champion godfather

Chapter 958
After Des Walker left, Wood closed the door, and the first thing he said to Twain was: "Tomorrow's game against Germany, I hope you can let me play."

Hearing what he said, Tang En was not surprised in the slightest, as if he had expected such an event a long time ago.

"It's impossible, George." Dunn replied blankly. "Your injury is still not healed."

"No, my injury is completely healed." In order to prove what he said was true, Wood also performed a set of high leg kicks in front of Tang En.

"What you say doesn't count, George."

"My body, why am I not counting what I say?" Wood asked back.

"I only trust doctors." Tang En walked on the chair with his legs crossed, his tone a little indifferent.

Wood was not as calm as Tang En. He took a step forward and walked in front of Tang En: "You asked me to wait for three games, but if we can't even qualify for the group stage, what's the point of me waiting for three games? I can't wait." , I don’t want to wait any longer.”

Tang En signaled Wood to sit down and talk, he was not used to talking with others with his head raised.

"Is that why you don't trust your teammates?" Dunn looked at the impatient Wood.

These words defeated Wood's army.He certainly can't say "Yes, I don't believe them", he can only shake his head and say "No, I believe them".In this way, he has no position to ask to play again.

Wood fell into silence. He understood the meaning of Tang En's question, so he was unwilling to give an answer.

Tang En decided to strike while the iron was hot and persuaded Wood to withdraw his plan to play against the German team.

"George, your foot injury has not fully recovered. I am very aware of this. The medical team and I are tracking and observing your injury changes every day. So I will definitely not let you play in the game against the German team." .It must have been a tough game, and if you get injured again, I can't guarantee what will happen after that. For your career, I will not let you play."

"Even if the team can't qualify?" Wood asked.

Tang En said calmly: "Yes, even if the group fails to qualify, I won't let you take risks."

Wood's face was overcast, and his expression was like summer weather. After changing back and forth several times, he finally stood up and left.

Tang En sat alone in his room in a daze.

Now he feels that he can really pretend to be a saint... The last sentence is definitely not his sincere words, or he was not firm in his heart when he said this sentence.Which is more important, performance or the future of the players?Such multiple-choice questions never appeared in Tang En's mind. In his prime, he would say: I want both.

Maybe the situation is not that bad... Tang En thought to himself.

Even without George Wood, England is not without the ability to fight the German team.

Walker pushed the door open and saw Tang En sitting on the sofa lost in thought.

"Tony?"

"Is it time for dinner so soon?" Tang En asked after recovering.

"No. I just came to see you. By the way, I would like to ask how the conversation with George is going." Walker sat down beside Dunn.

"He wanted to play against the German team, but I rejected him." Dunn said lightly.

"Did you do any ideological struggle?" Walker asked with a smile.

"No." Tang En lied.

Walker hesitated and asked, "Tony, how sure are we of winning the match against the German team?"

Tang En glanced at his assistant: "This is not something we can be certain of, Des. This is something we must win or die."

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Three days is really too short, and considering the half-day journey from Barcelona to Valencia, there are actually only two days left for Twain to prepare for the German team.

Before most people could react, the war between Britain and Germany was imminent.

George Wood and Bentley missed the game due to injury, and the prospect of losing to Wales is worrying... These are actually just the addition of this game.Even if both teams win both games and qualify early, this game is destined to attract the attention of the world.Tony Twain may not care about the outcome of this game, but England fans cannot.

The feud between English and German football is one of the most famous feuds in the world.The history of their confrontation between the two teams lasted for more than 100 years. In the first 50 years, England had an overwhelming advantage. In the next 50 years, the German team has become an eternal nightmare for England fans.

The first confrontation between the two teams was on April 1908, 4. At that time, the arrogant "football originator" taught the football rookie German team with a score of 20:5.Although he won the game, the Englishman got cheap and acted like a good boy, pretending to be "how embarrassing" to be scored by the German team.A year later, the two sides fought again, and the England team slaughtered Germany with a score of 1:9, setting a record for the largest point difference in the history of the Anglo-German confrontation.

At that time, the German team was not the "King of Europe" who has won the European Cup three times and the World Cup three times.In the first twelve games between the two teams, England has achieved an unbeaten record of ten wins and two draws.It can be said that this is a chaotic period for German football, and it is not surprising to lose to a "world powerhouse" like England.

