Chapter 48: Winning the Jackpot
Kuchi's name, like Kaka, is just a nickname, and his original name is José Luis Salazar, who was born in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, and followed his father to Spain at the age of one. His father was a Uruguay international who played in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and played for the Spanish league for a long time. However, Salazar Jr. has joined Spain's U15 and U16 national teams in turn because of his dual nationality, and became one of the members of Spain's U17 at the European Youth Championship in May last year.
Kutch is a left-footed player who is 177cm tall and weighs only 73kg, but he is very skilled, using his skillful dribbling and nimble off-ball movement on the court to overcome opponents who are taller and stronger than him. The position he excels at is neither a striker nor a midfielder, but a nine-and-a-half in between. After Enzo's departure, Li Mudi intends to deploy a partner for Mariano at the edge of the penalty area, and Kuchi will have a range of movement further forward than the previous Enzo, similar to the previous combination of Morientes and Raul, with a second point of attack in the face of the opposition's dense defense. As for the original organization of Enzo, part of the work will be handed over to Odegaard in the back, and the range of activities of the Norwegian teenager will also be moved forward by three to five meters, while the new signing Kuchi will also retreat at the right time to share the work of connecting the whole team.
Through the FM system, the difference between the old and new cores can be intuitively seen in the numerical value, Kuchi has the advantage of individual assault ability such as dribbling, shooting, heading, running off the ball and explosiveness, while Enzo's strengths are the ability to pass and receive, imagination, teamwork and other abilities that can drive the whole team. Compared with the latter, the former is three years younger, and there is a gap of eight points in the ability value, but it is nearly thirty points higher in potential, which has a strong training value.
As a graduate of Málaga's academy, the lad has long been regarded as the club's standard-bearer for the future, and the current manager of the team, Xavi Garcia, has more than once declared that he is keeping an eye on Kuci, hoping that he will be more consistent in the development squad and ready to promote him to the first team in the future. It stands to reason that such Raul and Torres-like hopefuls are difficult to be poached by other teams, but Li Mudi, who has the help of future information and FM system, clearly knows that Malaga has been secretly contacting Barcelona's talented striker Sandro Ramírez Castillo (Sandro Ramírez Castillo) this winter, whose contract expires in the summer and will come to Malaga as a free agent. At only 19 and a half years old, Sandro is already a first-class striker who can play as a main player in Europe's top leagues, and Kutche, who still needs a lot of time to develop, has naturally lost his previous position in importance, and the offer was made by Real Madrid, who almost no one can refuse, and this transfer has been a success for countless people.
The new tactics require Kuchi and Odegaard to add a lot of running, which is very difficult for two people with only 9 and 12 stamina respectively, and the coaching staff immediately arranged endurance intensive training for the two men, hoping to let them break through the limit of growth in about a month and meet the basic requirements of the manager.
With five days to go until the weekend's league game, Kuchi was also ambushed in the box in Málaga's reserve system, but at that time he played more like Messi, with plenty of dribbling to break down opposition defences. In Castile, individual breakthroughs are more used on the wings, with the middle mainly relying on passing and running to mobilize the opponent's defence, and the direct pass diagonal and inserting to grab points are the tactical requirements of the nine-and-a-half. Therefore, cultivating a tacit understanding with teammates in the shortest possible time is the primary training goal after the new signings join, and now the daily tactical drills are actually the remaining ten players who are accompanying Kuqi to familiarize themselves with the routine. Since comprehension is not something that can be achieved in a while, several people in the front court also designed some special slogans and gestures for each other to help new teammates integrate into the team's offensive system as soon as possible.
In addition, Li Mudi also made some changes in the team's backline, and Álvaro Bernabeu, who had a tepid performance in the first half of the season, was sold to U.D. Merilla in the B4 group of La Liga. Melilla), the transfer fee is only a symbolic 20,000 euros. The progress of the centre-back, who shares the same surname as the club's legendary chairman, over the past few months has been hard for the team to accept, and according to scouting tools at the beginning of the month, his stats have only increased a little bit from July, and his potential has dropped by two points.
After sending off the Bernabeu, Li Mudi promoted 17-year-old Manu Hernando from his friend Guti's Real Madrid Under-19s to Castilla's standing list, and according to scouting tools, his double value has reached 85/154, the highest potential of the club's young generation of central defenders except Vallejo. In reality, in addition to being only 179cm tall, Manu has excellent talent in the three most important abilities of headers, markers and tackles, with his extremely fast speed and super high determination, as long as he can improve in anticipation and card position in the future, Santiago Sanchez, the coach in charge of defensive training, even predicts that he is likely to become a low-profile version of Cannavaro. This evaluation is not high, which shows that everyone is very optimistic about the future development of the young man, so Li Mudi hopes that Manu can learn from the two big brothers, Leon and Hector, and improve his ability as soon as possible to make up for the shortcomings of the team's backline.
