Chapter 206 Qatar World Youth Championship (2)
Located in the southern part of Doha, Al Arabi Stadium is the largest comprehensive stadium in Qatar. It has complete functions and excellent facilities. It not only hosts outdoor football, rugby and track and field competitions, but also in the deputy hall next to the stadium, it can also meet the needs of basketball, table tennis and other various events.
At this time, the third and fourth finals of the Qatar World Youth Championship are being held on the stadium. Since there is not much to do with this article, I will not go into too much details in the previous game and just skip the time to the present.
"Antonio, it seems that your prediction made a mistake this time. It was not the two teams of Spain and Brazil that entered the finals." Cruyff said with a smile.
"Mr. Cruyff, I am not a god, so I can't guess so accurately every time." Zhuang Mingge also said with a smile.
That's right, as an ordinary fan of the Celestial Empire, who would remember who the championship and runner-up of the Qatar World Youth Championship?
The performance of the Portuguese younger generation in recent years is undoubtedly quite amazing in European football. Figo, Rui Costa, and Paul Sousa have all become famous first-class stars. After experiencing the glory of winning the World Youth Championship for two consecutive World Youth Championships in 1989 and 1991, the Portuguese national youth team, whose strength has declined sharply, has trained a group of young players in Qatar four years later. With Yu Yong, who had been with the predecessors such as Figo, Rui Costa, and made it difficult to reach the semi-finals of this World Youth Championship.
In the semi-finals, they lost to Ronaldo and missed the final, and had to compete for the third place in the World Youth Championship with Spain, which lost to the Argentinian in another semi-final.
However, these young people born in Portugal never thought that what they were about to face would be an unprecedented massacre...
"Goooooooal! The ball is in! Echeberia! Three to zero! The Spanish boys were far ahead of Portugal by a score of 3 to 0 in the first half!"
No. 11! Young forward Joseba Echeberia from Athletic Bilbao Club has blossomed the most beautiful colors in this third and fourth final!
The young Spanish striker seemed to want to vent all the depression of losing the penalty to the Argentinian in the previous semi-finals to the seemingly vulnerable opponent in front of him!
With two assists and one goal, De La Pena from Barcelona Club, as the center of the Spanish National Youth Team, led the team to completely disintegrate the opponent's will to resist in just 45 minutes.
This Spanish genius midfielder who devotes all his energy to attack does not have to worry about his own defense - Salgado, a defensive midfielder from Vigo Celta, finally released the ban and returned in this game. In the quarterfinals, Salgado had already paid the price for his growth. If Salgado could play in the semi-finals against Argentina, the Spanish team might not regretfully be eliminated in the semi-finals.
"Echeberia looks very good..." During the intermission, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but murmur when he thought of the Bilbao striker in his memory.
"What, Antonio, are you interested in this Echeberia? It seems that he has a lot of hope to win the best scorer in this World Youth Championship!" Damn Cruyff, why is this guy's ears so good!
"Ahem, Coach Cruyff, why don't you talk about De La Pena? He is the soul of this Spanish youth team. Without his magical performance in the midfield and frontcourt, Echeberia would not have performed brilliantly in this game. This is like the relationship between Maradona and Canigia. Without Maradona as the engine and source of attack, Canigia is just a good striker."
Maradona made Canigia. By the same token, this game was De La Pena making Echeberia who was charging in the frontcourt.
"Antonio, you're right, but don't have the idea of making a move. A few days ago, Jacard also came to me on behalf of Ajax and asked me if I could let Dela Pena play in Ajax for half a season." When talking about the proud disciple he trained during his coaching in Barcelona, Cruyff was also happy.
"Haha, Mr. Cruyff, it seems you are in a good mood. Is it because the player from Real Madrid has performed poorly in this game?"
"Uh, this, Antonio, don't sow discord...but his performance in the first half was indeed not very good."
It's not just not that good, it can be described as terrible! He is also the only player sleepwalking among the starters in Spain. God knows how this future Real Madrid flag will look so sluggish in this game.
The expected Dela Pena competes with Raul Gonzalez, is this the result?! As a fan, Zhuang Mingge said that he is very disappointed...
The head coach of the Spanish National Youth Team on the sidelines also expressed his dissatisfaction with his actual actions:
Raul ends on the 7th!
Change to No. 13 Morientes!
Young center Fernando Morientes from Zaragoza, La Liga, finally got the chance to play for the first time after waiting for 405 minutes on the bench!
Seeing Morientes as excited as he came on stage, Zhuang Mingge in the box suddenly felt a strange feeling: Morientes is really pitiful, and at this time he started to be a substitute for others...
Morientes, who has become the main striker of Zaragoza, has the temperament of a Spanish pillar-like center than Echeberia, another scorer in the national youth team. He uses his better impact and heading ability to not only liberate Echeberia, who has a wonderful goal-scoring feeling, but also creates more room for de la Pena to display his talents.
5:0! A showdown between brothers in the Iberian Peninsula left behind the cheers of Spanish bullfighters and their followers, as well as the dejected faces of the Portuguese.
Zhuang Mingge, who was watching the game in the box, accidentally discovered that Cruyff, who was sitting next to him, was indifferent and unmoved by Echeberia, who had a hat trick in this game, but the former Dutch superstar seemed to be interested in Morientes who scored a icing on the cake before the end of the game. His eyes were filled with inexplicable spirits, and seemed to be thinking about something...
Chapter completed!