Chapter Eighty-Six: The End of the South American Trip

After two days of studying the style of play of the Sao Paulo team at the station, Guangzhou Sun God set off for Brazil to play in the second leg of the semi-finals away game. On the day of arrival in Sao Paulo, several uninvited guests came to the door, which turned out to be Zhu Guanghu and Li Hui, coaches of the Brazilian Jianlibao youth team, accompanied by Zhang Xiaorui, Sui Dongliang and Li Jinyu.

The two sides chatted in the suite of Li Bourne, first Zhu Guanghu politely praised the excellent results of the Sun God team in South America, and then wanted to make an appointment with the Guangzhou team for an intra-team training match, and the two sides agreed to wait for the Sun God team to finish the South American Club Cup game and rest for four days before playing. In fact, the wishful thinking of both sides is crackling, Jianlibao is because it has been questioned by the domestic media more than once during the training camp in Brazil, and it always talks about the results, which means that it has not played any strong team when it goes out, anyway, all kinds of declines, now the Guangzhou team can enter the semi-finals of the largest cup in South America, if the Jianlibao youth team can defeat the Guangzhou team, it will naturally be able to block the mouth of the domestic media. And Li Bourne's plan, hehe, I believe everyone is already clear, that is, to touch the foundation of Jianlibao to see if there are any young players worth cultivating, if there is, then you have to dig up your own Rice, isn't it good to send it to Europe? It's not much better than doing it behind closed doors in this place where birds don't. In this way, the two sides with their own minds really reached an agreement.

In the second round, because of Li Wei's suspension, Li Boen could only return to the back line to partner Huang Qineng to form a back 4. Sao Paulo, who returned to the home field, attacked more fiercely, and the shooting ratio of the home and away teams reached 11:4 in the first half alone, and the situation was completely out of the control of the Guangzhou team.

At halftime, I looked at the team's bench, Li Bern had a headache, the bench depth was too poor, in addition to the starters, basically the intercontinental level game bench can not be more than a slap, which is still counted as barely up to the mark. At the end of the first half of next season, we must get the reinforcements done, otherwise after the 97 season, I will definitely go to Europe with Ballack, Gattuso, Trezeguet, Peng Weijun, and Wu Chengying. Although Ko Joong-hoon has already joined the team, he is not old enough to play for a few years. In the final analysis, the foundation of youth training is thin, and the first Guangzhou Youth League next year should be used as a template to be carried out in the cities where the domestic youth training base of Rice is located. Even so, there is a high probability that the league expansion will have to wait until the millennium, otherwise it will not be possible to gather so many teams with standards. Now the first batch of young players to go to Europe is going vigorously, but it is obvious that this time it is poaching at least half of the good players in the country, just look at the previous list. The first batch of 40 players, assuming that half of them can gain a firm foothold in Europe before the age of 22, and 20 people will feed back to the domestic league, and after the expansion, 16 teams will be one more team, which is a drop in the bucket and a long way to go! As for the players who can gain a foothold in Europe, Li Bourne's plan for them is to get at least 28 years old before they can return to the domestic league team, the first is to bring domestic players with them when they come back, just like Sun Jihai's role in Guizhou Renhe was the same. The second is to build a real world-class league, even if the conditions are mature in all aspects, the ideal is 10 years, in addition to the supplement of fresh blood, the take-off of the domestic economy is also a very important point, the club has money to poach people from Europe and the United States. In short, there are so many problems to solve!

The second half of the game is still very difficult, after all, the Suns God team is half a year to pull up, and the three foreign aides are also for the domestic league to buy not yet reached the peak, and even the future big names who have just started their careers, these 3 who are less than 20 years old even if their future fame and strength are much higher than those of Sao Paulo players, there is nothing they can do at this stage, they are crushed by strength, from the team as a whole to individual skills, not convinced! As a result, the Suns lost again with a score of 1:2 in the away game. The goals scored by Trezeguet, Marcelinho and Edmundo. This is the end of Guangzhou Sun God's first trip to the South American Club Cup. It is worth mentioning that Trezeguet was born in a Chinese team with 5 goals and increased his value from 2.6 million yuan to 3 million US dollars, and the exchange rate of RMB and US dollars in 1996 was about 1:8.3, that is to say, Trezeguet's value soared almost 10 times in half a year, and Ballack also increased from 200,000 marks at that time to 2 million German marks now, which is also a 10-fold increase. From $110,000 to $800,000 now. If they win the Asian championship next year, they are estimated to be able to rise a little more, and it can be regarded as leaving a team building fund for the Suns.

