Chapter 17: Magalhayes Stadium
When Lao Lei returned home, he let go of the little disappointment in his heart. He wanted to happily tell his family about his inclusion in the squad and his likely appearance, and share the happy news with them. Due to tomorrow's game, the first team have ended training early today and hopefully the players can get good news. Of course, whether the players really go to rest or not, no one knows.
Lao Lei, who was alone at home, sat on the sofa and watched TV. Recently, because of his desperate training, Lao Lei has rarely watched TV so leisurely. Today, it's time to relax and take a break. Dozens of minutes later, first Cindia came back with Xiao Ji, and she was a little surprised to see Lao Lei sitting on the sofa. Especially Xiao Ji threw herself into Lao Lei's arms and said coquettishly: "Lei Ma, you haven't played with me for a long time." Today, you are going to accompany me. Looking at Xiao Ji, who was pretending to be pitiful and coquettish in his arms, Lao Lei smiled dotingly, touched her cute little head, and said, "It's good, I'll accompany our little princess today." As he spoke, he also lifted Xiao Ji's light little body, and came up and down a few times, which made Xiao Ji laugh and make a sound like a silver bell.
And Cintia looked at the brother and sister who were playing kindly on the side, and after Lao Lei put down Xiao Ji, he asked with some concern: "Lei Ma, is there any reason for coming back so early today?" "It seems that Cindia has misunderstood that Old Ray is in trouble. Lao Lei looked at the worry in Cindia's eyes that couldn't be hidden, and gave a reassuring smile and said, "Mom, I have good news to announce." I'll announce when Dad comes back. After saying that, he also winked mischievously at Centia, okay, Lao Lei is shamelessly selling cuteness again, but the effect is good. When Cindia heard the good news, she was relieved, and when she saw Lao Lei's mischievous wink, she laughed out loud. In her opinion, in the past week or so, her son's changes have been huge. The former son was noticeably more reserved and silent, but now he is much more cheerful and confident. She blamed these changes on the fact that her son had finally grown up, and felt that her son was better now, like a normal young man.
Soon after, Joseph returned home, and by this time Centia's dinner was ready. At the dinner table, Lao Lei looked at his family, his heart was full of warmth, and he said happily: "Tomorrow the team will start the first game of the new season, and the head coach has announced the single list of 18 people, and I am in it." I'm going to play tomorrow as a substitute. ”
When Old Ray announced the news, Cintia and Joseph were stunned for a moment, and then burst into loud cheers. And Xiao Ji next to her didn't understand what Lao Lei meant, but when she saw that her parents were cheering happily, she shouted loudly, and the two big braids were still dangling, which was very cute. After the initial surprise, Joseph looked at his smiling son and said happily, "Congratulations, child." I can't believe you're about to start playing pro. Tomorrow we will watch your game together as a family. Not enough, I'm going to call my good guys, and we're going to watch you play. Wait, I'm going to go and make a couple of calls to Tony first. After that, he stopped eating, took out his mobile phone, and began to dial.
When Cindia calmed down, she said, "Congratulations, kid. But the joy on his face could not be hidden. Joseph on the side had already called and said, "Hey, old man. How about we go to Leiria tomorrow? … My son Reima, tomorrow is his first time for Leiria, and you're going to come and cheer him on. Of course it's true, and don't look at whose son he is, hahaha Looking at Joseph, who was usually serious, with a proud smile on his face, Lao Lei and Cindia looked at each other, and there was a smile in each other's eyes. At this time, Xiao Ji pulled Lao Lei's sleeve with a confused expression, and asked with big eyes: "Lei Ma, what is the substitute?" "Okay, this is the real cuteness, Lao Lei suddenly devoted himself to the great cause of getting Xiao Ji.
Today's dinner ended in such a happy atmosphere, and when Lao Lei was lying on the bed. After Lao Lei himself recalled it, it was also a little incredible, he was originally a poor ** silk, doing nothing every day, messing around. But now that I'm about to play in Europe's top league, it's a bit unbelievable. That's when the system spoke again.
"If the host completes their first appearance in a professional match, they will be rewarded with 5 soul points."
"If the host is playing, help your team get a good start to the league, reward 5 soul points, 10 soul points for failure, and there is an unknown reward."
After hearing these two tips, Lao Lei still not only lamented the insidiousness of his system, but the punishment for each failure was more than the success obtained, what an unscrupulous profiteer. After the emotion, it is time to enter the systematic training.
When the sun shines again, the new season arrives with the sun. Today, Lao Lei did not get up early to go to the training base, this morning is on vacation, and then go there again in the afternoon to take the bus to the stadium of Mr. Magalhays Pessoa. This is the home stadium of Leiria.
Joseph had taken a leave of absence and would leave work early, and then on the street Cintia and Miki would go to Magalhays Stadium to meet up with his friends. After breakfast, Lao Lei was unusually left alone at home. Looking at the empty home, Lao Lei turned on the TV a little bored. I clicked on the Portuguese National Sporting Channel, which happened to be talking about the first round of matches played yesterday, as well as showing highlights of some of the best matches.
