No matter how much Rongguang hopes to participate in the Copa Libertadores, he has to keep waiting.

Because the group stage of the South American Liberators Cup this season only started in early February.

After the new season begins, he still has to play in the St. Paul State Championship first.

The St. Paul State Championship this season adopts a competition system where twenty-one teams are divided into three groups, seven teams in each group, and then a single cycle is performed.

There are three teams in the first and second groups that can qualify for the playoffs, while there are only two teams in the third group.

St. Paul was assigned to the second group. The strength of this group was not very strong and basically could not threaten them... as long as they did not make mistakes on their own.

On January 20, in the first game, Sao Paulo hosted last year's Sao Paulo Championship champion Ituiano at home.

Ituiano is definitely not a strong team.

The reason they were able to win the championship last season was entirely because many giants played in the Rio-Sao Paulo Championships, and they did not encounter any strong opponents in the state.

So Ituano won the first state league championship trophy since their team-building history.

In fact, Sao Paulo's giant team did not take Ituano's championship seriously.

The competition also proves this point.

This is not because the wealthy families look down on grassroots, but because grassroots really have no strength to show off.

At his home court, Sao Paulo defeated Ituano 4l.

Glory, Kaka and Lucas Sutton started in the state league for the first time.

The Trident showed great power in the game.

Kaka continued his form last season, scoring a goal and an assist, while Glory also had an assist, assisting Lucas to score a goal.

"There is no suspense. Sao Paulo used a big win at home to tell the opponents in the state league that the giants are back."

"When it came to its true champion team, Ituiano immediately revealed his true form..."

After the game, the media commented on this game.

This is a symbolic game because Sao Paulo's opponent is defending champion Ituiano.

Yu Jingyi defeated Ituano and told everyone who is the real boss of Sao Paulo.

In the first round of the São Paulo State League, except for Corinthian, other giant teams won.

Corinthian lost 2 to Mojimilin at home.

After a year of failure last year, Carlos Pereira resigned from Corinthian and took over as Scolari and became the head coach of the Brazilian national team. In the next three years, he will lead the Brazilian national team to prepare for the World Cup held in Germany.

This is the second time this famous coach has led Brazil to the World Cup.

For him, from a club head coach to a national team head coach, he was naturally promoted, because in Brazil, everyone dreamed of becoming the head coach of the national team.

However, the media did not speak very well about Pereira's "second entry into the palace". Some media said that Pereira fled from Sao Paulo as a loser and went to the Brazilian national team to take refuge.

Why do you say so?

Because Pereira led Corinthian for a year, he didn't win a championship. If he just didn't win the championship, it would be simple. But he led the team to the final twice in a row, but both lost at the feet of the same opponent.

This is not reasonable if it is a coincidence...

“…We often say that people can’t trip over the same stone twice, but Carlos Pereira did it perfectly”

This is a media comment after Corinthian lost the National Championships.

So in the eyes of many people, Pereira's departure is a kind of escape, an escape. This is definitely not a promotion or refuge. Some media also compensated Pereira's lines for the photo. On the left is Pereira's image at the press conference for taking office as the Brazilian national team, and on the right is Sao Paulo's trident.

The media’s line to the media is: “Can’t afford to offend, can’t I still afford to hide?”

In this way, Pereira escaped to the Brazilian national team in shame.

Then left a mess for his successor.

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In Osvaldo's plan, the focus of the first half of the year will definitely be on the Liberators Cup. But he doesn't want to give up the state league directly.

So he plans to focus on the state league field before the Liberators Cup starts, and try to gain enough leads. In this way, when the Liberators Cup fight is not going to fight on both sides, it is difficult to get too short of a double-front battle.

The second round was three days later, and Sao Paulo defeated Santista 4-0 away.

Lucas scored twice in this game, but neither Kaka nor Glory scored.

In the third round, Sao Paulo beat Rimela International 20 at home.

In the fourth round, Sao Paulo defeated Paulista 2l at home.

At this point, all the games in January ended, and Sao Paulo won four consecutive victories, which had initially laid their advantage in the second group because they were the only team with four consecutive victories.

What they are pursuing now is not qualifying in the group, but appearing as the first in the group.

Rongguang scored two goals and assisted two times in these four games, and his performance was remarkable.

In addition to performing well in the game, good news also came from off the court.

Godot signed a commercial endorsement contract for him.

This is his first commercial endorsement contract in his life

Looking at the glory of glory that was very happy when he heard the news, Godo repeatedly emphasized: "It's just a very small endorsement contract, you don't have to be too excited, otherwise what should I do in the future?"

Seeing Rongguang so excited, he seemed ashamed. Because the value of this contract was very unequal to the excitement shown by Rongguang - he did not cheat Rongguang, it was really a small endorsement contract.

An advertisement for a Chinese restaurant in St. Paul.

Taking a set of photos is that simple.

In the future, this Chinese restaurant can use Glory photos, but it only has a three-year period.

In addition, they also gave Rongguang a discount, that is, within three years, Rongguang can go to the restaurant to have free meals.

"…but it doesn't make any sense. This restaurant is far from where we live, and it's specialized in driving to eat, and the fuel costs are more than 100% available. And as a professional player, you'd better eat less Chinese food."

When he saw Rongguang, he heard that he could eat it for free, and his eyes lit up. Godot quickly poured cold water on him.

Just kidding, how can professional players eat high-fat foods for a long time?

So even though Rongguang wants to eat it, he cannot eat it.

Although Rongguang likes to eat very much, he also knows that if he eats openly, this professional player probably won't be able to do it.

Compared to making a lot of money when eating a few meals, he still chose the latter.

With money, what delicious food can’t be eaten?

But if you give up the opportunity to make money in order to eat something delicious, it will be more than worth the loss.

Glory is not a fool.

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As Godot said, this is a small endorsement contract.

It was just to take a group of photos in their restaurant. If Rongguang had not had the experience of being a model and took a day, it would have been half a day.

There were no gathering journalists and flashes, and no fans screaming outside.

Apart from the working photographers and some necessary staff, the only person who is a spectator on site is Gordo.

He looked at Rong Guang put on makeup and stood in the shooting area, and cooperated with the plate to make various shapes, and sighed in his heart.

With glorious popularity, I can only sign such an endorsement contract... I am really incompetent.

Maybe he left me the right choice?

Only in this way can he have greater development.

He always wanted to go to Brazil.

But what are the ways to go to Brazil?

I once dreamed that Juan Ferger would snatch the glory away, but if he wanted to be glory better, he should follow Ferger.

At least there are many ways to go to Brazil, and he maintains good cooperative relationships with some clubs in Portugal.

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After spending a day, Rongguang's first advertising endorsement work finally ended. The owner of the Chinese restaurant was enthusiastic about staying with Rongguang and Gordo for "authentic" Chinese food.

Rongguang was still very excited to hear that he could eat authentic Chinese food.

But his excited expression lasted for only one second and then disappeared.

He obviously thought of the cold water that Godot poured on him.

Godot looked soft and said, "It's okay to eat occasionally, Rong..."

But Rong Guang shook his head and refused: "No, forget it, Godot. I want to work hard to go to Europe, but I can't relax my demands on myself."

Godot opened his mouth, but finally didn't say anything.

In this way, Rongguang and Gotto declined the goodwill of the Chinese restaurant owner and drove away.

On the way back, Godot thought of Rongguang's last expression of desire to eat but resisting it. He did this to go to Europe as soon as possible.
To be continued...