001 Dreams Shattered?
After World War II, many European countries voluntarily or forcibly gave up their colonies, but the Portuguese government refused to give up its colonies and maintained a large colonial empire after World War II.
As a result, a wave of anti-colonization and armed uprisings broke out in the colonies, and for more than a decade from 1961, Portugal coped with the wars of independence that broke out in various colonies.
On April 25, 1974, the armed forces were formed by middle- and lower-ranking officers, and many Portuguese civilians volunteered to participate in the Carnation Revolution in the capital city of Lisbon, where soldiers armed with carnations instead of rifles overthrew the dictatorship that had lasted for 42 years in Western Europe in the 20th century!
The 425 Revolution is of great significance to the Portuguese, April 25 is also designated as Portugal Freedom Day, but the small territory of Portugal has buildings and venues to commemorate the Carnation Revolution everywhere, the 425 Bridge in Lisbon is the most famous.
Adjacent to the east of Porto, in the city of Penafiel, there is a stadium called Stadio 425, named in honor of the Carnation Revolution, which can only accommodate 6,500 spectators and belongs to Portuguese Primera side Penafiel.
The 425 Stadium is naturally nothing compared to the Dragon Stadium in Porto, the three giants of the Portuguese Super League, the Stadium of Light in Benfica, and the Alvalad Stadium in Sporting Lisbon.
On the evening of March 30, 2013.
Stadium 425 is playing the 33rd round of the Portuguese league.
The illuminated stadium was particularly quiet on this night, and the sound of each powerful kick by players on both sides could be clearly heard in the distance.
The 6,500-capacity stadium was only about 1,000 people tonight.
The visiting fans came here to watch the game as a whole, while the fans of the home team Penafjel were scattered in various corners of the main stand, separated by threes and threes.
Without a tsunami of cheers and slogans for the team, most of the fans in Penafiel sat quietly in the stands and watched the dull game with a calm expression that could hardly stir the emotions of the crowd.
Some home fans simply got together in twos and threes to chat, just glancing at the stadium from time to time, and then continued to chat.
The team that visited Stadium 425 today was named Billenises, and their fans were even more engaged in the visitors' stands, bursting into applause and cheers when the team successfully cleared the ball or launched a threatening attack!
They came to the away stadium to cheer and pull up a banner that read: Come on, the goal is top!
The Portuguese league has reached the 33rd round of the game, counting the 10 league games left until the end of the season.
Bilanesses are at the top of the Portuguese league table and it seems like it is only a matter of time before they are promoted to the Super League.
Although there are 22 teams in the Portuguese league, there are only 2 promotion places and 2 relegation places.
Penafiel currently sit eighth in the league and are more than 20 points clear of Bilaneses, so it would be a fool's dream to make it to the top.
But considering that only one team from the same club can be in one league level, Benfica B and Sporting Lisbon B, ahead of Penafiel, can be erased from the rankings, and as long as Penafiel can overtake second place in the league at the end of the season, Aluca, they will be able to get a valuable promotion spot, with a gap of 8 points!
The game time has come to 70 minutes, and the score on the field is 0:1.
Penafiel is a one-goal deficit at home.
Penafiel coach Miguel Rael has a beard and is nearly 50 years old, but he has only picked up the whip this season to start his first-team coaching career.
Without a brilliant career, Portugal is just a nobody in the small border country of Europe.
Since Mourinho rushed to the top in Porto ten years ago, Portugal's coaches have begun to imitate, coaching style and record are naturally unique secrets, if you want to enter the house, you must first see how much talent you have, but the dress up to take the male route has become the mainstream of Portuguese football, as long as the appearance can reveal a bit of mature charm of the head coach seems to deliberately put on a deep and calm posture, and then the dress up is more exquisite, there is a bit of handsome appearance.
Miguel Rael is also vulgar in suits and leather shoes, like a successful person.
The reason why the Portuguese media recently noticed him was that in the last round of the league, Penafiel played an all-out show with Benfica B, who are one place apart in the standings!
Benfica B is naturally the reserve force of the first team, with players basically no older than 22 years old, while Penafiel has an average squad age of 26 years and above.
Football competition is not a competition of who eats more and who is older, strength is the last word, and it has nothing to do with age.
