The wonderful shijie cup event always makes people sigh that time is passing quickly unconsciously. In the blink of an eye, the American Shijie Cup has entered a more intense and hot knockout stage.

At Chicago's Military Stadium, the aging German tank and the Belgian team led by Heefford staged a wonderful offensive battle, the two teams scored five goals like plum blossoms, and finally the Germans sent the Belgians back to their hometown 3-2, and the former "European Red Devils" are in decline.

On the same day, in Washington, D.C., Hierro, Luis Enrique, and Begiristain scored one goal each, and Spain beat Switzerland to enter the quarterfinals.

The next day, the "Desert Fox" Saudi Arabia lost 3-1 to Sweden, led by Brolin and Dachlin, and unfortunately exited the Shijie Cup.

In contrast to the calm matches between Saudi Arabia and Sweden, Argentina and Romania played a great game, with Argentina demoralised after losing their "spiritual leader" Diego Maradona, who had been banned for taking banned drugs, and was hit by a brilliant free-kick by Ili Dumitrescu just 11 minutes into the game against Romania. Four minutes later, Batistuta equalised the score from the penalty spot, but in the 18th minute, Dumitrescu scored again.

After the game entered the second half, Argentine player Abel Balbo was seriously fouled by the opposing goalkeeper, but the referee did not make a penalty, in the 58th minute, the "midfield schemer" Haji scored the third goal for Romania with a long-distance hanging goal, although Balbo pulled a goal back, but the Argentine team that lost Maradona could only regrettably stop in the second round.

After the game, I saw Batistuta who was depressed after the loss on TV, and Zhuang Mingge, as the boss, made a special call to comfort the latter.

On July 4, the Netherlands defeated Ireland with two goals from Bergkamp and Jonk, while Brazil defeated the host United States with Bebeto's 72nd-minute goal. The brother Tai, who now works as general manager of Paris Saint-Germain, brought himself a four-game suspension with a ferocious elbow, which means that even if Brazil finally reach the final, Leonardo will not be able to play, and although "Uncle Sam" was eliminated, they still achieved their best result since the United States participated in the Shijie Cup.

On the 5th, Baggio, who is not yet the "Prince of Melancholy", scored two goals at Fox Fort Stadium in Massachusetts, helping Italy eliminate the "African Eagle" Nigeria; Bulgaria and Mexico fought for 120 minutes and ended in a 1-1 draw, and had to stage a brutal penalty shootout, although the Mexican goalkeeper "Flower Butterfly" Campos saved the penalty kick of Bulgarian star Balakov, but his teammates unbelievably missed all the penalties in the first three rounds, and finally the Mexicans lost 1:3 in the penalty shootout.

At the end of the day, the top eight players of the Shijie Cup in the United States were announced: Germany, Spain, Sweden, Romania, the Netherlands, Brazil, Italy and Bulgaria.

According to the schedule arranged by the Shijie Cup Organizing Committee, in the next quarterfinals, the two matches on July 9 are: Italy vs Spain and Netherlands vs Brazil; On the second day, Germany will face Bulgaria in East Rutherford, New Jersey, while the Swedes will travel to California to face Romania for a place in the semi-finals.

Since the knockout round on July 2, Zhuang Mingge's prediction has never been wrong, and the results of successive battles have made several "investors" have unprecedented confidence in Zhuang Mingge.

It is said that women are animals who like to be budget-conscious, and several women got together to think about it, and they were very obedient, and after only four game days, their principal more than doubled.

Stimulated by huge profits, several women cared for Zhuang Mingge in the following days, and Zhuang Mingge even doubted in private that if he wanted to have an uncovered conference now, these crazy women would agree to him, of course, provided that Karin would not give him a firewood knife.

In the first game of the quarterfinals of the Shijie Cup, Sacchi's Italy met another Spanish team led by Clemente, who is known for his superstitious veterans, and the other "Baggio" in the Italian team, Dino Baggio, opened the scoring with a long-range shot in the 11th minute, while Spanish midfielder Caminero equalized the score in the second half.

