There is a dream called football

Chapter 33 Team Trials
Lorinda is used to getting up early. She is 18 years old and is studying at a local university in Porto.

She is not busy with her studies, so she helps her father manage the restaurant when she is free. She has a character of being strong on the outside and soft on the inside.

She looks cold and even a bit fierce, but she is not like that in her heart. She loves her father very much.

"morning."

A hello came from outside the store.

Looking up, it was Li Qiaochen running back.

"Hehe, you are really different, you look like a professional player."

"of course."

Lorinda prepared breakfast for her father and Li Qiao, told the clerk a few words, and then went to school with her bag on her back.

After breakfast, Sosa drove Li Qiao to the Porto club.

After driving for about half an hour, I came to the Porto Gaya Training Center in the suburbs, which is the training center for all levels of the Porto Club.

Porto's echelon system is not as complicated as Real Madrid's. In general, there are 4 levels, Porto's first team, B team, youth team, and youth B team.

Gaya Training Center is a very modern football training center. There are 5 lawns in total, 4 of which are natural lawns. In addition, restaurants, dormitories, etc. are also available.

The doorman at the training center seemed to know Sosa and opened the door as soon as he saw his blue Opel approaching.

After parking the car, Sosa asked Li Qiao to wait a while, he was going to find someone, and he would be back later.

At this time, in the administrative building not far away, Porto B team coach Valle and assistant coach Gomez are discussing today's training in the office.

Gomez said, "That guy Sosa will be here today."

"What? Which Ronaldo is he looking at again?"

When he said this, Valle’s tone was full of jokes. There are tens of thousands of people in Europe who want to do football, but most of them are on the edge, and they can’t get in the door for a lifetime. In Valle’s view, Sosa is such a person.

Gomez shook his head, "I didn't say anything on the phone, I just said that I hope to give a trial training opportunity."

Valle sighed, "We can't play house with him all the time, although the food in his restaurant is quite delicious."

To be honest, as the head coach of the Porto B team, the reason why he accepts the players recommended by Sosa is not because he believes that he can discern the pearl, but because he is soft-spoken. In addition, Sosa is indeed a good person.

Gomez smiled and said: "As usual, just arrange a trial and then reject it. Sosa is a nice guy, we don't need to hit him."

"No!"

"Do not?"

"I think we hurt him by doing this. Football requires talent. Sosa didn't have the talent to play football when he was young, and now he doesn't have the talent to be a scout or agent. I think it's better to tell him the reality."

"How to say?"

Valle thought about it and had an idea.

"Put the man he brought in a cage."

Gomez's heart skipped a beat.

The so-called cage is a kind of training facility. In an indoor building the size of half a basketball court, the surrounding walls are movable.

For example, if a ball is kicked out from the ball feeding machine at 12 o'clock, a frame will light up at 3 o'clock after receiving the ball, but it will only light up for 5 seconds, which means that you must accurately send the ball into the frame within 5 seconds to score.

The players of Porto's first team and B team like to hone their small skills in the cage, but this challenge is difficult, and it is considered good if they can hit 10 out of 5 balls.

No one has hit all 10 rounds in the Porto club. Deco of the first team is the strongest player in cage training. His best score is 10 out of 9.

Gomez also belongs to the kind of good old man, "There is no need to slap Sosa in the face, he just has a football dream. Who in Portugal doesn't have a football dream?"

Valle stood up and walked towards Gomez, putting his hands on his shoulders. "Maybe Sousa will hate us today, but one day he will thank us."

Gomez nodded helplessly. He admitted that Valle's words were correct. This is the case in Portugal. Countless people want to become the next Eusebio, but most people's dreams are shattered.

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Li Qiao knows about the trial training. Generally, it is arranged in the training lineup, catches the ball and runs, and then the assistant coach will feed you the ball one-on-one to test your ability to shoot with both feet. I thought it would be the same this time.

But unexpectedly, a middle-aged man named Gomez brought himself into the interior building and into a small room.

The ground is covered with artificial turf, which is obviously an indoor court, but looking around, there are no goals, and the field is too small.

At this moment, another person walked in.

Gomez immediately introduced: "This is the head coach of Team B, Elidio Valle, a Portuguese."

Valai's outstretched hand was held together with Li Qiao's.

He has already read the information, and apart from participating in a so-called Real Madrid training camp, there are no bright spots, but the identity of the Chinese has attracted Valle.

Valle laughed and said, "Did you know? The reason why the Portuguese became a powerful nautical country back then was because we were going to trade in the East."

Li Qiao nodded, as if he knew something.

After exchanging pleasantries, let’s get back to business, Valle personally explained the content of today’s trial training.

This kind of cage training is still considered a secret weapon now, but it became very common later on, because after the German team won the World Cup in 2014, many people began to dig out the secret of the success of German football, and one of the training is this kind of cage training.

Li Qiao looked around and nodded to show that he understood.

"I can join the Porto B team after I complete a few?"

"Five," Gomez said.

"No!" In order to make Sosa completely give up, Valle prepared to increase the difficulty, "6, as long as you complete 6, then Team B welcomes you."

"I want the number 10 jersey."

Valle's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the people Sosa brought were as unreliable as him?After you finish the challenge, you can talk to me about the terms.

"Why number 10?"

Li Qiao said: "I rejected the Real Madrid B team. I came here just to be able to play the main force and have a stable playing time. If this cannot be guaranteed, there is no need for me to come here."

Valle stared at Li Qiao with wide eyes, "Young man, you rejected Real Madrid Team B?"

Li Qiao nodded.

"Okay." But looking at his expression, Valai didn't believe what Li Qiao said at all.

Valle pointed to the camera, "Young man, let's watch from the next room, remember, you only have one chance, if not..."

"You should go back to Real Madrid."

Li Qiao chuckled, he knew that Valai didn't believe what he said, well, let's use actions to speak for everything.

(End of this chapter)