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Chapter 431 The Back of the Legend 2018 China World Cup

The strong air convection caused the plane to turbulent slightly. Xiang Nan woke up from his contemplation. The sweet voice of the announcer came from the earphones, and he was about to arrive at Seoul Airport. After the transfer in Seoul, the Italian national team will Arrived at BJ International Airport at 15:31 pm...

"BJ!!" Xiang Nan felt a heartache... His ancestral home is from BJ, and this is his root... In the European Cup in 2012, Italy once again stood on the top of Europe after 44 years... But, when When Xiang Nan returned to Milan with the gold medal, he ushered in the departure of the most important relative in his life...

Xiang Nan remembers that on July 2012, 7, he personally brought the ashes of his grandmother back to BJ... and started his real journey of finding his roots...

Fast forward 6 years...it has passed! !
During these six years, the greatest star in the history of world football has experienced many glorious moments and painful memories...

In the 2012-2013 season, AC Milan experienced the first low tide after joining the South...Since the start of Serie A, AC Milan has shown a strong strength, leading all the way, but, in the Club World Cup final in December, In the game against Boca Juniors, Xiang Nan was injured and left the field... Afterwards, the cruel diagnosis results appeared in front of everyone. Xiang Nan also missed all the games this season, and the Rossoneri, which lacked the core and captain, In the end, only No.12 in the league was achieved, and the Champions League was also eliminated by Chelsea in the quarter-finals...

In 2014, the year of the World Cup, Xiangnan brought the Serie A champion, the European Cup champion, and the Coppa Italia champion, the glory of the Triple Crown, and went to the Brazil World Cup as the captain for the first time——
Before the opening of the World Cup, FIFA decided on the joint meeting of the next World Cup in Lausanne, Switzerland --- China! ! !

Among the five finalists, China, India, Italy, Australia, and the Netherlands, China has a slight advantage, defeated its biggest opponent, Italy, and won the right to host the 2018 World Cup... There is a saying in international football that , China's severe crackdown on football gambling and the emphasis on youth football in recent years, as well as BJ's successful hosting of the 2008 BJ Olympics, gave the FIFA executive committee a good impression...

On July 2014, 7, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Maracanã Stadium, the final venue of the Brazil World Cup, where the two finalists of the 12 World Cup met again... After 2010 minutes of the game, Italy and Brazil respectively relied on the South With Pato's goal, the battle became a 120:1 draw... The game entered a penalty shootout...

"God!!! Daniel!!! He missed the penalty!!!!!! Now it's the Brazilian who takes the penalty!!! Kaka!! Kaka!!! Amelia didn't make the save This ball!!!!!! God!!! Now, all the pressure is on Andre!!! If Andre fails to score this penalty!!!..." Tosica did not Say what the result is, everyone knows...

Shhhhhhhhhhhh! ! ! ! !

Maracana Stadium, the craziest stadium in the world, the sky is full of yellow, the host fans booed a tsunami...

Xiang Nan stood at the penalty spot, picked up the ball, lifted the jersey to wipe it, his eyes were hard...

The whistle sounded, the run-up...

With the ball as graceful as a white crane soaring into the sky...the entire Maracana Stadium fell into the greatest madness...Inter Milan goalkeeper Julio Cesar sighed wantonly and madly at the sky, covered his face with his hands and roared to the south The shot became the most heart-breaking moment of this summer...

After the World Cup, something happened that shocked the entire football world. After returning to Milan, Xiangnan received a death threat letter from an Italian extreme fan, with a warhead in the letter... Xiangnan immediately sent a letter to Milan. The police called the police. Immediately, Joanna, who was taking Bruce to the supermarket for shopping, was attacked by extreme fans... Fortunately, with the 24-hour protection of the Milan police, the assailant was stopped immediately... This incident caused a huge shock in Italy. Italian Prime Minister Prodi personally overcame this incident, saying that this incident is the biggest shame in Italian football... UEFA President Michel Platini also condemned the atrocities of extreme fans...

