Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 534 The Fiery Arena

If you want to ask who is the most famous football player in the world, then there will definitely not be a standard answer. Just like "there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people", the best player in the eyes of a thousand fans will also have a standard answer. There are thousands of answers, but if you want to ask who is the most famous football referee in the world, then there must be only one answer, the Italian Pierre Luigi Collina.

Corina was born in Bologna, Italy in 1960. This Italian, who was born in the same year as Pei Wei, participated in the referee training course organized by the Bologna Regional Football Association at the age of 17. After accumulating enough experience in regional competitions, the young Corina Na began to law enforcement in various fields of Italian national leagues in 1983. When he was 26 years old, a severe hair loss caused him to lose all his hair, but this blow did not stop his law enforcement career. On the contrary, it had an immeasurable impact on his future law enforcement-he gradually became the most famous referee in the world from fame to head. Even people who are not fans may know that there is a football referee with a bald head Called Collina, as a referee, he can become world-famous. In the history of modern football for hundreds of years, Collina is the only one.

Of course, in the world of football, no one can ever gain a great reputation just by his appearance. The reason why Collina is famous is not only because of his shining bald head, which is very conspicuous on the green field, but also because of his The almost error-free judgment and never fear the pressure put on him by big-name players and famous coaches.

The almost absolutely fair punishment brought him such a great reputation, which is why Milu immediately felt relieved when he heard the name.

In Italy, even the most powerful black hand Moggi, who can almost control the entire refereeing circle, can't make Collina make a judgment favorable to Juventus in the game, let alone the Japanese Football Association!

He is a living sign of world football, with him, there is a guarantee of fairness.

On the football field, it is impossible for the referee to make no mistakes at all, and Collina is no exception. For example, in a Serie A match more than a year later, Mr. Collina once forgot to bring his card on the field , leading to an ironic scene - when AC Milan's Brazilian defender Junior fouled Baggio, he was about to show his cards when he realized that he forgot to bring them. Even in this World Cup, he played The penalty kick awarded to England in the group match between England and Afghanistan is also questionable-but insisting on the greatest fairness and treating players equally is the reason why Collina can enjoy such a high prestige. How can such a person It will be unfair to the Chinese team because of the host's pressure during the game!
"But...how did you know?" Chu Guanghu couldn't help asking a stupid question.

In fact, this question is not stupid, because in order to be fair, the list of on-duty referees will be announced an hour before the start of the game, and now there are still five full hours before the start of the game.

Pei Wei smiled and said nothing. At this time, the three of them remembered Pei Wei's other identity - FIFA executive committee member!With this level of identity, it is normal for Pei Wei to know a little inside information in advance.

After figuring this out, the three of them sighed in their hearts at the same time—there are people in the court who are easy to talk to!
In fact, Pei Wei knew this because of his knowledge of the future—he was deeply impressed by this game, because in history, after South Korea entered the semi-finals of this World Cup, Pei Wei was fighting against himself. When chatting with a friend, he sighed and said: "The reason why South Korea can enter the semi-finals and Japan can only stop at the semi-finals is because the referee for the match between Japan and Turkey is Kollina!"

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"Before today's game, you may have heard a lot of rumors." In the locker room before the game, Milu gave the final encouragement to the players with a confident face. According to his observations before coming to the stadium, he noticed that The rumors some time ago have indeed affected some players. Players who have scruples in their hearts cannot exert their full abilities: "But what I want to tell you now is that it is a very stupid thing to worry about things that haven't happened yet. thing—because it's not going to happen, and you're using up a lot of brain cells for it."

"I know what everyone is worried about." Milu smiled mysteriously. In the eyes of Tang Pengju and Chu Guanghu, his expression now is exactly the same as that of Pei Wei before: "Now I can relieve your worries—— Japan may have a slight advantage in this game, but it is definitely within the scope of normal games-do you know who the referee is who is refereeing this game? The most famous football referee, the bald sea monster, the Italian Corina."

No one here has never heard of Collina's name. Maybe the Chinese players in the past were indifferent to world football, but there is no such person in the current Chinese team. Even domestic players often watch European games. Corina was unfamiliar.

Like Milu and the others before, the players were immediately relieved after hearing the name—it was as if the name had a magical power.

