Chapter 30: Rushed Transfers and the World Cup

On June 5th, a week before the official start of the World Cup in Brazil, a big news suddenly broke out in European football!

Blackburn have officially announced the departure of Suarez, and the Uruguayan will join La Liga FC Barcelona. The official statement of the fastest update of the Blackburn Rovers club www.biquge.info the pen fun pavilion said that the team and Barcelona reached an agreement on Suarez's transfer fee, and Suarez will officially land in La Liga.

Shortly after the announcement on Blackburn's official website, Barcelona also officially announced the arrival of Suarez, who will sign a five-year contract with Barcelona, and he will go to the Barcelona club for a medical examination as soon as the end of the World Cup to complete the official signing. According to Barcelona's official website, Suarez will wear the number 9 shirt.

According to Spanish media such as "As", "Daily Sport", and "World Sports", Suarez's transfer fee is as high as 91 million pounds, that is, 110 million euros, which officially breaks the 90 million pounds transfer fee created by Ronaldo when he transferred to Real Madrid, which also shows more ambition of Barcelona.

Suarez explained his choice through Blackburn Rovers: "Coming to Spain, where my wife's family lives, playing too much football has always been my dream and I think now is the right time. ”

Of Blackburn, Suarez said: "My family and friends and I love this team dearly, especially the fans there. ”

Suarez is one of the best strikers in Europe today, scoring no fewer than 10 goals a season with Groningen, Ajax and Blackburn, and he has also been named the top scorer in the Eredivisie and Premier League. Barcelona's forward line for the new season will feature two South American goalscorers, Messi and Suarez.

For Suarez's deal, many football insiders felt a little surprised, because in previous years in a major year like the World Cup, the transfer of a superstar like Suarez would definitely be finalized after the World Cup, but Blackburn was a little rushed this time.

In fact, Suarez's deal was ordered by Arthur to be completed as soon as possible, because Arthur was not sure that Suarez would "continue" his biting scene at the World Cup.

In the previous life, Suarez's transfer to Barcelona was after the World Cup "biting" turmoil, when he suffered a global ban for seven months, and his transfer fee to Barcelona finally reached 80 million pounds, and Suarez, who has not been punished by a seven-month ban in this life, increased his transfer fee by 10 million pounds, and in order to surpass the transfer fee of his archrival Ronaldo, Barcelona took out the 91 million pounds It is still relatively refreshing.

However, Arthur also has to sigh that Barcelona is really a little bit more childish than Real Madrid, because the 91 million pounds Barcelona will not be paid all at once, but will be paid in three installments, the first 36 million pounds have been paid to Blackburn's account, and the remaining 55 million pounds will be paid in two installments in February and August 2015.

Arthur's decision to let Suarez go was to avoid suffering from his biting storm in his previous life, on the one hand, the punishment of a seven-month global ban made Blackburn suffer a lot in terms of strength, and on the other hand, Arthur did not like the negative impact that Suarez brought to the club because of the bite.

As for the impact of Suarez's departure on the team's declining strength, Arthur is not worried, because the team already has enough candidates to replace him.

After Suarez's transfer was completed, all the attention of football was naturally on the World Cup in Brazil

In 2014, Scolari led what has been called the most mediocre Brazilian team in history to the World Cup, they are five-star Brazil, they are the hosts, and they are to be crowned again.

The man who originally sat in Scolari's position was supposed to be Mano Menezes, but after Brazil's defeat to Mexico at the 12 Olympics, Menezes' coaching journey came to an end. Menezes was a passing visitor to Brazilian football and he left no mark other than his name.

Scolari was ordered to do so. Brazil's talents, led by Neymar, are eager to regain the glory of their predecessors, and the World Cup in Brazil is coming.

On June 13, 2014, Brazil played Croatia, and the host country kicked off the World Cup.

The first match was a bit funny, with own goals, fake falls, controversial penalties and classic goals, and the Brazilians took away the victory amid the doubts of the fans.

In the second game against Mexico, this was a game that belonged to goalkeeper Ochoa, Brazil dominated the whole game, 14 shots on goal, 6 shots were resolved by Ochoa, Neymar's powerful header was saved by Ochoa, at this moment, Ochoa is like Banks, but Neymar is not Pele. The Brazilian players couldn't believe their eyes, and the blessed land of Fortaleza became Scolari's nightmare.

After a big win over Cameroon, Brazil made it out of the group smoothly. In the quarterfinals, in the cheers of the home fans, the Brazilian team eliminated Chile with a difficult penalty kick by the courage of goalkeeper Cesar, and Neymar hugged Scolari after the game and burst into tears.

David Luiz's brilliant free-kick sent Brazil to the last four, but captain Thiago Silva's cumulative yellow card suspension and Neymar's serious injury overshadowed the Brazilians' joy as they made it to the final?

