Two days later, all the Barça players arrived in Huaxia, bringing their strongest lineup. Even the head coach came in person.
Jiang Siming still had them stay temporarily at Fuding Hotel and booked a private soccer field for them to train.
"Boss, rest assured. We'll approach this match with the utmost seriousness." Messi gave Jiang Siming his assurance, then turned around and went to train with the rest of the team.
Jiang Siming nodded in satisfaction. To be honest, if National Football Team players had even half the discipline of foreign professionals, they wouldn't have ended up in such a state.
Had Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo been born knowing how to play soccer? What they relied on was nothing more than day after day of arduous training and extraordinary self-discipline.
Was Ronaldinho not talented enough? Yet he simply lacked discipline and wasted his own potential, leaving him able to play only in the Prison Cup now.
At Ronaldinho's peak, even Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo could only look up to him. He was an elf on the soccer field, a man who turned soccer into an art.
Unfortunately, Ronaldinho soon became satisfied with those achievements. He began training lazily, hanging around bars every day, drinking heavily, and chasing women.
In less than a year, his physical condition began to deteriorate, and his form declined severely. He gradually faded from everyone's sight.
National Football Team players were much the same. Many of them even made excuses to avoid daily training, while their figures could often be seen in nightclubs and bars.
If you didn't believe it, you could look at the muscles of National Football Team players and compare them with those of top players. You'd know at a glance.
When top players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi lifted their shirts, they