Chapter 112: Shame

After the second round of the group stage, some of the qualifying situations of each group have been very clear, and some are still chaotic and confusing, and all the answers can only be handed over to the last round to verify.

In the third round of the group stage, the first to start was Group A, and Uruguay defeated Mexico 1:0 in the two games played at the same time, and Suarez, who had not yet fully turned into a zombie, scored the only goal of the whole game, helping Uruguay to finally win two wins and one draw in three games, and qualify with his head held high.

Two-time World Cup winner Uruguay finally broke into the round of 16 of the World Cup again, from the summer of Italy in 1990 to the winter of South Africa in 2010, the years have passed in a hurry, Uruguay has already gone through several generations of players, the youngest in the current team Nicolas. Lodeiro had just turned one year old at the time, and even the oldest Abreu was only 14 years old at the time, but veteran coach Tabarez personally took Uruguay to the last 16 of the World Cup after a gap of 20 years.

Tabarez is one of the most famous coaches in the history of Uruguay, in 1988, Tabarez took over the Uruguayan national team, and led the team to the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Uruguay drew 0:0 in the first game, and then lost to Belgium 1:3, but in the last round of life and death, Uruguay encountered the stubborn resistance of the Taiji Tiger South Korea, in the case of a long attack, Tabarez replaced Fonseca, and finally Fonseca completed the stunner in the 90th minute, and Uruguay finally entered the round of 16 with the third place in the group.

After Tabarez stepped down from the Uruguayan national team, Uruguayan football fell into a dark period of 20 years, with the two-time World Cup winners only participating in the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, missing the United States, France and Germany three World Cup events.

In 2006, the Uruguayan Football Federation finally decided to bring back Tabares, and in the South American qualifiers, Tabarez's balanced offensive and defensive tactics were fully reflected, although in the end only 6 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses ranked fifth, in the play-offs, Uruguay defeated Costa Rica, and finally successfully qualified for the World Cup finals.

In this World Cup, Uruguay and the host South Africa and another World Cup champion France are in Group A, and finally Uruguay drew with France in the first game, and beat South Africa 3:0 in the second game.

In the other match played at the same time, the French team did not lose 1-2 to hosts South Africa under everyone's eyes, and only one point from three games was eliminated, and they went out of the group in a humiliating way, a result that was unimaginable before the game.

When the group draw was announced, France were not seeded, but they were all favourites to be the strongest team in the group, with a good chance of topping the group, but against Uruguay, Mexico and South Africa, three opponents who are not the best teams in the world, the French had a jaw-dropping performance.

The Gallic rooster wilted, the reason is obvious, the team's internal relations are wrong, the infighting seriously depletes the team's combat effectiveness, first of all, the head coach Domenech's prestige is not there, and many players in the team do not trust him, so that there is a rare scene of Anelka pointing at his nose and scolding.

Secondly, the players are in a faction, the captain Evra is the core of the hard erection, in fact, no one listens to him, Henry and Gallas in the "old man" set up another mountain, attracted many players, and did not have a good relationship with each other.

It is rare in history for a team to be seriously dragged down by infighting like this, and even the Dutch team, the famous "king of infighting", has never been so chaotic.

In the history of world-class competitions, it is rare for such a stir of infighting as the French team to make, and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is destined to go down in the history of French football in a disgraceful way.

1:2!

This is the last game of the French team and the South African team in this World Cup, accompanied by the French team's exit, not only this weak performance, the French team collapsed under heavy pressure, Anelka was expelled for insulting the coach, including captain Evra, big-name Henry and Abidal, Malouda and others were put on the bench or directly abandoned, the physical coach announced his resignation after being beaten, if the performance of the French team's level in the stadium seriously declined, it can also be said to be a tragedy, then outside the stadium, The Gallic rooster is like a farce of the world.

In short, the French team, who stole the qualification with Henry's handball, was not so much beaten home as "thieves" as a "thief", but rather that they came to participate in a black "Foolish World Cup", making the world watch Domenech and his disciples as a joke reality show.

France, a strong team ranked 9th in the world, has never heard of such a grotesque and nonsensical way of going out in the 80-year history of the World Cup, and it can be called the most shameful out!

When Domenech had not yet announced his starting XI ahead of the match against South Africa, the media was already eager to get to the bottom of the ground: "Now is the time to really test Domenech's careful thinking in drawing up the 23-man roster, and let the world see how deep the bench is for the wise man." ”

It was clear that France could only win the main force of the trouble, and was forced to let a large number of substitutes play, Anelka's insult to Domenech was limited to the inside of the dressing room, but the media exposure appeared on the front page of the newspaper, and the French Football Federation also intervened to announce Anelka's expulsion.

Subsequently, Anelka's friends Gallas, Henry, Malouda, Abidal and others made angry statements, and at the same time there was an incident of Evra boxing the physical coach, and in the end, the French Football Federation followed the zero-tolerance principle of the referees of this World Cup and simply carried out the "ban" to the end.

Therefore, the French team that appeared in front of the world in this game has completely changed, and more than six players have been replaced.

In the end, Abidal and Evra were removed from the backline, Squeiraci and Klich were righted, midfielder Gourcuff was reactivated, Diarra started, Malouda was shelved, as for the front, the appearance of Gignac and Cisse was a big surprise, and what is even more incredible is that Gallas, who was originally in the ranks of the block, got the starting status in this campaign.

In fact, the real ridiculousness of this starting line-up is in the captaincy selection, after Patrice Evra was taken off the starting line-up, there has been speculation that Franck Ribery should be a more suitable new captain.

But in the end, the captain's armband was worn on the arm of Bordeaux defender Diarra, who has been on the fringes of the French national team and has never started at this World Cup.

