"Are you interested in following me to play football in Europe?"
Riester's voice was very soft, but it sounded like a loud bell in Gilberto's ears. Europe, go to Europe to play football. This is the dream of all Brazilian players. It's not that Brazilian players don't like their hometown, but
It's because only in Europe can they earn the most money.
With the development of commercial football, South American clubs are no longer able to compete with European giants. The most direct and intuitive thing can be seen from the Toyota Cup. After the Toyota Cup was established, South American clubs had an absolute advantage for a period of time. But then
With the development of commercial football, South American clubs are increasingly no match for European giants. It can be seen from the recent Toyota Cup that European clubs have begun to occupy the greatest advantage.
Gilberto is like other children in the slums. In Gilberto's family, his father was the only one who earned money to support the family since he was a child. Gilberto has three older sisters, so Gilberto started going to school and playing football at a very young age.
He has to work while playing football to earn money to support his family. Like those children who want to get out of the slums with football, Gilberto's biggest dream is to leave Brazil and play football in Europe. Of course, if he wants to play football in Europe, he needs to play football in Brazil first.
Kick it out.
Therefore, he has never forgotten to practice playing football, hoping that one day he can play in Brazilian football. Unexpectedly, a person came to him today and said that he wanted to take him to play football in Europe. If he can really play football in Europe, for Gilbert
To put it bluntly, it was like a dream.
But Gilberto is already twenty years old. And as there is a saying in China, the children of the poor become rich early. Gilberto has been working since he was eleven or twelve years old to help make up for the family expenses. He wants to be better than
There were many others. He couldn't believe List, after all, he had just met List for the first time. Besides, List said he was a Czech football agent, who knew if he was.
There are a lot of kidnappings of players in Brazil. There are many agents who make ridiculous claims, but after they deceive Brazilian players into going to Europe, they just throw the players away as long as they make some money. In Brazilian football, they are deceived by agents and end up with nothing.
There are not just one or two players. Because of the huge profits, there are too many scammers in this industry.
Gilberto is much more mature than his peers. Although he is a child from the slums, he has no fear when facing Lister and looks straight at Lister. Then he quickly calmed down and became very calm.
He said: "Hello, Mr. Cerny. I really want to go to Europe to play football, but why should I trust you?"
Riester smiled. Looking at Gilberto who suddenly became very calm, Riester pointed to the place next to him and said calmly: "Gilberto, let's sit over there and chat."
Gilberto nodded.
"Gilberto, this is my business card. I am a Czech agent. Maybe you are not very familiar with our Czech players. But you should have heard that your Brazilian Rivaldo and Dejaminha are currently in Spain.
Deportivo plays football.”
Gilberto said nothing. Because he also knew what Lister said, Rivaldo and Dejaminha are still quite famous in the current Brazilian football world. Especially Dejaminha performed extremely well in the just-concluded Copa America.
Excellent, he led the Brazilian team to win the America's Cup. His move to Deportivo cost Deportivo more than nine million US dollars, and he was the envy of all Brazilian players.
"Actually, there is another player in Deportivo who is as important as Rivaldo in Deportivo. His name is Karel Bobosky. I don't know if you know him. He is in
The most outstanding player in last year's European Cup, he moved to Deportivo La Coruna last summer and became the best right back in Spanish football."
Lister was talking and Gilberto was listening. However, Gilberto did not understand what Lister meant, and Ricardo, who was sitting next to Lister, also did not understand what Lister was talking about. Although Ricardo was an agent,
But he is just a small agent in Brazil. He has no time to understand the development of European football because he has not reached that level yet.
For him, it is most practical to be able to discover one or two talented players in Brazil.
Lister slowly showed a smile when he said this: "Karel Boboski is the absolute main force of our Czech national team. He is my player, and I just negotiated a new contract for him this summer.
The annual salary is 1.6 million U.S. dollars, and with some of his endorsement contracts, the annual income is more than 2 million U.S. dollars."
Not only Gilberto took a breath, but also Ricardo next to him. For Gilberto, let alone an annual salary of 1.6 million US dollars, as long as he was given an annual salary of 10,000 US dollars, he would
They would jump for joy. Their family was very poor, a family in a slum. Gilberto's family's annual income was less than two thousand US dollars, but this requires so many people in a family to support it.
In Gilberto's eyes, something like a million dollars is an unattainable salary. Although Ricardo next to him has escaped from the slums, his income is not high. He has always been paid to those big Brazilian agents.
People work part-time and help them get some meager income. It's only seven to eight thousand US dollars a year, but the income is still okay in Brazil.
