Football: The immortal legend on the green field

Players from both teams walked onto the court under the guidance of the referee.

Utrecht won the guessing game and chose to kick off first.

"Wow...", the whistle sounded, and the cheers of the fans made the stadium lively in an instant.

As the crowd cheered, Howard rushed towards the ball that the Utrecht striker passed to the back line, while Gular and Sterling also flanked from the side.

Shen Bin and Deng Zhuoxiang also approached from the left and right.

The commentator began to explain: "After the opening, Hallam Athletic was extremely active and showed a strong desire to press. They rushed over!"

"Pass it! Don't stop the ball!" Center back Friedrich shouted loudly to Brazilian midfielder Zelos.

But based on the playing habits of most Brazilians, Zelos still stopped for a moment, but this gave Howard an opportunity and he accelerated and rushed forward.

"Oh no!" Zelos felt something was wrong and he passed the ball to the side in a panic.

In a panic, his pass was weak and slow, and Utrecht's left-back had to step forward to meet the ball, but at this moment, he heard intense footsteps beside him. He turned his head and saw Sterling rushing towards the landing point of the ball.

Utrecht's full-back took a big step forward, competing with Sterling in speed. Even though he pushed his speed to the limit, he was still a step too late. The ball was poked out by Sterling. When the two passed each other, he had only one thought, that is, to prevent him from breaking through, so he reached out to pull the corner of Sterling's clothes.

But Sterling's speed still exceeded his imagination.

Sterling poked the ball out in advance and raised his hand to hit the opponent's hand that was stretched out to him. The opponent's defender lost his balance and lay on the ground with his legs spread out. When he turned his head, Sterling had already dribbled the ball diagonally into the penalty area.

Utrecht's midfielder hurriedly moved to the right to fill the gap left by the full-back. Utrecht's entire defense line also shifted to the right. Before the opponent was about to block, Sterling swept the ball to the middle and Deng Zhuoxiang shot.

The ball flew rapidly towards the lower right corner. The Utrecht goalkeeper immediately dived sideways, gently flicked the ball with his fingertips, and pushed it out of the bottom line.

"What are you doing! Cheer up!" Utrecht head coach Van Beek shouted at the sidelines.

After the goalkeeper stood up, he angrily yelled at Zelos: "Do you want to see me lose the ball? Bastard!"

As the captain, Vanenberg first comforted the goalkeeper and then the other two teammates. In other games, this rhythm would be fine, but Haarlem's fierce pressing at the beginning really scared them.

Corner kick!

Deng Zhuoxiang immediately ran forward to the corner area with the ball.

Haarlem's two main corner kick attacking points, Howard and Shen Bin, rushed to the front of the small penalty area in advance and were ready to compete for headers.

This time Shen Bin came to the front point, and Fritz stuck closely to Shen Bin's back. Shen Bin was a little confused. Isn't marking a man to occupy the front point or stand in parallel, with the defender's body on the side of the goal?

Deng Zhuoxiang kicked the ball out, and this pass was aimed at Shen Bin.

Shen Bin jumped high to meet the incoming ball, but when his body was about to rise to the highest point and he was about to head the ball, he felt a sharp pain in his waist and immediately lost most of his strength. His body began to lose balance and the ball flew over his head to the back point.

At the back post, Sham Medina and Howard jumped at the same time. Sham used his 198-centimeter height advantage to head the ball first. The ball flew out of the penalty area and was caught by Utrecht midfielder Cordoba.

Just as Cordoba was about to launch a fast break, Gural rushed to his side like a cheetah and blocked his position with his body, preventing him from turning around easily.

Cordoba had no choice but to pass the ball sideways to get it out of the danger zone.

At the same time, other players of Haarlem Athletic have retreated to defend like a tide.

Deng Zhuoxiang, who had taken the corner kick, also pressed towards Utrecht's right-back who had just received the ball, delaying the opponent's attack.

Shen Bin was the last one to retreat. He glanced at Fritz who was defending him. Fritz was only about 175 cm tall, but he was extremely strong. Fritz was looking at Shen Bin with a teasing look.

Fritz was born in Aachen, Germany. He has been playing for Aachen youth training since he was a child. Even in Aachen, where the youth training system is not very perfect, his talent is not the most outstanding. The reason why he can stay in Aachen is fortunately that his father is a famous professor of human medicine in Germany. His father hoped that they would follow in his father's footsteps since he was a child. Unfortunately, he is not very interested in medicine. He has a special liking for football.

After he arrived at the youth team, his talent was not enough to keep him in the team. The reason why the coach kept him in the team was that he had a unique skill that others did not have, that is, his dirty but very concealed defensive moves coupled with outstanding physical fitness.

During the winter break before the New Year, after Utrecht played a friendly match with Aachen before the start of the season, Vanenberg recommended Fritz to Utrecht because Vanenberg suffered a lot at his hands in that game.

His defensive movements are very small and will not be noticed by the referee at all, but every time the opponent is about to exert force, he can always give the opponent a fatal blow at the right time and place.

He had a thorough understanding of human biomechanics and knew where the center of gravity of a person's force was under different circumstances. With this knowledge, he could just lightly touch his opponent's waist and the opponent would lose balance or at least be unable to exert any strength.

In the world of football, not everyone makes a living by talent. Players like Materazzi of Italy and Pepe of Portugal all have their own ways of survival and enjoy a high status in world football.

Before the game, the head coach gave him the important task of defending Shen Bin, and repeatedly emphasized that if Shen Bin scored or assisted in this game, he would not get any share of the promotion reward for this season. If Shen Bin could be completely frozen, the bonus would be doubled. If Fritz received a red card while defending and the game was lost, the coaching staff would not punish him. In other words, he could use any means to defend Shen Bin.

While defending the corner kick, Fritz ran forward silently, hanging not too far from Shen Bin.

When facing this man, Shen Bin had to be careful. Although he had never seen Bowen play, he had seen Pepe of Porto play. In the Champions League last year, Pepe was "too clumsy" and "accidentally sent Ronaldo of Real Madrid to the hospital.

After injuring Ronaldo, all Real Madrid media collectively worked to dig up Pepe's dark history during his time playing for three teams, from Corinthians in Brazil to Maritimo in Portugal and then to Porto.

Although we don’t know where so many old Japanese honeys who can live ten years in one day come from, we just need to know that if Pepe hadn’t done those things, the old Japanese honeys would not appear.

Haarlem Athletic completed the defense!