There was a thunder in the flat, and no one thought that Neymar, the absolute core of the Brazilian team, the host of this World Cup, would bid farewell to this World Cup in such a way.

Perhaps, in the 87th minute of this game, the moment Neymar screamed and fell to the ground, no one would have thought that his injury would be so serious, even if Scolari, who was standing on the sidelines at the time, did the worst, I am afraid that this moment would become Neymar's swan song in this World Cup.

About two hours after the end of the game, the local Brazilian hospital officially announced after an examination that Neymar's injury was so serious that he said goodbye to this World Cup completely, and the hospital found that Neymar had a rupture injury to the third vertebrae, fortunately did not hurt the nerves, but it was impossible to return to the World Cup. Doctors said that Neymar needs to stay in bed for a month and turn over as little as possible.

So, looking back and thinking about it, what kind of violent impact caused Neymar to be so seriously injured?

Recreate the scene when Neymar of the Colombian player Suniga team fouled at that time: Neymar was fighting for the high ball at that time, but this was a "black and hard" Suniga also plugged in from behind to compete for the top, but because the speed was too fast, the impact was too great, and the amplitude of Neymar's jump was not large, which led to the fact that Suniga could not "brake" after jumping high, and his strong body fell heavily on Neymar's back from the air, and more seriously, the iron knee of Suniga's right leg hit Neymar's back hard, This time, it was facing Neymar's third vertebrae, which directly led to the latter's rupture injury, and he fell heavily to the ground after a scream.

In response to this extremely terrifying collision foul, after the game, Brazil coach Scolari directly described it as a "hunt", which shows the seriousness of the situation, and Suniga has become the target of fans and media because of the "fatal iron knee" behind it.

Even if Arthur has long been aware that Neymar may miss some of Blackburn's early games in the new season like he did in the previous life, Neymar will not be abandoned by Arthur unlike Suarez, in fact, Arthur will not abandon any meritorious player at will until a replacement is found.

Brazilians should be thankful that defending champions Spain, who are seen as their biggest rivals for the title, have returned home early. As the most successful national team of the decade, they endured a nightmare of three matches. Against the Netherlands, the first half was calm and Alonso's calm penalty was not yet the defending champions to take the lead.

Until Van Persie's miraculous leap to the top, the ball made a beautiful arc over Casillas's head and then went into the net at such high speed, that even at this point no one would believe that this was the beginning of the Spaniard's nightmare.

When Peter Pan Robben locked the score at 5:1, when he dribbled past Casillas, everyone could clearly see the traces of years on San Cassie's face from that close-up An era is over.

Every era has its own story, and the story of Spain is finished.

After the defeat to Chile, Bosque's team boarded an early flight back to Madrid.

Perhaps a tragic fate was destined in the blood of the matadors, whose end was written at the moment of the death of the old commander Aragonés.

Also getting old is Forlan, with Suarez the only hope up front in Uruguay. But Suarez, who is not calm, buried his World Cup journey by himself, facing the Italian game, Suarez made contact with Chiellini in the scramble, and he bit the opponent's shoulder with a bite, which ate the Italian team's hope of qualifying, and also ate his World Cup road.

Uruguay, who lost their number one star, were unable to continue the magic of four years ago, and they were beaten by Colombia, the new hope of South American football. Tavares and his children also went home early.

Waiting for the hosts, Brazil, is Germany.

Loew's German team has shown the world perfectly how German football has changed in this decade, and they are so strong that they have few weaknesses. After successfully qualifying from the group, Algeria, who had limited strength, gave Germany their biggest challenge, with goals from Mesut Ozil and Schurrle saving Loew and allowing them to move on. Gallic roosters were waiting for them.

Hummels' tricky header ended France's coronation, and it is gratifying that after Zidane, French football has finally ushered in a new round of talent blowout, and these big boys are looking forward to blooming two years from now.

Thus, Brazil and Germany met. The last time they encountered it was in Japan in 2002. Ronaldo is Brazil's hero. But German football has been quietly changing and getting better and better since '02, and Brazil lost themselves in the golden age after '02.

I don't know how to describe this game, I don't know what Ronaldo's mood was in the camera when Klose scored his 16th goal in the World Cup, and I don't know if Oscar had mixed feelings after scoring the face-saving goal? I wonder if the whole of Brazil was sad when the old man in the stands hugged the replica Hercules Cup tightly?

In short, that night will be a scar that Brazilian football will never heal.

Messi and his Argentina seem to be on the verge of replicating Maradona's 86-year-old magic, and Messi, who has opened his World Cup goal account, has no hope that this final will be a repeat of 1990. However, when Gotze scored the winner in the 113th minute of extra time, Messi's hopes of being crowned the World Cup slowly slipped into the abyss as football rolled.

Germany took over the banner of the era from Spain, and it was a completely new era. (To be continued.) )