Chapter 5 The Desire of the Strong
Lionel Pontes' training programs are all the most basic and common contents, and the training is also the most boring. Even when facing some children around ten years old, it is necessary to combine them with some interesting games.
For someone of Su Dong's age, it is undoubtedly even more boring and unacceptable.
Not only that, changing a person's habits is quite difficult and extremely painful.
Just like what the saying goes, if a man even quits smoking, how cruel must he be?
Changing a person's football-playing habits and the muscle memory formed by long-term football playing is definitely more difficult than quitting smoking. Even Pontes thinks it is impossible to accomplish.
But in the following period of time, Su Dong proved his determination with practical actions. He made Ronnie begin to believe that he was not just a big talker, but really wanted to change and improve himself.
When it comes to Pontes' training programs, he carries them out meticulously, even the most boring and basic ones.
Instead of compromising, he took the initiative to increase his training volume.
He spent most of his time every day on Pontes' basic training. Only in the morning and afternoon would he take some time out to go to the indoor venue to fight one-on-one with Ronnie and accumulate some king of football points.
At the beginning, Ronnie was a little skeptical, wondering if Su Dong could bear it.
But gradually, he began to find that Su Dong not only held on, but also did more, even doubling the amount of training required by Pontes. Sometimes even he, who was watching, felt that he couldn't stand it anymore, but Su Dong still gritted his teeth and persisted.
This made Ronnie begin to agree and even admire Su Dong's tenacity.
Apart from anything else, just based on this enthusiasm, he firmly believed that it was God's fault that someone like Su Dong could not play professional football.
But he didn't know that what supported Su Dong to persist in training was not only his own willpower, but also the system.
Since the potential values of the six attributes have been maxed out, the most important priority for Su Dong now is to tap his potential and improve his own strength through training.
The Pontes training program that Ronnie brought to him was undoubtedly the best gift.
The initial period is undoubtedly the most difficult.
On the one hand, it was because Su Dong’s foundation was really bad. Some problems and bad habits brought about by the unprofessional youth training in the country limited Su Dong’s strength. At the same time, it also made it particularly painful for him to implement the Pontes training plan.
His strength was improving slowly and the training was hard, so Su Dong was feeling extremely miserable.
But whenever he thought about his parents who had sold everything they had to send him to Europe for training, his parents who had high expectations for him, and the football path he had been determined to pursue since he was a child, Su Dong gritted his teeth and persevered.
After getting through the first week, the training was getting better.
Not only did the numbers of various attributes on the personal attribute panel in the system increase faster, but Su Dong was also able to cope with Pontes' training plan more calmly. This changed Su Dong's mood and he saw a promising future.
Especially in the third week, he began to become more calm and at ease, and his personal strength improved at a faster rate.
Ronnie is also happy about Sudong's progress. At the same time, he keeps in touch with Lionel Pontes at any time to communicate with him about Sudong's progress and situation, and change and adjust Sudong's training program at any time to help Sudong continue to improve.
Although it was just over the phone, Lionel Pontes was full of curiosity and anticipation about the Sudong that Ronnie mentioned.
“He definitely surprised me, but I’m more curious now, how far can he go?”
No one knew, including Ronnie.
In the one-on-one contest, Ronnie still maintained his overwhelming advantage over Su Dong.
This not only made Su Dong admire him, but also gave him more motivation.
With a strong man like Ronnie pushing and stimulating him, he can't accept that he is too bad.
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Time slowly passed until mid-July.
European football has entered the preparation period for the new season, which is also the peak period of pre-season warm-up matches.
As a semi-professional team, Sporting CP does not have strict pre-season preparations. Many of their first-team players are not even professional players. Everyone has their own work to do, and they only train and play with the team after work.
If this is the case for the first team, the youth team will have even more freedom.
In Su Dong's words, this doesn't look like a youth team, but more like a domestic football training class.
Because of this, Su Dong has never reported to the team, but has been training on his own in Edward VII Park under Ronnie's supervision.
The two met at the park entrance at five in the morning every day, and then stayed in the park all day, playing football.
Until one day, Su Dong couldn't wait for Ronnie at the south gate of the park, so he went to the indoor football field to train, but Ronnie still didn't show up.
Just when he was filled with wonder, a dark-skinned African-American boy appeared.
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"Are you Su Dong?"
The African boy first watched Su Dong train on the sidelines for a while before leisurely walking into the field.
"I am, who are you?" Su Dong asked curiously.
On weekdays, there are not many people in this park, mostly pairs of students from the nearby University of Lisbon.
"Jose Semedo, I'm Ronnie's teammate." The African boy introduced himself with a smile.
