Volume IV World Cup Legends, Chapter 55 Tǐng Enters Central America

Without the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, Chinese probably have no impression of Costa Rica, and many people may suspect that it is a hot, poor, and poor country when they see the name. QUanbeN。 But because it was the first opponent of China's first World Cup trip, we knew that the per capita GPD of this Central and North American country, which has only more than 4 million people, is twice that of China, and it is also ranked first among the 20 happiest countries.

When it comes to football, this country with only one professional team is even more embarrassing for China, with a population of 1.5 billion, not to mention that Costa Rica beat China 2-0 11 years ago, and there is nothing to brag about beating China. Costa Rica alone has participated in the World Cup three times, and reaching the round of 16 once can throw the Chinese team out of two streets.

and such a team, so Li Huan warned his teammates before the game in the way of bāng drinking, as a Chinese player and ball, Li Huan would not be unaware of the goal of "scoring a goal, drawing a game, and winning a game" put forward by the Chinese Football Association when he participated in the World Cup. Swallowed 9 balls and returned home with a disgraced face.

Based on the historical record, the Chinese team has no reason to look down on Costa Rica, although it is only the size of a prefecture-level city in China.

However, it is a stronger team than Costa Rica with the Chinese team, and in world football, Costa Rica is one of many second-rate teams, there are no players in the team who play in the five major leagues, and they are not as rich as Japan, so their football is not cared about by many people except scouts. This has had a great impact on Li Huan and Chu Fu's preparations, and they can't find the video of the opponent's game and training, they can only study Costa Rica through the game and video from a long time ago, and the results of such research must be very far from reality.

However, Li Huan is not too worried, because Costa Rica can find very little information about the Chinese team, the new Chinese team has only played four games, and 3 warm-up games, and each of these games is not the same as the previous one, because the Chinese team is gradually running in and forming a fixed style of play. The match between China and Costa Rica can be described as an encounter, neither knows each other very well, and the game can only rely on the improvisation of both sides, and whoever can find a way to restrain the opponent first will win.

The game started on October 15, and the Chinese team flew to Costa Rica five days in advance, because China did not have a direct flight to Costa Rica, and the Chinese team had to transfer in the United States, and it took more than 30 xiǎ hours to resist San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.

At 20:08 p.m. local time on October 12, the Chinese team finally landed safely in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, after a long flight of 34 xiǎ hours. Due to the transfer of the Chinese team in Miami, the United States, the Costa Rican Football Association did not know the specific arrival time of the Chinese team, and the local team and reporters came to the airport early to wait.

During the Copa America, players asked Messi for autographs and jerseys, which shows how unrestrained the Colombian players are.

Although Li Huan is an Asian Chinese player, but because of the Internet and increasingly become a global village world, Li Huan still has countless fans in Costa Rica, in the words of the Costa Rican "Press Freedom" reporter: In Costa Rica there may be people who do not know who Costa Rica's main striker is, but they must know who Li Huan is.

Due to the fear that Costa Rica's football team will cheer for Li Huan in the game, the Costa Rican Football Association also specially carried out propaganda to support Costa Rica's defeat of the Chinese team, but this still can't change the love for Li Huan, Costa Rica has only more than 4 million people, and the number of players who came to the airport to pick up the airport was close to 2,000.

When Li Huan walked out of the cabin a little tired, Qiu Yi and reporters swarmed up, surrounded Li Huan in the middle, and chanted Li Huan's name in the Spanish that Li Huan was more familiar with.

Li Huan was obviously taken aback by these balls, he didn't expect so many people to pick up the plane, and he even wondered if Costa Rica, like China, likes to use ignorant students to slap swollen faces and become fat, or these balls are just here to find trouble, but from the cheers and applause of the balls, it can be seen that these are Li Huan's fans

There are so many balls in such a projectile country, Li Huan's jīng god immediately beat the jīng god, and the flight in his thirties was too tiring, even a physical superman like Li Huan couldn't stand it.

"Thank you for your welcome, thank you."

Li Huan made a very gentlemanly circle, and immediately won the ball again, and the crowd shouted louder and applauded.

Li Huan was not going to be interviewed at the airport, but in this case, Li Huan still accepted a brief on-site interview with reporters while signing an autograph.

