Section 294 World Cup Night (Part 2): Terrifying No. 13
"Look, look, this one is big enough!" Wang Ai proudly waved the Best Rookie Award with one hand, frightening Shen Xiangfu, Huang Jianxiang and others. They didn't dare to drop it. Return to China You want to exhibit it, but you don’t dare to grab it, so whose fault is it if you get rid of it?
"My little beauty, how about taking this home and having someone turn it into a big chain and give it to you? They all wear 50-cent steel hammers, which are worthless. How good do you think we are? Let's use the World Cup Best Newcomer Award. beat!"
Wang Ai said, and used the trophy to measure it on Shi Wenjun's neck: "How about I buy two large silver chains weighing one pound each and hang them around your neck! This is the only one in the world!"
"Go, go, go!" Shi Wenjun dodged: "Hang a big chain around your neck, and then I'll drag you around!"
"You think I'm a dog!" Wang Ai turned his face and said.
"You think I'm a dog!" Shi Wenjun said in a sharp voice.
"Are you not a dog?" Wang Ai argued: "I am a rabbit, so I can't wear a chain!"
Huang Jianxiang hurried over to stop him, what is this all about? It is illegal to melt 50 cents to make a chain. This is a taboo. Of course, the country does not stipulate that it is illegal to melt the World Cup trophy... but you try to melt one? I I can’t beat you to death!
"Xiao Wang, don't make trouble. The live broadcast is going on. Where are you going to put this trophy?"
After hearing the word "live broadcast", Wang Ai finally stopped and waved the trophy: "I plan to find someone to make a pure silver stick after I return to China."
"Huh?" Huang Jianxiang was confused.
"Then I took off the base and set it with a stick." Wang Ai said excitedly: "Do you think it looks like the plum blossom silver hammer in Peking Opera?"
Huang Jianxiang squeezed between the camera and Wang Ai, spreading his hands to the camera. Xiao Wang was having fun playing with a hammer. What can I do?
It was Lao Shen who was prudent. When he saw Wang Ai making a fuss, he grabbed the silver ball and talked to the camera. The directors in the Beijing CCTV building just breathed a sigh of relief.
Wang Ai just stopped here. The last two awards of the World Cup over there, the Fair Play Award was given to the Belgian national team, and the other one was the best team of this World Cup. Wang Ai squeezed out the United States as a midfielder. The team's Claudio Reina, together with Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Ballack and Ryu Sang-cheol, were selected into the best team of this World Cup.
The next day, the domestic media once again reported extensively on Wang Ai's award, adding fuel to the already lively football craze. Many of the newspapers published a photo showing Wang Ai's left hand wearing a silver boot. The right hand is a silver ball. Since the photo is in black and white, it looks no different from the Golden Boot or Golden Ball. If the Chinese team's performance in the group stage is a gratifying breakthrough for Chinese football in this World Cup, then Wang Ai's Three individual awards are the biggest breakthrough.
Also on the next day, Italy's "Turin Sports News" made a unique technical statistics on Wang Ai, and pointed out the key with a headline: Wang Ai's goal efficiency!
In addition to "minimum", the core word of the series of records broken by Wang Ai, the editor of "Turin Sports News" also proposed the word "highest".
Because according to statistics, Wang Ai played a total of 121 minutes in three games and scored 7 goals, averaging one goal every 17 minutes. This record is unprecedented and reflects the extraordinary scoring efficiency of this Chinese teenager.
In statistics, the player whose scoring efficiency is second only to Wang Ai dates back to the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, the French team's Juste Fontaine. In that World Cup, this Frenchman born in Monaco
He scored 13 goals, the most in all World Cups!
But even this efficiency king, the most terrifying goal machine, cannot score one goal in less than 20 minutes of playing time. Even including the penalty kick he gave up, he only scored in 7 games.
14 goals, an average of one every 48 minutes.
Even better, I don’t know whether the Chinese player did it intentionally or not, but the jersey number he chose was No. 13, which was the jersey number of Juste Fontaine in 1944!
Therefore, this article in "Turin Sports Daily" was named "The Horrible No. 13". Once it was published, it immediately caused a sensation and was widely reproduced by global sports media. Only then did people notice the extraordinary ability of this young player.
The efficiency of scoring goals, even if it benefits from his free kicks, is a goal, and free kicks are not necessarily easier than scoring goals in sports.
This report caused such a sensation that it even "exploded" Juste Fontaine, who had been away from the football circle for twenty years, to give an interview and said: The only person who can receive his bonus in the future may be Wang Ai.
Fontaine retired after repeated injuries in the 1958 World Cup, so that World Cup was his swan song. Even though Germany's Gerd Muller later scored 14 goals in two World Cups, surpassing his total number of goals.
, but could not do this in a World Cup. For this reason, Fontaine specially set up an award with a bonus of only a "measly" one thousand US dollars at his own expense, ready to be awarded to the player who can break his record. As a result,
Nearly half a century later, no one can do it. Although Fontaine was once optimistic about Pele, Maradona, Beckenbauer, Gerd Muller, Romario, Ronaldo and other stars.
To take away Fontaine's bonus, you not only need to be on a strong team and be able to go as far as possible in the World Cup, but you also need to average two goals per game, and no player in the world has ever done that. This World Cup was supposed to be the closest.
It was Klose of the German team who scored five in the group stage. Unfortunately, after qualifying from the group stage, Klose's condition plummeted. Fontaine was also surprised by Wang Ai's sudden emergence. Unfortunately, he lost to Turkey in the last group stage.
Fontaine stopped paying attention. Unexpectedly, after the explanation from Turin Sports News, the situation was completely different.
Therefore, the 70-year-old Fang Dan said with excitement in front of the media: Wang Aicai might take away his bonus. Although he had said it many times, this time Fang Dan solemnly stated: What I said this time is true! His hope
maximum.
The fact that Turin Sports News praised Wang Ai so hard is actually due to South Korea. South Korea's Hong Myungpo won the bronze ball by virtue of South Korea's top four status, which made the Italian media and Spanish media very dissatisfied. They published articles one after another to continue to criticize
Korean football: Without the referee's favoritism, the Korean team would not have been able to advance to the top 8, so what about the bronze goal? This bronze goal was snatched from Wang Ai by the Koreans with the advantage of the host nation!
Although the Koreans did not enter the semi-finals, and Wang Ai actually could not get it, it did not stop the Italians from thinking like this. While they scolded the shamelessness of the Koreans in the media, they also praised other Asian teams, especially the Japanese team and China
team. And after accidentally discovering this explosive news about Wang Ai, of course they had to make a big deal about it.
Even the spokesperson of the FIFA president publicly said in an interview after the World Cup: He believed that the Chinese team was the most regrettable team in this World Cup because they had a "terrible No. 13."
As soon as this report came out, Wang Ai's original purpose of choosing this number was finally achieved: to scare you!
