Eastern European Football!

Before the 90s, the European football genre was roughly divided into these types, the Northern European body stream, the Southern European Latin stream, the British rush stream, and the German overall tactical stream!

As for Eastern European football, it is all about the word "fast".

Players of Eastern European teams, especially the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia, the players are generally tall and strong, even the small players are very stocky, and the next game looks very stable, but these guys are tall but not stupid, and most of the jishu at the feet play very well, that is, there is the physical fitness of the Nordic players, and there is no shortage of southern European players at the feet of the jishu, and they are good at getting the opportunity to score through rapid counterattacks, in the 90s, the Eastern European teams, the biggest feature is that in each team, there is a giant bull. The common feature of the forced midfield brain is that jishu is excellent, able to send a scalpel-like accurate assist in the most reasonable time, and when necessary, he can also step forward to solve the battle, so watching the Eastern European team play at that time is a very good choice visually, and it can be described as smooth and smooth.

As a representative of Eastern European football, the former Yugoslavia team can be described as full of talents, such as Savčević, Mijatovic, Suk, Stojkovic, Boban, Boksic, Prosinetski, Pantsev, Mihajlovich, Yugovic, Milosevic, Jarni, these players are all superstars, they swept the 87 World Youth Championships, and led the Yugoslav Red Star Belgrade to win the championship in one fell swoop, which can be said to be a veritable golden generation.

However, in the 90 Shijie Cup, because these players were too young to lose to Argentina on penalties in the knockout round, after winning the Toyota Cup in 91, the war started, and they were disqualified from the Euro 92 Cup, and these players have not played together since then, and many of them are the main players of Croatia in the 98 Shijie Cup.

There is also Romania, and the representative players Hadji, Dumitrescu, Petroscu, Popescu, Moldovan, Raduchoyo, and Montejanu are also among the best players in Eastern Europe, and Zahovic of Slovenia in Euro 2000 is also a generation of talents.

Eastern Europe is a magical land, and years of war and turmoil have not dampened the optimism of its people, but on the contrary, it has given birth to many outstanding talents in literature and art, and even a rich and varied Bosnian culture. It is also inspired by this optimism and enterprising that Eastern European football has made people stunned again and again.

The heyday of football in Eastern Europe was, of course, in the 50s, when the Hungarian team was not only proud of its achievements, but also led the way in terms of football philosophy and tactics.

After Hungary, the former Soviet Union still has a place in Shijie football with a special training system. The collapse of the Soviet Union changed people's views on life and society in Eastern Europe to a certain extent, and their football was once in a state of confusion, but fortunately, this state did not last long, and in the 94 US Shijie Cup, Bulgaria was black to the end, which made people have to re-examine those neighbors who live next to each other, but are strange and abnormal.

Subsequently, Romania, the former Yugoslavia and other countries carried the banner of Eastern European football one after another, and then the Czechs also began their performances.

In fact, as early as the European Cup in 96, the Czechs had all the way to the final, but Zuihou fell under the golden head of Bierhoff.

Due to the general physical strength of the Eastern European players, coupled with the repeated hard training of the basic jishu, the training system of these former socialist countries, although not as scientific and advanced as Western Europe, but the hard-working folk customs prompted them to firmly believe that the boring and arduous training method of "grinding the iron pestle into a needle" can also fight against strong opponents.

Coupled with the open European football market, many talented players began to go abroad in large numbers and further their studies under the advanced football system, which made up for the shortcomings of more non-confrontation jishu training, fewer opportunities for actual combat training, and rigid use of jishu tactics in the previous relatively closed training environment.

After reprocessing, these semi-finished products with solid basic skills and strong physiques returned home with rich football experience accumulated and became the backbone of their respective national teams.

Together, they retain the characteristics of Eastern European football: aggressive and brave fighting, solid and practical jishu movements, tenacious style, fast offensive and defensive transitions, and fierce momentum of continuous progress.

