Benfica, Sporting Lisbon and Porto all have supporters, but overall, Sporting Lisbon is basically ranked last and has the weakest momentum, while Benfica has the largest audience and is even almost recognized as the traditional No. 1 giant.
Judging from the number of championships, Benfica has won 30 Portuguese top league championships and two Champions League championships. These two statistics are second to none in Portugal and unrivaled.
But the problem is that since winning the top league title for the last time in 1994, Benfica has been in turmoil.
Porto is currently recognized as the strongest team in the Portuguese Super League. From 1994 to now, in seven years, Porto has won five top league championships, thus winning 18 top league championships, more than 17
Sporting Lisbon.
Not only that, Porto also won the European Champions Cup in 1987.
Sporting Lisbon is also a traditional strong team and has won two top league championships in the past seven years. However, whether it is the total number of championships or the most valuable Champions League, Sporting Lisbon lacks a lot of honors.
Therefore, in the competition for the top giants, Sporting Lisbon's voice is the weakest. At present, it is basically a competition between Porto and Benfica. The former is an upstart, and the latter is a traditional powerhouse.
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Su Dong walked into the honor room of the Stadium of Light and saw a dazzling array of championship trophies. From this, you can easily see the heritage of Benfica, as well as legendary stars and world-class players such as Eusebio and Rui Costa.
, all from this team.
Many geniuses such as the Argentinian son of the wind Caniggia and the Czech genius Boboski have left their footprints here.
The person in charge of reception is scout Abel Silva.
During this period of time, he has been in contact with Su Dong and Mendes.
Although Sporting CP is a cooperative team of Belerences, Belerences was a little neglectful of Sudong at the beginning, so that it lags behind Benfica in many aspects.
Of course, as a satellite team, Belerence still has an advantage when it comes to the transfer period.
Employees of the Hall of Honor are responsible for introducing Su Dong to the history of some important trophies and the legendary stars behind them.
At the end of the visit, he said to Su Dong expectantly: "I hope to see your name here in the future."
Although it is a bit cliché, I have to say that it is really exciting.
This is Benfica, Portugal's most traditional giant.
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After visiting the Honor Room, Abel Silva took Su Dong and his entourage to the home team's locker room before the game started.
Benfica's current head coach is the legendary Toni.
To say that his career was quite brilliant, but as to coaching, it was really not that good.
I coached Benfica twice before, once for only nine games and once for only 12 games. Of course, both times, I was able to put out the fire midway.
Later, he went to coach Bordeaux in French Ligue 1 and Sevilla in La Liga, with mediocre results. Among them, Sevilla was dismissed after only ten games.
But even so, he still became the head coach of Benfica.
Tony had obviously known for a long time that Su Dong and his entourage would come to visit, but with the competition approaching, his expression looked very solemn. This was related to the fact that Benfica's results this season were not ideal and did not meet the expectations of the outside world.
More than 10 million euros were spent to buy back Simang, and more than 20 million euros were invested in the transfer market. This is definitely a huge investment for the Portuguese Super League team, but so far, Benfica is only ranked in the league
Fifth, still behind tonight's opponent Leiria.
Tony just maintained his demeanor, shook hands with Su Dong politely, and dismissed him.
Then Su Dong met the long-famous Benfica number one star Simao.
This is definitely a star with European level strength, and he is also Benfica's strongest force at present.
"I heard that you have been doing very well recently." Ximang was quite polite to Su Dong.
Su Dong also responded humbly, took out the pen and paper he had prepared early, and asked for an autograph and a photo.
In addition to Simao, Portuguese internationals Thiago and Maniche, who have performed well this season, are also on the list that Su Dong asked for autographs and photos. Another one is German goalkeeper Robert Enke.
The German goalkeeper has performed very well this season and has received attention from wealthy teams including Barcelona and Manchester United. I believe it is only a matter of time before he joins a wealthy team.
After walking around the locker room, Su Dong got a few autographs and photos, and became familiar with the players of Benfica's first team, which was considered to have accomplished the purpose of the trip.
But when they walked out of the home team's locker room and prepared to go to the fans' stands upstairs, they met Leiria's head coach, Portuguese Jose Mourinho, outside the visiting team's locker room.
"Hey Jorge, what brought you here?"
Jose Mourinho saw Su Dong and his party from a distance and shouted to Mendes.
"Ha, Jose." Mendes immediately greeted him, "The war is about to begin, do you still want to stay here?"
Mourinho raised his eyebrows and raised his chin confidently, "Who else is more familiar and understanding of Benfica than me?"
The scout Abel Silva on the side was a little embarrassed and couldn't say anything.
Mendes smiled politely and noncommittally.
