Football: Don’t talk about feelings, I’m just an AI

For this World Cup, CCTV-5 sent a large interview team, which, through Xia Qi's agent and national power, became the only media that could enter the base to interview Xia Qi.

CCTV-5's interview team is divided into two groups: on-site and off-site.

The off-field group entered the England training base, and the host of the off-field group was Duan Xuan, a rising star from CCTV-5.

The interviews at the base were divided into two parts: one day of training and the other was a personal interview.

Duan Xuan interviewed not only Xia Qi, but also his coach and teammates.

Duan Xuan told Xia Qi that these interviews would be broadcast one hour before Xia Qi's first match on the 15th and could be seen on CCTV's overseas channel, but Xia Qi could only watch the replay because he had to participate in a competition that day.

At 6 a.m. on June 13 (Beijing time, p.m. Brazil time), the World Cup opened on time at the Sao Paulo Stadium.

Before the opening ceremony, a discordant scene occurred outside the stadium. Thousands of workers blocked the road to the airport to launch a general strike and raised the slogan "No overtime in the World Cup".

The Brazilian media also gloated: "No one doesn't love the World Cup."

However, how can there be peace and tranquility without people carrying the burden forward? If no one works overtime, how can transportation, shopping malls, electricity, communications, etc. be guaranteed during the World Cup?
The opening ceremony lasted only 25 minutes, which is the shortest and worst in history.

The show was very simple, with 660 dancers dressed up as giant footballs, trees and flowers in the center of the stadium.

Then, the huge football slowly opened up, and Brazilian singer Claudia Reti came on stage to sing the theme song of this World Cup, "We Are One World".

Then there was no further news.

Xia Qi and others who were watching the live broadcast were very disappointed, but fortunately the following "main course" was quite delicious.

In the first opening match, host Brazil was worthy of being one of the favorites to win the championship.

Amid the cheers of more than 3 fans at home, they scored four goals with great success and finally reversed the European powerhouse Croatia with a score of 1:.

Not only that, it also continues to maintain three historical records of the World Cup:

① The host country remained unbeaten in the first game (14 wins and 6 draws).

②The host team has never lost in the opening match (5 wins and 3 draws).

③ Brazil has won all of its last eight World Cup openers and has remained unbeaten in its last 8 openers.

In addition to this record, a new record was set:
① Marcelo scored Brazil's first own goal in 98 World Cup games, and it was also the first time that the first goal of a World Cup was an own goal.

② Neymar became the first Brazilian No. 2002 to score in the World Cup since Rivaldo scored against England on June 6, 21.

At the same time, he also became the youngest Brazilian international to reach 14 appearances, and his national team remained unbeaten in home games (3 wins and draws).

In this game, Croatia only played well for 11 minutes.

In the 11th minute, Brazil's Marcelo scored an own goal to help Croatia take the lead. The Croatians thought that since the Brazilian could help score goals, they began to let themselves go.

Afterwards, Brazil took control of the situation. Neymar scored twice and Oscar scored another goal in injury time, making the game 3:1.

Four hours later, in another match in Group A, Mexico beat Cameroon 1-0.

On the 14th, Group B started the battle.

The clash between Spain and the Netherlands ended with Spain's crushing defeat.

In this game, Van Persie of the Netherlands became famous overnight. From then on, the term "Van Persie's diving jump" appeared in the world football, and it became a textbook for major youth training camps along with "Marcelo's stop" and "Messi's shoulder drop".

Long Ge scored a penalty for the defending champion, which successfully stimulated the Dutch. The Dutch's offensive talent was developed, and then they scored 5 goals in a row, defeating the defending champion with a huge score of 5:1.

After Xia Qi and others watched the live broadcast of the game, all of his teammates looked at Xia Qi with strange eyes, which made Xia Qi's hair stand on end.

"What do you want to do?"

"Van Persie is so strong, how did you manage to force him out and take over?"

Depend on!
"You're confusing right and wrong, aren't you? He was ambitious and ran to the championship team on his own. The old man bought me to lick his wounds, but I'm full of talent and can't hide it..."

"Xuxu..."

"Xia Qi is cuter when she's in competition form. She's so narcissistic when she's off the field..." "Go away, you're the narcissistic one! Why do you have no friends when you tell the truth?"

"Xuxu..."

"All kidding aside, the Netherlands are so strong, we might meet them in the quarter-finals."

"Oh, don't worry, some people are uncrowned saints..."

"Haha...there are no bamboo shoots in the cafeteria. It turns out you gave them all away."

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In another fierce battle on the 14th, Chile defeated Australia 3:1. Australia was the first Asian team to participate in the game.

Xia Qi and others did not watch this match. At that time, they were taking the last tactical training class before the game.

Hodgson signaled to the CCTV-5 cameraman to show his face.

Under the camera, Hodgson announced tactical discipline with full fighting spirit and emphasized tactical coordination...

And used the Netherlands' big win to motivate the players.

"Xia, Van Persie, the Gunners' top traitor, has performed well. How can you, the ice cream prince, let him have all the glory?"

"Of course, Sir!"

A few chuckles were heard in the team.

Joe Hart said: "I'm really looking forward to the match between Xia Qi and Van Persie!"

Walcott answered first: "If that day comes, you will see the real Gunner."

What Fan Xingxin hurt was not only the professor's heart, but also the pride of Arsenal people. If Xia Qi had not brought Arsenal the Premier League championship, Arsenal would have become a laughing stock.

Therefore, Walcott, who became a member of the Gunners in 06, was really angry with Van Persie.

"Theo, you stole my line." Xia Qi protested, pretending to be aggrieved.

"Ha ha……"

The pre-war tension dissipated...

Hodgson waved his arms to quiet everyone.

"But before that, we need to qualify from the group. Italy is the first hurdle we have to overcome..."

Then, Hodgson explained Italy's tactical characteristics and its own tactical flaws...

The first two matches of Group C will kick off on June 6th.

Group C is the group with the least attention in the World Cup.

The four teams in the group: Colombia, Greece, Côte d'Ivoire and Japan all have very low traffic.

The media jokingly called it: a fight between two noobs.

In the end, Colombia defeated Greece 3:0 and Côte d'Ivoire defeated Japan 2:1.

Japan's game was a bit regrettable. They led 1:0 for 65 minutes, but failed to get a good start for the Asian team and put themselves in danger.

After the Group C match, three hours later, Group D, where Xia Qi was, would begin its match.

One hour after the Group C match ended, CCTV-5's "World Cup Special" began broadcasting.

(First update) (End of this chapter)