Chapter 66: The Outsider Who Breaks the Rules
As mentioned earlier, during the 94 World Cup, Colombia's biggest drug lord Pablo. Escobar, not yet two years later, a drug cartel has sprung up around the city of Cali. The original Pablo was the kind of person with a flamboyant personality and extreme arrogance, and he put everything on the bright side, so he dared to publicly reward the head of the police, and he roughly knew what kind of person he was. And now the boss of the Cali drug cartel is completely different, this is a low-key person to the extreme, many people don't even know who the boss of the Cali cartel is, and this group never leaves evidence for committing crimes, and everyone knows that they did it, but the police still don't have a problem with others. So, just like in the vast Amazon jungle, venomous snakes are always more dangerous than jaguars.
After the training match with the Cali Sports Club, the next day the whole team of the Sun God moved to the suburban town of Ponton, and there were many overseas Chinese in the 90s, but not to the point that South America was also everywhere, so the arrival of the Guangzhou team was particularly eye-catching in the town. At this time, there were only a few 3-star hotels in the city of Cali, let alone in the countryside, and the Guangzhou team could only choose to stay in a fairly clean motel 2 kilometers away from the stadium. Every day's catering is sent by the Kari Sports Club to send a guide to lead a few chefs to the market to buy ingredients and come back to process by themselves, gym, 10 square meters of small broken house with two barbells, a second-hand treadmill, don't think about the rest, fortunately, the 24-hour hot water bath can still be guaranteed. The stadium was also built by the satellite club of the Cari Sports Club, a standard 9-a-side field with no lights, but fortunately, the daytime temperature in Colombia in December is also around 20 degrees. The players of Guangzhou Sun God jokingly said that they were not here to compete, but to participate in the military training arranged by the club.
The group stage of the cup is a home-and-away system, with a game every 3 days, and you have to fly everywhere after the end. This is very strange, but in South America, this league is divided into spring and autumn, and it is not surprising that there are two championships a year. The good thing is that the flight distance is not too far.
In the first game on the 6th, Guangzhou Sun God played Bolivar at home.The Bolivian national team in the 90s was the strongest time, and there were not many well-known stars. But the country is poor, just this only seedling, people run the United States to make money, and he has been playing for Washington, D.C. United at the peak of his career, so this Bolívar has 5 Bolivian internationals who can't be named in Europe, and the most incredible thing for the sun god is that the people in this team can run more than one by one, and the exaggeration of good physical strength. In the first 10 minutes, the Suns, who had not yet adapted to the rhythm of the game, allowed Bolívar to steal two balls and shoot from a distance. A bottom cross, Lee Byrne pushed it out, and the outside didn't aim, so he shot with his feet. The second is a forward insertion from the back, and another kick 40 meters away. There's nowhere to reason! Fortunately, Bolívar, who was ahead of the curve, probably felt that the level of the Chinese team was like this, and slowed down the pace slightly, which made Ballack and Peng Er comfortable. Begin to have the opportunity to sort out the midfield and organize the attack according to your habits. In the 21st minute of the first half, Ballack outside the penalty area was still in color, and the Bolívar team was not vigilant, thinking that it was just the luck of the Guangzhou team. In the 27th minute of the first half, after Trezeguet used cover in front of the penalty area to push three people into the far corner, Bolívar wanted to raise the speed again, and Guangzhou Sun God quit, and the Guangzhou midfielder who played smoothly was obviously more cooperative and disciplined than the opponent, and firmly controlled the ball at his feet. The impatient Bolivian received three yellow cards in less than eight minutes. In the 36th minute, the Guangzhou team won a free kick 27 meters in front of the penalty area, and thanks to three months of uninterrupted practice, Li Byrne, who rushed over from the backfield to take the penalty, did it in one fell swoop.
After the halftime break, Guangzhou Suns, who were one goal ahead, played even more impatiently, on the other hand, the opponent did not have any good offensive methods, either stuffy head to break through the side cross, or the midfielder pumped cold shots to shoot from the feet, and wanted to rely on short passes to penetrate the Suns defense line in front of the penalty area? Don't think about it, Li Byrne and Huang Qineng and Li Wei's brother and son have also cooperated for half a year, and they are originally more defensive and less, and there is the protection of Gattuso and Barak in front of them. The result was that in the 15th minute of the second half, Trezeguet, who was in an offside position, covered, Hu Zhijun received Peng Er's straight plug against offside, and easily scored with a single knife, and the score expanded to 4:2, from two goals behind to four goals over, only 50 minutes, which made the few Cali citizens who came to see the game also excited. Yo, the champion team of the Chinese league has something!
Probably can't afford to lose, well, it should be said that the probability is that they can't afford to lose, the Bolívar team feels that they can't get over the face, and they want to play away from Cali Sports last season was only 2:2, and now they are being played like this by the Chinese team, for Bolívar, who felt that he could easily win and take away the three points before the game, this is unacceptable. Then the problems of the South American players came out, and the small movements, the dirty movements began to increase. The referee of this game is the Argentine Cuado, it is said that his cousin is an official of the South American Football Confederation, and he specially explained that the Guangzhou team is from afar, don't let people bully, and pay attention to protecting the opposing players without affecting the fairness and fairness of the game. In the second half, Bolivar played more and more dirty, Kwado had no choice, two yellows and one red, one of which had a yellow card before, the result was that the Bolivian league champion only had 9 people left, with Trezeguet's penalty kick, the score was finally fixed at 5:2, and the Guangzhou Suns won the first game against the opponent. When the angry head coach of the Bolivarian team was asked by reporters to comment on the game at the post-match press conference, he left a vicious sentence: "Let's see!" See you in La Paz!"
When it was the turn of the Sun God team, Director Xie did not accompany the team due to family reasons, and Hu Zhijun attended the press conference with Li Boen as the captain on the field. The previous Q&A was normal, when a reporter from a Chilean media asked: "Chinese friends from afar, first of all, congratulations on your victory in the first game, but I have to say that you broke an unwritten rule of South American football in the game, what do you think about offending the Bolivarian club?"
After listening to the translation, the two of them looked at each other with big eyes and really didn't understand. So Hu Zhijun asked, "Why do you say that?" What is the unwritten rule? Please explain to this journalist friend, and we will pay attention to it in the future."
The Chilean reporter paused and said: "On our side, if the opponent voluntarily abandons the game, he will generally not continue to attack and score. Privately, we call this 'surrender and lose half', and I guess you don't know it, but when you go to La Paz, remember to explain it to the Bolivar club."
Hu Zhijun and Li Boen looked at each other, and at the same time burst out a sentence: "Master Xing is awesome!"