There is a belief called football

Chapter 241 Friendship Match ([-])

To commemorate the passing of the greatest manager in the history of the team - Lobarov, Dynamo Kiev is planning to hold a commemorative football match on Christmas.

The warring parties are "Ukrainian Star Team" VS "Lobarov Team".

The "Ukrainian Star Team" will be composed of active and retired players who have achieved outstanding results in the history of Ukrainian football (not necessarily Ukrainian nationality, but playing in the Ukrainian Super League is also considered).

"Team Lobarov" will be made up of Lobarov's family members, friends, or work colleagues.

The match will be held at Dynamo Kyiv's home court. For the "Ukrainian Star Team", Shevchenko, Blokhin Sr., Voronin, and Rebrov have all expressed their participation.

As for the "Lobarov Team", Li Qiao, Prahimi, Eugene, Leo, and Corbin have all expressed their affirmation to participate, and others are also in contact.

There are actually many games of this nature in Europe. For example, players will hold such a game after they retire, such as "Zidane's Friends Team" vs. "Bagio's Friends Team". It is more meaningful to hold such a game for the dead. People who live for football should also live forever with football.

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The game was scheduled for the afternoon of Christmas Day, a show-like friendly, but the home stadium in Kiev was packed.

Both sides sent a roster of 17 people. The "Ukrainian Star Team" is basically composed of "Old Blokhin" and the main players of Ukraine in the 2006 World Cup. The formation is 442. The striker is the 60-year-old Blokhin and Shevchenko. These two can be said to be the best strikers in Ukrainian history.

If the two were born in the same era, then the Ukrainian striker does not know how terrible it would be.

Two wingers, Voronin on the left, Rybrov on the right, Timoshchuk and Selayev in the middle.

The defense line from left to right is Vorobey, Vaschuk, Ness Mashny, and Yatsenko.

Goalkeeper, Shovkowski.

2006 was the first time for Ukraine to qualify for the World Cup. Just like China's 2002 national team, it was very unforgettable in the hearts of fans. If it weren't for this friendly match, fans might never have seen these Ukrainian veterans reunite on the court.

The "Lobarov team" is composed of the two sons of "Lobarov" and Li Qiao's youth training team. If the "star team" represents the past of Ukrainian football, then the "Lobarov team" can be said to be the future of Ukrainian football. If everything goes well, many of them may appear on the stage of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

What's more special is that Lobarov's youngest daughter, Diana, is also on the bench. She will play for 5 minutes in the second half. This is what the club finally agreed to after Diana asked many times.

The "Lobarov team" is also a 442 formation.

Forwards, Li Qiao, Lobarov's eldest son Eugene.

The midfield from left to right is Rio, Brahimi, Rakitsky, Corbin.

The defense line from left to right is Hai, Zhizov, Berezov, Gusev.

The goalkeeper is Kucek.

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Before the start of the game, 22 people from both sides stood shoulder to shoulder and arm in arm. Everyone watched the large photo of "Lobarov" on the big screen and observed a minute of silence.

During this 1 minute, Li Qiao didn’t cry. He closed his eyes and tried his best to recall Lobarov’s smiling appearance and the happy time he spent with the old man. The audience applauded and when the 1 minute was up, the fans applauded to bid farewell to the former manager.

The silence ends and the game begins.

In the first half, the "Lobarov team" kicked off the ball. Li Qiao gave the ball to Eugene, and Eugene took two steps and passed it back to Li Qiao.

There are generally two unspoken rules in this friendly match - no tackles and no kicks.

After Li Qiao got the ball, he didn't dribble it, and continued to pass it back to Eugene. Li Qiao passed the ball with his usual force, but for Eugene who hadn't played football for a long time, such force was obviously too great, and he didn't stop a very simple ball.

When the ball reached the feet of "Old Blokhin", Blokhin actually returned the ball to Eugene, and then made a warm-up gesture, which meant that the ball just now was a warm-up.

Facing Blokhin's "magnanimity", the fans gave a burst of applause.

But Eugene's dribbling skills are really "very good". When he played football, his level was average. Now he has gained weight after retiring, and his skills under his feet are even more ugly.

Eugene took a few steps, and the ball rolled away again. This is like when a person who has never kicked the ball for the first time, the ball rolled away as soon as he touched the ball.

This time the ball reached Shevchenko's feet, and Shevchenko could no longer return it to Eugene, otherwise the game would not be able to continue.

