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Chapter 170 World Cup Opening

In the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, football once again returned to its "kingdom." Although the birthplace of football is China, although the birthplace of modern football is England.However, if you talk about the "Kingdom of Football", it must be Brazil.

Brazil, the largest country in South America.It is also the most popular country for football.As long as you are in Brazil, no matter where you are, in cities, villages, beaches, you can see people playing football everywhere, and there are football fields on the streets.In Brazil, no matter men, women or children, the number one favorite sport is football.

Brazil has also produced countless football stars. Needless to say, the names of the "Ball King" Pele and "Little Bird" Garrincha in the "Ancient" period, "White Pele" Zico, and "Doctor" Socrates are also resounding in the world of football.In modern times, "Lone Wolf" Romario and "Alien" Ronaldo are also stars loved by countless fans all over the world.

And these people are even the idols of a group of young people who are now active in world football.For example, in the Portuguese national team that has arrived in Brazil and is preparing to participate in the World Cup, the protagonist of our book, Victor, admires a famous Brazilian football star very much.

It's just not Ronaldo, Romario, or Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, the big names that resound in the world of football.It was Juninho who played for Lyon.But the so-called "worship," Victor is more eager to learn Juninho's free kick skills.

After all, apart from Juninho, there are only a few people in the world who can kick free kicks like penalty kicks and have such a high free kick scoring rate.Of course, the so-called "King of Free Kicks," Carioca's strength remains to be explored.

Let's go back to the Portuguese national team that participated in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.This is no longer our protagonist, Victor represented the Portuguese national team for the first time in an international A-level event.Although due to various reasons, Victor was unable to become a member of the Portuguese national team for the 2012 European Championship.

However, when Victor has established himself as one of the core midfielders of Juventus, the head coach of the Portuguese national team Bento is also one of the core starters who will definitely include Victor in the qualifications for the World Cup qualifiers.

After all, the Portuguese national team is not the Brazilian team that year, and even Bayern Munich's starting striker Erbo could not become the starting striker of the national team.After Victor was included in the squad of the national team by the head coach Bento of the Portuguese national team, he immediately became the midfielder "iron triangle" of the Portuguese national team together with Muñoz and Veloso. one of them.As for the original Meireles, although he once played for the Chelsea club in the Premier League.

However, Meireles, who has bid farewell to the mainstream European leagues and went to play for Fenerbahce in Turkey, should go to the bench and be on standby at any time.

And this World Cup, after Portugal's 23-man roster was announced by head coach Bento, there is actually no need for Bento to announce the starting list of the Portuguese national team before the start of the World Cup.Numerous football media, reporters, and commentators have already guessed the starting list of the Portuguese national team.

After all, some players are "unshakable." Especially the Portuguese national team looks like a list of 4-3-3 tactical formations.

In terms of goalkeepers, Eduardo, who plays for Braga, and Patricio, who plays for Sporting Lisbon (Portuguese Sporting), compete for the starting goalkeeper qualifications.However, based on the performance of the two in the league and the national team in the most recent season.Patricio should be the "No. [-] goalkeeper" of the Portuguese national team.

In terms of defenders, Bruno Alves and Pepe must be the starting central defender combination.However, the performance of Bruno Alves always makes people miss the veteran Carvalho.The best defender selected by UEFA in 2004.But that was ten years ago.The current Carvalho is already "Lian Po old."

The left-back must be Coentrao, who looks down at Real Madrid.Although Coentrao is in the Real Madrid team, because of the presence of Marcelo on the left back, he even had to switch to the left avant-garde for a while.But in the Portuguese national team, it is still the No.1 choice for left back.

As for the right back, Joao Pereira, who plays for Valencia in La Liga, should be the first choice for Bento.But now the Portuguese national team does not have any good world-class players to choose from on the right back.This makes people can't help but miss Ferreira at the European Championship held in Portugal in 2004.Although Ferreira can't compare with Ram and Alves, he wins in stability.And João Pereira, well, it's okay.

