248. Bloemfontein's welcome

At the end of the game, the Portuguese national team relied on Qiu Ze's luck to defeat the host South Africa team 2-0, winning all three games in the group and advancing to the semi-finals of this Confederations Cup with the qualification of the first place in the group.

After the game, the players of the Portuguese national team were not very excited, because their promotion was already ironclad, and there was really nothing to be excited about. Cristiano 61 Ronaldo, this guy is in an unprecedentedly bad mood.

In today's game, he was very attentive and worked very hard. He is bent on overpowering Qiu Ze with his superhuman performance, making him a key gentleman for the Portuguese national team and the biggest contributor to the Portuguese national team's championship.

He really worked really hard in this game, and everyone saw it. But he was also unlucky, and everyone saw it. Today, Cristiano 61 Ronaldo created a number of great chances, and he was all in Zuihou because of a little bad luck and missed the goal.

Qiu Ze also worked hard today, but his efforts were well rewarded. It is a natural thing to get what you get, but at this moment, everyone feels that it doesn't seem so commendable, after all, Qiu Ze's happiness is based on Cristiano's 61 Ronaldo's pain.

Having won this match, none of the players of the Portuguese national team cheered. It was their men who had defeated the South Africans, who began to revel, jumping up and shouting with excitement and shouting hooray, hooray, hooray.

South Africa lost to the Portuguese national team in the first round of the group stage. However, they still won the right to qualify from the group, and that was because the Asian champions Iraq drew 0-0 with New Zealand in a match in Zuihou, giving up such a chance to the South Africans for nothing.

Group A is over, and the two teams that have advanced to the next round have also been produced: the Portuguese national team and the South African national team.

On the second day after the end of the Group A group stage match, the first round of Group B zuihou matches also began, and the two matches were played at the same time. The Portuguese national team had to look at the opponents of the Portuguese national team in the semi-finals, so Queiroz went to the scene himself the next day.

The players of the Portuguese national team stayed in the hotel to watch the live broadcast. Although the Portuguese had a rest day, it was not idle to do as they watched their next opponent in front of the television.

Although at this time, they still don't know who their next opponent will be? However, there are only a few teams in Group B, and Brazil are almost secure to top the group. The rest is that the Egyptian team and the United States team have a better chance, and the Italian national team basically has no chance.

In the eyes of the players of the Portuguese national team, this is the case, because the current strength of the Italian national team is really poor.

In the first two rounds, the Brazilian national team won both matches and ranked first. Egypt and the United States are both one win and one loss, but Egypt has an advantage in goal difference, so now they are temporarily in second place, and Italy has lost both stops and is already disqualified from qualifying.

The match in Group B started at the same time, and the Brazilian and Italian national teams did not play well, and the Italian national team surprised his family from the start, and if the Italian national team played like this from the start of the group stage, they could not have won a place in qualifying.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Italian national team striker Quagliarella scored from distance at the edge of the penalty area to give his team the lead. There was hope of victory, but when Brazil showed their game at the start of the second half, goals from Kaka and McCone helped the team to a successful comeback.

Brazil won all three games in the group and topped the group and advanced directly to the knockout round. This is not the main event in Group B, but the match between the United States and Egypt is, with the outcome of the match between the two teams determining who will be the second team in this group to qualify, and the winner will also be the Portuguese national team's opponent in the semi-finals.

So, Queiroz and the players of the Portuguese national team watched this game, and they need to know their opponents so that they can survive the battle.

At the beginning of this game, the two sides played very intensely, and the two teams were squeezed to death for this qualifying spot. In the 30th minute of the first half, Egypt opened the scoring and took the lead, which once brought Egypt very close to qualifying.

However, in the second half, the United States began to exert its strength in the second half, and scored two goals in the second half of the second half to complete a shocking comeback, defeating Egypt with a score of 2-1 and successfully advancing to the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup.

In this way, the match of Group B is also over, and the team that has advanced is also produced, that is, Brazil and the United States. With the emergence of the four qualifying teams, the semi-final matchups of this Confederations Cup have also come out, with the Portuguese national team in Group A facing the United States, the second in Group B, and Brazil, the first team in Group B, taking on South Africa, the second team in Group A.

