Chapter 60 Selected for the national team

Although the Olympic defeat became a pain in the hearts of the Samba Army, although they scored three goals from Belgium in the early third and fourth place competition to win the bronze medal, the Brazilian Olympic team still had mixed and sad feelings when they said goodbye to Shanghai and left for Beijing. However, for the first time in history, Shanghai became the place where the head coach of the Brazilian team announced the new national team squad.

Regardless of whether Dunga will be out of class, according to FIFA rules, he officially announced the 22-man squad for the 2010 World Cup 15 days before the 2010 World Cup South American qualifier away to Chile on September 7. To the surprise of many, he did not underestimate the group of Olympic players who lost to Argentina by a big score: a total of nine main players were called up to the national team.

At a press conference held during the China game, Dunga was clear about his criteria: form and performance, rather than age and clubs. This is also one of the reasons why Xiao Luo and others are willing to join the national Olympic team. Sure enough, Dunga did not break his promise, and he personally called up nine players from the national Olympic team who have been together for more than a month to play in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers ——— against Chile and Bolivia.

Among the nine are the core of the midfield of the Olympic team, Ronaldo and Diego, as well as goalkeeper Reina, defenders Raphinha, Alex Silva and Lucas, Manchester United player Andersson, strikers Sobis and Joe. It should be said that Dunga gave the national Olympic players this opportunity is not a consolation or reward, but really expects them to contribute well, because the Brazilian team has a very poor performance in the South American qualifiers, and the current ranking is fifth, and only the top four teams automatically qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, they have no proud capital, and they must work hard to have a chance to qualify.

Coincidentally, after the Brazilian national team announced the selection list, the current coach of the Argentine national team, Basile, also announced that on September 6 and 10, the Argentine national team will face Paraguay and Peru in the World Cup qualifiers respectively.

Compared to other very regular customers, the two of them are really the first time to be selected! Especially for San Tiago, who has not played a major game for almost a year, he was able to be selected for the World Cup qualifiers this time, completely because of his outstanding performance in the Olympics and the tacit understanding with Riquelme, which made him very glad that he had chosen it. On the day that he learned of the selection from his agent Isabella, San Tiago also made a special call to Mr. Bianchi, the general manager of Boca Juniors, to thank him.

Santhiago knew very well that without Mr. Billucci's recommendation to Batista, he would not have had the opportunity to try his hand at the Olympic team, after all, Argentina, which is full of talent, will not care about a past talent who does not play football!

Of course, this selection does not mean that everything is fine, first of all, it is just a qualifier list, if you want to really enter the national team, you must not only continue your highlight performance, but also hug Batista's thighs.

After defeating the Brazilian team, the domestic call for Batista to be the coach of the national team can be described as a wave after wave, which shows how important this victory is!

But the most important thing now is to prepare for the final of the men's Olympic football event, which is a battle between the Pampas Eagles and the African Eagles, and 12 years ago, Nigeria beat Argentina in the final of the Atlanta Olympics to win the first Olympic gold medal in the history of an African team. Same opponent, different moments, the Argentine refuses to repeat yesterday.

In a 3-0 win over Brazil, the Argentine played the most gorgeous football of the game, especially in the second half, "Winning in such a flashy style is exactly what we wanted. "I'm an old-fashioned guy and I've always wanted Argentine football to be more traditional, and we played the kind of football that is the most important thing for the Argentine team, sometimes even more than the result." ”

The day after tomorrow, Argentina will face Nigeria in the final, and the history of 12 years ago is recalled, "This history is unforgettable for Argentine football, that defeat left a very deep lesson for Argentine football, and I believe that this time history will not repeat itself." Batista said.

Argentina is no stranger to Nigeria's players, because at the 2005 World Youth Championships, they defeated Nigeria in the final and won the championship, Messi and Aguero both participated in that competition, and many members of the current Nigerian Olympic team are also from the same national youth team three years ago. 'Nigeria are a very strong opponent and they have shown their quality to reach the final, so we must not take it lightly and give 100 per cent. Battista finally said.

It was also on the same day that coach Batista gave an interview, and the referee of the men's Olympic football match was officially announced, and the lucky one was Hungarian Kase, a 33-year-old who works as a travel agent and an old acquaintance of the Argentine team.

After qualifying as an international referee in 2003, he has played in UEFA Youth Competitions, UEFA Cup, UEFA Champions League and the 2007 World Junior Championship in Canada. He took part in this year's Euro Championship as the fourth official and was one of 54 candidates to referee for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. At the 2007 World Under-20 World Championship in Canada, the first game of Casse's enforcement was the group stage between Argentina and North Korea, when Argentina won 1-0 thanks to Sergio Aguero's goal.

At present, 30 matches have been played in the Beijing Olympics, and Kase has only officiated one game, that is, the group stage between Argentina and Australia, and the former still won 1-0. In this match, Casse had shown Riquelme a yellow card for a malicious foul during the match. The two assistant referees were Kase's fellow Hungarians, Elesh and Vamosh. The fourth official was Slovenian Scomina.

For such a referee team, the boys of the Argentine Olympic team can't say how they feel, their self-confidence has exploded after defeating their old enemies Brazil, they are full of confidence in the final battle, firmly believe that no one can stop their footsteps, and Santhiago also secretly vowed to use a gold medal to write their own extraordinary Olympic experience.