Extreme Italian fans, attacking Xiangnan's official blog, claiming 'the Chinese who make Italian football cry...Italian football doesn't need Chinese guys...'

When Xiang Nan was interviewed by the French "L'Equipe", he announced that he would resolutely withdraw from the Italian national team...'I want to spend more time with my family...The recent thing is a lack of morality. The decision is... my national team caps will stay at 31... I hope to have more success at the San Siro...'

Although the head coach of the Italian national team, Ferrara, repeatedly persuaded, and the chairman of the Italian Football Federation, Albertini, personally implored Xiangnan to withdraw this decision, but this time, the stubborn "King Andre" chose not to compromise...

In the 2014-2015 season, AC Milan defended the Serie A title... In this year, the biggest event in European football was that Inter Milan's marshal Javier Zanetti led Inter Milan to the European Champions Cup final, and finally won the European Cup. In the final, they defeated Barcelona, ​​which eliminated AC Milan in the semi-finals, in a penalty shootout. For the first time in the Moratti era, the Nerazzurri stood on top of Europe... This night, the city of Milan was blue and black... …

After the end of this season, Basten left AC Milan and accepted the invitation of the Dutch Football Association to serve as the head coach of the Dutch national team again. It was his assistant who replaced Basten as the head coach of AC Milan. Great captain, Paolo Maldini! ! !

Euro 2016, England's Euro Cup, before all eyes turned to England, the whole continent was surrounded by red and black battle flags, 'Milan, Milan' chants, in their old captain, now manager Under the leadership of Paolo Maldini, under the leadership of their standard-bearer to the south, resounding throughout Europa...

In this season, Xiang Nan led the Rossoneri and won the Italian Cup, Italian Super Cup, Serie A Championship, European Champions Cup and four great achievements... This season is also considered to be the Milan dynasty once again standing The symbol of the continent of Europa... After coming to Milan in the south, he has won the 'Big Ear Cup' three times... If this is a symbol of a dynasty...

In stark contrast to ACmilan's feat of sweeping the Europa continent, the Italian team lacked the captain Xiangnan. In the European Cup in England, in the group stage, they had one win, one draw and one loss. The team expanded to 24 teams, and Italy barely qualified for the group stage by relying on No.3 with better results. However, in the first round of the knockout round, facing Montenegro under the command of Jovetic, the defending champion of the European Cup The biggest dark horse - the national team of Montenegro was eliminated 1:0... Jovetic scored a wonderful free kick...

Italy's tragic exit was due to the great shock in the Apennine Peninsula... After returning home, the Italian national team coach Ferrara announced his resignation, and at the press conference, the last sentence of the Italian coach was, "If, An If Andre does not come back, Italy may not even be able to enter the finals of the 2018 World Cup in China..."

All of a sudden, the media in the Apennine Peninsula began to unify their voices, and there were news everywhere calling for Xiang Nan's comeback... Regarding this, Xiang Nan, who had just had his second child, was interviewed by Alice, the deputy editor-in-chief of Gazzetta dello Sport, He denied the possibility of returning to the national team... In this summer, the 'Andre Foundation' cooperated with the Chinese Football Association in mainland China to build a second football school, which also started construction...

In the 2016-2017 season, Xiang Nan experienced the third serious injury in his career... His chief surgeon, Castellachi, even expressed pessimistically to the media, 'Andre, will even bid farewell to the green field... '

In the end, in the absence of Xiangnan in this season, AC Milan achieved No.2 in Serie A and the runner-up of the Champions League. The double runner-up is not bad...Mourinho's Manchester United lost to Hierro's Real Madrid in the final , Real Madrid once again stood on top of Europe...

In the summer of 2017, the biggest thing was that the Italian national team had eliminated Ukraine in the play-offs in the European qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup and reached the finals of the 2018 World Cup in China. Ni was fired by the Italian Football Association... AC Milan coach Maldini took over the coach of the Italian national team...

At his first press conference as head coach of the national team, Paolo Maldini was asked the most question whether Xiang Nan would return to the Italian national team... In this regard, Maldini said, 'Now , the important thing is not Andre to return to the national team, but to pray for Andre and let him return to the green field. I can't imagine how regrettable it is without Andre in world football...'

