Pirated Ronaldo

Chapter 22 Come and chase me!

Benfica, the full name is "Lisbon and Benfica Sports Club", the team nicknamed "Eagle" and "Red Eagle", which is the same as Sporting Lisbon nicknamed "Green Lion". It is also a comprehensive sports club, and football is just one of them. He has won 30 championships in the domestic top league, one of the absolute hegemons of Portugal.

Of course, the fans of Sporting Lisbon and Porto are definitely not happy to say that Benfica is the absolute overlord!

The last time Benfica won the league championship was in the 1993-94 season. This team has not won the league championship for 10 consecutive years!

10年中，本菲卡仅在1996年和2004年拿到了两次葡萄牙杯，甚至曾经在2001年联赛排名第6位！这与霸主的名声确实不符。

In the first two seasons, Benfica worked hard and surpassed their city rival Sporting Lisbon in the league rankings, but unfortunately met Mourinho's glory in Porto. As a result, Benfica only won two runner-ups in a row and still could not win the championship.

In this unlucky 10 years, in the Portuguese Super League, Porto won 7 crowns, Sporting Lisbon won 2 crowns, and only Benfica was poorly empty-handed.

There are 18 teams in the Portuguese Super League. There are 8 league rounds from the end of August to mid-May of the following year. The first 5 rounds were played before Christmas. Saturday and Sunday.

This season, under the leadership of Italian gold medal coach Giovanni Trapattoni, Benfica has not gone smoothly.

Before November, they maintained the first place in the league points, always slightly ahead of Porto, and once opened up the city rival Sporting Lisbon by 11 points.

However, in the 11 rounds since November, they only scored 6 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. By the end of the 2th round before Christmas, Benfica not only fell behind Porto in the league standings, but also lost Sporting Lisbon is under their feet!
Porto 31 points, Sporting Lisbon 30 points, Benfica 28 points.

The main reason for the decline in Benfica's performance is that their striker has problems.

The problem is of course not the ace striker Nuno Gomez, but the team's second striker, the 23-year-old Angolan national team captain Pedro Mantolas.

The supernova known as "African Pele" led the Angola youth team to win the African U2001 Youth Championship in 20, and won the top scorer. He was also named the best young player in Africa that year. Such dazzling achievements , and finally let Benfica take a ruthless hand, spending 500 million euros to introduce.

In other words, Portugal has a small country with a weak economy, and football clubs operate on a small budget. Buying low and selling high is their way of doing business. It is already a big deal to spend 500 million on the introduction of players.

However, it was this signing that Benfica was looking forward to, which made them suffer a dull loss.

After Pedro Mantolas moved to Benfica, he had a lavish stats in the first season, scoring 30 goals in 13 appearances. Such a result, if handled properly, is very likely to be sold for 1000 million euros, which is 100% profit. However, before Benfica succeeded, something happened to Pedro Mantolas!

Hypochondria!Unable to play!

In this way, Pedro Mantolas recuperated in Benfica for two years and did not come back until the start of this season. However, after playing for two months, the injury recurred...

Benfica still has 2~3 spare tires in the forward position, but they are not very strong. It can be said that apart from Nuno Gomez, there is no reassuring forward. When the team needs a big forward who can charge forward, they can only stare blankly.

Nuno Gomez is the best striker in Portugal after the golden generation. He has comprehensive skills. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a first-class player in Europe. However, he is not tall enough, only 181cm, and his impact is somewhat insufficient. He is a dexterous striker.

How can a team that wants to win the league and do well in the European leagues only have a single striker?
Not to mention anything else, the opponents have plenty of time to formulate countermeasures before the game, which can minimize the role of Nuno Gomez to the minimum!This situation is enough to make Benfica unbearable!
So, Benfica is a majestic Portuguese super giant, can't they quickly introduce a powerful striker?

This is about the current situation of Portuguese football. Portugal has a population of only 1000 million, which is more than half of the population of the Netherlands, which is 1600 million. Moreover, Portugal’s economic situation is not as good as that of the Netherlands. The plight of the club, they are poor!Very poor!The most important income of the Portuguese team is to play in the European league or sell players, not to run the club itself.

Taking the annual salary of players as an example, in other mainstream leagues, it is normal for the main players to have an annual salary of one million. The average player’s annual salary of more than 50 is basically the bottom line. However, in Portugal, Portuguese Super League players with an annual salary of 1 are everywhere. An annual salary of 2 is a high salary!If Portugal hadn't taken advantage of being the leader of the Portuguese language department, countless Brazilian and African players would choose this place as the first stop to enter Europe, and Portuguese football would immediately drop to a third-rate or fourth-rate.

So, what is the situation in Benfica today?

