football killer

Chapter 93 Four Nations Invitational Tournament
As the 2002 World Cup is about to start, not only England, but all the national teams on the planet have started training and looking for some teams with comparable strength to play a friendly match in order to test the current situation of the team.

Like England, the Spanish national team, like England, wanted to find an opponent of comparable strength for a friendly match. It was for this reason that when the Spanish Football Association and the FA communicated, they found that the other party had no friendly matches.

In fact, for England, they want to find an opponent like Portugal as a teammate in a friendly match. After all, Portugal has the reputation of the European Brazil team.

It is for this reason that Portugal's style of play is basically similar to that of the Brazilian team. They both use gorgeous offense and superb short passing to tear apart the opponent's defense.

England also wants to find an opponent like Portugal, not only because of the strength of the opponent, but more importantly, if England plays a friendly match with Portugal, it can not only understand Portugal's strength, but also adapt to Portugal's style of play during the match, so that England can adapt to Brazil's style of play when they confront Brazil in the future. You must know that Brazil is definitely an opponent that no country dare to underestimate at any time, and it is also the biggest contender for the championship.

But it is precisely because of this reason that Portugal, whose style is basically the same as that of the Brazilian team, has become popular in Europe. It has long been drawn into the invitational tournament by Italy, Germany, and the Czech Republic. England can only say that it is slow to start and can only invite Spain.However, it seems that in order to compete with Portugal, Italy, Germany, and the Czech Republic, England and Spain also invited Denmark and France as a friendly match, and also opened a four-nation invitational tournament.

However, it is precisely because this is just an invitational match, not a formal match. The purpose of both sides is to train soldiers. It doesn't matter whether the match is won or lost, so the degree of popularity and attention is naturally not high, but anyway, as long as it is a match, there will be a winner. At least the fans in the UK still attach great importance to this Four Nations Invitational Tournament.

This time, the Four Nations Invitational Tournament of England, Spain, Netherlands, and Denmark was strongly supported by the United Kingdom, so all the games in the Four Nations Invitational Tournament were held in the UK. At the same time, in order to attract the Netherlands and Denmark to participate, the UK even offered a generous bonus to reward the No.1 of the Four Nations Invitational Tournament. The rules of the competition are very simple. The four countries compete with each other.Since it was not a formal competition, the other three countries didn't care about the British competition system and readily agreed.

Spain was the first to come to England, and it has even been here for several days. It has already started to adapt to training, and tomorrow, Spain will start a game with England at Liverpool's home stadium, Anfield.

"Hey~ Steven, can I play tomorrow?" Since the national team has started closed management, George at this time is like a group of teammates of the national team, staying in the assigned hotel with the national team, and was also severely warned by head coach Keegan that no player can go out without permission.

I don't know why, but George is also very puzzled, that is, whether in the club or the national team, Gerrard, who looks like a bun in front of him, is always his roommate.No, in the hotel assigned by the national team, George and Gerrard were in the same room.

Feeling really bored, or because the match against Spain is going to be played tomorrow, George has been feeling very excited and couldn't sleep, so he couldn't help asking Gerrard beside him.

"How do I know about this kind of thing? I'm not a coach. Besides, what do you have to worry about about this kind of thing? I think you may still play. Just for this, you are much luckier than me. When I joined the national team for the first time, I sat on the bench the whole time and didn't even have a minute to play."

Hearing George's words, Gerald said indifferently, sitting on the bed, lowering his head, looking at the handheld game console between his knees, playing it fascinated.

"Tch, you're going to make sarcastic remarks. You're fine now, and you can play. Depending on the situation, you're the main force that can't be beaten. You have to be more realistic in comforting me, so that I can accept it more easily. What's possible." Hearing Gerrard's words, George couldn't help curling his lips and said unhappily.

"Hmph~ You have to know that this time our head coach is Kevin Keegan, your teacher. It makes sense to say that you can play. After all, you are also very capable. Even if you replace Owen and Shearer, it is normal." Gerrard still sat on the bed without moving and played the game, talking lightly.

Hearing Gerrard's words, George couldn't help but lie on the bed, put his head on his hands, looked at the ceiling and said, "This kind of thing is basically impossible. After all, let alone Coach Keegan, even I think that the main forwards this time, Irving and Shearer are the best partners."

Although Keegan did not announce the starting list for tomorrow's game against Spain, in fact, this kind of thing does not need George and others to think too much. As long as you have a little knowledge, you can guess England's starting list this time.

"It's not necessarily true, and I don't know how it happened. This time, the coach recruited several newcomers to the national team. That one, Terry. By the way, it's Chelsea's Terry. Back then, I remembered George, you used a Marseille to sway past him and lob the goal. I really don't see what is so special about that kid. But anyway, since the coach recruited you, it's not for you to watch the game, but to go to the game."

"Steven, you are wrong about this point. That Terry is indeed very capable. I heard that Chelsea captain Desailly personally instructed and taught him. He is a key training object for Chelsea. I passed him at the beginning, but so what. Let alone him, even Hypia, I did the same. But I think since the coach recruited him into the national team, he must have his own reasons. This means that Terry's strength should not be underestimated."

Seeing Gerrard's disdain for Chelsea's Terry, George couldn't help explaining.Gerald didn't understand it, but George did.In the last game against Chelsea, after he scored that wonderful goal, Terry defended him tightly in the remaining ten minutes without any chance.

"YES! Be arrogant with us and see if I don't mess with your Argentine team. Well, George, don't think too much. I don't know if you will be able to play tomorrow, but I know that if you don't have a good rest today and don't have energy tomorrow, then you will definitely not be arranged by the head coach to play. Well, rest earlier."

Seeing Gerrard's excited face, George couldn't help but jumped from his bed to Gerrard's bed curiously. It turned out that Gerrard was playing live football and was playing in the World Cup final.

However, after hearing Gerrard's words, George also felt that it made sense. If he was really listless tomorrow because he didn't have a good rest today, I'm afraid that even if the head coach Keegan wanted to let him play, seeing his listless face would give up the idea of ​​letting him play.

Thinking of this, George stopped thinking about it, covered himself with a quilt and fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)