Compared with Ronaldo's training results, the training scene of Deng Kai, who is also ruthless, is much more ugly.

Once the speed of his dribbling is up, the ball is easy to lose.

In the face of football, because of the unevenness of the grass, he didn't even have a chance to rescue.

In the training of passing and shooting, once the distance is long, he will not be able to do it.

His training performance is at the bottom of the echelon.

But what makes Maxsa strange is that Dunkay's results have improved a lot.

After training for half a month, although he is still the bottom of the echelon, he has caught up in various projects, and there is no longer a trench gap with the rest of the echelon.

If he continues like this, he may be able to reach the middle of the echelon in two months.

You know, it's U15.

And Deng Kai has just passed his thirteenth birthday.

The two-year gap in the youth training stage is as big as the sky.

The U15 national junior team can win the championship in the U13 World Cup!

Except for a few oversized players like Lukaku who can break the shackles of age, as strong as Cristiano Ronaldo, it takes until the age of sixteen or seventeen when his physical development is relatively perfect, and his combat power soars wildly.

Speaking of physical development, Maksa was worried again.

Because according to the current information, Deng Kai's physical development is relatively slow, and the upper limit does not seem to be high.

Trigra also repeatedly told Deng Kai to focus on training, and Maksa really didn't understand.

Even if Deng Kai really played a famous role in the U15 echelon, he even killed all sides.

But by the time he's sixteen or seventeen, will other clubs buy it?

If he can't be cultivated, forget it, if he is cultivated, it is likely to become a midfield core that can only be killed in the youth league.

How many resources does this have to waste on the club?

How many fans will sigh at the same time?

This hopeless cultivation should not have existed at all in the first place.

Of course, Maksa didn't dare tell Trigra about this.

Although he didn't know how many treasures Trigra had pressed on Deng Kai, there must have been a lot.

In this way, Deng Kai and Ronaldo ran from home to the training ground with the ball every morning, and then ran home from the training ground every night, as if their energy was inexhaustible.

Sometimes Ronaldo is tired.

But Deng Kai is not tired, and he has to force Ronaldo to sleep, and you are paralyzed.

Cristiano Ronaldo, a person who refuses to admit defeat, where can he accept the setting that a short man is more resistant than him?

The two tortured each other, and finally ushered in the start of the Portuguese U15 League!

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The format of the Portugal Under-15 league is different from the well-known top-flight league format, which is divided into three stages.

The first stage is the zonal competition, which is divided into five regions, each with ten teams, and plays eighteen games.

At the end of the season, the top two teams in the group will advance directly, with a total of 10 teams.

The third and fourth places in each group will enter the play-offs, and after fierce competition, two winners will be selected to advance, and they will be randomly assigned to the next round of the North and South Divisions along with the previous ten teams.

There are round-robin matches within the division, with a total of 10 games.

The top two teams advance to the final championship tournament, which is four teams.

The four teams continue with an internal round-robin for a total of six matches.

The team with the most points is the Under-15 league champion that year.

The good thing about this format is that there is plenty of play for strong teams.

For weaker teams, don't get bogged down in the game, end the season early, and improve yourself through training.

But this format is also controversial, that is, there is no final word, a game of winning and losing the exciting knockout game, all rely on points to divide the high.

Proponents of this format argue that this kind of competition system, which does not have direct elimination, is conducive to protecting the psychology of underage players.

They are still young, and there is no need to take on such an exciting knockout game too early, which is easy to leave a psychological shadow.

The main purpose of this stage is training, not a struggle for honor.

Opponents argue that this kind of development is not conducive to the development of players once they enter the professional arena.

Adapt early, adapt late, adapt sooner or later, and if you aim to play professionally, you should go through the trials and tribulations that these professional players have to go through as soon as possible.

As can be seen from the choice of Portugal's U15 format, the former has received more support.

However, in recent years, for the development of football, UEFA is promoting the introduction of a knockout mode in the youth league.

To this end, they proposed the "European Youth League".

That is...... Youth Champions League!

After many meetings and consultations, the "U15 European Youth League" was finally officially established this year.

The format is completely modeled after the Champions League, and it is committed to making this competition the Champions League for European youth players!

As soon as the news was confirmed, it sparked an enthusiastic response across Europe.

It is well known that the game with the highest commercial value in basketball is the NBA!

But the most popular basketball game is the NCAA!

Is this because the NCAA level is higher?

Apparently not.

It's because the NCAA is able to get the most basketball fans to reach out and participate.

It's a one-man thing to love the NBA.

But I like NCAA as a family, a family, a school, a community, and a region.

The UEFA Youth League has a similar meaning in Europe, where football culture is well developed, as 95 per cent of academy players will not play in Europe in the future.

Most people don't even work in football-related industries at all.

However, the club does not necessarily support this approach.

Because the benefits of the Youth Champions League are limited.

However, frequent matches are destined to increase the club's spending on the academy.

Moreover, the club's consideration of honour is limited to the first team, and it does not matter whether the youth team wins the award or not, as long as it can provide the first team with a player reserve.

In this conflict, there are not many clubs willing to play in the Youth Champions League.

Eventually, through UEFA's efforts, they found 26 clubs that were willing to participate in the UEFA Youth League and had a level of youth training that could meet the requirements of the competition.

That includes Sporting Lisbon!

If this year's tournament is successful, UEFA will consider launching a higher-level, more popular "U17 UEFA Youth League" in the future.

So this year's Sporting Lisbon U15 has a rather tight schedule.

However, Marksa, who has just taken charge of the Under-15s, is not a good "manager".

On 18 August, Sporting Lisbon U15 ushered in the first round of the league.

Deng Kai and Cristiano Ronaldo started together.

But Deng Kai's performance was not satisfactory.

Long passes are not accurate.

The physical confrontation is too poor.

It's not fast enough.

There is no ability to scramble for high-altitude balls.

These shortcomings were laid bare in the first game.

After all, this is a serious game, not an intra-team training game.

Of course, you'll be staring at your weakest link.

In the fortieth minute, Maksa was forced to replace Deng Kai.

Things are starting to get better at Sporting Lisbon.

In the end, relying on Cristiano Ronaldo's brace, Sporting Lisbon defeated Aives 4-2 away and took away three points.

On August 24, in the second round of the league, Sporting Lisbon U15 ushered in its first home game.

This time, Deng Kai was substituted after less than thirty minutes on the field.

The team also lost to the visiting Venezia Venezia with a score of 2-5.

After the game, Lisbon's local football media newspaper Bora called Deng Kai's performance disastrous.

And commented: "It's a show joining, Sporting Lisbon and Deng Kai are both performers, and they each get benefits. The victims are the fans of Sporting Lisbon and the seven real academy players who were expelled from the echelon because of Deng Kai's joining"!

As soon as this remark came out, it directly detonated the Portuguese youth training circle!