rpbooks Chapter 721 The World Cup Begins
Chapter 721 The World Cup Begins
Chapter 721 The World Cup Begins
Such an intensive and complicated game schedule is a severe test for the Spanish team.
But fortunately, including the host South Africa, the 32 teams participating in the World Cup are all standing on the same starting line. Everyone is the same, and they all need to move between the three cities in the group stage. It is a test for Spain, and it is the same for other teams.
During this month-long World Cup, all the teams with ambitions and ambitions can do is to grit their teeth and persevere to see who has more stamina and confidence and can persist until the end, then who is more likely Get good grades.
After arriving in Nelspruit, the Spanish national team lost jet lag in one day, because there was not much time left before the official start of the World Cup, so the Matador Corps quickly entered a state of preparation and started this Adaptation training on the continent and the city.
After all, it is a continent that has never been set before. Nelspruit is also a city that everyone is not familiar with. The terrain here is different from that in Europe. I want to play the role of the team in a strange land. If you have the strength, then you can only integrate into this land as soon as possible.
If we say that in China, most of the training of the Spanish team is based on basic training, but after coming to South Africa, the amount of training gradually began to increase, and more of it was based on actual combat. All day.
Through several intra-team matches, some players showed a good competitive state and quickly adapted to the new field. Of course, there were also some players who did not perform well. It is estimated that they did not adapt to the new environment and failed to perform as they should. level.
Also taking this opportunity, Bosque is conducting a final inspection of his team, and is also making a final assessment and consideration of the main lineup.
A week after arriving in Nelspruit, the Spanish national team played a warm-up match with a local professional team.
This team is a sub-level team in the South African Professional League. Its full name is the Nelspruit Football Team. It is not well-known and is little known in the world.But after all, it is a professional team, and it is more than enough for the Matador Legion as a training object.
The final result of this game was 11:0. Spain won a crazy victory, and even piled up the number of goals to double digits.
Forwards Villa and Torres each scored two goals. Most of the Real Madrid players who were banned in the team in the last round got the chance to start and performed well. As the team's midfield metronome Harvey Alonso also scored a goal.
The most ridiculous thing is the team's two defenders. As a right defender, Ramos frequently inserted assists in the game and successfully scored a goal. What is even more incredible is that the last warm-up Pique, who lost to the French team by a big score in the game and was blown out of place in the game, seemed to be suffocated, and all his anger broke out on the opponent in this game. As a central defender, he actually kicked his head and kicked Scored three goals and staged a hat-trick.
Fan Bizhuang didn't start the game. He just came on as a substitute for Villa in the 704th minute of the second half. Isn't his performance outstanding, but it's not bad either. The cross after the breakthrough from the road helped former club teammate Cazorla score the goal.
The effect of this near-massacre victory is extremely obvious. The impact of the big loss to the French team gradually disappeared. The players all had smiles on their faces, and their confidence recovered a lot, which made everyone feel confident about the future. There is a lot of anticipation for the upcoming World Cup schedule.
Victory is the best stimulant. This is true. Three days later, the Spanish team played another "exchange match" with another local semi-professional and semi-amateur team. The result was naturally another big game. win.
Although the opponents in these two friendly matches are not strong, and can even be attributed to the "fish belly", no matter how many wins and scores, there is no practical significance, but through the two victories, the Spanish team will put itself The momentum gradually accumulated, which will greatly help the upcoming World Cup schedule.
The players are very satisfied with the consecutive victories, and Fan Bizhuang is also very satisfied. Although he came off the bench in both games, there is not much time left for him to perform, but as a newcomer to the national team, he can have a stable performance. The playing time is also very good.
The only regret is that in the two games, he failed to score a single goal, and nothing was achieved. As the La Liga Golden Boot for two consecutive seasons, he has not been able to get a good start on the African continent, which is somewhat unsightly .
But time is still long, the World Cup has not officially started, and he still has a lot of opportunities to score the first goal in an official game of a major competition in his national team career.