But what really turned the confrontation between the two sides into a "war" was the 1966 World Cup final in England.At Wembley Stadium, the English beat Germany 4-2 with a controversial goal, winning the World Cup for the first and only time in history.Geoff_Hurst, who scored the controversial goal in the final and also completed a hat-trick, became the "national hero" of England, while the legend of the German team, striker Uwe Seeler (Uwe_Seeler) Shi Shi was so shocked that he almost collapsed, and walked off the field with his head drooping.As a result, this scene was photographed by photographers. Did the media in England take it out and say yes, satirizing "the Germans suffered another defeat".

This game hurt the Germans very much. Until today, more than 50 years later, the Germans would complain that if it were not for the referee's misjudgment, the gold stars on the German team badge should have been four.

Until this year, the English had a huge psychological advantage against Germany, who had never beaten England in an official game.

But two years later, the situation has changed 180 degrees.In Hannover, Germany, "Caesar" Beckenbauer's low shot broke the German team's fate of winning every game.It was as if the window paper had been pierced. For more than 40 years since then, England has never won against Germany in a major competition... No matter the process is tragic or tragic, the final loser must be England .

In the quarter-finals of the 1970 World Cup, the England team led 2-0. Under the leadership of Beckenbauer, the German team scored three consecutive goals and finally eliminated England.

In 1972, England's football mecca, Wembley Stadium, also fell under the cannons of the Germans.Beckenbauer led his teammates to a 3:1 victory over England and won a European Cup qualifier.Later, the British gave the German the title of "Football Emperor".

In the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup, Germany eliminated England on penalties.Nottingham Forest legend Stuart Pierce missed a crucial goal.Now England's assistant coach Des Walker also played in that game.

The European Championship held at the door of England in 1996 made the English think that they could take advantage of the host country and win the Delaunay Cup, which they had never touched before. Unfortunately, they met Germany once.The Germans stubbornly dragged the proud hosts into a penalty shoot-out, and the English had a mental breakdown and were eventually eliminated.

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The situation of consecutive losses to the German team is unacceptable to the proud British, so even if it is a friendly match, the encounter between England and the German team will definitely spark dazzling sparks.

John Terry, England's main central defender and former captain once said that there has never been a "friendly match" between England and Germany.

In England, most of the classic quotations about football are also related to Germany.For example, in the 1966 World Cup, the commentary of the famous British commentator Kennett Wolstenholm became a classic description of German football style: "They thought it was over, but the Germans stood up again! "

After England was eliminated by Germany on penalties in the 1990 World Cup, Lineker once said helplessly: "Football is a 22-person game, but in the end the Germans always win."

Even if England win, it may not be a good memory.For example, in 1938, England beat Germany 6:3 in a friendly match held in Berlin, but before the game, the England players were forced to perform a "martial salute", which made the whole British people feel that they had been greatly insulted and were sent to the court. The victory in this game is called "Victory of Shame".

After entering the new century, Britain and Germany played against each other, and there was even a classic case of a 5:1 victory over the German team.But generally speaking, the English always seem to lack self-confidence when facing the Germans.In the last game before Wembley Stadium was demolished, Germany's Hamann humiliated England in a monumental game.

If Twain were to talk about the difference between the two teams, he would say that England is like a beautiful porcelain vase, dazzling under the lights, making people dazzled and fascinated, and one cannot put it down.Germany, on the other hand, was a dark, unremarkable rock.Whether it is hitting a rock with a porcelain vase, or hitting a porcelain vase with a rock, the unlucky one must be the porcelain vase in the end.

But now Tang En had to complete this impossible task - take the porcelain vase and fight the rock to the death, and the one that survived in the end had to be the porcelain vase.

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"It's okay to lose to anyone, but you can't lose to the Germans!" There was such a sentence on the banners carried by the England fans entering the field, which was also the voice of the whole England.This game has attracted the attention of the entire island country, and even the Queen of England is asking: "Can we beat Germany?"

This sentence also became the headline of many media. The Times replied below: "Yes, we can!"

