Chapter 121 World Cup 32

The four teams in Group E include Italy, Ghana, the United States and the Czech Republic.

Among them, Italy is one of the most attractive teams in the world football today, symbolizing the blue uniform of the Mediterranean and its impressive record in world football, which makes them have countless fans around the world. The Blue Legion has also had a series of stars loved by fans, such as the "Golden Boy" Rossi and the "Prince of Melancholy" Baggio. Italy has participated in the World Cup 15 times and won the championship three times. In the upcoming World Cup in Germany, the Azzurri is still the favorite to win the championship.

The Serie A, known as the "Little World Cup", has long been regarded as the highest and most competitive league in the world, and countless famous stars have been proud to play in Serie A.

Almost all the players of the Italian national team come from the Serie A. In this national team, new and old geniuses such as Totti, Gilardino, Tony and Piero have formed a strong midfield attack. Although there is no old captain Maldini on the defense line, the defense is composed of strong iron guards such as Nesta and Cannavaro. The line is also reassuring. Pirlo and Gattuso, the two core of the midfield attack and defense, are from AC Milan and cooperate tacitly.

Head coach Lippi has a completely different style from his predecessor Trapatoni. The Italian team he led has not lost in various competitions since he took office. He is considered to be the most active Italian coach in recent years, reusing the axis of Pirlo and Totti to create a more gorgeous and accumulated Extreme playing style. He is also regarded as the closest coach in temperament and personality to Berazzote, who led Italy to win the championship in 1982.

Ghana is another new World Cup ally from Africa. Ghana, which has achieved a brilliant record in the Youth World Championship, has made a historic breakthrough this time. In fact, Ghana has always been a strong team in African football, and this success is only natural.

The iron-handed rule of Serbia and Black coach Duyukovic has brought iron discipline to the lax Ghana team, which is exactly what the team lacked in the past, and Essin, who was selected as a 50-man candidate for the European Footballer, is undoubtedly the soul of this team. In addition, Roman defender Kufor also plays a role in the defensive line. The role of the sea god needle.

In the United States, people say that football has no place to survive in this country, but now they have become one of the world's major football countries. In the past 30 years, the football system and teams at all levels have made great progress and achieved commendable achievements.

With the addition of a group of talented young players and the tense and orderly preparation, there is reason to believe that the U.S. national team will achieve better results in this World Cup than the 2002 World Cup between South Korea and Japan.

Four years later, the coach of the U.S. national team is still Arena, who led the "coonies" to create a group qualifying miracle at the World Cup in South Korea and Japan. Several veterans Keller, Renner, Stewart and McBride became more and more mature, and rookies led by Donovan and Beasley gradually took the lead.

In the German World Cup qualifiers in North America and the Caribbean, the United States pressured their old rival Mexico to successfully advance with the first place in the region. In the World Cup final, ignoring the practice of the U.S. team will certainly pay a heavy price.

Czech football has always been the representative of Eastern European football. For decades, they have always won and occupied an important position in the European field. Before the disintegration of Czechoslovakia, they also held the championship trophy of the European Championship. In 1996, the Czech Republic participated in the World Series independently for the first time. In the European Championship that year, the Czech team almost defeated Germany in the final, thus creating a miracle in the history of world football.

Czech football in the 21st century still maintains their original tradition. The genius creativity and excellent physical conditions of Czech players make themselves never ignored by others. In recent years, more and more talented stars have appeared in Czech football, such as Bobowski, Nedved, Rosiki and so on. In this World Cup, it is not easy for Czechs to qualify, but no one can ignore their strength.

Group F: Brazil, Croatia, Japan and Australia!

Brazil is the only team that has participated in all 17 World Cup finals so far. They have won the championship five times and won the second place twice. In the 80 games they have participated in the World Cup finals, the "Samba Legion" has 53 wins, 14 draws and 13 losses, scored 173 goals and 95 goals, which is undisputed. The king.

Brazil's history has left many unforgettable names for fans all over the world. From Pele, Garincha to Zico, Socrates, to Romario and Dunga, this time is no exception. In the last World Cup, Brazil won the championship by an overwhelming margin, and in the past four years, Brazil has Many stars have emerged in the forum, and the lineup is more prosperous.

