If you have to say, why can Brazil's Sao Paulo team be so tough and ...... when the Chinese Football Association wants to recruit their players three weeks before the game Unlike the other four European clubs, they are tough and persistent. (Flower Good Pastoral ML/3/3266/IML)

The first reason for this is that they don't have a broadcast market in China at all...... And there are really not many Chinese in Brazil. Although you can say that there will be Chinatowns and Chinese settlements in South American countries, these Chinese in Brazil cannot be compared with the Chinese in Europe in terms of number and proportion of local residents.

In other words, the Sao Paulo team did not consider what additional benefits and attention his nationality could bring to the club when they signed Thunderwing. If there's anything they value on Ray Wing, it's his long legs that are the same as those of the Brazilian's favourite Garrincha.

The second reason is that Brazil's teams are extremely busy. If you compare the big teams in Europe, generally speaking, European teams only need to play their domestic leagues, cups, and Champions League or Europa League. However, Brazil's teams also need to play their domestic continental championships, as well as the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana Club, which are the equivalent of the Champions League and Europa League in Europe, and the two competitions do not overlap at all, and as long as you qualify enough and are strong enough, a team can win the Copa Libertadores trophy at the same time.

It is precisely because of this that, basically, those strong teams in Brazil are in a situation of fighting on the third line all year round, and perhaps the players who play in the Brazilian first division have been able to calmly face the days when they need to play three games a week.

The third reason is that the difference in strength between the Brazilian teams is not very large, and the competition in the league is extremely fierce. The defending champion of the Brazilian First Division last season was relegated to the Brazilian Second Division this season, and even a Brazilian team was relegated to the Copa Libertadores, the highest level of competition between South American clubs, when they were relegated to the championship trophy in their own domestic league! Anything like this is happening all the way in Brazil.

In other words, Brazil's clubs need to be vigilant at all times, and they must not be able to relax even the slightest.

In such a situation...... If you want the São Paulo team to give up their fast-rising star this season, a week is enough for them to entangle for a while, this time the Chinese team simply asked the players to go to the training camp together three weeks before the start of the game against Ecuador, people really can't do it!!

Moreover, the São Paulo team has another layer of scruples and worries about the call-up of Thunder Wing.

The World Cup qualifiers are played over two legs, home and away, with only a week between the two legs. So, the Chinese team called up their super rookie three weeks earlier for the first round of the intercontinental play-offs in the World Cup qualifiers, so the week between the two intercontinental play-offs ...... Will the Chinese team really give Lei Yi back to them?

The Brazilians said, don't tease them, don't believe it!

At this time, in the training base of the Sao Paulo team in Brazil, two Brazilian football coaches who are also somewhat famous in their hometown are fighting in front of the younger generation of players. One of them pulled the hair of the other, and the other punched each other in the stomach. Oh! It's so tragic that one person even has his belt ripped off!!

The person closest to the center of the storm was the cause of the two fights.

Although Brazilian fans may often stage riots on the pitch, Lei Yi has only been in Brazil for less than half a year and has already seen a riot in the stadium. The Thunder Wing said...... This scene in front of him was really the first time he had seen it in his life!!

Lei Yi glanced left and right, and then again, and his mouth almost whimpered. He was anxious, but he felt that his small body really didn't know what to do with those two big guys.

"No matter who it is!! Come and help! Help pull them away!! ”

Fifteen minutes later, the riot that took place in the Sao Paulo club's training base finally stopped, but Lei Yi, who was sitting face to face with the two Brazilian head coaches, brought the head coach of the Chinese team, Andrik, a bolt from the blue.

"Sir! I'm sorry for you, sir!! The big river it's gone! I, I, I, I have altitude sickness!! ”

Andrik, the head coach of the Chinese team who had not exercised at this intensity for a long time and was still panting, felt dizzy almost the moment he heard this sentence......

Five days later.

All the 23-man players of the Chinese team who entered the intercontinental play-offs of this round of qualifiers have finally arrived and started their closed training in Quito, Ecuador. Although, the assembly was completed 16 days earlier, which was still much later than the 21 days that manager Andric had originally envisioned. However, arriving at Ecuador's home stadium so many days earlier to acclimatize to the altitude was a record for any team playing against Ecuador.

Because of the particularity of the venue where the game was played, the head coach also considered the player's place of birth and place of origin when recruiting players. Among them, one player was accidentally called up because he was from Jingyuan, Gansu Province, and another player was also called up by the national team for the first time because his hometown was in Golmud.

Jingyuan and Golmud in Gansu Province, one is 2,000 meters above sea level, and the other is 2,800 meters above sea level.

It is believed that for those who come from these two places, it will not be a problem to play football at an altitude of 2,850 meters above sea level in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. However, although China has a lot of land and resources, no matter how the head coach is, he can't find a starting 11 people who are all from areas above 2,000 meters above sea level.

And what is worrying is that the team should be the most energetic little Garin Charley wing...... He turned out to be one of the most severe altitude sickness in the whole team!!

Although, before this, Lei Yi already knew that he would have altitude sickness, and this reaction may not be small, but after actually arriving in Quito and training with his national team teammates, he will feel very frustrated in the face of his own situation.

That's right, that day his club teammate, Brazilian Dominguez, took Thunder Wing to the highest mountain in the state of São Paulo at an altitude of more than 2,700 meters. When he got there, Lei Yi didn't feel anything, but when he woke up the next morning, Lei Yi felt very unmotivated.

At first, he didn't pay much attention to it, he just thought that he hadn't slept well the day before.

