Chapter 215 You have all changed! [First release, begging for monthly subscription! ]
Early in the morning, the small football field in the riverside park under the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon began to become lively.
Three young men were playing football and fighting on a field. Whoever got the ball would be attacked by the other two.
They were in a mess, and it looked like they were competing, but in fact they were more like playing. Sometimes, in order to grab the ball, they would do anything, even simply hugging the opponent from behind and knocking him down.
This caused bursts of laughter in the quiet riverside park.
I don’t know how long it took, but the three of them, who were sweating profusely, lay down on the grass, with their hands behind their heads, staring at the blue sky in a daze, and the joy on their faces slowly disappeared.
"Last night, Hugo kept asking you about Valencia's situation. Does he want to leave Newcastle?" Ronnie asked.
"Yeah." Su Dong replied, and after a few seconds of silence, he spoke again, "He had a falling out with Robson."
"Isn't Robson very optimistic about him?" Pepe asked curiously.
Su Dong smiled slightly, "Pepe, how high do you think the value of this is?"
Pepe was silent.
Yes, in professional football, personal emotions are never valuable.
Bobby Robson may have been very optimistic about Ugo Viana, so he was willing to pay a high price for him, but so what? When Ugo Viana went to Newcastle, when he found that the Portuguese midfielder could not integrate into Newcastle, when he found that the player he was optimistic about could not help his team, he would not hesitate to put the player into the cold palace.
This is Bobby Robson's professional ethics as a head coach, and it is also his way of saving himself to keep his position.
Head coaches always consider results first. If they lose results, they will have no choice but to be fired.
If you are optimistic about a player and give him support and help, it is all based on the premise that you can keep your position as coach.
Ugo Viana and Bobby Robson may have regarded each other as a perfect match, but after getting along with each other, faced with the cruel reality, they could only compromise, or even go their separate ways and become strangers.
Professional football, especially the four major leagues, will not give anyone mercy and sympathy.
"Mendez wants to get him to La Liga?" Ronnie asked again.
"Yeah." Su Dong nodded. This was what Mendes told him personally. "He has just started to make progress in La Liga. The team he is more confident of is Valencia, so Hugo asked me about Valencia's situation."
"What do you think?"
Su Dong shook his head. “I don’t know, but I think it will be hard for him to become a starter in Valencia.”
"Baraja and Albelda are also world-class defensive midfielders and Spanish players. Competing with them, Hugo really has no advantage." Ronnie also sighed.
Hugo Viana was once the goal that this group of people looked up to, and he was also the most successful player in the Sporting Lisbon youth training camp. He landed in the Premier League with Bobby Robson's high hopes, and everyone thought that he would become the second Rui Costa.
But who could have imagined that in just two years, everything would change.
Suddenly, all three of them fell silent.
"I think you have all changed a lot." After a long time, Pepe suddenly broke the silence.
The Brazilian center back sighed, "Ricardo was also unhappy last night. He couldn't get a chance in Barcelona. And Ronnie, you don't look as happy as before. And Su, you are the best among us, but you give me the feeling that you are carrying a lot of heavy burdens."
Neither Su Dong nor Ronnie responded, but they couldn't help but think about what Pepe said.
They have indeed all changed.
Before, when they were in Lisbon, they could play football without worries. Twenty-four hours a day, except for eating and sleeping, the rest of the time could be used to play football and play games.
But now, they have to consider more. They all have their own survival pressure and face fierce competition.
From the day he left Sporting Lisbon, no, even from the day Su Dong joined Sporting Lisbon, he seemed to have embarked on a path of no return and could only keep moving forward until one day, he could no longer move forward.
It's like this for him, it's like this for Ronnie, it must be like this for Pepe too.
All professional players should be like this!
"I met Jose a few days ago." Pepe suddenly laughed.
Jose Semedo, who used to be their best friend, is now on loan to a Portuguese First Division team. His performance is mediocre. After all, he is a player from Sporting Lisbon's youth training camp. Coming to the Portuguese First Division is definitely a dimensionality reduction blow.
"He should be the happiest person among our group right now. Apart from training and competitions, he spends his days flirting with girls. I heard he almost got one pregnant, which scared him so much that he didn't dare to go out for a week."
Su Dong and Ronnie laughed when they heard this.
Not playing for a week really scared Jose Semedo.
After the laugh, there was another silence.
"A lot of people left the youth team, including Ugo Pina and Fabio Costa, who said he would not play football anymore..."
Pepe introduced what happened in Sporting Lisbon's youth training camp and the second team in a very calm tone.
These were Su Dong and Ronaldo's friends and teammates at Sporting Lisbon. They should have been very familiar names, but now they sound so strange.