His smile makes him look very approachable.
Su Dong stopped training, walked towards him, and asked with concern: "What's wrong with Ronnie today?"
"Don't worry, he's fine." Semedo smiled, "It's just that there was something urgent at home, and he flew back last night to deal with it. He asked me to come and inform you that he probably won't be back for a few days, so let you train on your own. "
"Oh." Su Dong felt a little disappointed. After all, he had been training with Ronnie for the past month.
However, knowing that Ronnie was fine, he stopped worrying.
"By the way, is everything okay at his family?" Su Dong asked with concern.
Semedo shook his head. "I don't know. He didn't tell me and I can't ask."
Su Dong nodded, this is someone else's privacy.
"Has he been training here with you for the past month?" Semedo suddenly asked.
"Yeah." Su Dong nodded.
"But I see you..."
"Not strong enough?"
Semedo scratched the back of his head a little embarrassedly and smiled foolishly.
"Is Ronnie very good on your team?"
As soon as Su Dong finished asking the question, Semedo looked at him with a strange look, as if he had asked a very stupid question.
"So, you didn't know?"
"Yes, I just know his name is Ronnie and he is very good at playing football, that's all."
Semedo immediately laughed, "So he likes this tune."
"You haven't answered my question yet." Su Dong reminded.
"Oh, yes, he is indeed very good. He should be the best in our team, but this is controversial because there are three people who think they are the best in the team at the same time, and Ronnie is one of them."
"Then you are..."
"You can ask him about this yourself later." Semedo smiled mysteriously.
Su Dong was depressed. Is it necessary to do this?
Maybe it was because he saw Su Dong training just now and his feet were a little itchy, or maybe he wanted to show off his skills, Jose Semedo didn't give Su Dong time to ask any more questions and walked straight into the stadium.
"Come on, I haven't played indoor football for a long time, I'll play with you."
Of course Su Dong would not refuse.
Ronnie's teammates must be strong and they are very efficient in getting the best player value.
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Although Jose Semedo is about the same height as Su Dong, he is obviously bigger.
He plays as a central defender, and occasionally as a full-back and defensive midfielder, which makes his playing style completely different from Ronnie's.
Ronaldo is a technical player, and his dribbling skills and changes of speed and direction are more dependent on his skills. But Semedo is different. He is more simple, rough and direct, and always uses his body to crush Su Dong.
The common point between the two is that they are both very fast, and Su Dong is completely unable to keep up with their rhythm and pace.
The biggest difference is that every match with Ronaldo can bring Su Dong a capped 200-point King of Football value, while every match with Jose Semedo only gives him 100 points of King of Football value.
This means that Jose Semedo is far inferior to Ronnie in strength.
Of course, even so, Semedo is definitely more than enough to deal with Sudong.
This guy must be having a very depressed time in the team. It's a rare opportunity for him to meet Su Dong, who is weaker than him, so he has a lot of fun playing with him.
Su Dong didn't mind. For the sake of the king of football value, even though he was crushed, he still refused to admit defeat and issued challenges again and again.
Gradually, Jose Semedo felt Su Dong's tenacity and couldn't help but understand why Ronnie liked Su Dong so much, because the two of them were so alike.
I still remember when he first came to the team more than two years ago, Ronnie was as thin as a monkey. His skills were good, but his football skills were not very good, especially his physical fitness was terrible.
They are very close because they both have Cape Verdean ancestry.
Ronnie helped Semedo integrate into the team, and Semedo took Ronnie to the gym, which is what Semedo is most proud of.
At the beginning, Ronnie 's performance in the gym was extremely weak, but he was never convinced and always challenged his own limits. He stayed in the gym almost day and night, practicing hard.
There was even one time when he stayed until after 2 a.m., when he was discovered by the patrolling security guards at the club and was kicked out.
But it is precisely because of this tenacity and persistence that in just two years, Ronnie's physical fitness has improved by leaps and bounds, and his speed and strength are not inferior to defenders like Semedo.
With this, Ronnie has become the best performing and most talented rising star in the team.
Now, the brilliance that Jose Semedo once saw in Ronnie is also seen in Sudong.
But he had to admit that the future of Su Dong was not bright.
At least, in order to become a professional player, Su Dong missed too many things, and it was also very, very difficult.
Jose Semedo doesn't even understand what Su Dong is still insisting on?
When night fell, when the two men were lying on the sidelines panting after fighting, Semedo finally couldn't help but ask his doubts.
"This is the sorrow of you weaklings." Su Dong laughed and replied, "Because you will never understand the desire of the strong."
It's too much.
Semedo was so angry that he jumped up on the spot and fought with him for another three hundred rounds.