In the midfield, Victor is naturally the core playmaker, and Miguel Veloso, who also plays in Serie A, is standing in front of him, but he is playing for Genoa.There is also another "local tyrant team" in Ligue [-], Munoz, who plays for Monaco invested by Russian oligarch Rybonolev.As for the "regular visitor," Meireles, who was the starting midfielder of the Portuguese national team before, although his defensive ability should rank first among Portugal's current midfielders.However, the Portuguese team, as a representative of the European Latin football genre, hopes to be able to control the football and use the ball to achieve defensive purposes.

The skills of Victor, Muñoz and Veloso are enough for the head coach of the Portuguese national team, Bento, to see the possibility of realizing this goal.Besides, Veloso is also a player who is not afraid of the midfielder fighting the defense.

As for the striker, it can be said that the Portuguese national team is most proud and proud.In fact, it is also the former head coach of the Premier League Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson, who is most proud and proud.In addition, I have to mention Sporting Lisbon.

Because, whether it is the captain of the Portuguese national team, C-Ronaldo or Nani, one of the best players in the world.They all started from Sporting Lisbon and started to enter professional football.Then they all came to Manchester United in the Premier League. Under Sir Alex Ferguson, C-Ronaldo finally became one of the two best players in the world because of his outstanding talent and extraordinary diligence.Although Nani is close, he is also a first-class winger.

However, the Portuguese national team, which has the two "magic wings" of C-Ronaldo and Nani, does not have a corresponding "suitable" center forward.In the current Portuguese national team, there are only 29-year-old Almeida and 32-year-old Postiga in the choice of center.

Thinking of this, sometimes C-Ronaldo couldn't help complaining about Victor when he was chatting with Victor in private.Said that Victor changed his position on the field well.If you continue to play forward, although Victor is not the type of center forward.

But think of David Villa of the Spanish national team.Let's look at Victor's shooting ability and scoring efficiency.This can definitely solve the biggest problem in the forward line of the Portuguese national team.But now Victor has secured his position in the midfield.I also want Victor to change his position on the field.

Sorry, what Victor is unwilling to do, no matter how much you persuade him, it is impossible to change it.

After Victor came to Brazil with the Portuguese national team, first of all, of course, everyone should adjust, get rid of the jet lag, and get used to the weather and air in Brazil.Although Brazil is located in the southern hemisphere, it happens to be in winter in the southern hemisphere.But the temperature in Brazil does not feel "winter" at all.Still very suitable for football games.

As the days go by, the opening of the World Cup in Brazil is getting closer and closer.The World Cup finally kicked off at 6 pm local time on June 12.In the first game, of course, the host Brazil national team took the lead, and their opponent was the Croatian national team from Europe.

In the end, the Brazilian national team relied on the current head star Neymar's "scoring twice" and the "Little Golden Man" Oscar's goal in stoppage time to defeat the "Plaid Legion" Croatian national team 3-1.However, at the same time, it is a pity for the fans of the Brazilian national team.

Although the first goal of this World Cup was scored by a player of the Brazilian national team, it was not the gate of the Croatian national team that was broken, but the gate of the Brazilian national team.In the opening 10 minutes of this game, the Croatian national team made a cross from the left. After forward Jelavic rubbed it, Marcelo behind Jelavic made a clearance error and "sent" the football into his national team. Teammate, goalkeeper Cesar is guarding the gate.

And under the slow motion playback, it can be clearly seen that Marcelo of the Brazilian national team is already ready to make a clearance in advance.But what I didn't expect was that Jelavic actually caught the cross.And after a while, it also changed the trajectory of the football flight.

Marcelo, who was prepared in advance, of course had no time to change his way of clearing the siege. As a result, he had no choice but to get "No.1 goal in this World Cup" and "No.1 own goal in this World Cup". "Glorious" "title." And if Jelavic didn't touch the football, Marcelo was a very good relief.

Of course, after seeing Marcelo's clearance and such an "own goal", it will take four full days before he can welcome himself in the Portuguese national team in the first game of the group stage.Naturally, the players of the Portuguese national team watching the TV broadcast immediately burst out laughing "without image".

C-Ronaldo and Pepe, who are the "double teammates" of the national team and the club, immediately patted Coentrao, who also played for Real Madrid, on the shoulder.The meaning of both of them is very obvious. After all, Marcelo and Coentrao have direct competition in the club.

Four days later, the Portuguese national team will face one of the favorites to win the World Cup, the German national team, at the San Juan Stadium in El Salvador.

(End of this chapter)