Whoever is the head coach of the Brazilian national team will encounter a problem: who to choose as the main force of the national team, and who to choose as the substitute for the national team.
Happily, the manager seems to have the right reason for who he chooses.
The annoyance is that it will be a pity whether the manager chooses anyone or not.
This is the annoyance of Brazilian happiness.
But Brazilian players born around 1975, especially forwards, seem to never have a chance to be selected for the national team. Even if they perform well in their respective leagues, once they reach the national team, there is always a barrier in front of them - "alien" Ronaldo, as long as Ronaldo is there, everyone else is a supporting role.
Elton was one of them, and although he killed all four sides in the Bundesliga, he never waited for the day of the "yellow robe plus body".
<h1>The national team encounters "aliens", a generation that is suppressed by "gods"</h1>
Of the many stars who have been suppressed by "aliens", Elton is not the lowest level, but it must be the most miserable.
Giovanni Elber, Mario Giardel, Marcio Amorusso, Dejaminha and a number of other stars who were suppressed by Ronaldo, although the flow of years is unfavorable, but they have more or less represented the Brazilian national team on the battlefield, but Elton has not been once!
When he was young, Elton, because his fat figure was not favored by others, always felt that he did not run fast enough, was not flexible enough, and was not strong enough physical impact, how could such a person pose a threat to any opposing team. So, no coach wants to waste his energy on Elton, even if there are rumors that he ran 10.50 seconds in the 100m.
Without any trust, without any dependence, Elton wandered, and ironically, he wandered as fast as he was legendary, with Brazil International, Recife Santa Cruz, Guarani, Monterrey Tigers, both Brazil and Mexico leaving his mark.
<h1>Breaking into Europe, he was finally reborn</h1>
In 1998, Werder Bremen of the Bundesliga finally noticed this round player, observed for a while, felt that this striker is very good, should be able to adapt to his team quickly, and no one to grab with himself, think about him, even if not, can not be a mascot.
In this way, the rounded Elton came to Germany.
However, just as Elton landed in Europe with great joy, when he first fantasized that he could wear the yellow jersey of the national team, the "alien" Ronaldo, who was 3 years younger than him, had begun to rule the world and had already won the world footballer for the second time.
Elton, on the other hand, is just getting started.
Elton is so good, in the Bundesliga, no one can stop, seemingly many impossible opportunities Elton can seize and turn into goals.
Not only can he score goals, but he can also make a lot of passes and assists with his teammates.
At this time, many fans finally understood why the team would buy such a player, and it was at this time that fans discovered that the fat player really had the speed of lightning as the legend said.
The name "Ball Lightning" began to ring through the Bundesliga.
Elton in Bremen is happy, a real happy fat man, in 6 years, Elton has played a total of 169 games, scored 88 goals, and completely became the darling of the fans.
During the same period, Bayern Munich's Elber, Borussia Dortmund's Amorusso, etc., a group of depressed players who were suppressed by Ronaldo, all broke through in the Bundesliga.
2004 was elton's peak, when he not only won the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal "doubles" with Werder Bremen. Elton himself scored 28 goals to win the Bundesliga Golden Boot and became the first foreign player to win the German Footballer of the Year.
Finally, Elton once again began to fantasize about his national team career, but he was disappointed again, and the phone called by the national team never rang.
Because Ronaldo already had two World Cups, in the Champions League, at the most famous Old Trafford football stadium, his wonderful performance made the world's most discerning fans collectively stand up and applaud this enemy.
In the face of such Ronaldo, I don't know if Elton was directly destroyed by self-confidence, from the peak directly to the bottom, the once omnipotent "ball lightning" became a burden to the team.
<h1>Falling off the throne, looking back at the past, maybe more regret</h1>
After the most glorious year at Werder Bremen, Elton moved to Schalke 04 and just a year later moved to Turkey to join Besiktas.
Elton is proud, he will not tolerate the disrespect of others, let alone tolerate himself to be a dispensable person on the court, and in this way, Elton's wandering career has once again begun.
Elton, who is in a state of rapid decline, seems to be unable to give any help to his team, whether in Turkey, Serbia, Switzerland or Austria.
Elton, who is looking for a new owner almost every year, has left Besiktas and played for Hamburg, Red Star Belgrade, Grasshopper Zurich, Duisburg, Arteach, Miner Donetsk and Kapinis, covering europe and Brazil.
On July 21, 2009, Elton came to China and joined Chongqing Lifan for $350,000, from the top scorer and best player in the five major leagues to the oriental arena far from the mainstream, all of which took Elton 5 years.
Elton fell as fast as he did on the pitch, but in China, Elton, who was ready to regroup, only played 5 games for Chongqing Lifan for many reasons and returned home.
All this disappointment also made Elton disheartened, leaving China and returning to Germany, joining the lower leagues, even those he had never heard of, but even in this semi-amateur league Elton could not find the momentum of the "ball lightning".
Elton, who has been in the lower leagues of Germany and Brazil for many years, has finally made up his mind to leave football:
"I can't experience happiness in football anymore, and now football is full of disappointments, but fortunately, this life is over."
In 2013, Elton announced his retirement, finally bidding farewell to this green field that once brought him countless joys and sorrows, and the "ball lightning" has since disappeared.
After retiring, Elton lived a life of drinking tea and fishing, and once said that he was fed up with football and did not completely leave football, after all, he really loved each other, who can really give up football, let alone a Brazilian.
Now Elton will still appear in various senior games, charity games, although the speed of "ball lightning" is no longer there, but the shape of the ball is still conspicuous, still happily chasing football.