Under normal circumstances, when a forward takes the ball, Brahimi should go up and treat him roughly, but in this game, facing Shevchenko's ball, Brahimi just ran with Shevchenko, without any intention of physical contact, not even a symbolic "tickling" defense.

After passing the midfield easily, Shevchenko took a shot from the arc of the penalty area. Although his speed and endurance have dropped greatly, as an excellent striker, Shevchenko's shooting accuracy is still similar to that of AC Milan.

Shevchenko's shot has a strong side spin, similar to the "razor ball" in "Football Captain". Fortunately, the shot is far away, and Kucek has plenty of time to react. He jumped to the right and lifted the ball out of the baseline with one hand.

Although the goal was not scored, but the style of "Ukrainian nuclear warhead" can be appreciated, the fans still burst into thunderous applause.

The "Stars" get the corner, and Rebrov runs to the sideline to take the corner.

The inside-footed arc ball was passed into the penalty area, which is still Rebrov’s iconic style of play. Several players in the front point are fighting for the header, but many "uncles" have greatly regressed in their jumping ability.

Time can take away a striker's handsome face, wind-like speed, and civet-like jumping ability, but what time can't take away is a striker's innate sense of smell.

Whether it is 50 years old, 60 years old, or 80 years old, a good striker can always stand in the most suitable position in the penalty area, that is called talent.

Blokhin is like this, he stands in the most suitable position, facing the ball, Blokhin heads the anti-corner.

Blokhin's header angle is very tricky, but the old man's strength is not enough. Kucek can get the ball, but he didn't do it. He just made a symbolic pounce. Kucek let the ball go in on purpose.

"Blokhin scored a goal", the host led the fans to shout.

You must know that the last time Blokhin scored a goal was more than 30 years ago, when many people on the scene were not born yet.

Being able to see a legend and then score a goal in his lifetime is like seeing a shooting star. It is rare to come across. The players on the field, whether they are from the "Lobarov Team" or the "Star Team", all ran to embrace the old Blokhin one by one.

Shevchenko also knelt down on one knee and Blokhin recreated the classic "shine shoes" celebration, which is the inheritance between two generations of shooters.

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Kick-off at halftime and the game continues. Another unspoken rule of this kind of game is that if one side scores a goal, then the other side must also score.

For Li Qiao, let alone a symbolic defense, even "Tymoshchuk" in his heyday may not be able to defend Li Qiao. After passing the midfield and coming to the arc of the penalty area, Li Qiao stepped on the ball and made a gesture of taking a free kick.

Because there is no foul in this kind of game, it is impossible to have a free kick. If you want to take a free kick, you can only apply for it yourself.

Seeing Li Qiao's actions, the "star team" cooperated very well, forming a crowd of five people, Li Qiao stepped back 5 steps, and accompanied by the applause of the audience, he ran up, accelerated, and shot.

The ball shot by Li Qiao suddenly began to fall after passing over the head of the wall. The old Ukrainian goalkeeper "Shovkovsky" just saw the ball fly over the wall. From his experience, the ball was useless.

But the scene that appeared later stunned "Showkowski". After the ball passed the wall, it seemed that an invisible hand was holding it in the sky, or a transparent air wall appeared there to block the path of the ball. In short, the ball began to fall with a curvature that "Showkowski" had never seen before.

In 2006, deciduous balls (or elevator balls) were not yet popular in world football, so it is normal that "Showkowski" has not seen such a ball. The most popular at that time was Beckham's "Full Moon Scimitar".

So from Li Qiao's shot until the last ball went into the net, the goalkeeper was almost standing still. The audience thought that "Showkowski", like Kucek, deliberately didn't pounce the ball. Only he himself knew that he really didn't react.

It was a 1-1 tie, and the friendly match was very friendly.

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After that, the two sides began to play some fancy moves on the court, such as Shevchenko's continuous jumping over others, such as Li Qiao's 2 Marseille slewing, and Blokhin's beautiful heel pass. In this kind of game, maybe the goal is not what the fans want to see (because it is too easy), but the star showing off his footwork will attract warm applause from the fans.

At this time, Prahimi took the ball, and he prepared the ball to take a free kick. This was the first free kick in Xiao Hei's career. The "Star Team" only put up a wall of one person, and that was Tymoshchuk.

The audience was watching how Brahimi would kick. After the run-up, Brahimi kicked the lower half of the ball. Unsurprisingly, the ball was ridiculously high. Even if it was a free kick in rugby, the ball should not be scored.

Xiao Hei scratched his head in embarrassment. It seems that he should just do a good job of defense. He really doesn't have much talent in free kicks.

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