Golden Greenery

At the Baishada Stadium in Curitiba, it was the first time in the history of the Chinese team that they played against Nigeria. But the African Eagle and Argentina are particularly destined. In just two decades, the two teams have met in the group stages of the 1994, 2002, 10 and 14 World Cups. Nigeria lost the first three times.

Nigeria has only participated in five World Cups so far. Except for 1998, when it did not meet Argentina, the two teams have become rivals. The World Cup seems to be just for them. In addition to the men's football finals of the 1996 Olympic Games, the 2005 World Youth Championship finals in the Netherlands, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics finals, Argentina and Nigeria are destined opponents.

In the third round of the 1994 World Cup group stage, Argentina defeated Nigeria 2:1, which was the swan song of the World Cup champion Maradona. In the game, 'Son of the Wind' Caniggia scored twice, the second of which was the famous chicken thief's quick free kick.

That was Maradona's last assist in the World Cup and with the Argentina national team. The Nigerian defender and captain Stephen Casey, who was confused by the football king, witnessed Caniggia's shooting process at close range.

20 years later, Stephen Casey is now the head coach of the Nigerian national team. The 52-year-old Casey may be the least famous among the top 32 coaches in the World Cup, because he has never left Africa whether he played in the past or coached later.

However, there are a total of three black-skinned coaches in this World Cup. In addition to Casey, there is Ghana coach James Appiah, and Casey's opponent today, China coach Rijkaard.

Of course, Jieshuai’s brilliant experience as a player and coach cannot be compared to that of Casey, but Casey can’t be considered shabby either. In 2006, he took charge of the Togo national team and reached the finals of the World Cup in Germany. He also led Nigeria to win the World Cup last year. African Cup of Nations champion.

Jieshuai has coached the Chinese team for nearly six years. He has a killer like Zhuo Yang, but he has not yet won the Asian championship.

Jieshuai's current annual salary is 5.9 million euros, while Casey's monthly salary will be 30,000 US dollars, which is the result of the Nigerian Football Association's bloodletting.

In fact, Nigeria is not poor, or not as poor as we think. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and also the largest economy.

Nigeria is twice the size of Sichuan and has twice as many people as Sichuan, but its geographical environment is much superior to Sichuan. It has vast plains and coastlines. It is extremely rich in products and you can easily dig up mineral deposits. Oil is no big deal. .

If Sichuan people have the basic conditions of Nigeria, they will use the power of one province to turn China into a developed country. In fact, if Nigeria's conditions were replaced by any province in China, it would be rich for a lifetime of 1.3 billion. However, Nigeria's GDP is only 1/10 of Sichuan Province.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t accept it.

Therefore, as long as Zhuoyang nods, there are many big Chinese bosses lining up to pay Jieshuai's salary. The Nigeria Football Association gritted its teeth and only paid Casey a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan, and it also quarreled with the national team over bonuses all day long.

Nigeria's football seems to be not as good as before. This is Zhuoyang's most intuitive feeling, because he has hardly played against Nigerian players in recent years. The latest memory is that in the Champions League 1/8 three years ago, CSKA Moscow's Nigerian winger Musa defeated Khedira, but in the end, it was just like that. Musa was treated by Zhuoyang himself and almost died.

Zhuoyang has been patrolling the wealthy clubs, and the fact that there is no one he cares about shows that Nigeria currently lacks first-line stars, and stars are the indicator of the team's strength.

Nigeria's No. 10 is John Mikel, who plays for Chelsea, but Zhuoyang has only heard of him but has no impression of him.

The 1987 generation is already the backbone of football's most powerful force. Ten years ago, the person who was most robbed by wealthy families among this generation was neither Mei, who had yet to grow hair, nor Cesc Fabregas, the number one player in 1987 at that time. But the Nigerian Mikel.

At the 2005 World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, Messi won the golden ball of the tournament, and the silver ball was Mikel. That year, Sir Alex Ferguson fell out with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich over Mikel. In the end, Chelsea spent three times the transfer fee to snatch Mikel away.

Mikel started out as an all-around player in the midfield. However, all-around players are often a pitfall, and they might turn into a one-size-fits-all player, which is what Mikel is. Later, he became a full-time defensive midfielder. His growth model was Makelele, and then he became Essien.

Anyway, in recent years, he has never been the main player under Mourinho, Ancelotti, Scolari or Hiddink. In other words, Mikel is only 27 years old, but he is already outdated.

The one currently attracting the most attention from the outside world in the Nigerian team is right winger Victor Moses. Firstly, he is very young, only 23 years old, and also because he played for Liverpool last season and played several good games.

In addition, most of Nigeria's international players currently play for teams in the lower reaches of the Russian Super League, Turkish Super League, Scottish Premier League and English Premier League, as well as other messy leagues, which are not worth mentioning. But this disdain is only measured by Zhuoyang from the perspective of Real Madrid and the current number one player. If you look at other Chinese international players in the Super League, Nigeria is still a fairy.

Among these black immortals, the most gimmick is not Mikel or Moses, but their goalkeeper and 32-year-old captain Vincent Enyema.

Enyema plays for Lille in Ligue 1. He had a record of 1,062 minutes without conceding a goal in Ligue 1 last season, which is really beyond the reach of ordinary people. Many people even said that he was the best goalkeeper in the five major leagues in the 2013-14 season.

You know, this is a world with Buffon, Cech, Casey, Neuer, Hart, De Gea and Courtois. If Enyema can be so praised, he must not be simple.

This guy is particularly good at saving penalty kicks. He saved 5 in Ligue 1 last season, including beating Ibrahimovic. Despite his short stature, 185 can only be considered a file among goalkeepers, but he is a standard anticipatory reaction goalkeeper.

Four years ago in the group stage of the World Cup in South Africa, although Argentina defeated Nigeria 1:0, Heinze only scored one of the more than 20 shots in the game, and the rest, including Messi's 10 shots, all came back in vain. There were 4 must-goals out of 10 times, but they were all rejected by Enyema. Messi returned empty-handed from South Africa four years ago, largely due to being discouraged by Enyema.

Then in the next game against Greece, Ninis broke through to the small penalty area. Enyema was still leaning calmly by the goal post, with his left hand on his waist, watching in boredom as Ninis rushed in with the ball.

At such a young age, he showed the indifference of his entire family.

From then on, everyone called Enyema the ‘Emperor of Calm’.

No one in Nigeria took off Zhuoyang's "hero post" because big guys like Mikel are not offensive players, and forwards "CSKA's double evil" Emenike and Moussa cannot convince the public. In fact, no one is qualified to participate in this event, which is one of the reasons why Zhuo Yang does not want to compete with Okocha on words.

Can you tell me that there is a team where no man dares to stand up?

But there are still men in Nigeria. Goalkeeper Enyema publicly said before the game that he hopes to compete with Zhuoyang on penalty kicks. Although Zhuoyang has never missed a penalty kick so far, he wants to give it a try.

Therefore, Zhuo Yang quickly satisfied him after the game started.

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