The Day I Played with Ronaldo

The referee blew his whistle three times, announcing the end of the game, and Ricardo followed his advice to exchange jerseys with Ronaldo.

Ronaldo is crying. Seeing Licado coming, he wiped his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "Next time we meet, I will take revenge."

Licado smiled and said: "Welcome to the challenge." He said and handed over his jersey.

Ronaldo carefully took Ricardo's jersey, took off his own jersey to Ricardo, and said suddenly: "Actually, my idol is your brother."

"It's not surprising, my idol is also him." Licado said casually.

"One day, I will let people know that there is more than one Ronaldo in the world."

In a few years, you will be the only Ronaldo active in football. Ricardo did not say this sentence.

He just smiled and patted Ronaldo on the shoulder: "Work hard!"

"You are also the target of my pursuit. Although I am not your opponent yet," Ronaldo's eyes were red, but his gaze was firm. "But I will catch up with you sooner or later."

"I believe in this. Alright, let's go." Ricardo turned and walked towards the player tunnel.

Unsurprisingly, he was stopped by reporters and briefly answered a few questions.

"I think Portugal are a strong team, they have a lot of character. It wasn't easy for us to win today."

"The biggest reason for winning is that we have made targeted arrangements for their tactics and personnel arrangements, and these arrangements have played a very good role."

"The best player in Portugal? Figo, he is a teammate of my club, I know him very well, he has the ability to change the game by himself. And Cristiano Ronaldo, although he is young, he plays football. He's done really well and I think he can be the best player in the world, close to Ronnie's level."

"In the younger generation, I think the most likely to reach the height of Ronnie is Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi of the Argentine team. They are talented and work hard enough."

"Me? I'll thank God if I'm half Ronnie's height."

"Our opponent in the final, Italy, is one of the top teams in the world. We will be very careful when we play against them. They have the best defense in the world, and it happens that we have the best attack in the world. I think this match will be very exciting. "

"Predicted score? I think it should be 2:0, we win."

"Transfer? I haven't considered it yet. After the World Cup is over, I will study it with my agent."

"Yes, I heard from my agent that the club has received several offers. But I repeat, I will not think about moving until the World Cup is over."

Back in the locker room, the players are celebrating reaching the final. Ricardo joined the celebratory team and poured champagne on Pereira who was about to attend the press conference.

At the post-match press conference, Pereira and Scolari seemed sympathetic and complimented each other.

"Portugal is a team with combat effectiveness, but apart from Deco and Figo, they lack big-name stars. Scolari's ability to bring the team here proves his strength."

"The score of 3:1 does not fully reflect the strength gap between the two sides. I think our advantage is very weak. The boys worked very hard and we also had some luck."

"I don't think there is any problem with the referee's penalty. Any referee will give a penalty for Ricardo's ball."

"I wish Scolari all the best for Euro 2008."

Scolari also lavished praise on Brazil. "The lads are working hard, but there is a real gap between us and Brazil. If Ronaldo is there, this team is the best team in history.

Even without Ronaldo, this Brazil team is terrifyingly strong. Ricardo has become one of the best players in the world, and today we were defeated by him alone. "

"The loss to Brazil was due to our inferiority. I have nothing to say. I think Ronaldo should have been given a penalty when he was interfered by Cafu, but that didn't change the result of the game. We still have a lot to learn."

"We will work harder in the next year's European Cup. A group of players may quit the national team, and some fresh blood will join. I hope to bring you a more combative team."

"I want Brazil to win the final so we lose to the champions. I think they are likely to win, they are better than Italy."

"We have no regrets in this competition. We have found the core of the team's future. Cristiano Ronaldo can become the new core of the team. But he still needs to continue to grow. I believe his upper limit will not be higher than Ricardo's." Low, he can become a world-class superstar."

The news of this game occupies more than half of the sports pages of major media. But soon, the eyes of the whole world were on the final.

Brazil VS Italy, the old friends meet again.

In the 1938 World Cup in France, after Italy defeated Brazil 2-1 in the semi-finals, it was unstoppable. It defeated Hungary in the final and became the first team in the world to defend the World Cup.

On June 21, 1970, the first country that can permanently retain the Hercules Cup will be produced in the final of the World Cup in Mexico. According to the regulations at the time, the team that won the World Cup three times will receive this honor. At this time, Brazil and Italy have won twice each. , this game is also the world's number one competition. Brazil, which is based on offense, and Italy, which is based on defense, are in a direct contest. In the end, the team led by Pele, known as the strongest team in the World Cup, beat Italy 4-1. This is also Italy's worst loss in the World Cup. And Brazil became the first team to win the World Cup three times, permanently retaining the Hercules Cup.

In the World Cup in Spain 12 years later, Italy, Brazil, and Argentina were grouped together. When Argentina was eliminated early, Italy and Brazil competed for the only place in the semi-finals. Italy had to win, while Brazil only needed to draw. The world is optimistic about the Brazilian team known as the most luxurious in history, but this game has achieved the Italian Rossi. His hat-trick made the Brazilian team with Zico, Socrates and Falcao eliminated. The game was also the greatest victory in the history of Italian football. Then Italy won the championship all the way, becoming the second team after Brazil to win the World Cup three times.

Another 12 years later, in 1994, at the Rose Bowl Stadium in the United States, there was another World Cup final against Italy and Brazil, both teams had won the championship three times before. This is also a direct dialogue between the two "successors" Romario and Roberto Baggio, but in the hot weather, after an extremely dull 120 minutes, the two sides had to decide on penalties, which is also the history of the World Cup It was the first time that the championship was decided by a penalty kick. In the end, Brazil defeated Italy 3-2. The back of Baggio after Italy missed the last goal became one of the most sentimental scenes in the history of the World Cup. Brazil is again number one in the world.

In this World Cup, Italy won all 6 games, scored 11 goals and conceded only 1 goal.

The Brazilian team also won all 6 games, scoring 17 goals and conceding 4 goals.

There is a little difference in the gold content of the two teams winning.

Italy won the United States, Ghana and the Czech Republic in the group stage, and defeated Australia 1-0 in the round of sixteen.

Then Ukraine and Germany were eliminated. Relatively speaking, their opponents are a little weaker than Brazil's opponents.

But it is still difficult to judge the strength of the two teams from this.

As Pereira said in an interview: "This will be our most difficult game. Not only because this is the final, the players are under a lot of psychological pressure, but also because the opponent is Italy. This is a team with a tradition of winning. Against them, we cannot be too cautious.”