19. Chapter XIX

19 Granada vs Rayo Vallecano 1

Jorge Mendes, who is the "godfather of superstars" in European football today, owns the company Gestifute with more than 50 players and coaches with a combined value of more than 550 million euros.

His own experience is legendary, and he has already shown a strong business acumen as a player. He contracted the advertising rights for the faΓ§ade of the stadium and later opened a football video rental and sales store, which was the beginning of his rise to the pinnacle of professional football agent. With GuΓ², a football video rental and sales store, he knows everything about players from all over the world and understands the importance of image rights.

In 2004, with Portugal's Porto side winning the UEFA Champions League, Jorge Mendes sent a number of players and Jose Mourinho to Chelsea, earning Porto the biggest ever income and his first major career success. Many years later, with the highest value in history - 96 million euros, Ronaldo's transfer to Real Madrid caused a sensation all over the world, and since then, Jorge Mendes has become the most powerful agent in Europe. Last year, he successfully helped Real Madrid sign Colombian star Cristiano Ronaldo, who shone at the World Cup in Brazil, which became another highlight of his career.

Because Leo is not a talkative person himself, he listens carefully most of the time during the whole conversation with Mendes. The other party's warm, humorous and well-organized conversation made him feel very comfortable, but the only thing that really moved him was one sentence: "You don't have to worry about the trivial work and life outside the court, we will all take care of it for you." All you have to do is focus on training, be at your best and get the most out of your performance on the pitch. ”

The cooperation between Leo and Mendes was quickly finalized under the strong promotion of Ronaldo, and the gold agent was very satisfied with his efficiency, and he had other things to take care of, so he left and left.

Leo feels that Ronaldo and Mendes are good partners at work and good friends in life. I've never seen a superstar as old-fashioned and enthusiastic as him, and he has gone out of his way to help his agent recruit other players.

Ronaldo slapped him on the head and rubbed it vigorously: "I don't know what to do." ”

Leo said kindly: "Then, thank you for your hard work." ”

Cristiano Ronaldo slapped his head twice: "Work hard and use your own strength to prove to me that you are worthy of this." "Thank you, I won't let you down." Leo looked up and smiled, revealing a shallow dimple on the right side of his face. He rarely laughs, and when he has to laugh, he symbolically pulls the corners of his mouth, and he is rarely as bright as he is now.

After finishing the business, Leo was about to say goodbye and leave, when Mini Luo ran out of the room and threw himself on Leo's lap: "Brother Leo, let's go play football, okay, I'll teach you to take penalties." ”

Leo picked him up and sat him on his lap: "I haven't taken a penalty yet, can you really teach me?" ”

Mini Luo nodded very seriously: "Yes, teach you like I taught my father." ”

Ronaldo said: "Yes, the teaching is great." ”

Leo kissed him lightly on the cheek, "But not today, I have to go." ”

Cristiano Ronaldo was a little surprised by his behavior of slapping his ass and leaving after his business was done: "Do you want to stay for lunch, my chef's smoked salmon with sour cream and white truffle is excellent." ”

Leo said with great regret: "Next time, I have to rush back to Granada as much as possible, and I still have training in the afternoon." ”

Ronaldo waved his hand in disappointment: "Let's go." He didn't mean to send him off, but Mini Lo took Leo's hand and wanted to send him to the door.

Leo complained in his heart: "You are not as sensible as your son." ”

At 3 p.m., Leo started running an hour early for endurance training. It was close to three o'clock when the teammates came to the training ground one after another.

They drew 1-1 with Espanyol on Saturday. The players looked as usual and were in a relaxed state. The first few league games were too high, and the occasional draw was acceptable, and their main scorers were out of action.

In the 11th round of the league, Granada will challenge Rayo Vallecano at the Estadio Vallecas in Madrid this Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

Rayo Vallecano has one win, three draws and six losses in the first 10 rounds of the league, accumulating 6 points and ranking at the bottom of the league.

This is a soft persimmon that is easier to pinch than Granada, and it should be easy to win three points away from home, which is probably one of the reasons why his teammates seem to be so relaxed.