Compared with other European football styles, Eastern European football's slightly mechanized lunging and slamming seems to give people a lack of control, but this style and style of play that plays to the strengths and avoids weaknesses is quite appropriate, and some teams that are not strong in their own concentration and tactics are easily overwhelmed by this offensive style.

The decline of football in Eastern Europe is accidental and inevitable, now there are no superstars in Eastern Europe, Shevchenko is old, Arshavin is still dormant in his home league, and Modric, who is eye-catching in Florence, is a general rather than a coach, and he cannot turn the tide by himself at a critical time. Rosicky is past his prime, slightly inferior to Nedved. Petr Cech, one of Shijie's three goalkeepers, has only made Eastern European football even more tragic in the face of Western guns.

Without superstars, the domestic league is also declining, and there is no longer the feat of dominating Europe like Red Star Belgrade.

In the 80s and early 90s, Romania's Steaua Bucharest and Yugoslavia's Red Star Belgrade won the European Champions Cup, which was the most glorious era of Eastern European football at club level.

However, after the political reform, football entered the transfer market, and stars flocked to Western Europe, and the big clubs in Eastern Europe were quickly disintegrated, followed by a depression of nearly 20 years, and only Dynamo Kyiv broke into the last four of the Champions League once.

In the past 20 years, the five major leagues in Western Europe have left the Eastern European leagues farther and farther away, and it is an indisputable fact that the competition within the Eastern European leagues is not fierce.

The Russian Super League is the highest quality league in Eastern Europe, the top two in the league can directly participate in the Champions League group stage, the first place in the Ukrainian Super League can also directly participate in the group stage, and the champions of other Eastern European leagues have to play play-offs without exception, which is the embarrassing situation that Eastern European football needs to face.

There is always a golden generation of second-rate national teams, but the golden generation means that there is no success. Yugoslavia from 1990 to 1998, Croatia from 1996 to 1998, Romania from 1994 to 2000, and the Czech Republic from 1996 to 2004 are the most beautiful memories for many fans.

Since 1996, every European Championship has had an Eastern European team that can compete with Western Europe, and even in Euro 2000, the bleakest game of Eastern European football, Romania reached the last eight from a group surrounded by England, Portugal and Germany.

However, after the golden generation, it means a long hiatus, and for Eastern European football, the golden generation has become more and more extravagant.

Now that Eastern European football has gone into decline, the Poles have packed their bags to return, the Serbs are singing the tune of parting, the Czechs have put away their nostalgic eyes, and now they are still holding high the banner of Eastern European football, leaving only the Ukrainians who have inherited the essence of football in the former Soviet Union.

Crossing the meandering Dnieper River and strolling through the vast and fertile black earth, the towering yellow cross on the Sofia Cathedral in Kiev shades 47 million people, a fertile land that has suffered from war since ancient times, and is not only the breadbasket of Europe, but also the seed of football.

Former Dynamo Kyiv and now Shakhtar Donetsk, for the first time in this season's Champions League, two clubs from Ukraine have entered the group stage of the Champions League.

It's a breakthrough!

However, before the start of the game, more people still thought that these two teams were just the role of accompanying the prince to study, and it was a fantasy to break through from the group surrounded by strong opponents.

But I believe that as long as you have watched the first half of Zuihou ten minutes, you will not have such an idea now, Fiorentina, which has been among the ranks of the giants, in the first half of the Zuihou moment, was actually forced to be busy by the little-known Shakhtar Donetsk, and could only retreat the defense, relying on Frey's brave performance, several times to save the day.

"Guys! I feel like you're all scared, after you take the lead, you don't dare to scramble, and you let our opponents surround the penalty area, bombarding indiscriminately, maybe you want to give Sebastian some chance to perform, but I don't think Sebastian will be happy, let alone thank you! ”

After returning to the dressing room, Digan roared to express his dissatisfaction, and the first half was a shame for him for ten minutes, Fiorentina did not attack, and was completely besieged by Shakhtar Donetsk, which has never happened in previous games.

