Volume 3 Chapter 53 Ostensibly about football

Fernando and Ali, having achieved their goal, left the farm the next day. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info Chen Bo still stayed.

Today is the first day of the Farm Games. There will also be an opening ceremony for this Games, but not today, because today it will start with only team events, such as football and basketball. The opening ceremony will be three days later.

Chen Bo came this time to talk to Li Sheng about the selection of young players in China. This morning, there will be a football match.

In this sports meeting of Silent Farm, there are a total of five football teams that have signed up for it, and four of them are formed by people from the farm. The last team is the Cabocro team from Manaus, with Sandru Manuel as the leader and captain.

When Li Sheng and Chen Bo came to the sidelines of the football field, the two teams that were going to leave the field today were warming up. The crowd on the sidelines was not small. Most of the farm workers are working, but some come to watch the game. The most active, on the contrary, are the people of Gilolo and the villagers of Orishmina.

There are no coaches on either side, and it can't be considered a regular game, so there's nothing superfluous like a play. When the time is up, the security team members who act as referees are ready to start the game. And these security team members are all temporarily selected to be over the age of 30, and they have found a school teacher to learn how to act as a referee for a period of time.

Because Li Sheng asked the game to be as formal as possible, there were four referees in this game, two linesmen, one referee, and one assistant referee. As for the substitution, it was an ordinary worker who was in charge, and he had to record the score by the way, but he was not a member of the referee team.

In this game, try the Kapocrons and one of the farm's teams of herders. The game between the two sides was more than fierce and not exciting, but the audience cheered constantly. The villagers of Orichmina are more inclined to the Kabokro, while the farm workers are more inclined to the herdsmen's team. As for the Gilolo people, who still didn't understand why so many people on the court rushed to kick the ball away, they were in chaos.

At the end of the first half, the Herdsmen were down 1-2.

Even Li Sheng, who doesn't understand football, can see that in terms of cooperation, Cabocro is stronger and has better skills. This score, very normal.

At half-time, Sandru Manuel found Li Sheng.

It turned out that when he was playing, he had already found that Li Sheng was also watching the game, so he found an opportunity to come over.

His whitened Milan jersey was dirty and soaked. In a game like this, there is no second shirt for them to change, and they have to wear this suit in the second half. However, it will not be cold, so there is no need to worry about them catching a cold.

He gasped and smiled and said to Li Sheng, "Mr. Li, thank you very much for allowing us to participate in your sports meeting. ”

Li Sheng smiled and stretched out his hand: "It's a pleasure to see you Sandru again!"

Sandru Manuel was surprised and reached out to shake him for a moment: "I'm glad to see you too." ”

"When you participate in this sports day, it is not just an in-house sports day on our farm. It's our athletic day. You guys played really well in the game. ”

"Thank you. We're all amateurs, but we all love football. Sandru Manuel bared his white teeth. He also felt that the game could be won. "Thank you for giving us this opportunity. ”

In this Silent Farm Games, the football game is a single round-robin tournament, and a team needs to play four games. The winner of the match gets 3 points, the loser gets 0 points, and the draw gets 1 point each. Finally, if the points are the same, look at the goal difference, if the goal difference is the same, look at the relationship between the two sides, and if the two sides draw, look at the total number of goals. If it is still the same, the two teams are in the same ranking. The last point is different from the official sports meeting.

Sandru Manuel, who is aiming for a prize money, will certainly want to win as many matches as possible. He was worried that Silent Farm would be biased in favor of his own people in the referee, but the half of the game just now made him feel that the game was very fair. He was a smart man, and he knew that Li Sheng must have played a role in this.

As outsiders, they were not eligible to participate in the competition, after all, this is an internal activity of the Silent Farm, and they can participate in the competition for the 30,000 reais prize money, which is specially allowed by the farm. If it is said that without Li Sheng's nod, it is impossible.

And what Li Sheng said just now also shows that he doesn't care about the football championship being taken away by outsiders. This reassured him a lot.

Li Sheng smiled and said, "In Manaus, I feel that you are a good person. I think you Cabocro should be a good team, maybe it will add a lot to our athletic games. Maybe we'll have the same event in the future, and hopefully more Cabocro people will get involved. ”

Although Fernando gave in on that cooperation, he still felt that the farm should unite all the forces that could be united. The Caboquero may have always been at the bottom of Brazilian society and were not very numerous, but this is perhaps the easiest friend Silent Farm has right now.

"That's great. Sandru Manuel laughs. "This time, a lot of the Cabocro team envied us for being able to play in such a formal competition. Next time, maybe more Cabocros will be looking forward to playing in such a match. ”

He heard that Li Sheng did not exclude the Cabocro people from participating in the farm competition.

Li Sheng pointed to some of the children standing next to the Cabocrow players on the sidelines and asked, "Are those children of your tribe?"

"Yes. Sandru Manuel laughs. "They had to come along, saying they wanted to cheer us on. ”

Li Sheng looked at the children, who were between the ages of 11 and 14, and asked, "They don't have to go to school?"

