Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

Although the Portuguese Second Division has finished, Moreirense's matches are not completely over yet.

They have one last match left, the Portuguese Cup final.

Their opponent in this match is the strongest of the three giants in the Portuguese league... Porto!

This season, Porto lost Jardel, and their lack of firepower became immediately apparent.

But they did not gain nothing.

Two years ago, they spent eight million euros to bring in young midfielder Andersson Luis de Sasso from Sarguerreros, and this year he has had a breakout year.

He was virtually unstoppable in midfield, dominating the midfields of fellow Portuguese giants Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, and was named the Portuguese league's best midfielder of the year.

Viana, hailed by Sporting Lisbon as Portugal's most talented left-winger, has made appearances in the Portuguese league after recovering from injury, but he has not yet fully adapted and has mostly been a substitute for the team.

Of course, it's unfair to compare Viana to players with this long list of names, since the latter was born in 1977, six years older than Viana.

It is rumored that Barcelona was observing this player while observing Quaresma this year. If it weren't for the outstanding performance of Xavi, a homegrown player who was heavily promoted by Van Gaal at Barcelona this year, Barcelona might have extended an olive branch to this player with the long name this summer.

Because his name was too long, the player's teammates called him "Deco".

Deco is perhaps the most successful case of a naturalized player in the world.

Later, when the Chinese men's football team implemented a naturalization policy, Deco was cited as an example several times.

The choice between Brazil and Portugal for Deco's selection of Portugal has clearly boosted the Portuguese national team. He not only filled the void left by Rui Costa's decline, but also led the team forward in his own way, achieving Portugal's best World Cup result.

At his peak, Deco won the Portuguese Footballer of the Year award and finished second in the Ballon d'Or.

Therefore, this Porto team is quite difficult to deal with.

Since we've already mentioned Deco and the World Cup, we can't help but mention the upcoming "European Championship" between Belgium and the Netherlands this summer.

This is the first time the European Championship has been hosted by two countries.

With the season over, all the national teams are preparing their rosters.

This is very likely to be the most exciting European Championship in many people's minds.

Even before Deng Kai's own games started, many star players called him to ask which teams he thought had a chance to win the championship this year.

After all, this is the football expert who dared to buy Croatia to reach the World Cup semi-finals and dared to shout the treble-winning slogan six months in advance when Manchester United's situation was still very uncertain!

Guardiola: "Master, oops, Kai, do you think we can win the title?"

Deng Kai: "There will definitely be opportunities."

Guardiola was overjoyed: "Really? That's great! Is there anything I need to be careful about?"

Deng Kai: "I wouldn't say 'careful,' but it's always best to avoid macarons, foie gras, baked snails, and baguette bread because..."

Guardiola quickly replied, "I know, these are all junk food, they're not good for athletes! Thanks, Kai, I'll have my national team teammates get you more autographed footballs tomorrow."

Guardiola hung up the phone with satisfaction and then gave Raul an OK sign.

Seeing how quickly Guardiola hung up the phone, Deng Kai knew that Guardiola still hadn't grasped his meaning.

Macarons and foie gras are classic French delicacies.

Deng Kai meant that you should avoid France as much as possible, but if you do avoid France... well, you can't avoid it anyway.

But for Guardiola, this is all good.

Beckham frantically called Deng Kai, but Deng Kai rejected all his calls.

In the end, having no other choice, Beckham had to ask his wife Victoria to find out what was going on with Hathaway.

Beckham is a senior figure, and he's so supportive of Deng Kai, so why doesn't Deng Kai answer the phone at crucial moments?

Hathaway didn't even call Deng Kai, but instead told Victoria, somewhat shyly, "Hmm, Deng Kai didn't answer David's call, could that be considered a reply?"

Victoria looked pale and sickly at that moment.

This……

impossible?

This is the England men's national football team!

How wonderful it is to be surrounded by starlight!

"Then... could you ask Kai how bad this is that he won't even answer the phone?" Victoria was still a little unwilling to give up.

Hathaway carefully considered her words: "Actually, Kay's prediction was just for show, it doesn't count. I know everyone went to ask him, but they were just hoping for good luck."

"What he approves of is certainly good, but just because he didn't say anything doesn't mean it's bad, right?"

Victoria thought this made a lot of sense, and when she got back, she told Beckham that England would achieve a good result, which finally put Beckham to sleep.

But Hathaway, on the other hand, knew that at least from Duncan's perspective, England's situation in this year's European Championship was not optimistic.

Because besides Beckham, Deng Kai hasn't answered a call from anyone else, namely Marin's boyfriend, Matthäus.

Marin asked Hathaway for Deng Kai's phone number, and Hathaway couldn't very well refuse, since they were both core members of the players' wives' group.

But Deng Kai really didn't give Matthäus the slightest bit of face.

Matthäus called several times, but he didn't catch any of them.

Hathaway was embarrassed by Marin's questions and could only ask Deng Kai what was going on.

As a result, Deng Kai bluntly told Hathaway: "The German team will most likely go home after the group stage this year. Since they beat the Czech Republic in 1996, they have never won against a European team in recent years."

"There's a lack of young talent, and the team's strength is declining. Matthäus is already 39 years old, yet he's still playing for the national team and is a key player."

"The present is different from the future. Future players will pay more attention to scientific diet and training, and can maintain their peak at 35 and maintain a high level of competition before 40."

"But the current generation of older players generally came from much earlier. They either had extremely poor physical conditions, with their bodies always suffering from deficiencies when they were young, or they didn't know how to maintain and train, so their athletic ability declined rapidly as they got older."

"So Matthäus is a bellwether; the older generation of German players, led by him, have seen a serious decline in ability. But even so, their young players haven't been able to step up."

"It's hopeless!"

Knowing all this, Hathaway couldn't say it directly to Marlene, as it would be too offensive, so she replied with roughly the same words she had used with Victoria earlier that day.

Because Beckham and Matthäus receive the same treatment.

That means that if the German team experienced something, the English team will probably experience something similar, right?

Deng Kai's prediction is really unfair. How could two strong teams like England and Germany not even make it out of the group stage?

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