The referee then signaled Atletico Madrid to take the penalty kick. Although Desanctis felt some pain in the collision with Mark, he did not have any major injuries. He also stood again on the goalkeeper and prepared to compete with Torres on the penalty kick.

Torres started running after the referee's whistle sounded, and then kicked out at the upper right corner of the Udinese player. Desanctis did not react at all. He also watched the football fly into the net.

“goooooooooooooooooooooal!! Fernando Torres”

The Spanish commentator's excitement cries rang out. He had been holding back this game for a long time, and the commentator could finally vent his anger.

"I said I will help the team score a goal," Mark shouted loudly, and Mark was also very excited.

"Although Mark did not get a chance to score a goal in this game, he seemed to be more excited than Torres, who scored a goal. Mark performed very well after he came on the bench in this game. After the slump in the last game, Mark also returned strongly." The Spanish commentator gave a commentary on the situation on the field after shouting loudly.

Udinese's head coach Spalletti was very depressed. He was originally planning to replace Saint-Sini with Felipe, but he didn't expect Saint-Sini to get a red card and be sent off the court, which completely disrupted Spalletti's tactical arrangement.

Spaletti cannot continue the next game with two central defenders. If Spaletti replaces another central defender, it will require a striker to be removed. Udinese's two forwards, Yaqunta and Dinatale, are both Spaletti who don't seem to replace the court.

However, Spaletti has another way, which is to reclaim the positions of two full-backs and turn them into full-backs, so that they will become the backcourt configuration of four-backs.

Moreover, Udinese's full-time forwards are capable of both the full-time forwards and the full-back. They should be familiar with the cheering position.

But in that case, there are only three players left in the midfield of Udinese. These three players have many problems in both offense and defense.

Spaletti himself is not a head coach who is very willing to gamble. Although he prefers formations with strong attack power, it is also due to the satisfaction of personnel configuration. At this time, Udinese team lacks one person on the court, Spaletti has to choose a conservative formation. Perhaps in Spaletti's opinion, being able to score a point at home is also an acceptable choice.

Udinese quickly made a substitution adjustment, and two players were replaced at once. Central defender Felipe came on the court to replace forward Yaqunta, while Pazienza came on the court to replace Tingqi.

This is also a signal that Spaletti is preparing to play a defensive counterattack. Dinatale is retained in the forward position because Dinatale is more flexible than Yaqunta, and Pazienza is replaced in the midfield because his defensive ability is better than that of Qi.

As for the passing issue, it will naturally be left to Pizarro and Montari to complete it. This is also a matter of Spaletti's tactical retention. Although he is preparing to play a defensive counterattack, Udinese still needs someone to pass the ball, and Pizarro is the passer.

Although Montali can pass the ball and the overall situation is good, he cannot be compared with Pizarro after all, and Spaletti's tactics are also very clear, that is, defense in the backcourt, and then Pizarro in the midfield passes the ball to Dinatale's feet in the frontcourt, allowing Dinatale to use his flexible physical conditions and skills to see if he can have a chance to shoot or assist.

And even if there is no such opportunity, it doesn't matter. Anyway, Udinese's game is one less than Atletico Madrid. As long as they are not upset, there should be no big problem.

"Mark, go back to the midfield to defend and pay attention to their passes." After Cooper saw the substitution of Udinese, he also felt that Udinese should be playing a defensive counterattack.

Atletico Madrid is also a team that has always been good at playing defensive counterattacks, and the players of both teams seem to have become very consistent all of a sudden.

After Cooper's shout, Mark moved his position to the middle of the midfield to defend, while Jorge went to the right to play the right forward.

In this way, Mark directly faced Pizarro's attack, and Pizarro was within Mark's defense coverage, so Mark was entangled with Pizarro in the midfield.

Although Pizarro's skills are indeed excellent, his feet are very solid and his ability to pass quickly, he is simply the midfield brain of Udinese.

But Mark was a bit unreasonable about Pizarro's place. Mark pressed him against Pizarro and did not give him any better space to catch the ball. Even if he could catch the ball, it would be very uncomfortable. Moreover, Mark didn't care about fouls, and Mark was trying to destroy Pizarro's offensive rhythm.

"Come on, let me see how powerful you are." Mark used his shouting to stimulate Pizarro's nerves every time he robbed.