You have to eat one bite at a time, Ruth has to go step by step, it's useless to be in a hurry anyway.

In the match with Jianlibao Youth Team, the two sides agreed to move to Cali in Colombia to play, plus Cali Athletic, the three teams played a very popular triangle in the 90s, that is, the ABC three-team game, the first half of Team A and Team B played, the team that won in the second half continued to play with Team C, and the loser of the first game played with Team C in the last half. Thanks to the help of Cali Sporting Club and the enthusiasm of the local fans, the game is free of charge, and the champion team of the triangle will have a prize of 2 million yuan, which will be borne by Rice Sports alone.

In the first half, Cali Sports Club drew 0:0 with Guangzhou Sun God, and the Guangzhou team that has played so many tough battles in South America has improved significantly, from the first 0:1 loss to Cali to now be able to draw with the opponent in 45 minutes, and at the same time there is no disadvantage on the field, which is a great improvement. In the second game of Cali Sports against Jianlibao Youth Team, 45 minutes played 3:1, in which the horror Ivan also came to a hat trick, and Jianlibao scored a face-saving goal by Li Jinyu. In the last 45 minutes of the Chinese derby, Guangzhou Sun God team, as the league champion of this year, gave these young players a good lesson, considering the purpose of the Jianlibao youth team game, in the end the Sun God team only won by 1 goal, in fact, the Sun God team played very smoothly in this 45 minutes, if you let go to play, it is estimated that the score will have to run to 3. Of course, the 2 million is actually going to be given to the Cali Sports Club, and the people are sophisticated!

After the game, Cali Sports will prepare a send-off dinner to entertain the Guangzhou Sun God team to return to China, and the two teams also happily agreed to arrange a friendly match every year in the future. At the same time, Lee Byrne prepared a contract this time, and he was on the spot with Gabriel. Gomez signed a 10-year coaching contract with an annual salary of 2 million and a number of other bonus clauses. For a while, the guests and hosts were happy.

Then Li Boen quietly pulled Zhu Guanghu and Coach Li Hui to the outside of the banquet hall, the young man rubbed his hands, and said with a smile: "Director Zhu, Director Li, I have something I want to discuss with the two of you."

Knowing that in addition to the players, the teenager was also the chairman of Rice Sports, and the two did not treat Li Boen as a junior, and asked politely: "Oh? Is there anything else the two of us can do to help Mr. Li? I would like to hear the details, and you can tell me about it."

"Hehe, that's the case, our Rice Sports and Jianlibao Youth Team are actually to train excellent young football players for the motherland. But to be honest, our Rice Sports layout in Europe can better meet the development of these young players, and I, as a junior, have taken a fancy to several players of our Jianlibao, so I dare to ask the two to cut love. Of course, these players have their clubs in China, and we Rice have come forward to solve the matter over there, and our Brazilian Jianlibao has been short of funds, so many players are less than 10 million funds, and we are willing to sponsor 20 million yuan free of charge, which is the transfer fee of these players. I believe that the two of you also hope that these children will have a better future."

When you two hear it, good fellow, this is a blatant dance of the hoe on your head, and it is so vigorous. But if you think about it, what people say is also true, it doesn't matter where you play, it's good to be able to play, then Europe is definitely much stronger than Brazil. Zhu Li glanced at each other and asked together: "You kid, this digging wall has been dug to the side of the friendly army. But what you say is true. Tell me, which players do you have your eye on?"

"Oh, in fact, you two have probably guessed about it, how can your own players not understand. That is, Da Yu, Zhang Xiaorui, Sui Dongliang, Li Tie, Tao Wei, Hao Wei, Huang Yong, no more."

After hearing this, the two of them unconsciously rolled their eyes and came back: "Good guy, you have stripped our bottoms clean!"

"How can you say that, you think, these absolute main forces have little room for improvement in Brazil, and it just so happens that I will take them to Europe, and you two can find a few more potential ones from the second echelon to make up for it. Just don't delay on both sides! In this way, Lao Ma, even Maradona promised me to come to China to teach, I will say hello in advance, and you should not play wild football everywhere, so you will be stationed in Boca Juniors to train with them, how good is that."

"You kid can! Come to South America, everything will make you smooth. That's it, that's it!"

"Hey, hey..."

Before leaving, he poached seven generals from the Jianlibao youth team, and the first trip to South America can be said to be perfect.