Chapter 31: The Battle of Portugal and Belgium (2)
In Portugal, there is a player who came from a poor background, he was already known for his talent at a young age, his highlights often appear on Youtube, his hairstyle, the twist on the pitch, and the beautiful goals that he is known for, his career began at Sporting Lisbon, and he was already in the Portuguese league at that time, and played for the top five leagues in Europe.
Speaking of which, people may be talking about Manchester United's Golden Retriever Coquettish, but in fact, this person is talking about Ricardo. Quaresma.
As Camuro has become one of the best players on Shijie with his amazing performances year after year, many people have forgotten about the Quaresma who could have been his equal, or at least his talent.
They came out of the academy at Sporting Lisbon around the same time, and even Quaresma was the younger lad who was known as Figo's successor earlier, when Camuro was a ball fart and junior brother who followed him.
Looking back at Quaresma's career, at the age of 17, Quaresma has already risen through the ranks of Sporting Lisbon II, and in the first season he has been a supernova, playing 28 games and scoring three goals, sharing the league and cup double with the team and coach, Romanian legend Bologni.
At that time, the Golden Mulberry followed closely behind, and only moved up to the first team a year later. After Quaresma and Kim Mauro also became the main players in the team, the then assistant coach Queiroz once said: "If you can only choose one of these two talented players, it is extremely difficult, it is good to sign one, and the team will definitely succeed." β
Queiroz is like a magic stick, quite a bit of "Wolong, phoenix, you have to settle the world".
Who is Wolong? Who is the phoenix?
Bologni, who coached them all, once said in an interview: "Quaresma is more talented than Ronaldo, and it was expected that he would be even greater than Ronaldo. β
Quaresma has indeed shone in his four years in Porto, the team won three Portuguese Super League titles, and he also won two Portuguese League Footballer of the Year, and one after another on video sites has left him with a reputation as the king of the instep.
But even so, he never left a game worth writing about.
Weishenme will be so nirvana?
There is Bole in the world, and then there is Maxima. Maxima often has, but Bole does not often have.
In 2003, the summer of Camaro's move to Manchester United, Quaresma went to another giant, Barcelona. During Camuro's time under the great Sir Alex Ferguson, Quaresma had only inconsistent playing time and performances, as well as a lack of playing time and a lack of playing time with his coach at the time, Rijkaard.
At the end of that season, the swagger even uttered that "as long as Rijkaard is around, he will never play for Barcelona".
This proved his arrogance long ago, and the Golden Mulo at that time was in fact the same, never hesitating to show footwork, not passing, and vainly trying to win alone, so he quarreled with Ruud van Nistelrooy.
But as a result, Golden Mauro changed his way and succeeded under the tutelage of Lord Ferguson and the coach of the Portuguese national team, Scolari.
Quaresma returned to Portugal because of the Deco trade and became the emperor of the soil, never having the opportunity to meet such a great teacher as Lord Frew.
Of course, it can't be blamed on the outside, the focus is on the player's own changes, and Quaresma has never given up his habit of dribbling, playing with the outside instep, and his personality of loving the head coach, in his career, only with Porto coach Ferreira is more harmonious.
'He's a very special player, he has the potential to be different from others, and everybody enjoys watching him perform. Ferreira even called his disciple Harry Potter, "He's a team player compared to before, but I don't want him to lose his qualities, otherwise he'll just be a normal player." In short, he is a genius. β
Verbal praise aside, the coach did pamper Quaresma like Lord Fergus, but in a different way, allowing Quaresma to score without the need to be involved in defense and in a quick counter-attacking tactic. Ferreira may not be Bole, but he is definitely the coach who brought Quaresma back into the mainstream.
In Digan's previous life, Quaresma also met a Bole, his fellow magic bird Mourinho, who knows Mourinho well as an extreme coach who can make some players work hard to the death, and can also make some players unable to find their place.
Quaresma is clearly the latter.
Jose Mourinho is not going to be as indulgent as Pacos Ferreira, and it is remembered how he integrated Arjen Robben and Duff into his tactical system and turned his team into a highly mobile meat grinder.
From the beginning to the end, Mourinho did not change the tactics for any player, and in the future Inter Milan, Quaresma did not adapt to Mourinho's tactics that required players to focus on defense, and also found that the style of Serie A did not match him. Apart from the occasional start, his outside instep skills have not been effective in the game at all, and he has even been publicly criticized by Mourinho, which is probably a mismatch, even if it was Mourinho who persuaded Moratti to spend a lot of money to buy Quaresma.
How did Quaresma later recall his Inter days?
"I'm not happy and I feel like I've lost all my confidence. I never had a chance to prove myself and I was given up by Mourinho and I cried before every morning training. β
If you have that mentality, you probably won't be a great player, which is probably why Quaresma ended up failing.
After not being liked by Mourinho, he moved to another big club, Chelsea, in the winter of 2009, bringing in former Portuguese national team coach Scolari.
As a result, the coach who valued Quaresma from 2006 to 2008 was fired shortly after, and Quaresma was once again reduced to a fringe player.
Perhaps because of the slight difference in opportunity and the direction of personality, when the Golden Mauro won the 2008 Ballon d'Or, Quaresma won the Golden Tapir, an "award" voted the worst acquisition in Serie A.
During his treble-winning season, Quaresma played an average of 35 minutes per game, and the age of 27 means he can't say he has any talent. As a result, when Mourinho left, Inter Milan also gave up on him.
Later, in Turkey, Quaresma became the darling of Besiktas, as in Porto. He continued to show off his footwork, playing with the opponent's defense, and he seemed to come alive again.
Quaresma struggled to regain his name.
