Chapter 63 Fight the Cowman

Bernet, Madrid, Spain, has already been full of voices in the stands. Looking from afar, a fiery red qualifier of the World Cup has mobilized all Spaniards.

Even King Juan of Spain. Carlos I said before the game: "Spain can't live without the World Cup, and the World Cup can't be without Spain!"

Since 1978, Spain has not missed any World Cup, and this time the same is true. Before the game, Caragones also said in an interview with the media: "This game will be related to the honor of the whole of Spain. There must be no mistakes. We will take it in the game. Win and give the World Cup tickets to the people as a gift!"

Although Spain was the champion of the European Cup and the World Cup in Digan's previous life, Spain, although it was a world-recognized football power before winning the 2008 European Football Championship, it was unable to achieve outstanding results in international competitions for a long time. Only individual players can reach the world's top level. , but the overall strength is not outstanding.

Previously, Spain's representative honor was only the 1964 European Football Championship, followed by the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Football Championship, and the best result in the World Cup was only the 1950 World Cup.

At the 1950 World Cup held in Brazil, Spain successfully reached the finals, and the teams in the same group included England, the United States and Chile. In the end, they completed all the group matches with a complete victory and qualified at the top of the list.

The competition system is relatively special. It is not a single knockout score to decide who will be the World Cup champion, but four teams that won the top of the group in the first round will play separately in groups.

The four teams that advanced to the finals were Uruguay, Brazil, Sweden and Spain. In the end, Spain lost one game in the final group and finished the game with 1 and 2 losses and won the palace.

In 1962, the legendary coach Bilaronga was appointed as the head coach of the Spanish team. Under Billalonga, Spain was able to compete in the 1962 World Cup, but was eliminated early by Brazil, the Czech Republic and Mexico in the first round of the group stage, and the legendary superstar Ferenc, who was originally from Hungary. Puskas joined Spain for the World Cup this year, but failed to play well.

Two years later, Spain hosted the second European Football Championship. They passed the two-round knockout match and defeated Romania, Northern Ireland and Ireland to enter the semi-finals.

Spain's opponent in the semi-finals was Hungary, which won the bid at that time. After overtime, Spain struggled to advance with a score of 2:1.

Then Spain faced the very powerful Soviet Union in the final held in Madrid. In the end, Spain defeated its opponents with the right time and place to win the first international competition in Spain's history.

As a European champion, Spain automatically qualified for the 66th England World Cup. The team retained the 1964 championship team, and Bilaronga also remained as a coach. Unfortunately, Spain has lost to Argentina and West Germany. Although it defeated Switzerland after that, it was still not enough to advance. Bilaronga left after being out of the World Cup, and the Spanish team entered a long dark period.

Since the 1966 World Cup defeat and the down of Billalonga, Spain has failed to reach the finals in the next three consecutive European Football Championships and two World Cups. The downturn did not pick up until the 1976 European Football Championship qualifiers. They were in the same group as Romania, Scotland and Denmark in the qualifier group and won consecutively, but they lost 1:3 to West Germany and were still rejected by the qualifiers.

78 World Cup in Argentina was the first time that Spain returned to the international football stage since 1966, and it was also the only big tournament they had participated in in the 1970s. After Spain broke through the qualifiers with the first place in the group, it was divided into Group 3 in the first round of the finals, including old rivals Brazil and Sweden, as well as Austria. However, the Spanish team was unfavorable and unexpectedly lost to Austria 1:2 in their first appearance. Subsequently, he immediately improved his state. In the second game, he forced Brazil 0:0, and in the third game, he also defeated Sweden 1:0. Unfortunately, he still could not escape the fate of the first round, which can be said to have paid the price for his slow performance.

Spain hosted the World Cup for the first time in 1982, and it was also the first time that 16 teams were expanded to 24 teams to compete in the finals. As the host country, Spain generally had high expectations for the national team led by Sinda Maria.

However, in the opening match, Honduras was forced to draw 1:1. Fortunately, it defeated Yugoslavia 2-1 in the second round, and even if it lost to Northern Ireland after 1 goal, it did not hinder the second round.

After the promotion, Spain lost to West Germany again 1:2, and England 0-0 in the last game, so it was unable to reverse the situation and advance to the semi-finals. After the finals, head coach Sinda Maria was immediately fired by the Spanish Football Association.

After the 1982 World Cup, the new Spanish coach Miguel. Wennuth played. Under his leadership, Spain performed well in the 1984 European Football Championship and the 1986 World Cup.

Spain defeated Malta 12:1 in the last game of the 1984 European Cup of Nations qualifier, and miraculously qualified for the qualification by defeating the Netherlands, which had an 11th goal difference with more goals. In the first round of the final week, they defeated the popular West Germany to qualify in the semi-finals, and then defeated Denmark with a penalty shootout in the semi-finals. They advanced to the finals for the first time since 1964, and finally lost to the host France by 0:2 and became the runner-up.

In the 1986 World Cup, Spain reached the final one-eighth final and defeated Denmark again with a big score of 5:1 in the eighth final, but lost to Belgium in the penalty shootout in the quarterfinals.

Then, in order to prepare for the World Cup in Italy, the Spanish Football Association invited Suarez, a hero who had scored a total of 100 goals for Barcelona and Inter Milan and returned to win the European Football Championship in 1964. The Spanish players did not dare to relax under the command of this famous player respected by the Chinese people. After they easily passed the qualifiers, they had no record with Uruguay in the first group in the finals, and then defeated South Korea and Belgium continuously and advanced to the first place in the group. The top 16 knockout stage was eliminated by Yugoslavia.