Leo took every training plan seriously, as always, and did not take it lightly because he was about to face a weak team, after all, Granada was also a weak team for Barcelona in the first place, but the result of the game was unexpected.

At the end of the session, Marchis jumped on Leo's back like a monkey, put his hands around his neck and asked, "What about my autograph?" ”

Signature? Leo had forgotten about it a long time ago. So he panicked: "I haven't seen Ronaldo." ”

He had spent three days with his neighbors, and only came out of his neighbor's house in the morning.

"Cheat!" Marchis jumped off his back, pulled out his phone, tapped it twice, and held it up in front of him, barely slapping the screen in his face.

Leo looked at it, it was a photo that someone had posted on INS, in Madrid's Cayo Square, Cristiano Ronaldo, who had just removed his face disguise, pulled a young boy with a low brim and ran across the street......

There are hundreds of thousands of messages below:

"That person is Leo Fernandez. Is this the rhythm of holding hands in public? ”

"Look clearly upstairs, how can there be hand in hand, my husband obviously pulled his wrist."

"President, let go of my male god and let me come!"

"Weakly asked...... Is this coming out? ”

"Is this coming out +1"

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What is coming out? Leo almost blurted out a question, but his intuition was not a good thing, so he held back, wrote it down and went home to check it himself.

Leo can only use a delaying tactic to appease his friends first: "The last game before Christmas is against Real Madrid, I will try to be better with my cousin and change his shirt for you." ”

Christmas was still a little over a month away, and although Marchis felt that his promise was a bit unreliable, he didn't want to embarrass his good friend too much, so he gave him a step down: "Okay, I'm sure you can do it." ”

But when the two of them changed their clothes and went home together, Marchis unconsciously asked: "What about your hat, don't you wear it every day?" ”

"Forgot at home." Leo feels that his little friend is like a wife who is always suspicious of her husband's cheating, and does not let go of any clues. And he himself is like a husband who has a mistress, telling lies and covering up.

At half past three in the afternoon on Sunday, in the 11th round of La Liga, Rayo Vallecano hosted Granada. The 15,000-seat Ballecas Stadium was packed. However, there weren't many home fans among them. Madrid, a city that has never had a shortage of good football clubs, has the Galacticos Real Madrid and the Sheets Army Atletico Madrid. The fans simply don't have a lot of energy and emotion to share with underdogs like Getafe and Rayo Vallecano.

So the 15,000 fans present are divided into some home fans, some away fans, and some of someone's fans.

The whole grandstand remembered Leo's name one after another, and everyone almost thought that this was actually Granada's home stadium.

This made Rayo Vallecano's coaches and players feel very embarrassed, they were already at the bottom of the points, and they wanted to use the home advantage to win the overall strength of Granada, which is not very strong, to force the three points, but at present, it seems that they do not even have the home advantage.

The expressions on each of their faces when they walked out of the players' tunnel were very strict, and they had no choice but to fight today.

"Hello everyone, this is the sports channel of Spanish national television. That's right, I'm your old friend Eddie Mendoza. Today, I am still commenting on this wonderful event, and the reason is that it is said that some spectators have asked my boss to make yΓ¬, and I will explain the matches of Granada in the future. Well, it's just a joke. The starting line-up for the home and away teams has been announced, and with the referee's whistle, the first half of the game began, with Rayo Vallecano kicking off first. ”

Rayo Vallecano Javigra fired a left-footed shot from the right side of the penalty area, but the ball was deflected wide of the goal. Oh my God, Rayo Vallecano had his first shot on goal less than a minute into the game. None of the Granada's defenders are yet to get into shape. ”

Leo has a full view of the whole process of the opponent's striker's shot, in fact, the position is not good, and the left foot is not the opponent's habitual foot, but the quality of the shot is very high, and the opponent's desire to score points is also very strong. He was faintly uneasy in his heart, today's Rayo Vallecano's momentum is very similar to Granada against Barcelona that day, and Granada can snatch three points from Barcelona with his tenacious will, not to mention that today's Granada is away from home, and the strength is on par with the opponent, and this game is difficult to imagine.