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Chapter 284 Against Tahiti

The pre-match press conference was destined to be unpleasant, because Li Guo was disrespectful to Brazilian football. After entering the Tahiti team's press conference, the Brazilian journalists left the field before Li Guo appeared to express their protest.

Li Guo was sitting on the stage, still smiling, with an indifferent look on his face, "I hope no one throws shoes at me, otherwise I will enjoy the treatment of the president."

There was a burst of laughter, and then the questioning session began.

"Will the Chinese team rotate? The opponent is very weak. There should be no suspense about the outcome. The only suspense is how many wins."

"No, the Chinese team will play as the main force in this game."

"If the score reaches double digits, wouldn't that humiliate the opponent?"

"The real insult in football is when you don't take your opponent seriously and play negatively. If I let my players give the ball on the pitch, that would be a real insult to Tahiti and it would be against FIFA rules."

Next reporter's question: "As far as I know, you coached briefly in Tahiti."

"This is nonsense. I never coached in Tahiti. I just traveled there. It's a beautiful place. I suggest everyone go there."

"I am an Argentine reporter. First of all, thank you very much for what you said on Global Sports. As an Argentine, I agree with what you said."

"Really? After that, I hope the Brazilians will scold you and stop scolding me."

There was another laugh at the scene.

The Argentine reporter continued: "Are you drunk at the time, because from the program..."

Li Guo interrupted the reporter, "It's just a program. Brazilian law does not stipulate that you can't comment on Brazilian football, so I have nothing to say, because everything I want to say has been said on the program. If you want, you can find it and watch it again."

It may be that the opponent is too weak, the reporters on the scene always go off track, and they are more interested in some personal topics of Li Guo.

But Li Guo avoided all these, he didn’t need to answer these, Li Guo had already thought about it, when he was far away from football, he could publish a memoir and recall some secrets of the year, just like Cantona did.

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Maracanã Stadium.

Looking down from a height, it looks like human eyes, and looking from Monte Cristo, it looks like the earth under the embrace of Jesus.

This magnificent stadium originally could accommodate up to 20 people, but at the request of FIFA, for the sake of safety, now the stadium has canceled the standing seats and replaced them with seats. The stadium can still accommodate 8 people.

But at most 2 people came to the scene today, and the whole stadium was sparse. After all, one of the two sides of the game was Tahiti, and the other was the Chinese team that provoked Brazil.

Li Guo walked into the field and stood on the sidelines with his hands folded around his chest. He knew that the group of reporters with SLR cameras must be taking pictures of him.

As a head coach, there are so many sacred places in my heart, such as the Bernabeu, Camp Nou, Allianz, and Old Trafford.

The Maracanã stadium is also a sacred place in the coach's heart. At this time, Li Guo posed such a pose, which was taken by a photographer. Maracana, I have been here!
"Li Guo!"

Li Guo turned around, and standing in front of him were Atani and Chen Xiu, the three of them embraced together. In today's information age, although people don't need to raise their heads to look at the bright moon, lower their heads to think about their hometown, or who they miss, they just need to raise their mobile phones.

But when the old friends hugged each other, they felt that the phone calls were all floating clouds.

"Li Guo, I have dreamed of you countless times. We played New Zealand and you stood on the sidelines. You are our coach," Chen Xiu said.

"Hehe, did we win in the end?"

"Of course, I scored a hat-trick."

"That should be a beautiful dream. What about Atani, what happened to him in your dream?"

"Him? It seems that the red card is suspended."

"Hahaha……"

The three laughed and were very happy. The friendship formed by men because of football is eternal. In his previous life, Li Guo saw Ramos of Real Madrid. Whether he won the championship on behalf of Real Madrid or the Spanish national team, he would wear a T-shirt with a head on it. That was his former teammate—Puerta.

In the 2007 La Liga match between Sevilla and Getafe, Puerta suddenly fell to the ground and fell into a coma. He died 3 days after being sent to the hospital for full rescue.

That scene was very sad, but most people forgot it afterwards, except for Ramos, he said that the memory of his teammates is forever.

Li Guo put his left arm on Atani's shoulder, and his right hand on Chen Xiu's shoulder, "We are friends for life, okay?"

"Of course!"

"But I won't show mercy!"

"We won't either."

After that, players from both sides came out to warm up one after another. In addition to Atani and Chen Xiu, there was also a goalkeeper Roche in the Tahiti team who was an acquaintance of Li Guo. The two briefly high-fived.

Soon Ji Ke came out, he and Chen Xiu from Tahiti were warming up and chatting at the same time, very harmonious.

Although at the press conference, Li Guo vowed to send all the main players, but in fact, Li Guo still made a large-scale rotation.

The starting lineup of the Chinese team for this game is:
Goalkeeper - Zeng Cheng.

The back line - Mu Fei, Feng Xiaoting, Li Weifeng, Geng Chong.

The midfielder - Qu Bo, Liao Lisheng, Hao Junmin, Zheng Zhi.

Single striker - Chen Gelin, Ji Ke.

In order for Ji Ke to play, Li Guo also changed the formation to 442. Chen Gelin had to play because he had been away from the Chinese team for a long time and had to adapt again. The Confederations Cup schedule is very tight. Except for this game, every game is hard.

Many players have been changed in the midfield, but the forward line has not changed, which also ensures that the Chinese team's firepower can be fully fired.

Li Guo, the starter from Tahiti, also took a look. In the formation of 541, Chen Xiu was alone in the front, and the others probably just set up the bus.

After the warm-up was over, the players from both sides returned to the locker room to make final preparations, followed by the official entrance ceremony. When the Chinese team came out, there were huge boos on the scene.

After the national anthem was played, a special scene appeared. The Tahitian players gave the Chinese players a special gift, a necklace, which seemed to be made of shells.

This should be the most interesting pre-match handshake ceremony in international football, but the pre-match friendship is short-lived. After the game officially starts, the players of both sides will have their own masters.

The referee was communicating with the assistant referee, the fans on the scene were booing, the head coaches of both sides stood in the command area, looking cool, and the game was about to start. With the whistle of the head referee, the second round of the 2013 Brazil Confederations Cup group match between China and Tahiti officially started.

(End of this chapter)