Before Christmas in 2017, at the beginning of the winter break, AC Milan ranked third in the Italian Serie A in the 2017-2018 season, and was already far away from the championship...

At this time, the news that made all the fans, not just the red and black fans crazy, came out. The Italian national team doctor Castellachi announced that Xiang Nan's second physical review results were quite satisfactory. He even joked that , "If possible, Andre can even catch up with AC Milan's first league game against Cagliari after the winter break..."

In the end, in the Champions League knockout round, in the second round of AC Milan and Arsenal, Xiang Nan finally came back after bidding farewell to the pitch for a season and a half. Helped the Rossoneri to beat Arsenal 4-0... That night, the sound of cheers spread from Milan to Turin... Rome... spread to every corner of the world... Every football fan, At this moment, I am rejoicing... Andre is not just a name... more, it represents the art and soul of the black and white world...

After Xiangnan came back, the entire AC Milan exuded the most high-spirited fighting spirit after the return of his soul. Finally, after the end of the season, ACmilan achieved the No.2 result in the league. In the European Champions Cup final, Xiangnan received Parowski's assists, scoring a back-to-back goal that can be recorded in the history of the European Champions Cup, and a goal from the outside instep, helped AC Milan beat the biggest dark horse of the season, Manchester City in the Premier League 1-0 Team, won the European Champions Cup for the sixth time in his career...

It is worth mentioning that in this season's Serie A, Juventus' young coach Del Piero, in his second season of coaching the Bianconeri, finally lost Turin City's 13-year Serie A championship. Lift up... this summer, the focus of Europe, in Milan, in Turin...

On May 2018, 5, Italy VS Iran, an ordinary warm-up match, attracted the attention of the whole world. Xiang Nan finally let go and agreed to return to the Italian national team. This game will be his first in four years , put on the blue jersey again...

Before, in an interview with the media, Xiang Nan said, "It was my family that made me make up my mind... Also, this World Cup is held in China, and I don't want to miss this cup...Because, my In the bottom of my heart, after all, I have Chinese blood, and it is my dream to be able to participate in the World Cup in China!! I also thank Paulo (Maldini) for giving me the opportunity!! Thank you fans for your support!!!”

This is Xiang Nan's first response to his return to the national team after what happened in 2014. However, this time, in the face of Xiang Nan's open talk about his Chinese origin, he has been screaming Italian extreme nationalism Fans, but quiet down...

This warm-up match between Italy VS Iran held at the Alpi Stadium, an ordinary game, was broadcast live from about 69 countries around the world... When Xiang Nan was in the 63rd minute of the game, substitute Balotte When Li played, the entire Alpen Stadium gave a standing ovation, and on the central stand of Alpen, a huge banner appeared in front of fans all over the world——
"Welcome back, our Majesty the King!!!"

In this game, Xiang Nan came off the bench and his performance was mediocre, but the fans would not pay attention to this... In everyone's heart, the moment Andre put on the blue jersey again, he was already very satisfied...

Regarding Xiang Nan's return to the Italian national team, apart from the Italian fans, the 2018 China World Cup Organizing Committee and FIFA are the happiest...

After Xiang Nan announced that he would participate in the World Cup in China, the price of the advertising bidding accepted by FIFA almost doubled... and the tickets for Italy's first group match in this World Cup, against the French team, immediately It was sold out...a ticket of 800RMB, the bidding price on the Internet has reached as high as 7000RMB, and there is still a price but no market...

Although the strength of the Chinese national team has improved to a certain extent after these years of training and the domestic "sweeping gambling and serious environment", although the Chinese fans who have become more and more rational have also given the Chinese team The biggest support, but I also know that the biggest goal of the Chinese team is to win the next group match, achieve a historical breakthrough, and avoid becoming the worst host in history...

Therefore, because of Xiangnan, in China, Italy has become the foreign team with the highest support rate among Chinese fans... It is conceivable that if there is no accident, when the Chinese team ended their second World Cup trip, Italy can almost be said to be playing at home...

