Doha. If football was never played in this country container yard, it would also be nice to say goodbye.
Will Brazil pull the whole hook?
naturally.
Today I feel Heung-Min Son.
I don’t know what it smells like in Sao Paulo or Rio tonight, but it was the autumn of burning tires, tear gas and the smell of political gunpowder in Brazil. There was not a single gram, not a single millimeter, of this edition of the choice Which was not brought up for polarized discussion and debate.
Were they right to opt for an Asian tour this summer rather than face European opposition? Was Titi right in casting Dani Alves as Andreas Granqvist? Why are there so many strikers? suffer from Neymar-AccreditationNeymar addiction? Was it possible to join Lulesmon and at the same time wear the yellow jersey of the national team, which was hijacked by Bolsonaro’s right-wing fact-resistant movement? Why is the Movimento Verde Amarelo Official Supporters Set so white, classy, and muted? Why does everyone in the team vote right and Richarlison leave? Is it even possible to cheer when Neymar scores? Why should he be a tax evader? or wound?
But late one night in Doha, they enter the makeshift 974 football field, soon to be dismantled again, and show how football To be played, to be heard, to be smelled.
Tite always says that the dressing room smells. When he smells there he knows if everything is going to work or not.
Then Brazil ignored the midfield
It was Father Jefferson Flavio Mingalli who said it, a priest who was the Confederate captain’s spiritual mentor for a decade. Padre Jefferson is in constant contact with Tite, before the premiere he promised that Brazil would beat Serbia “easily 2-0”. They won 2-0 easily.
This is a team that doesn’t just chase Oh hexaTitle VI, but he needs to win the love of the people, all the people, along the way.
And oops, Kristen, that was the beginning.
When Japan punished itself, I was a little sad, because the Japan-South Korea quarter-final match was the most geopolitically interesting football match in the World Cup since then… Iran met the USA two hours ago. Japan was close to reaching the quarter-finals, and South Korea was nowhere close to qualifying for the quarter-finals.
The majority of those were children, football boys of formative age, that summer of 2002 when seven million took to the streets and fields to follow their World Cup journey on home soil. I was there then, and I will never forget what it looked like and what it looked like.
– OOOOOOH Pilsung Korea!
Heung-min Son was nine years old, watching matches on TV and walking around wearing the same red shirt (“Be the Reds!” as he put it) as everyone else. This was his chance—their chance—to catch up with his childhood heroes.
They didn’t take it.
They lined up in a 4-4-2 with two stacking blocks in front of the goalkeeper. The problem was that Brazil is not like other teams. Is everyone stuck in a tight midfield? Then Brazil ignored the midfield. As they built the play, left-back Danilo dropped back, as did Lucas Paqueta. In principle, they played 4-1-5 with the ball, five forwards against the South Korean defensive four – and then they came up with non-stop volleys in the middle.
South Korea provided a structural handicap
No other players have the same individual qualities, and when the Koreans were defending against Richarlison, Neymar, Vinicius Jr. and Rafinha at full speed…
Nah. It didn’t work at all.
South Korea lost duels, gave the ball away, made wrong decisions and before they could collect a Vinicius goal 1-0, Neymar missed a ridiculously cheap penalty, Richarlison rigged a header and Paqueta volleyed home. 4-0 in just over half an hour
Choi Hong Hi, the South Korean general who is believed to have invented the martial art of Taekwondo, is said to have said so “If you can’t hit them with your feet, use your hands. If you can’t use your hands, bite them to death. If you can’t bite them to death, then kill them to death.”. But if willpower is not enough, what should you do? clap?
It is entirely possible to think that South Korea gave up the game when displaying a structural handicap, and you would have longed for an opposition that could see Brazil out, but… sometimes you just have to bow to the art of football. Brazil could have scored seven or eight goals before the break, because they were technically superior at every moment. They can enjoy the evening heat, their supporters can wave flags wishing Pele a speedy recovery, Neymar can cheer them on as Brazil indulge in a very Korean consolation goal (4-1, long-range mortar by Paik Seung-Ho).
How many followers of Neymar in two weeks?
And now what?
If half of Brazil wears the national team jersey in protest of the election result, the other half wears the spare blue jersey as a backlash, and Neymar is the powder keg balancing all their football dreams on the right foot? I’ve always thought that shooting Neymar is Kay Kay It was by far the least provocative with him. He is the poster boy for Qatar, praising a fascist president, and evading taxes in a poor country.
But when he plays soccer, the Brazilian national team is still a very different team than it would be without him.
They are going to demolish this arena now. Neymar will lead Brazil towards bigger stadiums, better opponents, and other prospects.
Yesterday, half a crowd of people followed him. Today maybe a little more. How many will there be in two weeks?