The referee blew the whistle three times to announce that the game was over, and Ricardo went to exchange jerseys with Ronaldo.

Cristiano Ronaldo is in tears. Seeing Ricardo coming, he wiped his eyes and said in a hoarse voice, "The next time we meet, I will take revenge." ”

Ricardo smiled, "Welcome to the challenge." As he spoke, he handed over his jersey.

Ronaldo carefully took over Ricardo's jersey, took off his jersey to Ricardo, and suddenly said: "Actually, my idol is your brother." ”

"It's not surprising that my idol is also him." Ricardo said casually.

"One day, I will let people know that there is more than one Ronaldo in the world."

In a few years, you will be the only Ronaldo active in football. Ricardo didn't say that.

He just smiled and patted Ronaldo's shoulder: "Go for it!" ”

"You're also my target, although I'm not your opponent yet," Ronaldo's eyes were red, but his eyes were firm, "but I'll catch up with you sooner or later." ”

"I believe that. Okay, let's go. Ricardo turned and walked towards the players' tunnel.

Unsurprisingly, he was stopped by reporters to answer a few questions briefly.

"I think Portugal are a strong team, they have their own characteristics. Today we didn't win easily. ”

"The biggest reason for winning is that we have a specific set of things for their tactics and personnel, and they work very well."

"Portugal's best player? Figo, he's a team-mate at my club and I know him very well and he has the ability to change the game on his own. And Cristiano Ronaldo, who's young, but he's playing really well, and I think he can be the best player in the world, close to the heights of Ronnie. ”

"Of the younger generation, I think the people most likely to reach Ronnie's heights are Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi of Argentina. They are talented and hard enough. ”

"Me? I'm so thankful that I can reach half the height of Ronnie. ”

"Our opponents in the final are Italy, who are the best teams in the world, so we will be very careful against them. They have the best defence in the world, we happen to have the best attacking line in the world, so I think it's going to be a good fight. ”

"Predict the score? I think it should be 2:0 and we won. ”

"Transfers? I haven't thought about it yet, but I'll look into it with my agent after the World Cup. ”

"Yes, I heard from my agent that the club has received several offers. But I reiterate that I won't be thinking about a move until the World Cup is over. ”

Back in the dressing room, the players were celebrating their arrival in the final. Ricardo joined the celebration and drenched Pereira with champagne as he prepared to attend a press conference.

In the post-match press conference, Pereira and Scolari looked sympathetic and complimented each other.

"Portugal are a fighting team, but apart from Deco and Figo, they lack big names. Scolari's ability to bring the team here is a testament to his quality. ”

"The score of 3:1 does not fully reflect the difference in strength between the two sides. I think our advantage is very weak. The lads worked very hard and we had some luck as well. ”

"I don't think there's anything wrong with the referee's decision, any referee will give a penalty to Ricardo's goal."

'I wish Scolari the best of luck at Euro 2008.

Scolari also lavished praise on the Brazilian team. 'The lads work hard, but we do have a quality gap with Brazil. If Ronaldo is here, this team will be the strongest team in history. Even in Ronaldo's absence, this Brazil team is terrifyingly strong. Ricardo has become one of the best players in the world and we were beaten by him today. ”

"Losing to Brazil was our lack of skill and I don't have much to say. I think Cristiano Ronaldo should have been given a penalty when he was interfered with by Cafu, but that didn't change the outcome of the game. We still have a lot to learn. ”

"We will work harder in the European Championship next year, a group of players may withdraw from the national team, and some new blood will join, and I hope to bring you a more effective team."

"I want Brazil to win in the final so we lose to the champions. I think they are likely to win, they are stronger than Italy. ”

"We have no regrets about this tournament, we have found the heart of the future of the team, Cristiano. Ronaldo can be the new core of the team. But he still needs to grow. I believe that his ceiling will not be lower than that of Ricardo, and he can become a world-class superstar. ”

The news of this game occupies more than half of the sports pages of major media outlets. But soon, all eyes were on the final.

Brazil vs Italy, the old rivals reunited.

In the 1938 World Cup in France, Italy defeated Brazil 2-1 in the semifinals, and defeated Hungary in the final to become the first team in the world to defend the World Cup.

On June 21, 1970, the final of the World Cup in Mexico will produce the first country to permanently retain the Hercules Cup, according to the regulations at that time, the team that won the World Cup three times will win this honor, at this time, Brazil, Italy won twice, this game is also the world's first competition. In the direct confrontation between the attack-based Brazil and the defense-based Italy, the so-called strongest team in the World Cup led by Pele defeated Italy 4-1, which was also Italy's worst defeat in the World Cup, and Brazil became the first team to win the World Cup three times, permanently retaining the Hercules Cup.

12 years later, in the World Cup in Spain, Italy, Brazil, Argentina were divided into a group, in the case of Argentina being eliminated in advance, Italy and Brazil competed for the only semi-final spot, Italy must win, and Brazil only needs to draw, at that time the world was optimistic about the Brazilian team known as the most luxurious in history, but this game was the Italian Rossi, his hat trick made the Brazilian team with Zico, Socrates, Falcao eliminated, this game is also the greatest victory in the history of Italian football. Italy then went all the way to the title, becoming only the second team after Brazil to win the World Cup three times.

Another 12 years later, in 1994, at the Rose Bowl in the United States, another World Cup final was played against Italy and Brazil, both teams had won the championship three times before. These are also the two "successors of the king of the ball" Romario and Robert. Baggio's direct conversation, but in the hot weather, after an extremely dreary 120 minutes, the two sides had to decide on penalties, which was also the first time in the history of the World Cup that the championship was decided by penalties, and finally Brazil defeated Italy 3-2, and the back of Baggio after conceding Italy's last goal became one of the most sentimental images in the history of the World Cup. Brazil is once again number one in the world.

In this World Cup, Italy won all 6 games, scored 11 goals and conceded only 1 goal.

Brazil have also won all six games, scoring 17 goals and conceding four.

There is a slight difference in the gold content of the two teams to win.

Italy won the group stage against the United States, Ghana and the Czech Republic, beating Australia 1-0 in the round of 16.

And then there was the elimination of Ukraine and Germany. Comparatively speaking, their opponents are slightly weaker than their opponents in Brazil.

But it is still difficult to judge which of the two teams is stronger or weaker from this.

As Pereira said in an interview: "It's going to be our toughest game. Not only because it was the final, the players were under a lot of psychological pressure, but also because the opponent was Italy. This is a team with a tradition of winning trophies, and it is impossible to be cautious against them. ”