Pizarro has never encountered a player as physically strong as Mark. Pizarro can survive in Serie A because of his skills and being able to serve as a midfield commander in the best defense league in the world is due to his outstanding overall view and technical ability.

Pizarro is known as Pirlo of Udinese. Although Pizarro had encountered players who fought desperately against him in Serie A games before, although these players could destroy Pizarro's pace of possession, a player could not maintain a high-intensity confrontation for 90 minutes.

Mark only made a substitute in the second half. Mark had no physical obstacles, so even Mark was not in trouble in the second half even if he was on Pizarro's full field, at least he had no problems in physical fitness.

Moreover, Udinese has only one Dinatale in the frontcourt, and it will be very difficult for Pizarro to cooperate with Dinatale.

This is because there are several Atletico defensive players in the middle of Pizarro, and under Mark's defense, Pizarro takes the ball back most of the time, and if he catches the ball head-on, he will have too few opportunities.

Mark's pressing against Pizarro was so tight, and Mark's height was fifteen centimeters taller than Pizarro. Although football is not a stadium for watching height, it is still very important to have a certain advantage in height.

Moreover, although Mark is taller than Pizarro, his reaction is not slow, and Mark's reaction speed is even faster than Pizarro.

Pizarro was completely depressed. If he broke through, he would not be able to pass Mark at all. If he passed the ball, there would be no better place. Mark pressed him step by step and did not allow him to move.

Atletico Madrid and Udinese entered the dull game. Both teams seemed to be satisfied with the result of the game and were not anxious to rewrite the score.

Although Atletico Madrid has the advantage in terms of number of players, Cooper does not want to push the attack. Cooper is also very concerned about Udinese's counterattack. Dinatale, a small player, also made Cooper a little afraid.

Until the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, both sides did not rewrite the score of the game, and the players on both sides also maintained the score of one-to-one until the end of the game.

"Mark, can I exchange jerseys with me?" Pizarro found Mark when the player walked off the court after the game and made a request to exchange jerseys.

Although Mark couldn't understand what Pizarro said, Mark knew what Pizarro meant when he saw Pizarro's actions. Mark still took off his jersey and exchanged it with Pizarro.

Pizarro was also quite happy to get Mark's jersey. Perhaps Mark's outstanding performance in this game won Pizarro's respect. Pizarro felt that it was a very happy thing to be able to get Mark's jersey.

Instead of wearing Pizarro's player on his body, Mark put it directly on his shoulder and walked off the court.

"Mark, you performed well on the court. You jumped up that penalty kick and it was very powerful," Van der Fate took a piece of clothing and put it on Mark and said to Mark.

It was November. Although the climate in Italy is Mediterranean, the weather is a bit cooler, so the players still wore coats to catch a cold.

Atletico Madrid players did not rest in Udine. They flew back to Madrid overnight. After the team was disbanded, the players returned home.

"Mark, tell you good news." The next morning, Mark received a call from Mendes before he woke up. Mendes said to Mark loudly with excitement.

"What's the matter? You won't say you brought me another sponsorship contract, right?" Mark said uncooperatingly at Mendes' excited voice.

Mendes did not reduce the excitement in his voice because of Mark's unentertion. Mendes was still very excited and said to Mark: "Mark tells you good news, you are shortlisted for the last list of the European Golden Boy Awards." The European Golden Boy Award was founded by Italian "Turin Sports" in 2003. It was voted by important European media to vote and award the best young player of the year. It is also considered a "adult ceremony" for young rookies. The target must be young players who play for European clubs under the age of 21. The first Golden Boy Award was awarded to Dutch footballer Van der Fate.

The Turin Sports Daily sends votes to more than 30 European sports media every year, with the highest score of each vote being 10 points. In the end, the Turin Sports Daily is responsible for counting the scores and awarding the "Golden Ball". It can be said that the European Golden Boy Award is the most authoritative young player selection award in European football. The elected person will be called "European Youth Footballer" and represents the future of football. Since the establishment of this award, it has quickly received unanimous support from European sports media. The first six "European Golden Boys" have now grown into superstars in the football world.

"Who is the last list with me?" Mark asked curiously.

"There are many people, such as Manchester United's Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Inter Milan's Martins, Podolski of Cologne, Germany, Brazilian star Diego of Porto and other players." Mendes' application seemed to have suddenly become a little regretful, but Marc was thinking and didn't hear it.

