"Lisbon is here! Wake up your sleeping teammates and prepare to get off the plane!"

Li Sheng, the leader of the Star of Hope football team, shouted.

"Fatty! Wake up! Portugal is here!" Yang Fan pushed Xiao Dong high.

Gao Xiaodong was sleeping soundly, with a wretched smile on his face. I don’t know what kind of spring dream he was having.

"...fat man! fat man! fat man...smack!"

Seeing that Yang Fan couldn't wake up Gao Xiaodong, he slapped him on the thigh.

"Ouch!" Gao Xiaodong opened his eyes in a daze and covered his face with his hands, "You beat me?"

Yang Fan said with a giggle: "I hit you on the thigh, why are you covering your face? Damn, you are Rivaldo."

Gao Xiaodong had just had a very strange dream. He dreamed that he had secretly kissed the squad leader Zhao Xiyuan in the face and was slapped by Zhao Xiyuan. Unexpectedly, it was Yang Fan who beat him.

Gao Xiaodong was furious and said, "I am dreaming of marrying a wife, but your wife was beaten away."

Yang Fan smiled and said, "When I arrive in Portugal, I will find you a big ocean horse."

Gao Xiaodong said: "What do you want to be a madam part-time job? Then you might as well make money as a duck part-time job."

Yang Fan punched Gao Xiaodong on the shoulder again and said, "Fatty, please leave some virtue in your mouth."

Gao Xiaodong returned Yang Fan's punch, "Changmao, your subordinates can't show any mercy."

At this time, the plane had already landed. Li Shengdao: "Yang Fan, Gao Xiaodong, stop fighting, prepare to get off the plane."

"OK."

“It’s ready.”

Only then did Gao Xiaodong and Yang Fan lazily unbutton their seat belts, pick up their luggage, and follow everyone out.

"Wow! The airport is so small!"

"Blonde beauty!"

"There are still people who pick up the plane! There are still many people."

...

Many players of the Hope Star have been in Portugal for the first time and have expressed their opinions in a verbal way.

Chen Qiang, the president of Xinglong Sports Culture Company, explained: "The pick-up staff is organized by President Zhang Liang of the Portuguese Newspaper and Mr. Huang An, the leader of Chinese fans. In the future, they will be helpful in Portugal. They will all go over and say hello."

"Hello President Zhang Liang, hello Mr. Huang An."

The players of the Star of Hope greeted Zhang Liang and Huang An, who were among the pickup staff.

"Welcome to Portugal, Chinese football depends on you."

Huang An waved to the players with a red face.

Huang An is from Qingtian and works in commodity wholesale business. He has a wholesale mall. The first Chinese football team was founded by him and Zhang Liang and Chen Qiang. It enjoys a high reputation in the Chinese football circle.

Zhang Liang, president of the Portuguese Newspaper, said: "Welcome, you have created the ******* for studying football abroad. History will remember yours."

Chen Qiang smiled and shook hands with Huang An and Zhang Liang, saying, "Thank you for your hard work."

Huang An said: "You are the hardest to do. We are just running errands here. The accommodation has been arranged. Let's take the bus to go there."

Zhang Liang smiled and said, "Our reporters and editors are here, let the players and coaches say a few words."

Chen Qiang smiled and said, "No problem, I'll pick two for you."

Chen Qiang called captain Zhang Chi and coach Liu Xu and asked them to accept a temporary interview with reporters from the Portuguese China News Agency. He and Li Sheng organized the team members to board the bus.

The interview ended soon. The players took a bus and browsed the exotic style of Portugal all the way to the Portuguese football team's training base - a player's apartment converted from an abandoned wholesale warehouse on the outskirts of Lisbon, and an artificial turf court. The players of the Hope Star will meet here every month and train once under the leadership of head coach Scaloni.

From Yanjing to Lisbon, the team members flew in the air for more than twenty hours, most of them felt dizzy and had no appetite for dinner. After eating a little, they went to bed to rest.

