Chapter 227: 2 Portuguese

August 3, 2003, Giants Stadium, New Jersey, USA.
This is actually a rugby stadium, but it was transformed into a football stadium with a slight modification. It was the venue of the 1994 World Cup finals in the United States. This year's Italian Super Cup is held here.
The Italian Super Cup is played by the Serie A champions of last season against the Italian Cup champions, if the two are the same team, the Italian Cup runner-up.
So this game is again Milan vs. Rome.
Ghost knows that the Italian Cup for Mao's two Italian teams is going to the United States, but it seems quite popular anyway.
There are still some highlights to this game. Cafu just faced his old club just after the transfer. Rivaldo moved to AC Milan for the first time after playing for the Red and Black Legion and so on.
Kaka watched the live broadcast of the game, and fell asleep halfway through.
A boring game.
The two sides scored 0-0, the final penalty kick, Rome won the game.
Five days later, far away Portugal.
In order to celebrate the completion of the new home after the overhaul, Atletico Lisbon invited Manchester United to come to a friendly match. Now the first half has just ended, but Manchester United coach Ferguson has been unable to sit still.
Not for the score of 1-0, but for the opponent's field players.
It was only forty-five minutes, and the child had prepared O'Shea to find an oxygen cylinder.
Ferguson did not enter the locker room, but could not wait to find Manchester United's chief executive David Gill.
"David, sign him! Sign the kid, you won't go home without you signing!"
David Gill certainly knew who Ferguson was talking about, but he didn’t expect the old man’s reaction to be so exaggerated,
Is it so good?

Ferguson repeated: "He is a hundred times better than you think! Sign him! Give him a contract and let him sign!"
David Gill: "~~"
At the end of the game, Atletico Lisbon won the game 3-1. Manchester United players finished packing and were about to return, but the bus did not start, and the Manchester United coach did not disappear. Ferguson did not arrive until one and a half hours later.
The bus finally moved.
The players didn't ask where Ferguson was, only Ferdinand, Scholes and Bart sneaked to his seat. Ferdinand said: "BOSS, that kid is a bit too powerful. We need to sign him."
"Relax," Ferguson glanced at him sideways. "It's done."
"what?"
Two days later, Atletico Lisbon announced that Cristiano Ronaldo would transfer to the Premier League giant Manchester United, with a transfer fee of 12.24 million pounds.
He will wear the No. 7 jersey left by Beckham and appear on the right side of Manchester United.
...
Just when everyone guessed that this little guy from Portugal, Hood Ho, could make Ferguson grant the number seven jersey, another Portuguese also began to board the football page of major sports newspapers.
On August 29, the European Super Cup, the European Champions Cup champion AC Milan VS UEFA Cup champion Porto.
Strangely, when it comes to AC Milan, people are concerned about Shevchenko, Kaka, and Inzaghi, but when it comes to Porto, people are more concerned about their head coach Mourinho.
Mourinho spent ten years from translators who are proficient in eight languages ​​to being assistants to Robson and Van Gaal, and then to being the head coach of Benfica, but he became the head coach and coached the new chairman after only 9 league games. He broke up with the board of directors, and then took over the coach of the small ball club Liana Football Club, and helped the team historically achieve the fifth place in the league.
A year and a half ago, Mourinho became the head coach of the Porto Football Club and led Porto to the Portuguese Football Super League, Portuguese Cup and UEFA Cup in the first season.
A triumph for a small one.
This year's European Super Cup is the home of the Monaco Club Louis II Stadium. The two sides went to Monaco three days in advance to prepare for the match, which was warmly welcomed by local fans.
Although the Monaco club participates in the Ligue 1 league, the Principality of Monaco they belong to does not belong to France, but is one of the four Principalities of Europe, surrounded by France on three sides and on the other side of the Mediterranean.
The country has an area of ​​2.02 square kilometers and a population of about 38,000 people. It is a veritable pocket country. In addition to the most famous casinos and F1 games, there is also the famous Monaco Film Festival. However, the first Monaco Film Festival will be in December this year. Will start.
On the day of the game, the 18,000 Louis II Stadium was full of seats. Of course, this is a small scene for the two teams that stand out from the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, but the UEFA Super Cup is not comparable to the small match of the Italian Super Cup. Yes, so everyone is not very relaxed.
"The match is about to start, AC Milan has discharged a Christmas tree formation, single forward Shevchenko, double front waist Kaka, Rui Costa, three back waist Pirlo, Gattuso, Seedorf, four backs Kafu, inner Stara, Costa Kuta, Maldini, goalkeeper Dida."
It’s no exaggeration to say that ~EbookFREE.me~ If Costa Kuta is a few years younger, Dida is a bit more powerful, this team can beat any opponent in the world today, even if it is famous. The Galaxy Warship and the perfect sought-after of the immortal cause will be weak in the front of this red and black army.
The ambitious Mourinho certainly knew this too, so he sacrificed his bus tactics without hesitation.
"Portuguese goalkeeper Baia, defenders Paul Ferreira, George Costa, Ricardo Carvalho, Nuno Valent, midfielder Macheney, Costinha, Alenichev, Deco, striker Del Lay, McCarthy."
After all, he won the Little Triple Crown, and many people in the Porto array are no longer unknown. But in the face of the bright stars of AC Milan, this Porto looks bleak, even the most famous Deco is also a bitter face. It seems to be a bad luck. Under the guidance of the ideology of value and justice, everyone did not take this Portuguese Super champion into their eyes.
They soon suffered.
In the first minute of the game, Sheva kicked off, Kaka knocked to Costa, Costa returned Pirlo, Pirlo then passed to Cafu.
Cafu, who was eager to serve, immediately hit the ball.
The Roma midfielder came back to Milan and returned to his position in the national team, forming the left and right wings of AC Milan with Maldini. Although they did not fly in the Italian Super Cup, teammates still faced this The veteran has high hopes.
Unfortunately, as soon as he brought the ball to the midfield, he encountered a strong interception of Porto. Not only did Kostinia and Alenichev move forward together, but even forward McCarthy rushed up and hit the card on three sides. Fu's ball broke.
In Mourinho's team, the forward can also be used as a defender.