Halfway through the World Cup group stage, things always have to come. There are doubts and despair about coaches, such as Japan and Germany; There are various influences outside the arena on the pitch, such as Iran; There was a lot of saliva before the opening game, and the pitch was taught to throw five bodies, such as Canada and Croatia.
In the past, there was a lot of lace news in the World Cup, but with the retirement of the older generation of English players, and the decline of newspapers such as The Sun and the Mirror in lace news, it has gradually disappeared.
But in the World Cup, only one kind of news is constant: it has gone through the oil crisis and space exploration of the sixties and seventies, through the golden age of the eighties, through the millennial Internet age, and today's mass media era.
That is the news about infighting, and the protagonist of this World Cup infighting is Belgium.
Belgium: When there are too many big brothers, people are prone to quarrel
Twenty years ago, when it came to the tournament, the team that was bound to be infighting was the Dutch team.
At that time, the Dutch team was the uncrowned king, whether it was the World Cup or the European Championship, the pre-match odds of winning the championship were firmly in the top six. At that time there were Ovimas, Bergkamp, Davis, Seedorf and Kluivert, and then the Gardpole brothers. The Dutch team shone with stars more than two decades ago, and the only thing that could compare with them was Brazil and Argentina.
At that time, the Netherlands never stopped infighting: between Surinamese and native players, Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven. Infighting to the point that you can practice with each other on the training ground, you fly to me, my kick hits you in the head, between Seedorf and De Boer, directly on the pre-match training ground for Euro 2000.
At Euro 2000, the infighting Netherlands finally went on a bad shot, losing on penalties to the weaker-looking Italians. It was their second consecutive European Cup fall on penalties.
Dutch infighting has faded in the last decade, the affirmative action movement has made no one look down on Surinamese players, and with average performances in the European league, the influence of the three giants of the Netherlands on players has weakened, and there is no huddle together.
But here comes Belgium.
The internal strife in Belgium, like that in the Netherlands, has regional and historical reasons: before the Renaissance, the lords of Belgium allied with France in order to suppress the popular uprising in the city; After the Renaissance, in order to fight against Spain, it repeatedly formed the "Republic of the Netherlands" with the Netherlands. Therefore, Belgium is divided into French-speaking and Netherland-speaking areas.
The difference in language areas and the difference in historical memory are torn apart for the nation. A Belgian saying often goes, "The only thing that unites the Belgians is football and the king." ”
Of course, reality is more interesting.
De Bruyne's wife's relationship with Courtois, which caused the two to turn their faces; Lukaku and Batshuayi don't talk much, to be precise, Batshuayi wasted too many opportunities, and did not give people to say, pretending to be too outrageous; After the loss to Morocco, De Bruyne quarreled with Eden and Vertonghen.
Looking at the past history, the Belgian team has no shortage of good central strikers, they also have the Mponza brothers from the Congo, who are Romelu Lukaku's predecessors; They have always been good goalkeepers, and although Belgium only reached the round of 16 in 1994, goalkeeper Predholm won the best goalkeeper in the World Cup.
They also have no shortage of good wingers and forwards...
Here's the problem. In history, the Belgian team's best stand is the versatile striker, which is the flag bearer of the Belgian team.
Jan Celemance, 1980 Belgian Footballer of the Year, played in three World Cups from 1982 to 1990, played as a striker and striker, and was the leader of the Belgian team for a long time; Sheif, who made his appearance at the 1986 World Cup at the age of 20, is known as a genius second only to Maradona, playing as a striker and striker.
In the eighties and early nineties, these two were the leaders of the Belgian team, and whether there was infighting in the Belgian team at that time, the answer was no!
So is there a figure like Cerlemance and Shifo in this World Cup, there is, De Bruyne, a versatile player up front.
But De Bruyne is not a Belgian flag bearer, there are too many stars in this Belgian team, everyone thinks they are the boss, but De Bruyne intuitively tells himself that he should be the flag bearer, should be the boss.
Not only does De Bruyne not have supporters on the pitch in the current Belgian team, he is not a flag bearer and boss in the dressing room, because there are too many bosses in the dressing room: Romelu Lukaku, Eden Hazard, Vertonghen, and the Thibaut Courtois who seduced his friend's wife...
Wait, and that head coach Martinez, he thinks he's the boss.
Seeing so many bosses, do you understand the reasons for the infighting in Belgium? That is, there are too many people who want to be a talker, and the position of talker is vacant.
Cameroon: The strongest speaker behind the scenes shows up
In the second round of the group stage, Cameroon drew 3-3 with Serbia, a somewhat bizarre draw, and played two infighting teams.
Serbia's infighting was on the scene, with Serbian players blaming each other after being chased by Cameroon twice in a row to make it 3-3. Cameroon's two goals in the second half were all successfully formed against offside. In this World Cup's harsh state for offside, Cameroon has simply worked miracles.
After the third ball was lost, the most angry was goalkeeper Savage, because the defender had already lost and was dragged behind by the back Maximovich; Striker Mitrovic is looking for central defender Velikovich, because the central defender has disappeared!
Serbia, which was chaotic and quarrelsome, then played decently, never giving Cameroon any chance, and it seems that the infighting on the scene is actually not fatal.
Cameroon also competed against the title of infighting.
Cameroon's main goalkeeper turned out to be Onana, who had the heart of a free man, and in the match against Switzerland, Onana touched the ball 61 times, 26 of them outside the penalty area, and quickly tow a centre-back.
Head coach Rigbert Song asked Onana not to attack blindly, apparently, the two sides did not communicate well, Onana did not accept Song's request, and Song could only let Onana go.
Onana, who is about to return to the club, is certainly not the first goalkeeper to be expelled from the national team, to be precise, he is not the first Cameroonian goalkeeper to leave his position due to infighting.
In the 1994 World Cup, Cameroon decided to strike because of the distribution of prize money to the World Cup, and in the final round of the group stage "Loser Battle", Cameroon faced the eliminated Russian team, and Songoo replaced Bale.
As a result, Russia slaughtered Cameroon 6-1, a match that allowed Russian striker Salenko, who scored five goals in a row, to win the Golden Boot at that World Cup, and Salenko was later ready to join the A A team, but it was unsuccessful.
In 2014, again due to the distribution of prize money, the Cameroonian team was not ready to go to Brazil to compete...
The contradiction between Cameroonian players and the Football Association is heavy, mainly in the distribution of bonuses. Now is no exception. It's just that today's Cameroon Football Federation president Eto'o is smarter, he has Song as the head coach, and any player that Eto'o considers a threat to him excludes the national team.
Ngadou, a defender from Ghent, was unable to make the national team and with Onana's expulsion, Eto'o has more power than his previous FA president.
Perhaps Onana's departure is the last infighting we will see in Cameroon in some time to come, because Eto'o has everything under control. (Sohu Sports Qian Kun