Chapter 138: "Keeping" and "Playing"

At 8 p.m. on the 12th, the Olympic Stadium in Tianhe District, GZ City, with a capacity of 80,000 people, was full, and even rumors of infectious diseases could not dampen the enthusiasm of the fans.

Outside the stadium, there are still many fans who have not bought tickets, holding homemade cards that "ask for tickets at a high price", pitifully looking forward to it.

If it was just an ordinary national team game, it would be difficult to attract so many fans to the scene.

But tonight's opponent of the Chinese team is five-star Brazil, which has just lifted the fifth Hercules Cup. World-famous superstars such as Carlos and Rivaldo, as well as a teenage genius who is only 16 years and 235 days old and half Chinese.

And this teenage talent is likely to break the record for youngest appearance and youngest goal in the Brazilian national team held by the football king Pele, which is incredible!

Last year, the high-spirited Chinese team entered the World Cup finals for the first time under the leadership of Milu Old Man, and countless Chinese fans were looking forward to it and had high hopes for this national team.

However, the Chinese team lost all three games in the group stage of the World Cup, with a net of 9 bombs and no goals.

The bloody reality poured cold water on the fans, and also made them realize the gap between Chinese football and the world's advanced level.

Negative evaluations and pessimistic views of Chinese football became popular for a while, "Chinese are not suitable for playing football, this is determined by race", "Chinese football has not played for a hundred years", "I will not watch Chinese football in the future, concentrate on watching Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga, Premier League" and other remarks are very loud, and even the ball market with the Chinese A League is becoming more and more bleak.

At this time, a star with half Chinese ancestry was selected for the Brazilian national team, which undoubtedly injected a shot in the arm for fans who love Chinese football.

Although no matter how well Ricardo plays, he has nothing to do with the Chinese team, but at least Ricardo's success proves that Chinese can play football as well.

So before the game started, the fans at the scene excitedly shouted the names of the stars on the field, among which the most shouted was not Ronaldo, not the players of the Chinese team, but Li Cardo.

"So you're so popular in China!" Standing in the players' tunnel, Ronaldo smiled at Ricardo beside him.

"Actually, I'm more popular in São Paulo."

"I really want to see you standing next to me in a blue and black quiver shirt and being shouted by tens of thousands of fans." Ronaldo sighed.

"There will be a day, definitely." Ricardo said confidently.

The Chinese players appeared on the other side of the tunnel and several Chinese players greeted Ronaldo, Robert. Carlos and other big names say hello.

But firstly, the pronunciation is different, and secondly, Ronaldo, Robert. Carlos and the others were still a little reserved, and the two sides didn't communicate much.

Soon someone turned a curious gaze to Ricardo.

"I heard you can speak Chinese?" An abrupt voice rang out.

Li Cardo followed the prestige, speaking one of China's biggest stars at this time, with his excellent performance in the World Cup, he was called up by the Premier League Manchester City team to join Sun Zhihai.

Sun Jiehai looked like a curious baby at this time, and his face was full of the confident brilliance of a young man.

He is a year younger than Ronaldo, and now he is only 25 years old, which is the most energetic age.

Li Cardo replied in standard Chinese Mandarin, "Hello Brother Sun." ”

Sun Jiehai's eyes widened, and he had a ghostly expression: "You...... Hello! ”

Ricardo smiled: "Why are you so surprised, don't I look like a Chinese?" ”

Sun looked at him a few times from the sea: "It's really quite similar, but you can still clearly see the characteristics of foreigners." ”

"Honestly, I think you're pretty foreign-looking." Ricardo said seriously.

Sun Jiehai was amused: "That's right, in your eyes, I am indeed a foreigner, this logic is fine." ”

After laughing, Sun Jiehai blessed: "Kick well, I hope you can break the record." ”

"Whether I can play or not," Ricardo shrugged, "Brother Sun is the main force today." ”

'I played left wing-back today. I remember your habit of being a left winger, right? I guess we won't be able to touch it today. ”

"That's not good, in fact, I can play all positions in the front court, it depends on how the manager arranges." Ricardo said vaguely.

By this time they had arrived at the pitch, the two nodded goodbye to each other, and Ricardo walked to the bench for the Brazilian team.

Yes, he didn't start today. In the star-studded Brazilian team, with his current strength, he is not enough to start.

Brazil's lineup today is 4231, goalkeeper Dida, defender is Roberto Brown. Carlos, Anderson. Polgar, Luison and Cafu, the two backs continued the two Kleberson and Gilberto who won the World Cup, and a little ahead are the three "No. 10" players. Robert was on the left, Rivaldo was on the right, Ronaldinho was in the middle, and Ronaldo was in front.

The lineup of the Chinese team is also 4231, but the three positions in front of the back are more open and more backward, the goalkeeper is Liu Yunfei, the defenders are Yang Pu, Zheng Zhi, Li Weifeng and Wei Xin, the double back Zhao Junzhe and Li Ti, the front waist Qi Hong, Sun Jiehai and Li Xiaopeng are separated, and Li Yi is at the front.

It can also be seen from the personnel arrangement that the newly appointed Chinese team coach Ali. Han's tactics are mainly defensive, ensuring that he does not concede too many goals in front of more than a billion viewers across the country, at least not to stage another 0:4 fiasco.

In fact, he thought too much, from Pereira to ordinary substitute players in the Brazilian team, no one took this game seriously at all, except for a few fringe players, the rest only regarded this game as an opportunity to travel to China.

From the start of the game, the Brazilian team firmly occupied the initiative on the field, but they did not rush to attack, slowed down the tempo, and showed off their skills quite frequently, even if they hit the penalty area, they did not rush to shoot, but slowly fell to the ground.

If the guiding ideology of the Chinese team is "keeping", then the guiding ideology of the Brazilian team is "playing".

They received money to play this game, so naturally it was not good to lose the face of the host, so all the main forces appeared; But it's impossible to give it their all for a show-like game, and they won't risk injury, given that most of the members of this Brazilian team come from the big five European leagues, and the big five leagues and the Champions League are in full swing.

But they have to be worthy of the high appearance fee, so they just "play", just show off their skills, as long as they play well, no one can accuse them of anything.