"Actually, this is nothing. With Karel's talent, it is not impossible that his annual salary will exceed US$3 million in two years."
The more relaxed and simple Riester spoke, the more jealous Gilberto and Ricardo became. Riester's words seemed as if millions of dollars were a joke. Ricardo became more and more jealous behind Riester.
The more excited he became, because his eyes lit up when he looked at List. Ricardo didn't know much about the situation in European football and didn't quite understand it.
But after all, his life is much better than that of Gilberto and others, and he still knows the name Boboski. The player's annual salary of three million US dollars does not require Ricardo to be satisfied as long as he has an annual salary of one million US dollars.
This was a big benefactor, and Ricardo just wanted to hug Riester's lap. So he quickly walked out from behind and said to Gilberto: "Gilberto, I am Ricardo Carni.
Special. I am a local agent in Brazil, and I am also familiar with the president of your club. You can be sure of this."
Ricardo didn't lie. The club where Gilberto trained in the youth team was a small team in the Brazilian Second Division. Ricardo still had some connections with these small clubs.
"Gilberto, the coach of your club's youth training team is Osvaldo. You can verify my identity with him."
This is the advantage of local people. List is a powerful figure in the Czech Republic and is the number one figure even in European football. But no one in Brazil believes that he still needs the help of local agents.
It was much easier for Ricardo to go up. Ricardo soon made Gilberto believe in him.
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"Hello Mr. Silva."
Gilberto's father is very old. The last time Riester saw Materazzi's house in Rome, he felt that they were living in poverty. Unexpectedly, it was in Basilist that he discovered what a slum was. Gilberto lived in
Is the house a house? It looks shaky and crumbling, and they are all a group of mud houses. Gilberto's house really has nothing. Riester just saw a slum where the poverty is extremely poor.
"Hello, Mr. Cherny."
Gilberto's father's hands were very rough, and he looked like he had been engaged in physical labor all year round. When he saw a man in a suit like Riester coming in, he was a little at a loss. He didn't know where to put his hands.
"Mr. Silva, your son Gilberto is very talented in football. I want to take him to Europe to play football. If your family agrees, I think we can sign a contract."
Riester has learned about Gilberto, not to mention that no agent has paid attention to a carpenter like him. He is still practicing football and working to support his family. He has not signed any contract with the American MC team.
Because there are too many talents in Brazil, it doesn't matter if you go to the American MG team to train. If it is a European club, they will pay them some wages. But the Brazilian club is different.
Except for those real geniuses, they don't care about ordinary players at all. Even if Gilberto Silva doesn't go to the club to play, the club will care. Gilberto Silva is such a player.
Gilberto is therefore a so-called free agent. For Rist it doesn't get much better than this.
"Is he really capable of playing in Europe?"
Gilberto's father was very happy. This is the dream of all Brazilian players. But the mother of Gilberto Silva next to him was worried: "Can he really go to Europe? There won't be any problems with him, right?"
?”
Lister looked at Gilberto's parents and smiled and said: "I am willing to give Gilberto a signing fee of fifty thousand dollars, and I also hope that you will hand over the ownership of Gilberto to me."
Gilberto is a free agent, and Rist is not kind enough to introduce him to European clubs. Rist wants to get the ownership of Gilberto Silva. Gilberto's family does not have any objection to this. Because
This is how the ownership of players in Brazilian football is handed over to agents. When the players were young, those agents gave their families a sum of money and then obtained the ownership of the players.
This is too common in Brazil. Children in the slums use this method to hand over their ownership to brokers, which can also solve their family's difficulties. Fifty thousand US dollars is a lot of money for families in the Brazilian slums.
money.
Gilberto, who had been silent, hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke: "Mr. Cerny, it's not a problem to ask for my ownership of the US$50,000. But can I ask you for an additional US$50,000? I will definitely pay you back in the future."
Your. Our family needs money."
Hearing the silent Gilberto speak, Lister was very happy. Anyway, fifty thousand dollars or one hundred thousand dollars was not a lot of money to Lister. Now Gilberto is in a slum in Brazil, so he is not very concerned about money.
His concept is limited. After arriving in Europe, he will find that fifty thousand dollars and one hundred thousand dollars are small amounts.
Maybe when the time comes, he will feel that Lister has cheated him. He has to be introduced anyway, and Lister is not willing to be stingy in any way. He should just be a good person and do it to the end, so he directly waved his hand and said: "One hundred thousand dollars, I will give you a one hundred thousand dollars signing fee.