Penafiel has just entered the final sprint of the season, but was almost humiliated by Benfica B team 4:1 victory, in the game Benfica B team some players show off their martial arts behavior made the originally tight heartstrings of Penafiel players completely exploded mentality, after the game broke out the notorious group fight!
The punishment of Benfica B is insignificant to them, and even if they win the Portuguese championship, they will not be promoted to the Super League, but Penafiel is very different.
The Portuguese Football Federation issued an overweight fine, and as many as 5 players in Penafiel were banned for 6 games, and the most lethal thing was that there were 3 strikers in it!
In the middle and late stages of this season, the team lacked major generals on the front line due to injury, Miguel Rael had transferred all the strikers from the reserve team in the last round, and pieced together the team's forward line to face Benfica B team, but no one could have imagined that the team's forward line was wiped out!
Today's forward line is completely the team's third-line reserve!
One of the Chinese wingers made his debut for Penafjel in the Ligue 1 with his professional debut.
The Peñafiel coach's bench and bench were lifeless, the coaches were already disappointed watching the game, and the team couldn't take advantage of the chances, and it was even difficult to create them!
The substitutes, mostly in central midfield, were also a little disheartened, and their hopes of promotion had been dashed after the defeat in the previous round.
Losing doesn't mean you don't have a chance, but it's deadly when no one is available at the front!
No one on a team can score, what does it depend on to win?
It's only 10 points to draw all, not to mention that the team is still trailing at home to Bilanesses.
The Mediterranean climate is not cold at night in Portugal at this time of year, the breeze is very pleasant, but Miguel Rael's heart is very cold.
Witnessing the team's performance without threat on the field, the reversal is as difficult as the sky, and if you can equalize and get 1 point, you have to kneel and kowtow to thank the gods.
From time to time, his eyes swept over the Chinese striker wearing the No. 36 jersey on the field, but Miguel Rael was not disappointed because he had no expectations.
Probably, everything has already ended.
Penafiel's dream of overtaking is over, just waiting for the next year to start again.
It's time for the Chinese striker, named Ye Yifeng, to end his trip to Portugal.
Three years ago, the Chinese Football Association cooperated with the company of the famous Portuguese agent predator Mendes to send more than 20 players from China to Portugal's lower league teams, and since then, a group of young Chinese players have come to the youth teams of different clubs in Portugal for training every year.
Ye Yifeng is the first batch of young Chinese players to come to Portugal, he was 18 years old when he landed in Portugal, and three years later, he is about to turn 21 years old!
In the past three years, his companions have returned to China one after another with their luggage, and Ye Yifeng also had the opportunity to return to China last summer to join the Chinese league team, but he refused to return to China and still insisted on working hard in Portugal......
He was reluctant to give up his dreams, especially when he didn't know how to deal with his parents, who were almost bankrupt and brought him to play football.
But reality is educating him with the cruel truth, and it seems to be whispering in his ear repeatedly: Turn back to the shore!
In his career debut, Ye Yifeng touched the ball on the court a lot as a starting left winger, and the 182 cm tall young man was strong and strong, although he did not suffer a loss in direct confrontation, but he lacked experience, and he couldn't cope with the opponent's old fritters with brute strength, plus the skills at his feet were really miserable, which made him more and more anxious on the field.
If it weren't for the lack of strikers to change and the score was down, Miguel Rael might have replaced him before the start of the second half.
From the perspective of Chinese aesthetics, Ye Yifeng's appearance can be called handsome, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and his short hair in spirit can be described as an excellent image.
But on the court, it was an embarrassed look.
Portugal's homegrown Clonas, who played as a centre-forward today, has been complaining that he can't even deliver a decent pass, while young winger Mbaya on the other side has been able to get a cross into the box from time to time.
Ye Yifeng kept running, and when he came to Europe, he realized how ridiculous his technical advantage among Chinese players was, and in Portugal, a football country that focuses on technology, he realized how insurmountable the innate gap is, if it is surprising that a six-year-old child in China can easily juggle the ball, but in Portugal, a six-year-old child has been able to juggle oranges or other objects, and flexibly make a lot of technical movements on the court.