As soon as this match came out, the Portuguese national team began to prepare for the next matches. Because their match against the United States was played before the other semi-final, which will be played in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Bloemfontein is the judicial capital of South Africa and the capital of the Orange State of Nature. It is located in the central plateau and is the geographical center of the country. Surrounded by small hills, it is hot in summer and cold in winter. Originally a fortress, it was officially built in 1846. It is now an important transportation hub. The word bloemfontein originally meant "the root of flowers". The city is hilly and beautiful.

Interestingly, one of the three capitals of South Africa, the other two being the administrative capital Pretoria and the legislative capital Cape Town, while Bloemfontein is the capital of the dead law. South Africa is also the only country with three capitals in Shijie today.

Bloemfontein is located in a dry grassland, but the city has many gardens, the most famous of which is the 120-hectare Park del Rey. With a population of about half a million, he is now the city with the highest concentration of white South Africans, and is known as the most livable city in South Africa for its low crime rate and the quality of life it provides.

It's a good thing for the players of the Portuguese national team to be able to play in such a place, at least not to be as scared as they are now. Now the hotel where the Portuguese national team is staying is full of national agents and special forces sent by the Portuguese government, which looks very dangerous.

However, even if it is necessary to visit a city with a relatively low crime rate, the agents and special forces who travel with the Portuguese national team are still very careful and careful. These players of the Portuguese national team can be regarded as national treasures for Portugal, and of course they must be well protected.

In particular, Cristiano 61 Ronaldo and Qiu Ze are the objects of their key protection. Therefore, before the Portuguese national team went to Bloemfontein, some agents and special forces had already gone to familiarize themselves with the environment.

After arriving at the hotel where the Portuguese national team was staying in Bloemfontein, there was no training for the Portuguese national team for the day, their task was to rest, and then there was a training mission the next day. Counting the game the night after tomorrow, in fact, the Portuguese national team only has one day of training time, so this time is still very tight.

And this is even tighter for the United States, who have one less day off than the Portuguese national team. Before the American team came to Bloemfontein. The head coach of the US team, Bradley, is complaining that they have one less day off than the Portuguese national team, and they feel that it is not fair, not fair at all.

This is the case with every tournament, and there are always teams that complain that they have one less day off and think that the organisers are unfair. But there is no way around it, that's how the schedule is arranged.

The players of the Portuguese national team were also tired that day, so they rested in the hotel where they were staying. The next day, the Portuguese national team started training, which was not a closed training. The current Portuguese national team has no secrets for other teams, so what else is there to hide?

On that day, a large number of local Bloemfontein fans came to watch the Portuguese national team train outside the training ground. Of course, there are also a lot of reporters who came to the scene to observe the current situation of the Portuguese national team.

On the other hand, the U.S. team is much more deserted, although the players of the U.S. team are very uncomfortable. But that's really what U.S. National Team head coach Bradley would like to see the most. He really didn't want any attention, and the more no one paid attention to them, the more mysterious and opportunity they became.

The Portuguese national team is full of people, and people are watching the performance of the Portuguese national team players. Especially Qiu Ze and Cristiano 61 Ronaldo, these two people have received a lot of attention, and these two can attract bursts of screams as long as they raise their hands and move.

This made the other players of the Portuguese national team jealous and envious, but they were also happy, because as soon as the training was over, the fans rushed to find Qiu Ze and Christie Yanno 61 Ronaldo to take a photo with them and ask them for autographs. Even the reporters who had been waiting on the side in the morning rushed up frantically, surrounding the two in the middle to seek an interview.

That's called a crowd, that's a crowd, these two guys are really hard to squeeze out. However, fortunately, there is the protection of security personnel, otherwise it is possible that these two guys will be trampled to death. By this time, the rest of the Portuguese national team had a little better.

When Qiu Ze and Christie Yanno 61 Ronaldo returned to the hotel where they were staying, they felt exhausted, which was much more tiring than playing a football game, and they didn't have the energy to do anything else now, the only thing they wanted to do now was sleep.

Tomorrow night, the semi-finals will start directly, and the Portuguese national team attaches great importance to this, they are here to win the championship, so at this time, the Portuguese national team has a tactical meeting in the evening, which is Qiu Ze and Cristiano 61 Ronaldo shouted badly.