As the media said, going to play the final game against South Africa with such a squad and morale would be more torturous than ordeal for the players.

Only Franck Ribery and Ciceshan had the will to fight in the first half, but it wasn't long before South Africa crushed France with goals. Goalkeeper Frei showed up to get off the ball in a way he had never seen at Fiorentina and Diaby was headed home by centre-back Kumalo.

As soon as the goal was scored, the French were even more discouraged, the second goal of the South African team was as easy as playing table tennis, a simple pass and cut the right side of the defense, the cross was not good, but Diaby cleared the mistake and sent it to the near baseline, South Africa knocked the ball back to the middle, at this time Frei made another mistake in attacking, the South African striker squeezed Clicy away, and hit the ball into the empty goal, the latter staggered and almost fell to the ground.

Although the attack improved and scored a goal after the substitution of Malouda in the second half, the tide was over, and former world champions France ended their World Cup campaign in such a humiliating way.

The rout has now made French fans pin their hopes on the new coach Blank, but on closer inspection, Blank has very limited cards in his hands.

With a wide breakaway like Ribery, there is definitely a need for a big center forward who can convince the crowd, and this candidate will definitely be difficult to produce as Thierry Henry and Trezeguet enter the end of their careers.

In terms of midfield organization, Gourcuff has the name of Zizou II, but he can neither suppress the big names nor instigate the team's attack on the field.

At the back, there were no good centre-backs in the post-Gallas and Abidal eras, and even Mexes spent most of his time as a substitute for Burdisso at Roma last season.

What's more, even if you discover new talents, it will be difficult to get ahead for a while in the French team, which is very particular about seniority, otherwise Real Madrid striker Benzema will not even be able to squeeze into the 23-man squad for the World Cup.

In the end, the French team ended their World Cup trip in South Africa in this way, and it was like falling into a deep valley as deep as the Mariana Trench, which was only jaw-dropping.

Thankfully, Malouda, who has been playing well in this tournament, stepped up and helped France clear the shame of goallessness with a precious goal, and the Chelsea winger's goal was the only time that France had been a glorious ground match in South Africa.

France debuted as the top favourites in the 2002 World Cup, but did not score a goal in the end, went home after three games, and almost repeated this scene eight years later, France was the defending champion in 2002, and France in 2010 was also in a rage, and in the end, they were all worried about a mere goal, which is really a laughing stock in the world.

El Salvador, which has participated in the World Cup in history, is so bad, in the two cups it has participated in, when 22 goals were scored, it can still be seen that Leng Zi scored one, and it is so difficult for the French team to score a goal, and it is juxtaposed with an absolutely weak team like El Salvador and said that this year's France is also a shame.

It may seem a bit boring to be short and tall in a fiasco environment, but it must be admitted that Malouda saved the French team and saved the Gallic Roosters from a huge embarrassment.

Judging by this level, Malouda is the number one star of the French team, and the Chelsea winger was one of the best in form against Mexico, and after coming off the bench, he scored France's only goal of the World Cup, which was the first goal of the French team in this World Cup. Thankfully, the Gallic roosters still had their last pair of underpants to hide their ugliness, but they had plenty of time to return to their homeland to continue the infighting.

As for the second star, regardless of Frei's initial reckless attack on the first goal of the South African team, he can be regarded as the second number with his overall stability and even the more he pounces, and as for the third number or something, there is no point in discussing.

The French have no reason to blame anyone, because their luck is already very good, with a handball assist, mixed on the stage of the World Cup, and then the World Cup group draw, stumbling into the finals of the French team, they are also very lucky, they are in a group with the host South Africa, the average strength of the Mediocre Mexican team and the Uruguay team that finished fifth in the South American zone and qualified for the World Cup through the play-offs.

The good fortune of the French continues, and at this year's UEFA Congress, UEFA President Michel Platini announced that his native France, beating Italy and Belgium, would become the host of the 2016 European Championships. ”

The French team, and even the whole of France, what they need, Platini can get, no way, who is the current president of UEFA.

In fact, in the Champions League in recent seasons, Platini has been covering the sky with one hand, as everyone knows, Platini has always had a great prejudice against the Premier League and Serie A teams, after he took office, he tried every means to suppress the Premier League and Serie A teams, the Premier League team and the Serie A team in the first round of the knockout round for several consecutive seasons collectively chased each other, so a thousandth, or even a ten-thousandth small probability event, was directed several times under Platini's black hands.

Sure enough, the hard work paid off, under the pressure of Platini, the Premier League team that once occupied three places in the semi-finals of the Champions League, last season rarely none of them entered the semi-finals, and only one Fiorentina squeezed into Serie A.

But the World Cup is not the Champions League, nor is it the European Cup, this is Blatter's territory, not Platini's territory, Platini can send the French team to the World Cup, can divide the French team into a relatively easy group, can make the royal referee in the Champions League with his eyes wide open, but he can't control the referee in the World Cup.

In this World Cup, after witnessing the poor performance of the French team in the first two games, one draw and one loss without scoring a goal, football legend Beckenbauer could no longer sit still, he reprimanded: "The French team is the most disappointing team in this World Cup, it is not qualified to come to South Africa at all, it is simply a rabble, for Domenech's French team, there has never been the greatest shame, but only one greater shame." ”

All right!

The French team was embarrassed and lost home, after three group games, the gray egg went home, as the host South Africa, although the last game was proud, but in the end because of the goal difference, can only watch Uruguay and Mexico two small partners join hands to qualify.

However, the South Africans competed fairly and did not engage in off-the-field tricks, which was enough to make South Korea slap its face 10,000 times.