Pirated Ronaldo

Chapter 40 The Cook Player
"Defeat the Red Eagles! Enter the Champions League!"

Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, is filled with such an atmosphere. In Portuguese football, the two cities of Lisbon and Porto have concentrated the best football clubs in Portugal, thus forming a fierce competition.

Lisbon VS Porto!
In general, since Lisbon has the two strongest teams, it has a great advantage, but Porto is not helpless. After entering the 21st century, the Porto city team once dominated Portugal in the 2001-02 season The two Champions League places, because in the previous season, Boavista and Porto won the league championship and runner-up respectively, which made Lisbon fans feel embarrassed.

Now, Porto is ranked first in the league. Although Boavista is only ranked fourth, they have the same points as Sporting Lisbon and only 1 point less than Benfica. If they can win Benfica, and Sporting Lisbon does not win all With 3 points, Boavista will be able to follow Porto and enter the top two.

Here we need to highlight a major feature of the Portuguese Super League.

Unlike other major European leagues where the league points gap between strong teams and weak teams is very huge, the so-called three overlords of the Portuguese Super League do not seem to have a particularly obvious advantage in the league.

Selling stars and training new players has always been a common rhythm of the Portuguese Super League giants, especially those teams that have made a splash in the league, the Champions League, and the Europa League. This makes it difficult for strong Portuguese teams to maintain a stable lineup. For example, Porto this season, after winning the Champions League last season, not only did the head coach Mourinho change jobs, but also changed more than half of the main lineup.

This season, the performance of the top three teams in the Portuguese Super League has been relatively weak due to various reasons.

前16轮排名第一的波尔图也不过是9胜5平2负，胜率堪堪超过56%，这个胜率与波尔图上赛季在联赛中高达的73%的胜率根本不能同日而语。

Often times like this, it is an opportunity for other teams!
So, why is it impossible for the Panthers Boavista to grab a Champions League spot while other strong teams are taking a nap?
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"Why can't we hope to go further? We did it in 2001, and in 2005, couldn't we do it?"

It is Boavista's current head coach Jaime Pacheco who said this. This is a remarkable figure, known as the elite figure among Portuguese local coaches.

Jaime Pacheco, 46, bald and short, is a former Portugal international who was part of the Euro 1984 and World Cup squads in 1986, but his real glory came at Boavista in 1998 After winning the Portuguese Cup, Boavista sold a group of famous stars including Nuno Gomez, and recruited the then 39-year-old marshal Jaime Pacheco as the new coach. Team head coach.

Three years later, Jaime Pacheco achieved unprecedented success, and his team snatched the league title from the hands of the Portuguese Super League.

As a result, he also joined the ranks of the elite coaches in Portugal, and because of the fierce battle between him and Mourinho who became the coach of Porto, he made him famous in Portugal.

Jaime Pacheco's classic quote - "He's a psycho!"

That's what Jaime Pacheco said of his rival Jose Mourinho, who had already landed at Chelsea and left Porto.

It can be said that Jaime Pacheco and Mourinho are the two extremes of the Portuguese coach.

Mourinho always pays attention to the outside, no matter when the clothes on his body are always very crisp, his hair is combed in an orderly manner, like a star, but Jaime Pacheco does not have this condition, he is not only bald, He is only 170cm tall, and looks ugly. He likes to wear a baggy down jacket, a pair of crumpled trousers underneath, and a pair of sneakers under his feet. This makes him unable to compare with Mourinho in terms of appearance.

However, these two head coaches have a common characteristic, they like to fight with each other!

The thing that bald coach Jaime Pacheco is most proud of is that he once "strangled" the fledgling Mourinho with his own hands.

That was in 2000. Mourinho had just finished his translation work in Barcelona, ​​and his first stop as head coach was precisely Benfica. That season, Jaime Pacheco led Boavista The year that won the league title.

Unsurprisingly, these two head coaches with very different philosophies got into each other's hands. Jaime Pacheco satirized Mourinho for not doing his job properly. An interpreter just wanted to be the head coach. , Mourinho will not be weak, the two said a lot of gunpowder-flavored words, and prepared sufficient material for the Portuguese media.

