A broken dream?
After World War II, many European countries voluntarily or were forced to give up their colonies, but the Portuguese government refused to give up their colonies and still maintained a huge colonial empire after World War II.
As a result, the colonies broke out uninterrupted waves of decolonization and armed uprisings. For more than ten years from 1961, Portugal had to cope with the wars of independence that broke out in various colonies. Anti-war sentiment.
On April 25, 1974, the armed forces were composed of middle and lower-ranking officers, and many Portuguese civilians voluntarily participated in it. The Carnation Revolution broke out in Lisbon, the capital. The long-standing dictatorship!
The April 25 Revolution is of great significance to the Portuguese. April 25 is also designated as the Portuguese Freedom Day. Portugal, which has a small territory, has buildings and venues commemorating the Carnation Revolution all over the country. The April 25 Bridge in Lisbon is the most famous.
The city of Penafiel, which is adjacent to Porto's east, has a stadium called the Four Two Five Stadium. As the name suggests, it was named to commemorate the Carnation Revolution. This stadium can only accommodate 6,500 spectators. Nafiere.
Compared with the Dragon Stadium of Porto, the three giants of the Portuguese Super League, the Stadium of Light in Benfica, and the Alvalade Stadium of Sporting Lisbon are naturally insignificant.
2013, the evening of March 30.
The 33rd round of the Portuguese League is being staged at the 425 Stadium.
The stadium under the lights is particularly quiet this night, and the sound of every vigorous kick of the players on the court can be clearly transmitted to the distance.
The stadium with a capacity of 6,500 people only had about 1,000 people tonight.
The fans of the away team came here to watch the game in groups, showing a whole, while the fans of the home team Penafiel were scattered in all corners of the main stand, separated in twos and threes.
Without the enthusiastic cheers like a tsunami of mountains and tsunamis, and without uniform slogans to cheer for the team, most of the fans of Penafiel sat quietly in the stands and watched the dull game that was difficult to drive the audience's emotions.
Some fans of the home team simply gathered together to chat in twos and threes, just glanced at the stadium from time to time, and then continued to chat.
The team that visited the 425 Stadium today is called Bilanises. Their fans are more engaged in the away team fans stand. When the team successfully cleared the siege or played a threatening offensive, they burst into applause. with cheers!
They came to the away field to cheer on the banner that read: Come on, the goal is top!
The Portuguese League has come to the 33rd round, and there are only 10 league games left until the end of the season.
With Bilanise at the top of the Portuguese league table, it seems only a matter of time before he is promoted to the Super League.
Although there are 22 teams in the Portuguese League, there are only 2 promotion places and only 2 relegation places.
Penafiel is currently ranked eighth in the league, with a gap of more than 20 points away from Bilanises, and it is idiotic to want to counterattack and reach the top.
But considering that the same club can only have one team in one level of the league, both Benfica B and Sporting Lisbon B ahead of Penafiel can be wiped off the leaderboard, as long as the team is at the end of the season. Nafiere can surpass Eluka, who is second in the league, and can get a valuable promotion spot. The gap between them is 8 points!
The game time has come to 70 minutes, and the score on the field is 0:1.
Penafiel is one goal behind at home.
Sitting on the coaching bench, Penafiel coach Miguel Rael has a beard. At the age of nearly 50, he only picked up the coach this season and started his first-team coaching career.
Without a brilliant career, he is just a nobody in Portugal, a small border country in Europe.
Since Mourinho rushed to the top ten years ago in Porto, Portugal's coaches have begun to imitate. The coaching style and record are naturally unique secrets. If you want to enter the hall, you must have some talent first, but you can dress accordingly. The men's line has become the mainstream of Portuguese football. As long as the head coaches who look good enough can reveal a bit of mature charm, they seem to deliberately put on a deep and calm posture, and then dress up more delicately. Handsome look.
Miguel Rael also wears suits and shoes, the style of a successful person.
The reason why the Portuguese media recently noticed him is that in the last round of the league, Penafiel and the Benfica B team, which was one place behind, staged a full-fledged battle!
The B team of Benfica is naturally the reserve force of the first team. The age of the players is basically no more than 22 years old. The average age of the Penafiel lineup is over 26 years old.
