Ronaldo is the greatest football player in history. Maradona is also a football genius, but his skills have not shocked the football world as long as Ronaldo. - Avilange

It was late at night and the lights were on thousands of homes.

In the Brafonda training base, the lights are still on in the administrative building. In a luxuriously decorated office, Sao Paulo's youth training director Mauro Aperesidu Da Silva and U18 youth team head coach Robert Rojas are talking.

Both of them were smoking, so although there were ashtrays on the table, they were just for decoration. Mauro recorded it in a small notebook, while Robert Rojas was chewing gum, which was said to relieve stress.

"Ricardo missed training again today," said Robert Rojas.

Mauro raised his head, his eyes looking unsurprising: "The little guy has been under too much pressure recently."

Robert Rojas nodded: "But this is not the reason for him to miss training. He wants to be a professional player, and this behavior is quite unprofessional and must be punished."

Mauro nodded gently and agreed: "Yes, punishment is the right one, what should be done according to convention?"

Robert Rojas thought for a while, "He has missed training more than 10 times. According to convention, even if he is fired."

Mauro shook his head: "Let's give him another chance."

Robert Rojas had different opinions on this: "Do we still see few talented young men? Those who are as fragile as him are destined to be unable to kick out. It is better to use waste and use the act of expulsion to alert other young men."

Mauro supported his temple with his fingers, pondered for a while, and slowly shook his head: "Give him another chance. He is temporarily fined 2 weeks' salary. The team warned him not to participate in joint training. If there is any recurrence, he will be fired."

He has his own considerations. Not to mention anything else, the golden sign of "Ronaldo" is worthy of attention. Ronaldo is already the world's number one star, with a reputation almost surpassing Pele. After retirement, he must be a giant whether he is in business or in politics. He has a great chance of winning when he runs for the president of Brazil. Such people cannot be offended.

Robert Rojas was unwilling to have a quarrel with Mauro on this issue, so he agreed with the flow.

In his opinion, Ricardo is just a small character. Although he has Ronaldo, the superstar brother, he lacks some things to gain a foothold in the professional league. Although his physical fitness is great, he is too dependent on his body, does not have a brain to play football, and is too nervous. Sooner or later, such people will be eliminated by cruel professional competitions.

The height of his and Mauro Station is different, and the content of his thinking is naturally different.

"Then give him a chance."

The two naturally turned to other topics, and for them Ricardo was indeed a little person worth mentioning.

In the youth team, young people with a dream of football come and go, and very few can truly gain a foothold and play in the professional league. If you cannot cross that threshold, it is not worth paying more attention.

...

In the morning, Likado came to Brafonda training base in advance.

The Brafonda Training Base was completed in 1988. It is a modern training base with three standard-sized training grounds and a stadium with stands, which can accommodate 4,000 spectators. There are also facilities such as players' locker rooms and referee locker rooms.

In addition to having training facilities such as gyms, physiotherapy rooms, and administrative buildings, there are also places for players to stay in the training base. The first floor is a large restaurant for everyone to use, and the second floor is several standard double bedrooms, as well as game rooms, billiards rooms, etc.

Ricardo could have chosen to stay, after all, his home is in Rio and is not a local. However, he does not like to live in the same room with others and feels that there is no privacy, so he chose to stay at Uncle Paul's house, and at least he can have a separate room.

Among the three training grounds in the base, one is specially used for the youth team. After Li Kadu arrived, he trained for a while and there were more and more young players around him. Everyone saw Li Kadu and had different expressions, quite a few of them were malicious. Li Kadu had been used to it and ignored it. Occasionally, some of them would come over, and Li Kadu only pretended not to hear it and trained intently.

It was not until Rico and other players who had a good relationship with him that his situation was a little better.

He joked with Rico for a few words, and then saw Robert Rohas slowly walking into the venue and blew the assembly whistle.

As expected, Robert Rojas announced the penalty decision for Licardo without expression. "...In view of the above facts, the club imposed the following punishment on Ricardo: the team was warned, the salary was confiscated for 2 weeks, and no joint training was allowed within one week..."

Several young men who were hostile to Likado were giggling.

Li Kado shrugged indifferently. As long as he was not fired, he had hope of turning the tables. Yesterday's me was not today's me, and from now on, he would make these people look at me with admiration.

Robert Rojas noticed Likado's small movements and sneered in his heart. Did he give up? Sure enough, it was hard to become a great person.

Although there are many brother legends in the football world, such as the Neville brothers, the Debor, the Lauderup brothers, and the Barreci brothers... but more of them are that one of the brothers is very popular and the other is unknown.

Ronaldo is not the only brother of Ricardo, he has an older brother. What is his brother doing? It seems that he is renting a rent?

Li Kado didn't care what the head coach thought. Let him practice alone. He wouldn't deliberately offend anyone, nor would he deliberately please anyone. It's gold, it will always shine. If he shows superb ability and potential, the club will naturally have an argument at that time, and there is no need for him to hug the head coach's thigh.

What's more, this is just the head coach of the youth team. His goal is the first team.

Likadoan was quietly doing personal exercises on the side without participating in the joint exercises. This was a punishment, not a preferential treatment, so no one guided or supervised.

But he enjoys practicing alone. He is a person who loves football. Whether he plays football alone or plays with his friends, it is interesting for him.

...

A middle-aged man wearing sportswear and wearing sports shoes slowly walked into this training ground.

His arrival caused a small commotion on the training ground.

Robert Rojas did not stop training and asked the boys to continue, so he went up to meet him. "Mr. Osvaldo, why are you here for a while?" Rojas greeted with a smile.

The person who came was Osvaldo de Oliveira, the head coach of the first team of Sao Paulo. At this moment, he frowned, and even when he nodded to Rojas with a smile, his eyebrows did not relax. "You know, in yesterday's game, we injured two more generals. Kaka had to rest for three weeks, and Ricardinho had to rest for two weeks. Plus Fabiano who was injured before... Damn the World Cup..."

Robert Rojas suddenly realized that this was a shortage of first-team personnel and planned to be transferred from the youth team.

"Do I need to arrange an in-team match? It's easy for you to observe," said Rojas.

"No need for now, I'll take a look." Osvaldo did not think that those who were promoted from the youth team's front line had the ability to play for the first team, because he had brought this youth team not long ago and knew how big the gap between these young men and formal professional players was. He would rather choose a few young players who were serious and hard-working in training and promote them to the first team as a reward.
Chapter completed!