Chapter 63: The Battle of the Bulls

At the Bernabeu in Madrid, Spain, the stands were already full of people, and from a distance, a fiery red patch mobilized all Spaniards in a qualifying match for the Shijie Cup.

Even King Juan of Spain. Carlos I said before the game: "Spain can't do without the Shijie Cup, and the Shijie Cup can't do without Spain!" ”

Since 1978, Spain has not missed a single session of the Shijie Cup, and this time it is the same, Caragonés also said in an interview with the media before the game: "This game will be related to the honor of the whole of Spain, there must be no mistakes, we will win the game, and the ticket to the Shijie Cup will be dedicated to the people as a gift!" ”

Although in Digan's previous life, Spain was the double champion of the European Cup and the Shijie Cup, but before winning the 2008 European Football Championship, although Spain was recognized as a football powerhouse by Shijie, it was unable to achieve outstanding results in international competitions for a long time.

Spain's most iconic honours were the 1964 European Championships, followed by the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games, and the previous best result in the Shijie Cup was the 1950 Shijie Cup.

In 1950, Spain qualified for the Shijie Cup in Brazil, joining England, the United States and Chile. In the end, they finished all the group games with a complete victory and qualified as the top of the table.

The format of the tournament was special, not a single knockout score to determine who would be the winner of the Shijie Cup, but the four teams that won the top spot in the first round of the group and then played each other in a group format.

The four teams that advanced to the final group were Uruguay, Brazil, Sweden and Spain, and in the end Spain did not win a game in the final group, finishing the match with 1 and 2 defeats and finishing the third place.

In 1962, legendary coach Villalonga was appointed head coach of the Spanish team. Spain were able to qualify for the 1962 Shijie Cup under Villalonga, but were knocked out early in the first round of the group stage against Brazil, the Czech Republic and Mexico, while the legendary Ferenc of Hungarian origin. Puskas joined the Spaniard to play in the Shijie Cup this year, but failed to perform well.

Two years later, Spain hosted the second European Football Championship, beating Romania, Northern Ireland and Ireland in a two-legged knockout round to reach the semi-finals.

Spain's semi-final opponent was Hungary, the favourites at the time, and it took extra time for Spain to advance with a score of 2:1.

Immediately afterwards, Spain faced the powerful Soviet Union in the final held in Madrid, and finally Spain won the first international championship in history by virtue of the right time and place.

As European champions, Spain automatically qualified for the England Shijie Cup '66 and retained the 1964 champions, while Villalonga also remained in charge, but Spain lost to Argentina and West Germany in the same group, and although they beat Switzerland, they were still not enough to qualify. Villalonga left after the Shijie Cup exit, and the Spanish team entered a dark period that was not short.

Since losing the Shijie Cup in 1966 and ousting Villalonga, Spain have failed to qualify for the finals in the next three consecutive European Football Championships and two Shijie Cups. The slump did not improve until the 1976 European Championship qualifiers, who were in the same group as Romania, Scotland and Denmark in the qualifying group, but were still excluded from qualifying after a 3-1 defeat to West Germany.

The '78 Shijie Cup was Spain's first return to international football since 1966 and the only major tournament they played in the entire '70s. After topping their group, Spain were placed in Group 3 in the first round of the finals, alongside old rivals Brazil and Sweden, as well as Austria. However, Spain had a bad start and suffered a surprise 1-2 defeat to Austria in their debut. Then he immediately improved his form, forcing Brazil 0:0 in the second game, and defeating Sweden 1:0 in the third game, but unfortunately he still couldn't escape the fate of the first round, which can be said to pay the price for his slow performance.

In 1982, Spain hosted the Shijie Cup for the first time, and for the first time, it was expanded from 16 teams to 24 teams competing in the finals.

However, in the opening game, it was drawn 1:1 by Honduras, but fortunately defeated Yugoslavia 2:1 in the second round, and even if it lost to Northern Ireland by one goal, it did not prevent it from qualifying for the second round.

After the promotion, Spain lost to West Germany again 1:2, and Zuihou drew 0:0 with England in one game, so it was unable to reverse the situation and advance to the semi-finals.

After frustration in the 1982 Shijie Cup, the new Spanish head coach Miguel. Vinnus comes on. Under his leadership, Spain performed well in the 1984 European Football Championship and the 1986 Shijie Cup.

Spain defeated Malta 12-1 in the 1984 UEFA Nations Cup qualifiers, and as a result, they miraculously qualified for the qualification by beating the Netherlands, who had an 11-goal difference in goal difference. In the first round of the group stage in the final week, they defeated the favorite West Germany to qualify for the semi-finals, and then defeated Denmark on penalties in the semi-finals, reaching the final for the first time since 1964, and Zuihou lost 0:2 to the host France to be the runner-up.

In the 1986 Shijie Cup, Spain reached the quarterfinals of Zuihou, defeated Denmark again with a score of 5:1 in the quarterfinals, but lost to Belgium on penalties in the quarterfinals.

Then, in 1988, in preparation for the Italian Shijie Cup, the Spanish Football Federation invited Suarez, who had scored a total of 100 goals for Barcelona and Inter Milan and returned to Spain's European Football Championship in 1964, to coach the team. The Spaniards did not let up under the command of the revered national legend, and after passing the qualifiers with ease, they went on to win the group with Uruguay in their first game in the finals, before beating South Korea and Belgium in quick succession to finish as group winners. In the round of 16, he was eliminated by Yugoslavia.