But then he started climbing, running, and juggling the ball at an altitude of 2,700 meters, and it was a disaster!

He felt dizzy, his ears were buzzing all the time, and some movements that were usually done with great ease had become so difficult at that time! After Lei Yi told Dominguez all his feelings, the other party told him with great certainty that he should have come to the ruinous conclusion that he was more sensitive to high altitudes.

Lei Yi hoped that if he took the medicine to relieve altitude sickness and adjusted to it for a few more days in Quito, his condition would improve. But three days after he went to Quito to start the training camp, his condition still did not change much.

So the energetic Lei Yi in the past became sick, and he was not even interested in talking loudly to people, even if it was a half-time training to practice tactics, he was out of breath after only thirty minutes, and for another thirty minutes, he could basically only lie on the ground and wait for help.

In this way, Thunder Wing's name quietly disappeared from the starting list of this crucial battle.

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"Fans and friends, it's half past nine in the morning Beijing time, and half past seven in the evening local time in Ecuador. We should say that we are glad that today is the weekend, so the fans and friends can join us to watch the live broadcast of this game! ”

The long-awaited November has finally arrived, and the full list of the top 32 for next year's World Cup will be revealed this month.

Before that, the four teams competing in the World Cup intercontinental play-offs will need to fight for the last two tickets to next year's World Cup.

Today, the Chinese team has come to Ecuador's home stadium in South America, the Atajualpa Football Stadium at an altitude of 2,800 meters. This is destined to be the most difficult battle that must be crossed in front of them on the road to the World Cup.

"Before the game starts, we probably have to say a very sad piece of news. Lei Yi, a talented teenager who contributed three shots and one pass, was not in the starting list for this game. Since the Chinese team has been training behind closed doors since arriving in Quito, it is unclear why Mr. Andric failed to put such an impressive youngster in the starting line-up. ”

As soon as the broadcast signal of the game arrived, the camera lens gave a long shot of the Atawalpa football stadium from far to near. The course doesn't have a huge roof, and it's not one of the world's most luxurious five-star courses. However, this is a professional football stadium, and the design of the stadium is not too high, so that you can see the capital city of Ecuador at a glance.

The most eye-catching of these is obviously the light blue sky that can only be found at high altitudes, and the huge mountains that seem to form a beautiful backdrop for the course not far away.

Soon, the camera of the game scene was on the many Ecuadorian home fans in the stadium. In this South American highland, nearly eight adults at the Atawalpa football stadium wear yellow shirts and dark blue shorts.

That's the home jersey of the Ecuadorian team.

And on this South American continent, which is so far away from the Far East of Asia, there are many fans wearing red jerseys who came to cheer for the Chinese team today. Although the Chinese fans in the red jerseys of this J□J look like stars and red dots in the Atajualpa Football Stadium, the home of the Ecuadorian team, it is not easy to do so given the distance between Ecuador and the far east and the difficulty of Chinese people coming to this country.

"Before the game, I thought I'd have to tell you what makes Ecuador's home stadium so special that it's the second hell in South America! Some teams have become famous for their home stadiums because of the enthusiasm of their home fans, the power they unleash on the away team, and the endless way of cheering for their home team. And some stadiums, it has become a famous hellish home stadium abroad, because of its natural conditions! The second highest hellish course in South America, it is built on a plateau at an altitude of 2,800 meters! But I would also like to say that I'm glad we met Ecuador, not Bolivia. Compared to Ecuador's home stadium of Quito at an altitude of 2,800 meters, Bolivia's home stadium has made all the away teams who come here to fight suffer even more! In La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, the altitude is even as high as 3,577 meters! In recent years, South American powerhouses such as Brazil, Argentina, and Chile have all had a record of losing at home in Bolivia! ”

The person who said this was another commentator of the game, the current central five sets of leading football commentators, Rong Naida. He has a great voice and a passion that exhales. What is even more commendable is that every word of his is pronounced very clearly, and the words are correct and round. And he spoke very quickly and clearly in this piece of words, and every sentence he wanted to say clearly.

It was by the time the two commentators of the game said that the players of both teams had already entered the field. And as the commentator said earlier, the 16-year-old winger Lei Yi, who came out of nowhere in the last Chinese national team match, was not in the starting eleven.

He sat on the bench next to the manager's box, along with the other twelve who made the squad.

The weather is beautiful today, and even if you broadcast it on TV in guò, you can feel how hot the sun is on this South American summer day. Thunder Wing draped the team's training uniforms over his head, as if to block out the too harsh sun. Although the on-site director gave the camera to the South American fan who knew the most about the players of the Chinese team, but in the shadow of the training uniform, people couldn't see his expression clearly, and they couldn't guess what he was thinking at the moment through the camera.

Garrincha, who was very energetic in the past, had been unusually silent since before the start of this match. He knows where he is at the moment and that's why he can't ask the manager to play according to his nature. But even so, he will still be very unwilling in his heart.

This year's Lei Yi is still very young, young enough to be 16 years old, shortly after making his debut for the national team. And this is also the first time that Lei Yi realized that although he is strong, so strong that in his opinion, as long as he is allowed to play, he can create countless chances on the right side, no matter how strong the opponent is. But football is never so simple. A victory is far from easy to get.

In that game, the Chinese team finally lost 1-3 to the Ecuador team.

It wasn't until the 67th minute of the game that another No. 11 player of the Chinese team was replaced as the manager's killer weapon.

But in the end, the young and vigorous player who didn't know what the frustration was, failed to score a goal on the field, nor did he create an assist. He didn't get anything in this game, or ...... The only thing he got was disappointment in the people who had high expectations for him.