PS1: I continue to ask for recommendation votes here, saying that free books don’t require everyone to spend money, so it should be fine to give more recommendation votes? Thank you here~

PS2: Let me talk about the book friends group here. The group numbers are three, seven, zero, five, four, nine, nine, one, nine, and the verification answer is NTR Knight, well, that's it.

PS3: Here I would like to thank the book friend for his reward for "reluctance is not in vain".

With the end of the group stage, this World Cup has officially entered the knockout stage. The sixteen national teams that stood out in the group stage will fight each other in the next time and launch an attack on the Hercules Cup placed on the podium!

"Haha, I'm so lucky. I didn't expect that our opponent in the quarterfinals would be the Korean team!" After Portugal was eliminated, Toti, who was sitting at the dining table and eating breakfast, said to Vieri and Inzagji, who were dining with him at the same table, "With the defensive quality of the Korean team, they will definitely not be able to defend our offense... Christian, your chance to break the record is here~"

"Don't underestimate the enemy too much, Francesco." Since they are often divided into a group in the national team training, Vieri and Toti are very familiar with each other. After experiencing more big scenes, he knew that he should be more cautious at this time, so he kindly reminded, "You know, even Portugal fell at their feet, which proves that they still have some strength. If Portugal's opponents at that time were replaced by a team like Saudi Arabia, they would have three less people, and Saudi Arabia would probably not be able to beat Portugal."

"Of course I know this~ Yes, the Korean team's level is indeed the first-class level in Asia. Although their Football Association is a little shameless, its strength is much higher than that of Saudi Arabia. But they did win Portugal by relying on the advantage of numerical power. You can't deny this?"

Toti said indifferently, waving the fork in his hand, with a half-eating foie gras sandwich inserted on it, "So, they won Portugal by relying on the advantage of fighting for more two people. What's so great about such a team? Portugal is really a waste. If two people are missing, they can't hold on. If it were Italy, let alone the two people are fighting for less, even if there are three people, with the ability of the Koreans, it would be a whimsical idea to break our goal!"

If Zhuang Mingge was here now, he would have told Totti very seriously that you are right, and under normal circumstances, South Korea is indeed not an opponent of Italy, but he did not plan to play well with you in the rules from the beginning. There is also a twelfth player like the referee,

"I'll tell you..." Vieri was about to correct Toti's overconfident attitude with the example of losing to Croatia in the first group stage, but Inzaghi's sudden interruption interrupted his unspoken preaching, "Hey! Francisco, put your fork away! If you throw it like this, your half sandwich will fly into my cup!"

"Ah haha, sorry, sorry..." Seeing that Inzagi said it was true, Toti quickly stuffed the crumbling half of the sandwich into his mouth and said vaguely, "Well, Philip, I forgot that I was still holding something in my hand when I was excited. I was really embarrassed."

"By the way, after this breakfast, we will leave the city and transfer the training site to South Korea." Seeing that the topic of the original discussion was interrupted by Inzaghi, Vieri did not know his intention to do so, but did not intend to bring the topic back and discuss it again, but asked another thing.

"That's right. I think someone should notify us to pack up and move the position in a while." Inzaji said, putting a piece of Kobe beef in his mouth. "The task now is to replenish nutrition. I heard that the meat in South Korea is very expensive. Ordinary civilians even regard eating meat as a very luxurious thing... I don't know if we can only eat kimchi every day after we get there."

"Haha, Philip, you're really good at joking." Vieri, who was laughing, slapped Inzaghi on the back, almost choking the latter who was savoring the authentic Kobe beef delicious. "As far as I know, South Korea is a high-income country with an annual income of nearly 10,000 US dollars per capita. How could it be that it could not even afford meat?"

"Tsk, you don't believe it. When you get there, you will know whether what I said is true or false." Inzaji swallowed the beef into his stomach, rolled his eyes at Vieri disdainfully, and then continued to attack another steak. After all, although Kobe beef is famous, it is almost only sold in Japan due to its small output. Therefore, if you don't take this opportunity to eat more, Inzaji, as a senior foodie, will regret it for the rest of your life.

Until Vieri arrived in South Korea and found that a pound of beef here could be sold for nearly twenty dollars, and a bowl of noodles without a few pieces of meat could be sold for a pound of beef, he no longer had to get entangled with Inzaghi about this issue.

Then, Vieri and others complained about the organizer's scam schedule. They didn't understand why the organizer made such a arrangement on the schedule and actually arranged a team that played three group matches in Japan to play the next knockout round in South Korea...

I don’t know if the organizer deliberately did it when arranging the schedule. After entering the knockout stage, if Italy can keep winning, almost all of their next games will be held in South Korea. In this way, it would be not so appropriate for the Football Association to place the national team’s training ground in Osaka, so they had to choose to move to Seoul to prepare for the next game.

After all, no matter what, South Korea and Japan are two countries after all, and the distance between them is not as close as Belgium and the Netherlands. A 180-kilometer-wide South Korea Strait is enough to let players taste what the fatigue of a journey is.

Therefore, the Italian internationals reluctantly bid farewell to the enthusiastic Japanese fans and their camp in Osaka, and collectively went to Seoul, the capital of South Korea (renamed Seoul only in 2005), where they found a training and accommodation venue to provide logistical support for the team's subsequent knockout stages, so as not to affect the player's condition due to long-distance travel.

Just as Italy moved their positions from Osaka to Seoul, the war in the World Cup quarterfinals also ignited under the expectation of fans!

The first to start was the showdown between Germany and Paraguay. The biggest highlight of this match, which started at 2:30 pm on June 15, was the direct dialogue between Kahn and Chilavit, and the performance of these two legendary goalkeepers in the game will also have a direct impact on the final result!
Chapter completed!