However, before the Prato team's trip to China began, Chen Lin first flew to the United States, and this summer, an unavoidable topic was the 1994 World Cup in the United States. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Since entering the football circle, Chen Lin has become more and more interested in him, and it is not too much to say that he is obsessed. Although he knows almost all the results of the game, now that he has money, he wants to feel the atmosphere of the World Cup live. And during the Spring Festival this year, Chen Lin promised the Jianlibao players who could not go home for the New Year because of the busy game, as long as they train hard and play hard, he will select three best players to go to the United States with him to watch the World Cup after the season.

Now is the time to deliver on the promise, and in the end, the best three performers are Zhang Xiaorui, Sun Chenghai and Li Weifeng. As a result, before the trip was completed, Li Liuyu, who got the news, pestered Chen Lin, complaining that Chen Lin was treated differently, saying that he would go back to the youth team to play football if he knew him, and Chen Lin was so angry that he pointed at this guy and couldn't speak. In the end, Chen Lin wanted to lead a cow to raise, and to lead two cows to drive, so he simply brought him and Li Tie with him. So Chen Lin and five Jianlibao players rushed to the United States before the start of the World Cup on June 18.

On June 18, 1994, the opening match was played between Germany, the last World Cup winner, and Bolivia, the "highland tour", and the veteran German team finally got off to a good start with a 1-0 victory.

The reason why the elderly German was able to get through the danger has a lot to do with the Bolivian "devil" Echeverri being sent off with a red card after 5 minutes on the field, which is also the biggest "highlight" of this game. In this World Cup, in order to follow FIFA's commitment to "severely punish the tackle in the back", the opening game naturally became a benchmark to measure the referee's penalty scale, so Echeverri became the first unlucky "guinea pig", which also led to the early exit of Bolivia, which belonged to half of the home game, and the "devil" who was suspended for two games did not have the opportunity to show his talent to the world, and Echeverri became the most hurried passerby in the World Cup with a record of 5 minutes.

This World Cup gave birth to many topics, such as the "persecution" of Maradona. In the Americas qualifiers for the World Cup last year, Argentina performed sluggishly all the way, first losing to Colombia 1:2 away, and then being forced to draw 0:0 by Paraguay at home, and was forced to finally play against Colombia at home, only to be humiliated by Colombia 5:0, and could only play the play-offs with Australia. The Australian team was actually very strong at that time, with the main goalkeeper Bosnich who had just helped Aston Villa win the League Cup, and Zelik, who was known as the "Australian Beckenbauer", and once Argentina made any mistakes in these two life-and-death battles, Argentina could miss the World Cup for the first time since 1970.

At this time, Maradona, who was already in semi-seclusion, moved from Sevilla to Newells Old Boys, losing 11 kilograms in a week, and finally caught up with these two life-and-death battles. In the first game, he assisted Balboa to help Argentina draw with Australia on the road, and then he led Argentina to a 1-0 home win over Australia, and finally eliminated Australia with a score of 2:1 over two legs to reach the World Cup final.

After the start of the World Cup in the United States, they first defeated the Eastern European powerhouse Greece 4-0, and then faced what may be the strongest Nigerian team in history, the Nigerian team with super individual ability and athleticism later almost put Italy in a desperate situation in the knockout round, if it wasn't for Baggio's equalizing goal in the 88th minute, maybe the sad Italian team would not have been seen in the final. But such a Nigerian team is completely at a disadvantage in the face of Argentina led by the old horse, and the Nigerian players even need to take turns to take defensive actions beyond the limit of the old horse, and put down the old horse 8 times in the whole game, but he still can't limit his control of the whole situation, and has to accept the fate of defeat 1:2.

The lineup of this Argentine team is recognized as not losing to the final champion Brazil, "Son of the Wind" Caginha, "God of War" Batistuta, "Argentine Prince" Redondo, "Little Donkey" Ortega, in addition to Simeone, Balboa, Chamotte, San Sini, Rodriguez, Goyechea, all of which are resounding names around Maradona.

