Rustenburg is a very small city. Its name in Dutch means 'resting town'. People who come here will always stop themselves in the sunshine of Rustenburg.

The pace here is so slow that time seems to have forgotten that it has ever passed.

The city of Rustenburg, located in the northwest of South Africa, is not only a well-known tourist destination, known as the "Utopia", it has also hosted the Miss World beauty pageant for 5 consecutive times, which sounds very glamorous.

On June 11, 2010, the tranquility of Rustenburg was broken, and the Chinese national team arrived here.

With Deng Shuoxiang's kick, the Chinese team defeated the French national team 1:0 in Reunion Island four days ago. Although it was only a very irregular friendly match, it was enough to be recorded in the history of the Chinese team.

In that game, Zhuoyang was replaced by Rong Hao in the 75th minute, but the French team still had no way to defeat the Chinese team. It continued to attack and could only scratch the surface. The shooting ratio of 17 to 6 in the game was far less than the 0 on the scoreboard:

1 came as a shock.

In the next two days, both the Chinese and French teams continued to stay on Reunion Island to prepare for the war. Zhuo Yang took time to break into the French team's station to reassure Scar. The war was coming, and there must be no recurrence of troubles in an unstoppable place.

In a team that brings everyone together, being wise and self-protective is not a derogatory term. Take care of yourself and do your own thing, and you will do the best you can. Leave the rest to your God.

I don’t know if Scar heard it, but Zhuo Yang felt that the French team was very hung up this time, very hung up on him.

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After leaving Reunion, Zhuo Yang and the Chinese team first went to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, where they played the final warm-up match against the Toure brothers' Cote d'Ivoire, but lost 1:2 to their opponents.

This is not surprising. Although the striker Drogba did not play, the overall strength of Côte d'Ivoire is still much higher than that of the Chinese team. Lille forward Gervinho and Hamburg full-back Demel each scored one goal.

Li Jinyu equalized the score at the beginning of the second half.

It can be seen from these warm-up matches that the captain Zhuo Yang, who is the soul and strength of the Chinese team, is not in very good condition. After a season of fighting, the ups and downs caused by fatigue at this time are understandable. It is not easy to enter professional football.

Over the years, Zhuoyang knows how to adjust, and Jieshuai also gives him full freedom in training.

At this point, the Chinese team has ended all the warm-up before the World Cup with a record of 6 games, 3 wins and 3 losses, and will wait for the hustle and bustle to come, and the first game will be in Rustenburg.

Arriving in this small town with the Chinese team, there were also a large number of media reporters and fans who came like a dark cloud. There are a large number of Chinese and overseas Chinese in southern Africa, and the Chinese who can take root and develop here have basic economic conditions.

All good. The game will be played in different places, and many Chinese will follow the national team to move around.

A large number of fans even came from China. Chinese suddenly became the most popular language in Rustenburg, a small town with a population of only 300,000. "Have you eaten?" and "One, two, three, eggplant" were heard in the streets.

"Chinese Expeditionary Force Occupies Rustenburg" - said the local newspaper.

The next day, as the Paraguay national team also arrived here, Rustenburg became even more lively. However, compared with the huge expedition of Chinese fans, Paraguay fans were very few and did not dare to speak loudly. As a country not as big as Gansu,

The population is only 1/3 of Gansu, and the GDP is only 1/4 of Gansu. Outside the stadium, Paraguay is struggling.

Relaxation is the way of civility and martial arts. After rest and adaptive training, the entire national team came to Piranesberg National Park, one of the world's three natural parks located southwest of Rustenburg, on the opening day of the World Cup.

The opening ceremony was held in Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa, 120 kilometers southeast of Rustenburg. Latin singer Maybarak Shakira once again showed off her twerking and water snake waist to sing "Wakawaka (thistime for africa)" African Moment.

In fact, "Wakawaka" is not the theme song of the World Cup in South Africa, but "'Wavin' Flag" ("Wavin' Flag"), another song written and sung by Somali-Canadian singer K'naan at the opening ceremony.

But just like the 1998 World Cup in France, Jusso N'Do's "Do You Mind If I Play Football" (lacourdesgrands) lost to Ricky Martin's "Cup of Life" (lacopadelavida); the 2006 World Cup in Germany, "The Time of Our Lives"

(thetimeofourlives) lost to Shakira's "hipsdon'tlie";

In 2008, "Beijing Welcomes You" was more popular than "You and Me". Even earlier in the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, people thought "Asian Glory" was the anthem, but "Burn the Torch" was.

Many times, the popularity of promotional songs exceeds the official title song. After all, officials cannot only consider the melody and rhythm, but also the depth and connotation of the song. For so many years, only the Italians who live in animation have done so in 1990.

"Italian Summer" (un'estateitaliana) has created a classic height that other football-related songs cannot match.

The Italian summer made Giorgio Moroder and the smoky-voiced Gina Nanini become eternal legends, and Shakira must continue to work hard.

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Going to the savannah to see lions, baboons and hyenas is a good way to relax. In the Pilanesberg National Park, the national team and the Paraguayan national team also met unexpectedly. In such a huge natural park, two teams

The team is on the same tourist route.

In this Paraguay team, Zhuo Yang’s only acquaintance is the former Bayern player Santa Cruz. When they played against Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga Madiburg, Peng Peng broke Santa Cruz’s cruciate ligament and almost made him unable to compete.

Catch up with the World Cup in Germany four years ago.

When he was at Bayern, Santa Cruz had a good relationship with Xiaozhu. That injury had a great impact on him, and his originally strong upward momentum came to an abrupt end. Since then, he has become an opportunistic forward with glass man attributes. A year later,

Bayern gave up on him and Santa Cruz went to the Premier League.

Although he transferred to the new giant Manchester City last year, he can only be a substitute, and the flavor of the backup is very strong. Even in today's national team, the former "Paraguay's Batistuta" is no longer the main striker.

Because of Xiaozhu's relationship, Zhuoyang and Santa Cruz were able to chat quite well back then, and they were considered friends in the Bundesliga. Times have changed, and Zhuoyang four years later didn't even know that he had moved to Manchester City.

Some people say that under Kaka, Santa Cruz has the most handsome face in the football world. Maybe this statement is quite reasonable. In 2003, Roque Santa Cruz and Gisela Tavarelli played in Asunção

During the wedding, more than 200 female fans outside Metropolitana Cathedral cried so hard that they shed tears on the red carpet.

Zhuo Yang chatted happily with the former Bundesliga's most handsome man: "Roque, you really don't look like you are twenty-nine years old. You don't look old at all."
Chapter completed!