SYSTEM: I Want to Be the King of Football

chapter 26

Who is the best in Portugal?

This award has always been controversial.

Benfica, Sporting Lisbon and Porto all have supporters, but overall, Sporting Lisbon are basically ranked last and have the weakest momentum. Benfica has the most audiences and even the most recognizable traditional giants.

Judging from the number of titles, Benfica has won the top 30 league titles in Portugal and two Champions League titles at once. Both statistics are second to none in Portugal.

But the problem was that after winning the top league championship for the last time in 1994, Benfica fell into chaos.

Porto are currently recognised as the No. 1 team in the Portuguese Super League. From 1994 to now, in seven years, Porto have won five top-tier league titles, thus winning 18 top-tier league titles, surpassing 17 Sporting Lisbon.

Not only that, Porto also managed to win the 1987 European Cup.

Sporting Lisbon are also a traditional strong team. He has won two top league titles in the last seven years. However, whether it is in the number of championships or the most golden UEFA Champions League, Sporting Lisbon lacks much of an honour.

Therefore, in competition for the first giant, Sporting Lisbon's voice is the weakest. At the moment, it's basically a rivalry between Porto and Benfica. The former is beginner and the latter is traditionally strong.

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Su Dong walked into the Stadium of Light's honor room and saw a dazzling array of championship trophies. From here you can easily see the background of Benfica, as well as legendary stars and world-class players like Eusebio and Rui Costa., all from this team.

Caniggia's wind son from Argentina and Czech genius Poposki and many other geniuses have left their footprints here.

It was Scout Abel Silva who was responsible for accepting.

From then on, she was in contact with Su Dong and Mendes.

Although the Portuguese Athletics Club was a Belerences team, the Belerences were initially a little careless towards Sutton, leaving Benfica slightly behind in many aspects.

Of course, as a satellite team, Bellerences still has the advantage in the transfer period.

The employees in the honor room were responsible for introducing the history of several important trophies to Su Dong, as well as the legendary stars behind them.

At the end of the visit, he said to Su Dong expectantly: "I hope I can see your name here in the future."

Although it is a bit old-fashioned, I must say that it is very interesting.

This is Benfica, the most established traditional giant in Portugal.

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After visiting the honor room, before the game began, Abel Silva took Su Dong and his entourage to the home team's dressing room.

The current head coach of Benfica is the legendary player Tony.

If you want to say that his career is quite brilliant, but if you want to coach, it's really not good.

Twice before coaching Benfica, he only took nine games at a time, and only took twelve games at a time, of course, in the middle of his second bout was a shootout.

Then, he went to Bordeaux in Ligue 1 and Sevilla in La Liga, and the results were very average, between them, Sevilla only needed ten games and ended up out of class.

But even so, he remains Benfica's head coach.

Tony apparently knew that Su Dong and his party would come to visit, but his expression looks very solemn when the competition will come soon.It is related to Benfica's unsatisfactory performance this season and failure to meet expectations from outside.

More than 10 million euros were spent to buy Simao back, and more than 20 million euros were invested in the transfer market. It's obviously a big investment for the Portuguese Super League side, but so far, Benfica have only ranked in the league. Fifth, still behind the opponent tonight, Leiria.

Tony just kept his attitude, shook hands with Su Dong politely, and told him to leave.

Then Su Dong met the long-famous Benfica star, Simao.

This is definitely a European star, and Benfica are currently the strongest players.

“I've heard that you behaved very well lately.” Simang was quite polite to Su Dong.

Su Dong also responded humbly, took out the pen and paper he had prepared, and asked for a signature and a group photo.

In addition to Simao, Portuguese internationals Thiago and Maniche, who have performed well this season, are also on Sutton's signature list and photos. There is also German goalkeeper Robert Enke.

The German goalkeeper has performed very well this season. He has already received attention from giants including Barcelona and Manchester United. It was only a matter of time before joining the giants.

Walking around in the dressing room, Su Dong asked for some autographs and took a picture together.He got a familiar face in front of the Benfica first-team players, who could be considered fulfilling the purpose of this trip.

But when they walked out of the home team's dressing room and were about to head to the fans' stand upstairs, they met with Leiria coach Jose Mourinho, from Portugal, outside the living room.

"Hey, Jorge, why are you here?"

Jose Mourinho looked at Su Dong and his party from a distance, and shouted at Mendes.

"Ha, Jose." Mendes immediately greeted him, "War is coming, do you still have any thoughts of staying here?"

Mourinho raised his eyebrows and raised his chin confidently, "Who knows Benfica better than me?"

