The Green Superstar

In the early morning, when the rising sun seemed to be awakening the vitality of the city, the streets of Braga did not show a bustling scene.

Tang Hong, wearing white sports short sleeves and shorts, was jogging in the city with coach Wise.

It was already after 8 o’clock in the morning that more pedestrians could be seen obviously. They were not in a hurry, as if there was no concept of a hurry. Portugal and Spain have similar economic problems, but look at how laid-back their residents are. , We can also understand why they can't fight Germany and France.

Passing by buildings of different styles, passing through the old city gates, and glanced at the murals on blue and white blue and white porcelain from time to time, Tang Hong is hardly passionate about the city. He personally yearns for two extremes, either prosperous or fashionable.

In this city that retains many medieval classics, he cannot find the elements that can make young people passionate.

This is indeed a good place for elderly care.

When he and Wise returned to the hotel after finishing their morning exercises, the two of them simply washed off their sweat, changed their clothes, and came to the hotel lobby. Sun Rou bought breakfast from the restaurant next door to the hotel and divided the breakfast into three. Both Tang Hong and Wise have carefully selected healthy foods full of nutrients and low calories, but she herself first put the egg **** and fried cod in her mouth to taste, as if she was enjoying leisurely.

Tang Hong was eating breakfast while learning Portuguese with Wise. The reason why Wise would follow Tang Hong to Braga is that he knows some Portuguese and is afraid to speak proficiently, but he doesn’t have much simple communication in the football field. problem.

The course begins when I leave Mexico on a plane.

After eating breakfast and taking a break, Tang Hong confessed a few words to Sun Rou and left the hotel with Wise, and the two drove to the Braga training base.

In addition to the three giants in Portugal, other clubs can be called small teams, and Braga is no exception.

Among the local teams in Portugal, Benfica has the highest support rate. Nearly 45% of the Portuguese are Benfica fans, while Porto and Sporting Lisbon together have close to 50%!

Then it was Braga's turn, which was only a poor 1.4%.

But to think about it from another angle, the approval rate of other Portuguese Super League teams is even lower, not to mention the first division teams.

Braga's training base is not large, even smaller than some training bases that Tang Hong visited in China's U17 echelon friendly matches. After all, the country is small, the city is small, and the club is naturally small.

At the same time, since the youth training system has only matured in the last ten years, Portugal’s youth training system was supported by the three giants. In the past decade or so, Portugal’s youth training system has been improved and matured. The reform of the Football Association is behind the scenes with the assistance and advice of the agent predator Mendes in the player transfer market.

It is completely inappropriate to simply think that the Portuguese players are highly talented and therefore have good skills. This is directly related to the way football is cultivated. For example, the education of youth in Italy is: Where do you see the opponent's goal? Then you have to let the football get there!

This training method focuses on instilling tactical awareness in players from an early age.

Portugal pays more attention to cultivating players' one-on-one, one-on-two, and even one-on-three abilities, and constantly improves their ability to respond to complex situations in the game!

This is also one of the reasons why Tang Hong finally decided to come to Braga. Compared to Montpellier, Braga obviously meets Tang Hong’s current needs because of the Portuguese football style, because he is still growing up and he needs A challenging environment for better growth in line with its own technical characteristics.

When Wise and Tang Hong arrived at the Braga training base, they registered the information at the guard and entered.

Looking at the still empty training ground, Tang Hong showed a trace of yearning, and then returned to calm.

Arriving at the administration building, Tang Hong and Wise waited for about 20 minutes outside the head coach’s office to meet Braga’s new coach, who can also be called the young coach Yaltim.

Yaltim, who is only 37 years old this year, began his coaching career at the age of less than 30. He has been coaching the small Portuguese teams from the First Division to the Super League. He just took office as the new coach of Braga at the beginning of the month, although he is definitely not. Fly on the branch to become a Phoenix, but Braga is the closest Portuguese Super League team to the three giants in the past few years. This stage is definitely a big leap for Yaltim!

