In the morning, when passing a street newsstand, Nuno Cruz habitually stopped to buy a newspaper.
Several of Portugal's best-selling newspapers were placed on the stalls in the newsstand window. Without exception, the front page of each newspaper published last night's match of Sporting Lisbon's 3-2 victory over Maritimo.
This is a Portuguese Cup semi-final, attracting national attention.
The Public Daily even published a photo of Su Dong on the front page, giving the young Sporting Lisbon player extremely high treatment and giving him a brand new nickname - Mr. Key!
"In the past three games, the 17-year-old Chinese teenager Su Dong has scored four goals and one assist for Sporting Lisbon. What an incredible result."
"These five goals brought Sporting Lisbon two key league victories, a valuable six points, a qualification to the Portuguese Cup semi-finals, and a ticket to the National Stadium of Portugal."
"No one thought that when Sporting Lisbon encountered unprecedented difficulties, the key figure who stepped forward to save the team was not the top star Jardel, nor the core midfielder Joao Pinto, nor the talented young man Quares.
Horse, not Rui Costa II and Hugo Viana, but an unknown rookie player."
"In the past half month, the name Sudong has spread throughout the streets of Lisbon at an incredible speed and has become the focus of discussion among all Sporting Lisbon fans."
"Almost all professionals agree that this young Chinese player nicknamed [Little God of War] is becoming the most important core player in Sporting Lisbon at an extremely fast speed."
"In an interview with this reporter, technical director Aurelio Pereira also praised the Chinese youngster and believed that he will become Kluivert of Sporting Lisbon and will also play a more important role.
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Nuno Cruz read the report on the cover, with a slight smile on his lips.
He is Su Dong's personal coach, and he and Su Dong have a community of interests. The better Su Dong performs, the better he will benefit.
Of course, for the time being, he can't see any benefits, but he believes that with the improvement of Sudong's status and influence in Sporting Lisbon and even in the Portuguese Super League, the name Nuno Cruz will be on the list sooner or later.
Newspaper.
After paying for the newspaper, Nuno Cruz bought breakfast with satisfaction, and then went to the vegetable market to buy a whole day's worth of groceries before returning home.
Half an hour later, he put his daughter on the school bus and drove to Alcocheti.
After parking the car, Nuno Cruz went straight to the gym.
As soon as people walked to the door, they heard sounds coming from inside.
Through the window, Nuno Cruz saw Su Dong doing pull-ups in the gym.
There was a football between his legs. When he was doing pull-ups, he had to keep his legs close together to ensure that the football would not fall.
After doing a set of pull-ups, his legs relaxed and the football between his hips fell down, so he stretched out his legs to practice throwing the ball.
During the whole process, his hands did not leave the horizontal bar. He relied entirely on the strength of his hands and body to maintain the training, which exercised all the muscles in his body.
Finally, he kicked the ball into the basket not far in front of him and completed a "shooting".
After landing and resting for 15 seconds, Su Dong clamped a football between his legs and jumped up again to start a new round of training.
Nuno Cruz stood beside the bed, watching Su Dong's sweaty training with admiration in his heart.
What others saw was Su Dong's sudden rise on the court, scoring four goals in the last three games, but as a personal coach, what he saw was that Su Dong came to the training base one and a half hours earlier than others.
I leave an hour and a half later than others and get up every morning to train...
If players like this can't succeed, then God is really unhappy.
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After seeing Sudong complete another set of pull-ups and kickballs, Nuno Cruz walked into the gym.
"Okay, Su, I played for an hour last night, so today's training needs to be less intense."
Nuno Cruz came to Su Dong. He knew that Su Dong must have completed the regular warm-up training by himself, such as spider crawling, lizard crawling, etc. He didn't need to worry too much about these.
"Where's Ronnie?" He felt a little strange.
Ronnie is also a player who trains extremely hard. He usually advances and retreats with Su Dong, but today he was nowhere to be seen.
While wiping his sweat with a towel, Su Dong smiled and said pointedly: "He didn't go home last night and wandered off somewhere. He probably hasn't gotten up yet."
Nuno Cruz thought about it for a moment and couldn't help laughing.
Ronnie is dating Jardel's sister Jordana, which is no secret within Sporting Lisbon.
There is a muscular boy who is in puberty and his male hormones are seriously over the limit, and the other is an energetic girl with a hot figure. It is not surprising that these two people can do anything together.