During this 10-year trough period, not only did their league results not improve, but they were even worse in the European arena!
After 1997, the best result in the Champions League group stage, the best result in the Europa League is also the group stage!
Such results not only make it difficult for Benfica to obtain sufficient funds from the European League, but also make it difficult to sell their players. Portuguese teams usually quickly sell their star players while they are famous after they have achieved good results. Sell, and then look for potential players. On the contrary, Benfica has entered an endless loop. The more money there is, the less good players there will be. If there are not enough good players, they will not be able to achieve results.

In addition, in 2003, Benfica spent 1 million to renovate the Stadium of Light. Although it has earned enough reputation, it has caused the club to bear huge debts, and the football project has to tighten its belt to live a hard life.

In this case, how can coach Giovanni Trapattoni get sufficient transfer funds?
However, Benfica's predicament just happened to help Ronaldo. No matter how poor Benfica is, it is still easy to spend tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of euros. Moreover, if they make Ronaldo a qualified Portuguese super-level player, that is Slapped Sporting Lisbon in the face hard!It can make Sporting Lisbon ashamed to lift its head!A fool would not do something that kills two birds with one stone!

Why did Benfica renovate the stadium when financial resources are tight?
That was to compete with Sporting Lisbon for the right to host the 2004 European Cup final. As a result, Benfica, which spent a lot of money, won, and the Stadium of Light became the venue for the final, while Sporting Lisbon's home stadium, the Alvalade Stadium, only hosted the semi-final.

It can be said that these two teams, as long as it is something that makes each other uncomfortable, they will definitely not let it go!

Benfica and Sporting Lisbon are sworn enemies!
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In the slums of Amandola, Ronando played football with a group of black brothers and exchanged feelings. In addition, Karina Ferro came to see him every day and accompanied him to wander around in the slums. Rarely relaxed and comfortable.

"C Ronaldo, will you always play in Benfica?" Karina Ferro asked suddenly.

"Of course not! When I am famous, I will go to the Premier League. That is the top league. If I can be famous, I can make more money!"

Ronaldo answered very simply. It is obvious that Portugal is not a place to live for a long time. When he becomes famous, he will not be able to leave even if he does not want to. Benfica will never keep him and will definitely sell him at a high price.

In fact, judging from the communication between him and Fernandez in the past two days, Benfica even wanted to sell Simao Sabrosa and Nuno Gomez, but they could not find a suitable buyer. Portugal Teams are like this. There has never been such a thing as "not for sale". As long as the price is affordable, no matter which player the club will sell without hesitation.

After hearing what Ronaldo said, Karina Ferro hesitated, and asked again: "The weather in England is said to be terrible? Don't you want to go to Italy? Italy's football is also very developed, so it must be famous too?"

"Italy?" Ronando smiled wryly, "The mafia is rampant in that league, it's too boring to play there."

Karina Filomer remained silent, and after a while she suddenly laughed: "We are so stupid, we are talking about Italy and England now, maybe it will be a long time later."

At this time, a little black girl ran over, holding a bunch of neatly tied wild flowers in her hand, handed it to Ronando and said, "Ronaldo! Here you are, you can give this bunch of flowers to you Girlfriend. How can a beautiful girl have no flowers?"

This little girl Ronando knew, the sister of a black kid who played football on the dirt field.

Ronando bent down to take the wild flowers with a smile, and said, "Thank you, Kriana! You will grow into a beautiful big girl soon!"

The little girl Kryana ran away happily.

Karina Ferro lowered her head, her pretty face was flushed!
In the past few days, although Ronando and Karina Ferro have just met each other, they obviously already have a good impression of each other, but no one is the first to pierce the layer of paper. Unexpectedly, this little girl said "Your daughter Friends", put the relationship between the two people to the point where it must be clarified.

With flowers in his hand, Ronando turned his head and looked at Karina Ferro with a smile.

After this period of contact, Ronando is no longer so restrained, and his courage has gradually grown. He can see that Karina Ferro has a crush on him. Otherwise, why would a girl buy him a mobile phone? Come and walk with him in the ghetto?

"Karina, do you want this bouquet of flowers? Obediently call my brother and I will give you this bouquet of flowers..."

Karina Ferro raised her head and looked at Ronando with wide eyes. Seeing Ronando's provocative expression, she immediately knew that she was being teased. She gritted her teeth in anger, and suddenly raised her right foot and kicked Step on Ronando's big feet!
"Little villain! I told you to play tricks on me!"

Carina Ferro snatched the bouquet of wild flowers from Ronando's hand, turned and ran, and there was a series of silver bells of laughter in the air: "Little villain! Come and chase me! Catch me!" I promise to be your girlfriend..."

(End of this chapter)