I never miss a single game broadcast of Ronaldo. Looking at his technique, style, feints, and passes, I tell myself that he is the best, the most comprehensive, and unique. - Ibrahimovic.

Despite the warm welcome from his team-mates, head coach Osvaldo did not involve Ricardo in joint training.

Despite being separated from the youth team's training ground by a small grove, the first-team training ground has a completely different scene, with hundreds of fans watching the team train and applauding every action the players make in practice, filling almost both sides of the training ground. In fact, in the past few days, due to Kaka's injury and absence from training, there have been a lot fewer fans coming to the training ground.

The two new faces didn't cause much of a stir, with Ricardo and Rico looking young, drawn from the youth team, and unable to attract the attention of the fans.

Ricardo was training alone and Osvaldo gave him what to do, and although he was tempted to say that I had my own pace, he wasn't brain-dead enough to go against the manager on his first day in the first team. Plan your own training content, that's what only top stars do.

Now he can only take the form seriously, wait for the whole team to finish training, and then carry out targeted training according to his own ideas.

Rico occasionally glanced at Ricardo with a worried look. This also led to several mistakes in him, allowing Osvaldo to stop training and reprimand and explain.

Osvaldo frowned. It's stressful! It's almost the game against Atlético Paranaense. Atlético Paranaense may not be a traditional giant, but they were the champions of the Brazilian National Championship last season and should not be taken lightly.

Sao Paulo is now short of a major general, and if they can't grab enough points to finish in the top eight in the 26-team single round-robin regular season and not make the playoffs, it will be a big shame.

Rico and Ricardo's first day of training with the first team passed uneventfully.

Ricardo still stayed to practice.

Osvaldo also noticed this, but he was too busy to pay attention to the young man for his match against Atletico Paranaense in five days' time, only nodding slightly in approval.

After returning to Uncle Paul's house after training, Ricardo saw several more text messages and missed calls from Julia, which he ignored. He's just so ruthless, all his passion goes to football.

After dinner, he searched for football videos on the Internet to pass the time, and at night, he went to watch the live broadcast of the football game with Uncle Paul and Stella. Even though Stella kept rolling her eyes at him, she couldn't stop his enthusiasm for watching the game. He yelled along with Uncle Paul, applauding and shouting for a great performance on the field, and laughing at a low-level mistake.

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Next. After training in the morning, while eating in the cafeteria, Rico said with a pompous smile: "Ricardo, I feel like I'm going to have a chance to play soon!" Haha, when the time comes, I will become famous with one ball, roll on the banknotes every day, go to the nightclub every day to fish for two women, one for me and one for you! ”

In Brazil, players from the slums play football just to make money, for beautiful women, and that's pretty straightforward. Also realistic.

Ricardo smiled slightly: "Okay, come on." ”

"Don't worry!" Rico slapped Ricardo on the shoulder and comforted, "You've been lucky lately, and you'll be able to get out of the slump soon." Since Mr. Osvaldo has called you to the first team, he will definitely give you a chance, you have to take it! ”

Ricardo smiled and nodded, thanking his friend for his kindness. But he wasn't very eager. Playing in the first team in Sao Paulo, Brazil? His goal wasn't that low.

In his previous life, he also scored in the World Cup, won the Golden Boot in Serie B, and experienced the three major leagues of Italy, England and Spain, so he can be regarded as having seen the world.

The small Brazilian domestic football league, such a stage is too small.

Still, he was desperate to get on the pitch and play. Some people are born for football. For example, Ronaldo, Messi, Ronaldo.

He's not. But the meaning of his life is football.

Without a woman, he could use five girls. He wouldn't have survived without football.

……

For two days in a row, Licardo was training alone.

Day 3. 'Today, we're playing an intra-team game and experimenting with new tactics. After the team assembled, Osvaldo announced.

The team lost one after another to its leading scorer, Luis. Fabiano, the attacking core Kaka, and the organizational core Ricardinho, the formation was suddenly overstretched.

With such a remnant, away against Atletico Paranaense, he is not confident of taking points.

Therefore, it can only be temporarily changed. Try to hold a draw and bring back 1 point.

So before the game, it is necessary to test the new formation and new tactics.

In order to maintain confidentiality, the intra-team match was not made public, and the staff cleared the reporters and fans out of the stadium in advance.

The main lineup is a 4321 formation, and the midfielder is stacked with three defenders who are responsible for defense, which is Osvaldo's idea for the next game, using a midfield meat grinder to block the opponent's offensive.

As for the bench lineup, feel free...... But, wait, Osvaldo suddenly realized that there was one less person on the bench.

He thought for a moment and beckoned to Ricardo, who was standing on the sidelines training alone: "Ricardo, come here." ”

Licardo had already counted the number of people, and knew that he had the opportunity to play football today, so he was itching for a long time, so he didn't hesitate at this time, and ran over with his legs.

"You play ......" Osvaldo thought for a moment, "striker, play in the middle, partner with Rico, you are very familiar, and the cooperation should be fine." "So the substitute team is the classic 433 formation.

Ricardo replied simply, "Yes." He put on the green vest on the bench team.

Rico trembled a little with excitement: "Ricardo, this is an opportunity!" If we play well in this match, we might be able to take Reinaldo down! His eyes seemed to sparkle with the symbol of the dollar, the beach, the bikini, the cocktail......

The lone striker on the main team's side is Reinaldo.

"Come on!" Naturally, Ricardo was not excited. It's a small scene, but he's played in the knockout rounds of the Champions League...... Well, albeit only when he was playing for Tottenham, coming off the bench in the Champions League and putting in a mediocre performance. That's also played in the Champions League.

Osvaldo himself acted as a referee, looked down at his watch, and blew the whistle.

The main team kicks off. They did not rush to attack, but passed backwards, which was the tactic that Osvaldo arranged for them, seeking stability, based on defense, and waiting for opportunities to counterattack.

The bench forwards quickly pressed for it — no, there was a strange thing mixed in. Ricardo went up slowly, not taking the initiative to press, but just cooperating with his teammates to get in the position.

The ball came to the team's main central defender Diego. At Lugano's feet, Lugano saw the space in front of him and made a long pass to full-back Wilson.

Wilson picked up the ball on the flanks and was quick to attack, with Reinaldo following up in the middle.

The substitutes in the green vests retreated like a tide, and Ricardo, who walked slowly back, looked extremely dazzling on the field.