Golden Greenery

( ) On the last day of June, the knockout rounds began. At the main venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sochi Winter Olympics, the Chinese team and Portugal took the lead.

Some players in football are probably born for one major competition, such as Lazi and Goyechea. After the major competition, they did not leave much trace on the mainstream football world.

Of course, it is far-fetched to say that James Ronaldo was the winner in 2014. James still performed quite well in both Real Madrid and Bayern.

There are also players who live purely for one game, such as Portuguese forward Eder.

His performance in 15-1 Swansea was hailed as one of the 'top ten parallel imports in the Premier League', but he scored in the 201st hour to defeat France.

The following season, he became a parallel import for Lille in Ligue 1. Now in Lokomotiv Moscow, it is unknown whether he is a parallel import because he has not been seen in the media for a long time.

Basically, that goal was Guinea-Bissau immigrant Edel's mission in Portugal. After winning the championship, he was abandoned by Portuguese football. Coach Santos never thought of bringing this hero to Russia, and the media did not appeal at all.

He has been here, but it seems that he has not come all the way.

Among those who failed to make the Portugal World Cup squad this time are the famous players Nani and 201. As for Zhuoyang's old teammate and former Real Madrid left back 'Golden Retriever' Coentrao, he has been away from the national team for three or four years. He is still in Real Madrid, but almost no one remembers that he is still there.

And Eliseu, the main left back of the European Cup winning team two years ago, had his only glory in 201. More than a month ago, at the end of the 2017-18 season, the 35-year-old retired from Benfica.

There is also Ricardo Carvalho, a die-hard man who was always taken by Mourinho wherever he went. In 2013, he left Real Madrid and went to Morocco to play for three years. Then he went to the Chinese Super League SIPG, where he retired and became a coach. Team assistant Boas. After Villas dismissed get out of class, he continued to assist Vitor Pereira.

Except for the above, Portugal basically maintains the European championship lineup. Coach Santos is cautious but also willing to take the knife.

Santos has been coaching for 30 years, but his coaching resume has not been transferred outside Portugal and Greece, and the same is true for the national team.

Santos is one of the few coaches who has coached in all three giants of the Portuguese Super League. In the summer of 2003, Santos took over from Bologna, a Romanita native, and became the head coach of Sporting Lisbon.

At that time, the core of the Lisbon team's offense was Quaresma, and the 18-year-old Ronaldo was just a rising star. However, Santos keenly discovered Ronaldo's potential and decided to use Ronaldo to lead the offense in the new season.

In order to prove his vision, Santos specially arranged for the club to arrange a warm-up match with Manchester United. As a result, the core Ronaldo pushed hard and led the team to overthrow the Red Devils 3:1.

Therefore, Sir Alex Ferguson made up his mind to sell Ronaldo to Manchester United.

Santos: "..."

Many years later, Sang Shuai still said: I really regret letting Ronaldo play that day.

He did not catch up with Lisbon's good times. The club was short of money. Not only did they sell Cristiano Ronaldo, but they also sold Quaresma to Barcelona. As a result, Santos could only overthrow the tactics that had been prepared for the summer vacation and start over again. Then one season later, He was fired.

After the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Santos succeeded 'Otto the Great' Rehagel as the coach of the Greek national team. Subsequently, he made Greece absent from the 2012 European Cup and the 2014 World Cup, and also led Greece to the top 16 in Brazil. .

Portugal died in the group stage in Greece. After returning from Brazil, Santos succeeded Paul Bento in charge of Portuguese football. Cristiano Ronaldo's light is too strong, both intangibly and tangibly, it weakens the Portuguese football coach, but Santos is undoubtedly the leading meritorious coach in the history of Portuguese football, because he is the only major champion in 2010.

Some honors cannot be filled by winning many league titles or Champions League. Zhuoyang, Messi, and Ronaldo all lack major championships, but Ronaldo is not lacking now.

Everyone knows that Boss Mei is holding back the World Cup and the America's Cup, so hard that his face is full of beard and crow's feet. But Zhuo Yang has never expressed his intention to win the World Cup on any occasion before, and it goes without saying why.

As for the Asian Cup, I won’t take it at noon because I have to take it sooner or later, but obviously the grade is not enough.

But suddenly, because of Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal's "diversion of trouble", Zhuoyang was no longer able to distinguish himself from the World Cup champion.

Nuno Gomez and Zhuoyang had a relationship. In 2005, Madibao and Benfica met on the same road in the first round. Nuno was Benfica's starting striker at the time. It was also the first time that Zhuoyang and Madibao played in the championship. cup.

The story is a long time ago, but Zhuo Yang assisted Benfica midfielder Petit during the game, which made Nuno and the old gang quite fond of him, and they also got to know Figo through them.

However, Zhuoyang and Nuno were not familiar with each other, and they did not have any contact with each other since then. Sometimes we bump into each other at awards ceremonies and other occasions, and we exchange a few friendly words without eating.

In the 2012-13 season, Nuno went to Blackburn in the British Championship and played the last season of his career. In April 2014, the 38-year-old Nuno Gomez officially announced his retirement.

After that, he returned to Benfica Club to participate in business work. The year before last, he was invited by the Portuguese Football Association to serve as the business representative and press officer of the national team.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal fell into the media's frenzy because of their "no victory" in the last round. Under Cristiano Ronaldo's instruction, Nuno directly started to praise the Chinese team and Zhuo Yang.

All kinds of complimentary words, blowing out at changing angles and body positions, extremely shameless. This is not the most important thing. He said with red lips and white teeth that the Chinese team is the favorite to win this year.

Because of three wins from three games and because of Germany's heavy defeat, the Chinese team's winning odds have risen to sixth place, second only to Brazil, England and Portugal, and even higher than Uruguay, Spain, France, Croatia and the host Russia.

But the ranking is not important. The odds of 1:20 can explain the problem. The odds of the top five are all less than 1:10. This is the gap. Therefore, sixth place is sixth. No one seriously thinks that the Chinese team has the possibility of winning the championship. After all, the European and American powers are not dead.

But Nuno Gomez is determined that the Chinese team will win the championship, and he is counting the reasons on his fingers.

A series of excellent records and large-scale naturalization are not the key. Zhuoyang is already 33 years old. It is unimaginable that a star with such a magnificent status does not have a World Cup. There should and must be, otherwise it will be a pity for football. , and it is impossible for Zhuo Yang to wait until he is 37 years old in four years, only this year.

It's just too reasonable. The words awakened the dreamer, and the media quickly started a heated discussion with the Chinese team on the issue of winning the World Cup.

Even Zhuo Yang felt that what Nuno said was very reasonable.