Against both sides: Slovenia vs Russia
Competition time: 2:45 on October 12
Football in the United States is not highly regarded, and basketball and football are the first major sports in the country. The US professional football is a bit like the "mercenary league", the local players are not capable enough, relying on the play of foreign aid to basically stabilize the ticket price and achieve break-even.
Because of this, the history of the United States has been absent from the World Cup for more than 50 years, and in the 90s of the last century, under the leadership of the legendary coach, football began to rise and become a regular visitor to the World Cup. However, in the 18th World Preliminary Tournament, the upset loss to the Fish Belly team, and the ticket to the World Cup was also reduced to a laughing stock.
In recent years, American football has also risen, and after the youth training was arrested, many American players appeared in the five major leagues. Mia analyzes this in large part because the United States is laying out for the 2026 World Cup in the United States. Playing the World Cup at your own doorstep to enter the knockout round is basically worth the fare. If you are eliminated at your own doorstep, it is too faceless.
In the just-concluded Tokyo Olympic Games, the total number of gold medals once surpassed the United States, and finally 38 gold, 32 silver and 18 bronze, and no foreigner dared to scold us East Asian sick men anymore. But the soccer emmmmm (fairy sigh), which reached 37th in the world rankings 20 years ago, can still be regarded as a first-class team in Asia. Now it has become a third-rate team for many reasons, the youth training has failed, the league is a mess, and chaos is rife.
However, the deployment of the central sports power strategy in 2019 has been very effective so far, and the great advantage of China compared to the other two big countries is that it can realize all the bulls it has bragged about. The "Outline for the Construction of a Sports Powerhouse" proposes that by 2035, the number of people participating in physical exercise will reach more than 45%, the per capita stadium area will reach 2.5 square meters, and the pass rate of the "National Physical Fitness Measurement Standards" will exceed 92%. At that time, the national football team is still very promising to rush out of Asia.
The Soviet Union was once a major power in world football, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia gradually became a third-rate team in Europe, and its fame was even second to that of the Czech Republic. In 2018, Russia, which fought on its own, reached the quarterfinals, which is Russia's best result, of course, it cannot be ruled out that the home battle and off-field factors can not be ruled out, referring to South Korea in 2002.
Fighting nation Russia is a large country with a population of 145 million people, and despite the extremely fierce ice hockey game, football is still the most popular sport of the fighting nation. But Russians rarely have time to play football because Russian men are either drinking or are frozen to death on the side of the road. Just kidding, in fact, Russia's football heritage is very good, and there have been many stars, such as "Octopus" Lev Yasin. He was the only player to win the Ballon d'Or as a goalkeeper, so much so that the world's best goalkeeper today named the award "Yasin Award", Yassin is 1.85 meters tall, comprehensive in technology, properly selected, extremely responsive, solid in catching the ball, brave enough to take the ball, especially good at saving penalties. He played in 812 matches and did not concede 480 games, saving 150 penalties. Jasin is known as the greatest goalkeeper in the history of world football, and in Russia, a country that lacks world-class stars, it is simply an anti-heavenly presence.
However, there is such a good foundation, Russia has been "eating the old money", may be because of the tall physique, the players' foot technology is far less than the minimum standards of the European League, the youth training in 2018 before the country hosted the World Cup, but after the World Cup, may be due to a series of reasons such as funding, there is no great progress, there has been a lack of talent in the past two years, once needed to Germany, Central Asia and other countries or regions to attract reinforcements to compete in the World Series.
After knowing this, the outcome of tomorrow's game is easier to predict, although Russian football has more problems, but it is still the existence of the second brother in Group H, Slovenia is not enough to challenge russia with the last three consecutive wins.
Recommendation: Let negative/Russia +0.25
Score: 0-1