"From the day we made the choice, there is no choice!" Su Dong said suddenly and unexpectedly.
After hearing this, Ronnie turned his head to look at him, then turned back and looked up at the sky with a thoughtful look.
Su Dong is right, once you make a choice, there is no choice anymore.
Hugo Viana chose Newcastle, and the rapid growth period of his career was cut short. Whether he can get back on track depends on his own luck and hard work. Quaresma went to Barcelona, and his upward momentum was also suppressed.
At present, among the group of people who have left Sporting Lisbon, Ronaldo is barely doing well in Manchester United, with mixed results. Only Su Dong is in the limelight in Valencia, but what does this represent?
Now we are in the limelight, what's next? This season is good, what about the next season, and the season after that?
They had no choice but to grit their teeth and charge forward!
No matter what stands in your way, you must overcome and defeat it!
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"To be honest, I'm a little jealous of you!"
After returning to the hotel, taking a shower and changing into dry clothes, Su Dong and Ronnie went to the breakfast room to eat.
The two of them sat by the window, enjoying the beautiful scenery outside and savoring the delicious breakfast.
Ronnie suddenly said this for no reason.
Su Dong was slightly stunned, then laughed, "Then I'm very happy, because I was jealous of you from the first time I saw you."
Ronnie couldn't help laughing too.
This smile seemed to melt the iceberg between the two of them and brought them closer.
"Manchester United is a very special team, Ferguson is also a very special coach, and the players are all world-class stars. Queiroz is gone, and I don't have any friends in this team. I can only train every day, non-stop."
"I understand." Su Dong nodded.
He felt the same way when he first landed in Portugal.
"Manchester United fans don't like me because I am completely different from the players they have known before. You know, Beckham never lets the ball stick to his feet, but I am different. I like to dribble the ball. This is my way and habit of playing football. In order to make me change my habit of dribble, Ferguson even asked my teammates to tackle me desperately during training."
There was strong dissatisfaction in Ronnie's tone, and he obviously couldn't understand Ferguson's decision.
"Sometimes I even wonder what on earth he saw in me in the first place?" Ronnie was very conflicted.
Su Dong knew that Ronnie was indeed in a very dangerous and critical moment at this moment. If he was not careful, he might repeat the mistakes of Ugo Viana. If he could not stay in Manchester United, his career would be in danger.
"Are you scared?" Su Dong suddenly asked.
Ronnie frowned and looked at Su Dong in disbelief, "I'm afraid? I would be afraid?"
"Then what are you worried about? What are you struggling with?" Su Dong asked back.
"When Ronaldinho played in Ligue 1, his style was not liked by the head coach, so he was very depressed. But when he arrived in Barcelona, he met Rijkaard, who told him to dribble the ball boldly in the opponent's key areas. If they fouled, we would get a free kick in the frontcourt."
Ronnie pondered over Su Dong's words, as if he had grasped something, but also as if he had grasped nothing.
"The key issue is not with others, but with you. What do you like and what do you are good at? Then choose a direction and do it. Maybe Ferguson asked his teammates to tackle you, not because he wanted you to take less balls, but because he wanted to help you adapt to the defensive intensity of the Premier League?"
"Have you discussed this with him?"
Ronnie was silent.
Apparently, he hadn't discussed the issue with Ferguson.
"I still remember when we were promoted to the first team together. You were younger than me at that time, but you kept pestering the coaching staff for playing time. But what about now? You're afraid!"
Ronnie was speechless.
Su Dong was right, he was indeed a little scared.
Perhaps it was because he got too much after joining Manchester United and began to worry about gains and losses.
"Roni, you are the most talented person I have ever seen. I even think Quaresma is more talented than you. But why have you come this far?"
Without waiting for Ronnie to answer, Su Dong took the initiative to reveal the answer.
"Because you are more hardworking than anyone else, you treat yourself harder than anyone else, you have speed, explosiveness, skills, and strong physical strength. I believe that Ferguson will not make a mistake in choosing you."
"Not only Ferguson, but also Scolari. He gave you a starting position in the national team. You are only 18 years old. Although this is just a warm-up match to observe the players, do you think Scolari will do it without any purpose?"
After listening to Su Dong's words, Ronnie fell into deep thought for a long time. When he raised his head again, it seemed that some of the knots in his heart had been untied.
"I see."
Or maybe he had always known it, but just wasn't so sure.
Su Dong's words helped him see the direction more clearly.
"You treated me yesterday, today it's my turn to treat you!" Ronnie said with a smile.
Su Dong smiled and nodded, "Of course."
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