World's No.1 Football Manager

Chapter 440
After every national team match day, Ruben Amorim, the head coach of the Portuguese sports team, has a headache.

Amorim is an excellent representative of Portuguese football coaches.At only 35 years old, he has a brilliant resume in the player era. He participated in two World Cups in 2010 and 2014, and won 3 Portuguese Super League championships and 7 cup trophies.

And after taking off his jersey and putting on a suit, he also had a very high starting point on the coaching bench, and directly coached the "fourth strongest Portuguese Super League" Braga team.Later, because of his brilliant record, he was directly snatched from his old club by Sporting Portugal with a record 1000 million euro liquidated damages.

It can be said that Amorim is a high-profile young leader among the new generation of coaches in Portugal.

But this excellent young coach has been suffering from the FIFA virus.Since he was a player back then, his state has been repeatedly affected by the FIFA virus, and he can't always play well after the national team's match day.Now, as a coach, there is still no good way to cure the FIFA virus that plagues the team.

For this reason, he was quite distressed. He once asked the two kings of the national team, Figo and Ronaldo, how they overcome the FIFA virus and still maintain a good competitive state after the national team match day.

In this regard, the two people's answers are surprisingly consistent: "Talent, plus consistent hard training!"

Amerim was not very satisfied with this answer, and even thought that the two leading brothers of the national team were fooling himself.Good talent can resist the virus?It must be that they have some exclusive secret to keep in shape, and they are reluctant to share it!
Compared with meeting a weak team, Amorim hopes to meet a strong team after the national team match day.Because there are many international players in strong teams, everyone is affected by the virus, and their illnesses are not the same.

this time.According to the schedule, they encountered Maritimo.

Before the start of the season, Amorim was a little worried when he saw such a schedule, because at that time Maritimo was a standard weak team, and there were no national players in the team.

How could such a bad team be affected by the FIFA virus?

However, there was a turn of events, and I didn’t expect that the dog’s tail grass would also have spring!Maritimo actually came all the way!So far, it is still at the top of the standings!More importantly, this broken team unexpectedly had 11 players selected for national teams of all levels!
In particular, when Amorim learned that 5 of the Maritimo players went to China for training and 2 of them went to Brazil for training, his mentality suddenly became calmer. It seems that the FIFA virus is not so bad anymore!
This is the so-called mentality of "do not worry about scarcity but inequality, and do not worry about poverty but anxiety" mentality!

Amorim believes that compared to himself, the opponent's team, which is rich and poor, and the young coach who has never had professional experience, are even more unsuitable for the FIFA virus!
When Amerim saw Maritimo's starting lineup, he believed in his own judgment even more.

In Maritimo's starting lineup, except for Antonio, the other 10 people actually participated in the Guozihao training camp!

This Chinese coach doesn't understand anything at all!Football doesn't just depend on strength, on-the-spot status is sometimes more important!
Although Amerim knew that his team's condition was not good, he still decided to teach Maritimo's Chinese coach a lesson!
But after the game started, Amorim was so shocked that he almost dislocated his jaw.

The opponent didn't seem to be infected by the FIFA virus at all. They were all fierce and vigorous, in full condition, fighting desperately on the court, and dashing back and forth.

On the other hand, my players, each and every one of their legs seemed to be filled with lead, and every step they took took a lot of effort, as if they had just entered the "sage mode", and they were not excited at all.

"Damn, illusion, it must be an illusion!" Amorim muttered to himself.

In terms of flight distance alone, the opponent flies farther than his own players, and is also more exhausted. Why are they not affected, and they are all so energetic!
But as the game progressed, Amorim became more and more aware that the opponent's body seemed to have endless strength. Not to mention that he had just been attacked by the FIFA virus, even the opponents he usually played against were rarely so fierce!

I saw the opponents wearing red uniforms (away jerseys) running all over the field, while our own players wearing green and white horizontal stripe uniforms looked like a group of old men with old arms and legs, and they struggled to move.

