Sao Paulo and Corinthians are in the same city, so the team doesn't have to leave a day earlier for the away game.

The day before and after the race, they were still training normally at the Brafonta training base.

However, the training volume is halved.

The training program is also mainly based on set-piece attack and defensive routines.

And only practice for half a day.

After the morning training, the team will go to the Pakambu Stadium in the afternoon for acclimatisation training, while the coaches of both sides will attend the pre-match press conference in the press room of the Pakambu Stadium.

Then, in the evening, the whole team of São Paulo will stay in the hotel. This is true even in the same city.

You have to be concentrated before the game, which is a tradition in Brazilian football.

In Brazil, clubs generally insisted that before each match – no matter how inconsequential – the whole team had to stay in a hotel, usually for a few days at a time.

The reason is that the players are not mature enough to take care of themselves and have to manage them.

This is the "centralization" of Brazilian football, which is part of the Brazilian football culture and is probably the most restrictive of player freedom. That word is called "gathering" in military terminology, "gathering troops".

"There is no supervision, and the players are not able to manage themselves before the game because they are not mature enough." Even coach Scolari, who previously led Brazil to a fifth World Cup, is a big fan of centralism. "Pre-game sex is harmless, and it has been proven. But our players went a little too far. They behave normally at home, when they are away from home, and when they are with other sexual partners, they always want to prove that they are the best lovers in the world. So they're almost crazy, they're exhausted, and they've gotten to the point where it's affecting their performance on the field. He said that "centralisation" may be paternalistic, but it is for the good of the players themselves.

Later, after six months of hard work by Socrates and his comrades, the challenge was finally successful, and the "centralism" was gradually abolished.

Most of the teams were only concentrated the day before the game.

But to this day there is still a fear that some players will not feel safe without centralization.

And the political movements that Socrates and his teammates were engaged in at that time took place in ...... São Paulo's current opponent is in the middle of Corinthians.

Some people always want football and politics to be separated, but as everyone knows, football, as a sport with influence in the world, has long been inseparable from politics, not only politicians are using football, but players themselves will also use football to express their political views. Socrates, the "doctor", used football to engage in political campaigns.

For example, he was involved in the presidential campaign. In 1984, at the age of thirty, Socrates spoke at a rally attended by 1.5 million people. He assured the crowd that he would not go to Italy to play football if parliament passed a constitutional amendment to re-establish a free presidential election, which was to be held in a few days.

But the bill did not pass in the end, and he also went to Florence.

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In the afternoon, while the whole São Paulo squad warmed up at the Pakambu Stadium, head coach Osvaldo was waiting outside the press room for the pre-match press conference.

In the hall, the home team's head coach, Carlos Pereira, was inside to answer questions from reporters.

His pre-match press conference is coming to an end.

The door wasn't closed so Osvaldo could hear Pereira.

"The last question." said the press officer.

A reporter stood up at the point: "Hello, I'm a reporter from the newspaper Reims. I would like to ask if in the Rio-São Paulo tournament final in the first half of the year, Corinthians also dominated the first leg, not only with three away goals, but also ahead of Sao Paulo in the aggregate, but the last second leg was lost at home to Sao Paulo, or to be precise, lost to Rong and Kaka. So Mr. Pereira, are you worried about repeating that scene again? Do you have any countermeasures for this situation? ”

Pereira laughed and replied, "Of course we won't trip over the same stone twice." I'm not worried about this happening again, because we have a very effective countermeasure. But as for what countermeasures...... I can't tell you that the mystery will be revealed when the game comes. ”

After that, the press officer announced: "This is the end of this press conference. ”

The sound of chairs moving away and footsteps could be heard in the room.

A few seconds later, Pereira pulled the door open and walked out.

When he opened the door and found Osvaldo standing outside the door, he took the initiative to extend his hand to him: "I'm looking forward to a good game. ”

Osvaldo shook his hand and said, "So do I." ”

Pereira then let go of his hand and walked around Osvaldo.

Osvaldo withdrew his gaze from him and turned to the press room, where reporters were already waiting for him.

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"What's there to adapt to at Pakambu? I play a lot of games here every year...... "When it's not time for the acclimatisation, the players talk to each other. What's more, they are very familiar with this stadium, and warming up and adapting to the venue before the game is just a walk-through.

In Brazil, even the pre-match warm-up is full of light-hearted and joyful atmosphere.

It would be even better if there was rhythmic samba music on the scene.

But there are also people who are different from them.

Rongguang, Kaka and Lucas were very serious in the warm-up.

They paid so much, what is the point if they can't win the championship?

But in order to make sure they can win the title, they will need to work harder.

You can't be lazy before the game to adapt to the venue.

Rico also noticed Lucas's warm-up state on the side.

He thought it was amazing.