In fact, Collina's name does have this magical power. Basically, no player dared to do anything out of line in his law enforcement games, and he himself would not do anything to make himself appear in the spotlight.

As I said before, he is a living sign.

Seeing that the expressions of the players calmed down, Milu began to arrange tactics: "In today's game, our lineup has returned to [-]. Some people may have doubts. Our [-] made great achievements in the last game. Why not continue to use success, I want to tell you that it is not worthwhile for the Japanese team to let us remove a striker to strengthen the midfield, our existing midfield can completely suppress them."

Milu's heroic words made the players more confident. Milu, the "driver", did a good job.

"Goalkeeper Jiang Hai, right back Sun Chenghai, center backs Li Wei and Zhu Guosheng, left back Wu Jiying, midfielders Zhang Yiming, Deke, Nie Fei and Ma Tian, ​​today Nie Fei will lean more towards the center, Deke will organize behind him, and the right will be handed over to the center. Sun Chenghai is alone, Zhang Yiming, you have to pay attention to filling in for Sun Chenghai, forwards, Adriano, Hao Dong."

Hao Dong clenched his fist secretly. In the three games in the group stage, he started and participated in the first two games, but he didn't score a single goal. He was replaced in the second half of every game. This has brought him a lot. Under great pressure, Adriano has already scored two goals, and Yang Tian, ​​who played much less than him, also scored one goal. In addition, Milu sent a single striker in the last game, which made Hao Dong feel I realized that if I no longer need to score goals to prove my ability, then the main position will be in danger.

"This is probably the last World Cup I will participate in. I must not end without scoring a goal!" Hao Dong said to himself in his heart.

Both Milu and Pei Wei saw Hao Dong's expression. After the players set off, Pei Wei asked Milu: "Why didn't you tell him that you value him? It was just a tactical need to not use him in the last game." ?”

"There is no need for us to disband an old player like him." Milu said softly, "Instead, we should put more pressure on him so that he can perform better."

Pei Wei smiled.

Historically, the Dalian team led by Hao Dong has always been the pioneer of Chinese clubs fighting against Japan and South Korea in the Asian arena, and he himself has repeatedly broken the hero of Japanese clubs and national teams. Hao Dong's development is better than in history, but he lost the opportunity to become an "anti-Japanese hero". Today's game will be Hao Dong's best chance to make up for this regret!
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After the players from both sides appeared at the Miyagi General Stadium, the cheers in the stands never stopped. Naturally, as the host, the Japanese team got more cheers—the Miyagi General Stadium, which can accommodate 5 people, has nearly 2000 They are Japanese fans. Although Chinese fans tried their best to buy more tickets for this game through various ticketing channels, the results were minimal, except for the [-] tickets distributed to China by the World Cup Organizing Committee. , They only bought more than [-] tickets, [-] to [-]. Chinese fans are at an absolute disadvantage.

However, Chinese fans also have their own tricks - the most useful tricks against the Japanese team.

Under the organization of several large fan groups, Chinese fans took turns singing to build up their momentum. What songs should they sing?Naturally, the Chinese listened to cheer up, and the Japanese listened to uncomfortable songs—from "March of the Volunteers" to "Military Song of the Chinese People's Liberation Army", from "The sun in the west is about to set" to "Tunnel warfare, hey , authentic warfare!", anyway, these songs are basically familiar to Chinese people, catchy, simple tunes, and powerful as a chorus, although it will cause displeasure to the host - but what we want, what we want is Make them unhappy!
So this game, before the start, the confrontation between the fans of the two sides was already on the verge of daggers - fortunately, the Japanese side had already been psychologically prepared for this game, and a considerable amount of police force was deployed in the stadium, especially the fans on both sides. In the stands, there are two rows of heavily armed police closely monitoring - no matter the two sides scolding, anyone who wants to cross the line is welcome.

"Damn, it's so fucking hot!" Looking at the scene in full swing in the stands, Pei Wei couldn't help cursing: "Such a big scene is really rare, I guess the FIFA people are also having a headache, so the two Two countries with historical grievances met in the World Cup, what kind of trouble happened..."

Tang Pengju and Chu Guanghu next to each other had expressions of "I feel sorry for me".

PS: Today's regular update...lol, off to work, hope I'm not late...

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