In particular, after Xiang Nan publicly expressed his pride for Chinese descent to the media, this sentiment of support quickly spread...

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"Andre, wake up, we're in Seoul... we'll be in China soon, haha!!!" Xiang Nan opened his eyes, wondering when he fell asleep again, he looked at it with excitement Christian, smiled.

When Cesar Maldini took his son Paul Maldini to participate in the 1998 World Cup in France, now Paul Maldini has become the head coach of the Italian national team and brought his son, Christian - Maldini's participation in the 2018 China World Cup can be regarded as a good story in football...

"Christian, why aren't you nervous at all? Think about your first game at San Siro, but your legs were shaking..." Xiang Nan joked with the new 'Little Maldini', He said that in the 2013-2014 season, when Christian Maldini, who was only 18 years old, represented AC Milan in the Serie A for the first time at the San Siro Stadium, the score was already 3:0... …'Little Maldini' replaced Xiangnan who scored twice in this game. Xiangnan saw Christian Maldini's legs shaking on the sidelines. He patted Christian's head and said, " There's nothing to be nervous about...you're nowhere near your father's first match..."

When, wearing the legendary red and black No. 3 jersey, stepped on the San Siro Stadium, the whole stadium was boiling...Three generations of Maldini, with red and black blood flowing...In that game, he came off the bench and served as the Christian Maldini, the right back, performed quite well... Maybe it's because of the big score behind that the Siena people have long lost their fighting spirit...

Christian Maldini touched his head in embarrassment and smiled. He also remembered the scene of his first appearance...

"Andre, do you think we can win the championship?" Christian Maldini's face was full of excitement. The little guy who participated in the World Cup for the first time was so excited...

Xiang Nan smiled. He remembered the scene when he participated in the World Cup for the first time. However, in his mind, on July 2014, 7, at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he took the penalty The scene where the penalty kick soared into the sky... His face changed, and he was about to answer, at this time, Thornton shouted, "Yes!! Best, we will meet Brazil again in the final!!! Hey, I will let Par Ask that kid to taste my strength!!!"

"Touch Brazil?" Xiang Nan was stunned for a moment, and he found that deep down in his heart, he really, really longed for such a confrontation...

"Okay, what we have to consider now is the group match with the French team. You know, after Zidane became the head coach of the French national team, the Frenchman began to be difficult to deal with..." Abate said beside him.

Grouped with France again, even the least believer in the so-called 'conspiracy theory', this is also an arrangement allowed by FIFA's little rules for ticket sales and TV ratings, of course There are also media jokes that if it had been known that Andre would come back, FIFA should have arranged Italy and the host Chinese team in the same group. In that case, the sensational effect would definitely be further improved...

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Although Xiang Nan has been away from the Azzurri for four years and is now back, most of the 2012-2014 generation of national teams represented by De Rossi have retired. Xiang Nan will have certain problems in running in with the team. However, the outside world is quite optimistic about the prospects of this World Cup in Italy...

After Xiangnan announced his return, gaming organizations such as BWIN immediately ranked Italy as the third favorite to win the championship after the defending champion Brazil and the French team led by Zidane...

Although Italy performed poorly in the qualifiers in the European region and finally entered the China World Cup finals through the play-offs, no one will use the record of the qualifiers to measure this Italian national team, let alone , Italy is a slow-heating team, and everyone firmly believes that if they have the south, Italy will definitely qualify from the European qualifiers easily, and even, in the 2016 European Cup, there will be a great possibility defending...

What makes Italian fans and the media so confident is that after a season and a half of injuries that almost ruined Xiang Nan's career, Xiang Nan's performance after returning from injury announced to everyone that The omnipotent Andre, the greatest football star today, the 'AND...REA...GOAL' that makes all the goalkeepers terrified! ! ! 'The roar will resound through the green field again...

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BJ at the end of May was still a bit cold sooner or later, but, at this special time of the World Cup, the entire land of China was immersed in inexplicable passion...