If it had been Lucas six months ago, it would have been impossible to do such a thing.

In Rico's impression, since he met Lucas, Lucas has always been the same lazy in his eyes, as if he hadn't woken up.

Nothing but a woman could interest him.

Lucas is notoriously unmotivated at all levels of the youth team.

He may also feel that he is not talented, so he refuses to put too much energy into training, and he prefers to put more energy into the promising career of picking up girls.

But since returning from a vacation in Santos this summer, he's like a different person.

Rico was curious to find out what Lucas had encountered on the beach in Santos.

But every time Lucas asked him the same question: "Do you want to succeed, Rico?" Do you think like you want to breathe? ”

He was confused when asked.

So he still can't know who Lucas met on the beach in Santos and what happened, which made his temperament change so much, and he was willing to put in the effort in training.

And because of his hard work in training, in the past six months, he has changed from an absolute substitute to a rotation player for the youth team, and has gained more opportunities to play than before.

But despite this, he still has no way to directly shake the main forward position of Rico himself and Kleber.

The youth team players were also surprised that the manager chose him instead of Kleber and Rico.

But Rico knew that the head coach's choice must be justified. Lucas was able to get his chances when he came to the first team because he was really capable.

At the very least, Rico is very envious of Lucas's ability to grab points, Rico is fast and dribbles well, but he is not good at shooting, so he is very embarrassed as a striker.

In terms of shooting, Lucas is much better than him.

Now seeing that his good friend finally has the opportunity to play in the first team, Rico is not jealous, but happy for him from the bottom of his heart. Especially after seeing how hard he has worked in the past six months......

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In the evening's TV news, live video highlights of the pre-match press conference were being shown.

Having just finished the pre-match press conference of Corinthians coach Andreas Pereira, it's the visitors' turn.

"Mr. Osvaldo, please. Your team was completely limited by Corinthians at home and Lucas Sutton was considered a weakness in the team, what did you do with this game and change your starting line-up? ”

A reporter stood up and asked.

Osvaldo shook his head: "No, Lucas Sutton will continue to start. We won't be making any adjustments to our tactics either. I have a lot of confidence in my players, they are very good. The same goes for Lucas Sutton! ”

He seemed very confident.

Everyone was surprised. Pereira was hesitant about what countermeasures he would choose in an interview, as if he was afraid that others would know about it, so he took precautions in advance.

You know, Corinthians have already taken the lead in the two-legged final......

Osvaldo, on the other hand, announced in advance what tactics he would use in the game.

Is he really so confident?

"It's just a bluff." The screen was all over the place, and the studio was on the screen, and Grayson, the name of "Scoreboard", was a guest on the show, commenting on the performance of the two head coaches at the press conference between the two sides.

"The tactics of the Sao Paulo Trident have been studied thoroughly and Lucas Sutton is their biggest weakness, and there is no way to avoid that. No matter what Osvaldo came up with, it would be for nothing if he couldn't solve the problem. And I don't think there's any way he can fix it in a week. So......" he shrugged, pouted and shook his head with a look of disdain.

"Do you think Sao Paulo lost this game?" The moderator asked at this time.

Grayson shook his head: "No, I can't say they lost, but at least I don't fancy them winning." If you can't solve the problem of Kaka and Rong's cooperation, relying only on one Lucas Sutton, that is equivalent to putting all the eggs in one basket, once the basket is overturned, the eggs will be broken, and the risk is too great. I admit that Osvaldo's Trident tactics are very imaginative and theoretically wonderful, but the contradiction between Kaka and Rong makes this wonderful tactic only exist at the level of imagination. ”

Grayson's style of being a guest on TV is the same as the style of his writing, free-flowing, long-winded, and gushing, but also well-founded and compelling to nod in agreement — no matter how upset you are with him as a person, you have to admit that he's right.

"I think Osvaldo just said this in the hope of confusing Pereira, and when Pereira went to guess what São Paulo was so confident about, Osvaldo's goal was ......"

Osvaldo turned off the TV, he didn't want to watch Grayson talk about it anymore.

He wondered what Pereira would say at the press conference.

He doesn't care either.

If Pereira really bothered with his words, he earned it.

He didn't actually take that into account.

There was no conspiracy, he was going to face Pereira in a head-to-head showdown.

In Brazilian football, although he also won several titles, including leading Corinthians to the first Club World Cup, which is the world championship, but compared to the World Cup championship won by Pereira, it is far from the World Cup......

He wants to beat Andreas Pereira in a head-to-head duel.

And the opponent is Corinthians, and he also wants to tell the arrogant "Loyal Eagles" what a huge mistake it is to drive me away!

So he was happy with the two meetings against Corinthians in the finals of the Rio-São Paulo tournament and the Brazilian national championship.

It's about beating them in a row so that they get a toothache at the thought of their name!

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