Chapter 201: Chapter 200: You Won’t Let Me Get Stronger in Secret?
Yes, there should have been a gap between him and Deng Kai, after all, he was comprehensively stronger than Deng Kai, with gaps everywhere.
Deng Kai: Is our understanding of "comprehensive" really that different?
But what Ronaldo couldn’t accept was that now Deng Kai had actually surpassed him in one aspect.
And that was... physical confrontation!
If you made Deng Kai collide directly with Ronaldo, the nearly six-foot-tall Ronaldo would definitely not be inferior to Deng Kai.
But under the same pressure of adult players, Deng Kai performed noticeably better than Ronaldo.
The role of confrontation abilities played an extremely large part in Deng Kai’s last maneuver of the game, the Marseille Turn while holding off a player.
If it were Ronaldo, the likelihood is that the contact would have distorted his move, turning the Marseille into a mess, not to mention the precise shot that followed.
Where did these changes come from?
They came from training.
What kind of training?
Strength training!
Ronaldo was aware of Deng Kai’s intensified training, and he wanted to join in too, but Deng Kai stopped Ronaldo, ostensibly thinking of your physical development.
And the result?
It was to let you strengthen yourself secretly!
How could Ronaldo tolerate this loss?
The team had a day off the next day, but Ronaldo still went to the training base, soaring in the gym.
Intensified training was quite painful in the beginning, but Ronaldo clenched his teeth and persevered.
He never accepts defeat!
Deng Kai was supposed to train with Ronaldo today, but he had a small problem with his signed football business, someone wanted to return a football signed by Guardiola, and he had to personally handle it.
Guardiola’s performance had been declining, and it was time to have a serious conversation with Victoria, asking her to help get more Beckham signed footballs, to offer to the consumers, ah, not the consumers in Lisbon, an upgraded experience.
It wasn’t suitable for Hathaway to take on too big a collaboration recently, whether she won an award or not, her value was bound to rise a notch after the Oscars.
Now, setting a low price would be at a loss.
Setting a high one would make the other party think they were doing Hathaway a favor, when in fact, it was something Hathaway had earned; giving away favors for no good reason didn’t make sense.
It would be better to have a few afternoon teas with Victoria, and chat about their understanding of fashion, clothing, and beauty, which is also a way of charging up.
No matter the profession, some specialized knowledge is needed, and as a female star, she needed to be knowledgeable about such things.
...
Another day passed, and Deng Kai finally trained with Ronaldo.
But when he found out that Ronaldo followed him into the gym and also started intensified training, he stopped Ronaldo.
"When did you start?" Deng Kai asked.
"Yesterday," Ronaldo replied, not even stopping his bench press.
"Why?" Deng Kai pressed the barbell down with his hand.
"Because I want to get stronger! I can’t stand them sticking to me and making me sick, leaving me no extra energy to handle the football," Ronaldo’s face turned red, but he didn’t have the strength to keep up the act.
"I understand," Deng Kai nodded, "but in my opinion, Ronaldo, you’re wasting the few chances God has given you."
Ronaldo frowned, "I cherish time and opportunities more than anyone else. I have a family waiting for me to provide for them, and I’m not as good at business as you are to free my parents from their tedious jobs early on."
"So I need to work twice as hard!"
Deng Kai spread his hands, "If that’s the case, why didn’t you say so earlier? I could have your whole family come and help me. I’m short on staff right now. I can give them the same salary as my parents, and if you partner with me, I could even give you some shares."
"Of course, I’ll have more shares than you, but that’s not because I’m stingy. It’s because there are innate rules in business, and I need to let it develop along the path I’ve planned."
Ronaldo stood up, "But I’m not your company, why should I do things according to your plan? I’ve wanted to undergo physical training a long time ago. If I had done it my way, I wouldn’t have been so embarrassed in the last match."
"I wouldn’t have had trouble adapting when I first joined the Primeira Liga."
"I would have scored double, triple the goals!"
"I have the ability! You know that very well!"
Deng Kai nodded, "Of course, so what you’re saying is, am I making you weaker? You think I want you to get worse, is that it?"
Ronaldo hesitated, realizing he had misspoken, and finally said, "Sorry, Kai, you know that’s not what I mean. I got a bit carried away. I just want to get stronger, I can’t accept staying in the same place."
"There are more ways to get stronger, and what you see is not the best," Deng Kai didn’t get angry with Ronaldo. They had been together day and night for a long time and understood Ronaldo’s temper and personality all too well.
He had an almost pathological desire to win, an obsession with victory that was terrifying.
This meant that not a single day of his life was peaceful.
Every day, this obsession urged, tormented, and tortured him...
Deng Kai took Ronaldo to Trigella’s office, and it so happened that Trigella was also there.
Deng Kai asked Trigella to bring out the data reports, and Trigella already had a good idea of what was going on.
In fact, even if Deng Kai hadn’t brought Ronaldo over, Trigella would have sought him out.
Because he heard Ronaldo had started to do heavier training in the gym.
Trigella and Deng Kai shared the same opinion, which was to stop Ronaldo.
Soon, Deng Kai and Trigella used data to show Ronaldo that the people who knew him best were not himself, but us.
Trigella said, "I’ve pulled all the match data, physical data, teammate data, and standard data for players of the same age group from your entire history at the Sporting Lisbon academy, including your time on Madeira Island, Chris."
"With Deng Kai’s reminder, I found a serious problem. That is, you’ve practically never played football against opponents of the same level... not in terms of age, though you also hardly ever played with your peers. You always played with kids older than you."
"But in terms of physical fitness, you’ve never been behind."
"Even when you moved up a grade, your physical fitness was always excellent. Coupled with your strong learning capability, your technical and tactical levels could always quickly rise to the top standard of the current stage, so in fact, you’ve never faced difficulty on the green pitch."
"Of course, your situation is not unusual. Top talents are all like this."
"I know Figo, Simon, Quaresma, Viana, and those you’ve encountered before, like Fan Peixi, Torres, Van der Vaart, Robben... they’re all the same."
"Have you watched Simon’s matches with Barça this season?"
"Have you carefully studied the videos of Quaresma’s first-team season?"
"They all have one thing in common, they are very much like you in your last game."
