Reporter Lu Mi reported that although Wuhan Three Towns is no longer the champion of the Chinese Super League, Romario, who joined this season, still enjoys playing in Wuhan, and after suffering injuries at the beginning of the season, he is now also finding the feeling of scoring. He also has his own views on some topics in the Super League.
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Romario: As I've always thought, football is a game where sometimes the team at the bottom of the table beats the team at the top, yes, that's football. Of course, Rongcheng is a very strong team, but strong teams also have weaknesses, and we have formulated a style of play according to the weaknesses of the opponent and made more adequate preparations.
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All competitions are challenges. But during the game, there is no time to think about how good or what the opposing team is. For me, doing my job well and helping the team is the most important thing.
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I think fans and friends can ask me for this dress directly, and I will give it too, which is actually simpler. I later heard that the club had found the fan, but it didn't matter, the shirt could be given to him. I also want to tell the fans that if they need my jersey, they will come to me directly in the future, and they don't need to do it that way.
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Last year, I played in China for a year, representing Nantong and Three Towns, so I am familiar with Xie Pengfei. At that time, the fan privately messaged that he wanted to ask his nephew for a dress, and I didn't think it was too much of a deal, so I agreed.
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Last year, I came to China to play in the Chinese Super League, and in the game against Three Towns, I thought I had a good performance, and this year I joined Three Towns, which is also fate. At the beginning of the season, I was plagued by injuries and now I am starting to score goals and the fans are getting attention to me, which I think is very important and I hope that in Wuhan there will be more fans who will follow me and our team.
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Romario: I don't think any player is always at the top and no player is always at the bottom. Once you start scoring a goal, your confidence will boost and it will be relatively simple to score again after that. Cristiano Ronaldo has a saying that scoring a goal can be like opening a bottle of ketchup, squeezing a little bit out of the fries at the beginning, and more will come out later.
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During the injury, I was thinking about how to recover as soon as possible, and after recovery, I was thinking about how to play better on the pitch and in the coach's squad. After a long period of training and running-in, I know that I have good teammates around me, and these combined factors add up to make me more confident, integrate faster, and the whole process becomes easier.
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When I first arrived, I had a conversation with the manager, and in terms of language, we could talk directly and the manager asked me to play in the positions I was most familiar with. Later, during training and games, the coach found that I was not doing enough in defense, so he asked me to strengthen this part of the training. After the defense, the manager urged me to pursue higher goals, and he said that if I can score goals, I will be a more complete player. Now I have opened my goal account and I am very grateful to our coach.
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When I first came to China, I heard from my Chinese teammates that foreign players have a great impact on the game, but I think that the Chinese players have a greater impact on the game, and their ability level is very important. Even if a team has five good foreign players, it may not be able to do much, because there are more than 20 Chinese players in the team, occupying more positions, and their performance directly affects the results of the game. At the beginning of the season, we were very unlucky, the foreign players were often injured, and there were only three foreign players before, and they only got together in Cangzhou, but the results of the game at that time were not bad, which is the credit of the domestic players, who were able to help the foreign players play at a higher level.
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It's a difficult question to answer because we're all good teammates and have a good relationship. For example, in terms of competition training, Liu Dianzuo, Jiang Zhipeng, and Ren Hang helped me a lot, and the three of them can speak fluent English. Most of the time, we don't need to communicate much with the domestic players, no matter what language we speak, we just need an expression to understand what the other person means, which is really good.
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I've been playing with Joka since I was almost nine years old, and in Portugal we were teammates and rivals. He called me before he joined Three Towns, and I told him more about the league and the city of Wuhan. In his first game after coming to the Chinese Super League, he showed good form, more than two weeks, and the training was very fast. I treat him like when I first came to China, I tell him what I need to know and what I need in life, and I will try my best to help him, just like a brother.
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Romario: What I want to do now is to move the team higher up in the table, we are now in ninth place, combined with my position, with the task of scoring goals and assists, I hope to do a good job and try to get back what I was delayed by injury and try to score as many goals as possible.
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When I received the invitation from the Chinese club, I was playing in Thailand, and the coach of Nantong at the time and I knew each other in Portugal. I thought at the time that if I came to Asia, I would also play in a more professional league, and the Chinese league was even better, and there were many stars who played here, and these factors gave me the idea of playing in the Chinese Super League. The club took good care of me, I settled into life in China very quickly, and to be honest, I never regretted coming to the Super League.
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Compared to Europe, China is a bit better than what I lived in before, and it was very convenient to do everything. My wife and daughter also came to China, and they were a little worried at first, especially in terms of life, my wife needed my help when she traveled, but then they quickly adapted and went out shopping on their own. My daughter also likes China, especially since China is a very safe country and she doesn't have to worry about this problem wherever she goes.
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The current situation of the three towns is not easy to compare with the situation in Nantong last year. The situation in Nantong may be a little more serious, and in Three Towns, even if the team at the top of the table plays us, we don't know what the result will be, maybe they will take the lead, but we have a chance to equalize or even kill. There is not much difference in points between the middle and lower teams, so the standings can change after each round. It's a competitive league for the players and I like it.
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When I first came this year, I wanted to use my personal characteristics, such as being over, to rank higher on the list. However, due to injuries, I missed more than 10 games, which prevented me from achieving my goals. Now I'm back and I've scored, last year my attacking stats were five goals and five assists, and then I hope to surpass last year's stats.