Football competition is not a competition of who eats the most, who is older, strength is the last word, and it has nothing to do with age.
Penafiel has just entered the final sprint of the season, but was beaten 4:1 by Benfica B team almost humiliatingly. A complete mental explosion, and a notorious gang fight broke out after the game!
The punishment for the Benfica B team is irrelevant to them. Even if they win the Portuguese championship, they will not be able to advance to the Super League. Penafiel is completely different.
The Portuguese Football Association issued an overweight fine, and up to 5 players in Penafiel were suspended for 6 games. The most deadly thing is that there are 3 strikers in it!
In the middle and late stages of the original season, the team lacked major generals on the front line due to injuries. Miguel Rael had transferred all the forwards from the reserve team in the last round, and pieced together the team’s front line to face the Benfica B team. As a result, no one could have imagined that the team's striker line was completely wiped out!
Today's striker is completely the team's third-line reserve!
One of the wingers from China made his professional debut for Penafiel in the Portuguese league.
Penafiel's bench and bench are dead, and the coaches have been disappointed to watch the game. Not to mention, the team can't grasp the opportunity, and even the opportunity is difficult to create!
Most of the substitute players are players in the midfield and backcourt, and they are also a little disheartened. How can they see that the team's hope of upgrading has been dashed after the loss in the last round.
Losing does not mean there is no chance, but it is extremely deadly if the striker is unavailable!
How can a team win when no one can score?
All ties are only 10 points, not to mention that the team is still behind Bilanises at home.
The Mediterranean climate makes the nights in Portugal not cold at this time, and the breeze is very comfortable, but Miguel Rael's heart is particularly cold.
Witnessing the team's non-threatening performance on the court, the reversal is as difficult as reaching the sky. If you can equalize the score and get 1 point, you have to kneel and kowtow to thank the gods in the sky.
Looking at the Chinese striker wearing the No. 36 shirt from time to time, Miguel Rael was not disappointed, because he never had expectations.
Maybe it's all over.
Penafiel's dream of overtaking is over, and he will only wait for the next year to set sail again.
It is time for the Chinese striker, Ye Yifeng, to come to an end in Portugal.
Three years ago, the Chinese Football Association cooperated with the company of Mendes, a famous Portuguese agent, and sent more than 20 players from China to the Portuguese lower league teams. Since then, a group of young Chinese players will come to different clubs in Portugal every year. Youth training teams receive training.
Ye Yifeng was one of the first young Chinese players to come to Portugal. He was 18 when he landed in Portugal, and three years later, he is about to turn 21!
In the past three years, his companions have picked up their luggage and returned to China one by one. Ye Yifeng also had the opportunity to return to China to join the Chinese League One team last summer, but he refused to return and still insisted on working hard in Portugal...
He is reluctant to give up his dream, especially when he returns to China, he doesn't know how to face his parents who have almost gone bankrupt and cultivated him to play football.
But the reality is educating him with the cruel truth, and it seems to be silently whispering in his ear: Back to the shore!
In his career debut, Ye Yifeng, as the starting left winger, touched the ball a lot on the court. The 182 cm tall boy was strong and strong. Although he did not suffer in direct confrontation, he was inexperienced and could not cope with his brute force. The old fritters of his opponents, and the skills under his feet are really terrible, making him more and more anxious on the field.
If it weren't for the lack of a striker to switch and the score behind, Miguel Rael might have substituted him before the second half.
From the perspective of Chinese aesthetics, Ye Yifeng's appearance can be regarded as handsome.
But on the field, it was a messed up look.
Today's guest center Portuguese player Kronas has been complaining that he can't even deliver a decent pass, and the young winger Mbaya on the other side can have a cross and fly into the penalty area from time to time.
Ye Yifeng kept running, and only when he came to Europe did he realize how ridiculous his technical advantage among Chinese players was. In Portugal, a football country that focuses on technology, he realized how insurmountable the innate gap is. If in China It's amazing how easily a six-year-old can flip the ball, but in Portugal six-year-olds can flip oranges or other objects and do a lot of ball-handling maneuvers on the court.
