The group draw has ended for half a year. England has been preparing for the three opponents in the World Cup. Now everyone in the team knows very well about the three opponents. The opponent in the first game was Paraguay. In recent decades, Paraguay has been a very strong up-and-coming player in South American football. In the eyes of fans, Paraguay is already the second team that has posed a substantial threat to Brazil and Argentina after Uruguay.

This is the third time Paraguay has reached the World Cup finals in a row. This stable performance is enough to show their strength and growth. In today's South American football, except for Brazil and Argentina, other goals are lost, such as Colombia, upstart Ecuador and former South American strong team Uruguay, which are difficult to compete with Paraguay, especially this Paraguay team, where there are many famous stars in the world football world.

Among them, the famous ones are captain Gamara, the new star Santa Cruz and Baradez.

Gamara, who is 35 years old this year, can be said to be an evergreen in Paraguay football. Since her debut in the national team in March 1993, Gamara has made a total of nearly 80 games, and has now broken the record of Paraguay's most games in history, which is held by Juan Bautista Torrares.

Even Paraguay football flag figure Ziravit is much inferior to him. It can be said that he is the soul of the Paraguay national team.

Gamara plays as a central defender, the captain of the Paraguay national team, and the only candidate for the scavenger and drag-back central defender in the team. He is the most important pawn in the defensive counterattack system. Gamara is strong and has an excellent header. He is the decisive and decisive needle on Paraguay's defense line. Gamara was selected into the best team in the 1998 World Cup.

Gamara is very outstanding. He has played for many clubs - Portno Hills, Argentina, Benfica, Corinthians, Atletico Madrid, Flamengo, Athens Aek and Inter Milan... This series of names include small teams and top giants such as Inter Milan. When playing for Inter Milan, Gamara was already 33 years old, which shows how "evergreen" this veteran is. At the age of 33, Inter Milancan still provides him with a player contract. Even those famous big-name stars are difficult to do this.

Although he is thirty-five years old, Gamara is extremely important in Paraguay. He is not only the captain, but also the only candidate for scavengers and dragging centre-backs in the team.

Paraguay's second star is Rock Santa Cruz. He is Paraguay's leading scorer and a typical talent player worldwide. When he was only nine years old, Santa Cruz had already joined Paraguay's famous Olympia Club youth team. At the age of fifteen, Santa Cruz represented Olympia in the game. With his outstanding physical condition and good shooting awareness. His performance was quite good. Of course, it is not enough to be famous to be stronger than others. Santa Cruz's advantage is that he has a handsome face, so he soon became an idol-level star in Paraguay football. In Paraguay, Santa Cruz is now like Beckham at the peak of his time in England. His appeal among fans is unparalleled.

Now, Santa Cruz plays for Bayern Munich.

However, the name of Santa Cruz in Europe is not very loud. In fact, he performed well. He made 19 appearances last season and scored eleven goals for Bayern Munich. The efficiency of this goal is definitely excellent.

But the most important thing is that Santa Cruz's body is the same as his handsome face...it seems to be bad if you touch it.

He was constantly injured, constantly injured.

He is only twenty-five years old now. His fame is gradually increasing, but due to injury problems, his appearance has been unstable. In early May, Beckenbauer said, "If he is in better health, maybe he can become Bayern's Zhang."

Comparing Santa Cruz to Zhang Tiehan... This is definitely a very high evaluation.

Although Zhang Tiehan is younger than Santa Cruz, he scored too many goals at Liverpool, and now he has become synonymous with goals. In short, fans take it for granted when they hear this kind of reliance. Beckenbauer's meaning is obviously that he hopes that Santa Cruz can always play for Bayern, so that his goals will be in a constant source of energy.

For Paraguay, the good news is that Santa Cruz is now physically fine, and he has all recovered. Many people expect Santa Cruz to exert their strength, and Paraguay may appear in the group by then.

In addition to Gamara and Santa Cruz, Carlos Baradez is also the pillar of Paraguay.

Gamala represents Paraguay's backcourt, Santa Cruz represents Paraguay's forward line, and Carlos Baradez represents Paraguay's midfielder. He is the star of the Italian team Regina. He can become the star of a Serie A team. Baradez's strength cannot be underestimated. Not only that, Baradez's goal efficiency is also good. In the past season, Baradez scored nine goals for Regina in 27 league games he participated in. It is amazing that a midfielder in a small club can be so efficient.

Although Barades is thirty years old, he has just completed the transfer before the World Cup - from Regina to Portuguese giant Sporting Lisbon, who paid him a transfer fee of 6.5 million euros.

Paraguay has forwards, midfielders, and backcourts who can shoulder heavy responsibilities. This shows that Paraguay is definitely not an opponent that can be underestimated.

