The Day I Played with Ronaldo

Sao Paulo's second goal embodies the skills of their positional warfare.

After defusing an attack from Cali America, seeing that the opponent returned to the defense quickly, everyone in the frontcourt of Sao Paulo was marked to death, and there was no chance to counterattack. Lugano took the ball slowly and took two steps, and then made a short pass Ricardinho retreated to take the ball.

Kali America's winger Villarreal and midfielder Ferreira immediately pressed Ricardinho from left to right.

Ricardinho didn't stop the ball at all, and immediately pushed the ball to Ji'an, turned and ran forward by himself. Ji'an gave the ball to Ricardo. After taking two steps, Ricardo saw that there was no chance, and then passed it to Ricardo who had already run out of neutral.

Ricardinho observed after holding the ball, avoided Ferreira's grab and passed the ball to Kaka.

Next it was the turn of the trident to perform.

After Kaka took the ball, he flew like lightning and passed the opponent's midfielder Ferrari smoothly. At this time, Angulo also came to help defend. Kaka didn't stick to the ball too much, and quickly sent the ball to the retreating responder. Luis Fabiano.

Fabiano didn't stop the ball, turned his back to the goal, and swept the ball directly to his right. Ricardo, who jumped in at a high speed, received the ball smoothly, but soon faced Gonzalez's press.

He stepped on the bicycle twice, but Gonzalez was not shaken.

If he insisted on attacking, Ricardo was confident that he would be able to break through the opponent's defense, but in that case, the Cali American team's defense would take shape, delaying the attacking opportunity in vain, so he immediately passed the ball across to Kaka.

Kaka acted as a "wall" this time. After receiving the ball, he immediately made a diagonal pass. Ricardo used his speed advantage to get rid of Gonzalez's entanglement and received the ball smoothly.

But when he wanted to pass the ball again, he found that Fabiano had been firmly watched, Kaka was followed by someone, Riko had already broken into the penalty area, and Bastos of the American team of Cali was by his side.

However, from the corner of his eyes, he found that Simplicio on the right had already assisted, and there was an open area in front of him, so he made a sudden stop, and Gonzalez overtook him. Using this gap, Li Ka How many feet transfer the ball to the right.

Due to the limitation of the viewing angle of the broadcast, the Brazilian commentator was puzzled by the ball: "Ricardo passed the ball! It seems that there was a mistake, and there was no player from Sao Paulo in that direction."

"Oh, Simplicio is in the shot! He's driving at high speed! He's got the ball! Keep going!"

However, Ferrari quickly dropped Kaka and went to defend Simplicio. Simplicio didn't try to dribble on his own. When he saw the opponent approaching, he immediately put the ball forward. Rico ran out of the penalty area to respond, and brought Bastos out.

Rico's handling of the ball was very clever. He made a gesture to catch the ball with his left foot, but he missed it. The football rolled towards the baseline. He used his speed to forcibly overtake Bastos, and glanced at the ball in the penalty area. In such a situation, he immediately kicked and crossed.

He passed the ball high and floating, and the defenders of Cali America couldn't reach it. The goalkeeper Zapata didn't dare to attack the ball rashly. But they couldn't touch football.

The football spins and flies back to the point.

A figure wearing a Sao Paulo jersey with a white background and red and black horizontal stripes got rid of Gonzalez's entanglement, strode forward and dived to the top.

Zapata, despite stretching his arms as far as he could, still couldn't touch the ball.

The football crashed into the net, causing a wave of white waves.

At this moment, the cheers, cursing, booing, and singing on the court all stopped, as if the head teacher suddenly walked in in a noisy classroom. In the quiet air, there seemed to be a broken piece of porcelain, making a crisp shattering sound.

What was broken was the hearts of the fans of the American team in Cali.

"Riko made a cross! Ricado headed the goal! goalllllllllll! The game went on to the 31st minute,

Riccardo scored twice and Sao Paulo led 2-0 in the away game! "

Ricardo was very excited, but this time he didn't cut his throat again, he didn't want to be sent off early.

He just took off his shirt and ran all the way, jumping over the billboards, standing on the barbed wire in the stands, and showing his muscles to the fans of the American team in Cali.

There is no need for a yellow card.

At least so far, the referee will not show a yellow card warning for undressing celebration. Especially in South America, wild beauty is part of football, and referees don't do such unsightly things.

It was not until February 2004 that the rule that a yellow card must be shown when taking off your shirt and covering your head with your jersey was officially implemented around the world.

Although there were only a few hundred Sao Paulo fans who entered the Pascual Guerrero Stadium, their singing could still break through the boos of the fans of the American team in Cali and reached Ricardo's ears.

"Licado, dear god-given son, you have our love!"

"You always entertain us with goals!"

"Glorious god-given son, oh, Ricardo!"

This singing made Licado forget his fatigue!

America, who fell behind 0:2 at home, had no choice but to launch another onslaught. However, this only gave Sao Paulo a chance to fight back comfortably.

In the 56th minute of the second half, Ricardo once again took advantage of the counterattack opportunity to break through alone. After passing the two opponents, he knocked the ball across the penalty area to Fabiano and assisted the latter to score.

Only 3 minutes later, Sao Paulo counterattacked again. Ricardo broke through the bottom line with the ball and knocked the ball back to Kaka. Kaka crossed the ball. Ricardinho calmly shot the ball at the top of the arc. Into the lower left corner.

Subsequently, Kaka and Ricardo were replaced one after another. But Sao Paulo's scoring performance did not end. In the 79th minute, the teenager Elton, who came off the bench, scored his first professional goal.

The América de Cali only scored a face-saving goal in stoppage time.

After the game was accepted, in the locker room of the home team, the players of the Cali America team did not dare to show their atmosphere. Their head coach Lozada is watching the game analysis written by the assistant coach, which includes evaluations of players in various positions in Sao Paulo. These data will help him better direct the second round of the game between the two sides.

For example, for Kaka, the assistant coach wrote: very fast, poor physical confrontation ability, good technique, can perfectly control the ball at high speed, very threatening counterattack, strong long-range shooting ability, and good passing skills Good to send a deadly pass.

As for Ricardo, it is described as follows: extremely fast, slightly stronger than Kaka in confrontation ability, quite good technique, excellent ball control ability, excellent skill in getting rid of small areas, good organizational ability, good at passing Scheduling, good long-range shooting skills, good header, keen sense of smell in front of goal, first-class shooting skills...

Lozada shook his head, pointed to the description of Ricardo and said, "You don't need to write so much, and it's not accurate enough."

The assistant coach looked at him puzzled: "Sir?"

"Just one sentence would suffice to describe him," Lozada said wistfully. "A genius once in 20 years."