Yaltim, who has not yet reached middle age but is already a Mediterranean, simply shaved his hair, his head was shiny, but he was full of energy and full of enthusiasm. After he saw Tang Hong, he smiled and walked up. Shaking hands with Tang Hong, then introducing himself to Wise and entering the office.

Yaltim’s previous coaching team is Bellamar, where he has a disciple who is a Chinese player named Wang Gang.

At the beginning of last month, the Portuguese media reported that Yaltim would enter the Braga Municipal Stadium. The Chinese football media speculated that Wang Gang might have the opportunity to come to Braga with Yaltim on the grounds that Wang Gang followed Yaltim. Tim has been moving around Chavez and Bellamar over the years, and it can be said that he is the closed disciple of Yaltim. They take it for granted that Yaltim will continue to bring Wang Gang to the new club.

But they may have overlooked the Braga chairman Antonio Salvador's request for a record while welcoming Yaltim.

At least one of the top four in the league, and at least one of the two local cups, the European war will follow.

This means that Yaltim can't be as easy as coaching Belmara before. It doesn't matter if you play well, you can win applause if you play well!

In Braga, you must win the championship!

Because of this, Wang Gang did not come to Braga. By chance, Yaltim discovered Tang Hong in the player evaluation report of the World Junior Championships through club scouts and watched several games of the Chinese National Junior Team. After the game, he decided to let the club sign the player, at least convinced Salvador that there was no problem in terms of cost.

It makes sense even if it is seen as a long-term investment.

Is it necessary to hesitate to subordinate Luo Zhi, a world junior MVP who does not require cost?

Even if evaluated by strength, Wang Gang is also free. Yaltim dare not make his own claim to let the club sign. It will really only waste the other party’s youth and cause trouble for himself, but Tang Hong’s performance in the World Junior Championships Enough to make Yaltim believe that he is a manufacturable.

In the office, the two sides can only communicate in the simplest way because of language, so there is no exchange of greetings and straight to the subject.

Yaltim asked Tang Hong to prepare for training with the team in the summer. According to his training performance, he will decide whether to give him a contract within a week.

Tang Hong had no objection to this. He was here for trial training, so he couldn't throw the World Junior Championship medal at the opponent's table and ask for a contract, right?

Yaltim walked out the door and called the assistant Antonio Vieira next door, and asked him to take Tang Hong to the locker room of the training base to make arrangements for him.

Wise hesitated and asked Tang Hong if he needed him to accompany him throughout. Tang Hong shook his head and said, "Go back to the hotel and help me see the nearby houses. If the club gives me a contract, I won't live in the hotel. The budget is 2 million. Euros, and help me find out where it’s convenient to learn a car and take a driver’s license nearby. If they don’t want me in the end, it’s up to you to pass the time.”

Wise smiled. Although he is not as close as Van der Hill and Tang Hong, he also understands Tang Hong's style.

Since they were speaking Chinese and others could not understand it, they didn't take it seriously.

Tang Hong followed the assistant Vieira to the locker room of the training base. At this time, several players were already ready to start training. They were sitting there chatting, and Tang Hong couldn't understand while talking in Portuguese.

The 35-year-old goalkeeper Quim asked Vieira: "Are you new?"

Vieira nodded and said, "Yes, it's a bit troublesome. He can only speak English."

"Well, do you need help?"

"I just need to arrange a place for him. I'll talk about the rest while training. I don't know if he can stay."

Tang Hong followed Vieira to the wardrobe without a nameplate in the corner of the dressing room. Vieira said to him in the simplest English: "This is yours. Use the public areas as you like."

The so-called public areas are toilets and bathrooms. As for the physiotherapy and massage rooms, they are in other rooms.

Tang Hong nodded and said that he understood that Vieira asked him to wait here, and came back soon after going out. He took three sets of clothes for him, all of which were jerseys and training uniforms without number names and equipment such as ball socks.

As for the sneakers, I must have brought my own.

Tang Hong glanced at the other people in the locker room. They didn't care about Tang Hong. They seemed to be used to someone coming and leaving suddenly.

After deciding which clothes other people were wearing, Tang Hong moved quickly to change clothes.

After the change, he left the locker room. Others ignored him, and he had no interest in greeting him.