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Chapter 303 Friendship match with Mexico
During the coaching period, Passarella completely abandoned the star tactics admired by Menotti and Bilardo.He boldly used new players and implemented the overall tactics of total attack and defense. He selected players with his own tactics.At that time, the Bernabeu prince Redondo was very talented in football, but he did not match the tactics of the national team formulated by Passarella and was excluded, while Ortega, known as the little donkey, served as the midfielder.

At that time, it was an extremely bold approach. Even in order to form his own characteristics, Passarella worked hard to eliminate the influence of Maradona and encourage players to play creatively.Passarella, who was born as a defender, also transplanted the Italian concrete defense, changing the tradition of focusing on offense and light defense.So in the 1998 World Cup qualifiers in France, Passarella achieved results. He led the team all the way to overcome South American powerhouses such as Paraguay, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, and entered the finals.However, after arriving in France, Passarella encountered the Argentine team led by Waterloo and only reached the quarter-finals. He lost 1:2 in the match with the Netherlands to enter the semi-finals. Therefore, after the World Cup in France, Passarella Resigned as head coach of the national team.

Therefore, as such a coach with a prominent resume and great courage, why is there a situation where it is difficult to say anything?
In fact, this is because Passarella has completed negotiations with the Uruguayan Football Association on the second day after the friendly match was finalized. He will resign as Uruguayan coach before the 02 World Cup. Deploying players from national clubs, especially in situations such as friendly matches, some players rejected the call-up from Passarella because of their preparations for the league.Although this is almost impossible to happen in Europe, in fact, it rarely happens in America where freedom prevails, but Passarella really has to face such a situation for various reasons, which also makes Passarella communicate After no results, he submitted a letter of resignation to the Uruguayan Football Association.

So this friendly match against Italy became Passarella's last game under his leadership. Up and down have nothing to say.And this is why in such an important friendly match, the Uruguayan team will appear crazy and disorganized, fighting on their own.

When the first half came to an end with a goal behind, I recorded several bright rookies in the Uruguayan team and their general style of play, and after seeing that no more information could be obtained under such a pot of porridge, Zuo Husband also used up five substitutions in this friendly match with a wave of his hand.Kenny, Gattuso, Materazzi, Koko and Delvecchio played against this group of energetic Uruguayan players one after another.

Among them, Kenny is naturally full of firepower. He and Delvecchio arranged Italy's two goals in the second half and helped Italy win the friendly match with Uruguay 2:1.

Three days later, the second friendly, Italy played against Mexico.

As the king of Central and North America, the Mexican team is the well-deserved football hegemony in the Caribbean and Central and North America. After confirming the quota for the Korea-Japan World Cup, the Mexican team also became the 13th team to participate in the World Cup, and his total participation The number of times is only ranked fifth behind Brazil, Germany, Italy and Argentina, but compared with these four world champions, the record of the Mexican team is much worse. Their best results are two home games in 1970 and 1986. Reached the quarter-finals in the World Cup held.

You must know that the Mexican team did not draw with Wales 1958-1 until it participated in the World Cup for the fourth time in 1, and gained the team's first points in the World Cup.Prior to this, the Mexican team had eight games and eight losses in the three cups in 1930, 1950 and 1954, without even a draw.Four years later, the Mexican team defeated the Czech team 1962-3 in the 1 World Cup group stage in Chile and won the team's first victory. After qualifying in the group, followed by the 1966 World Cup in England, the Mexican team had 2 draws and 1 loss, and still did not break out of the group stage.

The World Cup was held in Mexico for the first time in 1970. With the advantage of the host, the Mexican team drew 0-0 with the former Soviet Union in the group stage, beat El Salvador 4-0, beat Belgium for the first time in the group stage and reached the top 1.However, in the quarter-finals, they lost 0 to 8 at the feet of the Italian team, who later won the runner-up. Looking at these World Cups, Mexico's results can be described as terrible, and they can be called the king of misery.

但在1986年墨西哥成为了历史上第一个两次举办世界杯的国家，此刻的墨西哥足球水平有了质的飞跃，他们在小组赛中2比1击败了后来获得No.4的比利时队，1/8决赛又2比0力克另一支欧洲劲旅保加利亚队，1/4决赛也只是通过点球大战才输给了当届比赛的亚军德国队，这也是墨西哥足球在世界杯上最佳战绩。

Of course, this time the king of Central and North America is definitely unwilling to be a soy sauce team. Facing the old rival Italy, they sent many main players, and what is very different from Uruguay is that Mexico strictly enforces the Tactics, looking forward to boosting the confidence and morale of the whole team with such a friendly match.

Italian coach Zoff welcomed this with both hands, and he also dispatched most of the main players to play against Mexico wholeheartedly.
Kenny did not get another chance to play in this game, but the Italian team still won with an absolute advantage.

Inzaghi scored two goals in a row before being replaced by Vieri. For this, Delvecchio and Kenny, who were sitting on the bench, could only face the reason why they were sweating profusely but couldn't hide their excitement. Zaji cast an envious and jealous look: "Boss, that's amazing!"

However, after Inzaghi and others left the field, the Mexican team, which was already behind by three goals, formed a strong counterattack. The forward Blanco who came off the bench scored a face-saving goal for Mexico. The final score ended with Italy winning 3:1. .Although Keney didn't get a chance to play in this game, the appearance of Mexican striker Blanco made him see some interesting things.As the core player who scored six goals in the Confederations Cup in 1999, won the Golden Boot, and led the Mexican team to defeat Brazil 4-3 in the final to win the championship, Blanco has a trick to make his previous life Kenny is highly respected.

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