Immediately afterwards, goalkeeper Alphonso Hellero was also sold to Real Oviedo S.A.D. in La Liga for 120,000 euros, and he and Belgian goalkeeper Cranionkos have not been able to play in the league because La Liga B can only register two goalkeepers. The latter was willing to continue to wait for opportunities in the team, but Hellero wanted to get a training session for the game and leave a backup goal in case anyone was injured, so Li Mudi informed Hellero's agent, Gines, before the New Year, that he could find a home. The deal was an excellent one, as it was an early resolution of the negative emotions that could erupt within the team, as well as a financial gain, and the boss said he was relieved.
After these adjustments, Li Mudi feels that the overall strength of Castilla has been slightly enhanced, although in terms of ability, Kuchi is temporarily inferior to Enzo, but in terms of technical characteristics, it is more suitable for the team's tactical play, once the problem of coordination is solved, it will definitely show a more powerful attack in the second half of the season, and the unbeaten season will very likely become a reality.
Yes, since crossing over to take over the position of Castile in charge, Li Mudi, who has FM system in hand, feels that he has a chance to lead the team to complete the feat of being unbeaten in the league all season. At first, it was only because the strength of this team did dominate this group, but as he gradually integrated into the role of a real coach, he led the team through various situations, some were smooth sailing, some were difficult, some besieged the opponent all over the court, and some were pressed to the half. In just half a year, Li Mudi feels that he is growing at a speed close to light propagation, his ability is increasing step by step, and his ambition is also increasing step by step, and now the ultimate goal has become undefeated in all competitions for a season, and he still has unlimited confidence in this. As long as this record can be completed, then the time will not be too far before Li Mudi takes over a mid-table team outside the top five leagues.
Because of the fact that he was thinking about being undefeated, Xiao Li was a little too excited, and he couldn't fall asleep at night during the daily rest time, lying on the bed and playing some soothing music on his mobile phone, and stayed up until more than twelve o'clock in the middle of the night before he barely fell asleep.
In the dream, Li Mudi led the Celestial Empire national team to face his second home Spain on the stage of the World Cup final, with a 1-0 score on the scoreboard, and the scorer was Mudi Lee Jr. The time has been in the last minute of injury time in the second half, the Spanish team is organizing the last attack, only to see Hierro rush from the back to the midfield with the ball, pass to Guti who pulled to the left side to respond, at this time Li Mudi jumped on the sidelines, his hands kept waving, and his mouth shouted to the referee: "It's time!" Time's up! Blow the damn whistle! But no one paid any attention to him. On the field, the Golden Wolf did not stop the ball, but gently flicked it forward and directly crossed it with his left foot at 45 degrees. In the penalty area, Morentes, who was ambushed at the back post, pulled the ball to the penalty spot under the watchful eye of three Celestial Empire defenders, and a figure wearing a red No. 7 shirt appeared there in time, raised his left foot and fired a wonderful volley, and the football went straight to the corner of the Celestial Empire goal. Everyone in the audience held their breath at this moment, and their eyes followed the trajectory of the ball closely to the goal, only to see a pair of gloves also appear in this area. Just as the final mystery was about to be revealed, the mobile phone next to the pillow rang......
Li Mudi woke up from his dream all of a sudden, and quickly picked up the phone, and found that it was just five o'clock in the morning, what the hell! I didn't have time to look at the name of the caller ID and pressed the connect button, and as soon as I put it in my ear, I heard a deafening shout over there: "Ah~ You are too godly!" Li Mudi, whose ears were buzzing, threw the phone on the bed at once, covered his ear holes with his hands, and the drowsiness disappeared in an instant. There was still a burst of shouting on the phone, and it took a few seconds to turn his gaze to the phone screen, on which were written four letters—Raul.
It turned out to be Raul! What's going on? Li Mudi hurriedly picked up his mobile phone and asked loudly: "What's wrong?" As soon as the words came out, it suddenly occurred to me that today is Thursday morning Madrid time, so it is Wednesday night on the American side, is it Powerball......
When there was a storm in his mind, Raul finally said in a calmer voice: "Won the lottery, you kid!" Haha, won the lottery! ”
The award that can make Raul, who has always been calm, so excited, must not be the previous fifth and sixth prizes, is it...... The grand prize?
Without waiting for Li Mudi to ask, Raul said excitedly again: "The second prize of one bet, the fourth prize of four bets, a total of one million and four hundred dollars, your kid's luck is really strong!" ”
Sure enough, there was no expectation and no disappointment, and a second ago I had a dream of winning the jackpot, but in an instant, it was like being thrown into eighteen hells, and the feeling of broken dreams was too uncomfortable.
Li Mudi hurriedly sorted out his emotions and asked pretending to be flat: "Hi! I thought it was the first prize. Isn't it more than a million, why are you so excited about this rich man? "I thought to myself that if no one had guessed the numbers yet, how terrible the next prize pool would be!
As a result, Raul's answer directly gave him the fatal blow: "The jackpot? We don't have that life. However, there are three people who won the highest jackpot in history this time, with an equal share of 1.586 billion, and everyone has 528.8 million! What a blessing! ”
Li Mudi almost spurted out a mouthful of blood, and sighed in his heart: My life!