Besiktas bought a number of Portuguese players, Fernandez, Simao, Almeida, and the coach is also Portugal's Carvajal.
Quaresma was appointed captain, excelled in Europe and re-selected for the national team, and everything was good. Until March 2012, when he faced Atletico Madrid in the Europa League, Quaresma was substituted at half-time, and immediately scolded the coach, resulting in a ban from the team. Once again, his personality and poor relationship with the coach affected the game, which indirectly caused him to not play even if he was selected for the Euro 2012 squad.
Later, due to Besiktas's financial difficulties, after a split in talks with the team, Quaresma did not play until the end of the year, and when he moved to the United Arab Emirates, Quaresma's career seemed to have come to an end.
In 2014, after being unemployed for most of the year, he finally returned to Porto, the highlight of his career, the coach was different, his teammates were different, only the fans still loved him, and 10,000 people came to the training ground to welcome him back.
The reason why he chose to come back is because Quaresma is still hungry for the Brazilian Shijie Cup.
No one knows what will happen next, even Digan, who completed the crossing before the start of the Shijie Cup in Brazil, and became Digan, living in Italy in 2004.
No one knows what happened to Quaresma, just as no one would have imagined ten years ago that Quaresma and Camuro would follow different paths.
Looking back on Quaresma's football career so far, people can't help but sigh that this is another football agate produced in Portugal, and so on, it is an agate that has not yet bloomed.
Born in 1983, Quaresma began training at the age of 8 with the Sporting Lisbon Academy, and in 2001, at the age of 18, he joined the Sporting Lisbon first team as a semi-regular player. As a gypsy, Quaresma has a wild style of play, and his outside instep pass is his unique skill and trademark, hence the nickname "Mustang". At that time, Quaresma and Camuro were known as the pride of Lisbon, and compared with the immature Golden Mauro at that time, Quaresma was more favored by the team and soon became a core player.
However, Quaresma's uninhibited personality also caused him quite a bit of trouble. When he was still in Lisbon's junior team, the coach told him not to play with the outside instep, but he just didn't listen and was snubbed by the coach for a while. After the "comeback from the ban", people found that the child still always played football with the outside instep.
Anyone who has watched Quaresma play can't deny his aura and talent, but like many players, the biggest obstacle preventing him from becoming a shijie-level superstar is nothing but himself.
Quaresma's demeanor, clothing, accessories and even the tattoos on his arms are hard to conjure up with the word "decent", and one would think that if it weren't for playing football, he would most likely be an ordinary gangster on the streets of Lisbon.
It seems that because of the gypsy blood in his veins, the young Quaresma is a man who admires himself everywhere, prefers to do what he wants rather than follow the rules, and prefers to be unconventional rather than conventional, and his flamboyant personality is hard not to reflect in his relationships and style of play.
On the court, Quaresma is the quintessential creative but off-team player, with his bizarre outside instep pass occasionally flashing brightly enough to determine the outcome of the game, but most of the time, he is a "three-no" player who never defends, never fills in and never rebounds.
He is almost useless when the team is passive or when the score is behind. His dictatorial style of play will always make him suffer boos from the fans or be replaced early.
In addition, Quaresma's mental qualities are not worthy of his skills and fame. is also famous at a young age, Golden Mulo also has an unruly side, but he met his career and even his mentor Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, coupled with years of ups and downs in Europe's top leagues and major national team competitions, Golden Mulo has basically been able to provoke the national team and club pillars. But Quaresma can't, he has been playing in China for a long time, a relatively closed environment, and the stars holding the moon, which will make him feel that he is the king of shijie. The state of the frog at the bottom of the well made it difficult for him to face difficulties and blows calmly.
Quaresma is a player who is difficult to be favored by any coach who emphasizes holistic play, and it is difficult to find a big club in Europe that has the audacity to sacrifice the interests of the team in the top flight competition in anticipation of the instant explosion of this "wild horse".
Why did he play so well in Porto?
It boils down to one sentence: because the manager will pamper him like a child.
Watching Quaresma play football is indeed pleasing to the eye, and some of the actions he made on the field are even ashamed of Digan, but football is not simply good-looking, football is practical.
Under the tutelage of Lord Fruel, Golden Mauro gave up the fancy, so he succeeded, and Quaresma, who was pampered by the manager, took the fancy to the extreme, so he could only accept the fate of failure.
Quaresma is a star on the football field, but he will never be the winner with a laugh.
So much so that in the China of Di Gan's previous life, Chinese netizens with bad tastes gave him a very vivid name Quarley Dead Cow!
Although he knows that Quaresma will be an injured Zhongyong in the future, but now in the Portuguese Super League, he is still very powerful, so in this game, Antienes also arranged a special person to mark him.
Before the game, Degan also explained to Van Bitten and others that he would be ruthless with Quaresma, trying to provoke him, this psychological age, a genius who has never hit a mature standard, is the first breakthrough for Belgium in this game.
Quaresma, like Pauletta, feels very tired, really tired, although he breaks through coolly, the Belgian defenders, in a one-on-one situation, can't prevent him at all, but soon he will fall into a siege, Zuihou lost the ball.
Scolari yelled at him from the sidelines to pass the ball, but Quaresma always insisted that he could decide the outcome of the game alone, but he was disappointed in the final result.
Portugal's attack was thriving, but there were few chances to threaten Belgium's goal.
FranΓ§ois was thrilled at first, but when he found out that the Portuguese talents could not threaten their goal, he was relieved: "The game seems to be out of our control, the Portuguese are just wasting their energy!" β
Antienes' face was as grim as ever: "No! Old man, it's too early to say this, there is no winner in this game until there is no goal! β