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The long-awaited 21st World Cup is at war in Russia. This is the annual feast of fans around the world, and it will bring hundreds of millions of fans exciting events and sleepless nights in the next few tens of days.
Before the opening battle, Sleep made a prediction for his pet cat. Two blank sheets of paper, russia and Saudi Arabia, approached from the middle in a daze, and then pounced on Russia without hesitation. Two hours later, the game was really fulfilled, and at 5:0, Russia won a big victory.
The FIFA World Cup, which began in 1930 and has been held every four years, has been held every four years. By this year, it is already 88 years, it should be the 23rd session, why is there two less? After the third edition in 1938, the fourth Cup was not held until 1950, because it coincided with the Second World War.
Scenes from the first World Cup
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The second World Cup was held in May 1934, when fascism began to prevail in Europe, Italy and Germany, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria and other countries.
The cup was held in Italy, the birthplace of fascism. In the same year, the International Congress of Fascists was held. On the German side, Hitler ordered the SA to assassinate Austrian Chancellor Dolfs, laying the groundwork for Germany's annexation of Austria.
At the 1934 World Cup, the opening ceremony was a Nazi salute
For the second world cup, qualifiers were used for the first time to decide which team to participate in the final. In the first round, a single-game knockout system was adopted, and eight games were played at the same time.
Teams that reached the second round were Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The previous champion Uruguay, in order to protest the lack of attention of European teams to the first tournament, refused the invitation to this tournament, becoming the only champion team in the history of the World Cup that did not participate in the next tournament.
The World Cup was seen by the Italian fascist leader Mussolini as a stage to promote himself and celebrate fascism. Mussolini was personally responsible for the organization and preparation of the competition.
Italy's opponent in the first match was the United States, for which the hosts made a lot of publicity, but the pre-match tickets have not been sold. So under Mussolini's orders, the major Italian newspapers and periodicals published a photo of him personally appearing at the place where the ticket was bought. The next day tens of thousands of Italians heeded the call and followed Mussolini's example to buy tickets.
In order to make Italy achieve good results, Mussolini hired south American players with Italian ancestry to join the Italian national team. So much so that Argentina's best players have been poached by Italy, including de Maria and Monti, the main players who represented Argentina in the World Cup last time.
Similarly, Brazil's player Guarisi and Brazil's top scorer, Leonidas, who later became the top scorer of the 1938 World Cup, were also drawn into the Italian national team. In this way, Italy formed a luxurious lineup of main players from mercenaries, combining European power and South American technology. Mercenaries became the heroes of the Italian team's continuous victory.
Mussolini with the Italian team in 1934
Italy's head coach Pozzo also summoned the retired player Ferraris to return to the team and put on the stage again, but the request made to him was to let him quit smoking 40 cigarettes a day.
After the unlucky Argentine team lost a number of stars, they also wanted to follow Italy's example to go to Brazil next door to dig people, and even the donkey skillfully proposed to promise beautiful women to induce people to defect, but the beauty plan failed to achieve their wishes.
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The hosts, Italy, started their first match and the National Stadium in Rome was packed. Mussolini sat in the box surrounded by left and right, watching the game on his toes. Before kick-off, the Italian players raised their right hands from the center of the field to the stands in fascist salute.
In the ensuing game, a completely one-sided situation was presented, and poor American team was fed a 7:1 by the host. After the finale, the Italian team still ended with a fascist salute, a rule that was maintained from the first match to the final.
In the second round of the match between Italy and Spain, Mussolini's two sons came to the stadium on his behalf. In this game, there was the first replay in the World Cup. Italy and Spain still drew 1-1 after extra time, and since the penalty shootout had not yet been adopted at that time, the two teams held a new match.
In the end, Italy eliminated Spain 1:0 and defeated Austria by the same score in the later semi-finals. Meanwhile, Czechoslovakia beat Germany 3-1 and also reached the final.
On 10 June, the final was played between Italy and Czechoslovakia. More than 50,000 spectators poured into the stands of the National Stadium to follow the battle. Due to the enormous psychological pressure on the Italian players, the game was passive at the beginning.
Have you watched the 1934 World Cup, and after watching it, you know the ball emperor
The Czechoslovak team, which did not have a burden, played more and more smoothly, always controlling the situation on the field. In the 76th minute of the match, Czechoslovakia scored first to break the deadlock. Fortunately, the Italian team finally found a feeling and pulled back a point after 5 minutes.
The two sides battled 1-1 in 90 minutes and the match went into extra time. In the 95th minute of the match, the lucky Italian team once again pierced the ten fingers of the opposing goalkeeper and scored another goal. 2:1, Italy won the 1934 World Cup.
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The third World Cup was held in France in June 1938. This time, a new approach was introduced in which the host and defending champions did not need to participate in the qualifiers and directly advanced to the finals.
Despite the ups and downs of World War II, 35 teams participated in the preliminary round, grouped by region, and 14 teams were decided, plus the host and the previous champions Italy, a total of 16 teams entered the final stage of the competition.
