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Chapter 1182 The legend of the World Cup, marching into Central America

If there was no 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, the Chinese would not have any impression of Costa Rica. Many people would probably suspect that this is a hot, poor and backward African country when they see the name.But because it is the first opponent of China's first World Cup trip, we know that this small country in North America with only more than 400 million people has twice the GDP per capita of China, and it is also rated as the happiest 2 countries the first.

As far as the level of football is concerned, this country with only one professional team embarrasses China, a country with a population of 15 billion, not to mention that Costa Rica defeated the Chinese team 11-2 0 years ago. There is nothing wrong with beating the Chinese team Something to brag about.Just because Costa Rica has participated in the World Cup three times and reached the top 16 once can throw the Chinese team two blocks away.

Playing against such a team, Li Huan warned his teammates before the game. As a Chinese player and fan, Li Huan would not be unaware that when he participated in the World Cup, the Chinese Football Association put forward the idea of ​​"scoring a goal". At that time, this goal was aimed at Costa Rica, and I pinched him as a soft persimmon, but only after pinching did I realize that he was a steel fruit, and he was easily fucked by two balls. No points, no goals scored, 9 goals and returned home in disgrace.

Based on historical records, the Chinese team has no reason to underestimate Costa Rica, even though it is only as big as a prefecture-level city in China.

However, compared with the Chinese team, Costa Rica is a stronger team. In world football, Costa Rica is one of the many second-tier teams. There are no players in the team who play in the five major leagues, and they are not as rich as Japan, so their football is in addition to Scouts don't have many people who care.This had a great impact on Li Huan and Chu Fu's preparations. They couldn't find the video of the opponent's game and training. They could only study Costa Rica through the game and video from a long time ago. Such research results must be very different from reality. big gap.

But Li Huan is not too worried, because there is definitely little information about the Chinese team that Costa Rica can find. The new Chinese team only played four games, and three warm-up games, and each of these games was the same as the previous one. It's not the same, because the Chinese team is gradually running in and forming a fixed style of play.The match between the Chinese team and Costa Rica can be called an encounter. No one knows each other very well. The game can only rely on the adaptability of both sides. Whoever can first find a way to restrain the opponent will win.

The game started on October 10th, and the Chinese team flew to Costa Rica five days in advance, because there is no direct flight from China to Costa Rica, the Chinese team had to transfer in the United States, and it took more than 15 hours to resist San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. The climate between China and Costa Rica is huge, and the Chinese team has to adjust the time difference to adapt to the environment. Five days in advance is actually not enough.

At 10:12 local time on October 20th, the Chinese team finally landed safely in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, after a 8-hour long-distance flight.Since the Chinese team was transiting in Miami, the Costa Rica Football Association did not know the specific arrival time of the Chinese team. Local fans and reporters came to the airport early to wait.

The residents of Costa Rica are mainly of mixed race. They are enthusiastic and unrestrained. During the Copa America, some players asked Messi for autographs and changed jerseys during the game, which shows how unrestrained the players of the Costa Rica team are.

Although Li Huan is a Chinese player in Asia, due to the Internet, the world is increasingly becoming a global village. Li Huan still has countless fans in Costa Rica. In the words of a reporter from Costa Rica's "Freedom of the Press" newspaper: Some people in Costa Rica may not know who the main striker of Costa Rica is. , but they must know who Li Huan is.

Fearing that Costa Rica fans would cheer for Li Huan during the game, the Costa Rica Football Association also specially carried out a promotion to support Costa Rica's defeat of the Chinese team, but this still cannot change the infatuated fans' love for Li Huan. There are only more than 400 million people in Costa Rica, who came to the airport There were nearly 2000 fans who picked up the airport.

When Li Huan came out of the plane tired, fans and reporters swarmed up, surrounded Li Huan, and shouted Li Huan's name in Spanish that Li Huan was more familiar with.

Li Huan was obviously taken aback by these fans. He didn't expect so many people to pick up the plane. He even wondered whether Costa Rica, like China, likes to use ignorant students to slap swollen faces to make people fat, or these fans are just looking for trouble Yes, but from the cheers and applause from the fans, it can be seen that these are Li Huan's fans

With so many fans in such a tiny country, Li Huan immediately lifted his spirits. The 30-hour flight was too tiring, even a physical superman like Li Huan couldn't stand it.

"Thank you for your welcome, thank you, thank you."

Li Huan made a bow in a very gentlemanly manner, and immediately won even louder waves and applause from the fans.

