When the rising sun seemed to start to awaken the city's vitality in the early morning, the streets of Braga did not show a bustling scene.
Tang Hong, wearing white sports short-sleeved shirts and shorts, jogged in the city with coach Wise.
It was already past eight o'clock in the morning that we could clearly see more pedestrians. They were not in a hurry, as if they were not in a hurry. Portugal and Spain had similar economic problems. And seeing how leisurely the residents here were, we could understand why they could not compete with Germany and France.
By passing by buildings with different styles, passing through the old city gates, and occasionally glanced at the murals on blue, white, blue and white porcelain. It was difficult for Tang Hong to have such great enthusiasm for this city. He personally yearned for two extremes, either prosperous and fashionable, or paradise.
In this city that retains many medieval classical styles, he cannot find elements that can make young people passionate.
这确实是一个养老的好地方.
After he and Wise returned to the hotel after morning exercises, the two of them simply washed their sweat and changed their clothes and came to the lobby of the hotel. Sun Rou bought breakfast from the restaurant next to the hotel and divided the breakfast into three parts. She carefully selected healthy foods full of nutrition and low calories for Tang Hong and Wise. She put the egg tarts and fried cod into her mouth to taste it, looking leisurely and enjoying it.
Tang Hong learned Portuguese with Wise while having breakfast. The reason why Wise followed Tang Hong to Braga is that he knew some Portuguese and did not dare to say it was proficient, but there was no big problem with simple communication in the field of football.
This course begins when you leave Mexico while on a plane.
After breakfast and resting for a while, Tang Hong gave Sun Rou a few words and left the hotel with Wise. The two of them took a bus 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 popular support rates of Portugal’s local teams, Benfica has the highest, with nearly 45% of the Portuguese fans, while Porto and Sporting Lisbon combined are close to 50%!
然后才轮到布拉加,只有可怜的1.4%.
But from another perspective, the support rate of other Portuguese Super League teams is even lower, let alone the teams in the First Division.
Braga's training base is not big, even smaller than some of the training bases Tang Hong visited in the U17-elevator friendly match in China. After all, the country is small and the city is small, so the club is naturally small.
At the same time, since the youth training system has only matured in the past ten years, the youth training system in Portugal was supported by three giants. In the past decade, it was the reform of the Portuguese Football Association. Behind the scenes are the assistance and suggestions of the agent Mendes in the player transfer market.
If you simply think that Portuguese players are good at skill because of their high talent, then it is completely inappropriate. This is directly related to the way football soil is cultivated. For example, Italy's education for teenagers is: Look at where the opponent's goal is? Then you have to let the football get there!
This way of training focuses on instilling tactical awareness into players from an early age.
Portugal pays more attention to cultivating players' one-on-one, one-on-two, and even one-on-three abilities, constantly improving 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 Monlipierre, Braga is obviously more in line with Tang Hong's current needs because he is still growing up, and he needs a challenging environment that is in line with his own technical characteristics.
When Wise and Tang Hong came to Braga training base and registered the information at the doorman's office, they entered it.
Looking at the empty training ground, Tang Hong showed a hint of yearning, and then returned to calm.
When they arrived at the administrative building, Tang Hong and Wise waited outside the head coach's office for about 20 minutes before meeting Braga's new coach, Yartim, who can also be called the young coach.
Yartim, who is only 37 years old this year, started his coaching career at less than 30 years old. He has been coaching a small team in Portugal, from the First Division to the Super League, and just took office at the beginning of the month to become Braga's new coach. Although it is definitely not a phoenix, Braga, as the Portuguese Super League team that is closest to the three giants in the past few years, this stage is definitely a big leap for Yartim!
Yartim, who was already a Mediterranean, simply shaved his hair and his head was shiny. However, he was full of energy and the energy of a young man. After seeing Tang Hong, he walked up with a smile and shook hands with Tang Hong, then introduced himself to Wise and entered the office.
The team that Yartim coached was Bellamar, where he had a disciple who was a Chinese player named Wang Gang.
After Portuguese media reported that Yartim would enter the Braga Municipal Stadium at the beginning of last month, Chinese football media speculated that Wang Gang might have the opportunity to come to Braga with Yartim, because Wang Gang had been to Chavez and Berama over the years, and could be said to be Yartim's close disciples. They took it for granted that Yartim would continue to bring Wang Gang to a new club.
But they may have overlooked Braga President Antonio El Salvador also made a claim for record while welcoming Yartim.
At least the top four in the league, at least one of the local two cup championships will be the case.
This means that Yartim cannot be as relaxed as he used to coach Belmara. It is no big deal if he doesn't play well. If he plays well, he can win applause!
In Braga, you must win the championship!
Because of this, Wang Gang did not come to Braga. By chance, Yartim discovered Tang Hong in the player evaluation report of the World Young Masters Championship by the club scouts. After watching several matches of the Chinese National Young Masters, he decided to let the club sign the player, at least convince El Salvador of no problem in terms of cost.
Even if it is considered a long-term investment, it is reasonable.
Do you need to hesitate to join the World Young Masters MVP who does not need to cost?
Even if Wang Gang, who is also free of charge, did not dare to let the club sign by himself. It would really only waste the opponent's youth and cause trouble for himself. However, Tang Hong's performance in the World Junior Championships was enough to make Yartim believe that he was a talented person.
In the office, the two parties can only communicate in the simplest way, so they don’t have any greetings to go straight to the topic.
Yartim asked Tang Hong to prepare for training with the team in the summer, and based on his training performance, he would decide whether to give him a contract within a week.
Tang Hong had no objection to this. He was here to try out. He couldn't throw the World Youth Championship medal at the other party's table and ask for a contract, right?
Yartim walked out the door and called the assistant coach Antonio Vieira next door, and asked him to take Tang Hong to the locker room at the training base and arrange it for him.
Wise was a little hesitant and asked if Tang Hong needed him to accompany him throughout the journey. Tang Hong shook his head and said, "You go back to the hotel and help me see the nearby houses. If the club gives me a contract, I will not stay in the hotel. The budget is 2 million euros. Also, help me see where to learn to drive and take the driver's license nearby. If they don't want me in the end, then just treat you as a pass the time."
Wise smiled and said that although he was not as close as Van der Hill and Tang Hong, he also understood Tang Hong's style of conduct.
Since they speak Chinese, others couldn't understand it, so they didn't take it to heart.
Tang Hong followed assistant coach Vieira to the locker room of the training base. At this time, several players had already arrived to prepare to start training. They sat there chatting, chatting and talking Portuguese, Tang Hong couldn't understand.
35-year-old goalkeeper Quim asked Vieira: "A new guy comes?"
Vieira nodded and said, "Yes, there is some trouble, he can only speak English."
"Okay, do you need help?"
"I'll just arrange a seat for him. I'll talk about the rest when training, and I don't know if he can stay."
Tang Hong followed Vieira to the closet without a nameplate in the corner of the locker room. Vieira said to him in the simplest English: "This is yours, use it at will."
The so-called public areas are bathrooms and bathrooms. As for physiotherapy and massage rooms, they are in other rooms.
Tang Hong nodded to show that he understood. Vieira asked him to wait here. He came back soon after going out and took three sets of clothes for him, including jerseys, training clothes, socks and other equipment without numbers.
As for the sneakers, I must have brought them myself.
Tang Hong glanced at the others in the locker room. They didn't care about Tang Hong, and seemed to be used to someone coming suddenly and someone leaving suddenly.
After determining which clothes others were wearing, Tang Hong started changing clothes in a quick manner.
Chapter completed!