I am Kaka

On June 18th, Cordoba, Argentina, the first round of Group B of the 2001 World Youth Championship, Brazil VS Germany.

A group of childish young men stood shivering in the cold wind and rain.

The cold snap hit, and the temperature dropped directly to single digits in places such as Cordoba and Mendoza.

It was also June, and the sun was shining brightly in Rio, but it was bitingly cold here in Cordoba. The earth is so magical.

But what is colder than the weather is the hearts of the youth soldiers.

Facts have proved that the 1,500 spectators at the opening ceremony have already given the host face by the local people, and there are not even 1,000 spectators who came to watch the giant battle between Brazil and Germany in Group B.

The entire stand was empty, only a small circle of seats close to the stadium sat sporadically with some young people.

There may be more than this audience in a game of some club youth teams.

Costonio said: "Is this really Argentina? The one that won the World Cup and gave birth to Maradona? They're too shy to call themselves a football kingdom? Are there 500 people here?"

"It's about the same. Even if Argentina participated in the competition, it only sold more than 10,000 tickets. Ours is the least here, with only 300 tickets sold. I heard that the organizers have already given away 200,000 tickets one after another. Go out, but it doesn't seem to have much effect."

Costonio shook his head and turned his mind back to the upcoming game.

In people's minds, Brazil's football is compared to Japanese V movies, Mexican dupins, and American basketball. It can be said that it is the most important international business card. Therefore, no matter any football match, the Brazilian team will definitely be the first to participate. Favorite to win.

Costonio is cautious, but not under too much pressure and confident.

When you have a healthy Kaka and players like Adriano and Maicon in your team, you can't help but have enough confidence.

In the player channel, Kaka was wearing the captain's armband, standing at the forefront of the team, and greeted the attention of the German players.

He is very unfamiliar with this German team. From the perspective of later generations, the players who can best represent German football at the age of 20 should be the group of Lahm and Bordeaux drivers, but many of them are still in the club. The second team or the youth team and the like, most of the young talents who represent Germany in the World Youth Championship are well-known young talents in Germany.

Anyway, Kaka didn't recognize anyone at a glance. Of course, it can't be ruled out that there are one or two fierce people hidden in it who will become popular in the future, but because of their immature appearance and name translation problems, he didn't recognize them.

Whoever he is, let's talk about it after beating him up.

The team entered the arena, and there was sparse applause from the stands.

There were few spectators, but scouts and reporters from all over the world still gave the twenty-two young players on the field the illusion that they were facing an important exam.

Kaka won the German team captain in the coin guessing game and chose to serve first.

Although Kaka has attracted the attention of many people with the addition of the captain's armband, the player who has attracted the most attention on the field is actually Adriano.

This guy is 1.84 meters tall and weighs 79 kilograms. Although he is just 19 years old, he is already a strong man. He has been training and growing up in Flamengo since he was a child. In 1999, he was the main player of the Brazilian team under the age of 17 Won the world championship of this level in New Zealand. In 2000, when he was just 18 years old, he played the main force in the master Rulin's Flamengo. His eye-catching performance attracted the attention of the national team coach Leo. He was promoted to the national team four times. Participated in the 1:0 victory over Colombia and 1:2 loss to Paraguay's World Cup qualifiers.

So he is one of the few players on the field who has experienced the baptism of international competitions.

As a rare powerful striker in Brazil, Adriano has helped Flamengo open the door to victory with headers and long shots many times in the league. He is a real star of tomorrow in Brazilian football. He is 35 years old in Romario ,

And now that Rivaldo is about to turn 30, the born Adriano is undoubtedly the next striker that all Brazilians are most looking forward to.

But unlike others, Angel Bosio, a well-known scout for La Liga giants Barcelona, ​​is more concerned about Kaka.

In his profile, this young man should be selected for the Brazilian national youth team for the first time. On his thin resume, there is only one champion in the Rio-Sao Paulo Quarterfinals and one laureate in the Basan Championship, but Barcelona are all over South America. The scouting network has long been aware of Kaka's performance since his debut.

Bosio himself is very interested in Kaka, but the club has decided to introduce Saviola, and there will be other moves in the future. There will be at least five to six signings this season, and Kaka is not the kind that can be bought to enrich The youth team, a rookie who will be promoted to the professional arena after two or three years of training, has already made a name for himself and is a midfielder who has made many European teams covet him.

Of course, he himself has never seen Kaka play football with his own eyes. Whether Kaka is really that good, whether he is suitable for Barcelona's system, etc. are unknown. The purpose came, but the main target of his observation was Kaka.

If Kaka is really another alien creature like Ronaldo or a peerless monster like Rivaldo, then Saviola or something, whoever wants whoever wants it, the so-called transfer plan will be overthrown and restarted.

Both sides played 442, four defenders, one midfielder, one midfielder, two avant-garde and two centers, the most balanced offensive and defensive formation.

Oliveira did not get a chance to start, and Adriano's partner striker was Robert from Botafogo, the front midfielder and midfielder were naturally Kaka and Baptista, and the left midfielder was from Daga. The horse team's Leo, the right midfielder is Costa of the Gremio team, and the four defenders are Angelo, Anderson, Dracena and Maicon.

Robert took the ball out and Adriano passed the ball back to Kaka and started running forward at the same time.

Germany's two forwards rushed towards Kaka immediately.

Kaka continued to pass the ball back and Baptista received it.

Just when everyone thought that Baptista would divide the ball or continue to pass back, Baptista suddenly moved the ball forward, almost squeezing the ball away in a rampage-like way. A defensive player, and then kicked the ball forward.

This is a long pass over the top, not to mention the German team, even Kaka was shocked.

But it turns out that Baptista's pass was not random.

The football flew to the half of the German team, and the German defenders and midfielders rushed over immediately, but before they touched the ball, Adriano had already killed it like a violent cross-country with the accelerator pedal pressed to the bottom. He stabbed the ball between the two German players, and he bypassed one of the defenders, and caught up with the football in three or two steps.

The audience who hadn't entered the state couldn't help but gasp in amazement, while the scouts and reporters from various countries who had just opened their notebooks couldn't believe their eyes.

A beast-like midfielder and a beast-like striker, wild and messy body and style of play, are you sure that this Brazilian team is really playing samba football with a sexy label?