That Really Hurts, Guys!

Nearly six years had passed since Su Dong left Sporting Lisbon in 2003.

When he left, Su Dong had merely been a promising young player with a modest reputation in Europe. Now, he was the undisputed number-one player in world football, a superstar who had won the Two-time Footballer of the Year award three times.

He had changed, his friends from back then had changed, and Sporting Lisbon had changed as well.

Moutinho, the young player who had just been promoted to the First Team back then, was now Sporting Lisbon's captain.

And Paulo Bento, Su Dong's teammate in the First Team back then, had now become Sporting Lisbon's head coach.

More interestingly, Derlei, the Brazilian striker who had played under Mourinho at Porto back then, was now scoring goal after goal for Sporting Lisbon. It made everything incredibly amusing.

The person Su Dong had encountered now was his former teammate and Sporting Lisbon's current head coach, Paulo Bento.

Strictly speaking, the two had not been particularly close back then. But time slowly faded many things, while deepening many others.

For example, it could allow two people who had not originally been that familiar with each other to find many shared memories.

Because in the current Sporting Lisbon squad, Su Dong had very, very few memories left.

After Boloni was dismissed, Sporting Lisbon had successively gone through two head coaches, Santos and Peseiro, but neither had achieved particularly impressive results. Neither had managed to lead Sporting Lisbon into the Champions League.

After retiring, Paulo Bento had followed tradition and entered Sporting Lisbon's youth academy, beginning his coaching career. But after spending one season with the Youth Team, Peseiro was dismissed midway through the second season. So, in October 2005, Paulo Bento took over Sporting Lisbon's First Team midway through the