Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

Anyone who has entered the workforce knows that family background is also a part of a person's competitiveness.

The child is happy.

Pursue your dreams.

There's a chance to make a lot of money.

The club provides a guaranteed living allowance, so there's no need to spend any extra money.

Free study abroad.

It is easier to get into a prestigious university.

Once the last two conditions are stated, almost no parent will disagree.

What's wrong with my child being all alone and miserable abroad?

Are children left behind in their hometowns while their parents go out to work? Aren't they lonely and miserable?

Yu Shihao, Hao Junmin, and Shao Jiawei have all signed youth training contracts with Sporting Lisbon and become players playing in Europe.

In this series of contacts, Deng Kai played an irreplaceable coordinating role. Sporting Lisbon symbolically gave Deng Kai some thank-you money, which was equivalent to treating Deng Kai as a local explorer.

Sports Weekly followed the entire process and turned this part of the story into a special transfer feature.

Once released, it sparked widespread discussion and praise across the country.

Sports Weekly also awarded Deng Kai a bonus and a thank-you payment.

With these two sums of money, Deng Kai established the "Deng Kai Children's Football Foundation".

The amount of money is not much, but it aims to help outstanding young footballers, such as by assisting with transfers.

Jiang Yunzhu became the principal of the foundation.

It became a bridge between Sporting Lisbon and the domestic football scene.

Meanwhile, Deng Kai and Jiang Yunzhu also established a football agent company.

Deng Kai owns the entire company and holds the vast majority of the shares. Jiang Yunzhu contributed her technical and management expertise and is the actual operator.

He recruited Wu Xudong, Yu Shihao, Hao Junmin, Shao Jiawei, and others.

Jiang Yunzhu is currently studying for her agent certificate. She has become a slashie (someone with multiple jobs/careers) and plans to make her first attempt at a career transition in the field of agent management.

Deng Kai expressed his best wishes to Jiang Yunzhu, hoping she would become China's Lainola.

Jiang Yunzhu retorted, "You'd better become Bergkamp and Nedved first."

Yu Shih-hao and the others learned of this statement during their subsequent conversation.

People took their place, and Hao Junmin was jokingly called the "Wuhan Nedved".

Yu Shih-hao calls himself Inzaghi from Mianyang.

Shao Jiawei is called Jiangyou Tulam.

Wu Xudong is known as Tongliao Sanetti.

However, neither Deng Kai nor Jiang Yunzhu expected that the second major expense of the "Children's Football Foundation" would be spent on litigation.

Chen Tao, a player from the Sichuan Quanxing Football Youth Training Program, is also a member of the Wahaha team and has received a signing offer from Sporting Lisbon.

However, the team demanded a high transfer fee.

After learning about this, Chen Tao communicated with the team's management, hoping they would be lenient and let him off the hook.

I was just a youth player in the past, how could I possibly be sold for a high price?

However, this communication did not go smoothly.

Chen Tao planned to pay for the contract termination himself, but not only was the termination fee high, Quanxing also wanted Chen Tao to pay a training fee.

After this back and forth, the only option left is to go to court.

Sports Weekly considered this incident to be representative, and together with the Deng Kai Children's Football Foundation, provided assistance to Chen Tao, hoping to make a breakthrough in the unhealthy practices of domestic transfers.

The movement of outstanding players is an inevitable trend in the development of football.

Totti's final years at Roma and Kane's being tricked into staying at Tottenham have both seriously affected their historical standing.

In other words, only the movement of players can bring about the movement of fans, thus creating true superstars and powerhouses in a "breeding" environment.

Only then can the influence of sports truly spread.

This applies to both football and basketball.

During the lawsuit, Chen Tao was sidelined by the team.

However, the foundation stated that it would fully support Chen Tao's training expenses during this period and invited Chen Tao to train with Sporting Lisbon's U17 youth team.

This was also a special benefit that Trigra secured for Duncan.

Yes, Deng Kai will play for the team's U17 team in the new season.

However, Triguera had warned Duncan that he and other outstanding players like Ronaldo could be called up to higher-level youth teams at any time during the season.

It's even possible that after Trigault becomes the team's first-team head coach, he will let Ronaldo and Duncan train with the first team to experience real professional football in advance.

As for the U17 team, it's basically just a warm-up for Deng Kai and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Duncan believed in Trigla's promise.

Because Cristiano Ronaldo, in the future, once jumped five levels in a single year.

In Trigla's mind, there was absolutely no need for a genius like Deng Kai to wait until he was eighteen to enter the professional scene.

He could accept it even if the child was sixteen or younger.

Because that's what true genius is.

What?

You mean Cristiano Ronaldo?

The difference between Cristiano Ronaldo and Duncan is that while he might dominate in the U15 class, he might not be able to replicate that success in the U17 or U19 classes. He's the kind of player who can quickly reach the limits of an environment he's in.

But he was unable to break free from the constraints of his environment.

Even though Deng Kai is in the U15 team, he inspires confidence that he can perform well in higher-level competitions.

Chen Tao represents the foundation's second largest expenditure.

So what about the first transaction?

At Deng Kai's suggestion, Jiang Yunzhu, through media connections, made the first donation to a young player named Lionel Andrés Messi Cucitini in the youth team of Newell's Old Boys football club in Argentina.

The player was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency two years ago. The team initially agreed to cover the medical expenses, but as Messi grew older, the cost of treatment, which was at least $1,000 a month, led the club to give up.

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When Messi's father, Jorge, received the donation, he was somewhat bewildered, not knowing what was going on.

He didn't know what the "Deng Kai Children's Football Foundation" was.

But Messi knows.

Perhaps Jorge has forgotten that he once watched Duncan's game with Messi and encouraged Messi to be like Duncan, never giving up on football despite his short stature.

Messi has been following Deng Kai closely since then, and has left several comments on Sporting Lisbon's official website's interactive section, several of which have been featured.

"He's not tall, but he's always a force to be reckoned with on the field. If you dare to underestimate him, you'll be punished—by Kaiser!"

"My former football idol was Aimar the Jester, but now, there's another player named Duncan."

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"He made me believe that I could still play football; I saw his innate competitive spirit."

Messi uses his own name on his social media accounts.

Deng Kai regularly browses certain information to ensure that his information is not out of touch with mainstream media.

He noticed the comment and replied to his die-hard fans: "No, no, no, I can do without the Great Firewall."

He only realized it after replying.

What the hell!

Is that Messi?

Luo, your nemesis has arrived.

Deng Kai didn't delve into whether the fan named Messi was the same Messi, but he did remember that Messi.

So he took a portion of his prize money from the European Junior Championship and donated it through a children's foundation.

Well, how should I put it?

It's not that they have too much money to burn.

The main thing is that this investment... is incredibly profitable.

This is the most legendary aspect of Messi's story, even more widely known than the napkin signing, and it will be passed down by word of mouth by countless people in the future.

But the future version of this story might very well be, "With Deng Kai's support, Messi persisted in his football dream and grew to 1.7 meters tall"...

1.7 meters tall?

Deng Kai suddenly wanted to withdraw the funds.

After all, his height is only... 1.65 meters for now!

Hahaha!

Yes!

In one summer, Deng Kai grew more than ten centimeters taller!

It has reached the limit of this body.

This is related to Cristiano Ronaldo's "unparalleled genius" talent.

This is also related to Deng Kai's growth, which was stimulated by winning the triple crown this season.

His personal data underwent a dramatic change this summer.

I like playing football on the ground: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him.