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The Spanish national team is making final preparations for the upcoming World Cup, and all the teams that came to South Africa, including the South African government...fu, are also making intensive preparations.
After the time entered June, the top 32 participating in this World Cup have arrived in South Africa one after another, and the whole world has officially entered the World Cup time.
On the streets of various cities in South Africa, there are huge World Cup posters everywhere, and the national flags of the top 32 teams of the World Cup can be seen everywhere. Fans of different skin colors in exotic clothes travel between Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and other competition cities shuttle.
Not only in South Africa, fans and businessmen from all over the world are warming up for the World Cup. The World Cup mascot "Zakumi" is sold everywhere. Both real fans and fake fans are proud to talk about football and the World Cup. Shame on football.Whether it is a student, a white-collar worker, or even a government official, the greeting after meeting has long changed from "Hello" and "The weather is nice today" to "What do you think of the World Cup?" "Shall we watch the World Cup together?"
The influence of the World Cup has expanded to the whole world at this moment.
On June 6, with the arrival of the South American powerhouse Chile, FIFA announced that the 3 teams participating in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa have all reached their residences.
The World Cup has officially entered the countdown!
There is still a week before the opening match, and the games in the next few groups will be later. Many teams will look for suitable opponents for the final warm-up match. The same is true for the Spanish team. The Spanish team in Group H, The first game is on June 6, which leaves them with nearly two weeks of preparation time.
Taking advantage of this time, the Spanish team once again played two warm-up matches, Uruguay in South America and North Korea in Asia. As a result, they won both games, one 1:0 and the other 3:0 .
Uruguay is considered a strong team. Although Spain won, the game was very difficult. As for North Korea, it comes from a mysterious country in the east. A big dark horse in the World Cup, but after the actual match, Spain is very sure that the North Korean team is just a "underdog" at the end of the crane, and it will take little effort to defeat them.
After losing to the French team, Spain was brave after knowing its shame and ushered in four consecutive victories in the warm-up match.Although the strength of the opponents varies, but being able to win consecutively is enough to show that the state of this team is developing in a good direction.
And the consecutive wins also made the new European champion jump to the second place in the winning odds offered by many gaming companies, only behind the World Cup five-star champion Brazil.
Time is slowly passing in the anticipation of fans all over the world, and the start of the World Cup is getting closer and closer.
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On June 6, the day before the opening ceremony of the World Cup, starting from 10 am local time, the number of fans pouring into Johannesburg surged like a blowout. Traffic in Johannesburg was once paralyzed.
According to statistics from the South African Tourism Bureau, more than 30 fans flocked to Johannesburg on this day. The South African Sports Daily reported: "As of the day before the start of the World Cup, more than eight sports journalists from all over the world have arrived in South Africa. million, and more than 300 million fans from all over the world came to South Africa to watch the World Cup.”
And FIFA also announced at the same time that the number of TV stations broadcasting the opening ceremony of the World Cup has reached an unprecedented 20 in the world, covering almost all cities except the Antarctic and the Arctic. There will be more than [-] TV stations in the world. Hundreds of millions of people will watch all the matches of this World Cup on TV.
After the noise and hustle and bustle, the most exciting moment finally came.
On June 6th, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the opening ceremony officially began, which lasted for almost half an hour.
The Ellis Park Stadium opened after nine o'clock in the morning to provide warm seats for fans who arrived early, because the South African team was parading before participating in the opening ceremony, and many residents of Johannesburg took various props On the balcony of the home, or flooded into the streets, to have a carnival, to meet the South African team parading the city.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the opening ceremony officially kicked off.
In just three and 10 minutes of the opening ceremony, the South Africans incorporated strong elements belonging to South Africa and Africa into the performance.
South Africans interpreted their understanding of football in the World Cup in their own national way. A dozen or so players playing street football used various tricks to count down the time.The huge banners that fell from the sky, the singing and dancing of South Africans, the singing of jazz bands, and the relaxed and lively "wakawaka" with African characteristics made this grand event even before it really started, and the fiery atmosphere was already ignited through the TV broadcast. every corner of the world.
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