Chapter 349 Different Olympic Games (4)
Shortly after the Italian match against Spain, another team from South America, Argentine National Olympic Team eliminated the Portuguese National Olympic Team, which was much mediocre than their predecessors, with goals from Crespo and Peron, two-to-one, and became the last team to enter the semi-finals of the Olympics.
In the next semi-finals, Nigeria will face the Brazilian Olympic team, which has the "four kings" talked about by Celestial fans, and Italy will face another powerful team from South America - the Argentine Olympic team.
Although the Olympics are approaching the final climax, the employees of Zhuang Mingge's GM company did not get any rest. They had just completed a series of tasks and were sent by Zhuang Mingge to another new battlefield - the NBA, where they were going to start a brand new business on this strange land.
Of course, Zhuang Mingge did not force his employees to sign agency contracts with many NBA stars. After all, strong dragons do not defeat local snakes. The NBA has NBA rules, and rashly entering will only lead to a miserable death.
Therefore, the task of GM now is to be familiar with the NBA environment, and then return to Europe to operate some European players to participate in the NBA draft and sign agency contracts with them. Only by gradually penetrating in this way can we gain a place in the American sports world.
Not to mention these trivial matters, on the third day after Spain was eliminated, Brazil and Nigeria started the semi-finals first.
The Brazilian Football Association attaches great importance to the gold medals in this Olympic football match, so they almost gathered one of the best young players in Brazil to participate in the competition. The three overage players recruited were also well-known. Bebeto and Aldell, the heroes of Brazil's World Cup in 1994, both entered the list of the Atlanta Olympics. However, for some reason, the third overage player was not Cruise in Zhuang Mingge's memory (not the one who played for Inter Milan), but the captain of the Brazilian national team Dunga.
To be honest, if Romario hadn't offended head coach Zagalo, the "lone wolf" would have been the third over-age player to participate in this Olympics by the Brazilian National Olympic Team.
In addition to Dida, Zeroberto, Zemaria, Zeelias, Rivaldo, the apprentice of Brazilian legend Cerezo, and others, this Brazilian team can be said to be so gorgeous that it is so frustrating.
Moreover, Brazil had a match with Nigeria in this Olympic group stage. In that game, they finally defeated their opponents by Ronaldo's wonderful personal performance. It can be said that for Nigeria, Brazil can be said to have an absolute advantage in terms of personal ability to psychology.
However, no matter how strong the Brazilian team is, even if there are some minor changes on the Olympic roster, this degree of change is obviously not enough to stop the wheel of history from moving forward.
As in history, Brazil has used its strong personal ability and technical advantages to firmly grasp the initiative on the field from the beginning. When the first half ended, Brazil relied on Bebeto's goal and Flavio Concesan's second goal to achieve a three-to-one lead, and everything seemed to develop as expected before the game.
The same was true after the game entered the second half. Although the Nigerian players worked very hard to equalize the score, the Brazilian team's strong strength still firmly controlled the situation. The starting goalkeeper Dida even saved a penalty kick taken by Okocha in the 64th minute!
However, just when everyone thought that Nigeria's situation was hopeless, Nigeria's main striker Kanu stood up. He first inserted from the left highway in the 76th minute. After receiving a pass from Okocha at the front of the Brazilian team's penalty area, he made a powerful shot. He made a wonderful save and had no choice but to watch the ball enter the net.
The Nigerian tied the score to two to three!
However, Brazil did not be vigilant because of this conceding. The players all thought that the conceding was just an accident. It was not a problem to defend the advantage in these ten minutes to win Nigeria and enter the final. The most terrifying thing is that everyone seems to have this idea.
The boys in Nigeria, whose morale has been greatly boosted by Kanu's goal, obviously don't think so: since they have the ability to score two goals in Brazil, why can't they score two more?
It is precisely because of this that the Nigerians who saw hope of equalizing the score became more and more brave in the next time, frequently knocking down Brazilian players in the confrontation, and Brazilian players were also angry and started to fight back by their opponents. So, in the last ten minutes of the second half, the players on both sides were knocked to the ground by the opponents one after another. The young and energetic Brazilian players did not notice that they were cleverly diverted by the cunning Nigerians, and they did not notice that they had actually devoted more energy to fighting with their opponents, rather than scoring another goal as soon as possible and re-establishing the score advantage of two goals.
The Nigerian's strategy has been effective. At the end of the second half, Okocha threw an out-of-bounds ball on the right, and the ball flew directly into the Brazilian team's penalty area. In the chaos, the ball strangely passed through the legs of several players and rolled to Dida's feet who was guarding the goal!
Just when Dida just noticed this dangerous situation, Kanu, who was guarding Dida, had already reacted and stabbed the ball into the goal guarded by Dida! Three to three! The Nigerian miraculously tied the score at the last moment!
The Brazilian players were cursed and could only watch all this happening like bystanders, but they had no ability to stop this miracle from happening. They eventually paid a heavy price for their youthful aura.
At the last moment, the result was obviously a big blow to these prides, so many of them seemed to have not recovered from Kanu's shot in front of the goal, and this move to distract them once again.
In just three minutes of overtime, Nigeria's midfield engine Okocha stole Rivaldo's pass in the midfield, and then immediately passed a straight pass and broke through the Brazilian defense line, which was still in the offense and defense transition state!
Kanu, who had already scored twice, fully utilized his outstanding explosive power and successfully formed a single shot against offside. Facing Dida's attack, he made a calm push shot and completed the Golden Ball final! At the same time, he also scored his third goal in this game! He staged a hat trick!
Chapter completed!