My World Cup Journey 2 – 1998
The time came to 1998, the summer of France, destined to become a classic in the history of the World Cup, and almost none of the football giants in the traditional sense were absent. And the first thing people remember is a character who has nothing to do with football, his name is Rich Martin, and he is remembered with him, and the song The cup of life, which has been frozen as the eternal melody of the green field for more than 20 years.
There are many stories in this World Cup, starting with institutional changes. The expansion of the participating teams to the round of 32 and the use of the suffocating "sudden death" method in extra time made the game more tense, exciting, full of suspense, and also satisfied the appetite of the fans.
This World Cup can be said to be a succession, the Dutch three musketeers known to Chinese fans, the German troika are coming to an end, the heroes are born, the era of the crowd has begun, Ronaldo, Zidane, Bergkamp, Cruivet and other figures who will call the wind and rain in the football world in the next decade have emerged. The younger generation of Owen, Viery, David, David, Henry and so on came out, and this World Cup is an unprecedented event in the history of football. Of course, the appearance of newcomers also means the departure of veterans, Brazilian captain Dunga, god of war Batistuta, Denmark's football fairy tale Laudrup brothers, midfield conspirator Hajj, French football legend Deschamps and other superstars have staged a curtain call, and at the same time, there are Yugoslavia, which appeared on the World Cup for the last time, and "Vicki" represented by Stojkovic.
Every World Cup is memorable and will never be separated from those classic pictures, Beckham's innocent red, Laudrup's Sleeping Beauty celebration, Blanco's frog jump, Bergkamp's century stop, Davor Suk's golden left foot that can play the violin, and the yellow hair uniformly dyed by the entire Team of The Romalia team, all of which have left a lingering mark on that summer.
Finally, I have to mention that the French team that won the championship that year became the seventh team in history to win the World Cup, and the final 3:0 clean and crisp killed Brazil, which shocked the world and opened the glorious road of French football in the next 20 years!
