The Era of Emerald

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Due to the various defects of the golden ball system and the fact that this "sudden death method" is objectively unfair to the losing party, UEFA has adopted a relatively more reasonable silver ball system to replace it in this European Cup. The Golden Ball system, which has caused a lot of controversy, was applied to overtime games.

In Zhuang Mingge's view, the reason why the golden ball system was abolished only ten years after its birth is largely because the farce in the World Cup in Korea and Japan left too deep a negative impression on the fans.Especially the defending champion Italy, was eliminated by the omnipotent host with a golden ball in the quarter-finals, which made many fans feel unacceptable.

Therefore, FIFA must take some actions, such as abolishing the golden ball system and switching to a "more reasonable" system to divert the attention of fans and stop them from focusing on those extremely controversial games .

Of course, the main reason why the golden ball system will be canceled is that this system is no longer in line with the original intention of FIFA when it was established.You know, the appearance of the golden ball system is because in the 90 World Cup and the 92 European Cup, Argentina and Denmark achieved remarkable results with their extreme defensive counterattack tactics (Argentina scored 90 goals in 7 games in the 5 World Cup). In the final, Denmark, which played a lot of defensive and counterattack tactics, even staged a realistic version of the Danish fairy tale in the 92 European Cup), FIFA introduced the golden ball system in order to restrict this trend, which is intended to encourage teams to play more in the game. Go for goals instead of hunkering down in front of the goal.

However, with the passage of time and the pressure of performance, most coaches' fear of the golden ball began to gain the upper hand.In order to avoid the fate of sudden death due to the golden ball in the game, most teams tend to be more cautious and conservative in overtime.Such a situation obviously runs counter to the original intention of FIFA to implement the golden ball system.

It cannot be blamed that these head coaches are so conservative. After all, in the case of the golden goal system, once the opponent scores a goal in overtime, the team that concedes the goal will not even have a chance to save the game. death" ending.After adopting the silver ball system, they at least have a chance to make up for it after accidentally losing the ball, so that they will not leave the game directly after being scored by the opponent.

You must know that the head coach's job is generally directly linked to the team's performance. If the performance is not good, it is useless to make the team play well.Therefore, the closer to this critical moment, the more conservative they tend to be in decision-making.Unless they have to give it a go when it comes to life and death, it is rare to see them fighting their opponents in the final stage.

However, although many celebrities and experts have expressed their support for adopting the silver ball system in overtime, in the eyes of many people, it is superfluous to replace the golden ball system with the silver ball system—since the golden ball system exists With so many disadvantages, why not just return to the traditional competition system (that is, whoever scores more goals in 30 minutes of overtime wins), why do we have to divide the game into two halves?

It is precisely because of this that the silver ball system appeared amidst doubts at the beginning, and it has not been recognized by people after it has been implemented for a period of time.Therefore, before the opening of this European Cup, UEFA decided to return to the traditional competition system next season, that is, the side with the most goals in the 30-minute overtime of the two teams wins, the golden ball system and the silver ball system. All will be swept into the dustbin of history after this European Cup.

This also means that this European Cup will become the only competition that implements the silver ball system.However, so far, not even a single silver ball has been born in this European Cup, which makes people wonder whether the silver ball system will die in a situation where there is no harvest.

However, these have nothing to do with the Portuguese and Italian players who are currently fighting fiercely on the court.For these players, taking the time to score goals in overtime to beat their opponents and get a ticket to the European Cup final is what they should be most concerned about at this moment.

When the game entered the overtime stage, the Portuguese players, who had always had a great advantage in the schedule, couldn't help but start to get tired.After all, Figo, Rui Costa and others are all veterans over 20 years old. Even if they avoided the brigade under the special drum of the Football Association, they would not be able to compete with those young people in their [-]s in terms of physical fitness. .

Therefore, as the two main players of Figo and Costa suffered from lack of physical strength, Portugal's offensive on the field began to weaken.And this gave the Italian players more opportunities to fight back.

Although Scolari, who noticed this in time, made a decisive decision, used up the last substitution in his hand, and told the team to shrink the defense line and try to delay the game, but Italy broke through Rica in the 115th minute of the game. More guarded goals.

In the second half, De Rossi, who came on as a substitute for Perotta, shot a cold arrow 30 meters away from the goal. A powerful long-range shot caught the Portuguese by surprise.Although Ricardo reacted quickly and punched the ball out with both fists, Diego Milito appeared in front of everyone at the spot where the ball landed and scored an empty goal, rewriting the score to [-]-[-]!

At this time, there were only 5 minutes before the end of the game, so Milito's goal could almost be said to have sentenced the host to death.With the defensive ability of the Italian players, no one believes that Portugal, which has always been clumsy in scoring, has the ability to equalize the score before the end of the game.

However, just when people thought that Italy had won, Ronaldo once again stood up to save Portugal.In the last minute before the end of the game, the young Portuguese teenager broke through the defense of Camoranesi, De Rossi and Panucci with a series of dazzling dribbles, then dribbled the ball into the penalty area, and then rushed inside Before Sta's defense was in place, he shot a cold arrow in the corner of the penalty area. The ball hit the far post of the goal and bounced into the goal, two to two!

Two to two!Portugal miraculously equalized before the end of the game!

Seeing that Cristiano Ronaldo used a goal in a row to help Portugal equalize the score at the last moment, Trapattoni on the sidelines couldn't help but heaved a long sigh. This old coach really wants to be kind to Heynckes now. Let's exchange some ideas: Why did you train Ronaldo so strong? Isn't this causing trouble for us?

In this way, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of overtime, the two teams that were tied 120-[-] within [-] minutes will enter a brutal penalty shootout!