The World Cup is a field where heroes are made, where every player fights for the jersey they wear and for the country behind them.
A jersey holds our respect and admiration for the stronger ones, and those unforgettable times that can never come back.
1994 Robert Baggio
On 18 July 1994, in the Rose Bowl, when the passionate and exuberant yellow met the quiet and melancholic blue, the most dreary yet classic final of the World Cup was born.
Without the penalty kick that flew into the sky, Baggio might not have been so glamorous. Although Baggio, who was not trusted by his manager, was unable to score in the group stage, Italy’s number 10 sent his team into the final with five golden goals after entering the knockout stage.
Against Nigeria and Spain, Baggio scored a series of last-gasp kills, and against Bulgaria, he scored twice to dominate the game. In the decisive match against Brazil, he failed to score again, and Italy also lost on penalties after 120 minutes of fierce fighting. When Baggio’s penalty kick flew off the crossbar at that moment, that low head, crossed his waist, tied a ponytail melancholy back figure from now on forever printed in the heart of a generation of fans.
Fans love heroes, and the defeat and suffering of heroes is also a different kind of beauty of tragedy, the beauty of sadness.
Italy 1994 World Cup Home Shirt
2006 David Beckham
Even if you don’t know anything about football, you must know the name Beckham. As probably the most popular player of all time, Beck’s skills and professionalism have been greatly underestimated.
In 2006, England’s ‘strongest ever’ team, led by captain David Beckham, set off for the World Cup in Germany. However, after the opening match, the star-studded Three Lions were hardly convincing, and in the 1/8 match against Ecuador, Beckham, who had three assists in the group stage, brought the team into the last eight with a wonderful round-moon curler. After eight years, Bei’s arc reappeared in the World Cup, behind the scenery is Bei’s heartbreak to dehydration and vomiting.
Quarter match against the old enemy Portugal, early due to injury Beckham, can only watch his teammates on the bench red banished, watching the team penalty kicks defeat.
2006 Cristiano Ronaldo
In the breathtaking England vs Portugal match in 2006, a 21-year-old became the centre of attention. First, he indirectly caused the opponent’s red card, and then in the penalty shootout finale to score the winning point, he is Cristiano Ronaldo.
That was Cristiano Ronaldo’s first time on the stage of the World Cup, when he was still wearing No. 17, when he was still surrounded by Figo, Deco, such as the big brother can rely on.
The World Cup in Germany, Portugal went all the way through, while Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first World Cup goal in the group stage. Semi-final, Portugal 0-1 defeat Zidane’s France stopped the quarter-finals, young Cristiano Ronaldo once again in front of the camera shed tears of sadness.
Penalties, controversy, quarter-finals, tears, this is Cristiano Ronaldo’s first love of the World Cup.
Portugal 2006 World Cup Home Shirt
2014 Lionel Messi
You can’t talk about Cristiano Ronaldo without mentioning Lionel Messi’s name. They have dominated world football for the past decade.
Messi’s World Cup dream also began in 2006. Unlike Cristiano Ronaldo, who made it to the quarter-finals on his debut in the tournament, it wasn’t until 2014 that Messi had his World Cup.
Brazil World Cup, Messi from the beginning to carry the team to destroy the flag, three group games, four goals, the first round of the knockout round to send a century of assists, four consecutive games elected best of the match Messi created a record of unprecedented. Without him, the score of Argentina’s first four matches would have been 1-1, 0-0, 1-2 and 0-0.
Maybe he is too tired, maybe he has exhausted all his luck in scoring. After entering the knockout rounds, Messi failed to score again, and Argentina, which had made it all the way to the final, lost the cup in extra time against Germany.
Messi, Ronaldo, Kaka, Klose, