Chapter 358

Kaka was silent.

Juan's rhetorical question he really couldn't answer.

What is the Confederations Cup? The World Cup is the right thing to do!

Yes, since the Confederations Cup is nothing, it is a friendly for them as a team, and it is really not something to be proud of to live such a friendly level trophy.

"Not to mention the Confederations Cup, what do you think of your performance in this game?" Juan chuckled, "Croatia have a good midfielder, but you have four better ones."

- Croatia's Luka Modric can indeed be called excellent, and when Juan met Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, Ferguson's only request for him was to guard against Modric.

But that one is still growing, and each of these midfielders in Brazil is world-class.

However, during the game, Brazil was almost blown up by this midfielder.

And the worst thing is that Brazil's forward line didn't even make much of a difference, and the goal that decided the outcome was scored by Kaka.

Brazil is very luxurious on the surface, but they actually know what is going on inside themselves – and in the same way, one game is enough for many people to see their current situation.

Outside of the gold and jade, it is ruined.

Kaka was silent for a while and smiled bitterly: "Our performance ...... It should still be possible, right? ”

"It's not bad, either." Juan smiled, "But if you want to go further, you can't rely on those people alone."

Kaka frowned and replied, "I can't either." ”

"You can," Juan said, "you are the rising sun, you are the hope of Brazil's future, you have gone up...... Similarly, you are about to reach your peak, and this World Cup is your first step to soaring. ”

In such a situation, Juan is not over-exaggerating to say "Kaka's chances".

The person on the other end of the line smiled: "Juan, you know I'm not the kind of person who will take the initiative to fight. ”

"I know, you kid wasn't that kind of personality in the first place." Juan sighed lightly, "So I said it was your chance, and it's up to you whether you can grasp it or not...... I'm not asking you to fight, but do you want Brazil to go further? ”

Kaka replied in the affirmative: "Brazil can definitely go further." ”

Juan chuckled, "I know what you think now, let's wait until the next game...... To be honest, seeing that you are so entangled, I just want to introduce you to a young man at this moment, but it is interesting. ”

He knew that Kaka had sensed that something was wrong, and he gave a vague opinion, and it was up to Kaka himself to choose.

Again, only Kaka can make his own decisions.

The two of them changed the topic very tacitly, and Kaka smiled and asked, "How interesting?" ”

He didn't even ask who it was, Juan knew his personality and said with a smile: "Just as interesting as Messi...... No, at least more interesting than Messi right now. ”

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Kaka was stunned for a moment, and then realized: "What about the age?" ”

"It's a little older than Messi, but a few years younger than you." Juan said slowly, "But it's more fun in character." ”

"It's good and it's good for ...... Are you planning to buy it back after the summer? Kaka teased.

"Of course not." Juan smiled, "Although I like him a lot...... But we agreed that he would come to me with the Golden Globes. ”

"The agreement between you is too big, isn't it?"

"No, he can do it." Juan smiled.

After such a game against Angola, Portugal was very calm, and the next three games returned to normal scores, which also made many people look at Portugal with some doubts.

Was their 6-0 really just luck?

But if it's really just luck, why don't Portugal put out that kind of squad anymore?

Compared to the horrors that Portugal brought to other teams, Spain was a surprise all the way. Their team is indeed young, several of them are young men in their early twenties, and they have also become semi-main positions, such a lineup was not favored at the beginning, until after the group stage, everyone was surprised to find that Spain was one of the few teams to win all of them in the group stage!

"We are a young and energetic Spain, and at least for now, we have a lot of hope! Let's look forward to seeing how far the lads can go in this game! ”

Of course, the people of Spain are not the only people who have expectations, in fact, Spain has been dark for a long time, and now it is difficult to see the dawn, and everyone naturally has 120,000 hopes.

- until the draw for the quarterfinals is announced.

After more than half a month of the group stage, the list of the top 16 of the World Cup was released, and many people wanted to smile bitterly after seeing this list.

Hosts Germany, France, Argentina, England, Portugal, Netherlands, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, Ecuador, Australia, Mexico, Sweden, Ukraine, Ghana.

Even in the round of 16, everyone has three grades - the team that they don't want to face the most, the team that plays best, and the team in the middle of the table.

Obviously, Brazil, Argentina, France and Italy are in Pot 1 and Portugal start out in Pot 3, although after the group stage many have suggested that it would be better to put them in Pot 1. If the problem of attacking and defending is weak, Portugal can indeed wrestle with other teams.

Teams like Switzerland, Ecuador, Australia, Mexico, Ukraine, and Ghana are put into the ranks of the best teams, and this group of people is also the opponent that others want to meet the most.

Embarrassingly, young Spain is also classified in this category.

Obviously, the Spanish lads are very angry about this, but they will not choose to say it directly, but use their performance on the pitch to prove whether they are a weak team or not!

— and then they drew to France.

France with Vieri in front, Zinedine Zidane in midfield, and Claude Makelele in the back.

Casillas was a little weak when he called in the past two days, Juan was worried at first, but later learned that it was obvious that everyone was feeling the pressure, so he kept training himself.

Juan was worried: "Just train, don't hurt yourself, and don't overwork." ”

"Yes." Casillas finally lifted his spirits, "Instead of worrying about us, you should worry about yourself...... The Netherlands are not easy opponents to play against. ”

Portugal's opponent is the Netherlands, who have an old acquaintance, Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Juan bowed: "I know." ”

The quarterfinals have a lot more gunpowder than the group stage, and the World Cup is a single-legged system, in a win-or-lose environment, no one can do it with a fluke mentality, and every game has a hint of life-and-death determination.

Hosts Germany went big against Sweden and sent each other home with two goals, but Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic could only watch the goals come into play.

Argentina offered an equally beautiful feast the next night. Compared to the hosts' smooth and fast style of play, Argentina is much lighter.

Their coach has already stated his position at the beginning - "everything is with Riquelme, as long as he plays happily", so this Argentina team has a very strong Riquelme personal style, especially in terms of speed, they are not so fast, on the contrary, there are even some slow, but it is such a slow team, in the first half of the opponent sent two goals, if it was not for a mistake on the Argentine side in the second half, the score would not be 2:1 but 2:0 or even more.

England also sent Ecuador home in the third, with their captain David Beckham netting the only goal, to which Juan even gloated a bit – referring to Rooney's lack of play.

Lu Xiaopang was obviously very depressed, and even complained very rarely when he contacted Juan, but he soon stopped talking - England and Portugal are also likely to be opponents in the quarterfinals, and no matter what they say at this time, it is a leak of information!

However, apparently he came to his senses a little late, and Juan said slowly, "So you are dissatisfied with your manager—"

"Not really!" Chubby was anxious, "Don't talk nonsense!" ”

"What are you afraid of, and there is no one else." Juan paused and narrowed his eyes, "...... It won't be, right? ”

“…… No! His answer was very loud, but the situation was like this, which made Hu Anxin confident - there must be someone on his side!

Why does everyone like to play this trick now...... Isn't it good to play well, why play tricks on each other?

Juan was very emotional: "I look forward to you being beaten until your nose is blue and your face is swollen...... If you can't beat it, I'll do it! ”

“…… Hey, hey! Rooney felt so aggrieved.

Juan was at Everton during his year at Manchester United...... In other words, he was actually beaten all the way by this man, and by the time he arrived at Manchester United, Juan had already left, which he regretted.

And Cristiano, who knew what he thought, patted his chest very buddy and said: Isn't it just to know Juan? Leave it to him!

So after such a back and forth, Juan and Rooney also became acquainted, Chubby was very shy at first, until one time Cristiano inadvertently mentioned the problem about the hairline......

The rampaging little fat man almost beat his teammate, and Juan was stunned but also understood the character of this thing.

…… In fact, he's a rammer too!

