Volume 4 Legends of the World Cup Chapter 73 The World Cup Begins
After the time entered June, the top 32 of the World Cup arrived in Brazil one after another, and the earth officially entered the World Cup time.
The streets of Brazil are littered with huge posters of the World Cup, the flags of the top 32 of the World Cup can be seen everywhere, and fans of different colors in fancy clothes and skin tones are shuttling back and forth in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and other World Cup cities. Freedom Square in São Paulo gathers fans from all over the world every day. They sang and danced and sang the national anthem to celebrate the arrival of the World Cup.
Not only Brazil, but also fans and businesses from all over the world are warming up for the World Cup, and the World Cup mascot Puppy Saisai and Qiqi are selling well all over the world, whether they are real fans or pseudo fans, they are proud to talk about football and ashamed to not understand football. Whether it is classmates, colleagues, or even political officials, they have to ask after meeting, "How are you going to watch the World Cup?" "Let's watch the World Cup together?"
At 1 o'clock in the afternoon on June 6th, with the arrival of Paraguay, FIFA announced that the top 32 teams participating in the 2010 World Cup have all arrived at the station!
The countdown to the World Cup has officially begun!
There are still 6 days left before the opening game, and the games in the back groups will be later, many teams are looking for suitable opponents for each other to play warm-up matches, the Chinese team played one game with the German team and the British team, but the effect is very average, two games were lost, two goals were scored and five goals were conceded, which also confirmed the fact that the Chinese team can only play soy sauce even if it has Li Huan.
As teams continue to use warm-up games to hone in their teams, bookmakers are getting more and more information, and they are constantly adjusting their odds to win the championship.
Before the opening ceremony of the World Cup, Ladbrokes, the largest bookmaker in Europe, offered the highest odds to win the championship in Brazil, five-star Brazil, playing at home, the combination of new and old is perfect, and they are the biggest favorites to win the championship without the slightest doubt.
In second place is the defending champion Argentina, this is the World Cup held in South America, according to the law of the previous 19 editions, the World Cup held in Europe, except for the one held in Switzerland that year was taken away by Brazil, without exception European teams won the championship, and the World Cup held in South America was all won by South American teams, and it is natural that Argentina has become the second favorite in addition to Brazil.
In third and fourth place are Spain and Germany, two teams that play perfectly and are no worse than Brazil and Argentina if it were not for the World Cup in South America.
In addition to these four favourites, the other champions such as Italy, France, England and the Netherlands are irrelevant, and if there is any upset, it is that Uruguay surprisingly ranks seventh ahead of France, Portugal and the Netherlands.
Of course, the Chinese team with Li Huan, the world footballer, has not been ignored by reporters, even if the Chinese team is fishy, with Li Huan's golden signboard, the attendance rate and the support of merchants are completely guaranteed. However, the bookmaker will not blindly increase the odds because of Li Huan's fame, because it has something to do with money, and the odds of the Chinese team winning the championship are only listed in Honduras, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Greece, Cameroon, and Switzerland, ranking 24th.
The players of the Chinese team are naturally not convinced by such a ranking, they are not convinced by Li Huan, and in the eyes of the players of the Chinese team, the Chinese team is at least a little stronger than teams such as Nigeria, Sweden, and Turkey. But Li Huan didn't care, he told his players not to care about these false names, and to use victory to fight back against them, at this time it is a good thing to be looked down upon, the gun shoots the first bird, and everywhere is the truth.
On June 11, the day before the opening ceremony of the World Cup, from 10 a.m. local time, the influx of fans into Sao Paulo, Brazil, began to surge like a blowout, and this scene lasted until late at night local time in Brazil, and the already overwhelmed Sao Paulo traffic was paralyzed for a while.
According to the Brazilian Tourism Board, 380,000 people flocked to São Paulo on that day, and Folha de São Paulo reported that more than 50,000 journalists had now arrived in Brazil. FIFA claims that the opening ceremony of the World Cup has reached an unprecedented 300 television stations, which are watched by about 1.8 billion people around the world.
Of course, none of the media is embarrassed to count the number of runaway women who come to Brazil from all over the world, and according to the estimates of the do-gooders, it must be at least more than 100,000.
The opening ceremony took place at 3:30 p.m. on the 12th and lasted 30 minutes, followed by the opening match between Brazil and South Korea.
The Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo will be open from 10 a.m. for fans who arrive early to warm their seats. Because the Brazilian team was parading before the opening ceremony, many residents of São Paulo took to the balcony with various props to party to welcome the Brazilian national team as they paraded along the block. The high-rise buildings around Liberty Square are also full of white-collar workers watching the ceremony. On both sides of the street, fans of all colors gathered, even babies in swaddling clothes and people with disabilities in wheelchairs. When the parade car of the Brazilian team passed by, the mood of the population reached its peak. Directly paralyzed traffic in São Paulo.
At 3:30 p.m., the opening ceremony officially kicked off.
The opening ceremony of the World Cup is different from the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and today's focus is mainly on the opening match. Still, in just 30 minutes, the Brazilians were able to infuse the rich Brazilian and South American elements.
Brazilians interpret the World Cup in their own national way, with twenty players playing street soccer counting down the clock with a juggling ball. Huge banners falling from the sky, Brazilian dances, jazz bands singing, wild Brazilian beauties, gorgeous costumes, charming smiles, and fragments of the review of the World Cup on the big screen made up the charming scenery of the opening ceremony.
The popular Asian American female singer Charice used a highly imaginative and penetrating musical language to play a beautiful movement for this World Cup. This talented singer, who has only recently fallen in love with football and has become a fan of Li Huan, has dedicated a gorgeous natural sound to this World Cup and sounded the clarion call to lead passion. The theme song of this World Cup, "The Melody of the World", filled every corner of the stadium and reverberated in the hearts of all fans around the world.
When the new generation of green pride roars the rivers and lakes, those slightly old heroes can only be seen in the eyes of fans in the form of guests and officials. Pele, Cruyff, Bobby. Charlton, Beckenbauer, Platini, Maradona, Mateus are all familiar names, familiar voices, and the years have inadvertently carved wrinkles on their faces that have experienced the vicissitudes of greenery, but their pride is still there, and they will never be able to leave the football field and the football that has written countless reverberators.
Hercules Gold Cup in the "King of the Ball" Pele and Brazilian supermodel Alexander. Ambrosi took the pitch together. Although Pele's predictions and previews of every World Cup win are enough to make the world fans laugh, the king of the ball with a crow's beak is still the king of the ball. Beauty with heroes, the cooperation of "ball king" and "supermodel" also seems to indicate that only the real strong and beautiful women are qualified to have the honor symbolized by the Hercules Cup.
In addition to football stars, singers, supermodels, and giant businessmen, dignitaries from various countries also gathered together. About 50 heads of state attended the opening ceremony, including Dilma Rousseff, US President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Chinese President Tao Ge, and Argentine female President Christina. It is only at this time that these politicians will give up their dirty interests and talk about football and happiness together like fans.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the actors began to leave, and the broadcast sounded, "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for attending the opening ceremony. Four years of waiting, four years of dreaming, today's dream has come true. The World Cup is a feast for football, a feast for fans, a symbol of passion and madness, and São Paulo welcomes you once again to the 20th FIFA World Cup on behalf of the Americas. 4 weeks, 32 teams, an unbeatable event. At 17 o'clock, it is here that it is about to start, Brazil against South Korea. ”
The opening ceremony was followed by a break of about 40 minutes, which was extremely difficult for the fans who had been waiting for 4 years, and the more than 70,000 Brazilian fans on the stadium had already been ready to consume these 40 minutes, they used drums and whistles to cheer for their teams, danced samba and sang the national anthem, and the atmosphere of the whole stadium became more lively than when the opening ceremony had just begun.
Forty minutes later.
Force!!!
Referee Kempt from Germany blew the first whistle of the 2010 World Cup in Brazil, and the match between the host Brazil team and the South Korean team officially began!
Brazil is the most successful team in the history of the World Cup, there is no one. As a football kingdom, Brazil has not missed a single World Cup finals, and won five times in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002, ranking first in the world in terms of the number of titles, while the South Korean team in Asia has only reached the semi-finals once, the round of 16 once, and the rest were eliminated in the group, and the semi-finals were still obtained by black whistles. In terms of strength, there is no suspense in this game, and in terms of historical records, in the past 18 World Cups, the host has never lost 5 wins and two draws in the first game.
Although overall, there were only seven draws and 12 winners and losses in 19 openers, but since England won the championship in 66, 12 openers have drawn six, and only one of the six wins has a score difference of more than two goals, and the rest are small one-goal victories, and the number of goals does not exceed three.
As can be seen from the latter set of data, the opening match of the World Cup is very difficult to play, and it is not as easy for the Brazilian team to win against the stubborn and energetic South Korean team as imagined.
(To be continued)