In the media's opinion, Paraguay has the potential to become a dark horse. It is not impossible for them to qualify in Group B. England is unlikely to be eliminated in the group stage. Paraguay's competitor is Sweden. I think it is stronger than Sweden, but Paraguay is not weak at all. If they perform well, they will likely squeeze out Sweden's qualifying quota.

Now they are going to play against England.

Paraguayan media believe that the team still has hope to threaten the performance of England. Although there is little hope, Paraguay can draw in this game with England, which is a victory. If they can get points against England, it will be very beneficial for their qualifying in the group.

However, most people still feel hope is slim.

Perhaps Paraguay's lineup is outstanding compared to some small teams, but compared with the English team with the highest overall value in the world, their lineup is a bit shabby. For example, their star Gamara, if he is an Englishman, will definitely not be able to enter the England team. Santa Cruz performed well, but his performance would like to join the England team... I guess he could barely compete with Walcott, because both Irving, Rooney or Zhang Tiehan performed much better than him.

That is, midfielder Barades can still make do with it.

But if his performance is in the English lineup, it depends on Erikson's idea to play. After all, England has two midfielders Gerrard and Lampard, who are the core of Premier League team Liverpool, Chelsea, and Regina's core... It's a bit not enough to see.

In short, the two teams are still incomparable.

Before the opening ceremony of the World Cup, England were preparing for the game. For the opening ceremony, the team was just a formality, but the opening ceremony still had to be participated. For England, the game time was not very good. The team's game was arranged at the Allianz Stadium in Munich, after the match between Germany and Costa Rica.

In other words, the whole team has to attend the opening ceremony and then take a rest for more than an hour to prepare for the game.

Perhaps when they enter the court, they can catch up with the end of the match between Germany and Costa Rica...

In short, this game time will make England very busy on this day.

But as one of the highly-watched teams, there is no way to be arranged for such time to play, especially under the publicity of FIFA. England and Paraguay were promoted as an early collision between European football and South American football.

The collision between European football and South American football is an eternal topic in the world football world.

South American strong teams include Brazil and Argentina. They are all the world's top teams, among which Brazil is the team that has won the most World Cup championships in history. Although Argentina is a little worse, it has won two World Cup championships. Since the Maradona era, there have been endless domestic stars in Argentina. The overall strength of the team is quite strong.

There are many teams with strong European football skills.

Italy, Germany, England, and France are all highly anticipated strong teams, Spain, the Netherlands and others are second, but they are just historical results. Nowadays, European teams have a little bit of fame and strength. This shows that in recent years, the strength of various countries has been much balanced.

England's performance has not been very good in recent years, but no one questioned their strength... Who would question the team that has many world-class superstars such as Beckham, Gerald, Lampard, Terry, Zhang Tiehan, Rooney?

Paraguay is also a rising star in South America, so this game was also promoted as the first collision between European football and South American football.

Because the schedule and opening ceremony are closely connected, media outlets from all walks of life interviewed the opening ceremony before the game, and the England team did not receive much disturbance when preparing for the game.

The opening ceremony soon began.

Like other teams, the whole English team wore traditional white jerseys and walked onto the stadium together, which felt like they were being reviewed by fans on the spot. It was like the same state as the Olympic Games. This was the first time Zhang Tiehan experienced these. He felt very interesting, so he followed the team around the stadium for a chronic week and accepted the audience's eyes as the rhythm of the music.

The atmosphere at the scene was not that serious, and he looked around casually.

This is his first World Cup trip. He enjoys every process. Even when he enters the stadium for the opening ceremony, he feels very interesting. Maybe it will feel boring when he participates again in the future?

Turning around to see the teammates’ energetic appearance, Zhang Tiehan got the answer.

After all, this is the highest stage in the world!

I guess no matter how many times I participate in it, no one will find it boring. What's more, how many times can a professional player participate in a four-year event? It starts at the age of 20 and can still participate at the age of 32, and it is uninterrupted in the middle of the journey. It's only four times that it's going smoothly.

I don’t know what I will look like when I am thirty-two years old...

Zhang Tiehan's thinking is a bit erratic.

However, his eyes paid attention to the stands everywhere. He saw the stunning group of beautiful ladies in the stands on the left. It was a powerful supporter of the England team. However, fans from other countries also supported the England team for the ladies... Not to mention anything else, this group of women will definitely increase the ratings of the England team's game and increase the fans' interest in the England team's game.

Football and beauty are never separated.

Zhang Tiehan thought, and suddenly laughed. Suddenly he widened his eyes and looked at one direction. Time was slowing down in his eyes. This was the magical skill of "see through". Under his eyes, the fans in that direction were clearly visible, and each one could see clearly.

To his surprise, he saw an acquaintance.

Four women, one man...