After laughing for a while, Rooney seemed to remember something: "Speaking of which, you will play tomorrow...... Are you still here to chat with me? ”

"What's so bad?" Juan blinked, "Although we say we will play tomorrow, but I won't play tomorrow." ”

"Huh?" Rooney was dumbfounded, "Wait, you're not playing?!" ”

There was a commotion on the other end of the line, and Juan could hear someone whispering and urging him to ask what was going on, and he even heard his own familiar voice.

"It's just a joke...... How is it possible not to play? Juan coughed lightly, "But talking to people is one of my ways to relax." ”

England's Wayne Rooney, who has already achieved his current goal and just needs to wait for his team's quarter-final draw, comforted him very seriously: "Come on, it's only 90 minutes in time!" ”

"That's ...... you describe," Juan sighed, "well, that's right. ”

In fact, this is not the first time Portugal have met the Netherlands, in the 04 World Cup, Portugal has already played against the Netherlands, at that time the Netherlands lost in front of Portugal, stopped in the semi-finals.

Will this match be Portugal's continued dominance, or will the Netherlands counterattack?

No one knows what it will be like, but in fact, it is the first matchup since this World Cup.

The Dutch squad is truly impressive – and the same is true if you count their coach.

While preparing in the tunnel of the players, Cristiano probed out to look at the Dutch dugout, and then muttered: "Pretty handsome......"

Figo didn't hear what he was saying, so he decided to slap him in the back, and when Cristiano touched his head and went back, he had time to repeat to Juan: "Van Basten is quite handsome." ”

Juan glanced at him: "And then?" Are you trying to say that Coach Scolari is not handsome? ”

"It's not like that, but I think it's a bit ...... Not so imposing. Cristiano held back his face and thought for a long time to find such an adjective.

"After all, Van Basten is closer to our time." Juan actually wanted to take a look, but held back.

Because at this moment, on the other side of the tunnel, there was a very burning gaze staring at him, which made him want to sigh a little.

…… The main reason why the Netherlands lost is not whether he is good or not, please stop staring at him like this!

Truth be told, Vanney was unlucky.

He has already transferred to Real Madrid, but what he didn't expect was that Juan actually became the coach of Deportivo La Coruna as soon as he turned around, so every time he was defeated by Deportivo La Coruna, he felt even more aggrieved.

He was also one of the few people who was not surprised by Juan's return to the pitch, and even when he first returned to the national team, Ruud van Nistelrooy couldn't wait to shout: the showdown between the two of them is not over yet!

Fortunately, it was he who called it, not through the media to let Juan know, otherwise Juan would not have known how to answer this person's words.

The Netherlands are indeed very strong, and the orange tulip claims to be the uncrowned king, but here's the problem - the Dutch eyes have reached the point where infighting is so well known that it is almost a regular joke in every national team match.

"But Van Basten...... Who are you looking at? Cristiano had already noticed Juan's absent-mindedness, and he forced him to stop discussing the appearance of the two head coaches, looking back at the direction of Juan's gaze, and soon he saw the other party: "Ah, Vanney! ”

His voice made Juan want to sigh even more.

Vanney had a conflict with Cristiano when he was still at Manchester United, and the two sides almost had a fight, and the specific reason Juan also knew, but as soon as he turned around at the European Cup, these two people hooked their shoulders and looked like something, which made Juan only say, it's good that the striker is brainless! Especially when your friend is also a brainless striker......

Cristiano ran to chat with Fanny, the two of them talked lively, and seemed to have made some kind of agreement, and when he came back, Cristiano was already full of excitement, waving his fists and looking interested: "Juan, we want to give Holland a little bit of power!" ”

"How?" Juan patted him on the head, "What did you two just say that irritated you?" ”

"Ruud van Nistelrooy said we were nothing more than that, and that we were bullying the underdogs......" Cristiano painted a picture and deliberately mimicked the tone of his voice, which honestly he didn't look like at all but was funny, but it was enough.

Juan took it seriously, he glanced at Fanny and asked in a low voice, "Did he really say that?" ”

"That's right!" Cristiano was elated, "What, are we going to teach them a lesson?!" ”

"Okay."