As a result, Benfica led by Mourinho played against Jaime Pacheco's Boavista twice in more than three months.

0:0 away, 0:1 at home!

It was the 0:1 defeat at home that made Mourinho tragically swept out by Benfica, ending his first job as a head coach early.

do you understand?Ronando today is exactly the same as Mourinho a few years ago!
Mourinho is not reconciled to be an interpreter and came to be the head coach without doing business, isn't Ronando also not reconciled to be a cook and came to be a player!

All in all, Ronando is much worse than Mourinho. Mourinho at least studied with famous coaches Bobby Robson and Louis van Gaal for a few years before he dared to create his own world, but Ronando This bastard, who has never played football, suddenly became a first-team player for a wealthy family. If he doesn't know how to attack such a weakness, is he still Jaime Pacheco?

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"I don't think it is a wise choice for Benfica to hand over the No. 22 jersey to a 17-year-old who has not undergone systematic training!"

"From the history of Portuguese football, there has never been a star who just came into contact with football at the age of 17! Football theory tells us that when a player is 16 years old, his basic skills have been formed. Then, I think Ake It is inappropriate for Mr. Pereira of Chit to choose him into Akchit, and it is even more correct for Akchit to expel him!"

"I heard that the kid is good at cooking. I think he should strive to become a famous chef instead of dreaming of being a football star!"

"...What did you say? He was eye-catching in the Lisbon battle?"

"No! You are all wrong! I have carefully watched the video of that game. Except for those two catches, the cook player was very lucky on the court, and he scored a goal and an assist. The rest of the time, his performance Very amateurish! Gentlemen, do I need to explain those two shots for you?"

"The first time, it was an accident. The second time, I admit that his speed is very fast. But what else does he have besides speed?"

Jaime Pacheco's tirade, persuasive and persuasive.

The Portuguese already had doubts about whether Ronaldo was a football genius. Whether Ronaldo passed the ball in the game was a good pass or a wrong kick, and finally rushed past goalkeeper Ricardo Pereira. That shot mainly relied on speed, not technique, and these are all doubtful.

If Jaime Pacheco's guess is correct, it is very bad!

Colleagues and fans in other countries will say: Look, these idiots in Portugal, they even flattered the stinky feet of a cook who can't play football!Does such a country still want to win the European championship and the world championship?

For a while, no media in Portugal dared to advocate the "17-year-old Figo of the future"...

This possibility seems to really account for a large proportion. A young cook, even if he is talented, suddenly became a football star. If this rumor is spread, it is estimated that no football expert in any country will believe it!This is unreasonable!

"Wait and see, anyway, Benfica is going to compete with Boavista face to face. Since Jaime Pacheco has seen the problem, shouldn't the accident happen again?"

"Yes! The next game on the 16th will be the touchstone for this cook!"

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Cook player?This name is really ugly!
Not only was Ronando annoyed, but Simao and Nuno Gomez were also very angry. It was obvious that if Ronando became famous, their hard work during this time would be in vain. Thinking of building a new frontcourt trident of the Portuguese national team, and then the three "progress together" and rushed out of Portugal hand in hand.

Jaime Pacheco is messing around!
For the bald coach's remarks, Nuno Gomez was very angry, because, unlike Simao, who has already stabilized his position in the national team's main force, Nuno Gomez, despite being called "the best player after Portugal's golden generation" forward", but in the national team, he is still firmly suppressed by the 31-year-old Pauletta, and he has no bright future.

Next year will be the 2006 World Cup in Germany. If Nuno Gomez can't perform well before that, he can only serve as Pauleta's substitute.

It is Simao and Ronaldo who can help Nuno Gomez. If the three of them can join forces to form a front trident, they will be in a favorable position in the competition for the position of the national team. Play well, transfer to foreign giants, is there any problem?

These things all seem separate but are actually linked, and Simão and Nuno Gomez's plan is to get Ronaldo to first achieve results at Benfica and then try to get him into the Portugal U21 team, going to Playing in the European U21 Youth Championship, finally let him enter the national team, and help them quickly. In this way, the biggest profit is of course Ronaldo, but it is also a big thing for Simão and Nuno Gomez. good thing.

(End of this chapter)