Chapter Forty-Eight: The Last Friendly Match
Monumental Stadium, located in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, is a historic stadium with a capacity of more than 50,000 spectators, and it is also the home of the Argentine national team and the A-League giants River Plate, and the name of the stadium is also derived from the former chairman of River Plate, the 1978 World Cup final, which was held here, and finally Argentina won the championship, so the Monument Stadium can be said to be the landmark of Argentine football. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
On May 6, 2014, it has entered the winter of Argentina, just after noon, the air has been filled with a trace of coolness, there is no one in the stadium, only a few turf finishing machines and field maintenance personnel are working, the Argentine Winter League has also entered the adjustment period, not only Argentina, in Italy, England, Spain, Germany, several major leagues, at this time also entered the rest period, all of this, are for the upcoming 2014 World Cup to make way, in all fairness, The technical and tactical level of the teams participating in the World Cup may not be the highest, and some are not even as good as the level of the club teams, but the World Cup is full of a unique color by wearing the coat of representing the country, and they recall their own players and train hard in order to achieve satisfactory results in the World Cup and win glory for their country.
The Monument Stadium, later today, will usher in a friendly match, the participating team is not Argentina, but his neighbor Colombia team and the Jordanian national team from afar, this friendly match for Jordan, does not have much significance, they do not have a World Cup mission, just in the long run to improve the team's football level, but for the Colombian team, it has a different meaning.
When it comes to Colombia, the older generation of football lovers should be able to remember his former glory, once occupying the top of the national team standings, the madman Ikita, the golden lion king Valderrama, and the AC Milan killer Asplilla, all of which made a big name for Colombia in their era.
But since the defeat in the World Cup 20 years ago, Escobar was shot, it seems that the halo over Colombia's head no longer exists, it has fallen off the altar, and even, directly into hell, in the past ten years, Colombian football seems to have been associated with violence, drugs, and even once considered the scum of world football. Hirod, it is in this situation that he became the president of the Colombian Football Federation, since taking office, Colombian football seems to have blown a hurricane, Hirod started from the foundation of Colombian football, and began to build a new pattern of Colombian football, with his unremitting efforts, football reform has achieved quite good results, and the Colombian national team, under the leadership of the new head coach Jose Coleman, has overcome all the obstacles and finally stood out from the South American qualifiers, Got the first ticket to the World Cup in South America.
This game, is the 2014 World Cup, Colombia's last friendly match, a week later, they will fly from Bogotá to Rio de Janeiro, and officially participate in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in late June, as a friendly match, the game was arranged in a third-party neutral stadium, but also forced to play, although the performance of the Colombian team in the past two years, has regained the confidence and love of the Colombian people, other countries' views on Colombia are still stuck more than ten years ago, The Colombian team's trip to the world also carries the arduous task of showing the charm of Colombian football to fans all over the world.
At eight o'clock in the evening, half an hour later, the friendly match will officially begin, and the players of the Jordanian national team have already warmed up on the pitch early, while the Colombian players who were supposed to appear opposite have not yet appeared, even their coaching staff.
At this time, in Colombia's temporary locker room, many young people sat around a large oval table, and members of the coaching staff sat at one end, and the game uniforms had been changed.
Coleman looked at these young people in front of him, a little proud in his heart, a few years ago he was a group of boys who didn't know the height of the sky, and now, he has the capital to shock the world, Coleman took over the head coach of the national team, the pressure is quite high, although he has seen a big scene as the head coach of the Argentine team, but, in order to complete the goal promised at the beginning of his tenure, he and his coaching team worked day and night, his original gray hair, has also become a silver thread, fortunately it is now the harvest season.
"I'm so happy!"
Coleman said, not loudly, but the affirmation in his voice made everyone excited.
"I'm so proud of you to have come so far." Coleman said again.
"Tonight, it will be our last warm-up before the World Cup, everyone should know the opponent, we have communicated many times in the past few days, and during this time, I am most happy that what we have insisted on has gradually shown wonderful results." With that, Coleman turned his head to look at the coaching staff sitting to his left and right, including a thin teenager.
"The way we've been training for the last few days has been a brave attempt, to be honest I don't have a lot of confidence, but I'm very happy and the results are evident and for that I want to thank everyone who is doing it again, you should be proud of yourself and the results you have achieved for this country, it's a great thing!"
The Colombian players, listening quietly, this kind coach, who usually rarely says so much except for training, suddenly said such a large amount of words at this moment, which made the players feel quite abrupt.
"Old, don't be afraid of me nagging."
Everyone laughed.
"Okay, let's enjoy your game tonight." Coleman said with a finish.
Applause, rang out......
According to normal logic, the next step is to dismiss the meeting and the players return to the field and prepare for the game. However, Coleman didn't seem to end his words, only to see him turn his head, look at the people around him, and ask, "Little one, do you have anything to say?" ”
If anyone else was here, they would have been shocked by the fact that the manager was still consulting others, and he was such a young man. However, everyone here seems to have become accustomed to it, indeed, such a scene has happened more than once or twice, basically before all the important matches that the Colombian team has participated in in the past few years, this young man has to say something, and these words will have a certain positive impact on the mentality of the players, the state, and the fine-tuning of the team's style of play.