In his mind, Mark was thinking about the appearance of these players one by one. The players who were nominated for the European Golden Boy Award were all the most promising stars in Europe. They also represent the future of European football. Although Mark has ambitious goals in the future, being able to fall down with these players with great potential is also a recognition of Mark's performance at the stadium.

What Mendes thinks is that few of these players are his players, and only Cristiano Ronaldo and Mark are his signing players. Even Diego, who plays in Porto, has not signed an agent contract with him, and Mendes is regretful that he has not been able to sign these players.

But in fact, this is impossible, because these players basically come from the four major leagues, and they all have their own gold medal agents in these four major leagues. Although Mendes is the most popular football agent in Europe recently, he has no chance to challenge the strength of these old football agents.

In addition to Mark's voluntarily sending Mendes to sign the contract, Mendes' men are some players who came out of the Portuguese League. Mendes completely controlled the signing of the Portuguese League players.

This is also the former Portuguese agent Jose Vega's Fook. Jose Vega was once the largest football agent in Portugal and has football superstar Figo. However, in January, the relationship between Figo and his agent Jose Vega came to an end. From Sporting Lisbon to Barcelona to Real Madrid, Vega was all handled by Vega, but now it has not broken up.

Vega was the first to announce the news: "Luis Figo is 31 years old. He can use a very wise way to build a bright future for himself and build a life after retirement." He sighed with a sense of success, "After 10 years of cooperation, we have forged a deep friendship. The relationship between us is not any conflict. Any conflict of interest can destroy it. It is precisely out of the need to cherish this friendship. Figo and I agree that business cooperation should be ended, and we still respect each other's choices."

Figo also continued to issue a statement: "In the cooperation over the years, we have left beautiful memories, but there is no room for development to continue to cooperate and will not bring benefits to either party. Especially recently, we have failed in some things recently. I feel it is time to break up with a friendly relationship. I hope Vega will have greater development in his career and achieve greater success in the future."

Recently, Figo has been in trouble and has received invitations from AC Milan and Premier League teams Manchester United and Chelsea. Although Real Madrid and himself have made clarifications that they will "respect the remaining two-year contract", Perez's attitude is no longer so firm. As long as Figo proposes, he may easily leave the Bernabeu. So some media estimate that Figo "flattered" his agent at this time, which is indeed paving the way for the transfer, because Vega has no longer the heroic spirit of snatching him from Real Madrid's archenemy Barcelona four years ago.

Vega has been confused recently. He has been "fired" by many stars in the past two years. In the summer of 2002, Viana fired him after successfully transferring to Newcastle from Sporting Lisbon. Ronaldo, who successfully landed at Manchester United, and Quaresma, who came to Barcelona, ​​also said "goodbye" to him. Vega was Figo's first agent, but when it came to personal future, Figo still chose to "break up" without mercy.

This gave Mendes a chance. Mendes then Porto won the Champions League opportunity and successfully squeezed Vijay out and became the number one player in the Portuguese football circle.

As for why Diego did not sign a contract with Mendes, it was actually very simple, that is, Diego's football agent was his father. Diego naturally believed that his father had a little more, and Mendes had no idea how to start.

"Jorge, which player do you think will win the European Golden Boy Award?" Mark asked Mark calmly, as if Mark didn't care about this award.

"In my opinion, it should be Manchester United's Rooney who won this award. It's not that he performed well in the club, but that he performed too well in the national team. Rooney led England to the quarterfinals in the just-concluded European Cup, and scored four goals in the European Cup and won the Silver Boot Award. Such a result should be comparable to that of no one," Mendes said slowly.

In fact, Mendes is also optimistic about Cristiano Ronaldo, but although Cristiano Ronaldo helped Portugal to the final final in the European Cup, his personal performance was not very good, because Portugal has the team's boss Figo, which also limits Cristiano Ronaldo's performance.

"Then what else do you tell me? If you can't win the award, you can tell me," Mark said with some complaints.

"This is a good thing. As long as you are shortlisted, it is a good thing, because it is also a proof of strength. And what I want to tell you is not this thing. In addition, I have something to tell you. This thing is more eye-catching than being shortlisted for the European Golden Boy Awards," Mendes said proudly.

Mendes' words also made Mark interested, and Mark vaguely felt what Mendes was going to say, what could it be more eye-catching than the European Golden Boy Award?
Chapter completed!