In the 1994 Shijie Cup in the United States, although Spain appeared easily in the group stage, it was finally defeated at the feet of Italy led by Baggio and missed the semi-finals again.

Two years later, at the European Football Championship, Spain were in the same group as Bulgaria, France and Romania, and Spain drew 1-1 in the first two group games, taking advantage of Zuihou to take advantage of the opportunity to beat Romania 2-1 to qualify in second place.

Then in the quarter-finals, Spain was beaten by the host country, England, in order to avoid conceding the first goal, both sides played carefully on the field, and finally after 120 minutes of goalless dull play, Spain hated the penalty shootout.

In the 1998 Shijie Cup in France, the Spanish team, which played a high-profile game before the game, finally performed not advancing but retreating, which disappointed supporters. Despite being unbeaten in a series of previous qualifiers, Spain will still have to pay a heavy price for their slow burning habits when it comes to the finals with 32 teams participating for the first time. They were beaten 2-3 in their first game against Nigeria, and then they were unable to beat Paraguay for a long time and drew 0-0, even if they beat Bulgaria 6-1 in the group Zuihou, it was too late and they were out of the tournament.

Spain's frayer after the Shijie Cup in France, losing 3-2 to Cyprus in the European Championship qualifiers, an embarrassing defeat that left the national team humiliated.

Although it finally became a member of the 2000 European Championship, Spain's results were still unsatisfactory, and they narrowly qualified for the group stage, and finally lost to France in the first leg of the knockout round, and reluctantly accepted the fate of elimination.

In 2002, the Japan and South Korea Shijie Cup was the first Shijie Cup to be co-hosted by the two countries and held in Asia for the first time.

They won all three games in the group stage, changing the bad habit of not winning the first game in the previous tournament, but also showed good form and scoring ability. The first round of knockout was against Ireland, with the two armies at the allotted time thanks to their respective goalscorers, Morientes and Robbie. Keane scored and drew and after extra time without a goal, young Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas was the protagonist of the Zuihou stage, knocking out a stubborn opponent for Spain.

Spain exited the quarter-finals and caused a huge controversy because of the obvious manipulation of the black whistle by their opponents, South Korea. During the game, the football crossed the South Korean goal twice, but the goal was disallowed by Egyptian referee Gandur. As a result, the South Korean team got their wish to reach the semi-finals after exchanging penalties, creating their most glorious Shijie Cup result ever.

At the 2004 European Football Championship hosted by neighbouring Portugal, Spain was placed in Group A with two teams competing in the final, Portugal and Greece, as well as Russia. Spain beat Russia by a single goal in the opening game, but were forced to draw by Greece in the following game after Morientes opened the scoring. In the crucial third game, Spain only needed to draw with their opponents Portugal to qualify, but unfortunately the only goal of the game came from the opposing striker Nuno. Gomez, reluctantly accepted the fate of being eliminated.

After this European Cup, the Spanish Football Federation immediately decided to hire Caragonés as the head coach of the team to continue to attack the 2006 Shijie Cup.

If there is no surprise factor of Degan, Calagones will open the prelude to the revival of Spanish football, although in the 2006 Shijie Cup, the performance was mediocre, but in the following 2008 European Championship, 2010 Shijie Cup, and Euro 2012 three tournaments to win all the championships, but also created a glorious era of Spanish football.

But now that there is Degan, if Spain wants to appear, it will have to look at his face.

Although Caragonés did everything possible to raise eyebrows and launch psychological warfare before the game, Belgium ignored it and just kept saying that they wanted to fight for Spain's glory in the game.

You've got a fart honor!

If it weren't for the fact that he still took care of his face as a famous handsome, Calagones couldn't help but scold the street.

In fact, I don't blame him, Degan is a planning player, if it weren't for his father and mother who are about to give birth to a child, and he is still bouncing around, he happened to give birth to his little bastard in Belgium, and he can have a dog-and-egg relationship with Belgium.

Now he has committed treason to the enemy, and he still has to fight for the honor of Belgium, and he is not a son of man.

Calagones silently cursed Degan for not shooting for 90 minutes, while Deegan was in the away dressing room to do pre-battle mobilization for his team-mates.

"I know we don't have to care about the result of this game now, the ticket to the Shijie Cup has been put in our pockets, we can easily face this game, we don't care about the result of the game, and enjoy the joy of football."

As he spoke, he was still looking at the faces of his teammates, and it was clear that most of them were thinking so, although they didn't say it, but their expressions had betrayed their hearts, and it could be seen that they had not yet woken up from the joy of qualifying from the group, and this time they came to Spain as a vacation.

Digan then changed his words, and his expression became stern: "But what I want to tell you is that people are inert, you can easily face a defeat today, then you can face our Shijie Cup game with the same mood in the future, if we lose this game, we will not have any loss, but in the Shijie Cup field, if we also lose, then we will face the fate of elimination!" ”

"I don't want to talk to you about it, because what I think of as football is never a happy game, as long as we stand on the field, we are warriors, and now we are wearing this Belgian national team shirt, then we represent the interests of the whole country! Victory! Only victory! In order to make the fans who support us feel happy, only victory! In order to make Belgian football win people's respect again, let them mention Belgium from now on, mention the European Red Devils will be afraid, legs tremble, today, is our chance, a chance for people to re-understand the European Red Devils, the previous group stage, we lost to Spain, now it's time for us to reclaim the honor, the Spaniards call themselves bullfighters, today our crazy Red Bull, is to completely overturn their bullfighters. ”

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