Godfather of national football

Chapter 286 Italian Inheritance

Recife.

Located on the Atlantic coast, this city is the capital of the state of Pernambuco, the fifth largest city in Brazil, and the largest city in northeastern Brazil.

If these are too general, then Recife also has a nickname, the Venice of Brazil, so you should basically understand the characteristics of this city.

After the Chinese team arrived here, they felt that this place was not as peaceful as Brasilia, nor as prosperous as Rio. It was more like a European city.

If going to Rio is a vacation, then the Chinese team will be desperate when they come to Recife. The third game will directly determine whether the Chinese team can advance to the knockout round.

When it comes to the final round of the group stage, the knowledge of permutations and combinations learned in high school is very important. I remember the 2004 European Cup. In the end, if Denmark and Sweden want to squeeze out Italy and qualify at the same time, they need to score at least 2 to 2.

In the end, the two teams really scored 2 to 2, making the lore in another Italy-Bulgaria game meaningless.

The current group format of the Chinese team is:
China has 4 points, and Italy has 4 points, but the Chinese team has one more goal difference, so it is temporarily in the first place. Brazil tied Italy 1-1 in the second game, and ranked third with 2 points in the two games.Tahiti is at the bottom with 0 points.

In fact, not only the Chinese team is analyzing the form of the final round, but the Brazilian media have also been analyzing it in recent days.

In fact, the best situation in this group is the third-ranked Brazil team, because as long as they win Tahiti by 7 goals, they can guarantee 100% promotion, and there is no need to look at the results of the match between China and Italy.

Because in another game, the Chinese team beat Italy, then Brazil has one point more than Italy, and vice versa, Brazil has one point more than China.

If China and Italy draw, then Brazil and Italy have the same points, but the goal difference is one more.

So can Brazil beat Tahiti by 7?At least the Brazilian media is very confident about this.

The second most favorable team to qualify is the Chinese team, as long as the Chinese team does not lose to Italy, and Italy must beat the Chinese team, otherwise it will only depend on Tahiti's face.

Of course, there is also the rarest situation, which is what Sweden and Denmark did in 2002, that is, Brazil won Tahiti by 6 games, but China and Italy scored 4 to 4, then the two teams squeezed out Brazil.

It may be that the Brazilians are not very good at mathematics. Most of the Brazilian media just told the fans that it is enough to beat Tahiti in the last game anyway. As for how many?I don't know, the more the better.

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On the training ground, Li Guo distributed an A23 paper to each of the 4 players, and the above analysis was printed on it.

Mu Fei took it over and looked at it, his head was getting bigger, "Head, I'm not good at studying, can you explain it in one sentence."

Zhou Dun on the side is a smart person, and he understood it at a glance, "What the head means is that we must win the next game."

Geng Chong on the other side said: "No, it should be a tie."

Li Guo chuckled and thought to himself: "Geng Chong is a little clever, and Zhou Dun is a great wisdom. How many times in the history of the Chinese team have they been defeated by the curse of qualifying after a tie, because they didn't think further."

"Geng Chong, don't you understand?"

Geng Chong nodded.

"Then go run another 10 laps. Is there anyone who can't figure it out? If there is, then follow Geng Chong."

Gradually, everyone figured it out and continued to train.

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When we arrived in Recife, the training of the Chinese team turned into one practice a day, with a rest in the afternoon, but today Li Guo organized everyone to watch the match—the semi-final of the European Cup in 2000.

The Netherlands was the host that year and was placed in the death group, with World Cup champion France, the last European Cup runner-up Czech Republic, and the last European Cup champion Denmark in a group.

But before the semi-finals, no matter how strong the opponent was, the Netherlands advanced like cutting melons and cutting vegetables until they met Italy and met the Italian goalkeeper who was later called "Santoldo".

In this game, Li Guo watched the live broadcast in his previous life. At that time, China was already on summer vacation, but for these players, they did not watch the live broadcast.

You can never get tired of watching a good-looking game. Even if it is a video, everyone is very involved in watching it, because this game is like a blockbuster movie, like Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible. It seems that the protagonist is doomed, but every time he escapes.

And this game is the same, Italy seems to have no chance, and was awarded two penalties, but the final winner of the game is Italy.

After watching the game, Li Guo turned off the projector and said, "As football theory is changing with each passing day, the Italian defensive art has been passed down for decades. From Facchetti to Baresi to Maldini, the latest one is Chiellini."

"Italian football is great," Mu Fei muttered to himself.

I forgot which figure in the football circle said that Italian football is like this. If you just knock him down without killing the opponent, then he will stand up and fight back.

"But I say this not to scare you, but to make you pay more attention to your upcoming opponents. Don't think that if we draw with Brazil, then we can draw with Italy."

Geng Chong said: "I hope Balotelli can think about life this time."

Li Guo was going to make a joke to ease the atmosphere, "What do you think he was thinking at that time?"

"woman?"

The teammate chuckled, "I guess I'm hungry," Mu Fei said.

Everyone was discussing, but most wanted to hear what Li Guo thought, "Boss, what do you think he was thinking at that time?"

"I heard that Balotelli has a very good relationship with his adoptive mother. I guess he misses his mother."

Everyone laughed, and the opinion of the head was indeed the most wonderful.

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Speaking of Balotelli, Balotelli is famous not only in China, but also in Brazil. The Italian team arrived in Recife a day later than the Chinese team, and the number of people who went to the airport to welcome Italy was about ten times that of the Chinese team. Most of them were the media, and they paid the most attention to the Italian No. 9, Balotelli.

"Mario, do you like Brazil?"

Balotelli grinned, but didn't answer.

"Mario, will you play against the Chinese team and score goals?"

Balotelli still laughed.

"I heard that your ex-girlfriend is pregnant. Is the child yours?"

As soon as the words came out, Balotelli stopped laughing and burst out a few words in Italian at the reporter. Later, everyone realized that the translation into Chinese is none of your business.

Reporters like to make fire, and someone then asked, "I heard that your biological mother works as a cleaner in the UK, and her monthly salary is not as good as your hourly salary."

"Then you should ask her. She abandoned me and made me an orphan."

Bashen was very sensitive about his life experience, and his teammates pushed Balotelli forward, fearing that he would continue to cause trouble, and then the Italian team quickly left the airport.

(End of this chapter)