Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

Four days after the multi-million euro battle, Sporting Lisbon U15 played their final match in the regional league.

They narrowly defeated Real Sport 3-1, maintaining their second-place position in the league and securing direct qualification for the North and South Divisions in the second half of the season.

Cristiano Ronaldo continued his excellent form in this match, scoring twice.

They increased their goal tally to thirty-one, maintaining their commanding lead.

Deng Kai also provided an assist, bringing his personal stats to nine goals and fourteen assists, also ranking first in the assist list.

Then the entire European football scene entered a winter break.

During the winter break, perhaps the biggest news for European football fans was Zinedine Zidane winning the 1998 FIFA World Player of the Year award for his outstanding performance at the World Cup.

He also became the second superstar after Ronaldo to win both the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards in the same year.

But for Chinese fans, the biggest thing this winter break is... Wahaha team's foray into European football!

5-3 against Schalke 04!

3-1 victory over Frankfurt!

A narrow 2-0 victory for PSV Eindhoven!

Sampdoria tied the game 1-1!

A narrow 4-3 victory over Everton!

A 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace!

This team has achieved remarkable results in Europe!

And their final battle of their European tour was Lisbon!

……

"Hello Mr. Trigera, we will be relying on you for the next few days! You are the first European team executive to help us, and we will always remember you."

Lin Tao, a senior executive from Sports Weekly, also came in person this time.

Also accompanying them were the head coach and team leader of the Wahaha team.

However, what puzzled Lin Tao was why Trigra brought Deng Kai along to this meeting between high-level officials from both sides.

Is it because of Deng Kai's Chinese heritage?

Trigra shook his head: "You should thank Deng Kai, not me. He's the one who made this happen."

Lin Tao was taken aback; he hadn't expected this.

Then he looked at the young Deng Kai and said, "Thank you, Deng Kai."

"It's what I should do," Deng Kai replied, which was quite amusing.

Several Chinese people were laughing.

"This child speaks like an adult."

"You know what, even though he's short, he's quite composed."

Following this, both sides had a brief discussion regarding the upcoming training and friendly match. Unlike matches against other teams, the Wahaha team will train at Sporting Lisbon for a week before playing the game.

This is also the most important part of Wahaha's European tour.

Sports Weekly is waiting for this content to generate buzz in China and spark new discussions, so it can try to catch up with Football News in terms of sales.

After finishing discussing the important matters, everyone then discussed what to eat for dinner that night.

This needs to be rectified!

Trigra was about to decline the dinner invitation from Sports Weekly, but upon hearing the restaurant's name, he immediately called the coaching staff without hesitation.

Brothers, let's go have a nice meal at a fancy restaurant!

Lin Tao has his own thoughts on this.

With the spread of the "battle for tens of millions of euros," Sporting Lisbon has undoubtedly become the most talked-about youth academy black market recently.

Meanwhile, many people in China are calling for improving the level of Chinese football, starting with youth training.

If Sporting Lisbon is willing to share all its knowledge and experience, then why should Chinese football not rise?

And Triguera is the star coach of Sporting Lisbon's youth academy!

He alone might be worth half of Sporting Lisbon's success.

For this dinner, Triguera brought not only his coaching staff and Maxi, but also Duncan and Cristiano Ronaldo.

On Lin Tao's side, several outstanding players from the Wahaha team also came to participate—Yu Shihao and Wu Xudong.

Deng Kai was completely bewildered.

watt?

In this kind of situation, shouldn't the best player be the strongest player on the team or the captain?

Because who knows, a talented player might be spotted by Triguera and start their overseas career!

It must be Gao Lin and Hao Junmin coming over, right?

Deng Kai gestured for Maxa to ask.

Maxa may not be good at anything else, but he's incredibly adept at understanding what his superiors want; he can grasp it instantly.

"Um, Mr. Lin, you're not still holding back your trump card, are you?" Maxa asked.

Lin Tao was afraid that the other party would look down on the players he brought, so he immediately said, "You can rest assured that these two players are the two best players in our Wahaha team this time."

"Yu Shihao has scored a total of six goals during this European tour, making him the team's top scorer. Even our center forward Gao Lin is outpaced by him. When he gets going, no one can stop him."

"Wu Xudong, the fastest player on our team. Don't let his right-back position fool you; he's significantly more offensively capable than our right winger, Hao Junmin!"

Deng Kai thought he was hallucinating.

Gao Lin and Hao Junmin aren't even the top players in the Wahaha team?

really?

Are any two random passersby better than the future starting lineup of the national football team?

Is it really necessary to criticize the national football team like this?

Deng Kai then went over and greeted the other party.

The two young men were very surprised by Deng Kai's Chinese.

After walking around for a while, Deng Kai finally understood why Lin Tao had brought these two people along.

Because of their age, these two are probably the most suitable candidates for U15.

During this period, many people in the sports industry changed their age, place of origin, ethnicity, and so on.

Even if you don't change, the coach will help you change.

Everyone around you is changing.

So why did the Wahaha team achieve such impressive results in their European tour this time?

Because most of their opponents' players are around fourteen years old, and few are even fifteen. Even Everton's starting striker Rooney is only thirteen.

And what about the players on the Wahaha team?

Some of them are actually sixteen or seventeen years old.

This stage is precisely the period when players' fighting power surges.

Being a year older can potentially bridge the gap between mediocrity and genius.

Triglav is an expert in youth training. Isn't Lin Tao just asking for trouble by bringing over a few over-age players?

……

The next day, Deng Kai indeed noticed something amiss on the training field.

The Wahaha team's physical attributes completely overwhelm Sporting Lisbon U15.

What's the difference between Zhao Peng and an adult?

What kind of skill is it to bully children?

Deng Kai's parents are from Sichuan, China. They like listening to Cantonese songs and watching Northeastern comedy sketches.

From a young age, they provided Deng Kai with multilingual education, which enabled him to become proficient in Mandarin, Sichuan dialect, Cantonese, Northeastern Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

Later, during his twelve years of compulsory education in Portugal, Deng Kai also studied French, German, Italian, and Russian.

Therefore, Deng Kai became a social butterfly during this period.

His communication with the Wahaha team players was even smoother than when the Wahaha team members from all over the country communicated internally.

So he quickly became familiar with the players on the Wahaha team.

His performance also caught the attention of the Wahaha team's coaching staff.

The group of domestic coaches were completely baffled by Deng Kai's data.

If we're talking about Cristiano Ronaldo's truly impressive stats, then Yu Shihao and Gao Lin simply can't compare.

Then Deng Kai's actions would be outrageous.

His stats aren't outstanding either!

How did it become the "Football Caesar"?

How did he become Portugal's future midfielder?

Or are you saying that if our mainland Chinese players were placed in Portugal, they would all be at this level of skill?

Sometimes, when people are too kind and too understanding, they gradually lose their sense of awe.

Especially in areas where they excel.

Therefore, the Wahaha team coaching staff has been talking about Deng Kai frequently lately.

His remarks occasionally revealed his incomprehension of Sporting Lisbon's decision to let Sergio go.

In their view, Sergio is far superior to Deng Kai in terms of physical statistics, technical statistics, training performance, and other aspects, even though they are both midfield cores.

Did Triglav make a mistake?

This Trigra won't work either!

Is this all the top-tier youth training coach Portugal has? He might not even be as good as us!

Through this questioning, these domestic coaches seem to have found confidence and indirectly achieved self-success.