Antonio has been very annoyed recently, to be precise, he has not been in a good mood for a long time.

Antonio, who is about to enter his thirties, has been at the Maridimo Club for nearly 20 years.

He has the purest Maridimo bloodline.

My father, grandfather, uncle and uncle are all port workers in Madeira. Maridimo, who represents the working class, is the faith of their family for generations, just like God.

No matter how hard life is, as long as you can go to the tavern to buy a cool beer on the weekend and watch a Maridimo game on that small 18-inch TV, it is the happiest thing in their lives.

He entered Maridimo's youth training camp at the age of 10. At first, there were many friends around him, but in the rigorous training, more and more people left. Some of them could not stand the hard work and took the initiative to leave, and some could not keep up with the rhythm and passively eliminated. He was the only one of the children who persisted until the end.

He has never been the best talent, but he is the hardest and the hardest on the court. Because under the influence of his father, he loves this team deeply and dreams of playing for this team one day.

In order to realize his dream, he suffered a lot of hardships, and he put in more effort than others!

He gritted his teeth silently and persevered. When he couldn't stand it, he would go to church to pray to God, or use tattoos to alert himself, the pain of needles on his skin, sober him and let him remember his dreams and the hardships along the way.

It was precisely through his firm belief in God and his ruthless spirit of not giving up until he achieved his goal that he persisted until the end. He entered the first team at the age of 18, stood out in one fell swoop, gradually growing into the main force of the team, becoming the backbone of the defense, and then becoming the captain and the boss of the team.

Now he is the representative of this club and is an existence with a transcendent status in the club.

But in recent years, Antonio has become increasingly dissatisfied.

Maridimo was originally a super team of Portuguese. Although he could not compete with the top three super teams of Portuguese, he could at least be in the middle of the league for a long time and occasionally enter the European qualifiers.

As a representative of the poor, Maridimo has no money, but he has always survived in his own way, insisting on localization strategies, looking for talented children in Madeira, cultivating them into excellent players, and contributing to the club one after another.

Although this way of survival cannot be rich and powerful, at least it is alive, making this poor team rooted in Madeira feel a sense of belonging.

There are thousands of poor children on Madeira who regard Antonio himself as an idol, goal and hero, and look forward to one day galloping at Dos Barorés Stadium (Maridimo home court).

However, such a dream is becoming increasingly difficult to realize. There are no restrictions on foreign players in the Portuguese Super League, and more and more foreign players are everywhere on the court.

These foreign players do not belong here. They are just mercenaries and have no sense of belonging. They just regard this place as a springboard for jumping to the five major leagues!

The existence of foreign aid has compressed the living space of local young people. Those poor Madeira children need to face competition from all over the world, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to stand out.

And with the influx of foreign players, a more terrifying threat followed, that is, foreign capital.

Antonio watched helplessly as foreign capital was like bloodthirsty beasts, entering one Portuguese club after another, sucking their blood, then throwing off their shriveled bodies, and looking for new prey.

Antonio was very worried, frightened, anxious, scared, but could not do anything.

As a devout believer, he prayed to God more than once to expel these Satanic messengers and malicious pagans. However, his prayers were not effective, but more tragic that his club became a habitat for evil forces.

After Chinese capital acquired Maridimo, the team began a tragic fate.

First, a large number of Chinese players of poor level flocked in, capturing the opportunity for Madeira children to play and place for the team.

The team's record inevitably had an impact. From the previous top five European war zone, it fell all the way until the last round of last season, when it was barely the third from the bottom with the advantage of goal difference and barely relegated.

What is even more terrifying than the record is the chaos of the team.

The contradiction between Chinese capital and the local forces in Portugal is irreconcilable, the club management is fighting each other, and the development goals are chaotic and no one is really thinking about this team.

The coach has changed three times in two years. Not only has it stopped the club's decline, but it has become worse and worse.

Now he is even more broken and has found a Chinese boy whose hair is not yet fully grown. Is the club ready to give up treatment completely?!

When Antonio thought of that Chinese boy, he felt a strange feeling in his heart.

At first, he was very angry and felt that Chinese capital was crazy. He actually got a child to be the head coach of the Portuguese Super League team. They had too much money and had nowhere to spend it. Do they deliberately waste it to listen to it?

Soon, he learned about the coach's resume. The young man actually led an unknown youth training team to win the St. Paul State Championship.

I was surprised and dissatisfied, thinking that there must be a master behind the scenes or the full support of capital. Otherwise, it would be impossible for a young man without professional experience to do so, not to mention that he is just a Chinese!

As soon as this Chinese came, he actually made a whisper of a reporter, which further deepened Antonio's impression of this young man's unreliable. However, his straightforward personality is quite in line with his temper and appetite.

After that, it was a confrontation match. It was a bit unreliable to arrange the confrontation match as soon as the training resumed. However, he still fought as usual on the court. He performed well in the first quarter, but was abused by a group of children in the fourth quarter.

He was very angry and felt that it must be the Chinese coach who came prepared and deliberately humiliated them, such old players.