Sandru Manuel put away his smile and said, "Their parents can't pay for their school fees. ”

After a ten-minute conversation, Sandru Manuel took his leave and needed to talk to his team-mates about the tactics for the second half.

Li Sheng and Chen Bo did not leave either, they watched the whole game. In the second half, the Cabocros still had the upper hand. Not long after the start of the second half, they scored again.

Chen Bo shook his head with a smile and said, "They cooperate better than your workers, and their technology is much better." You're going to lose this game. ”

Li Sheng was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "That's also a matter of no choice." Herdsmen are the ones who have the fewest opportunities to kick the ball. Their work is the heaviest on the farm, with hardly a day to spare. On the contrary, other workers often have free time to get together to play football. ”

"However, it has to be said that Brazilians seem to be naturally able to play football. They are obviously very amateur players as well, but they are not weak in their footwork, they play with confidence and are not afraid of mistakes. Chen Bo still smiled and shook his head.

He continued: "The last time you said you were going to select a group of children to study at Silent Farm, I was worried that it would not be useful because of the distance from the city and other teams. Now it seems that even in Silent Farm, maybe it is better than those football schools in China. ”

Soccer schools do not exist in Brazil. The children are either playing in the streets or training in the echelons of football clubs. If you pick a few kids from China, the Brazilian kids might learn more from playing football together than at the football schools back home.

"But what are you going to do?" Chen Bo was actually asking him what kind of promises and guarantees he could give. You must know that Huaxia's parents are not so easy to agree to let their children learn football abroad.

Li Sheng thought for a moment and said, "You hold a selection event in China, nationwide. Be absolutely impartial. The first batch was twenty-five, about twelve years old, who liked football. All the costs of the selection will be paid by me. If selected, tuition, fees, room and board are free of charge. Give a hundred reais of pocket money every month. But the child's parents cannot stay in Brazil. This one is very important. ”

He thought for a moment and said, "You can help find some teachers in China, English teachers, Chinese teachers, and math teachers who can teach junior high school and high school." It's best to find a few more counselors. ”

"You seem to take this very seriously. Chen Bo didn't expect Li Sheng to put in so much effort. Parents are not allowed to be in Brazil in order to exercise their children's independence, teachers are hired to ensure that children can continue to go to school even if they can't kick out for a few years, and psychological counselors are to ensure that children grow up mentally healthy.

Li Sheng said with a smile: "Since you want to do it, of course you have to do your best." He paused and said. "And I don't want to be limited to agriculture. ”

Silent Farms themselves, no matter how big they are, are just agricultural businesses. He wants to have a say in other industries, but he wants to be farm-based, which means he doesn't have much time to worry about other things. As for finding talents or something, it is not something that can be done with money, good birds choose trees to perch, and have a certain reputation in a certain industry, and no matter how rich you are, talents may not be able to look at you. After all, he is not a king, and there is no way to shake his body, there is this or that person crying and shouting and hugging his thighs. He hopes to start small and grow bigger in other industries.

And his investment in football has other plans.

Chen Bo thought for a while and said, "I will find a professional person to make a plan, and when you see it and think there is no problem, I will start there." ”

Li Sheng nodded and said, "There is no hurry to do this for the time being, the school building on my side will take at least half a year to be built." Even if you choose to come out, you won't be able to come here until at least next year. ”

Chen Bo nodded in understanding.

He didn't really have much hope for this selection. It's not that I'm worried that no one will come, but I don't expect the people to become stars. In his opinion, this selection is just to prevent Silent Farm from being scolded in the country. Because the products produced by Silent Farm have slowly become the focus of his business. He also hopes that the reputation of Silent Farm will get better and better in the country. As long as one or two of the selected people can be kicked out, the fame of Silent Farm will increase a lot in the country. It's still a big benefit for him.

About seventy minutes into the game, Cabocro made a substitution, a midfielder who looked like he was in his thirties was replaced by a child who looked like he was only twelve or thirteen years old. However, at this time, the Cabocros were already leading 3-1, even if Li Sheng felt that this substitution was a bit inexplicable, but he didn't think the herdsmen had any way to turn the situation around.

After all, this is a makeshift team, and there is not much sense of cooperation at all, and there is not much sense of the big picture. Even if they thought of finding a breakthrough from that child, even if they broke through that child, Li Sheng didn't think they had much chance of threatening the opponent's goal.

But to his surprise, the kid was very active when he came on the field. He turned out to be a back, although he is small, but very flexible, maybe he can't compete with adults physically, but he is very ghostly in steals, he will not be touched by people at all, and his feet are very resolute, very fast, and very accurate. The Rangers tried to break through to him several times, but he broke the ball and counterattacked. If it weren't for the lack of fitness in the late stages of the game, the kid's accurate passing might have caused the Rangers to concede two more goals.

However, Li Sheng saw that although the child's pass was accurate, he never stepped forward and only stayed behind to defend, which was very strange. He thinks that with such a long passing ability, long-range shooting is at least good.

Chen Bo is a half-fan, and he was very surprised by the child's footwork, saying: "That kid's long pass is too powerful." If it weren't for the fact that he was still too young, he could go to Huachao, and no matter what, at least he would be a super substitute. (To be continued.) )