The strength of England, the most expensive and luxurious team in the world, has always been controversial. Everyone knows this. Although their odds of winning the lottery are not low, they actually play ugly games every time, sometimes even those small teams are inferior.
Fans expect England to perform better.
That will give them confidence, and at the same time, they can complete revenge and bring England close to the semi-finals. At the same time, the semi-finals are also the goal of Eriksson to coach England and participate in the World Cup.
The war between England and Portugal is about to start.
Chapter four hundred and fifty-five Destiny showdown
"This is fate!" Kicker
After the final meeting of the Sixteenth National Congress, Yu Qiang began to report. The media all over the world focused on the team that entered the strong team. The match between England and Portugal is naturally the most important. The two teams will always have endless topics, whether it is history or present.
As early as four years ago, in the 1966 World Cup in London, England stepped on Portugal’s shoulder and reached the final, winning the only World Cup championship in England’s history. This semi-final matchup was regarded as a shame by the Portuguese.
This history was imprinted on the bones by the Portuguese.
There are still players in Portugal who have participated in that game, that is, Eusébio, who enjoys the title of "Black Pearl".
Eusébio was born in Mozambique, Portugal. He is a strange star in Portugal and the greatest player in the history of Portugal. He is as important to Portuguese fans as Diego Maradona is to Argentines.
Like Diego Maradona, Eusébio has always inspired his national team to move forward bravely.
In the semi-final of the 1966 World Cup, England defeated Portugal 1 and finally won the championship. Although it was a great shame for the Portuguese, Eusébio was still the most dazzling star in that World Cup. He was the top scorer in that World Cup. He scored nine goals alone, and he scored four goals alone in Portugal’s 53 victory over North Korea.
Eusébio’s performance was so excellent that the World Cup belonged to him alone. Although Portugal was eliminated, his performance of nine goals and four goals in a single game made him shine in the world and impressed fans all over the world.
Shortly after the World Cup, Madame Tussauds London quickly made a wax statue in Eusébio.
Now that Eusébio is old, all he can do is cheer for his team in the stands.
In an interview with Kicker, Eusébio hoped that the "European Brazil Team (Portugal)" would achieve unprecedented success and reach the highest podium.
"I know it’s difficult. At present, there are still some gaps between Portugal and the world’s top teams, but no one can deny that we have the ability to attack the championship." Eusébio supported his statement that there are many fans, not only Portuguese fans, but also media and fans from other countries. Portugal is by no means a weak team. They may be behind the world’s top teams such as Germany, Italy and Brazil, but it is also possible to beat them. After all, the strength of the football world does not mean that they can win.
Now the first thing for Portugal to do is to beat England at Gelsenkirchen Stadium.
Eusébio had been the top scorer of Portugal before, and he kept his personal scoring chances in Portugal, but last year pauleta broke his record, which made Eusébio have confidence in the team.
"pauleta is excellent. He broke my record and I believe Portugal can go further." The best result of Eusébio’s Portuguese team is that the semi-finals will go further and make it to the finals.
However, if Portugal can reach the finals now, it will definitely be a great achievement. Almost every team in each team has set its goal on the championship, but in fact, everyone knows that it is not easy to reach the finals. They are two games away from the finals, but how difficult is it to win these two games?
Eusébio, 64, shed tears after watching Portugal’s victory over Iran in the group stage. He said, "I have a strong feeling that Portugal will be better than what we achieved in 1966. This is not to boast that I can feel the confidence of the team. I am optimistic that they will reach the final, ironically, but this is the first World Cup final for most of our golden generation players."
In the early 1990 s, the players of the Portuguese youth team were called the golden generation of Portugal, which was not the Portuguese’s self-praise, but the world media’s evaluation that the Portuguese youth lost the championship in the World Youth Championship.
Many famous players, such as Rui Costa and Cotofigo, belong to the golden generation.
Now Figo still plays for the national team and is the captain of the Portuguese field.
Now that Eusébio has been keeping Portuguese players together, it is very meaningful for Portuguese team coach Scolari to keep Eusébio team together and give them some pertinent suggestions.
"No one can deny that Eusébio, a world-famous star, deserves respect. He has had a lot of experience and is worth learning from our players. More importantly, his pursuit of victory is worth learning from everyone."
When talking about Eusébio, Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said, "There is no doubt that Eusébio is regarded as the greatest Portuguese player. Everything he said is a treasure for the players because he is the idol of many players, and some of them are engaged in football under his influence."
"Eusébio’s influence in Portugal is also various. Now many players grew up listening to the name of Eusébio. He is a’ myth’ of Portuguese football. I have seen some players write down what Eusébio said as a motto to motivate themselves."
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Generally, players who are’ deified’ don’t often appear in public view. In football, Argentine soccer king Diego Maradona and Brazilian soccer king Pele all belong to this type of figures. They are deified. They are fans and players of two countries, so they rarely appear in public view. They will not follow Brazil or Argentina to participate in the current World Cup.
But Eusébio did it, and he still remembered his failure and frankly admitted that he could say something inspiring to make the team more motivated to face the game. "It’s hard to imagine the feeling of collapse after losing to the English team, but suddenly he was out when he was about to advance to the final in a historic way. This has devastated our hearts. I want to convey my feelings to the Portuguese players, hoping that this will further strengthen their determination to win."
Portugal is obviously upset about the defeat forty years ago, which is their shame, but on the other hand, England wants to win more, because forty years ago, after all, was forty years ago, and the shame of England was the European Cup two years ago.
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Two years ago, the memory of losing to Portugal in the penalty shootout of the top 16 is still deeply in the minds of many English players. Now, the English team has experienced that game in Chengdu. After all, it was two years ago that players like Zhang Tiehan joined the team. After all, they are a minority.
It can be said that the English team changed little two years ago and two years later, and that they are the same team.
The same English team got revenge. I hope they won’t wait half a century or two years before they get a chance.
No one wants to miss the opportunity.
English players who can meet Portugal in the strong team are obviously happy that they got into more serious training after the war with Ecuador. Everyone hopes that the team can beat Portugal head-on and avenge it.
"Our opponent was Portugal in the last game. We lost to them two years ago. It was a penalty shoot-out. I don’t think I will forget that game for the rest of my life. Finally, we lost."
David Beckham said in an interview with reporters
Of course he will be impressed. After that game, he became a sinner in England because he kicked the key penalty. "I can’t forget that I felt a little nervous when Eriksson asked me to kick the penalty, but captain, I had to make a good start with my teammates, but I still failed."
"Now we meet them again, and now we will not be afraid of opponents. All teams will fail on our way to winning the championship, including Portugal."
Beckham is full of confidence.