So, he did not give the young man named Gao Yuan a good face in the locker room.

However, what he never dreamed was that this pagan from the East actually said such a confusing saying sent by God. If the other party said that he was sent by Satan, he might still believe it one in ten thousand, but God sent an Oriental man to save his team? The joke was not like this!

That night, Antonio regretted why he didn't punch the Chinese in the face. He even ran to the church early the next morning to confess to God that he did not firmly fight against the evil demons and heretics.

However, when he arrived at the training ground, the Chinese coach actually came to him mysteriously and said something strange before he got angry.

"To prove my identity, God will show miracles in you during training!"

Could it be that this kid is really crazy? It is likely that he has severe mental illness and paranoia. If he hadn't come out of a severe mental hospital, he would probably not have done anything stupid to spit out reporters' gum!

But, this is how the miracle really happened!

In the team's physical function test, Antonio's 100-meter speed actually reached 10 seconds 58!

You know, he has never been a player who is good at speed, and he has to 13 seconds at the fastest when he was young!

His heart was pounding so hard that his teammates said something around him, but he didn't hear a word clearly. He was confused and only remembered that the Chinese was looking at him with a smile.

It must be a coincidence, yes, it must be... a coincidence...

The next day, the Chinese found him again, and this time his heart trembled violently.

"Don't you believe it yet? God will show more miracles in training!"

On the training ground, he suddenly felt very eager to rush to the frontcourt to attack.

You should know that as a defensive player, he has always been very clear about his positioning and never rashly inserts.

But today's strong desire for offense is like the temptation of blood on the shark, making him unable to control himself.

He couldn't suppress his desire, and unconsciously broke through to the frontcourt, and he could still get through!

He never dreamed in his life that even five people would happen to him one day!

"Don't you believe it?" the Chinese asked again after the game.

An illusion must be an illusion! I don’t believe it!

"Then you can continue tomorrow's training!"

In this way, for several consecutive days, Antonio had a completely different vision than before!

Antonio is very tough on the surface, but he is very kind in his heart. He is also, if anyone has happened to such a thing, he will not be calm. What's more, Antonio is still a devout believer.

"God, is that person really you sent? I don't believe it, but what are the miracles? Please give me revelation!" Antonio prayed in pain in the church.

In the locker room a few days later.

"Do you still don't believe it?"

"You are the devil! The changes that happen to me are all the devil's witchcraft!"

"God's patience is also limited. Since positive miracles cannot impress you, then taste God's punishment!"

During this day of training, Antonio seemed to have completely lost his athletic talent and ability, no speed, and no endurance. The long pass was outrageous and the short pass was astonishingly poor. He made mistakes in the judgment of the landing point of the ball, and the header clearance actually hit the face!

Antonio sat in the locker room depressedly until everyone took a shower and left after changing clothes.

He was waiting anxiously in his heart, as if waiting for the verdict of fate.

Sure enough, I don’t know how long it took, the Chinese man entered the locker room.

"Did you know you were wrong?"

"What the hell did you do to me? Why is my body completely out of control!"

"It's not me, but God! He told me to give false believers a little punishment!"

"No, I don't believe, how could he find an oriental atheist who has not even read the Bible as an envoy!"

Gao Yuan sighed, "Oh, it turns out that you don't believe that God is everywhere!"

Antonio was speechless.

"Let me tell you a story. There is a village where floods are flooded, and others are running away, and only the devout priests are unwilling to leave the church.

When people advised him to leave, he said that God will definitely come to save me!

When the water overflowed the steps of the church, the villagers rowed a boat to pick up the priest, but the priest refused, and God would definitely come to save me!

When the water overflowed the church glass, the rescuers drove a assault boat to rescue, but he refused again, God will definitely come to save me!

The water grew bigger and bigger, and finally flooded the roof of the church. The priest stood on the roof, but still refused the helicopter that came to rescue me. God will definitely come to save me!

Finally, unfortunately, the priest drowned.

In heaven, he met God.

He accused angrily, "I am so pious, why don't you come to save me!"

God is helpless. I have sent a boat, a assault boat and a helicopter to rescue you! I saved you three times but you refused. What else do you want me to do?"

After listening to this story, Antonio was stunned and seemed to be chewing on the deep meaning behind this story.

"God, if you believe, you will not believe. Since you are deeply in your heart that you resist God's existence, God will not force it, so let everything be as usual!"

After saying that, Gao Yuan snapped his fingers.

At that moment, Antonio suddenly felt that his condition had returned. Although he was not on the court, the familiar feeling occupied his body again!

Gao Yuan didn't say anything else and turned around and prepared to leave.

"Wait!" Antonio's voice rang behind him.

When Gao Yuan looked back, he saw the evil man full of tattoos crawling at his feet.

"Forgive me, O Messenger of God! I wish to be your faithful disciple!"

Antonio crawled on the ground devoutly, suddenly feeling his hands holding his shoulders and pulling him up.
Chapter completed!