Later, due to the refusal of Uruguay, Argentina and other countries to participate, Austria was annexed by Germany, FIFA had no choice but to find Cuba, Poland and Indonesia to make up the number, and finally 15 teams participated in the World Cup.
Just 3 months ago, the German army invaded Austria and annexed it. As a result, the Austrian national football team was also incorporated into the German team.
The Austrian team at that time was definitely a world-class team. They have won 5:0 over Scotland, 6:0 over Germany, 8:1 over Switzerland, 8:2 over Hungary and 6:1 over Belgium to dominate Europe. In the last World Cup, they finished fourth. The legendary team was snuffed out by the Combination of Theo and Austria.
This time, before each match, the German team performed a Nazi salute, as the last Italian team performed a fascist salute, extending their hands straight ahead and chanting words in their mouths.
However, the Nazis' spiritual victory method did not work, and this team composed of a mixture of Germany and Austria did not win the cup in the end, and Hitler did not make a full splash, but made Mussolini, who he despised, once again.
Four years ago, Italy won their second World Cup on home soil. This time Mussolini also wanted to prove the strength of Italy under his leadership through the World Cup.
However, the first round of knockouts left the Italians in a cold sweat, and the defending champions encountered stubborn resistance from norway. Encouraged by the huge winning bonuses, the Nordics were motivated and galloped around. Their excellent running ability made the Italians invincible and suffered a lot. In the end, the Italian team finally won 2:1.
In the quarter-finals that followed, the Italian eliminated hosts France. It was then followed by a 2–1 victory over South American powerhouse Brazil to win the semifinals. It also began the evolution between two rivals in the history of the World Cup since then.
Meanwhile, Hungary reached the final in the semi-finals with a 5-1 victory over Sweden.
Just before the final, the Italian team received a telegram from fascist leader Mussolini. The telegram, though only three words long, was murderous: victory or death!
On 19 June, the final was played at the Stade columbus in Paris. The Hungarian's fierce attack fell into the quagmire of the Italians' serial defense, but instead let The Italian team led by Pozzo score first, although the Hungarian team stubbornly equalized two minutes later. But then Italy scored again, finishing 3-1 at the end of the first half, with Italy leading.
In the second half, the Hungarians failed to stage a good reversal. The end result was 4:2, and the Italian managed to win the World Cup.
After the game, the Hungarian captain said something meaningful: "Today we saved 11 lives. "As to whether this means that the Hungarians deliberately released water on the field, it is not known.
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In the history of the World Cup, many great players have been produced. We are familiar with Bailey, Beckenbauer, Kluyev, Platini, Maradona, Zidane, Ronaldo... and then to Messi and Cristiano, who are now galloping in the green field.
Today we are going to talk about perhaps the first true superstar in the history of football. At the 1934 World Cup in Italy, Austria finished 4th, but the best player was the Austrian Sindraer.
Sindraer, a striker for the Austrian national team, was thin and some even described him as "skinny as a piece of paper". But he has a genius football IQ, he runs smartly, has a broad vision and excellent big picture view, in addition to the dazzling dribbling footwork, Sindrar also has a magical long-range shooting kung fu.
In his own words: "My favorite way to shoot is to dribble through all the defenders and when they turn around, all they see is the net fluttering. This famous quote still makes the international football world relish it. Fans at the time compared him to Austrian music maestro Mozart, praising him as "mozart on the football pitch".
In March 1938, after Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, Sindrar refused to participate in the 1938 World Cup. Despite repeated mobilizations by German coaches to participate in the competition, Sindrar, as a Jew, flatly refused, despite the dangers of the Nazis' frenzied anti-Semitism.
In the "fraternal friendship" match between the "Third Reich" and the "German Austrian" in Vienna in April, he expressed his resistance to the Nazis in his own way.
Hitler specifically designated Austria's first star Sindraer to participate in this match, and Sindrar ignored the orders of Hitler's confidants before the game that they must lose the game, and in the game, he repeatedly tore open the Defense of the Third Reich team with a ball that made the opponent dizzy, and forced a goal.
It is said that Sindrar could have scored more goals in the game, but he deliberately kicked the ball on the Nazi team's beams and columns several times. In the end, the Austrians won the race.
Sindraer deliberately hit the upright, and this footwork was no one
Tens of thousands of Austrian fans chanted the names of their heroes, and Sindraer led the players to publicly celebrate their victory with an impassioned audience under the noses of the Nazi leader on the podium. On the football field, Sindrar won back his dignity for the Austrians.
Early the next year, the football genius committed suicide from gas poisoning. More than 20,000 people went to mourn despite the obstruction of the authorities.
Today there is a street in Vienna named after him, and people see him as an anti-Nazi hero. Some say he was disappointed in the fall of the country, while others say he died of Nazi murder.
Historically, football is not only about sports, but the World Cup has never lacked real heroes.
Finally, Gao Xiaosong said that the World Cup is a bet on the match-fixing, which is pure sensationalism, and agrees to the praise~