"You still need to remind him a little bit to pay attention to moderation." Nuno Cruz winked at Su Dong narrowly.
Su Dong smiled helplessly. Making a girlfriend is really a waste of time and energy.
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When Ronnie dragged his tired body back to the team and participated in recovery training, agent Jorge Mendes also appeared in the meeting of Sporting Lisbon technical director Aurelio Pereira.
In front of the desk.
In fact, Aurelio Pereira doesn't like dealing with Mendes.
how to say?
Mendes gives people a very complicated impression. You can say he is smart, but he is not annoying. You can say he is easy to get along with, but he often does things that give his "opponents" a headache.
After getting along several times, Aurelio had to admit that for a rising star who could put Vega in such a difficult situation, Mendes' ability and character can be said to be outstanding, even better than Vega's.
But is this a good thing for club operators?
"Jorge, when I invite you here today, the main thing I want to do is talk about the players."
As Aurelio spoke, he couldn't help but think of the fact that there were already four Mendes players in the team, and Quaresma had officially switched to Mendes not long ago.
This is a bit troublesome.
Sudong, Ronnie, Hugo Viana and Quaresma, the four most valued young players of Sporting Lisbon, are actually Mendes' players. This also means that Mendes has considerable influence on Sporting Lisbon.
of influence.
Of course, if Mendes is smart, he should know that the goals of the player, club and agent should be the same.
"I have contacted partners in the UK and Italy, and I plan to operate Ugo Viana first."
Among the four players, Hugo Viana is the oldest, nineteen years old, eight months older than Quaresma.
"Judging from the current feedback, both British and Italian teams are interested in Ugo Viana, so you should be mentally prepared to lose Ugo Viana this summer."
Aurelio frowned and nodded, he was mentally prepared for this.
Even when Mendes arranged for Hugo Viana to play abroad, they fully supported it.
Sporting Lisbon relies on this to survive.
"Our second team is still relatively short of midfielders. Ugo Pina and Miguel Paichon are still lacking some firepower. Bologna is not very satisfied with them. If there are good young players in China and Brazil,
, you should also pay attention to it for us." Aurelio looked at Mendes and said.
Mendes was once a partner of Brazilian football godfather Figel and is still very well-connected in Brazil.
"Both Porto and Benfica are very aggressive in grabbing people. The more outstanding players such as Thiago, Maniche and others are very popular. I will pay more attention to Brazil." Mendes also feels a little headache about this.
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After sending away Hugo Viana, Sporting Lisbon's midfielder will definitely need to be supplemented. If he can recommend a capable player, he will continue to maintain his influence on Sporting Lisbon.
"If it doesn't work, bring in or rent a veteran." Aurelio revealed the management's intention.
Either young players or simply experienced veterans, this is Sporting Lisbon's team-building strategy.
In addition, Sporting Lisbon also has a Spanish midfielder, Tonito, who is on loan in Santa Clara. This player has performed well this season. If he returns to the team, he will be a strong supplement to the midfield.
"And one more thing."
"you say."
"We are considering re-signing professional contracts with Su Dong and Ronnie."
Both players have performed well recently and have been given consecutive opportunities to play in the first team. Su Dong, in particular, has been in the limelight recently. The management of Sporting Lisbon also realized the importance of Su Dong and signed a new contract.
, this is also what should be done.
Usually, when the club says this, the implication is that they want to raise salaries.
In professional football, if you want your players to work hard for you, you need to pay them enough money.
If you give it yourself, it is sincerity and it also means you attach importance to it. If the agent comes to ask for it, it is a bit uninteresting.
Mendes stared at Aurelio for two seconds, then suddenly smiled, "Aurelio, they just signed the contract less than half a year ago, and now they have renewed it, isn't it a bit too hasty?
"
"Indeed, but considering their recent performance, we think it is necessary to reward them and hope that they can keep up their efforts and perform better." Aurelio secretly complained in his heart.
The club took the initiative to renew the contract, but the agent politely declined, which basically has only two meanings.
Either he wants to leave the team, or he wants more.
From the current point of view, there is almost no possibility that these two 17-year-old players will leave the team, because they are in a critical period of improvement. Leaving the team at this time can easily interrupt their progress.
Then there is only one possibility left.
Mendes, the old fox, wants more.
What a vampire!
Aurelio cursed angrily in his mind.
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