The new Brazilian team is known as the "strongest Brazilian team in history". In the lineup, there are Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Caca, Adriano, Robinho, Emerson, Cafu, Carlos, Dida and other big-name stars, nine of whom were selected as the 50 candidates for the European Footballer of the Year. Shan is the true king's teacher.

The most characteristic of this Brazilian team is undoubtedly their attack. Kaka, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Adriano and Robinho are known as the "Fantasy Five", but for the sake of the balance of the team, there can only be four of them, which is Pereira's "happy trouble", and there are few balls in the world. The team can block the attack system composed of four of them.

Connounate predicts the 2006 World Cup and are undisputedly optimistic about Brazil. Cannavaro and Zidane both said that Brazil is a well-deserved number one hit.

However, even if the talent is prosperous, Pereira forced Degan, a super striker, which is a big loss for Brazilian football. In the just-concluded Serie A, Degan still won the title of best scorer with 36 goals without any suspense after three months of absence, and in the Champions Cup final. A hat-trick was staged to help AC Milan finally win the title.

Pereira may also regret that if Adriano is at the forefront of the Brazilian team, but Degan, it will undoubtedly add a heavier weight to the Brazilian team's journey to defend its title.

Like Serbia and Herzegovina, the Croatian team is also an important force in former Yugoslav football. They rely on their unique genius and diligence to create countless classics in the history of football.

After the country's independence, the country's football team's achievements in the World Cup and European Championships were remarkable. Among them, in 1998, Croatia's first participation in the World Cup achieved the third place, and Suk also became the best scorer.

Today, most of the Croatian national team players come from foreign leagues, including Juventus, AC Milan, Bayern Munich and other giants.

With the aging of a group of talented players such as Suc and Procinneski, there have been some fluctuations in recent years, but in this World Cup qualifier, the Croatians still successfully won the right to qualify.

In this team, there are well-known players in world football on all lines. Tudol is the backbone of the team's defense. Kovac was once a midfielder of Bayern Munich, and the forward line plays for Glasgow Rangers' Pershaw and Bremen Krašnic in the Bundesliga. This World Cup They still expect to become the biggest dark horse again.

After waiting for many years, they finally won the second opportunity in history to advance to the World Cup. At the same time, they defeated their Uruguay team four years ago. Compared with four years ago, their biggest difference is that the coach has been replaced by Hiddink, the magical coach who will lead the Australian team in Germany. The title of Ocean State football is correct on the World Cup.

Japan, although Japanese football won the bronze medal in the Mexican Olympic Games as early as 1968, the real rise of Japanese football has been in the past decade. In 1992, relying on core players such as Miura and Ramos, the Japanese team won the Asian Cup for the first time in history under the ** of Dutch coach Offt. In 1993, the Japanese team was only one step away from going to the United States. In the final game against Iraq, it was equalized by the opponent and lost the right to qualify.

In 1996, the winged Japanese Olympic team defeated Brazil 1-0 at the Atlanta Olympics, indicating that they had the strength to challenge the world's first-class strong team.

Since then, Japanese football has steadily rose and reached the 1998 World Cup finals. It won the runner-up in the World Youth Championship in 1999 and the Asian Cup in 2000. In the 2001 Confederations Cup group stage, it drew with Brazil 0:0 and defeated France 0:1 in the final and won the runner-up of the Confederations Cup.

The Japanese team has proved to the world with such impressive results that the level of the Japanese team has surpassed the level of Asian football and entered the world's second-class teams. Looking at the history of Asian football and even world football in nearly ten years, I'm afraid no national team has made so much progress in just ten years.

The rise of Japanese football is inseparable from the "centennial plan" proposed by the Japanese Football Association, relying on its own mechanism to be at the forefront of Asia. It was under the "100-year plan" of Japanese football that Japan gave birth to world-class stars such as Hidetoshi Nakata, and quasi-world stars such as Shinji Ono also appeared. The emergence of these stars has laid a solid foundation for the Japanese national team to achieve good results in various competitions.

Now, Japan is full of talents. In addition to Hideshou Nakata, Nakamura Shunsuke, Naoshita Plateau and others are among the best players in Asia.

