After Santoldo got up with the ball, he immediately threw the football vigorously to the right midfielder Stankovic, and the Serbian and Montenegro midfielder crossed the halfway line and found Recoba.

When it comes to the most favored player in world football today but has never been able to become a big player, Uruguayans want to call the second in the world, and no one dares to say first. His career history and growth pattern may be an eternal mystery in international football.

Álvaro Recoba, who is 30 years old this year, has the nickname of 'Chinese boy', which was given by the Italians, and of course he does not have a drop of Chinese blood, but the Italians think he looks very 'Chinese'. Chinese fans wondered, why did he look like a Chinese? Why can't we see it?

Well, non-principled issues, we don't care, just be happy. Besides, Recoba isn't a nuisance.

Nine years ago, the youthful Recoba came to Inter Milan, he not only pinned on the high hopes of President Moratti, but also the pride of the whole world and the entire Serie A, with the highest annual salary in the world, Moratti's dearest son, year after year, he has survived countless superstar partners around him, but the Nerazzurri are still looking forward to his rapid growth.

Nothing is lacking, Recoba is good in terms of technical awareness, speed pattern, and transmission and control, but he has never been able to achieve great success. Many years later, people analyzed the Recobar phenomenon and said everything, from style to character, from body to life, but none of them could be explained thoroughly. It is unreasonable that a player of his caliber has not reached the pinnacle of football, and many people have lamented it.

Strange to say, Recoba's best year was his loan spell at Venezia, and in the first half of 1999, no one in Serie A could stop him, and the talented Uruguayan was one of the most glamorous flowers in the world during those six months.

But after being recalled by Inter Milan in the summer of the same year, Recoba sank quickly and inexplicably, decadent for no reason. At that time, Inter's forward line was firmly controlled by Ronaldo, Zamorano and Baggio, and they could not give Recoba, who was not in good form, a chance to adjust. And so he was like that from then on, never to reach the heights of that spring.

Unbeknownst to the world, and unknown to Recoba himself, after his return to Inter, in the autumn of 1999, the Chinese boy encountered his bottleneck, just like Zhuo Yang in the last month of 2003. But Recoba was unlucky, there was no master to give him guidance, Inter did not give him enough opportunities to play, after more than half a year of bottleneck, Recoba has never been able to get through his second line, he stayed in front of the wall, forever stopped there.

Although Recoba's form has rebounded since then, it is impossible to become the top player in world football. It's a pity to think about it, if Recoba can break through smoothly back then, at the age of 23, he will become the youngest breakthrough after Zhuo Yang. According to Baggio's analysis, the shorter the time and the younger the breakthrough, the higher the achievement will be in the future. You know, Maradona only made a breakthrough when he was 24 years old, and it took him three months.

Of course, no one knows all this. Recoba's performance on the pitch has also been oscillating between the king of the ball and the A-level, and how the state switches has nothing to do with the strength of the opponent, even he himself does not know which mode the next game will be.

Don't talk about these salty and light, let's talk about the game.

Rekoba won the ball and sprinted off the line, without slowing down or feints, but the rudimentary change of direction threw Zhirkov aside. If you don't break through the bottleneck, you can't break through, Recoba is still a first-class master who is frightening.

Zhirkov is a mute eater of coptis, and the audience can only see that he is as stupid as a cow and is easily passed by Rykoba, but they don't know what happened to him. Not only is Zhirkov an incredible drinker, he is a strong player on the wing, and his defensive ability is one of the best in the Madiborg team. He was just confused by Recoba's eyes and the feint of the slight shaking of his shoulders, and he couldn't adjust his body's center of gravity for a while, so he was deflated.

The master of technique is not only the cross flower arrangement under the soles of the feet and the twisted twist of the waist, but also the eyes, expressions, facial features, and shoulders are all used, and they are as natural and smooth as breathing. This kind of master is hard to find, and Madibao, which is full of technical demons, is Zhuo Yang.

With such an explanation, it is easy to understand that Zhirkov was teased, right?

With a small inward cut, Recoba slammed a left-footed shot from 25 yards out, and his left-footed ability was nothing short of astonishing. But today, Madiburg goalkeeper Handanovic did not let Recoba specialize in the United States, and a dashing side save blocked the football from the bottom line.

Goalkeepers are divided into attack type, game type, penalty area type, crazy type, neurotic type and social type, etc., Handanovic belongs to the serious goal-line type, his goal-line technology has been almost perfect, clever reaction and solid basic skills to ensure the safety of the goal, want to use a long shot to break the goal of the hero, basically rely on character and metaphysics.

In the 27th minute of the first half, the 19-year-old Slovak did not panic, and two years of polishing in the Bundesliga gave him a big heart beyond his peers. Hamsik turned over and took two steps with the ball, and suddenly made a sharp stop to flash a position, and a long ball went straight into the Inter penalty area.

Fighting with musketeers Gomez for the header was Inter's vice-captain, Colombian Iván Córdoba.

Córdoba's skills at the back are top-notch, and basically no striker in the world can please him in front of him. But he has one of the biggest weaknesses - not being tall enough. So even if Córdoba's header is good, he can't get a header with Gomez's 189 at 173, which is a bit of a bully.

In desperation, Córdoba, who did not suffer in strength, used a stealthy small movement to pull Gomez and squeeze it aside, and the experience of being nine years older played a role, and the musketeer was so bad that he had no temper.

But today's referee, Frenchman Alaine Saas, had a keen eye and Córdoba's small tricks could not escape his vision, and Saas immediately called the whistle for a foul, and the spot was on the penalty line.

The Inter generals are a little nervous, and Zhuo Yang's free-kick skills are known all over the world, even more famous than his own family Recoba's free-kicks, and he is chasing his semi-retired teammate and the king of free kicks, Mihajnovic.

Recoba limped back a little to build the wall, he had just shot a little thigh muscle, but it wasn't in the way. "Referee, where is the foul? Some physical contact is normal, isn't it? Relying on his pride, Recoba complained at Saas. Also a world-renowned free-kick master, Recoba didn't want Zhuo Yang to steal the limelight in Meacha.

"Stand back!" Sass rarely talks nonsense on the pitch and rarely explains his decisions to anyone.

Recoba was bored and reluctantly turned away and walked away, but he muttered, "Awesome! Show that you can, why do you want to line the forbidden area? It's easier for you to give a penalty. ”

Broken mouths are always annoying, and Sass didn't hesitate to throw a yellow card at Recoba.