Chapter 115 People Familiar with St. Paul

Chapter 115 People Familiar with St. Paul

Chapter 115 People Familiar with St. Paul

Nelson O Baptista is reading a newspaper, the São Paulo edition of the Scoreboard.

Newspapers such as "Scoreboard" and "Reims", which are influential throughout Brazil, are not sold all over the country by a single newspaper.They are very particular about localization strategies.

Wherever you take root, you will report the news of that place.

Therefore, these big newspapers are often divided into many editions. In Rio State, it is the Rio edition, which mainly focuses on football news in Rio, because fans in Rio State do not care much about football news in other parts of the country.

The same is true in São Paulo in reverse.

Except for the matches of the Brazilian national team, fans in big states only pay attention to the teams and stars in their own state, and players in other places don't know much about them.

That's why Glory is already a celebrity in Sao Paulo, but in Rio, Rio Grande do Sul, Bahia... and other places it's still like a nobody.

So when Sao Paulo played against Brazil International, Neilmar would not care about glory at all... If he was a player from Sao Paulo State, he would never have made such a mistake...

Rio is better, after all, Glory is famous in the Rio-São Paulo Championship.

However, because last season's Rio-Sao Paulo Championships entered the final four teams all were Sao Paulo teams, so the media in Rio State gave up paying attention to and reporting on the Rio-Sao Paulo Championships early on.Even if someone knew the name Rongguang in Rio, they knew very little.

The São Paulo edition of "Scoreboard" was not available in Rio State, so it was not easy for this newspaper to appear on Nelsono Baptista's desk.

He bought it from Sao Paulo because he heard that Grayson, the famous reporter of "Scoreboard", wrote a particularly detailed analysis article to analyze Sao Paulo's new tactics.For this newspaper, his people drove nearly [-] kilometers back and forth, more than ten hours' drive.

This shows how much Nelson O Baptista attaches importance to this article.

As the former head coach of Sao Paulo, it is only natural that he attaches so much importance to this opponent...

When Rongguang first entered the Sao Paulo youth team, the head coach of the Sao Paulo first team was this Nelsono Baptista.

Later, Nelsono Baptista was dismissed by Sao Paulo club chairman Covia because of his poor performance. Valdemar de Oliveira, the head coach of Rongguang's youth team, replaced him as the interim coach. As a result, he was dismissed after only two games with the team. Osvaldo de Oliveira took over and became the head coach of Sao Paulo.

So Nelson O Baptista still knows this Sao Paulo team very well.

If it was the former Sao Paulo, I am afraid he would not pay so much attention to it, because he knows it well.

But when Osvaldo came, this Sao Paulo team went through some changes, which made him feel strange to this team.

In order to prepare for this game, he went to watch the last few Sao Paulo games, and Osvaldo's insistence on the double midfielder tactics naturally fell into his eyes.

If you only watch the first few games, I am afraid that Nelson O Baptista will still not be too worried about Sao Paulo.

Because Rongguang and Kaka are completely irrelevant, Sao Paulo's so-called double midfielder tactic is more like ten people playing-when Rongguang participates in the offense, Kaka seems to disappear from the field, and vice versa.

Such a team obviously has no fighting power at all, and their own performance is also ups and downs, with good and bad results.

Then he saw Sao Paulo vs. Corinthians at home.

The team of Corinthians, as the head coach of Flamengo, Nelson Baptista is naturally very familiar.

Flamengo is the team with the most supporters in Brazil, and Corinthians is the second most.When he was coaching in Sao Paulo before, he also led the team to play against Corinthians several times. Although they won all of them, Nelson was also deeply touched by the strength of Corinthians.

Unexpectedly, the Sao Paulo Trident suddenly worked normally in that game, beating Corinthians 3:0.Especially the two attacking midfielders have outstanding performances. Rongguang has a goal, Kaka has a goal and an assist, and Fabiano has a goal and an assist.

This game made Nelson O Baptista suddenly aware of the danger-if Sao Paulo has such a double midfielder tactic, I am afraid that Flamengo will not be easy to deal with.

It was from this game that he began to pay special attention to Sao Paulo's new tactics.

This time, when he heard that the Sao Paulo edition of "Scoreboard" dedicated a page to analyze Sao Paulo's double midfielder tactics, he naturally wanted to buy it and take a good look.

Half an hour later, Nelsono Baptista raised his buried head—he finally read the article word for word.

I have to say that Grayson deserves to be a famous reporter. This analysis article is very thorough, and he has benefited a lot after reading it. He has a deep understanding of Sao Paulo's double midfielder tactics, knows their strengths, and most importantly, he also knows a lot about their weaknesses.

The relationship between Rongguang and Kaka is still at odds, which is very important information.So the Trident tactics rely on Fabiano to contact them.

To contain Sao Paulo's Trident, Fabiano must be contained.

As long as Fabiano is completely frozen and he is not allowed to comfortably control the ball, pass and move, Sao Paulo's trident is basically equivalent to waste...

Corinthians' coach Pereira did not expect that Osvaldo would let Fabiano retreat, and did not set up a special defensive tactic for this situation, which caused Fabiano to activate Rongguang and Kaka.

In the end, Corinthians was so completely defeated at the feet of these three young people...

