Godfather of national football

Chapter 353 Arriving in Brazil
There are traces of blue clouds under the plane, and below is the ancient Inca country. Li Guo heard that there are still many ancient secrets buried below.

After arriving in Cuiaba, the players stayed in a five-star hotel in the suburbs. Li Guo was very satisfied with the hotel. The only thing he was dissatisfied with was the training field prepared by the hotel for the team, which was made of artificial turf. This made Li Guo very annoyed.

His players are high-level professional players, and they must not be able to adapt to the artificial turf. Li Guo asked Chen An to contact the new training ground immediately.

No wonder the German team had to prepare their own training bases in the previous two World Cups. In fact, Li Guo also planned to do the same, but Brazil is different from South Africa. Brazil is too big, and the terrain varies greatly from region to region, so it is impossible to station in one city and then fly over temporarily during the game.

"I can only do as the Romans do." Li Guo thought to himself.

The next day, Li Guo held a press conference at the hotel, only for Chinese journalists. The relationship between Li Guo and the Chinese media has always been normal. The Chinese media like black national football, and Li Guo has a bad temper, so everyone can only dislike each other.

But it was not pleasing to the eye, and the work had to continue, so all the domestic Internet, TV, and print media sent reporters to Brazil.

"In the first game against Chile, what does Director Li think is the probability of winning?"

There is a subtext to this question, that is, the Chinese team has never won the first match of the World Cup. They lost to Costa Rica in the first match in 2002 and Argentina in the first match in 2010. Therefore, domestic fans still have great expectations for the Chinese team to start the World Cup.

"I don't know, football is round, maybe we will win big, or we won't have a chance at all, it's a possibility."

This is the most reasonable answer, and it is also the weirdest answer. If you say it, you don’t say it. The reporters in the audience are all old drivers. In the past, Li Guo’s performance was good, and everyone had no chance to complain. However, this year, Li Guo’s performance in the team warm-up match was very poor, so everyone found a chance.

"The national football team's warm-up match this year is 2 losses and 1 win. Is there something wrong with the national football team? It is still too proud and has lost motivation."

"As the name suggests, the warm-up match is for warm-up, and it is used to find problems. You probably haven't watched the national football warm-up match. If you had, you wouldn't ask such a stupid question. I did a lot of experiments in the warm-up match. Whether you are satisfied or not, I am satisfied anyway."

The next question is a little more professional. It is about the forwards of the Chinese team. This time, Gao Lin lost the selection. The Chinese team only has three forwards, Park Shuang, Chen Gelin, and Ji Ke. Who will be the starting forward?In addition, how do the three of them position themselves in Director Li's mind?

There are actually pitfalls in this question, but Li Guo still answered, "Chen Gelin will be the starter. He is the most comprehensive and calmest in front of the goal. Ji Ke and Pu Shuang are still not so mature, and they are a little impetuous in seizing opportunities. I don't think our opponents in the World Cup will give us a chance to squander."

At the end of the final press conference, Li Guo said thank you insincerely, and the media also responded with applause sparsely.

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On June 6th, the much-anticipated World Cup in Brazil finally started in Sao Paulo. The opening ceremony was very brief, leaving not many clips worth mentioning. The most worth watching was the theme song. Jennifer Lopez sang the theme song of the World Cup in Brazil "WeAreOne".

This theme song is so catchy that the Chinese players hummed it when they watched the opening ceremony in the hotel.

The opening ceremony of the World Cup is different from the Olympic Games. The most important thing about the opening ceremony of the World Cup is the opening game. It doesn't matter how good other programs are.

In the first match between Brazil and Croatia, before the match, the national anthems of the two countries were played live. Thousands of people sang the Brazilian national anthem at the Corinthians Arena.

The greater the expectation, the greater the pressure. After the opening, the Brazilian team conceded the goal first, Marcelo's own goal.

Li Guo watched this game in his previous life, so when Marcelo scored an own goal, Li Guo didn't think it was strange.

Li Guo joked: "I'll bet you that the Brazilian team won 3-1 in the end, do you believe it or not?" Everyone said "cut" in their hearts, and they really regarded themselves as gods, but we didn't believe it.

After falling behind, the Brazilian team stepped up their offense. In the first half, Neymar scored a long-range shot from outside the penalty area and scored in the dead corner, 1-1.

It seemed that the game was safe and sound. It was a sure thing for the host Brazil to win their first victory. But in the second half, the situation changed suddenly. Croatia showed its own strength. In the second half, under the leadership of several "odd" midfielders (Modric, Rakitic, Perisic), the attack suppressed the Brazilian team.

The scene is a bit stalemate, Croatia is tough, and has proved its strength in the World Cup and the European Cup, especially the midfielders are all playing for the top European giants.

Seeing that the Brazilian team was helpless, in the 69th minute, Fred fell in the penalty area, and the referee Nishimura Yuichi ran over with a yellow card in his hand.

Li Guo smiled, thinking: "Here again!"

But then an unexpected scene happened. Yuichi Nishimura showed Fred a yellow card and sentenced him to dive.

Li Guo opened his mouth in surprise, maybe he was the only one in the whole world who was stunned, because he remembered that things should not have been like this, Fred was indeed a flop, but in his previous life, the referee was wrong!

Li Guo was like watching a horror movie, history has changed unexpectedly, Brazil did not get a penalty, and the subsequent game was still stalemate, but Brazil still scored the winning goal at the last moment by Oscar.A difficult 2-1 victory over Croatia.

At the end of the game, Li Guo hadn't recovered yet, Chen An pushed Li Guo, "What's wrong?"

Li Guo pointed at the TV, "No, the referee should award a penalty kick."

Chen An thought Li Guo was delusional, "The slow motion is very clear, it's a flop, and Fred's movement of falling to the ground is too fake."

"But the referee should have misjudged it."

Chen An laughed, "Li Guo, have you been too tired lately? Are you tired and stupid? What do you mean by misjudgment?"

Everyone left, leaving Li Guo alone. Li Guo felt that the closer to 2016, the more things changed. Brazil still defeated Croatia. The result remained the same, but the process changed.

In order to make sure that he wasn’t delusional, Li Guo went to the domestic website and looked it up. It was indeed 2 to 1, “I have to speed up the upgrade and buy a higher level of experience as soon as possible. In the future, it seems that I can only rely on myself,” Li Guo thought.

(End of this chapter)