In the 1994 World Cup in the United States, although Spain's group stage appeared easily, it was defeated by Italy led by Baggio and once again missed the top four.

Two years later, in the European Football Championship, Spain was in the same group with Bulgaria, France and Romania. Spain made 1:1 with its opponents in the first two group matches, taking advantage of the last opportunity to defeat Romania 2:1 and qualified for second place.

Then in the quarterfinals, Spain was defeated by the host country England. In order to avoid losing the ball first, both sides played carefully on the court. Finally, after 120 minutes of no goal, Spain drank the penalty shootout.

In the 1998 World Cup in France, the Spanish team, which played in a high profile before the game, finally failed to advance but retreat, which greatly disappointed their supporters. Although it remained unbeaten in the previous series of qualifiers, Spain still had to pay a heavy price for its slow habit when it came to the first finals with 32 teams participating. They were defeated by 2:3 against Nigeria in the first battle, and then they were defeated by Paraguay for a long time. Even if they defeated Bulgaria 6:1 in the last game of the group, it was too late and they were out.

The Spanish team has been getting worse since the World Cup in France, losing 2:3 to Cyprus in the European Championship qualifiers. This embarrassing defeat made the national team ashamed.

Although it finally succeeded in the European Cup in 2000, Spain's results were still difficult to satisfy. It narrowly qualified in the group stage and finally lost to France in the first round of the knockout match, and had no choice but to accept the fate of being eliminated.

In 2002, the World Cup between Japan and South Korea was the first World Cup jointly organized by the two countries and held in Asia for the first time. In this World Cup, Spain's lineup was complete and well prepared, giving full play to its due strength.

They won all three games in the group stage. In addition to changing the bad habit of being unwinn in the first game of the previous competition, they also showed good form and scoring ability. The opponents of the first round of knockout were Ireland, and the two armies relied on their respective strikers Molentes and Robby at the specified time. Keane scored and played, and after no more goals in overtime, Spanish goalkeeper Casillas became the protagonist in the final stage, allowing Spain to eliminate its tenacious opponent.

Spain was out of the following quarterfinals and set off a huge debate because its opponent South Korea obviously manipulated the black whistle. During the game, the football crossed the South Korean team's goal twice, but was invalidated by Egyptian referee Gandul. Therefore, South Korea entered the top four as it wished after shooting penalty kicks, creating its most brilliant World Cup result in history.

At the European Football Championship hosted by neighboring Portugal in 2004, Spain was put in Group A together with Portugal and Greece, and Russia, the two final teams. Spain beat Russia by one goal in the first game, but the following game was forced by the Greek team when Morentes set the record first. In the crucial third game, Spain only needed to play with its opponent Portugal to qualify, but unfortunately, the only goal in the game came from the opposing striker Nuno. Gomez had no choice but to accept the fate of being eliminated.

After this European Cup, the Spanish Football Association decided to hire Caragones as the team's head coach to continue to compete in the 2006 World Cup.

Without the unexpected factor of Degan, Caragones will take office and open the prelude to the revival of Spanish football. Although his performance in the 2006 World Cup is mediocre, he will be included in the following three events of the 2008 European Cup, 2010 World Cup and 2012 European Cup. He won all the championships and created a glorious era of Spanish football.

But now that there is Degan, Spain has to look at his face if it wants to appear.

Although Caragones did everything he could and launch psychological warfare before the game, Belgium ignored it and kept saying that it wanted to honor Spain in the game.

You have a fart honor!

If it hadn't been for the handsome face, Caragones couldn't help scolding the street.

In fact, it's not to blame him. Degan, a planning player, if it hadn't been for his father and mother's about to have a baby, and happened to give birth to his little bastard in Belgium, he could have a dog relationship with Belgium.

Now that he has defected to the enemy, he still wants to fight for the honor of Belgium. He is really not a son of man.

Caragones silently cursed Degan in his heart not to shoot for 90 minutes, but Degan mobilized his teammates in the visiting team's locker room.

"I know that we don't have to care about the results of this game now. The tickets to the World Cup have been put in our pockets. We can easily face this game without worrying about the results of the game and enjoy the joy of football."

Digan was talking and still looking at the faces of his teammates. Obviously, most of them thought so. Although they didn't say anything, their expressions had betrayed their hearts. It can be seen that they had not woken up from the joy of the group's qualifying. This time they came to Spain as a vacation.

Digan then changed his words and his expression became harsh: "But what I want to tell you is that people are lazy. You can easily face a failure today, so you can face our World Cup game in the same mood in the future. If we lose this game, we will not lose anything. But in the World Cup, if we also lose, we will face the fate of elimination!"

"I don't want to tell you the truth, because I think football has never been a happy game. As long as we stand on the field, we are warriors. Now that we are wearing this Belgian national team's robe, then we represent the interests of the whole country! Victory! Only victory! Only then can the fans who support us feel happy, only victory! Only then can Belgian football win people's respect again, and let them mention Belgium from now on. When they mention the European Red Devils, they will be afraid and tremble their legs. Today is our opportunity, an opportunity to let people know the European Red Devils again. In the previous group stage, we lost to Spain, and now it's time for us to get back. It's time for honor. The Spaniards self-respected as matadors. Today, our crazy Red Bull is to completely turn them upside down.