Chapter 197 I was kind to you, but you wanted to stab me in the back. Is that reasonable? [The third update, begging for monthly tickets!]
The league was suspended and the national team players returned home to support their country, but Su Dong could only continue to stay in Spain and train alone.
The Chinese national team is currently training in the United States. This is the most important training before the East Asian semi-finals. However, the Football Association still has no sign of support from Su Dong. Su Dong has not received the apology he wanted, so naturally he will not take the initiative to give in.
Then a very strange scene occurred.
He scored in two consecutive rounds of La Liga, whether it was against Real Madrid or in the Champions League qualifiers, he scored twice. This caused a huge response in the country. Even the national team coach Ali Han said that if Su Dong was called up, the strength of the national team would be improved by leaps and bounds.
"He's a top scorer in one of the four major leagues!"
But when the final call-up list came out, Su Dong was still not on it.
Domestic fans kept asking themselves, why? But no one came forward to give an answer.
Just like the past two years, Su Dong was once again blocked from the national team.
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The days of training alone in Valencia were intense and fulfilling, yet somewhat monotonous and boring.
Su Dong trains with a private coaching team every day to keep himself in shape.
Since the restaurant at the Patna base was not open during the national team's games, Su Dong simply hired a chef for himself.
I learned this from Ronnie. It is said that this kid is also practicing hard in Manchester.
During the league suspension, Pepe made a special trip to Valencia to visit Su Dong. This gave Su Dong an excuse to take a holiday and take Pepe for a stroll around Valencia.
In fact, after joining Valencia, he himself didn't have much time to travel around.
In addition to training at the Patna base and at home, the daily training is to go swimming at a nearby hotel, which is relatively troublesome.
Su Dong bought a car in his own name for the coaching team to use, but it was still troublesome for him to travel by himself. He couldn't always find someone to drive him, right? So learning to drive was put on the agenda, but he just couldn't find the time.
While swimming in the hotel, Su Dong met a young player from the Valencia youth team.
He is about the same height as Aimar, looks very thin, and is from the Canary Islands.
This made it easy for Sudong to warm up to him because his best friend Ronny was from Madeira, which is near the Canary Islands.
After all, he is from an island. Although the young player named David Silva cannot run fast on the ground, he can swim very well in the water. His swimming ability is surprisingly good, which makes Su Dong, who has been swimming for more than a year, particularly envious.
But David Silva always looked up at Su Dong with a more envious look.
"If I were as tall as you, I wouldn't have been rejected by Real Madrid."
After swimming, the two men, wearing swimming trunks, lay by the pool and chatted, David Silva said with regret.
"Are you from Real Madrid's youth training?" Su Dong asked curiously.
David Silva shook his head. "No, but Real Madrid is very famous in my hometown. They often come to the Canary Islands for friendly matches and have a relatively complete scout network. So many of our kids go to Real Madrid for youth training trials. I went there, too, and took a photo with Anelka."
Su Dong saw regret and expectation in David Silva's eyes.
He should still be eager to join Real Madrid, but fate made him come to the youth training camp of Real Madrid's arch-rival Valencia.
"Why don't they want you?" Su Dong asked.
"You dislike me for being short."
Su Dong was speechless. Does Spain’s youth training selection also consider height?
You know what, it’s really true.
Although Spanish football has been calling for youth training reform and learning from Barcelona in recent years, taking the route of small, fast and flexible passing and controlling the ball, many traditional things still cannot be abandoned.
"By the way, I heard from them that you have a way to help Aimar grow taller. Is that true?"
Su Dong really wanted to say that it was fake, but when he saw David Silva's hopeful eyes, he couldn't bear to dash his hopes, just as he couldn't bear to reject Aimar.
It's like when many people see Su Dong, the first question that pops up in their mind is, what did you eat to grow so tall? The Argentine does train with Su Dong's personal trainer Vito Scala, but that is not a height-enhancing training, at best it is a physical training, mainly to strengthen the body, as for whether it can make you taller...
How to say it?
There's always a glimmer of hope.
What if Aimar really has a second growth spurt at the age of 23? David Silva is only 17 years old. Logically speaking, he may grow a little taller, but who can say for sure about growth?
"We are indeed training, but how effective is it? I..."
"Can I learn too?" David Silva looked at him with tears in his eyes and asked before Su Dong finished speaking.
Another child who longs to grow taller.
Su Dong paused, then nodded and said, "Of course, we are friends, aren't we?"
Although they are not in the same team, Su Dong has also heard of this young player from the youth training camp. It is said that he performed well in the youth team, but he is a little shorter and thinner.
In fact, training with Su Dong, even if not for growing taller, will be beneficial for Aimar and David Silva to make their bodies stronger and firmer.
It's a pity that Vicente is 1.76 meters tall, and he seems to be quite satisfied with his height. Otherwise, he should be pulled together to receive Vito Scala's physical training to improve his physical fitness and avoid his old problem of frequent injuries.