"Costa Rica is a very special team, they are very skilled and experienced, they are regulars in the World Cup, and compared to Costa Rica, we are still new to the World Cup,"

"I know the stars in the Costa Rica team are Campbell, Martinez, Ruiz, they are all very good and they are also the ones we want to focus on, but Costa Rica is strengthening the whole and we want to care about every player."

"Don't mention revenge, it's not about revenge, of course this game is important, but this game doesn't determine the final qualifier, the real decisive battle is in China, but we will try our best to play this game well."

"You're asking me to predict the score? It's too difficult, there are too many unpredictable factors in a football game, it's okay to predict the winner or loser, we won, there's no doubt about that. ”

After Li Huan briefly accepted the interview, under the leadership of the officials of the Costa Rican Football Federation, the Chinese team left the airport and came to the Tiantian Hotel where they stayed. The Everyday Hotel is located in downtown San Jose, not far from Costa Rica's home stadium, Stadium Nacional. Although it was late, the hotel's chef and bar waiter had already prepared a jīng Chinese night meal for the Chinese team.

Due to the late arrival and jet lag, the Chinese team did not arrange the next morning's training, the players could sleep until noon, and the first training session was held at two o'clock in the afternoon, but Li Huan and assistant coach Chu Fu could not enjoy this happiness, they got up at half past eight in the morning, had breakfast and then held a press conference to Chinese and foreign reporters.

At the press conference, Chu Fu briefly talked about the training plan of the Chinese team for the next three days, and reported the current situation of the national team and the injury status of the players to the domestic football team, while Li Huan's speech still warned his teammates and the football team not to underestimate the enemy, Costa Rica's football atmosphere is very good, the football atmosphere is very rational, they are enjoying football, and playing with such a team is more careful, because in a relaxed mentality, players are often able to play at a high level.

In the afternoon, the players of the national team took a luxury bus provided by the Costa Rican Football Federation to the home stadium of Costa Rica, the National Stadium, for their first training session.

Costa Rica's home stadium National Stadium has some ties to China, because the stadium was built with Chinese assistance, and 800 workers from Anhui, China, completed the National Stadium with a capacity of 35,000 people in two years, for which the Chinese construction team was also named Costa Rica's "Person of the Year" in 2010.

The quality of the turf of the national team stadium is much stronger than that of the Chinese stadium, and the seats in the stands and the safety measures are completely higher than the Chinese stadium by a grade, which makes the players of the Chinese team not only envious and jealous, but also the fact that China has helped foreign countries build such a good stadium, why is the stadium built in China the same as the vegetable field, just like China's food and daily necessities, we have exported the best quality, but the domestic food is garbage.

When the Chinese team arrived at the stadium, Costa Rica had just finished training, and they did not leave, but sat in the stands to watch the Chinese team train. Although the Chinese team can let the Costa Rican team leave, Li Huan and Chu Fu both believe that China is a big country and there is no need to be so childish, so they let them watch from the sidelines.

There are opponents visiting in the stands, of course, the Chinese team will not play all their tactics, the team is mainly for recovery training and physical training, to adapt to the turf of the Costa Rican stadium, the Chinese team is used to playing in the vegetable field, but not very suitable for playing under a good field.

Costa Ricans do have a very open view of football, unlike the Chinese, who regard football as a matter related to national honor and national dignity, Costa Ricans are just for fun, for play. Seeing that the Chinese team's training was very boring, the Costa Ricans, who had ended training early, had some skills, and their core players Campbell and Martinez actually came down to ask for a friendly match with the Chinese team.

The Costa Ricans' whimsical ideas shocked people like Li Huan, who couldn't help but admire the unrestrained Americans, but Li Huan still refused the Costa Ricans' request, saying that they would save the battle until the day of the competition.

In the evening, the players of the Chinese team continued to rest, but Li Huan and Chu Fu came to the National Stadium again with the Xiǎ book to watch Costa Rica's training, Costa Rica did not care about the Chinese team's watching, they still carried out intra-team confrontation and tactical drills.

Li Huan and Chu Fu quickly recorded and recorded the video, and then returned to the Tiantian Hotel to study again, looking for the flaws of this team and laying the foundation for the game the day after tomorrow.

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