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Flick the ball to the left with your right foot and push it forward with your left heel, while your upper body swayed in the air like a wicker blown by the wind, dodging the calf-thick pipes on the left and right sides.

His speed was not slowed down by this swaying dodge, and he successfully passed the defense. Dribble the ball and rush out!

As Glory prepares to take on the next group of pipe defenders with his football, he finds himself empty in front of him, save for a breastwork on the edge of the rooftop.

He was so frightened by what he saw that the rhythm of the dribble was completely disrupted, and he was forced to stop, stepping on the football and panting.

The golden light had somehow sprinkled onto the roof of the building, shining from the east, holding up a long shadow from his side on the rooftop, extending from his feet to the other wall, and then up over the breastwork, and merging into the whole blue sky to the west, and the sky was divided into two halves, half of which was golden and brilliant, and the other half was still in the night, but the darkness was rapidly receding, and the sky was turning blue, and the stars lost their light, and became white specks on the cyan sky.

In the overwhelming golden light, Glory stared at the breastwork in front of him, and the darkness receded on this wall as if it were in the sky, retreating to the west.

There is no way.

Then he turned slowly with the shadows, and saw the tubes that were bright and dark in the sunlight, and their silhouettes cast on the rooftops, twisted and jumbled like themselves. It was as if a group of entangled snakes, wriggling on the rooftop as the sunlight moved, as if they were about to wake up from their slumber.

In these intermingling of light and darkness, there is no pattern at all in the glory.

All the pipes were in front of him.

He was a little surprised—I just ...... Did you pass through such a group of monsters?

I...... Completed "Beat the Level"?

I...... First ...... Cleared?

But...... What about the goal?

Glory looked back in the direction behind him, there was nothing but a dirty, chest-high wall, where did the goal come from?

It was only when half of Glory's body began to feel warmth that he came back to his senses.

He turned his head to look east.

The sun had risen into the air at some point, and instead of being as gentle as it had been when it was born, it was radiating light and heat in the air uncontrollably, and a thousand rays of light radiated from it, making it almost impossible to look at it directly.

Half of the sky, as if it had not been plated with a layer of flowing gold, the light and shadow flowed, and the golden light sparkled!

It's sunrise......

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The Maracanã Stadium is a Brazilian ...... No, it's one of the most famous stadiums in the world.

The main stadium, originally built for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, has witnessed the glory and disgrace of Brazilian football and has become a symbol and mecca of Brazilian football.

Of course, Maracana's most famous moment was the 1950 World Cup final, where Brazil faced Uruguay.

It was the culmination of the 1950 World Cup, with 173,850 fans in the final – a record in the history of world sports. If journalists, officials and guests are included, the audience is as high as 200,000 people.

It was the most glorious moment for the Maracana, but it was also the darkest of the game, as Brazil were beaten by Uruguay in an advantageous situation and lost their World Cup title on home soil.

It was a game that changed the whole of Brazil.

The British divided the twentieth century into three parts with two world wars. Brazilians, on the other hand, regard the 1950 World Cup as the major event that divided the 20th century, and it seems that Brazil is more like a country only when the World Cup is held. As the only country to have participated in every edition of the World Cup, Brazil's history seems to be analysed in terms of a period of four years.

Although the runner-up finish in the World Cup was the best result of the young country of Brazil at the time.

But losing the title on their home turf still brought great psychological trauma to the Brazilians.

Brazilian football coach Nelson Rodrigesson even coined a term "stray dog complex" to describe it. "The state of a Brazilian with low self-esteem when he fails...... We lost the game in an unbelievable way, and the reason was simple: Barella hit us, and we were a bunch of stray dogs. ”

Although Brazil has the impression of sunny beaches, the warm and cheerful people are naturally cheerful and lively, just like their weather.

But in reality Brazilians lack self-confidence, they don't have strong nerves. The Brazilians are always looking for their own faults, and their opponents are themselves, the shadow of Maracana.

They have amazing talent in football, but they don't have strong enough nerves.

This resulted in the Maracanã tragedy.

Because of the strength of this final, Brazilians' attitude towards football is actually very utilitarian.

The Brazilians consider the runner-up of the World Cup to be an absolute failure. It's like when you're in a relationship with a girl and she says you're just the second choice in her mind because she prefers the other person.

On the other hand, Brazilians are also tragic. The Brazilian national team won five World Cups, and arguably their greatest moment was clearly the 1970 World Cup, when Brazil swept Europe's traditional powerhouse Italy by four goals in the final of a football game that was completely unearthly. It was a team that was considered the greatest by fans all over the world.

But the Brazilians themselves don't think so. It is almost intolerable and inexcusable for them to believe that the most glorious moment should be to lift the Gold Cup on their doorstep, and not to take advantage of the opportunity to win the World Cup when they host it. There are seven countries that have won the World Cup, including Uruguay, Italy, England, the Federal Republic of Germany, Argentina and France. Only Brazil, despite winning five championships, has never lifted the Gold Cup high on their doorstep, in front of their hometown fans.