When there is time, find an opportunity to drag Vincent into the water.
Su Dong thought to himself.
Little did he know that David Silva, sitting opposite him, was filled with joy when he saw him agree.
Since childhood, he has been much shorter than his peers, and growing taller has always been his desire.
This urgent desire was something that Su Dong, a tall player, could not understand.
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Before the end of the two-week national team competition, Su Dong gave his private coaching team a day off.
It's not that he wants to be lazy, but Mendes has taken another sponsorship contract for him.
Carrefour is a world-famous supermarket chain.
This company entered mainland China in the mid-1990s and subsequently experienced rapid development.
This year, they plan to open their 40th store in mainland China, introduce Diya discount stores, and regard China as an important potential market for their future development.
In this case, as the most successful domestic player playing in the European league, Su Dong naturally came into their field of vision. After several inspections, Carrefour decided to hire Su Dong as their image ambassador in the Asia-Pacific region.
This is the first sponsorship contract that Su Dong received after joining La Liga. It can bring him an income of 2 million euros every year. This is a very lucrative contract, exceeding Nike and Pepsi.
By the way, Mendes has been in contact with Nike and Pepsi recently. After all, after landing in La Liga, Sudong's influence is different from that in the Portuguese Super League. Especially after signing with Carrefour, Sudong's commercial value has naturally risen, and Nike and Pepsi naturally need to raise prices as well.
As compensation, Su Dong not only needs to shoot some public service advertisements for Carrefour for promotion in the Asia-Pacific region, but also has to attend Carrefour's activities in the Asia-Pacific region every year.
This time, Su Dong is going north to Madrid to attend the signing ceremony held by Carrefour in the Spanish capital.
Also present was Brazilian superstar Ronaldo, who plays for Real Madrid.
Ronaldo has just returned from Brazil and immediately attended Carrefour's signing event. He will serve as Carrefour's image ambassador in Latin America, and his sponsorship fee is also 2 million euros per year.
Su Dong and Ronaldo's influence in world football is completely incomparable, but because Su Dong has the powerful Chinese and Asia-Pacific markets behind him, his commercial value is catching up with Ronaldo, allowing the two to keep pace with each other.
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Ronaldo had no complaints about the fact that Su Dong's sponsorship fee was the same as his own.
Large companies like Carrefour must have made detailed investigations before making decisions. If Su Dong did not have such commercial value, they would not have offered such a high price.
You know, Nike's annual sponsorship fee for Ronaldo is only 2.5 million euros, and it is said that they are now offering this price for Su Dong, but Su Dong's agent does not seem to be very satisfied.
After playing football for more than ten years, Ronaldo knows very well that some things cannot be obtained by envy.
It’s like countless people envy him for being born in the football kingdom of Brazil and being born with an extraordinary talent for playing football.
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"What goal did you set for yourself in your first La Liga season?"
Before the signing event, the two chatted in the lounge and Ronaldo asked Su Dong curiously.
Su Dong thought about it and shook his head: "I haven't thought about it yet. I wasn't familiar with La Liga before."
This is the honest truth.
Ronaldo smiled and said, "It's different now. You scored two goals in two rounds. This is a good momentum. You should set a goal for yourself, just like when I joined Barcelona from PSV Eindhoven. Only with a goal can you have motivation and direction."
“What was your goal when you first started?”
Ronaldo smiled, showing his cute rabbit teeth, "I was very brave at the time. I wanted to catch up with Romario's goal record when he joined Barcelona from PSV Eindhoven."
"Hmm?" Su Dong didn't understand how much it was for a moment.
"Thirty-three appearances, thirty goals."
Su Dong suddenly laughed. He scored thirty goals in his debut season?
This is really courageous.
"You did it." Su Dong said with admiration.
He couldn't remember Romario's statistics, but he remembered the statistics of his idol Ronaldo very clearly.
In his first season at Barcelona, Ronaldo made 37 appearances and scored 34 goals, surpassing Romario.
"So, you should set a goal for yourself and try to be bolder," Ronaldo encouraged.
Su Dong nodded repeatedly after listening, thinking that what Ronaldo said made sense.
The most ideal goal is...
Ronaldo felt a chill in his heart and immediately felt Su Dong's malicious look, and became depressed.
Damn it, I was kind to you, but you wanted to stab me in the back, is that fair? "You said it, be braver." Su Dong laughed.
Ronaldo himself couldn't help laughing. He really liked this boy and the more he looked at him, the more he liked him.
He is just taller and more handsome than me, which is annoying! "Okay, now you have one more goal than me. If you can maintain this advantage after the season ends, I will admit defeat!"
The title of this book is too long, haha... As a Virgo, I will go back and change the title so that I feel more comfortable reading it.
(End of this chapter)
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