Chapter 534: Chapter 533: A Great European Scholar Defends My Doctrine for Me
It really was like that.
And it was during the critical season.
The Champions League final, a comeback against Zidane.
The Europa League final, triumphing over Beckham.
Reporter: "Excuse me, Deng Kai’s defeat of Inter Milan, Ronaldo wasn’t in play; he was recuperating from an injury at that time."
Trigella: "So you’re saying Ronaldo wasn’t an Inter Milan player that season? Then which team was he on? According to this logic, there probably isn’t a stronger player in the world of football than me, because I’ve never been a player."
Reporter: "By that reasoning, Ronaldo has also defeated Deng Kai! That match where the Brazilian team won four to zero against the Chinese team! Ronaldo even scored a goal!"
Trigella nodded: "Yes, and that’s why Ronaldo moved ahead of Deng Kai in the real-time rankings for the Golden Ball, but if I may be so bold... even if Ronaldo lifts the Hercules Cup, in my heart, the best player in the world this year is still Deng Kai!"
"The Hercules Cup is indeed won every four years."
"But a Champions League treble champion only comes once in decades!"
Reporter: ...
Rustle!
Trigella’s retort garnered applause.
In the one or two years of consecutive absences from the Italian league, fans gradually became dissatisfied with Ronaldo, the world’s number one striker lying in the hospital bed.
Everyone knows you’re strong.
But when you don’t play, the title of ’strongest’ should rightfully belong to those who do.
In the end, it took the "thorough" Germans, who would leave a packet of spare parts nearby even when repairing sewer pipes in Qingdao just in case, to spot the problem (dog head to prevent spray).
The reporter from Bild asked: "However, according to FIFA’s regulations, a player who has played for a national team at the senior level is not permitted to represent a different national team in world-class competitions."
"Under the right conditions and applying, they can play for another national team after eight years."
"Deng Kai has already been included in the matchday squad for this World Cup, three times."
"He probably can only play for Portugal in the 2012 European Championship."
Many reporters in the audience let out a laugh.
Trigella may have good intentions, strong calculative abilities, and an assertive attitude, indicating he is an excellent manager.
But he forgot to check the basic football rules.
Deng Kai... is finished!
2012... At twenty-seven, Deng Kai should be at his peak in terms of age.
But who can guarantee he won’t face any accidents in these ten years? That he won’t decline?
There have been many players who peaked at the start of their careers.
For a player like him who has not been tested in the top five leagues, the likelihood of "being hot for only three years" is extremely high!
However, Trigella immediately took a document out of the bag in his hand: "Coincidentally, I had Europe’s renowned law firms study FIFA’s regulations."
"You may have forgotten one prerequisite."
"That is, the football association Deng Kai played for has dissolved!"
"When a player’s football association dissolves or leaves FIFA, the player is not bound by prior constraints and can immediately represent another national team!"
Silence.
All the reporters wore blank expressions on their faces.
But it didn’t take long for some reporters to catch on.
In fact, this wasn’t a very obscure clause.
The famous star Mijatovic, who put on a stellar performance in the 1998 World Cup, had played for the ’Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’ and then the ’Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’."
In the future, he would still play for "Serbia and Montenegro" as well as "Serbia," a total of four different national teams.
Including the young gun from Sporting Lisbon, Vidic, who was very likely to be selected for the "Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" national team this year, but next year it would be "Serbia and Montenegro," and after 2006, just Serbia.
However, this situation was different from that of Deng Kai.
For Mijatovic and others, their former country had disappeared, naturally leaving them with no choice but to represent a new one in competition, which was also why FIFA allowed them to compete immediately.
Because it is only under the circumstances of a change of country that the original football association would dissolve and then withdraw from FIFA.
Normally, even if you did dissolve, it wouldn’t count as withdrawing from FIFA.
Your newly established football association’s international status would still be that of its predecessor.
But this time... the mainland football association not only dissolved! It also explicitly declared its withdrawal from FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation.
This meant that the mainland’s decades of accumulation in these two large organizations had all vanished into thin air.
To re-enter, they would truly only be able to start as newcomers.
And that’s a far cry from the treatment of old members.
It was something that took billions of resources to build up.
Take hosting the World Cup, for example: new members wouldn’t have a chance, they’re simply not qualified!
Of course, the mainland’s decision this time didn’t consider any of these factors.
With the scale of the mainland.
In ten years, at the very least, the Asian Football Confederation would be begging us to participate.
In twenty years, FIFA would have to kneel down and beg as well.
After all, such a huge market, so many financial backers.
The European politique is raised by money breeding money, and parents can change at any time, let alone the damn rules of a sport like football.
When mainland higher-ups were discussing whether these international football resources would go to waste, Deng Kai reassured everyone at the time, "As long as the economy picks up, there’ll be European scholars lining up to debate on our behalf!"
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"Portugal’s new national team roster released early! Trigella: Deng Kai is my only core player!"
"Seamless transition! With frequent jumps between China and Portugal, has Deng Kai’s background pierced the sky?"
"Starting a new phase for the national team! Deng Kai officially becomes a Portuguese international!"
"It is a failure but also a rebirth! The Diamond Generation takes over from the Golden Generation, Trigella aims at the European Championship two years later!"
"Trigella and Deng Kai team up again for the national team! Can they replicate the Sporting Lisbon miracle on another level?"
"National team roster speculation: Deng Kai, Ronaldo, Figo, Rui Costa, Quaresma, Simon, Viana... Who’s next?"
"Anyone will do, but don’t tell me it’s Feng Te!"
"Figo refuses to comment on the details of Trigella’s appointment!"
"Rui Costa openly says Oliveria is an excellent coach!"
"Pinto announces his retirement from the Portugal national team, believing that the Portuguese Football Federation made the right decision."
"Bento announces his retirement from the Portugal national team and says outright that no one would fail to recognize Deng Kai’s abilities, ’He has convinced all of Portugal’!"
"A lesser-known Portuguese player Feng Te: ’So now you can finally accept the title that rightfully belongs to you, my respected King of Portugal!’"
From then on, The King of Alvalade successfully upgraded to the King of Portugal!
It was about the same time that the South Korean team, with the help of the referee, successively knocked out the teams from Italy and Spain, that the focus of the world of football fully returned to the World Cup.
The South Koreans’ performance left people feeling numb.
But their future filial sons would be even more numbing.
