Golden Greenery

( ) Zhuo Yang is not a god, and his judgment cannot always be correct.

It was expected that the penalty shootout would not be decided until the fourth round at the earliest, but it turned out that it was not his turn to take action at all, and Brazil died in the third round.

There couldn't have been a shorter penalty shootout, in absolute terms. Zhuo Yang was the core hero of the game. Maro, Zhang Tiedan and You Deshui also created the history of Chinese football because of their successful penalty kicks and will be forever recorded in the annals of history.

This is not the first time that an Asian team has reached the semi-finals of the World Cup. South Korea did it in 2002. But what happened that year is well known to the whole world, including Koreans. In fact, everyone would rather forget it than talk about it as a glory.

But what happened in Russia this year? The Chinese team does not have the right time and place as the host, and does not have the black gold of football politics. It only has Zhuo Yang and a group of ambitious brothers, only a dedicated and capable coaching staff, only a large and strong logistics team, and only passionate Chinese fans.

Defeating France, Peru, Denmark, eliminating European champion Portugal, and eliminating Brazil, the best player in world football, Zhuo Yang and his Chinese team had a bumpy journey, but they reached the semi-finals very firmly.

The extremely one-sided success of the penalty shootout was the best reward for their perseverance.

At the beginning, not many people really thought that the Chinese team would drag Brazil into a penalty shootout. In this much-anticipated knockout match, the Chinese team would count as a small loss even if it won.

At 4:4 in 20 minutes, the ups and downs of the tug-of-war made viewers around the world hooked. When the penalty kick battle really came, everyone was superstitious about Zhuoyang's penalty kick bug.

But the Brazilian team failed to hold on until Zhuoyang took action.

The penalty shootout was supposed to be a goalkeeper's performance, but Wang Dalei and Alisson failed to save one and became two insignificant passers-by.

The most amazing and unexpected thing is that the Chinese team made three free throws and Brazil missed three free throws. This script is simply full of weirdness.

In July 2011 in La Plata, Argentina, in the quarter-finals of the 2011 America's Cup, Brazil and Paraguay tied 0:0 in 120 minutes and had to enter a brutal penalty shootout.

Elano, Tisci, Andre Santos, and Fred, four consecutive missed free throws, really sent people to grandma's house.

But Tisci and Fred managed to get on target, but were saved by Paraguay goalkeeper Bilal, which was bad luck. Coupled with the fact that Barreto, who played in Paraguay in the first round, was kicked out, the Brazilian team lasted until the fourth round before losing.

Moreover,

Can the America's Cup be as influential as the World Cup? Is it the same to throw shame in the kitchen and throw it in the square?

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"My teammates performed very well, everyone was outstanding. We won the penalty kick because we were better prepared and more tenacious. Of course, luck is also an essential factor."

Zhuoyang said: "Brazil also played very well. Mr. Tite has ten excellent head coaches. His team played good tactics today."

"To be fair, the team should have won, and in overtime, Brazil deserved the victory more. But this is football, and I believe our Brazilian colleagues understand the meaning of this sentence better."

"As for the revenge I said before the game...that's not important actually. You can understand that it is a kind of psychological warfare. I have a very deep friendship with the Brazilian players. It was like this before, it is like this now, and it will be like this in the future. What revenge?" No revenge, just a fun sideshow.”

Only rich people can say money is not important.

Only people with a fairly high degree of education are qualified to say that reading is actually useless.

Only those who have completed their revenge can say that revenge is nonsense.

In terms of score, the Chinese team and Brazil actually tied at 4:4, which is three mountains and five mountains away from the shocking 0:7 four years ago. But one is a game-like warm-up match, and the other is an epic World Cup quarter-finals. Everyone knows whether this revenge will be avenged or not.

Even if the Brazilians are unconvinced by the defeat, they will not be tough on this.

After the game, the devastated Brazilians quickly evacuated the stadium, leaving only tens of thousands of weeping Brazilian fans messy in the wind. The Chinese Expedition fans celebrated unkindly and wildly, making the Rostov Stadium a day of ice and fire.

The day after the game, the identity of Vital Romero, who was the Chinese team’s great assist, was discovered by reporters. The Brazilian media called him the ‘gravedigger’ of Samba football. The tears of Romero's late grandfather Clovis four years ago were therefore described as 'crying the grave'.

"Thank you Romero for your enthusiasm. I think this is normal. There are also many fans of Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Kaká in China, as well as David Luiz, Silva and Fernandinho. , Jesus, Neymar, every Brazilian international has many supporters in China, and they have all felt the love of Chinese fans."

"Football has a national team, but the love for football knows no borders. Thank you again Romero for your enthusiasm, but I still hope you will not rush into the stadium again in the future. It is very unsafe. In addition, you are welcome to visit China."

Several major fan organizations in China have expressed that they will provide all-inclusive accommodation and food for Romero's trip to China.

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The emergence of the Chinese team allowed an Asian team to enter the semi-finals of the World Cup for the first time with its true strength. But whether the Chinese team is a dark horse or not is difficult to define.

Call it a dark horse. How can there be such a ferocious dark horse? A team with Zhuo Yang is a dark horse? First of all, Brazil will not agree.

As football king Pele said, Brazil and China are the two best and most stable teams since the start of this World Cup. It is the most reasonable script that they should have met in the final.

From the top 1 in 2010 to the semi-finals this year, the Chinese team has steadily improved its strength and record over the years, and has been very stable at one level in four years. Zhuoyang's big incident only caused Chinese football to stumble and did not stop its upward progress.

From these aspects, there is no doubt that the Chinese team is already a real powerhouse, and calling it a "dark horse" is deceiving itself. But since ancient times in football, rising players outside Europe and South America have been called "dark horses", even those outside the traditional top ten. What happened to the Chinese team?

In essence, the meaning of dividing black horses and white horses involves the renaming of the football pattern. Whether the European and American powers can psychologically accept the new continent of football geography.

There are less than 800 million people in Europe, 450 million in South America, and 1.4 billion in China. It may be time for the football powers to face up to this change.

The reporter asked Zhuoyang: What is his new goal after reaching the semi-finals?

"Champion. The only solution to worries is the champion."

Nonsense, you’ve already made it to the semi-finals, what other ideas can you have? The reporter is not stupid, he just wants to say the word "champion" from Zhuo Yang's mouth.

"After qualifying from the group, I said that the Chinese team's goal is to win the championship. You probably didn't believe it at that time. What about now?"

"Mr. Zhuoyang, you have scored 11 goals. Are you confident that you can break Juste Fontaine's record of 13 goals?"

"why not?"