Young Football Player

After two rounds of the group stage, England's qualifying situation was very good, so the English media started to make noise again.

Should we try our best to win Costa Rica in the final round and strive for the first promotion in the group?

Or play a tacit match with Costa Rica and advance steadily hand in hand?

Most of the English media still feel that Costa Rica should be won to fight for a good opponent for the knockout round.

At this time, the second round of the World Cup group matches have also come to an end.

The two rounds of the World Cup group stage ended, and there were also two super upsets.

The first one is about the England group. Costa Rica advanced early, while Italy was eliminated early.

The second upset was the elimination of defending champion Spain.

In the second round of the group stage, Spain lost 0:2 to Chile and suffered a two-game losing streak and was eliminated one round ahead of schedule.

As the defending champion and favorite to win the championship, Matador went home after only playing two rounds of the group stage. This is the biggest upset of this World Cup.

After the two rounds of the group stage, some teams are already preparing to pack up and go home, but in general, except for Spain and Italy, the other strong teams are doing well.

The exit of Italy and Spain also made the media more optimistic about South American teams. They believed that the final champion of this World Cup should be produced by South American teams.

Both Brazil and Argentina are doing very well at present, and there are indeed champions.

In addition to the duo, Chile and Colombia in South America have performed well and have the potential to become dark horses.

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The two rounds of the group stage are over, and England is about to prepare for the third round and Costa Rica's top battle.

But in general, everyone basically knows that this group is where England and Costa Rica will advance together. The next step is to see who takes the first place in the group and who takes the second place in the group.

However, the match between England and Costa Rica has attracted the attention of many Chinese media.

Because this is a Chinese derby.

The current core of the England team is Jackie Lee, a well-known Chinese star for a long time.

On the other side of Costa Rica, the chairman of their Football Association is a Chinese, or a 100% Chinese of Chinese descent.

The name of the chairman of the Costa Rica Football Association is Eduardo Lee, who still has the same surname as Jackie Lee.

Eduardo Li's father was from Guangdong, China, but immigrated to Costa Rica very early.

After his father settled down in Costa Rica, he met his mother when he returned to China to visit relatives. After getting married, he took him to Costa Rica to live together, and Eduardo Lee was born.

Eduardo Lee himself was a businessman. He bought a team in the Colombian League before he entered the football industry and eventually became the chairman of the Costa Rica Football Association.

Now under the leadership of Eduardo Lee, Costa Rica has not only entered the World Cup, but also defeated strong enemies in this death group stage and advanced to the knockout round in advance. These are very remarkable achievements.

Now Lee Cheng Long, a Chinese football star, is about to play against Eduardo Lee, a Chinese chairman. This is just a small news for other countries' media, but it is big news for the Chinese media.

Many media are following this opportunity,

Another mockery of the Chinese Football Association.

Jackie Chan's success proved that the Chinese can play football well.

The success of Eduardo Lee also proved that the Chinese can manage football well.

But why is Chinese football still not working?

The economy is booming, with a huge population base of 1.4 billion, but football has always been inactive.

However, a small North American country with only one-fourth of the population of China's capital and one-seventh of the GDP of China's capital can play well in the World Cup. This is indeed very topical.

Some Chinese media specially made a report during the World Cup titled "In fact, most Chinese are just pretending to like the World Cup".

According to the report, China is the country with the largest number of sudden deaths because of staying up late to watch the World Cup, and it is also the country with the largest amount of money participating in the underground gambling of the World Cup, but at the same time, China is the country with the lowest proportion of football players in the world.

It's ironic indeed.

Many Chinese people watch football for the fun of watching it. It’s like chasing after a popular idol drama. After watching it, they throw it aside and continue looking for the next one.

This interesting report was also reprinted by some European sports media.

In the reposted report, they also included an illustration, which is a joke about the Chinese football environment.

Inset, a Chinese man is watching the World Cup, soon his wife comes over, and the conversation begins.

Female: "Which team is playing which team?"

Man: "England kicks Italy."

Female: "Is this the Chinese Super League?"

Man: "No, this is the World Cup."

Female: "Then where is the Chinese team?"

Man: "Same as you, watching TV at home."

Woman: "Then why don't they kick?"

Man: "FIFA won't allow it."

Female: "Why? Is it because of the Diaoyu Islands?"

Male: "No, it's because the level is not enough."

Female: "But don't we have the name Yao?"

male:"……?"

Well, although this is just a joke, it can indeed be seen that the foundation of Chinese football is lacking.

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Li Chenglong, a Chinese football star, is already well-known in China, but now a Chinese-born Costa Rica Football Association president suddenly appeared, and their respective teams will also play against each other in the World Cup, which made some Chinese media claim that, The confrontation between England and Costa Rica will be the Chinese derby of the World Cup.

It is worth mentioning that the only time the Chinese team entered the World Cup was the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup. At that time, China was in the same group as Costa Rica, but both teams were eliminated.

Of course, in the direct confrontation between the two teams at that time, Costa Rica also defeated China 2:0.

After being eliminated that year, China and Costa Rica, the two scorers, were ridiculed by the Turks.

That was two years after the Korea-Japan World Cup.

The Turks finished third in the 2002 World Cup, but after returning to Europe, they were eliminated in the European Cup qualifiers and missed the 2004 Portuguese European Cup.

When their head coach was questioned by the reporter, he said: "The European Cup is definitely much more difficult than the World Cup, because in the European Cup, there will be no big teams like China and Costa Rica to send you divided."

Although what he said is also true, Turkey did successfully advance to the knockout round by relying on its points in China and Costa Rica.

But what he said was still a bit too disrespectful.

Chinese football is not good, there is no chance to go back.

But Costa Rica has the strength. Now that they have qualified early in the death group of the World Cup, they are fully qualified to ridicule them back.

So the Costa Rican players led by Navas taunted after defeating Italy.

"Where are the Turks? Have you seen them?"

"We're here to give them points again, why can't we find them?"

Since 2002, Turkey has never entered the World Cup, and they have no way to respond to being ridiculed.