Group G: France, Switzerland, Togo and South Korea!

France is one of the most influential teams in Europe and the football world of the century. They won the European Championship twice in 1984 and 2000, and the French team won the World Cup in 1998. After experiencing the glory of the Platini era, it also fell into the trough in the early 1990s. With the emergence of a group of the most eye-catching stars in world football, such as Zidane and Henry, the French team ushered in glory again and became the first team to win the European Cup after winning the World Cup.

Ligue 1 is one of the five major European football leagues and the cornerstone of training French stars. In recent years, Ligue 1 teams have played an increasingly important role in European football, especially the sudden rise of Lyon in recent years, which has impressed the whole world football.

In today's French national team, head coach Domenek has talented midfield organizers such as Zidane and Guli, Henry, Trezeguet and other "best scorers" leading the front line, and the defense of Battes, Turam and other old and strong. In the World Cup, the strength of the French team is still outstanding, still The big hit of winning the bid.

Switzerland, as the two largest football organizations today, where FIFA and UEFA are located, cannot be underestimated.

However, on the green field, Swiss football has not brought much pride to its people. It has been hovering outside the world's highest level for a long time. In the World Cup and European Championships, the Swiss have few opportunities to show their football to the world, and the image of the weak team of Swiss football has been difficult to change.

But this year may be different. Affected by the geographical environment, the Swiss who play in France, Germany and even England have brought back more practical and effective football for their country.

In this European Cup qualifiers, Switzerland overwhelmed the third place in the World Cup between South Korea and Japan, and Turkey successfully qualified, which was impressive. Today, the Swiss have their own talented midfield star Hakan. Jakin, while Frey, who played for Rennes in Ligue 1, has become the favorite golden boy of the people under the Alps. In addition, Senderos, Vogel, Magnin, Streler and so on are all figures in the five major leagues.

Since the 1960s, the South Korean team has gradually become a traditional strong team in Asia and won a series of top Asian football championships. The South Korean team has reached the World Cup finals for five consecutive times since 1986, and the team's impressive record has also made some of the team's main players enjoy a high reputation in Asia.

The South Korean team's playing style is fast and concise, and the physical quality of the players is good. Although they are generally not tall, their center of gravity when running and controlling the ball is low, and the accuracy of one footing the ball is very high. Two or three people in a small range of players use more cooperation, which is very skilled and tacitly. The team is used to playing holistic when organizing attacks. The whole team runs actively. At the same time, the quality of the side passes is very high, and most of the players have good long-range shooting skills at the front of the penalty area.

At the World Cup between Korea and Japan, the South Korean team finally reached the semi-finals with shamelessness and shamelessness. Although people all over the world know how South Korea got the fourth place in the World Cup, there is no doubt that it was this shameless journey that greatly stimulated the distorted national pride of South Koreans. Let the development of football in South Korea be further accelerated.

In this qualifier, the Koreans' road was not smooth. Under the leadership of Bonfrere, the team entered the trough, and then coached by another Dutch coach Edvorkat, who struggled to qualify. However, at present, Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-pyo in the South Korean team are all playing in the Premier League giants. Their European experience will be South Korea. The wealth of the national team.

Togo is another new World Cup runner-up from Africa. This team is known as the "eating eagle". Although it is not a very eye-catching team in Africa, it has shown strong combat effectiveness in the qualifiers, with 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, which is also the best qualifiers in Africa, and There are also strong teams like Senegal in this group.

The team's Nigerian head coach Kai Shi highlighted the factor of "unity" when explaining the team's success. Like many African strong teams, team strength and some unknown but powerful geniuses are the key to the team's success.

The biggest player in the team is Adebayor, a striker who plays for the Premier League Arsenal. If Togo wants to achieve good results in the World Cup, it can only rely on Adebayor's excellent performance.

Group H: Belgium, Ukraine, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia!

The appearance of Degan made Spain, which was supposed to enter the World Cup in Germany, have to stay at home and watch TV, and Belgium, the former European Red Devil, returned to the world stage.

After basically solving the conflict between the Flemish and Walloons in the team, the Belgian team has been pinched into a perfect whole. Although there are no talented players in the team, it still relies on the old ministers who have participated in the 2002 World Cup between Korea and Japan.