Ye Yifeng hasn't slack off for a moment, but his skill gap with his peers is getting bigger and bigger. If there is anything that he can firmly believe to stay here and fight his dreams, it is his physical quality, the best running player in the youth team. Striker, the striker who has won the most confrontations and won the most headers in the youth team!
But when it comes to the professional arena, the real combat is brutally destroying his confidence, and the strengths that he thinks can help him get a foothold in European football turned out to be so fragile!
He didn't give up. After 70 minutes of the game, he was the most active player on the field. He ran and counterattacked or responded. After taking a breath, he immediately moved his legs, but when the ball was at his feet, his mistakes also followed. come.
Machado, who was defending him, couldn't help but say beside him: Don't work hard, you're not like this! Even if I get out of the way, you believe that you can dribble into the penalty area and finish a decent kick. the shot?
Don't lie to yourself, you'll blow the ball big or shoot straight into the air.
Don't run anymore, let's end it like this, although you don't mind more mistakes, but the key will make me tired too.
Ye Yifeng ignored Machado, which made Machado mistakenly think that Ye Yifeng couldn't understand Portuguese, and shook his head in dismay.
Ye Yifeng can understand, and he is fluent in Portuguese because he has a good teacher.
But he is now a little bit stunned, unable to stop!
Most of the classmates who used to be on campus, their parents would work hard for half their lives to save them a house or seek a good job. Ye Yifeng’s parents are no exception, but wanting to play football in China is not an exception for ordinary families. It's really too heavy a burden.
Due to the high tuition fees in sports schools, Ye Yifeng's father not only exhausted his savings, but also sold the only house in the family in order to win a place to go abroad, and his parents switched to renting a living.
Ye Yifeng has never relaxed for a moment, but in the professional arena, he has been unable to realize the scenes that appeared in countless dreams: clearing the stage, shining stars, becoming famous with one goal...
He can't stop, and stopping means giving up, which means he can only carry his luggage and go back to China.
Why the hell is football so hard?
I want to score!
I want to be a hero!
I want to realize my dream!
In the 78th minute of the game, when Ye Yifeng received the pass from his teammate and just stopped the ball, Machado seized the opportunity to grab the ball and broke it out of the sideline. Although he failed to grab the ball, Machado did not take it to heart. Anyway, It is impossible for Ye Yifeng to take advantage of him.
Ye Yifeng fell to the ground because of Machado's pressing, he stood up immediately, he didn't realize how confused his thinking was!
The despair that dreams are about to shatter, the white hair that shamelessly faces my parents, the future seems to be lost in the abyss, and the hand that I want to hold for a lifetime...
Subconsciously, he ran out of bounds to pick up the football and throw the ball from the sideline. Ye Yifeng suddenly stood on the spot with a stiff expression.
No one knows that Ye Yifeng's entire world scene changes at this moment!
After the darkness, a burst of dazzling light erupted!
He seemed to be in a wide passage, and in front of him a card with a football pattern and a line of words hung in the air a few meters away.
The best striker in the Portuguese league!
Before Ye Yifeng could think about it, this card disappeared out of thin air!
The world became pitch black again, and after a moment, he was in the passage as if the ground was moving, or the passage was moving, and at the same time, the dazzling light shone in the passage.
A picture of the Portuguese Super League was printed on the front side of the passage and a picture of 2004-2005 was printed on the bottom. Ye Yifeng subconsciously raised his hand to block it, but nothing happened. It's dark and boundless!
Then turn your head to look forward, the light is even brighter!
This time, the team logo of Sporting Club of Lisbon was coming towards him again. Ye Yifeng opened his eyes wide and watched the club logo penetrate his body.
The screen became pitch black again, and after a while, the light was brilliant!
Ye Yifeng vaguely saw a figure standing in front of the Portuguese flag!
The figure and the Portuguese flag also moved quickly towards him. Ye Yifeng's eyes widened to see the figure's appearance. He knew who it was because there was his name next to him.
Leedsson!
When Leedsson's radiant figure passed through Ye Yifeng's body, the whole world fell into darkness again.
Ye Yifeng blinked, the football on the ground appeared in front of him, and looking around, he was standing on the sidelines of the 425 court and was about to bend over to pick up the football on the ground.
As if nothing had happened, or only he knew what happened!