The Day I Played with Ronaldo

Gonzalez, as Lozada mentioned, is the main right back of the Colombian national team and can also play right midfielder. He scored 1 goal in 20 appearances for the national team. He is currently the biggest star of the Cali America team except Castillo, and serves as the captain of Cali America.

Before the game, Licardo studied his videos. This player has average physical fitness, and his speed, strength, and confrontation ability are not top-notch, but he has a very good sense of position, strong assist ability, good at long-range shots, and has a free kick. Ball kung fu, his assists are a magic weapon for Cali America.

Ricardo's task in the game is to firmly nail Gonzalez to the opponent's half and prevent him from participating in assists.

And if Gonzalez really dares to make an assist, Ricardo will use the gap behind him to teach Cali America a lesson.

Both Brazil and Colombia's media are confident that their teams will win.

The mainstream tone in the Colombian media is: Sao Paulo was only the third in Brazil last year, while Cali America was Colombia's autumn champion last year. Which is stronger and which is weaker? It is clear at a glance.

The Brazilian media believes that Sao Paulo has 5 Brazilian internationals: Fabiano, Kaka, Ricardo, Ricardinho, Cheney, while Cali America has only 4 Colombian internationals: Gonzalez, Cass Tillo, Ferreira and Bastos. And the strength of the national team, Brazil is obviously stronger than Colombia. So Sao Paulo is of course stronger.

Moreover, Sao Paulo has achieved 4 wins and 1 tie in 5 games this season, obviously in good condition.

It was the misfortune of Cali America to hit the muzzle of Sao Paulo at this time.

When Sao Paulo started warming up at the Pascual Guerrero stadium, the fans of Cali America had already entered the stadium. They wore the traditional red jerseys of the Americas de Cali, turning the stands of the stadium into a sea of ​​red.

However, only a few hundred Sao Paulo fans traveled across the country, and they were almost submerged in the ocean, becoming a little white reef.

After finishing the final deployment and returning to the court to wait for the kick-off, the Guerrero Stadium was almost full, and the fanatical Colombian fans played various slogans in the stands:

"Go back, sissy St. Paul!"

"This is your hell!"

"Son of a skilled girl, get out of the court!"

Licado's breathing became short of breath.

Rico noticed this,

Quickly grabbed his arm, "Calm down, brother."

Kaka also looked at Licado with concern, and signaled with his eyes: Are you okay?

Licado shook his head, shook off Ricko's hand, and his voice was thicker than usual: "It's okay, leave me alone."

He stared up at the banner with piercing eyes.

When the game is over, I will make you regret eating this banner!

Rico couldn't help mourning for Cali America in his heart. He clearly remembered that the last time Ricardo showed this look, Santos was eliminated.

"Licado, you must score a goal!" Rico whispered.

...

Sao Paulo's lineup for this game has slightly changed compared to last season. The goalkeeper is still Captain Cheney, he is the most stable position in the team, more stable than Ricardo and Kaka.

The original central defender Ji'an was raised and transformed into a defensive midfielder. In the first few games, he performed well in this position. At least steals and shots are better than Alessandro.

Julio Santos and Lugano formed a new central defender combination. As for Ed Carlos and Fabio Santos, who were promoted from the youth team, they are still too young and immature, each of which has only played twice. It is impossible for Rojas to trust them in such a major game.

The left and right backs have not changed, they are still Gustavoneri and Simplicio.

In the midfield, Ricardinho's position has been moved forward a bit. He is still the core of Sao Paulo's playmaker, while Kaka's position is slightly behind.

Ricardo and Rico are still left and right wingers, and Fabiano is a single center forward.

Now the season has just started, and the personnel is relatively neat. By the middle and late stages of the season, those newly joined players and those promoted from the youth team will get more opportunities to play.

At the beginning of the game, Cali America took advantage of the home court and launched a fierce attack on Sao Paulo's goal.

Among the three lines in Sao Paulo, the midfield has changed the most, while the frontcourt and defense have not changed much. Moreover, Rojas has some skills in training-teaching defense, and the central defender partner of Julio Santos and Lugano also appears to be very stable. Although Cali America's offensive is surging, there are not many opportunities to penetrate the penalty area.

Although the new midfielder Gian is not as comprehensive as Baptista, and his offensive ability is also much worse, he is not inferior to Baptista in defense. Cardinho can devote more energy to the midfield organization.

Sao Paulo seems to be in a precarious state, but in fact its footholds are not chaotic, just like a reef in the sea. It seems that a wave can submerge it, but it will soon resurface and continue to show its majesty.

But fans don't see it that way. From the perspective of the fans of Cali America, their home team has an absolute advantage and can break through the opponent's goal in minutes, so their cheers became even crazier and they waved their flags vigorously. Some fans even took off their shirts and climbed up to the barbed wire fence in front of the stands, showing off their fine figures.

A local TV commentator in Colombia said triumphantly: "Cali America's strong offensive makes Sao Paulo look stretched. The entire Sao Paulo team is huddled in their half and can hardly cross the center line. It can be expected that if the game continues like this, Cali America Likely to get a win to kick things off."

The head coach of Cali America, Lozada, stood on the sidelines, waving his hands in high spirits, gesturing to the players to "go up, go up!"

In contrast to him, Robert Rojas sat quietly on the coach's bench, with calm eyes and a smile on his mouth.

The scene in front of him did not exceed his expectations.

Before the game, he told the players that this game will definitely encounter the onslaught of Cali America.

So in this game, although Sao Paulo's formation is 4231, the dominant idea is very clear, which is defensive counterattack. In addition to Fabiano staying in the middle circle to wait for the opportunity, even Kaka and Ricardo must come back to participate in the defense.

But once counterattacked, even Ricardinho must quickly get to the front of the opponent's penalty area to provide fire support to the frontcourt players.

With Kaka, Ricardo, and Rico, three speed players, it would be a pity not to play defensive counterattacks...

I really want to thank Cali America for their cooperation.

When the game progressed to ten minutes, Cali America had scored 4 shots, while Sao Paulo had 0 shots.

It seems that the victory of Cali America is only a matter of time.

Almost everyone who is watching this game live or in front of the TV thinks so.

Until the 17th minute of the game.

The Cali American team tried to cooperate in the frontcourt. The international midfielder Ferreira tried to pass to Castillo in the penalty area, but was predicted by Lugano in advance, and a sliding tackle intercepted it.

Lugano got up immediately after stealing the ball, and after only a few tenths of a second of observation, he kicked the ball out to find Ricardo on the left.

"São Paulo made a big foot clearance..." the Colombian commentator said casually.