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The top 32 are waiting for the World Cup, and the world's major sports betting companies are not willing to lag behind, and they have opened the latest World Cup odds with the times - the Argentine team, which has a winning coach like the crazy Lee, is naturally ranked first without surprise!

However, the Argentine team did not lead the way, because the Spanish team of the old coach Bosque tied for the first place in the odds list with the blue and white army with the same odds!

In second place is the Three Lions England team!

Since England won Euro 2008, their international influence has skyrocketed, and their own strength has grown wildly, with recent rookies such as Newcastle's Nicolas Gigi and Andy Carroll, Manchester City's Richards, Adam Johnson and Aston Villa's James Milner all receiving Capello's call!

Regardless of the championship in 2008, the strength of the Three Lions has risen instead of falling!

Dunga's four-year civilian five-star samba army ranked third, and in fourth place was the 'German tank' German team, Van Marwijk's 'Paradigm Dutch team' ranked fifth, and the French team was sixth, it is worth mentioning that among all the old giants, only the Italian team of [Silver Fox] Lippi was the least favored by many bookmakers, only ranked 10th in the top 32, and even inferior to Portugal and Ivory Coast!

Hosts, South Africa, are in 18th place in the odds list!

It seems that despite the geographical advantage of the host, this team is not a strong team in Africa, and it is also not very optimistic about the bookmaker!

Interestingly, in addition to the team odds of the bookmaker, a brochure compiled by Reuters called "2010 Top 32 Tour" also attracted the attention of the media in various countries, because Reuters ingeniously rated the strength of a top 32 coach!

According to the four standards of coaching performance, tactical arrangement, on-the-spot command, and motivation ability, the head coaches of the 32 princes were scored one by one and rated their abilities, to the surprise of many people, the madman Li was only ranked fourth in the list of coaches, and the three people before the madman Li were [Silver Fox] Lippi, [Gold Medal Coach] Capello and [Otto the Great] Rehhagel!

And in the last two are the two Asian coaches - the head coach of the team, Takeshi Okada, and the head coach of the South Korean team, Xu Dingmao!

The Reuters ranking caused great dissatisfaction among Argentine fans, and the Argentine domestic media was even more condemned, with the "Reading Force" unabashedly mocking: "A manager like the madman Lee, who never loses, is only ranked fourth? Don't forget, at Euro 2008, the madman Lee Ke personally defeated the aging [Otto the Great] Rehhagel......"

Before the game even started, fans and the media had already set off the first wave of exchanges!

…… As the opening of the quadrennial World Cup approaches, this southernmost country on the African continent has gradually become lively, and after just half a month, a large number of foreign people continue to pour into South Africa every day in terrifying numbers!

According to the statistics of "Reuters", ten days before the start of the World Cup, more than 40,000 reporters from more than 2,000 media outlets in more than 70 countries have come here, and the number of fans is even more!

South Africa's tourism authorities have given authoritative data on this - the latest data released on June 3 shows that as of June 2, at least more than one million foreign tourists have poured into major cities in South Africa, especially the cities where the various competition venues are located, and the accommodation opportunities of hotels and hostels are even more tight than the tickets for the competition for a while!

In addition to the fans, the arrival of the World Cup has brought great business opportunities to South Africa!

At least one small joke is very illustrative -- according to the survey statistics of the British "Sun", within a month, the number of female journalists in South Africa has swelled tenfold rapidly, and at least about 10,000 or more Dutch and German female journalists have seen the huge business opportunities brought by the World Cup, and have organized a group to come to South Africa in a disciplined and organized manner, taking advantage of the large number of floating population flows during the World Cup to earn foreign exchange!

…… The media and fans were busy, and the thirty-two teams were not idle. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The day after the Argentine team came to South Africa, they ushered in a warm-up match, and the opponent was the African powerhouse Ghana!

Four years ago, Ghana used to be the youngest team with an average age in the World Cup in Germany, but after four years of accumulation, many superstars have emerged in this team, such as Muntari who plays for Inter Milan, Mensah and Pandeshir who play in the Premier League, etc.!

The biggest loss of the Ghana team in this World Cup is that their midfield star [Buffalo] Essien is absent due to injury, and the strength is greatly reduced!

Lao Li's reason for choosing the Ghana team is very simple, this is an African team that has always admired strength, in terms of ball style, it will be more restrained from the play of Argentina's technical flow team, Lao Li needs to use the Ghana team as a whetstone to sharpen the Argentine hammers who are full of confidence and a little floating!

In addition, the Ghana team is also located in the city of Pretoria, which is easy to contact!

The game started at 4 p.m. local time on June 6, this is a fully enclosed friendly match, the HPC Sports Center is fully closed, reporters and fans have not been given the opportunity to enter the stadium to watch, people only know that after 90 minutes, according to the staff, the Argentine team did not win the Ghana team as expected, and the two sides played a 2:2 draw!

This news makes many people hard to believe, the World Cup favorite actually lost to the mid-table team Ghana? Crazy Lee didn't win? Could it be that he deliberately conserved his strength?

