Pirated Ronaldo

Chapter 108 The Catholic Asylum Team
However, Benfica's situation is only slightly better. Their games are still tense, and the rhythm of double matches in a week is still going on. No one has time to take a breath.

Braga Sports Team!Portuguese Cup quarter-finals knockout round!

This is a team that cannot win the championship, but can affect the trend of the league. For a period of time after the start of the second half of the league, they have maintained the same points with Sporting Lisbon and Boavista, behind Porto and Benfica, It is considered a favorite team that may break into the Champions League next season.

However, since losing to Porto at the end of January, the Braga team has been out of luck. Except for beating Benfica in the 21st round, they lost three of the other four games!
Porto, Guimarães, and Madeira National are three teams with good strength. They scored 3 points on the Braga team. In the last game, Braga finally won the game and beat the underdog 2:1. Jill Vincent, but the total points only rose to 39 points, farther and farther away from the first four teams.

The league was hopeless, and the Braga team had to shift their focus to the Portuguese Cup.

Team captain Paul Jorge: "The last time we won the Portuguese Cup was 39 years ago, and the last time we entered the Portuguese Cup final was also 7 years ago. This season's league competition is extremely fierce. I think this may be our The best time to win the Portuguese Cup!"

After a lapse of 20 days, Benfica and the Braga sports team met for the second time, at the same location, still the Braga Municipal Stadium suspended in mid-air.

2月12日的第21轮联赛，本菲卡刚刚在这里经历了本赛季最惨痛的失败，被拥有“山寨阿森纳”之称的布拉加队以3：0痛宰。

"Counterfeit Arsenal"?
This is indeed the nickname of the Braga team. The youth team of this team is simply called "Arsenal of Braga". That is because the Braga team visited Arsenal in the 30s. After returning to the stadium, they changed their home jersey from green to bright red with white sleeves, which is basically Arsenal's jersey style. Since then, Braga has copied Arsenal everywhere.

Don't get me wrong, the Arsenal in the 30s was not the Arsenal under Arsene Wenger's current coaching, but the Arsenal that Tottenham fans called "Stupid! Stupid! Arsenal!" accept!
Simply put, it is rough defense + holding high and hitting high.

Of course, this copycat Arsenal in Portugal certainly cannot be equated with Arsenal's style in the context of technical football, but influenced by Arsenal football, it is a team with a unique style in Portuguese football.

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On March 3, after only one day of recovery training, Benfica set off for Braga, the northernmost city in Portugal.

"Give up the Portuguese Cup? No! I won't do it! No matter what the media say about me, I have decided to let Benfica do my best this season. I will not let go of all possible championships. Those who think I will ruin Benfica People, you can criticize me as much as you like, but you can't change my decision!"

This is the declaration made by the Italian coach Trapattoni in public before Benfica boarded the plane.

The battle with Porto two days ago made Ronando famous, and Trapattoni's prestige in Benfica reached its peak. The media called this pair of mentors and apprentices the biggest miracle of this year's Portuguese Super League. The scene of Bian holding up Trapattoni appeared in large and small Portuguese newspapers.

Trapattoni has thus won the heartfelt support of almost all Benfica fans.

Fans love to see a tough manager!Benfica has been weak for many years, without a strong coach to lead, it is absolutely impossible to regain the top.

Unlike Ronaldo who was the only one to lead in the Portuguese Cup knockout round of 16, this time, Simão, Nuno Gomez, and Ronaldo went out together, and they vowed to let Benfica pass Braga. , At the same time, it is also the revenge of 20 days ago!
In the battle 20 days ago, both Nuno Gomez and Ronando were injured, and only Simao supported it alone. Now, although Benfica has been fighting for days and is exhausted, their morale is high. In the past few months, the record of 3 wins and 1 tie has made all the fans smile crookedly. The only draw was a 1:1 draw with CSKA in the severe cold of Moscow, which is equivalent to a small victory.

"This is the best era for Benfica, no matter what!" This is the slogan shouted by Benfica fans to support the team.

Isn't it weird?Why do fans support the team desperately to compete for every championship when the future of Benfica is not clear, instead of thinking about making the team stable and striving for glory next season?
People who think like this definitely don't understand the Portuguese Super League!

Now, the reputation of Benfica's trident has risen, showing their sharpness on the court, but it also brings a problem. This trident combination will never appear in the Portuguese Super League next season!

Benfica can't stay, and won't stay.

Simao, who became famous in the European Cup in 2004, was almost determined to transfer, but in the end he didn't make the trip for some reason. No Portuguese Super League team will simply keep their own team for the sake of the team's performance. The star, the reality of the Portuguese Super League team is that the star who can sell the price must be sold, even if he is the core of the team!