The Sun newspaper is more sensational. They tell readers that more than 60 years ago, the current queen was still a child at that time, and she had already led the British people to a great victory. The opponent was Germany.And now, it's time for a national war of resistance. "We will definitely win this war!"

Unlike England's common hatred, Germany's response was a little flatter.It was the same.It has always been the English who are more obsessed with the Anglo-German feud, while the Germans express their emotions in more subtle ways.For example, before the game, German TV [-] brought up Hearst's controversial goal of the year to talk about it again. After high-tech restoration and analysis, it finally proved that the goal did not pass the line as a whole, so it could not be counted.Among the highlights of the history of the World Cup broadcast by ZDF, the Brazilian won the Rimet Gold Cup for the third time, and there was also a scene of Beckenbauer fighting with a bandage on his shoulder, but Hearst’s controversial entry was missing. In addition, they also ranked Maradona's goals against the England five in the second place. Which one is the first?Of course it was Maradona's Hand of God in the same game!That scene was replayed five times, to the point that some viewers thought there was something wrong with their TV...

Four hours before the game, fans from both sides had already gathered outside Valencia's Nuevo Mestalla Stadium, waiting to enter.Fans of both sides have a bad reputation with the police around the world, so this game almost took out the entire police force in Valencia.At the same time, for this special group match, the Valencia City Government also issued a temporary "drinking ban" - within a radius of [-] kilometers near the Nuevo Mestalla Stadium, from four hours before the game to During the period of four hours after the game, the sale of all alcoholic beverages is prohibited.

England fans and German fans will go to the Nuevo Mestalla Stadium from different roads, and then enter the stadium through completely opposite entrances.In the stands, the area between the fans of the two teams will be vacated and will be manned by heavily armed riot police, all to prevent the fans of the two teams from meeting and sparking conflicts before entering the stadium.

"This is World Cup final-level security." The British media who saw this scene sighed.

Still, sparks sparked wherever fans could see each other.

德国人对着英国的BBC摄像机做出了“德国队3：0战胜英格兰”的手势，英格兰人就以5：1的手势回击。2001年的9月，英格兰在日韩世界杯预选赛中曾经以5：1狂胜德国，而且还是在德国队的主场，那场比赛中完成了帽子戏法的迈克尔.欧文也成为了当年的欧洲足球先生。

The German fans raised their middle fingers to the English fans in the distance and shouted in unison: "You don't have George Wood, you are the second-rate in Europe!! Even Wales can kill you!"

England fans sang cheering songs mocking the Germans: "Mr. Sammer, who are you kidding with? Matthias (Matthias. Sammer, the head coach of the German team) only has a 'little pig' '...We will kick you back to Berlin, Tony Twain and his children will say: 'Thank you, Germany!' Future Sir St. George, the European Cup is in your hands..."

Look at the tit-for-tat between them, it seems that there are no strong teams such as Spain, Italy, and France participating in this European Cup, but only a one-on-one duel between England and Germany.

When the buses of both sides appeared in the eyes of the fans, the atmosphere of the scene, which had been silent for a while, became frenzied again.Fans in England and Germany were chanting the names of their teams and stars to cheer them on.Even the high temperature of 36 degrees can't keep them quiet for a while.

"England! England! God bless the Queen, the Queen bless England!" England fans raised the "St. George" flag with a red cross on a white background and waved it to the red bus.

"Onward, St. George! Onward, England!!"

"Fight to the end, never surrender, we are the invincible English fleet!"

"Fuck the Germans! Fuck their asses!"

"Oooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"

The crazy roar of the fans penetrated the closed car windows, and even the dirty words could be heard clearly.

The English players were not surprised by this. In fact, they themselves were almost crazy like the fans outside... You must know that this is a game between England and Germany. This is a decisive battle that does not require mobilization.Every England player should understand what this game and this opponent means.

Tang En whistled to the sexy female fans who were blowing kisses at him outside: "Now we are under unprecedented pressure. But it's okay, this is the match I dream of. A century of grievances and enmity, a life-and-death situation to qualify, Stepping on the bloody road to the top of the enemy's corpse... makes my blood boil! I believe the Germans must think so, ha!"

He clenched his fists and felt his body trembling slightly.That's not fear, that's excitement.

(End of this chapter)