In the early morning, when the sun rises and the city begins to wake up to life, the streets of Braga are not bustling with traffic.

Dressed in white sports short-sleeves and shorts, Tang Hong jogged in the city with his coach Wise.

It was already past eight o'clock in the morning when more pedestrians began to be noticeable, and they were not in a hurry, as if there was no sense of hurry, Portugal had similar economic problems as Spain, and looking at how laid-back their inhabitants were, it was understandable why they could not compete with Germany and France.

Passing by buildings of different styles, passing through the old city gates, and glancing at the murals on the blue, white, blue and white porcelain from time to time, Tang Hong is difficult to have much enthusiasm for the city, and he personally yearns for two extremes, either prosperous and fashionable, or paradise.

In a city that retains much of its medieval classicism, he could not find the elements that would inspire young people.

It is indeed a great place to retire.

When he and Wise returned to the hotel after their morning exercise, the two simply rinsed off the sweat on their bodies and changed their clothes and came to the lobby of the hotel.

Tang Hong learned Portuguese with Wise while having breakfast, and the reason why Wise followed Tang Hong to Braga is that he knows some Portuguese and does not dare to say that he is proficient, but there is no big problem with simple communication in the field of football.

This course begins when you leave Mexico on a plane.

After eating breakfast and resting for a while, Tang Hong explained a few words to Sun Rou and then left the hotel with Wise, and the two took a car to the Braga training base.

In addition to the big three clubs in Portugal, other clubs can be called small teams, and Braga is no exception.

Benfica has the highest public support rating among teams in Portugal, with nearly 45% of Portuguese fans being Benfica fans, while Porto and Sporting Lisbon combined have close to 50%!

Then it was Braga's turn, with only a pitiful 1.4%.

But if you think about it from another angle, the support of other Portuguese league teams is even lower, let alone the teams in the first division.

Braga's training base is not big, even smaller than some of the training bases that Tang Hong visited in China's U17 echelon friendly matches, after all, the country is small, the city is small, and the scale of the club is naturally small.

At the same time, because the youth training system has only matured in the last ten years, the previous Portuguese youth training system was completely supported by the three giants, and in the past ten years, it is the reform of the Portuguese Football Association that has helped other teams in Portugal improve the youth training system and mature.

It is completely inappropriate to simply think that Portuguese players are highly talented and therefore skilled, which is directly related to the way the football soil is cultivated, such as the education of young people in Italy: you look at where the opponent's goal is? Then you'll have to get the football there!

This approach is to focus on instilling tactical awareness in players from an early age.

Portugal, on the other hand, pays more attention to cultivating players' one-on-one, one-on-two, and even one-on-three abilities, and constantly improves their ability to cope with complex situations in the game!

This is one of the reasons why Tang Hong finally decided to come to Braga, which is obviously more in line with Tang Hong's current needs because of his Portuguese football style than Montlipier, because he is still growing up, and he needs a challenging environment that matches his own technical characteristics and grows better.

When Wise and Tang Hong arrived at the Braga training base, they registered their information at the doorman and entered it.

Looking at the still empty training ground, Tang Hong showed a hint of yearning, and then returned to calm.

Arriving at the administration building, Tang Hong and Wise waited outside the head coach's office for about 20 minutes before meeting Braga's new coach, Yaltim, who can also be called a young coach.

Yaltim, who is only 37 years old this year, began his coaching career at the age of less than 30, and has been coaching small teams in Portugal before, from the first division to the super league, and just became the new coach of Braga at the beginning of the month.

Yaltim, who is not yet middle-aged but is already a Mediterranean, simply shaved his hair, his head is shiny, but he is in good spirits and has the full energy of a young marshal, after he saw Tang Hong, he walked up with a smile and shook hands with Tang Hong, and then introduced himself to Wise and entered the office.

Yaltim's previous team was Bellamar, where he had a disciple named Wang Gang, a Chinese player.

After the Portuguese media reported that Yaltim would take over the municipal stadium in Braga at the beginning of last month, the Chinese football media speculated that Wang Gang might have the opportunity to come to Braga with Yaltim, on the grounds that Wang Gang had traveled with Yaltim to Chavez and Bellamar over the years, and could be said to be a close disciple of Yaltium, and they took it for granted that Yaltim would continue to bring Wang Gang to a new club.

But they may have overlooked Braga's president, Antonio Salvador, who also made a record request while welcoming Yaltium.

At least the top four in the league, at least one champion in the two local cups, and the European competition will follow.

This means that Yaltim can't be as easy as he used to coach Belmala, it's not a big deal if he doesn't play well, and he can win applause if he plays well!

In Braga you have to win the championship!

Because of this, Wang Gang did not come to Braga, and by chance, Al Tim found Tang Hong through the club's scout's player evaluation report for the World Junior Championships, and after watching a few matches of the Chinese national junior team, he decided to let the club sign the player, at least convincing El Salvador that there was no problem at the cost.

Even if it is a long-term investment, it makes sense.

Is there a need to hesitate to bring a World Junior Championship MVP under the command of a cost-free MVP?

Even if evaluated by strength, Wang Gang, who is also free, Yaltim does not dare to make his own decision to let the club sign, it will really only waste the other party's youth and make trouble for himself, but Tang Hong's performance in the World Junior Championships is enough for Yaltim to think that he is a manufacturable material.

In the office, the two sides can only communicate in the simplest way, so there is no greeting and going straight to the point.

Al Tim asked Tang Hong to train with the team for the summer first, and based on his training performance, he would decide whether to give him a contract within a week.

Tang Hong has no objection to this, he is here for trial, and he can't throw the World Junior Championship medal on the other party's table to ask for a contract, right?

Yaltium walked out the door and called assistant coach Antonio Vieira next door and asked him to take Tang Hong to the locker room of the training base and arrange it for him.

Wise hesitated a little and asked Tang Hong if he needed him to accompany him throughout the whole process, Tang Hong shook his head and said: "You go back to the hotel, help me see the houses nearby, if the club gives me a contract, I won't live in the hotel, the budget is two million euros, and help me see where it is convenient to learn to drive and get a driver's license nearby, if they don't want me in the end, then you will pass the time." ”

Wise smiled, although he was not as close to Tang Hong as Van der Heer, he also knew Tang Hong's style of acting.

Since they spoke Chinese, others couldn't understand it, so they didn't pay attention to it.

Tang Hong followed assistant coach Vieira to the locker room of the training base, at this time several players had already arrived to start training, they were sitting there chatting, talking Portuguese Tang Hong could not understand.

The 35-year-old goalkeeper asked Vieira: "Another newcomer?" ”

Vieira nodded, "yes, it's a bit of trouble, he can only speak English." ”

"Okay, do you need help?"

"I'll just arrange a place for him, and I'll talk about the rest when I train, and I don't know if he can stay."

Tang Hong followed Vieira to the unplated wardrobe in the corner of the dressing room, where Vieira said to him in the simplest English: "It's yours, use the common area at will." ”

The so-called common areas are toilets, bathrooms, and massage rooms in other rooms.

Tang Hong nodded to show that he understood, Vieira asked him to wait here, went out and came back quickly, and brought him three sets of clothes, all of which were jerseys and training uniforms without numbers, socks and other equipment.

As for the sneakers, I must have brought them myself.

Tang Hong glanced at the other people in the locker room, they didn't care about Tang Hong, and they seemed to be used to someone coming suddenly and someone leaving suddenly.

After determining which clothes the others were wearing, Tang Hong began to change clothes neatly.

After changing, he left the locker room, and others ignored him, and he was not interested in greeting anyone.