In the face of many questions, Li Tongfan responded with a simple sentence of "the strength of the Ghana team is very strong" at the regular press conference the next day, and it seemed that not winning the game did not hinder his good mood...... However, in fact.................. On the training ground of the HPC Sports Center.

The big-name stars of the Argentine team, who had just finished intense physical training, were lying on the ground like dead dogs, panting, and everyone had mixed expressions on their faces, including fear, shame, perseverance, and fear...... At the gate of the main building not far away, two players were carrying their luggage and tearfully leaving the HPC Sports Centre, leaving the city of Pretoria and leaving South Africa...... It's the young goalkeeper Ustari from Getafe and the veteran Gonzalo Rodriguez from Villarreal!

The two of them had a terrible performance against Ghana, especially the young goalkeeper Ustari from Getafe, who was also distracted and lazy in training, and even openly violated the ban of head coach Maniac Lee and slipped out of the HPC Sports Centre at night to date his girlfriend...... For such a phenomenon, Li Tongfan absolutely cannot tolerate it!

"Coming to South Africa does not mean that you can already appear in the World Cup in a week, and it does not mean that you will be in the Hercules Cup a month later, the bookmaker's odds list is not bullshit, if you continue to be immersed in the praise of the outside world, then, you can get out of it as soon as possible, I can call up new players from China at any time to replace your place, remember, in this team, no one is irreplaceable!"

Li Tongfan stood on the edge of the training ground, with an angry face, without giving face to the superstars, and scolded.

Don't look at the press conference, I didn't care about the indifference in the face of reporters, but in fact, the result of the friendly match with the Ghana team was almost about to blow up Lao Li, and the two leads were actually equalized by the opponent twice, and the state shown by the players in the game made Li Tongfan obviously feel that the current blue and white team began to slowly permeate the arrogant atmosphere!

Among them, the representatives of Ustari and Gonzalo Rodriguez, were expelled from the team by Lao Li without hesitation and became the 'chickens' who were killed to show the 'monkeys', and the remaining players were scolded for a bloody spray in today's training!

So far, the number of Argentine players remaining at the University of Pretoria's HPC Sports Centre has dropped from 32 to 28, and although four have already left the team, five more must leave by June 9!

Today, the departure of Ustari and Gonzalo Rodriguez taught a hard lesson to the big stars who were in a relaxed mood after arriving in South Africa, and everyone realized that the competition is not over, on the contrary, it has just begun!

Once again, everyone's hearts are full of energy to face the cruel competition!

The leader of the madman Li has made it very clear that in this team, no one is irreplaceable, and the long-standing iron and bloody wrist of the madman Li has made everyone understand that the leader is not just a joke!

………… It is not the Argentine family to find a team to play in a nearby area, in fact, the princes of the 32nd Road are doing this, and the media and fans are no longer paying attention to the latest developments of their teams all the time!

Soon, bad news came out again -- June 6.

In the internal training session, the Three Lions England team lost a big player - Manchester United central defender Rio Ferdinand left knee ligament bed, and had no choice but to withdraw from the World Cup in South Africa!

June 7.

Ivory Coast center [Warcraft] Drogba was hit on the arm with his knee by Ivory Coast defender Tanaka Doukasa King in the warm-up match with the team, causing Drogba to fracture his elbow and is likely to bid farewell to the World Cup...... On the afternoon of June 7.

Dutch coach Van Marwijk announced at a press conference that [Peter Pan] Robben has torn his ligament in the warm-up match with Hungary, and it is very likely that the road to the World Cup will be aborted!

The back-to-back injuries of superstars have sharpened the pre-World Cup atmosphere, and the team's supporters are afraid that in the blink of an eye, they will sadly find that their favorite star has to say goodbye to the World Cup...... It is said that the central defender Tanaka Doukasa Wang and Boateng of the Ghana team, because of serious injuries to Drogba and Ballack, became the most unpopular players among fans for a while, and scolding was everywhere!

…… As the opening match of the World Cup approaches day by day, the atmosphere on the streets and alleys of South Africa is hot, and fans wearing various football uniforms can be seen everywhere...... In the meantime, Argentina played another warm-up match against Slovakia, also based in Pretoria, and the blue and white team performed well this time, relying on goals from Messi and Aguero to beat their opponents 2-0!

On June 9, the Argentine team handed in the final 23-man squad to the World Football Confederation!

Bundesliga upstart Hoffenheim's defender Zuculini, Lisandro Lopez, the leading scorer of the French league hegemon Lyon, Genoa striker Palacio, [Madman] Palermo and [Wizard] Veron became the last Argentine players to bid farewell to the World Cup in South Africa!

On the official website of the Argentine Football Federation, Lee Tong-fan expressed his gratitude to the five for their contributions to the Argentine team during this period and wished them good luck!

June 11th.

The much-anticipated opening ceremony of the World Cup in South Africa has finally kicked off!

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa has really begun!

(To be continued)