Ye Yifeng did not slack off for a moment, but the technical gap between him and his peers is getting bigger and bigger, if there is anything that he can firmly believe in staying here and stumbling with his dreams, it is his physical fitness, the most capable striker in the youth team, the striker who has won the most duels and won the most scramble headers in the youth team!
But on the professional stage, the real battle is brutally destroying his confidence, and those strengths that he believes can help him establish himself in European football are so fragile!
He didn't give up and after 70 minutes he was the most active player on the pitch, running to counter-attack or catch, taking a breath and then moving his legs again, but when the ball was at his feet, his mistakes followed.
Billenises defending his Machado couldn't help but say beside him: "Don't work hard, you're not this material!" Even if I get out of the way, do you believe you can dribble into the box and get a decent shot?
Don't lie to yourself, you'll shoot the ball wide or shoot straight away.
Stop running, let's end it like this, although you don't mind more mistakes, but the point is that it will make me tired too. ”
Ye Yifeng ignored Machado, which made Machado mistakenly think that Ye Yifeng could not understand Portuguese, and shook his head in disgust.
Ye Yifeng understands it, and he is still fluent in Portuguese because he has a good teacher.
But now he was a little stunned, and he couldn't stop!
In the past, most of the classmates on campus, their parents would work hard for half their lives to save a house for them, or seek a good job, Ye Yifeng's parents are no exception, but wanting to play football in China is really too heavy a burden for ordinary families.
The high tuition fees of the sports school, in order to win a place abroad, Ye Yifeng's father not only used up his savings, but also sold the only house in the family, and his parents switched to renting a house.
Ye Yifeng has never had a moment of relaxation, but he can't realize the scene that appeared in countless dreams on the professional field: passing the level, shining stars, and becoming famous with one goal......
He couldn't stop, and stopping meant giving up, meaning he had to go back home with his luggage on his back.
Why is damn football so hard?
I want to score!
I want to be a hero!
I want to make my dreams come true!
In the 78th minute of the game, when Ye Yifeng received a pass from his teammates and just stopped the ball, Machado saw the opportunity to grab the ball and destroy the sideline, although he failed to grab the ball, but Machado didn't take it to heart, anyway, Ye Yifeng couldn't take advantage of him in front of him.
Ye Yifeng fell to the ground due to Machado's pressing, and he immediately stood up, he didn't realize how confused his thinking was!
The despair of dreams about to be shattered, the gray hair of facing their parents without face, the future seems to be lost in the abyss, and the hand that wants to hold on for the rest of his life......
Subconsciously ran out of bounds to pick up the football and send out the sideline ball, Ye Yifeng suddenly stood in place with a stiff expression.
No one knows Ye Yifeng's entire world scene change at this moment!
After the darkness, a dazzling light erupted!
It was as if he was in a wide passageway, and a few meters in front of him hung in the air with a card with a football image and a line of words.
The best striker in the Portuguese league!
Without waiting for Ye Yifeng to think about it, this card disappeared out of thin air!
The world was dark again, and in an instant he was in the passage as if the ground was moving, or the passage was moving, and the dazzling light shone in the passage.
In front of the passage is printed with the Portuguese Super League logo and the picture of 2004-2005 printed below, Ye Yifeng subconsciously raised his hand to block, but nothing happened, after the picture passed through his body, he immediately looked back, behind him was dark, boundless!
Turn your head and look ahead, the light will shine even brighter!
This time, it was the Lisbon Athletic Club's team logo that greeted him again, and Ye Yifeng watched the club's team logo penetrate his body with wide eyes.
The picture went dark again, and after a few moments, the light was shining!
Ye Yifeng vaguely saw a figure standing in front of the Portuguese flag in front of him!
The figure and the Portuguese flag also moved quickly to his side, Ye Yifeng saw the appearance of the figure clearly with wide eyes, he knew who it was, because there was his name next to it.
Ledsun!
When Ledesong's brilliant figure passed through Ye Yifeng's body, the whole world fell into darkness again.
Ye Yifeng blinked, a football on the ground appeared in front of him, and looking around, he was standing on the sidelines of the 425 court to bend down to pick up the football on the ground.
As if nothing had happened, or only he knew what was happening!