it doesn't matter if you win or something." β
For Gao Xiaodong, the championship is very important, but this is not enough for outsiders, Gao Xiaodong said: "Manager Chen, can't we let the players of the Hope Star come to play this amateur game? β
Chen Qiang said: "This is not good, professional players are not allowed to participate in this kind of amateur competition." β
Gao Xiaodong sneered and said, "Manager Chen, can I get a fake ID card?" Who knows, I see that foreigners all look similar, and I think foreigners should look similar to us Chinese." β
Chen Qiang looked at Gao Xiaodong with a surprised face, this fat man, how can he have a belly full of flowers, but he still shook his head and said: "Even if it is feasible, but there are many people, it is easy to be suspected, there are few people on it, and it can't improve much strength, and once it is discovered, it is difficult to mix in Portugal, in addition, what if the player of the Hope Star is injured in the amateur league? Injury is the biggest harm to professional players." β
Gao Xiaodong pondered for a moment, suddenly slapped his thigh, and shouted: "Yes, don't we still have five coaches, they are all professional players, only in their thirties, plus them and me, we can form a starting lineup that has played all professional games." β
Chen Qiang's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart, this kid is a talent, this brain is turning too fast, but he hesitated and said: "These coaches are here to study, they are very busy, can they have time to play?"
Gao Xiaodong said: "Who doesn't want to exercise, I can't spare this time, you are the head snake of Portugal, you said that you want them to help, I don't believe they will refuse." β
Chen Qiang was speechless, is this a 17-year-old child? This is more cunning than he has been in the shopping mall for many years, but as everyone knows, Gao Xiaodong is still from a merchant family, and he has been in Internet cafes for many years, which is very different from a simple student.
Gao Xiaodong was very excited, and continued: "If you want to say something nice, just say that the amateur league is used to improve the reputation of Chinese football and prove that Chinese can also play football well, this is for the sake of the Hope Star Project, I think they will definitely agree." β
Chen Qiang pondered for a while, feeling that this thing was indeed feasible, so he said, "Okay, I'll try it and see if I can move them." β