'This situation must not continue, we have to make changes, the Ukrainians can use their bodies, their scrambles, their quick passes to press our formation, then all we have to do is get it back as it was.'

In the second half, the Fiorentina players, who were reprimanded by Digan, began their battle for dignity, and they had gradually begun to climb the ranks of the giants, not only did not allow themselves to suffer defeat against opponents like Shakhtar Donetsk, but also did not allow themselves to fall behind on the field.

At the beginning, Fiorentina had a chance to counterattack, Motta made a short pass in the midfield, Ledesma broke through the left rib and almost formed a single knife, but Hubschmann made a tackle behind his back to defuse the danger.

Although the attack did not work, everything worked very smoothly and Fiorentina seemed to come out of the confusion of the first half and get back on track.

In the 49th minute, Degan's header in the middle was ferried, Montolivo burst into the left side of the penalty area and crossed, Motta followed up on the right side and ran slightly, and the defender fell to the ground and tackled.

In the past few minutes, Shakhtar Donetsk seems to have returned to the beginning of the first half, and their attack was completely invisible, and Fiorentina's two attacks, if it were not for the timely filling of the back position, perhaps the score would have expanded again.

Lucescu was also anxious on the sidelines, constantly shouting at the players, pressing, pressing, pressing.

Shakhtar Donetsk, who were eager to equalize, started the tactics of the Zuihou moment in the first half again, and the original attacking core Fernandinho has now become a traditional midfielder, no longer participating in the attack, just staying in his own half to help defend, and the heavy responsibility of attacking has fallen on the shoulders of Lewandowski and others.

These traditional Eastern European players began to use their tactics to frantically attack the Fiorentina backline, and finally, in the 52nd minute, goalkeeper Puyatov kicked wide, and Lucarelli beat Thiago. Silva's header rubbed forward, Fiorentina's defense was suddenly in chaos, Abate cleared with his left foot on the edge of the penalty area, but accidentally kicked the ball to the feet of Brandan, after Brandang got the ball, he shot low, and was blocked by Frei to the ground, but he did not hit the ball away, Lucarelli won the ball at the penalty spot, such an opportunity, for a prolific shooter like him, it will never be missed, sideways right-footed volley, the football went straight to the right side of the goal, and the score was 1:2!

After the goal, Lucarelli also looked very excited, he was over 30 years old, and only scored his first Champions League goal, Lucarelli was like a child, beating his chest wildly, roaring loudly, rushing to the sidelines, opening his arms, and celebrating with the fans.

There was jubilation in the Donbass stadium as well, and although the team was still behind, Lucarelli's goal gave them hope.

"Lucarelli! Lucarre, a powerful striker from Italy, scored Shakhtar Donetsk's first Champions League goal in the history of Shakhtar Donetsk with a single shot, and it was also his first Champions League goal! ”

The Ukrainians went crazy and gave up the delicate style of Brazilian football, and Shakhtar Donetsk, who held high the hard bridge iron horse of Eastern Europe, finally recovered a goal, and they used the characteristics of Eastern European football to defend the dignity of Eastern European football.

Lucescu on the sidelines also raised his arms and shouted, this goal came too timely, and now there are nearly 40 minutes left in the game, and everything still has a chance.

Abate, who had made a serious mistake, was lying on the ground, and it was his clearance mistake that gave Lucarelli the opportunity to almost open the net.

Digan stood near the center circle, crossed his waist, looking at the Shakhtar Donetsk team celebrating wildly, and he was helpless in his heart, he didn't have anything to say about this goal, it was an accident.

However, the tough style shown by the Shakhtar Donetsk team before really impressed him, perhaps this is the charm of Eastern European football, which has once dominated Shijie football and created countless miracles.

Seeing this, Prandley walked to the sidelines, shouted twice at Degan, and explained a few words to him.

"The next five minutes are very crucial, we have to take them down before they can fully build up, otherwise it will be dangerous!"