If You're My Brother, Come Play Football
Chapter 333

The King of Saving Face

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After Dejan Lu stepped in, the invitational tournament finally grew more and more outrageous.

What had begun with four teams had turned into eight.

Ajax, where legendary player Koeman had also retired; Celtic, the Catholic faithful; Portugal's Benfica; and a Brazilian Legends team organized by Pelé and others.

Together with the original Milan, Juventus, Boca, and Diego Maradona's Friends team.

The invitational had become an eight-team tournament with Groups A and B.

Although they had failed to invite Scotland's senior officials through Sir Alex Ferguson.

They had made plenty of arrangements on the coaching front. Ferguson's old rivals Dalglish and Alan Hansen would both coach teams, along with former Arsenal manager Graham and Manchester United product Gordon McQueen.

Along with Ferguson himself.

Of the eight teams, five had Scottish coaches and one was a Scottish club. It was clear just how enthusiastic Scottish football was about this. If super-managers like Sir Matt Busby and Sir Shankly had not already passed away, they would surely have joined in as well. It came from the Scottish people's national sentiment.

And that was only because many teams had already arranged summer friendlies in advance.

Barry Town United and Swansea had failed to make it. Those Welsh teams would have gladly paid their own way to attend; the only problem was that nobody knew their legends.

Causing trouble for England and rallying the British Isles—supporters came in droves.

On those islands, if your people had not been screwed over by England to the tune of millions, you were almost embarrassed to call yourself part of Britain.

That was why people said they held grudges.

Those grudges were passed down generation after generation. Many proverbs reminded later generations to be wary of the English.

When trouble came, they really fucking did not treat you like

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