Li Huan was not going to be interviewed at the airport, but in this case, Li Huan still accepted a simple on-site interview with reporters while signing autographs for fans.

"Costa Rica is a very characteristic team. They are highly skilled and experienced. They are frequent visitors to the World Cup. Compared with Costa Rica, we are still newcomers to the World Cup,"

"I know the stars in the Costa Rica team are Campbell, Martinez, and Ruiz. They are all outstanding, and they are also the targets we should focus on. However, Costa Rica is strengthening as a whole. We hope to be careful about every player."

"Don't mention revenge. It has nothing to do with revenge. Of course this game is very important, but this game does not determine the final qualification. The real decisive battle is in China, but we will try our best to play this game well."

"You asked me to predict the score? This is too difficult. There are too many unpredictable factors in football games. It is possible to predict the outcome. We won. There is no doubt about this."

After Li Huan simply accepted the interview, under the leadership of officials from the Costa Rica Football Association, the Chinese team left the airport and came to the Tiantian Hotel where they were staying.Tiantian Hotel is located in the center of San Jose, not far from the National Stadium, the home stadium of Costa Rica.Although it was late, the chef and bar attendant of the hotel had already prepared an exquisite Chinese dinner for the Chinese team.

Due to the late arrival and jet lag, the Chinese team did not arrange training for the next morning. The players could sleep until noon, and the first training session would be at 08 pm. However, Li Huan and assistant coach Chu Fu Unable to enjoy this happiness, they got up at 30:[-] in the morning and held a press conference with Chinese and foreign reporters after breakfast.

At the press conference, Chu Fu briefly talked about the training plan of the Chinese team for the next three days, and reported to the domestic fans the current situation of the national team and the injuries of the players, while Li Huan still warned his teammates and Fans should not underestimate the enemy, the football atmosphere in Costa Rica is very good, the fans are very sensible, they are enjoying football, and they should be more careful when playing against such a team, because players can often perform at a high level in a relaxed state of mind.

In the afternoon, the players of the national team took the luxury bus provided by the Costa Rica Football Association to the National Stadium, the home stadium of Costa Rica, for the first training session.

Costa Rica’s home stadium, the National Stadium, has some connections with China, because the stadium was built with Chinese aid, and 800 Chinese AH workers completed the National Stadium that can accommodate 2 people within 3.5 years. For this reason, this construction team from China Also named Costa Rica's "Person of the Year" in 2010.

The quality of the turf of the national team stadium is much better than that of the Chinese stadium. The seats in the stands and the safety measures are completely higher than the Chinese stadium. Good stadiums, why are the stadiums built in China the same as vegetable fields? Just like Chinese food and daily necessities, we export the best quality, but domestic food is all garbage.

When the Chinese team rushed to the stadium, Costa Rica had just finished training. Instead of leaving, they sat in the stands to watch the training of the Chinese team.Although the Chinese team can let the Costa Rica team leave, both Li Huan and Chu Fu think that China is a big country and there is no need to be so petty, so they are allowed to watch from the sidelines.

There are opponents visiting in the stands. Of course, the Chinese team will not play out all their tactics. The team mainly conducts recovery training and physical training to adapt to the turf of the Costa Rica stadium. The Chinese team is used to playing in the vegetable field. It is not very suitable for the team to play in a good field.

Costa Ricans really take football very seriously. Unlike the Chinese, who regard football as a matter of national honor and national dignity, Costa Ricans do it for entertainment and fun.Seeing the boring training of the Chinese team, the Costa Ricans who finished the training early were a little itchy. Their core players Campbell and Martinez actually came down and asked for a friendly match with the Chinese team.

The Costa Rican's unconstrained ideas shocked Li Huan, a dissolute person. They couldn't help admiring the unrestrainedness of the Americans. However, Li Huan still refused the Costa Rican's request, saying that he would save the fight until the day of the competition.

After experiencing this incident, Li Huan and Chu Fu became more afraid of Costa Rica. At night, the players of the Chinese team continued to rest, but Li Huan and Chu Fu came to the National Stadium to watch Costa Rica's training again with a small notebook. They didn't care about the Chinese team's watching, they still carried out intra-team confrontation and tactical drills.

Li Huan and Chu Fu felt like they had found a treasure, so they quickly recorded and recorded the video, and then went back to Tiantian Hotel to conduct research again, looking for the team's flaws, and laying the foundation for the game the day after tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)