In Brazil, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the tragedy of the Maracanã, numerous books were published describing and commenting on that game. A book containing live commentary from all the commentators was reprinted in 1986 (three books on the Maracanã Stadium also cover the 1950 game). Two other books were published in 1994 and 1998. In stark contrast, there are only two books on Brazil's 1970 World Cup, the first of which was published in the United Kingdom, as it is only available in English and is not yet available in Brazil. The second book was published just before the 2002 World Cup, and it is interesting to note that at the launch of the book, there were constant references to the 1982 World Cup. It was also a cup tournament that was heartbreaking for Brazilians......

The Brazilians are always so concerned about defeat than about winning.

They have won the World Cup five times, but the two defeats in the final have caused huge social repercussions and have far-reaching consequences. Not to mention the defeat of the Maracanã in 1950, the defeat in the final in 1998 also triggered a long-running and wide-ranging judicial investigation......

This is the national character of the Brazilian people.

And the Maracanã is the best symbol of this.

The 1950 World Cup is considered the beginning of the first year of modern football, and it was a year that was no small ordeal for the Brazilians, because no matter how much victory and glory they achieved afterwards, they were defeated that they could never escape. No amount of victories at the Maracanã could hide that it was originally a stage of national humiliation.

But when Rongguang first stepped into the massive amphitheater, he had no idea what the stadium meant.

The tears and emotions that the Brazilians pinned on this stadium were like flattering eyes to the blind in front of the glory.

In Rongguang's opinion, it was just a big, big, amazingly big stadium, bigger than any course he had been to before.

The Morumbi Stadium, which can accommodate 80,000 people, is big enough for him.

When he came to Maracana, he realized that the Morumbi stadium was really small......

This is the home of many of the Rio de Janeiro teams, and today, it is the home of the top Brazilian giants, Flamengo, and when you look up, the stands are covered with red and black colors, which are the main colors of Flamengo.

There are not many teams in this world that are famous for their red and black, and Italy's giants AC Milan are considered one. However, their jersey is red and black with vertical stripes, while Flamengo is striped horizontally.

During the warm-up in São Paulo, the fanatical flamengo fans took advantage of the boos to give São Paulo a kick-off.

The Maracanã Stadium can accommodate up to 200,000 people, but a national tournament is obviously unlikely to attract so many fans. So in fact, 60,000 flamengo fans came to the stadium to watch the match.

Those 60,000 people, combined with 3,000 fans of the away team São Paulo, will not be able to fill the Maracana. But despite this, the simultaneous movement of 60,000 people is also staggering.

Amid the loud boos, Baptista seemed to be worried about the impact on Glory, so he ran to his side to communicate with him, but he soon found that his actions were a little redundant......

"Actually, these flamengo fans are not specifically targeting us. Flamengo's results were so poor that they needed a boost and we ran into them, so they took it out on us. Baptista said to Glory as he looked at the stands at the Maracanã Stadium.

"This is the Maracana, the greatest building in Brazil. There are only three people in history who have been able to silence the entire Maracanã Stadium. The greatest entertainer of the twentieth century, Frank Sinatra, Pope Paul II, and a ......"

Baptista also spoke in a mixed tone when he spoke of Maracana.

In the first half of the sentence, his tone was full of pride, but in the second half of the sentence, his voice was much lower, and every word was full of pain, and he didn't even finish the sentence.

Glory was very interested in this.

"Who's the other one, Julio?"

If it weren't for the fact that Baptista knew very little about the history of football, especially the history and common sense of Brazilian football, such a question would have been considered a provocation to Brazilians.

The kind-hearted Baptista did not want to recall the tragedy, which was a great shame for the Brazilians, but he answered the question of glory honestly.

"The other one is Jija."

"Who's that?" Glory was unaware of the tragic events that Brazilians cared about most......

Baptista really couldn't tell Rong Guang, a little white who didn't know anything, what the defeat in the 1950 World Cup final meant to the Brazilians, to the stadium, he simply said: "A Uruguayan." ”

Glory saw that Baptista didn't seem to want to say it, and he didn't care. It doesn't matter who it is anyway, because ......

"I'll be the fourth!"

He clenched his fists and said.

It's a cool thing to be able to silence such a big stadium just thinking about it!

This is the simple psychological motivation of rookie glory.

When Baptista heard Rongguang's words, he hadn't yet come out of the emotions of losing in the 1950 World Cup final, so he didn't show too extreme emotions, he just patted Rongguang's shoulder: "Come on!" ”

After saying that, he ran away on his own.

Glory turned his head to look at Baptista's back as he ran away, and from Baptista's perfunctory tone, Glory felt that his teammates didn't seem to believe his words very much.

But it doesn't matter.

Glory turned his head to look at the flamengo fans in the stands.

Just show them!

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Notes: Gija, the scorer in the 79-minute final of the 1950 World Cup, scored a comeback goal to help Uruguay beat Brazil 2-1 to win the World Cup. After he scored, the entire Maracanã stadium was as silent as a graveyard.