But Degan is undoubtedly the biggest variable in the Belgian team. At the age of 20, he has only participated in the professional league for two years, but Degan has scored more than 100 goals in various competitions and has become a well-deserved super striker in world football.

In the qualifiers, Degan scored 18 goals in four games, helping Belgium reverse the decline under the extremely unfavorable qualifying situation and finally pressed the Black and Spain to successfully qualify.

The Belgian team with Degan will definitely become the biggest dark horse in this World Cup. Any team must be careful when facing them.

Tunisia's qualifying is not surprising. Among the five teams that have qualified in Africa, Tunisia is the most experienced in the World Cup. At the same time, there are also players such as Trabersi and Zairi who are famous in Europe. Head coach Lemaire is also a famous coach who has won the European Cup. As a 2003 non- Tunisian football is at the best stage of the Continental Cup.

Saudi football has the strongest position in the West Asian football sector. However, since 1992, Saudi tycoons have decided to vigorously develop football, and Saudi football has developed rapidly under the leadership of professional coaches. Thanks to the sponsorship of chiefs and wealthy businessmen, Saudi Arabia's domestic clubs have a strong foundation and the ability to hire the world's highest-level coaches.

Saudi Arabia has always been a hero in Asia by converting to Brazilian football, and now it has turned to Eastern European football. The rapid change in Saudi football style makes it unable to keep up with its pace for a while. However, the Saudi team has always been a giant of football in West Asia and even Asia.

The physical fitness of Saudi football players is similar to that of South American and African teams. They are flexible, fast, flexible, and pay great attention to the cultivation of personal skills.

The Saudi Football Association has long positioned its football as a technical football style. Therefore, both domestic clubs and national teams have hired a large number of South American or Latin American-style coaches. Most of the clubs' foreign aid are players from Brazil, Argentina and other football powers and African countries in South America. Driven by foreign coaches and foreign players, local Saudi players have been familiar with it and embarked on the road of technology. Therefore, Saudi football has also established its own style, that is, it emphasizes individual skills and pays attention to personal technical performance. Therefore, in Asian football, Saudis play better.

However, in the group stage of this World Cup, in the face of the European Red Devil Belgium with Degan, Ukraine with Ukrainian nuclear warheads, and Tunisia, Saudi Arabia obviously need more luck if they want to qualify in the group.

Ukraine, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the Ukrainian team became a new force in European and even world football. Before this World Cup qualifiers, most people knew about the country's football only to the champion team Dynamo Kiev and Milan superstar Shevchenko.

However, after eliminating two European championship champions Denmark and Greece, and defeating Turkey, the third place in the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, proudly entered the World Cup in Germany as the first place in the group, fans all over the world saw the real strength of the Ukrainian team.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the establishment of the Ukrainian Football Association, the Ukrainian national team participated in the 1998 World Cup qualifiers for the first time.

The first attempt of this Eastern European team ended in second in the group, behind Germany and ahead of Portugal and Northern Ireland. Subsequently, they lost to Croatia in the play-offs and failed to make it to the World Cup in France. They also lost in the play-offs before the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, which was lost to Germany.

After losing the 2004 European Cup qualifier, the famous former Soviet star Blosin of the 1975 European footballer took over as Leonard. Bourjac's coaching position.

The Ukrainian team adheres to the football style of the former Soviet team: it is mainly based on the overall style of play, and the players have outstanding personal ability. The forward line composed of Shevchenko and Volnin combines technology, speed and body, and has the ability to tear apart the defense line of any so-called world-class strong team. Under the carefulness of coach Bloshin, Ukraine will certainly shock the world in Germany this year.

After missing two good opportunities in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Ukraine advanced to the 2006 World Cup and entered the finals for the first time. After a fierce match in the group stage, coach Oleg Blosin and his team became the first European team to qualify for the finals after the host Germany.

The return of the core player Shevchenko's injury will undoubtedly make Blosin more confident, and on the way to qualify for the group's right, their biggest enemy is Belgium led by Shevchenko's teammate Digan. The two teams will also meet head-on in the first round of Group H. It will soon be known who it belongs to.