Chapter 49: Flamenco Battle
Yes, Wang Jian is contacting the leader of the National Olympic team!
Although Wang Jian was not in Brazil last year, he still knows Wu Qi's situation here.
With Wu Qi's current strength, he can go to the National Olympic team to give it a try.
The current national Olympic team is all cultivated by the domestic youth training system. Xue Gang was also tapped thanks to the influence of the Shenhua Club in China.
However, there is no systematic scouting work in China, and most of the seedlings are recommended by the coaches of various sports schools and football schools. Even the young players who have overseas training are mostly from the system.
Like Wu Qi, a player who is alone overseas, he doesn't know anything about it in China.
Unless, Wu Qi can break out of the world in Brazil and make himself famous.
But after all, Wu Qi is only sixteen years old, and it seems obviously impossible at present.
Therefore, Wang Jian has been mainly busy with Wu Qi's next development recently.
As we all know, Brazil is known as the kingdom of football, but there is another place in the world where the football system and level are far greater than those of South America.
This place is Europe.
Wu Qi will turn 17 next year, and his contract with São Paulo is about to expire.
Wang Jian hopes to propel Wu Qi to the world stage so that European giants can take notice of the Asian youngster.
If that is the case, whether Wu Qi lands in Europe or not, he will be able to take the initiative in the contract issue at hand.
Lima's recommendation is not wrong, Wang Jian is a very potential agent.
At this point, he has shown the foresight of an agent.
Of course, he couldn't say all this to Wu Qi now, because that would distract Wu Qi.
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Match day.
São Paulo travels to Rio to challenge flamengo.
Flamengo is the number one club in Brazil and has been extremely strong in the Brazilian Liga and La La in recent years.
Wu Qi found out in the past two days that although there was nothing wrong with Sintani on the surface, he actually seemed to be troubled by something.
As soon as no one was around, Sintani immediately fell into a daze, completely absent-minded.
In stark contrast to him is Noah.
Noah is now the tuning agent in the locker room, giggling all day long. Now he is quite popular.
"I hope everything is okay!" Seeing Noah driving everyone to laugh, Wu Qi was a little optimistic.
Today's youth league match still attracts tens of thousands of fans at the Maracanã Stadium.
São Paulo and flamenco are also rivals of the year.
Tonight, the flamengo fans will surely take good care of São Paulo, who has come from afar.
"Hey, Mike, why are you here too? Wow! Your face is so bad!" Wu Qi, who was about to play, was surprised to find Wang Jian standing in the players' tunnel.
"Come on, laugh!" Wang Jian held the DV in his hand and recorded it for Wu Qi.
Wu Qi waved his hand towards the camera.
"I have some things to do these days, and I haven't slept well!" Wang Jian adjusted the DV, "I heard that today's game is very important, so I came here." Look! The DV is here, you have to do it! Send it back to your parents!"
"Really?!Damn, if you didn't say it earlier, I should have shaved this hair a long time ago!" Wu Qi complained about Wang Jian.
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The game between the two sides is about to begin!
Wu Qi patted Sintani's face.
"Dude, cheer up!"
Sintani smiled at Wu Qi, "Got it!"
The opponent kicks off first!
The overall strength of flamengo is strong and relatively average. The strikers were the 1.82-meter-tall Mauricio and the incredibly fast Adrian, while the two centre-backs Gonzalez and Malone were both tall.
It is also the menacing trend of Flamengo's home fans.
This game is just a vicious battle!
Wu Qi observed the situation on the field and couldn't help but take a breath!
Sure enough, Flamengo were the first to get into the groove and threaten a couple of times up front.
The opponent's Adrian, although he is short, is very agile.
Adrian appears to be a striker at first glance, but his position is erratic due to his rabbit-like pace. It can not only break through in the middle to create a killing chance, but also pull to the side to cross the bottom.
Under several attacks by the opponent, Sao Paulo's defense was a little tight.
Wu Qi remembered what Noah said, he was most afraid of the opponent's striker dangling in front of him.
Noah was rough, but he was very reasonable.
In fact, defenders don't like "too jumpy" forwards, especially central defenders.
Centre-backs are generally tall.
In the face of a striker like Xiao Kuailing, in addition to accurate positioning and advance prediction, once half of the body is flashed, the central defenders are helpless.
One of Adrian's breakthroughs failed, and the ball was cut off by Noah.
Although the defenders are a little embarrassed, Noah's performance so far has been relatively consistent.
Noah found Wu Qi as soon as possible and passed the ball out.
Wu Qi has been in the midfield of his own side, and this is an opportunity to play a counterattack.
Just as he was about to break through, Wu Qi was tripped up!
"Beep!" the referee gave a free kick to Sao Paulo's backfield.
Wu Qi stood up helplessly.
The flamengo fans at the scene rang out shrill boos at this time, and some even cursed Wu Qi.
"You guys are so reasonable when you foul!" Wu Qi scolded in his heart.
Although he felt uncomfortable, Wu Qi couldn't do anything, so he ran to the field stupidly.
In this game, Wu Qi was still "taken care of", basically he had to face the encirclement and interception of the opponent's two defenders.
Soon, Wu Qi got the ball again.
Piercing boos rang out again from the scene.
As soon as the Sao Paulo players got the ball, the crowd was booed.
Wu Qi tried his best to control himself and not be affected by the boos.
Flamengo's defense is very solid, but after some attack, Wu Qi still found a gap in the back of the Flamengo team.
The ball is tucked at the feet of Sintani and will go over the backline.
Sintani was clearly unprepared, and his stop ruined the attack.
Sintanni's face of remorse!
However, Sintani then squandered a couple of chances and didn't even get a shot on target.
It was McCaw and Rodriguez who created some chances on goal.
Mario was obviously extremely dissatisfied with the offensive efficiency of the frontcourt, and frequently stood up, using both hands and feet, to direct the disciples on the field.
Bang!
Wu Qi flashed the defender and shot from a distance!
But hit high.
Wu Qi played normally in this game and still created several good opportunities in the frontcourt. Had it not been for Sintani squandering those chances, Sao Paulo could well have taken the lead by now.
In desperation, Wu Qi tried his luck outside the forbidden area.
At half-time, the score was still 0-0.
In fact, the overall performance of Sao Paulo in the first half was still very good.
Defensively, there was no problem. On the offensive end, Wu Qi's organization is quite threatening, and several attacks are close to scoring. Only this kick at the door has never been ended.
Mario didn't blame everyone for that at halftime. He wants the big guys to play well in the second half and try to score.
The whole team cheered each other on and started the second half!
Flamengo strengthened the midfield's defense in the second half, especially the restriction on Wu Qi.
After the duel in the first half, the opponent's coach obviously found Wu Qi's threat, so he made such an adjustment.
However, Wu Qi had already prepared.
Watching Adrian's performance in the first half, Wu Qi was inspired.
Wu Qi did not deliberately stay in the middle, but kept shuttling between the two wings and the middle.
As in guerrilla warfare, the command post changes with the changing tide of battle.
Both teams have their own characteristics in attack.
For a time, the two sides were evenly matched, and it was very stalemate.
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