On the evening of May 5st, the Capital International Airport was full of people... In half an hour, the Italian national team will arrive in BJ... Almost hundreds of media reporters have crowded the entry channel of the airport, In terms of security at the airport, a brigade of guards was dispatched to maintain order at the scene. Otherwise, when the Italian national team appeared in a while, no one could guarantee whether there would be a serious stampede...

Everyone is talking about a man's name——
'southward! ! ! '

In this ancient oriental country, they will always call the black-haired, yellow-skinned, Chinese-Italian star with yellow blood, 'Xiang Nan', not 'Andre'... They are proud of it ! ! !
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"Here we come, we are coming to the south!!!!" Someone shouted... The entire airport hall was boiling... Countless people carrying long guns and short cannons and fans who had been waiting for a long time, the scene became chaotic for a while ...

Walking out of the entry channel to the south, he was immediately surrounded by countless guns and short cannons. He did not intend to accept an interview, but his old friend Lin Han, who is now the director of a domestic sports portal website, will The microphone was handed to Xiang Nan's mouth. It was too noisy on the sidelines. Lin Han yelled. Xiang Nan followed his gestures and looked over. At the outermost part of the airport hall, hundreds of fans held up a huge banner , written in Chinese, English, and Italian, "Xiang Nan, welcome home!!!"

At this moment, Xiang Nan felt that the corners of his eyes were wet. With the help of bodyguards and security personnel, he pushed through the crowd, came to the fans, bowed slightly, and returned to the Italian national team without saying a word. Middle... The camera captures that when he stepped on the bus waiting outside the airport to the south, he turned his head, and a heroic tear... fell on BJ's land...

At the time of that incident in 2014, the Chinese embassy in Italy received death threats from Italian ultra-nationalist fans to the south, lodged serious negotiations with the Italian government, and asked the Italian side to protect the Chinese in Italy. Commitment to the safety of life and property... domestic fans also launched a massive "defend southward" campaign, with about 5962 million fans, on the Internet, they joined forces to support southward...

These, Xiangnan, this wanderer far away in Italy, all remember... He remembered the words he said to himself when his grandmother passed away, "No matter what achievements you have made abroad, don't forget you The root of...", this sentence, as Xiang Nan grows older, he has more experience...

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After staying in BJ for one night, the whole Italian team took the high-speed train to Tianjin, the venue for the first match of their group match. In Tianjin Olympic Sports Center, Italy faced the first opponent of the group match, Zidane The French team led by...

In the Tianjin Olympic Sports Center, the Italian team played a closed match with the second team of Tianjin Master Kong, a local professional team. Finally, in this game, Italy beat their opponents 5-0 and started south Scored twice...

After this warm-up match, Xiangnan and Giovinco, Parowski, Balotelli and Thornton's Italian five-member team also returned to BJ again, and they will be the VIPs to watch the World Cup opener at the Bird's Nest, the host China team VS Oceania team New Zealand team...

This opening game is also praised by some media as the opening game between the two lowest-ranked teams in the history of the World Cup... For the Chinese team, this is also the Chinese team's entry into the World Cup finals. The first goal, the best chance of a first draw or even a first win...

In the end, in a dull game, the Chinese team took advantage of a set-piece opportunity, and the top star of the Chinese team, Lin Danjun, who played for Crystal Palace in the English Champions League, scored a direct free kick and scored the only goal of the game. Goal, when China scored China's first goal in the World Cup finals, it also gained a crucial victory...

What made Xiangnan feel the deepest was that after the Chinese team scored a goal, the Chinese fans in the audience cheered wildly...someone was crying crazily, and in the stands, the beating of drums hit everyone's heart Xiangnan saw more than a dozen drummers with tears streaming down their faces and beating the drums frantically. He was also deeply moved and excited. He remembered that once, Lin Han said to himself that China has the greatest fans in the world... …

Of course, Lin Han's original words are, "China has the greatest, most tragic, most infatuated, and most painful fans in the world, but they are watching a group of XX ruin football!" ! ! '...