Scout Abel Silva felt a little embarrassed and could not say anything.

Mendes smiled politely without comment.

“If I don't guess wrong, you are Su?” Mourinho looked at Su Dong.

Among the group of four people, Su Dong was the highest and most eye-catching.

“Halo, Mr Mourinho, this is Su Dong.” Su Dong took the initiative to extend his hand.

Leiria themselves are not a strong team, before being coached Mourinho their results are quite good, but at the moment they are ranked fourth in the league standings, which is really surprising. Mourinho's coaching power can be seen.

Some media even reported that the results of the coach Porto Machado did not meet expectations, and it is very likely that he will be dismissed.After Machado disbanded, then the young coach of Leiria, Mourinho who will replace him.

This is the man who will take over Porto.

Although there was a hint of excitement in his heart, Su Dong's demeanor seemed calm on the surface.

Frankly, Mourinho is not good, and has nothing to do with him.

“Jorge, we have not met for a long time, after the game, sit and drink?” Mourinho issued an invitation.

"Of course there's no problem" Mendes immediately agreed.

“Sue, do you want to be together?” Take Mourinho.

Su Dong looked at Mendes and immediately nodded, "Of course, thank you."

After making an appointment with the meeting venue, Mourinho said goodbye and left and walked into the visitors' dressing room.

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"He deliberately stayed to hinder us."

While climbing the stairs to the stand, Mendes whispered to Su Dong.

This shocked Su Dong, and was even flattered.

is that possible?

"Don't think too much, it doesn't mean they value you too much, because every team is very interested in making future investments like this. You are only seventeen years old. The cost to recruit you right now is huge.low and very low., But as long as you can become a professional player, it profits hundreds of thousands or even millions of euros, what do you think? "

Mendez' words were like pouring a bucket of cold water on Su Dong's head.

Frankly, it's all about profits.

"Leiria is only a hundred kilometers away from Lisbon. If they have never heard of you, then there must be a fake. Now it seems they're also very interested in you, and that's good."

Sudong understood what Mendes meant, the more interested the team was, the more popular these players were and the more bargains one had to negotiate.

Of course, the premise is to be able to clearly know your own upper limit and where your opponent's bottom line is.

For example, with Su Dong's current strength, it was basically impossible to forcibly request a place in the first team.

Right now, Su Dong was feeling the benefits of the agent.

Mourinho is very capable. I've been in contact with him for the last two years. He has been an assistant to Robson, Van Gaal and others at Porto and Barcelona. He coached Benfica before and achieved very good results, but then because of Benfica. In the presidential election, the president who supported him was dismissed out of the class, and the new president replaced him with Tony. "

As he said this, Mendes smiled at Su Dong, "This person will report it. Benfica will suffer a little tonight."

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It turns out Mendes's guess was right.

Benfica not only suffered a little, but also suffered a lot.

Mourinho's side did lose to Benfica in terms of strength, but the team responded with fours and threes, but the defense was pretty good, the players weren't strong, but tactical execution was in place, which allows for the original violation. The problem with Benfica is very depressed ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ Instead, it's Leiria. With two counter-attacks, Brazilian Delle scored twice and helped Leiria beat Benfica in a two-on-zero away game.

This made Abel Silva feel very embarrassed.

Originally inviting Su Dong to watch the match on the spot, just because he wanted him to see the team win, but he had not expected to lose like this.

If not for Leiria's insufficient ability to grasp the odds, this would definitely be a failure.

In combination with the player channel just now, Mourinho's confident display was really a bit ...

Mendes actually smiled in his heart and raised his eyebrows towards Su Dong, as if he said, Look, am I right?

It was also the first time Su Dong had seen a game coached by Mourinho. It feels very stable. Not much surprise and surprise. That really limits Benfica. In addition to Simao doing some dangerous situations, Thiago had a few passes. Out. Mastering the ball, Benfica was not given the slightest chance throughout the game.

A really good head coach.

Su Dong thought to himself.

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After the match, Su Dong and his party did not leave.

Mendez did not even lie to Abel Silva, telling each other that he just wanted to stay and meet Mourinho, and Abel Silva had nothing to do with it.

After waiting for about half an hour at the cafe next to the stadium and across the parking lot, Mourinho was late.

He first apologised to everyone, and everyone understood very well.After all, as a head coach, there are still a lot of things to keep busy after the game.

But no one expected that the Portuguese who had to report to him had just finished apologizing, and immediately turned to look at Su Dong.

"Su, if I were you, I would definitely not consider joining Benfica."