But the young opponents obviously have no respect for the old and the young. Relying on their youth and strength, they rushed and robbed, raging on the court like a storm.

For a while, Sporting Portugal's goal was precarious, and it seemed that there was a possibility of losing the ball at any time.

"Damn, how did that Chinese do it! Why aren't his players tired at all?!" Amorim prayed for God's blessing.Don't drop the ball while wondering what panacea Gao Yuan has.

"Could it be that talent is really what Figo and Ronaldo said? Impossible! There are more players on your own team than the other team. In terms of talent, your own players must be stronger!"

Just when Amorim was in fear, the situation on the court suddenly changed, and Sporting Portugal scored the first goal.

The goal comes from a corner kick.

Wendell took the right corner kick, but I don't know if he didn't master the footwork well, or the lack of physical fitness caused the technical deformation. In short, the corner kick he took didn't work.
This was beyond everyone's expectations. Originally, the Maritimo team had several people standing in front, but the opponent's corner kick was too weird and the ball was so fast that Danso, who was on the outermost edge, didn't react at all. It was too late to swing his foot when the ball reached him.

The Portuguese national youth player actually missed it!

And his swing made Joao behind him shake, and Joao also accidentally missed the ball.

This time the ball flew straight into the middle of the penalty area.

The middle of the penalty area was crowded with players from both sides. It was like a big fat chicken jumped into the weasel's nest, and the chicken flew and the wolf jumped, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

The ball bumped into the crowd like a billiard ball. In the end, the goalkeeper Niu Gensheng had quick eyesight and quick feet. He had no time to make a save and flew up to make a clearance.

This kind of ball is definitely not allowed to go forward. The correct way is to catch it.But Niu Gensheng, who played football for a short time, suffered from his inexperience. Although he had heard the coach talk about the handling principles of this kind of ball, he couldn't remember many of them when he was in a hurry.

One kick went out, but the ball just happened to be bored on Zhou Yong who couldn't dodge in time.The heavy ball hit Zhou Yong's chest, and with a "bang", Zhou Yong fell down in response.

The ball was also bounced by Zhou Yong's strong chest muscles into the net that was close at hand!

Own goals!
Sporting Lisbon took the lead unexpectedly in an extremely passive situation.

The Jose Alvalade stadium was boiling. While celebrating the lead, the fans of the home team were also amused by this unexpected and somewhat funny goal.

Everyone on the visiting team's bench covered their faces with their hands, both regretful and ashamed, this kind of conceding the ball is too amateurish!
Gao Yuan's face was sinking, he knew that for Niu Gensheng and his few wild players who were drafted, making mistakes was like paying taxes.It is inevitable.It is said that good players are born out of the game, making such a mistake in actual combat is better than emphasizing it 1000 times!
However, the goalkeeper coach Baia was not so good-tempered, he yelled at Niu Gensheng on the bench, his face was full of anger.

As a goalkeeper coach, Niu Gensheng is his player and a potential new star he is very optimistic about.The legendary Portuguese goalkeeper has high hopes for Niu Gensheng, hoping that this young man from the East can inherit his mantle, so he has stricter requirements on Niu Gensheng than anyone else.

Making such a low-level mistake is not allowed by his master!
Niu Gensheng also drooped his head, knowing that he had made a big mistake, and reflected on himself with a gloomy face.

And the poor Zhou Yong was hit hard in the chest, and almost lost his breath. Under the emergency treatment of the team doctor, he finally recovered.

And the coach of the home team, Amorim, who witnessed this scene, also had mixed feelings:
The first feeling is that my team is being beaten by such an amateur team!
The second feeling is that weak teams rely on set-pieces to score goals on the football field, and their majestic Sporting Portugal took the lead with such a disgusting goal. Could it be that their team is really the weak side?

The third feeling, how to resist viruses depends on talent, nonsense!Obviously it's luck!

(End of this chapter)