After the Chinese team's 1-0 victory over New Zealand in the opening game, when the world's major media reported on the game the next day, more perspectives were given to the evocative Chinese fans... In this At night, outside Tiananmen Square, on the streets of BJ, in Shanghai, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Chengdu... all over the country, sirens blare, and countless five-star red flags fly... Tears are flying...

"Andre...Chinese fans are no worse than Italian fans at all!!" Giovinco said to Xiang Nan.

"No, they are more worthy of respect!!" Xiang Nan said, Qiao Wenke saw Xiang Nan smiling, and felt joy from the bottom of his heart...

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In the next match between the United States and Paraguay, the United States defeated Paraguay 2:1. Because of the advantage of goal difference, they occupied the top spot in Group A...

However, all the eyes of the media were on the match between the defending champion Brazil and the African newcomer Ghana on the second day. The Shenyang Olympic Sports Center witnessed the birth of the most beautiful match of this World Cup...Decision The match was a duel between two AC Milan players...

The Brazil team beat Ghana 3:2 with Pato's brace and the substitute's veteran Nierma's goal. Xiangnan's AC Milan teammate Aditya scored twice to help the Ghana team win between the two teams. In the case of falling behind, the score was equalized twice...

Portugal beat Ireland 1-0 thanks to veteran Cristiano Ronaldo's free kick...

In other games ---
Group C, Germany 1:0 Switzerland, Thomas Muller scored a penalty kick; Australia 0:0 Chile;

Group D: England 0:0 Slovenia, Nigeria 0:3 was massacred by the Montenegro team, Jovetic used his own assist hat trick to prove the strength of the new European Footballer of the Year...

Group E: Netherlands 2: 1 Cameroon; Sweden 2: 0 South Korea, the Swedish striker Berry who played for Real Madrid, took only 15 minutes to beat the Koreans... It is worth noting that , in this World Cup group match held in Qingdao, Shandong, due to the Koreans living in Shandong and the fans who came from South Korea, the South Korean team can almost be said to be fighting at home... However, Sweden played against Zlatan Ibrahim. After Mović, another talented shooter told the Koreans that this is not 2002 anymore...

Group F: Argentina 2:0 Greece, Messi passed and shot, telling everyone that he is not old yet; Mexico 1:0 Japan, Dos Santos scored a wonderful long-range lob in stoppage time ...The height of the Japanese team's defense has been humiliated again...

Group G: Spain 0:0 Colombia; Russia 0:0 Honduras. Showed 8 yellow cards and 4 red cards... Let this game become a veritable battlefield... The head coach of the Russian national team, Mostovoi, was also fined to the stands for applauding the referee Ferhad...

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On June 2018, 6, Tianjin, sunny day, the fishy smell from the harbor made Xiangnan, who was not used to the sea breeze, a little dizzy... The whole Italian team gathered in the lobby of the Tianjin Hotel where they stayed, waiting for departure, and set off to The battlefield of the match... Italy under the leadership of Maldini vs. France under the leadership of Zidane...

Paolo Maldini, head coach of the Italian national team, came out of the elevator, rushed to Nan and shouted, "Andre, come on!!!"

"This is Sky Sports reporter Figanov!!" Maldini introduced to Xiang Nan, and Xiang Nan understood that this was a routine interview before departure...

In this 4-minute interview, fans all over the world only heard Xiang Nan say two words——
victory! ! !champion! ! ! !

Everyone, at this time, really felt that the unique, wild and crazy Andre who made everyone shudder was back...

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PS: 2018 China World Cup group group situation:

Group A: China, the United States, New Zealand, Uruguay;

Group B: Brazil, Portugal, Ireland, Ghana;
Group C: Germany, Australia, Chile, Switzerland;
Group D: England, Nigeria, Montenegro, Slovenia;

Group E: Netherlands, Sweden, South Korea, Cameroon;

Group F: Argentina, Mexico, Japan, Greece;
Group G: Spain, Russia, Honduras, Colombia;
Group H: France, Italy, Paraguay, Morocco;

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