When the list of the top four of the American Shijie Cup was released, in a manor belonging to the Groz family in Rome, several women stared at the latest faxed statistics like dragons who saw treasures, and their funds have now changed from $10 million at the beginning to $40 million, even after deducting Zhuang Mingge's "commission" in it, these rich women have also made a net profit of $20 million!

Let's put aside these women with dollars in their eyes, and say that in the semi-finals of the Shijie Cup, Italy went to the Giants Stadium to compete with Bulgaria, the biggest dark horse of this Shijie Cup, for a ticket to the final.

FIFA also took this match very seriously, and the experienced Joel Quiniou (I don't know if it should be translated as such) became the referee of this match, and interestingly, in the 1986 and 1990 shijie cups, he officiated against Italy, which won 2-0 and 2-1 respectively against Czechoslovakia and England in the two games he officiated. There is public opinion that this is a sign that FIFA wants to escort Italy to the final.

In the twentieth minute of the game, Donadoni threw a throw-in, Roberto Baggio conceded the ball, and then dribbled past the defense of two Bulgarian defenders on the line of the penalty area, and scored with a curling ball in the far corner, 1-0;

Five minutes later, the Italian team made a comeback, Albertini hoisted a ball over the top into the penalty area, Baggio successfully countered offside on the right side of the penalty area, directly pushed, the ball flew into the far corner of the goal, the score became 2-0;

Towards the end of the first half, Kostacuta, who had committed a foul in the box, gave a penalty gift, and Stoichkov made it 2-1.

This score was also maintained by the Italians until the end of the match, and Italy reached the Shijie Cup final for the fourth time in 12 years.

However, many people expressed strong dissatisfaction with Quinho's decision in this game, and they accused Costa Kuta, who had committed multiple fouls during the game, to be sent off a long time ago.

After the game, Bulgarian captain Stoichkov angrily replied angrily when asked by reporters about his pre-match statement that "God is Bulgarian": "God is still a Bulgarian, but the referee is French. ”

'Quinho was chosen to referee the game, I don't think it's a coincidence. So says the fiery striker.

In Zhuang Mingge's view, such a penalty result is nothing more than a continuation of the Cold War mentality left over from the seventies and eighties.

In fact, before the end of the Cold War, this often happened in international competitions such as the Shijie Cup and the Olympic Games, take the 1986 Shijie Cup as an example, when Shijie was still in the Cold War period, all major competitions were marked with political branding, in the Shijie Cup 1/4 finals, NATO's Belgium met the former Soviet Union team, the referee was Frederickson from NATO, and the former Soviet Union team was inexplicably scored two offside goals by Belgium, and was upset 3:4. After the game, Shijie public opinion was in an uproar, and many fans publicly expressed their hope to donate money to the referee for the treatment of "eye diseases".

The following is a brief description of the experience of the "big brother" of communism, the Soviet Union, in all previous competitions:

In 1958, the Shijie Cup reached the quarterfinals, but unfortunately he was unlucky to meet the powerful Brazil and was out;

In the 1962 Shijie Cup knockout round, the host Chile took a free kick before the Soviet Union's human wall was lined up, and the referee determined that the "sneak goal" was valid, and the Soviet Union was hacked out;

In the 1964 European Championship final, the host Spain was again, and the English referee blew the whistle repeatedly, and Zuihou was the runner-up;

In the semi-finals of the 1966 Shijie Cup against West Germany, the opponent's offside goal was valid and he was hacked out;

In the semi-finals of the 1968 European Cup, the two-legged draw with Italy was 1:1, because there was no penalty tie-off system at that time, so the referee decided to throw a coin to decide the winner, and the Soviets were funny out;

In the 1970 Shijie Cup knockout match, the cross goal in Chile extra time was obviously out of the bottom line and was hacked;

In the 1982 Shijie Cup against Brazil, two good balls were blown away;

In the 1986 Shijie Cup knockout match against Belgium, the Belgians kicked the Soviets out with two offside goals;

In the 1990 Shijie Cup, first against Romania was misjudged a penalty, and then against Argentina when Maradona once again used the nirvana "Hand of God" to block the ball from the goal line, which directly led to the defeat of the first two games, Zuihou defeated Cameroon with a four-goal victory and then broke into the quarterfinals, but because of the tacit understanding between Romania and Argentina, he had to go home at the end of the group stage.

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This is no longer something that can be simply described with the words "history of blood and tears", even the persecution of godfathers in later generations will not be like this, and it is almost the same to say that the Soviet Union is the enemy of FIFA's father.

The head coach of the Soviet team in the late 80s was the legendary coach Lobanovsky, who was one of the first to put forward the concept of "all-offense and all-defense", but his all-attack and all-defense was not the same as the more famous "Michels-style" all-attack and all-defense. Michels emphasised possession and passing, while Lobanovski placed more emphasis on speed. Michels has successively cultivated Cruyff, Gullit, and Basten, three European footballers; Lobanovski also produced three European Footballer of the Year: Blokhin (Ukraine coach at Euro 2012), Belanov and Shevchenko. In the late nineties, Lobanovski also briefly returned to Dynamo Kyiv and led the team to the last four of the Champions League in 1998-99. It can be said that if it were not for the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lobanovsky and his Kyiv Dynamo would have become a "space team" in Eastern Europe

Lobanovski's most impressive thing is that he has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, and he combines his knowledge of science and engineering with football - he thinks that the team is a well-oiled machine, and that most of what happens on the pitch can be prepared in advance. He also co-authored a book on the relationship between football tactics and mathematical statistics.

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A few years after the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, many people's thinking has not kept up with the pace of the times, and they are still looking at the teams from the "Warsaw Pact" system with the thinking of "camp opposition", and it is natural that there will be all kinds of inadvertent "misjudgments".

So in the next third and fourth place finals, in order to express protest and dissatisfaction with the previous game, Bulgarian striker Stoichkov, who has scored six goals and is very hopeful of breaking the "six-goal curse", did not play, and lost 0-4 to Sweden in the Bulgarian comprehensive release, and won the fourth place in the Shijie Cup.

PS: I DRANK TOO MUCH YESTERDAY, AND TODAY WE ALMOST COULDN'T GET UP, AND WE HAD A HEADACHE......