"We'll be on the pitch a little bit later...... Wait, you say okay? Cristiano was stunned for a moment, and finally reacted, "Really?!" ”

Juan smiled and patted the young man's head: "Wait a minute, pay attention to the run, I won't remind you a second time." ”

"Good, good!!" The young man was obviously very excited, and nodded again and again, indicating that he would definitely pay attention! "By the way, should we both come up with a celebratory move?"

"......" Juan narrowed his eyes, "what do you want to do?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just to stimulate Fanny......" Cristiano smiled.

"Welcome to Nuremberg to watch the fourth match of the World Cup quarter-finals, Portugal vs. Netherlands!!"

"Portugal and the Netherlands can be said to have a long-standing feud, the two teams often meet in all competitions, which makes people have to sigh a word of fate, but it is also worth mentioning that it seems that in the games they meet, the Netherlands have the upper hand several times, and Portugal can always be better."

'Van Basten is a good player, but he's not big enough in the coaching field, so let's see how far he can go when the game starts!'

"The players of the two teams have gathered in the players' tunnel, and the players who know each other do not know if they will say two provocative words when they greet each other? Ouch...... It seems that it will, we have already seen Ruud van Nistelrooy looking at the back of the Portuguese team with a staring gaze, who is he staring at, Juan Dias? Or Cristiano Ronaldo? If I want me to say that he should be glaring at Ronaldo, after all, part of the reason he left Manchester United was because he ......"

If Vanney could hear this explanation, he would definitely be holding the other man by the collar and yelling.

He was indeed glaring at Cristiano Ronaldo!

But that's because this stinky boy wants to run in front of him to celebrate after scoring a goal!

And to pull Juan Díaz along!

It's so deceitful!!

If it weren't for the brawl before the game started, he would definitely not even be able to go up to the court, and Fanny would have wanted to give that kid a beating......

Figo also felt the murderous aura, he glanced back at his heart, and at the same time helplessly called Carvalho over to stand in the back.

There is nothing else that means, that Juan and Cristiano can have someone to protect them when they want to come to fight on the other side......

Carvalho didn't know the deeper meaning, he just thought that his captain wanted him to go to the back and watch the two of them not make any trouble, so when he stood in the back, he was very serious, which made Juan and Cristiano a little baffled.

What happened?

The two of them originally wanted to tease Carvalho, but Juan's face turned pale, and suddenly the whole person pulled out of his relaxed state, looking like he didn't want to pay attention to anyone, Cristiano was a little inexplicable at first, but soon found the reason under Juan's eyes - the camera came.

The pre-match live broadcast is a common practice in major events, especially in the player tunnel, this time it came suddenly, fortunately Juan reacted quickly and was not photographed, while Cristiano and Vanney, who reacted more slowly, were more miserable.

"Both teams played...... We can see that Portugal seems to be hesitating between playing the youth storm and continuing to believe in the veterans, their starting line-up is exactly the same as in the first game, no one has changed, Ricardo; Valente, Carvalho, Canella, Ferreira; Costinha, Juan Díaz, Deco, Figo; Cristiano Ronaldo, Gomez...... Familiar lineup, familiar formation, Portugal is finally willing to use this formation again! ”

"Juan Díaz and Deco are finally on the pitch together again, and the combination of the two is unforgettable, but I'm more curious now if Portugal have solved the problem of possession, and when these two were on the pitch together, we could clearly see Juan's concessions, maybe it was this team spirit that allowed Portugal to achieve the feat of six goals."

The Dutch team also fielded their strongest squad - Van der Sar; Alines, Bolaruz, Mathiesen, Van Brondhorst; Van Bommel, van der Vaart, Robben; Van Nistelrooy, Kuyt, Van Persie. ”

"It's really surprising, it seems that Van Basten is much more daring than we thought, he brought in a group of infighting players and also a young goalscorer! Van Persie made 28 appearances for Arsenal last season, scoring 12 spectacular goals for Premier League fans, so I wonder if he can surprise us in the national team. Let's wait and see! 166 Reading Network