"On June 1, 1998, the Portuguese Football Federation held the Portuguese Diamond Generation Invitational Tournament in order to dilute the pain of failing to enter the World Cup for 12 consecutive years."

"It aims to discover talented players aged 12-15 in the country, emulate the current golden generation of Portugal and light up the future of Portuguese football."

"The tournament has received strong support from Portuguese giants such as Sporting Lisbon, Porto and Benfica."

The organizers invited the Portuguese football legend "Black Panther" Eusebio and Luis Figo, the new king of Portugal, the core of Barcelona and one of the few foreign captains of Barcelona, as the initiators of youth. ”

"They will assemble their respective teams and face off at the Estadio Alvardella in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal."

"So far, Figo has invited youth talents from major teams such as Hugo Almeida, Bruno Leva, Miguel Veloso, Ruben Amorim and so on."

"One of the most striking is Cristiano Ronaldo from Madeira! Three years ago, he shone at the Portuguese Golden Boy Cup, where he was named the tournament's top scorer. ”

"There is news that Chris will officially move to Sporting Lisbon this summer!"

"The Panthers, on the other hand, are made up of Sporting Lisbon academy centre-back José Fonte and Portimão academy midfielder Joao Moutinho ......"

Benfica's first-team assistant coach Trigra shook his head as he listened to the news on TV.

This game is destined to be a one-sided one.

People nowadays are too forgetful.

There are too few good players who choose to join the Panthers.

The real geniuses are actually in the Figo team.

Because young people nowadays love Figo more.

Maybe in a dozen years, new fans won't know that there is a legendary star named Eusebio.

It's like it's only been three years, who remembers Deng Kai, who beat Cristiano Ronaldo to win the Golden Boy Cup Player of the Year award?

Tick tick!

Trigra's phone rang.

He put down the wine glass in his hand and pressed the hands-free button: "What's wrong Pereira, is there a change in time the day after tomorrow?" ”

Andreas Pereira is the head of Sporting Lisbon's player recruitment department.

The day after tomorrow, they will attend the "Diamond Generation Invitational" event with the president of the club and watch the game live.

However, it wasn't Pereira's voice coming from the phone.

Rather, it was a childish voice.

"Coach...... I want to play! ”

Then there was silence on both ends of the phone.

In an instant, Trigra knew who was on the other end of the line.

Triumphant!

Deng Kai!

He finally called!

He's finally willing to keep playing!

Three years ago, the Portuguese Football Federation held the Golden Boy Cup to celebrate the Portuguese national team's entry into the European Championship.

José Fonte, the best defensive player of the tournament, performed well, but was stopped in the semi-finals by a youth team led by Cristiano Ronaldo's Madeira Nationals.

After the game, Fonte was offered an invitation by the Lisbon academy team.

The tournament's top scorer, Golden Boot player Cristiano Ronaldo, single-handedly led his team to the final with a brace in the semi-finals, and also scored twice in the final.

After the game, Ronaldo received a grand invitation from Sporting Lisbon.

However, Ronaldo's parents wanted him to grow up and live alone in Lisbon for safety reasons, so Ronaldo did not openly join the Sporting Lisbon Academy, but he used the training program of Sporting Lisbon early and branded Sporting Lisbon.

However, Ronaldo's team was the runner-up at the time.

The championship belongs to another small team that is not well known.

In that game, Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice.

But the opposing team's midfielder Deng Kaiyan dominated the crowd, completed a hat trick of assists, won the game 3-2, and took away the championship trophy!

Deng Kai was also named the best player of the tournament for his outstanding performance.

After the game, the youth training departments of the three giants of the Portuguese Super League sent invitations to Deng Kai.

But Deng Kai refused all.

Just when the Portuguese Super League teams were puzzled, a reporter broke the news that Barcelona also sent Deng Kai an invitation to youth training.

Because on the day of the Golden Boy Cup final, the football legend "Dutch Flyer" Cruyff, who was the head coach of Barcelona at the time, was on the scene.

He went for Figo's transfer, but he didn't expect that this trip not only took Figo from Sporting Lisbon, but also allowed him to find a good midfielder.

Cruyff asked Barca's academy to buy Dunkai.

This is Barcelona!

Who can say no?

However, Deng Kai refused!

As soon as the news was reported, most of the football world knew about it.

It is rumored that this became another rift between Cruyff and the Barcelona management, which indirectly led to Cruyff's sacking a year later.

But since Barcelona has sent out invitations, even if they have never seen Deng Kai play, many clubs have issued trial invitations to Deng Kai with the mentality of giving it a try.

These include Barcelona's rivals Real Madrid, Premier League giants Manchester United and Arsenal, Bundesliga giants Bayern, Serie A triumvirate Juventus, Milan, Inter Milan, ......

But without exception, Deng Kai chose to refuse.

Some people think that Deng Kai is waiting for the price to sell, but he got away with it.

Because he has the word "Kai" in his name, some media ridiculed Deng Kai as "Football Caesar".

German football emperor Beckenbauer is also known as Kaiser, but the media obviously does not mean that Deng Kai is the next Beckenbauer.

They are saying that Deng Kai is like Carlos Caesar, the biggest liar in Brazilian football in the 80s, who has no great strength and talent, but is just a liar with a false name.

Carlos Caesar has been playing Brazilian football for more than 20 years, not playing a single ball, but he has always been regarded as a superstar.

And Deng Kai rejected all the team's invitations and trials, and built himself into a peerless talent, which is really similar to Carlos Caesar.

"Really? Are you sure you want to play football? Instead of going to the University of Lisbon to study sports data analytics? "Trigra is the only one who's been following Deng Kai's news for the past three years.

He's a man who takes his own life to death, and he believes more than anyone that Deng Kai will kick out and even become a superstar.

He will never forget the conversation he had when he last invited Deng Kai to join Sporting Lisbon.

"Kid, I don't ask you to join Sporting Lisbon, but the Red Devils and Gunners, Real Sajen, Shuangmi and Juventus, you can choose at least one of so many giants! If you don't play, it's your loss, and it's a loss to world football! ”

"Coach, I'll play, but not now. Now I have more important things to do! ”

"Kai, if you think about it again, your technical characteristics must have a great future in Barcelona! How about I help you contact Mr. Cruyff? ”

"Thank you, Mr. Trigra, but not really. When I want to play, I'm the first to come to you! ”

After that, Deng Kai quit his football school and returned to Portugal's 12-year compulsory education system.

In just three years, he has completed the entire content of twelve years of compulsory education.

And in the eleventh and twelfth grades, he got excellent results.

Finally got an early admission to the Faculty of Information and Technology of the University of Lisbon in this year for the Sports Data Analysis program of the best university in Portugal.

But such a top student actually said that he wanted to play football.

This is as incomprehensible as Deng Kai's choice to study after his success in football three years ago.

Trigra understands exactly how the President of the University of Lisbon is feeling at this moment.

There has never been any empathy in this world.

There is only sympathy.

The idea of genius is always difficult for normal people to understand.