The once every 4 years World Cup is approached and it is the 21st World Cup in 2018 held in Russia. Thirty-two national teams will fight for a championship. The audience will enjoy the excitement and match will make the audience enjoyable. The World Cup event is the most important big match in this year, therefore, before this football feast begins, we may wish to review the past events of the previous World Cup.

The absence of a 4-star Italy in this World Cup is really regrettable. As the winner of the 2006 World Cup championship, the rapid fall of Italian football has been implemented in some incredible ways. However, if you look at Italy’s 2006 championship, you will find it is a living miracle.

In 2006, it was a boundary for Italian football. As the most successful Serie A in the world at the time, a terrible fraud incident broke out. Juventus was severely punished and dropped into the second division, and other strong teams such as AC Milan and Florence were all affected. At the time, the entire Serie A was arrogant and the players’ emotions were extremely hard but almost all of the Italian national team came from the local league. This situation made it hard to be optimistic about the “Blue Army.”

However, the mentality is on the one hand, but look at the Italian team was on the lineup, it was a talented group. The frontline has Totti, Toni, Piero, Inzaghi and Gilardino are enough to be scary; in the midfield there are Pirlo and Gattuso’s gold partners; the defence line led by Buffon There are Cannavaro, Zambrotta, Nesta and Materazzi stand in front. This series of names enjoys a reputation as the main force and even the core player of their respective clubs.

However, Italian media at that time said this sentence: “The Italian team is like a perfect team, in addition to Grosso the sand.” Grosso was the main left-back of the Italian national team at that time, but it means In the media’s attitude, Italians do not trust this left-back. To know that the strong left-back has always been Italy’s tradition, Facheti, Cabrini and other names are prosperous.

It is true that Grosso’s resume is the most shabby of the Italian starting lineup. He started in the amateur league and only played Serie A at the age of 25. And as a full-back, he looks a little out of shape, Grosso’s height reaches 193 centimeters. It’s hard to imagine how he could not withstand the impact of the speed of the world’s top strikers with almost no major competition experience.

However, if Italy at the time put Zambrotta on the right-back position, the left-back did not have a better choice. So, in a questioning voice, Gross began his first World Cup tour. The opponents of the group stage Italy are Ghana, the United States and the Czech Republic. In this group, the “Blue Army” has an absolute advantage, with a record of two wins and one draw. The left side of Grosso was not too much tested. Under the overall excellent performance, people almost forgot the “sand”.

The transition took place in the knockout round. Like many Italian seniors, Grosso led to an outbreak after the group’s qualifying. The 1/8 finals faced the Australian team led by “Magic Coach” Hiddink. The opponent’s solid defense and fierce squabble brought great trouble to the Italian team. At the end of the game, the score was still 0–0. At the last moment, a miracle happened, when Grosso Gross scored a ball to the penalty zone and caused an Australian defender foul, the referee whistled for a penalty.

This is a worthy penalty kick. At that time, CCTV’s famous commentary Huang Jianxiang could not hide his inner joy, saying that Grosso was “a great left back”! Then Totti limped into the penalty shot. On the birthday of Maldini, the name of Grosso was branded in Italy’s left-back position.

However, the wonderful performance belonging to Grosso was not over. The 3–0 win over Ukraine in the quarter-finals proved that the overall strength of the Italian team was excellent. The real challenge was to host the German team in the semi-finals. Italy’s match with Germany has no sense of being the most exciting match of the World Cup. Both sides have demonstrated the world’s top defensive performance. Grosso completed 9 clearances and 2 successful tackles in 90 minutes, even if faced with the fast-forward winger Odongkol did not fall behind.

However, the moment that actually belonged to Grosso came from the last few minutes of extra time. On the 118th minute, Pirlo connected to the corner of the penalty zone and took a horizontal pass. Grosso, who had been heading for the ball, never stopped. The ball, straight from the left foot to pull out an arc, the ball turned around Lehman’s finger tip into the net. 1 to 0! This was the moment when Grosso made the most of his career. He was almost alone in dragging the Italian team into the finals.

In the final against Italy, the old French team, both of you did not come to me to get advantage, and even the 30 minutes of overtime did not distinguish the result, and ultimately had to rely on the penalty to determine the champion. In the penalty shoot-out, the two old strong teams also did not allow each other to continue until the final round of suspense. At this time, Grosso stood on the penalty point and only needed to goal, Italy could take away the Hercules cup.

At this time, Grosso showed excellent status and excellent psychological qualities. He stepped once and finally sent the ball to Bartz’s handle. It is with this penalty that the Italian team won the World Cup for the fourth time in history and Berlin has become a blue ocean. This championship can be said to have saved the shadowy football environment in Italy to some extent, and the biggest contender is the most unremarkable Fabio Grosso in the lineup!

As a result, the legendary story of each World Cup has its own charms. The miraculous counterattack of Grosso in the 2006 World Cup was a topic that people talked about after dinner. With the approach of Russia in 2018, what kind of story can this World Cup bring me? let us wait and see!

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