Ronando, who will have turned 18 in the summer, would be appropriate to transfer and leave according to the current growth rate.

Benfica's business must have been profitable. They bought Ronaldo for only 12 euros. It is conservatively estimated that if Ronaldo transfers for 500 million euros, the club's profit will reach dozens of times!This should be the most successful signing in Benfica's history.

Is Ronando worth 500 million euros now?
The 18-year-old Portuguese U21 player, one of the Benfica tridents, and the Chinese market behind him. With these three points alone, if Ronaldo cannot be sold for 500 million euros, then Benfica can close their doors and go to sleep!

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"Oh! What a fucking majestic course that is! But what a fucking bastard!"

The Benfica players arrived in Braga and had just entered the urban area by bus. Simao put his head close to the window, looked at a huge gray building on the hillside in the distance, and cursed.

There is the sad place of this Benfica, the Braga Municipal Stadium, a stadium "suspended" in mid-air.

Braga is located in the mountains of northern Portugal. The terrain is more complex than Lisbon, which is built on seven hills. The city center is in the Corvado River Valley, and the city extends to the mountains behind the valley. The Braga Municipal Stadium is built on the On the hillside facing the valley.

This is the most majestic stadium in the world, because this stadium is located on the slope of Mount Castro, standing in the air, with only two stands, and the back of one side of the goal is the stone wall left when the stadium was built. The original style, behind the goal on the other side, stands in the air, is a slope, and the wide Corvado River Valley is below.

The stadium, one of the host venues for Euro 2004, was once described as a "work of art" by UEFA officials.

From the point of view of the building, it is indeed a work of art. Above the stands on both sides are huge sky curtains, connected by many huge steel cables in the middle. It is said that this inspiration comes from the ancient Inca bridges in South America, which looks majestic and magnificent.

However, this stadium is a trouble for any team that comes as a guest. Players who enter this stadium for the first time always find it difficult to adapt to the environment here.

Just imagine, when a player is facing the opponent's goal, and behind that goal is a night sky, there are countless huge beams of light shaking, and when you run closer, you can see the brightly lit city of Braga, this feeling How weird should it be?

When the Braga Municipal Stadium was completed at the end of 2003, Braga fans said that the stadium would bring them good luck.

In fact, this is true. Although it cannot be said that the Braga team will definitely win in this stadium, it is an indisputable fact that their winning percentage has greatly improved. In the 2002-03 season, the team ranked 14th in a bad way. But last season's final ranking was 5th, reaching the Europa League.

Benfica suffered a big defeat here 20 days ago. There are reasons for the team's poor performance and reasons for not adapting to the stadium.

It's no wonder that captain Simão was upset after seeing that stadium.

"Okay, boys! As you can see, there is the Municipal Stadium in Braga. However, we can't train there tonight, they refused our request to adapt to the venue at night. However, I don't think it's a big deal! The game depends on What matters is strength, and we will definitely win this battle!"

Coach Trapattoni saw the players whispering, and immediately stood up and said loudly, with some disdainful smiles on his lips.

The Braga Municipal Stadium refused Benfica to adapt to the venue at night. It is nothing more than not wanting Benfica to adapt to the environment there. However, the whole team, except for pure rookies like Ronaldo, has experience playing in this stadium. I just participated in the game 20 days ago, so it doesn't matter if I go or not get used to the venue.

Fernandez whispered to Ronaldo: "It's really a bit evil there. The fans in Braga say that it is protected by the Catholic Church."

"Just talk nonsense! That's because the design of the stadium is so unique that it makes you feel weird!" Ze Roy shouted.

When the Portuguese say something is old, they often say: "This thing is as old as the cathedral in Braga."

The ancient Braga was built in 296 BC. There are many cathedrals here. The oldest church was built before the tenth century. Today Braga has a population of 17 and is an important city, but in the 16th century In the past, the population here was sparse, and the medieval Catholics used it as an expansion base in the process of recovering Portugal, so this is the center of Catholicism, and there are almost no other resident populations except for the believers.

Until now, Braga is also a Catholic site, and the locals generally believe in Catholicism.

However, if it is said that Catholicism can protect the Braga team, Ronando will not be the first to believe it. As a Chinese, he has no religious beliefs. In the battle that destroyed everything except the Bolsheviks on the land of China decades ago In the catastrophe of thought, not only all religious beliefs were shattered, people lost interest in all nothingness, and no longer believed in any mysterious things, but only believed in themselves.

"Go to his Catholic-protected team, I will show you how powerful Chinese atheists are!"

(End of this chapter)