green mercenary

Chapter 525 "Top" Moreno
In the 104th minute, Totti broke into the right side of the penalty area and fell to the ground under the defense of Song Zongguo.But Moreno believed that he deliberately dived, and under the watchful eyes of tens of millions of fans, he took out the Chapter 2 yellow card of the game.

"Oh, no!" The Italian fans gathered in the People's Square uttered a roar, everyone could hear it, it was anger!
On the Italian bench, Trapattoni, who had been sitting on the sidelines before, was helpless in anger.He walked to the fourth official's seat on the sidelines and watched the slow-motion replay on the closed-circuit TV with concern.

After watching for a while, Trapattoni suddenly turned around, punched the glass door on the sidelines, and pointed at the monitor screen in front of an official-looking person behind the glass door and said something loudly.

Of course, all this is clearly in vain.In the end, Trapattoni could only lean weakly against the coach's bench, showing a helpless expression.After the referee repeatedly made unfavorable penalties for the Italian team, the coach seemed to be powerless to be angry anymore.

In the second half of overtime, in the 111th minute, Vieri dribbled the ball skillfully to the left space, and Tomasi formed a single.But when Tomasi was about to take a kick, the linesman's flag suddenly went up.It is none other than Cai Keli!
It's a pity that there is no VR in this era. Even if the big screen replayed it over and over again, it was a misjudgment, but the referee's penalty was frozen at that second.

The Italians hope to drag the game into a penalty shootout when there is one less player to fight.After all they have one of the best goalkeepers in the world and he's in his prime!
But what should come will always come.

In the 28th minute of extra time, the South Korean team launched an attack from the right side of the frontcourt. No. 14 Li Qianxiu got the ball and passed the ball back to No. 10 Lee Young-pyo who followed up.Veteran Paolo Maldini was a little tired, and No. 19 Ahn Jung-hwan in the middle had a slight disadvantage in winning the header. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ahn Jung-hwan made a brilliant header from 6 meters in front of the goal and pushed the ball into the net from the left post.

In an instant, the audience was boiling, and tens of thousands of Korean fans stood up, cheering this hard-won victory.

Trapattoni had just called striker Montella to his side at this time, ready to replace him.But at this moment, the ball was scored.

In the process of explaining tactics, Trapattoni witnessed the goal happen.The voice of explaining the tactics stopped abruptly. Perhaps the various performances of the referees on the field made him expect this helpless ending.

The old man immediately turned around helplessly, slowly put his hands into his trouser pockets, stepped away from Montella who was stunned by his side, lowered his head, and slowly walked aimlessly towards the bench.

This somewhat desolate back has become the last memory left by the coach who is over [-] years old for the World Cup.

As soon as the result of this game came out, the whole world was in an uproar.

When the Italian fans in Roma stood in the People's Square for more than two hours and saw Ahn Jung Hwan's goal, they were stunned.How could they believe what was right in front of them? !

Immediately afterwards, there was a wave of scolding and hustle and bustle, and some fans threw out the beer bottles in their hands.But more fans still turned their faces to the side, weeping silently...a sad scene in the wide square.

At Termini station, the Italian fans’ insults like a gust of wind and a series of beer bottles smashed together, and many Italian fans shouted at the fans of the South Korean team present: "Thiefs!! Thieves!! You stole our victory!!!!"

A bloody conflict almost broke out between the two sides. Fortunately, the police intervened in time to avoid further deterioration of the situation.

This game was eventually characterized by fans of later generations as "a game in which "12" Koryo warriors "strangled" the Blue Knight."

Many Italian media pointed out angrily that referees repeatedly made mistakes on the Italian team in the World Cup. Italy did not lose to South Korea, but to a conspiracy.

The headline of Gazzetta dello Sport was "Ahn Jung-hwan's goal let Italy bid farewell to the World Cup". The newspaper believed that Italy sounded the alarm at the beginning of the first half, but the players were obviously unaware of the "conspiracy" of the South Korean team and the referee, and the opponent reversed the game.The South Korean team has become a red nightmare for the Italians.

The title of "Republic" is "Korea scores golden goal, Italy goes home". The newspaper thinks this is a referee's scandal, not only sent Totti off, but also blew away Tomasi's very good goal.

France went home, Argentina went home and this time it was Italy's turn.

The World Cup giants fell one by one, leaving only the Korean team's golden ball and the controversial referee!

The only thing left to the Italian team in this World Cup is tears and anger.

The Italian RAI radio station, which was more polite to referees in the previous games, also angrily joined the team condemning referees this time, "Incomparably Disgusting Referees!" "is the title of the article they chose.This Ecuadorian guy used penalty kicks to please the Koreans from the beginning". Also, Koko was injured by the Koreans, and the Korean audience booed him when he came back to the field injured!

After the game, the President of the Italian Football Federation Carraro commented: "I feel very sorry for the fans of the Italian team, as well as all the players of the Italian team.

Cannavaro, who was unable to play in this game due to suspension, said: "It is a shame that South Korea eliminated us. I saw this tragic scene on the sidelines. Everyone is against us, but I am afraid to say that it is disgraceful to send us "home" in this way. They hindered us from winning this game."

"The degree to which this game was affected by other factors is obvious to all." Cannavaro continued: "When we played in Italy, we sometimes criticized the unfairness of the referee's judgment, but today, when our players are playing on the field, what I see is a more serious black-box operation, and today's lineman, he did a better job for us than in the previous games, so I have nothing to say about our elimination."

Except for the Koreans, anyone can see that there is something wrong with the referee in this game.

But winners and losers, that's it.

Just as someone criticized France and Brazil in the 1998 World Cup final, if Italy today has the same international standing as France did four years ago, would Ecuadorian referees treat them the same way today?Or in the previous few games, will Italy still suffer so many "misjudgments" from the referee?

Football is like that, this is football.

There is no fairness in the world, only relative fairness.

It's a pity that the Italians paid the price.

When Italy was out, Huang Jianxiang's voice had become hoarse.He never imagined that the Azzurri would be so unbearable.

As an Asian, although two Asian teams broke into the quarter-finals of the World Cup, I can only be happy.But at this moment, Huang Jianxiang couldn't be happy.He knows very well how the South Korean team won this game.

Looking at the Korean fans celebrating wildly on the screen, the national football players were also silent.

"MD, what a shame! I feel ashamed for them!" *** was as sharp as ever, saying whatever he didn't like.

However, more players are silent.

Italy was eliminated like this, Bai Xiaotian knew that it was the first, but not the last.

Twenty years later, this game is still regarded as the top ten black whistle in the World Cup.And the referee of this game, Moreno, also resigned from his position as a referee after the game, relying on going to the "enemy Italy" to appear in various TV shows to collect money, and happily being his street mouse while everyone shouted and beat him.

(End of this chapter)