In this game, Luis Enrique, a young midfielder who was still playing for Real Madrid at this time, was in his prime, and used his speed and impact to embarrass the veteran Tassotti who guarded the Italian right flank, and in desperation, Tassotti had to sacrifice a "hidden skill" that he had not used for a long time: he elbowed Enrique on the bridge of the nose with the referee's view blocked. Tasotti's elbow was so bad that Luis Enrique fractured the bridge of his nose, but his appeal to the referee was not accepted as it should be. Believing that they had been treated unfairly by the referee, the Spaniard, who was furious, became more and more anxious, and the Italian prince, Robert Baggio, won a sneak attack in the Zuihou moment, which finally defeated the Spanish bullfighters......

After the game, Tasotti, who escaped the referee's punishment in the game, was banned by FIFA for seven games, and the 34-year-old said goodbye to his Zuihou Shijie Cup.

In the other match, Brazil vs. the Netherlands was seen as a clash between the two strongest teams in the Shijie Cup in the United States (despite the absence of Basten and Ruud Gullit, the Netherlands were still strong). Goals from Romario and Bebeto gave Brazil a 2-0 lead, while the Netherlands equalised through Bergkamp and Winter, and Brazil eventually won with a free-kick in the 81st minute thanks to veteran Blanco, who had replaced the suspended Leonardo, to score a free-kick in the 81st minute.

An incident that happened after this game caused Inter Milan's depressed "Ice Prince" Bergkamp to also contract "fear of flying":

Here's what happened, when the Dutch team returned to Amsterdam via Boston after the Shijie Cup in the United States, the departure time of the plane was delayed. Upon arriving home, Bergkamp was told that the plane was missing because terrorists claimed to blow it up, and the police had to conduct a full search until they were sure there were no bombs before allowing it to take off. Later, he said in an interview that he often encountered the tragedy of a plane falling from the sky in his dreams, and since then the "Ice Prince" has never taken a plane again, so in some away games of Arsenal, we will always find that Bergkamp is obviously not injured but has not entered the squad, because of this "fear of flying".

In the two quarter-finals on the second day, Germany faced Bulgaria at the Giants in New Jersey, who had never won a game in the previous Shijie Cup. However, in this Shijie Cup, Bulgaria won two games in the group stage and defeated Mexico in the quarter-finals to finally meet defending champions Germany.

Germany had also eliminated Belgium 3-2 before that, and as the defending champions, they are the favourites to win the tournament. In the 50th minute, Bulgaria awarded a penalty and Lothar Mateus converted the penalty to give Germany the lead. Everything seemed to be going in Germany's favour, but with 15 minutes remaining, Christto Stoichkov, who had already scored four goals, equalised Bulgaria with a free-kick that flew straight into the bottom corner.

Stoichkov's morale boosted Bulgaria as just two minutes later Bulgaria's Lechekov scored a header to send them to a surprising knockout of defending champions Germany.

Relying on Radujoyu's two goals, Romania stubbornly played to a 2-2 draw with Sweden in 120 minutes, and in the brutal penalty shoot-out, the players of both sides showed great psychological endurance, and the penalty shoot-out was played until the sixth round to determine the winner, Belodevich's penalty was saved by Swedish goalkeeper Ravelli, and the Eastern European powerhouse Romania became a team that fell on the 12-yard line.

At this point, the match between the quarterfinals of the Shijie Cup has come to an end, not counting the "income" that has not yet arrived for the top scorer, and the gambling funds of Zhuang Mingge and others are also rising, although the specific number has not yet been counted, but Zhuang Mingge conservatively estimates that this fund should now exceed 100 million US dollars.

With the deepening of the Shijie Cup competition in the United States, these funds will explode at a snowballing speed, which is also what Zhuang Mingge and others hope to see.

PS: This is a plus of 1900 votes, and today I went to drink with an old classmate, and I was so drunk that I feel uncomfortable now......