One of the women, Zhang Tiehan, recognized them at a glance. They were Zhang Meiling, his sister... no, no, sister! Then he looked at the blonde beauty next to him. They were the female student who met in China, Lucia, Zhang Meiling's classmate, and a young, beautiful and shorter gentle girl behind them. Zhang Tiehan didn't remember them very clearly, but when he recalled them, he was very sure. That was Chen Lin, a little girl who had a love relationship with his cousin. Thinking about it was really interesting to go to China last year. The morning after his cousin had sex with her... his thoughts went off again.

The fourth woman, who looked familiar and had a camera in her hand, looked like a reporter, looked like she was dressed up, and Zhang Tiehan was very sure that she had seen her. A Chinese reporter was... In the end, Zhang Tiehan still didn't remember her name. After all, he met too many reporters, and even many Chinese female reporters were quite a few.

That man...

Zhang Tiehan gritted his teeth because he saw the man half-wrugging Zhang Meiling. If he could do something now, Zhang Tiehan would definitely rush over and punch him hard. Tell him, "Let go of my sister!"

Although Zhang Meiling and him are not very deep, after all, the number of times they meet is really limited, but they are still their own sister!

My cousin is very close, and he only has this one cousin!

Then it's the same as your own sister!

Is that? Mix-Egg!

Zhang Tiehan gritted his teeth and clenched his fists tightly. Lampard and Bridge were walking beside him. Both of them felt a little strange when they saw his performance. The three of them were really not familiar with them before. Lampard was fine, while Bridge was completely unfamiliar, but they would become teammates in the future. Zhang Tiehan had a lot of communication with the two these days, and maybe they could be considered good friends.

Lampard asked, "What's wrong? Zhang!" He looked in the direction of Zhang Tiehan's gaze, but there were only crowds of fans there, and with his eyes, it was impossible for him to look at them all carefully.

Bridge was the same, he joked, "Are you watching the beauty? There is it? By the way, Peronsel and the others there."

Zhang Tiehan and Lampard both rolled their eyes.

Nesa Peronsel is Bridge's new girlfriend. The two have not had much time to date. This time Bridge brought Peronsel to Germany. He wanted Peronsel to integrate into the wife's group. However, Peronsel is a newcomer, especially since she has not been dating Bridge for a long time, she can be said to have no connections in the wife's group, and she doesn't seem to be very popular with women, so she is a little excluded.

But Bridge doesn't care. He seems to like talking about Peronsel in front of his teammates.

Zhang Tiehan also looked at the wife group again, then he looked at Bridge carefully and asked, "Wayne, is there a blue crystal pendant on Peronsel's chest? Did you give it to him?"

Bridge was stunned and subconsciously said, "How did you know?"

"She wears so little, she's exposed. There are two men in the back row staring at her chest..." Zhang Tiehan rolled his eyes and continued to walk forward. Bridge was stunned for a long time before being urged by the staff behind to follow him.

Zhang Tiehan didn't know what Bridge was feeling at the opening ceremony. He felt a little guilty. Bridge was joking with him just now, and he just hit back, but this seemed to be a bit too much.

So after attending the opening ceremony and returning to the hotel, Zhang Tiehan apologized sincerely to Bridge.

Bridge said generously, "Nothing."

It's really nothing.

Lampard didn't think this was a matter at all. He only thought that Zhang Tiehan was joking. After all, they hadn't seen each other with their wife for two days. How could Zhang Tiehan know that Peronsel had a blue pendant on his chest? This doesn't make sense, but it's not true, only Zhang Tiehan and Bridge knew about it.

Then everyone saw Bridge making a phone call and cursing twice on the phone. One of the words they heard clearly, "You have to wear more clothes!" No one would like to expose their girlfriend's chest to others.

Fortunately, this is not a big problem.

Zhang Tiehan's own problems made him even more angry. Zhou Yang... That guy actually dared to hug his sister. When he was in China last summer, Zhou Yang was chasing Zhang Meiling, but the two of them were definitely not so close. The more he thought about it, the more angry he felt.

Also...why did they come to Germany?

When did it come?

Why didn't he say anything? Zhang Tiehan didn't know at all. He was sure that his cousin Zhang Zhenren didn't know either. In other words, they went to Germany to watch football privately.

Is this going to give them a surprise?

Then Zhang Tiehan thought of Lucia again. He remembered that the blonde beauty tasted really good... His thoughts were a bit off. The key was that Lola was still in the wife group... No, he shouldn't think about these things!

Zhang Tiehan held the phone in his hand and hesitated for a long time and decided to deal with the game first!

He shook his head hard.

However, it was a bit difficult to forget. When I entered the Allianz Stadium again, when I was warming up before the game, Zhang Tiehan looked around the stands, but he saw nothing. Then he went back to the locker room and listened to Benitez's last instructions on tactics and other things. Zhang Tiehan was still thinking about this when he returned to the stadium.
To be continued...