our euro cup

Chapter 284 Training match... against Tottenham Hotspur
Our first game will be played in London.Our opponent is the Turkish team.In order to find a suitable warm-up opponent, we did not waste our brains.The team competition alone is definitely not enough. We must find a way to find some stronger teams to play some warm-up matches of a certain level.Of course, we have already come to the UK, and our every move will obviously be under the noses of competitors from all walks of life. The warm-up opponents we are looking for will naturally not target the FIFA national team, but simply Play against some English teams on the training ground.The first warm-up match after we arrived in London was against the Queens Park Rangers in League One. This team is a team that has just been relegated from the Premier League. The former Premier League team is still alive.We wanted to find some feeling of playing a strong team in them, but we didn't expect that we won a big victory with a score of 6:0, smashing this famous team in England's history into a sieve— ——From then on, it became even more difficult for us to find warm-up opponents. Most of the League One teams refused to play against us because they were afraid of being beaten by us. , It is too difficult to find a team that is willing to play against us without the team's strength being greatly affected.

Until one day, Tottenham Hotspur, a traditional strong team at White Hart Lane, came to the door——

"We are willing to play a training game with you. We will not treat it as a commercial game. After all, the European Cup is about to start, and we do not intend to compete with the European Cup organizing committee for any benefits. If you are willing to play with us One game, we will definitely go all out, because although many of our main players have entered the European Cup squads of various countries, the quality of the players we have left behind is also good. We want to train and promote through such games Young players, and moreover, I want to watch your players up close by playing against you to invite them to come to us at White Hart Lane and play for us at Tottenham Hotspur."

When the Tottenham Hotspur official came to contact us for the game, his words were very sincere, but he was well-founded, neither humble nor overbearing, which is really likable.The conditions they put forward are quite beneficial to our Croatian team-if we manage a game as a commercial game, we will go all out, but will the opponent play the game just for the appearance fee? Woolen cloth?No one knows.If the opponent does not try his best, it is useless to find any warm-up opponents.However, if we are facing an all-out opponent, even if the lineup is relatively not so good, it can have a better effect on improving our lineup.We prefer that.

Moreover, the latter option may make our Croatian football even more happy——

Although Croatian football has always been a strong team, the Croatian football league is not necessarily outstanding.Because Croatia is a newly divided country, not to mention organizing a reliable national annual league, even if it wants to make progress on the basis of the original league, it is obviously difficult.The main reason is that Croatia's economic development is really poor.The former Yugoslavia itself, as an Eastern European country, under the leadership of Tito, the economic path does not conform to the law of development, and it is already regarded as the poorest economy among European countries. The economy, as well as the size of the country, lag far behind the post-"Yugoslav Republic" of Serbia and Montenegro.Therefore, the dream of many Croatians for football is to be able to play in the top five European leagues. In this way, they will not only have a future, but also have a "money future".

Tottenham Hotspur, as a powerful old Premier League team, is willing to play a training match with our Croatian team, and intends to watch our performance in the training match in order to decide whether to play against a powerful team like the Croatian team. It is really great news for our Croatian team to find suitable players to enrich the lineup.Especially for the young players in our team, they have witnessed Dinamo Zagreb win many championships in the past games, but they have never seen a real strong team. , Being able to go out is the biggest benefit, and it is the same for the Croatian national team. The players of the national team leave their own country and go to foreign countries to seek the direction of survival. Stronger opponents and learning better technical and tactical qualities are very beneficial to enhancing the strength of the Croatian national team.

As a pioneer of Croatian football in Spain, I know very well that being in a strong team and facing some stronger opponents every day will improve myself.So, as the head coach, isn't the wise Blazevic more aware of all this?Therefore, he didn't think too much about it, so he decided on this matter.

This morning, the sun was shining brightly.The grass on the training ground has just been cut with a lawn mower, and the fragrance of green grass is everywhere.We are waiting for our opponents on the training ground - Tottenham Hotspur team, soon, we ushered in this strong opponent -

The two sides stood on the left and right sides of the green field, and with the whistle of Mr. Blazevic, who served as the temporary referee, the game began...

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Tottenham Hotspur's famous players have already come to play in the European Cup, and I don't know any of the remaining players.However, as a traditional strong team in English football, Tottenham Hotspur has been very professional in terms of skills and tactics from beginning to end.Even though they are all on the bench, their style of play and offense are exactly the same as the main team!Soon, they who served first, pushed the ball to their full-back position, facing our defensive midfielder Maric.

Maric saw Tottenham push the ball so quickly, stepped forward and firmly held the path of Tottenham's wing attack.Tottenham's winger saw that Maric was guarding the throat, and did not dare to force a breakthrough. Instead, he passed the ball to the middle of the midfield, allowing the attacking midfielder in the middle to control the rhythm of the game.

(End of this chapter)