Handsome position is not easy

Chapter 132 Big Team Change ([-])

After the league ended, all the international players in the Porto team began to leave the team and report back to their country, except for Vitor Baia and Jorge Andrade, Jorge who was loaned to Charlton because of a disagreement with the former coach Octavio Costa was also called up by Portugal. The head coach of the national team is an acquaintance of Mourinho, "Tony"-Antonio Oliveira.

It is also because the record this season is really shabby. Only two of Costa Porto, who are rented out, have been selected for the World Cup squad. You must know that Sporting Lisbon has been picked out of seven people. They won the championship last season and won the runner-up this season. Boavista also has three selected.

Benfica is the most dismal of the old three giants in Portugal. Not only was it overwhelmed by Porto in the UEFA Cup qualification, but also only defender Marco Canela, who was transferred this season, was selected for the national team. People, Portugal's coach is Tony, who was fired by them, and the team's performance this season is not convincing at all. Naturally, not many players will be selected by Antonio.

All countries are preparing for the World Cup nervously, but the staff of the club cannot relax. Mourinho led Villas-Boas's intelligence department to collect information on players who were previously included in the target list, and Jorge Mendes also played a role again. A very important role. According to the previous agreement reached between Porto and Leiria, he brought Mourinho's old disciples here at a very low price.

Leiria used 15 euros to bring Delray to Portugal from Rio de Janeiro Madureira. This smart Brazilian striker scored 2001 goals in 02 games in the 33/21 season. This is already considered to be able to compete for the Golden Boot data, but because Sporting Lisbon bought super striker Jardel from Porto and scored 42 goals, Mendes only let Porto buy Del Rey for 45 euros .

Marciel, who was worried that he would not be able to get the main position, still did not agree to the conditions offered by Mendes. He also fulfilled his promise to stay in Leiria with the old captain Marovic, but the left back Nunov Valente chose a free transfer. Yes, but Thiago Moreira also signed a three-year contract with Porto. The Nerazzurri only paid a transfer fee of less than 50 euros, plus the price of a youth training player in exchange for Gained two immediate combat forces.

At the same time, many players who were abandoned by Mourinho also found their next home. Milan Pavlin was taken away by Ljubljana Olympia at a low price. This is his hometown team in the Slovenian Super League. Porto only received some money based on Pavlin's worth in the transfer market.

Argentine right-back Ugo Ibarra also returned to his hometown, because he was unwilling to bear his high salary here, Boca Juniors almost won the Argentine at the price of a friendly gift from Porto. In the 2001/02 season, left-back Ricardo Silva, who only got five appearances, went to Guimaraes, and the 26-year-old Portuguese only sold 30 euros.

Surprisingly, Maniche, who fell out with Benfica over the departure of Mourinho at the time, did not have a good relationship with Toni and the next coach. He only played once in the league in the entire 2001/02 season. At that time, he directly submitted a transfer application to the club. Benfica could only watch the player whose contract was about to expire freely leave the team. Round trip to Lisbon.

Porto is preparing procedures in advance for the players who are about to transfer, and in distant Asia, the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup has already ignited the smoke.Portugal's golden generation with Figo, Rui Costa, Joao Pinto, Gomez and Pauletta performed amazingly in the European Cup two years ago, and naturally became the favorite to win this World Cup. Its group opponents have no One exception is the third-rate teams, and all fans and football bigwigs feel that Portugal's show moment will be in the knockout rounds.

In the first match against the U.S. team, Portugal was unexpectedly pierced by the U.S. three times in the first half, especially the second goal. , although the US team also scored an own goal in the second half, Portugal still lost to the opponent 2:3, and suffered a blow in the first game.The host South Korean team beat Poland by two goals.

In the second game, Portugal found the feeling of winning. Four goals swept the Polish team, and Pauletta scored a hat-trick.In the third scene against the hosts, two Portuguese players were sent off due to fouls. This bad situation has foreshadowed the trend of Portugal’s game. Park Ji-sung beautifully dunked the Portuguese defender's volley to open Baia's goal and sentenced Portugal to death.

Portugal under Tony failed to qualify from the group stage. Looking at Figo's tears after the game and the many players who were dissatisfied with the penalty and besieged the referee after the game, I don't know how many Portuguese smashed their TV sets. Antonio Oliveira, who led Portugal to at least the quarter-finals in 1996, became the target of criticism.

The domestic media began to criticize him for underestimating his opponents against the US team. It was Tony’s crime that older players such as Rui Costa, Joao Pinto and Paulo Sosa were not reused. For veterans who are over 30 years old, this World Cup is their last chance to see the Hercules Cup.

Yang, who stayed in the apartment with Ricardo Carvalho, not only witnessed Portugal's poor performance that failed to qualify, he also watched the Chinese team that entered the World Cup finals for the first time in history, losing 0:2 to Costa Rica, Lost to Brazil 0:4, and finally lost to Turkey 0:3. In the three games, they swallowed nine bombs and failed to score a goal.

Carvalho knew that Yang was of Chinese-Portuguese mixed race. In just a few days, the boy’s two home teams were all eliminated. The pain in his heart was double that of ordinary Portuguese. It took several days to suppress the depressed mood with exhaustion.

The two young men can have a lot of free time during the offseason, but Mourinho is not so free. Although Setubal failed to stop Boavista in the last round of the league, the hometown team However, there is a player who has attracted the attention of the Porto coaching staff by virtue of his performance. Mourinho and Mendes, who have just returned to the club, set off again to the Bofim Stadium, preparing to buy the ferocious right back Paulo Ferreira.

But the Setubal team did not let go of the transfer fee because of the face of the fellow. In order to get this emerging 23-year-old young defender, Porto paid a price of 200 million euros. The loss of Ibarra left only Secretario at the right back position without a replacement. Chairman Da Costa would not be willing to pay so much money for a player who is not an international player.

(End of this chapter)