Godfather of national football

Chapter 585 Battle against Portugal ([-])

Good shooters are called cold-blooded killers because the striker's chances in the penalty area are fleeting. In less than a second, a striker has to make the way to shoot.

The opportunity was so good, Qu Bo wanted to get out of the way and shoot from a wider angle, but Chen Gelin behind him yelled: "Shoot now."

Sure enough, Patricio stretched his arms and held down the ball at Qu Bo's feet. Qu Bo kicked again, and the referee had already blown his whistle to signal that Qu Bo had hit the goalkeeper.

"Depend on……"

The Chinese players on the bench were extremely annoyed, and Qu Bo also regretted it in his heart. Only Chen Gelin knew the problem. How could it be possible for you to have so much time to prepare in the penalty area?

"I screwed up."

Chen Gelin in turn comforted Qu Bo, "The most important thing in the penalty area is to kick out. You can score goals blindly, but if you hesitate, you will never score."

Qu Bo nodded, "I see."

In the first half, due to Ronaldo's injury, the stoppage time lasted for 3 minutes. After the stoppage time ended, the referee whistled and the players of both sides returned to the player channel.

*****
With a score of 1 to 1, Fernando Santos is still satisfied, after all, Portugal does not suffer on the scene.

Back in the locker room, the team doctor had prepared a bucket of ice water, and Ronaldo immersed his right foot in the ice water.

Seeing Ronaldo, the teammates all had great fighting spirit in their hearts. Ronaldo has made too many contributions to Portugal with his injured leg, but what about us?

Ronaldo also knows that everyone cares about himself, and said with a smile: "Actually, this feels very cool, you can try it too."

Everyone understands that Ronaldo is lying, which is actually very uncomfortable, and the purpose is to prevent the increase of muscle tissue edema.

Fernando Santos didn't care so much. He knocked on the tactical board and attracted everyone's attention. "The first half fully demonstrated that there are no weak teams in the World Cup. Here are the 32 strongest teams in the world."

"Think about Costa Rica at the last World Cup, we can't do Uruguay or Italy."

The crowd laughed.

"Don't laugh, I'm serious. Although the Chinese team is not a traditional strong team, under the leadership of Li Guo in the past 10 years, the fighting spirit shown by this team is amazing."

Everyone stopped laughing. Fernando Santos' words are still very dignified in Portugal, and everyone obeys them.

"Sanchez."

Fernando Santos ordered Sanchez, and this little guy grew up very fast at Bayern.

"You can move forward and participate in the offense more. I think your talent is not only in defense, but offense should be what you need to do."

Sanchez nodded. After Lahm and Alonso retired, Sanchez and Vidal have become Bayern's iron midfielders. He knows how to control the game.

Fernando Santos continued: "That's all I'm going to say, and I'm going to tell you in addition that a draw is perfectly acceptable."

*****
In the locker room of the Chinese team on the other side, Li Guo is trying the Chinese wisdom he learned in Germany - cupping.

This time, Li Guo's medical team has added several old Chinese doctors. This is also the first attempt to combine Chinese medicine with modern sports medicine.

"It hurts!" Mu Fei yelled.

The team doctor smiled and said, "Don't worry, it will be fine in a while."

After a while, the 11 Chinese players had cupping cans on their legs, backs, and arms, but now they are using the vacuum type, not the traditional one that needs to be ignited.

"How do you feel?" Li Guo asked.

"I don't feel anything," Mu Fei said.

Li Guo looked at the team doctor, and the team doctor explained: "Traditional Chinese medicine is slow, but it treats both symptoms and root causes, and it's not anesthesia. That's so fast."

"This will be bruised later, and those who don't know think that the head beat us during the halftime break," Mu Fei said.

The crowd laughed.

Li Guo was also happy. To be honest, this kind of therapy is not very attractive, as if he has been abused.

After 10 minutes of cupping therapy, the players did feel a lot more comfortable. It seems that the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine is still very reasonable.

*****
"Friends over there, it's your turn," followed by the on-site host, the fans on one side turned up the Mexican waves.

The theme song of the World Cup was played in the stadium, and the whole stadium was like a concert. During the intermission, the organizing committee specially studied the French European Cup to prevent the atmosphere of the stadium from cooling down.

"Friends over there, it's your turn now."

Liu Jianhong bought a drink and came back. There were very few drinks to choose from, because the commentator could not drink carbonated drinks, and of course it was impossible to drink alcohol. After looking around, Liu Jianhong bought two bottles of Gatorade.

"Blueberry or orange, which one do you want?"

"Blueberry bar."

"The scene was so high. I remember that it wasn't so lively during the halftime break in Brazil four years ago."

Li Zibing said: "I guess I learned from the French. That's how the European Cup in France was. But it's okay, it's worth the ticket price."

"The commentary over there, it's your turn."

The commentators on the commentary booth here were stunned. Under normal circumstances, this kind of stadium activity commentary is not involved.

But since they are all named, don't be confused.

Seeing that Liu Jianhong didn't move much, Li Zibing smiled and said, "Haha, Mr. Jianhong, it's time for you to lose weight. I suggest you do some yoga."

The whole game has been high for a round, and the time for the intermission is almost here, and the players are running out one after another.

When the Portuguese players came out, everyone was looking for Ronaldo. When Ronaldo appeared, there was another burst of applause. When the Chinese players came out, sharp-eyed people immediately spotted the "bruises" on the Chinese players.

In front of Liu Jianhong was the commentator Martin of the British BBC. When he saw the players of the Chinese team on the field, he asked suspiciously: "Did Li Guo beat up his players during the intermission?"

"Idiot," Li Zibing rolled his eyes, any fool would know it was cupping.

I remember there was a movie called "Scraping", in which foreigners misunderstood Chinese people's scraping as abuse.

Unexpectedly, the melon-eaters at the scene didn't understand. The Russians felt that China is the fighting nation, isn't it 1 to 1?

Some Russian fans and Chinese fans sat next to each other and asked the Chinese fans directly: "Is your head coach very violent? He dares to hit people during halftime breaks."

The Chinese fans were stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing, and finally fell to the ground, "Hahaha, I'm so laughing, is that cupping? It's for healing. Do you know Chinese medicine?"

The Russian was also taken aback, "That bruise is obviously from a beating."

The Chinese fans are still out of breath from laughing, which is really inexplicable.

(End of this chapter)