The Era of Emerald

When the top four list for the World Cup in the United States was released, in a manor belonging to the Groz family in Rome, several women stared at the latest faxed statistics like dragons seeing treasure. From the initial 1000 million US dollars to 4000 million US dollars, even after deducting Zhuang Mingge's "commission", these rich girls have made a net profit of 2000 million US dollars!

Let's put aside these women whose eyes are full of dollars, and say that in the World Cup semi-finals, Italy went to the Giants Stadium to compete with Bulgaria, the biggest dark horse of this World Cup, for a ticket to the final.

FIFA also attaches great importance to this game. The experienced Joel Quiniou (joelquiniou, I don’t know if it should be translated like this) became the referee of this game. Interestingly, in 1986 and 1990 In the World Cup, he has officiated Italy's games. In the two games he officiated, Italy defeated Czechoslovakia and England by [-]-[-] and [-]-[-] respectively. A sign that the Football Federation wants to recommend Italy to the final.

In the No.20 minute of the game, Donadoni threw the ball out of bounds. Roberto Baggio gave up the ball, and then dribbled the ball past the defense of two Bulgarian defenders on the penalty area line, and curved the ball away. Corner scored, one to zero;

Five minutes later, the Italian team made a comeback. Albertini scored an overhead ball and dropped it into the penalty area. Baggio succeeded in anti-offside on the right side of the penalty area. He pushed directly and the ball flew into the far corner of the goal. The score became 5-[-];

At the end of the first half, Costacurta, who fouled in the penalty area, gave a penalty kick, and Stoichkov made it overnight, [-]-[-].

This score was also maintained by the Italians until the end of the game. Italy reached the World Cup final for the fourth time in 12 years.

However, many people expressed strong dissatisfaction with Quiño's penalty in this game. They accused Costacurta, who had committed multiple fouls in the game, should have been sent off by a red card long ago.

After the game, Bulgaria captain Stoichkov angrily replied when asked by reporters about his pre-match statement "God is Bulgarian": "God is still a Bulgarian, but the referee is French. "

"Quinio was chosen as the referee for this game. I don't think it's a coincidence." The fiery striker said.

In Zhuang Mingge's view, such a penalty result is just a continuation of the Cold War mentality left over from the 80s and [-]s.

In fact, before the end of the Cold War, this situation often occurred in international competitions such as the World Cup and the Olympics. Take the 1986 World Cup as an example. At that time, the world was still in the Cold War period, and all competitions were branded politically. , NATO's Belgium met the former Soviet team. The referee was Fredrickson from NATO. As a result, the former Soviet team was inexplicably scored by Belgium with two offside goals and was out of the game 14:3.After the game, the world's public opinion was in an uproar, and many fans publicly expressed their hope to donate money to the referee for the treatment of "eye disease".

The following is a brief description of **'s "big brother" - the Soviet Union's experience of being eliminated from previous competitions:

In 1958, he reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup. Unfortunately, he was unlucky to meet the powerful Brazil and was eliminated;

In the knockout round of the 1962 World Cup, the host Chile took a free kick before the Soviet Union's human wall was lined up. The referee determined that this "sneak attack goal" was valid, and the Soviet Union was hacked out;

In the final of the 1964 European Cup against the host Spain, the England referee blew the whistle and finally came second;

In the 1966 World Cup semi-final against West Germany, the opponent's offside goal was valid and was blacked out;

In the semi-finals of the 1968 European Cup, the two rounds of home and away games with Italy were tied 1:1. Since there was no penalty shoot-out system at that time, the referee decided to toss a coin to determine the winner. The Soviets were out of the game in a funny way;

In the 1970 World Cup knockout match, Chile crossed the goal in overtime before it was clearly out of the bottom line and was blacked out;

In the 1982 World Cup against Brazil, two good goals were blown away;

In the 1986 World Cup knockout match against Belgium, the Belgians kicked the Soviets out with two offside goals;

In the 1990 World Cup, he was misjudged a penalty against Romania first, and then against Argentina, Maradona once again used his nirvana "Hand of God" to stop the ball from the goal line, which directly led to the first two goals. Lost in both games, Cameroon, which entered the quarter-finals after a 4-ball victory in the last game, had to go home at the end of the group stage due to the tacit cooperation between Romania and Argentina.

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This can no longer be simply described with the three words "a history of blood and tears". Even the persecution by godfathers in later generations would not be the same. It is almost the same to say that the Soviet Union is the FIFA that killed its father and enemy.

In the late 80s, the head coach of the Soviet team was the legendary coach Lobanovsky. He was one of the first to propose the concept of "Total Attack and Total Defense". Shelles-style "Total Offensive and Total Defense" is different.Michels emphasized possession and passing, while Lobanovsky emphasized speed.Michels has successively trained three European Footballers of Cruyff, Gullit and Basten; Ranov and Shevchenko are three European Footballers of the Year.At the end of the 2012s, Lobanovsky briefly returned to Dynamo Kiev and led the team to the Champions League semi-finals in the 90-1998 season.It can be said that if it were not for the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Lobanovsky and his Dynamo Kiev would have become an Eastern European "cosmic team"

The most impressive thing about Lobanovsky is that he has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, and he combines the knowledge of science and engineering with football very well-he believes that the team is a well-functioning team. Most of what happens on the field can be foreseen and prepared in advance.He also co-authored a book about the relationship between football tactics and mathematical statistics.

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The upheaval in Eastern Europe has just passed a few years ago. Many people's thinking has not kept up with the pace of the times. They are still looking at the teams from the "Warsaw Pact" system with the thinking of "opposing camps". Such an inadvertent "misjudgment".

So in the next third and fourth finals, in order to express his protest and dissatisfaction with the previous game, the Bulgarian forward Stoichkov, who had scored six goals and was very hopeful to break the "six-goal curse", did not Played, the Bulgarians were fully released, and they lost to Sweden 4-[-] and won the World Cup No.[-].

ps: I drank too much with my classmates yesterday, I almost couldn’t get up today, I have a headache...