He saw two middle-aged men with big poties on the TV commenting on some of the matches that had taken place, and next to him was a brunette dressed in revealing sex and with huge boobs responding from time to time. Lao Lei suddenly didn't know what the two middle-aged men were talking about, his eyes stared at the huge breasts of the girl on the screen who was almost about to break free, and his mouth was about to drool, thinking to himself, it's so big, hamburger.
Waiting for the TV station to start broadcasting the wonderful game highlights, Lao Lei came back to his senses, but he was immediately attracted by the highlights on the TV.
".......... roar, Schals's brilliant cycling, he shook over Valente's defence like he shook over a telephone pole. Coming to the edge of the penalty area, he played the ball to forward midfielder Carrillo. Porto's defence was completely torn apart by the Lisbon attack. Now there's a big gap in the backline. Carrillo's wonderful through ball, Viola received the ball, received the ball, completely single. Baia attacked, shot and the ball went in. GOOOOOOOOOOOAL,1:0。 Viola calmly pushed into the far corner, but Baia couldn't do anything about it. Just three minutes into the game, Porto conceded a goal. Look at the angry look on the face of the Porto manager, yelling at the stadium"
“…… The goal went in again, and the defender Bolaruz scored with a wonderful header, 2:0.Knowing that it was only 15 minutes into the game, could it be that Porto in the new season was just about to be slaughtered at home by their arch-rival Sporting Lisbon? Roar, look at the gloomy face of the president of Porto, Mr. Pinto, and listen to the loud boos in the Dragon Stadium, it is obvious that they are very unhappy with Porto's performance. ”
Watching the huge boos of tens of thousands of people on TV, the players of Sporting Lisbon celebrating in ecstasy, and the players of the dejected Porto. Lao Lei suddenly felt a surge of enthusiasm, imagining what he would do in such a scene, and had infinite associations for the game that was about to start today. Portuguese Super League, I'm coming.
After eating the lunch prepared by Sentia in the refrigerator, Lao Lei couldn't wait to go out and go to the training base. On the way to the bus, Lao Lei felt that his heart was beating faster and faster, and he was irrepressibly excited. Under the gaze of tens of thousands of people, with encouragement and cheers, play the game. It's shocking to think about, if you can accept tens of thousands of cheers at the same time in the game, this is simply what ordinary men dream of. Because that makes you feel for yourself, you're a hero, you're a warrior.
This is every man's heroic dream.
By the time we arrived at the training base, it was much more lively outside the training base than before, with local reporters from Leiria waiting here to cover the Leiria team for the new season. Lao Lei passed through these reporters and went directly to the training base. Some sharp-eyed reporters saw it and said with some surprise: "Eh, who is that young man?" How can you just go to the training base and leave? Could it be that he is a member of some new first team? Lao Lei didn't know that his appearance had caused a series of questions from reporters.
After Lao Lei came to the locker room, the captain was already inside, and after seeing Lao Lei come in, he said, "How is it, is Lei Ma very nervous?" ”
Lao Lei was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses, and knew that this was Ben exercising his duty to help his young players relieve their nervousness. Lao Lei replied: "No." I'm just excited, irrepressible excitement. ”
Hearing this answer, Ben was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Very good." That's how you play and you're going to perform at a normal level. I can't see it, Reima, you're still a big-hearted player. ”
In response to the captain's praise, Lao Lei just shirked a few words, and sat down next to Laio, who had also arrived. Compared with the old good man, Lao Lei prefers the happy and vengeful Laiao, and Laiao is also the player with the best relationship with Lao Lei in the first team.
When Lao Lei sat down, Laio squeezed his eyes at Lao Lei and quipped: "Lei Ma, do you think you will play today?" ”
"How do I know about Lu Dao? I guess when you all have no choice, the head coach will still send a genius like me to rescue you. To Raio's unscrupulous joke, Lao Lei replied with a bang. In the midst of such gags, slowly everyone arrived. Mourinho looked at a player who was not missing, waved his hand with a sense of marshal, and said: "Let's go!" ”
When Mourinho led the crowd out, the reporters outside the stadium immediately became lively. The spotlight flashed and suddenly crowded.
"Mr. Mourinho, what do you think of the future of the Leiria team?"
"What do you think of the distrustful comments from the fans?"
"Excuse me, what do you think of the game?"
As Mourinho was surrounded, Brito shouted to the players: "Get on the bus and don't give any media interviews. ”
After the old Lei and the others quickly boarded the bus, Mourinho, who attracted the fire of the reporters, said: "There is no doubt that we will win." Listening to Mourinho's confident words, the local reporters in Leiria felt for the first time the difference of this manager, an extraordinary sense of confidence.
Hearing this answer, the reporters immediately became a mess. The media of the visiting team, in particular, were even more unhappy and felt that Mourinho was too arrogant.
Mourinho didn't care how the reporters reacted, and took advantage of the moment when they were stunned to quickly board the bus. The bus slowly drove towards the Magalhayes Stadium, and along the way, Lao Lei saw the fans of his team, wearing black and white striped jerseys, holding the team flag high, shouting at the bus, and stretching out his thumb. For the first time, Lao Lei felt the fierce atmosphere brought by professional football, and he was very excited.
Slowly, the Magalhays Stadium also appeared in front of everyone's eyes.