However, on the way to the post-match urine test accompanied by a nurse, Maradona looked so happy after the victory. But that very same night, both of his urine samples were positive. This time, it wasn't caucaine that brought him down, but meadine. On June 28, FIFA announced that Maradona had been banned for the match against Nigeria after testing positive for the banned ingredient melangin, an ingredient found in many cold medicines. In the next two games, Argentina without Maradona was judged to be two teams, losing 0-2 to Bulgaria, and was eliminated by Romania 3-2 in the 1/8 finals. On July 3, at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, Maradona witnessed the team's exit, burying his head in the arms of his wife Claudia and crying bitterly for his last World Cup.

In addition to Maradona, there are actually many tragic figures in this World Cup, such as German midfielder "Tiger" Effenberg, who played for Fiorentina last season. In the last game of Group C, Germany vs. South Korea, the defending champion Germany was scored two goals in succession by South Korea, and it was still precarious until the second half, so in the 75th minute of the second half, Eeffenberg, who had a poor performance, was replaced by head coach Vogtz with Helmer.

As a result, when Effenberg came off the field, more than 10,000 German fans who were dissatisfied with the team's performance booed the "Tiger". The boos from the fans seemed to infuriate Effenberg, who walked off the pitch and did not return to the dressing room directly from the players' tunnel after the manager's handshake, but rushed directly to the stands where the German fans were, smiling and extending his middle finger to the crowd!

When Effenberg's actions were captured on camera and sent to the world via television signals, the fans in the stands and in front of the TV were all furious! They called the media and television after the game, and of course the Football Association, to express their dissatisfaction with Effenberg's "insulting move".

FIFA, which has always been sluggish, also made a quick decision this time, and after carefully watching the video of the game, banned the "tiger" from participating in all the next World Cup events in Germany on the grounds that he had "insulted fans" on the field.

Effenberg is a rare handsome talent in the German national team after Schuster and Mateus, he runs aggressively, has a broad vision and a strong style of play on the field, but he also has the same problem as his predecessors - arrogance.

So when the proud Effenberg was booed by the fans in his country, the inherent pride of the tiger did not allow himself to suffer this "humiliation", and the middle finger incident happened under such circumstances.

The impact of this "middle finger incident" on Effenberg is far more than the hostility of fans, and the FIFA ban punishment is only a trivial matter, but unfortunately this incident happened in Germany, which emphasizes team discipline very much, even the talented player Schuster of the year, because of the discord with the national team coach and the German Football Association at the time, and the national team for a long time without the national team, from the fame and personal charm is far inferior to Schuster's "tiger" The fate of the German team is self-explanatory: Germany coach Vogts announced on the spot at a press conference after the game that Eeffenberg would be expelled from Germany's squad for the World Cup in the United States, and the first and last World Cup trip of the "Tigers" ended hastily.

The subsequent punishment by the German Football Association was even more severe: in view of Stefan Effenberg's provocative and insulting behavior in the 75th minute of the final round of Group C against South Korea in the 15th World Cup, we announced that Effenberg would be expelled from the national team forever and would never be hired!

Chen Lin took Jianlibao's five little guys to watch the game throughout the game, Chen Lin naturally disagreed with Effenberg's actions, but he was also sympathetic to his experience, if it were not in Germany, which was disciplined by nature, but in France, Britain and other countries, maybe Effenberg would not have missed the World Cup stage, after all, the mistakes made by people like Cantona, Nasri and others were not necessarily lighter than Effenberg, but there were no such serious consequences. And the "boo" of the fans on the sidelines is not necessarily very civilized, many of them have insulting words to the relatives of the players, how can a player with personality receive this, think about Zidane's tepid temper can do things like Materazzi in the World Cup finals, it proves that this kind of thing is unbearable for the old men of any country and nation.

Chen Lin remembers that in history, Everentina, where Eeffenberg played, would also sprinkle a handful of salt on the wounds of the German "tiger", and they also expelled Eeffenberg from the team for this reason, and Eeffenberg, who had no one to accept, could only return to his parent club Borussia Mönchengladbach, which had cultivated him.

Such a memory made Chen Lin suddenly inspired, and he seemed to have an electric current in his heart. He has never dared to consider those big-name stars who have already made a name for themselves, because most of the big gods in the small temple of Prato can't invite these big gods, but he ignored that some big gods have bad luck in history, so it seems that Maradona can consider it. It's just that Effenberg's nationality seems to be a bit problematic, and what is their salary, is their personality suitable for Prato? There are a lot of questions to consider......