"If I guess correctly, you are Su?" Mourinho's eyes fell on Su Dong.
Among the four people in the group, Su Dong was the tallest and the most eye-catching.
"Hello, Mr. Mourinho, I am Su Dong." Su Dong took the initiative to extend his hand.
Su Dong still has great respect for the head coach who has the best coaching performance in the Portuguese Super League this season.
Leiria itself is not a strong team. Before Mourinho took charge, their results were pretty good, but now they are ranked fourth in the league. That is absolutely surprising. Mourinho's coaching ability is evident.
Some media even broke the news that Porto coach Machado's coaching performance has not met expectations and he is likely to be dismissed. Once Machado is dismissed, his replacement will be Leiria's young coach Mourinho.
This is a great guy who is about to take over Porto.
Although Su Dong felt a little excited in his heart, Su Dong still had a calm attitude on the surface.
To put it bluntly, whether Mourinho is awesome or not, it doesn’t have much to do with him.
"Jorge, we haven't seen each other for a long time. After the game, would you like to sit down and have a drink?" Mourinho invited.
"Of course, no problem." Mendes agreed readily.
"Su, do you want to come with us?" Mourinho invited.
Su Dong looked at Mendes and nodded immediately, "Of course, thank you."
After making an appointment at the meeting place, Mourinho said goodbye and left, walking into the visiting team's locker room.
…
"He stayed here on purpose to block us."
Walking up the stairs to the stands, Mendes whispered to Su Dong.
This actually surprised Su Dong, and was even a little flattered.
is it possible?
"Don't think too much. This doesn't mean how much they value you, because every team is interested in making such future investments. You are only seventeen years old. Signing you at this time is very low cost.
, but as long as you can become a professional player, it will be hundreds of thousands or even millions of euros in income, what do you think?"
Mendes' words were like pouring a bucket of cold water on Su Dong's head.
To put it bluntly, it is all driven by interests.
"Leilia is only about a hundred kilometers away from Lisbon. If they have never heard of you, it must be false. Now it seems that they are also very interested in you, which is a good thing."
Su Dong understands what Mendes means. The more teams are interested, the more sought-after the player is and the more leverage he has in negotiations.
Of course, the premise is that you must clearly know your own upper limit and where the other party's bottom line is.
For example, with Su Dong's current strength, it would be basically impossible to forcefully ask for a spot in the first team.
It was at this time that Su Dong felt the benefits of being an agent.
"Mourinho is very capable. I have been in contact with him in the past two years. He once worked as an assistant to Robson, Van Gaal and others in Porto and Barcelona. He previously coached Benfica and achieved very good results, but later because of Benfica
In the presidential election, the chairman who supports him will be fired, and the new chairman will be replaced by Tony."
When he said this, Mendes smiled at Su Dong and said, "This guy will retaliate. Benfica will suffer a lot tonight."
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It turns out that Mendez's guess was right.
Benfica not only suffered a little bit, but suffered a lot.
Mourinho's team is indeed not as good as Benfica in terms of strength, but this team responded with 433, but the defense was quite good. The players were not strong enough, but the tactical execution was in place. This made the already offensive presence
Benfica is very depressed about the problem.
On the contrary, Leiria relied on two counterattacks. Brazilian player Delle scored twice to help Leiria beat Benfica 2-0 away from home.
This made Abel Silva feel very embarrassed.
Originally, Su Dong was invited to watch the game because he wanted him to see the team win, but he didn't expect that he would lose like this.
If Leiria hadn't been unable to seize opportunities, this would have been a disastrous defeat.
Combined with Mourinho's confident look in the player tunnel just now, it's really a bit...
Mendes smiled secretly in his heart and raised his eyebrows at Su Dong, as if to say, look, I said that right?
It was also the first time for Su Dong to see the game coached by Mourinho. He felt that it was very smooth, without too many surprises and surprises. He completely restricted Benfica. Except for Simao who created a few dangers and Thiago had a few passes.
Off the ball, Benfica didn't have the slightest chance throughout the game.
He is really a very capable head coach.
Su Dong thought to himself.
…
After the game, Su Dong and his party did not just leave.
Mendes didn't even hide it from Abel Silva, and told him openly that he wanted to stay and meet Mourinho, and Abel Silva had nothing to do about it.
After waiting for about half an hour in the cafe next to the stadium and opposite the parking lot, Mourinho arrived belatedly.
He first apologized to everyone, and everyone understood it. After all, as a head coach, he still has a lot to do after the game.
But no one expected that this vengeful Portuguese had just finished apologizing and immediately turned to look at Su Dong.
"Su, if I were you, I would definitely not consider joining Benfica."
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