Of course, Grayson’s article is still written in the tone of a Sao Paulo native. In the article, Sao Paulo’s tactics are highly praised, and he believes that as long as the three players play normally, it is absolutely impossible for Flamenco to contain the glory.

While touting Sao Paulo's tactics, he underestimated Flamenco.I think that Flamengo's recent performance is unstable, and it is impossible to pose any threat to Sao Paulo, even in their own home court.

Nelsono Baptista has coached the team in Sao Paulo State, and is now also coaching in the Rio State team, so he personally does not have such strong feelings of confrontation between the two states. He is not very interested in the "Scoreboard"'s argument that "Sao Paulo must win and Flamengo must lose".

But as an experienced head coach, he realized that this is something he can use. As long as it is used, it can greatly improve the team's combat effectiveness-who can not want to withdraw after being underestimated?

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In Osvaldo’s office, the last coaching meeting before the game is being held. The main content is to discuss the results of training, who performed well, who is in bad condition, and who is not up to standard, so that the head coach can make a decision and choose who to enter the 18-man roster.

At the end of today's meeting, it is natural to digress.

"It's really strange that Grayson suddenly wrote an article in "Scoreboard" praising our tactics. What does he mean? Is he bowing down?" Assistant coach Mauro mentioned a recent incident that caught his attention.

He was not the only one who cared. When he said that, it immediately sparked heated discussions among the coaches.

The team's offensive coach Rocha: "Yeah, yeah. I saw it too. When I saw it, my eyes almost popped out..."

The team's goalkeeper coach Roberto Rojas also nodded in agreement: "I also went to see the author of the article and found that it was Grayson. This is really surprising. Has he changed his gender?"

Gilberto De Morais, another coach of the team: "I don't believe that he has changed his gender, but he is right, our new tactics are very powerful. I think he saw our outstanding performance, so he had to bow his head in front of the situation, which is really satisfying! I hated the articles he wrote attacking us before, as if all our efforts were in vain!"

There is a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere in Osvaldo's office.

Everyone was delighted to have conquered a critic as critical as Grayson.

Osvaldo frowned slightly, expressing his worries: "But his analysis is too thorough, anyone who reads his article will understand what we are doing. It doesn't matter if ordinary fans see it, but what if our opponent sees it?"

Everyone was stunned.

But Morais waved his hand: "Flamenco? There is no Sao Paulo version of "Scoreboard" for sale in Rio..."

"Running here to buy is more than 400 kilometers from Rio to Sao Paulo, and the one-way journey takes only five hours. If you have the heart, this is not a problem at all." Osvaldo said.

Everyone was silent again.

They have to admit that what the head coach said made a lot of sense.If it were them who wanted to know the opponent's information, they might do the same.

"Greyson defeated all the details of our tactics in front of Flamengo's head coach Nelson O. He once coached Sao Paulo and knows our team's players very well. If he understands our tactics..."

Osvaldo did not continue talking.

He didn't need to continue talking, everyone could guess what the result was.

"It seems that this game is not as easy as we imagined." Assistant coach Mauro said after recovering.

Before that, everyone was very optimistic about playing Flamengo away.Because Flamengo's performance this season is unstable and their results are very poor.As a traditional strong team, they currently only rank No.20 in the national championship.

This is far from their goal of the top eight.

The opponent's state is unstable, even if it is an away game, the coaches of Sao Paulo are full of confidence in the team.Because of the team's progress during this period, as participants, they couldn't be more clear.

They have confidence in the team they have personally trained.

So Mauro's words made the atmosphere in the office suddenly tense.

It seems that they have to re-evaluate their opponents, and their confidence in their team is not so high.

At this time, the offensive coach Rocha suddenly said: "No. I think at least we have one person, and Nelson O doesn't know much about it."

Hearing his words, everyone didn't react at first, but after they did, they all laughed.

Mauro laughed and said, "That's right, how did we forget him?"

Osvaldo also nodded with a smile: "Sometimes even we don't know him very well, let alone Nelson who can only rely on game videos to understand him... I don't know what gift he will give Nelson at that time?"

The atmosphere in the locker room suddenly became active again.

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Today is less than two days away from the game against Flamengo, and today will be the last training session before the game.After training, Rong Guang will go to Rio with the team, stay in a local hotel, and prepare for the game the next afternoon.

At five o'clock in the morning, Rong Guang got up and went to the rooftop to start his training.

After the warm-up, he carried the football to the rooftop area where the pipes criss-crossed.

Those dark pipes stood in the morning mist, vaguely visible.

This is the darkest time before dawn, and even the stars in the sky are dimmed a lot.

Rong Guang hugged the football and looked forward. The few pipes in front of him were the clearest. Going deeper, it was very blurry, but a shadow could still be seen.

Swaying in the mist, it seems to be a real person.

Behind those blurred figures, he saw the "goal" again.

The tubes are all fuzzy, but the "goal" is clear.

It's been there for so many days, never moved, didn't even need to look to know it would be there.

Quietly waiting for the glory to arrive in front of it.

Rong Guang took a deep breath of the cold morning air in Sao Paulo, and then gently dropped the football. Before the football hit the ground, he unloaded it with the instep of his right foot, and the football landed obediently and firmly on the ground.

Here I come, pipes!
Glory takes the ball forward!

(End of this chapter)