The players fell asleep, but Chen Qiang, the head of the Hope Star in Portugal, and Scaloni, were unable to rest. They just received the news that among the 15 clubs that had agreed to cooperate with the Chinese Football Association, five clubs in Porto, Boavista, Maltimore, Avihe and Istoril were breached and refused to accept Chinese players.

This backlash made Chen Qiang and Scaloni very angry. The 40 players who came to Portugal had already agreed on the allocation plan in China. Now that Porto and Boa Vista are breached, the original allocation plan of Hope Star must be pushed back, and the opinions of another 10 clubs must be solicited. This is obviously not something that can be solved in a moment. Portugal's leagues and youth leagues will kick off in late August, and time is very tight.

Chen Qiang was very angry and said to Andrews, who came to inform him: "Mr. Andrews, I don't care about other clubs for now. Is it too much for you to do this? "

Andrews spread his hands helplessly and said, "Yes, this is a very unrighteous behavior and it does not conform to the usual tradition of our club. But, you know, a lot of things have happened this summer. Now we are bothering internal and external troubles in Porto and are unable to help your country train players anymore."

Chen Qiang is also a must-read Portugal football news every day. He knows the series of changes that have taken place in Porto this summer and said: "Coach Adrian's resignation will not affect the youth team."

Andrews smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Chen Qiang, don't you know that Porto has been dismissed for more than a season. Now that the new coach Ferreira has just taken office, he doesn't want any changes in youth training, he just wants to make a smooth transition."

Chen Qiang said: "This is the agreement negotiated by President Porto, the great Da Costa with our Chairman Long. Has President Costa become a treacherous person?"

Andrews smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Chen Qiang, you won't be unaware of Operation Golden Whistle, are you?"

Chen Qiang said in surprise: "Operation Golden Whistle? It has been almost two years since this incident. What's wrong? Is Chairman Costa in trouble?"

Andrews said with a serious expression: "It's a bit troublesome. Mayor Lorero, the chairman of the professional football league, was arrested, which may involve Chairman Costa."

Chen Qiang was speechless. Porto lost the championship last season and there were so many problems this summer. It is normal for him to be unwilling to involve energy in the affairs of Chinese players.

Scaloni is Benfica's youth training coach, Benfica and Porto are mortal enemies. He gloated: "Murinho's UEFA Champions League and League championships in 2004 are not clean, and Porto should be deprived of these two championships."

Andrews sneered: "Mr. Scalone, it's a pity that's not your final word."

Scaloni said: "History will give the opportunists fair judgment."

Andrews said contemptuously: "Even if Porto is deprived of the Champions League championship, Benfica will not be able to win it. If you want to win the championship, let's talk about it in a hundred years."

Hearing the words that he could not win the championship for a hundred years, Scaloni's face suddenly grew. In Benfica, this is a taboo topic. In 1962, Benfica coach Bella Gutman, who just led the team to defeat Real Madrid to complete the Champions League defender, asked the team for a salary increase, but was rejected. The Hungarian put a "curse" when he left the team: "Benfica will not win the European championship within 100 years! This sentence was taken as an angry word at the time, but unexpectedly, this sentence was like a curse, which affected Benfica for 44 years. Benfica then entered the Champions League final five times, lost to AC Milan twice, and made Inter Milan in the Great International era and Manchester United, which had reborn in the Munich air crash. In the 1990 Champions League final, Benfica's legendary star Eusebio came to Gutman's tomb to pray, but Benfica still failed to win a Champions League championship.

Scaloni said with a gloomy face: "It doesn't matter whether Benfica wins the Champions League or not, at least we will never compete for the Portuguese championship next season."

Andrews said disdainfully: "Just dream, I guarantee with my life that Porto will not be demoted."

When Chen Qiang heard the two of them quarreled again, he felt annoyed and said, "Please don't fry it anymore, let's solve our problem first."

Andrews spread his hands and said, "Mr. Chen Qiang, I have said everything I want to say. I can't do anything about the club's decision."

Chen Qiang said dejectedly: "Forget it, Mr. Andrews, you go, I'll think of another way."
Chapter completed!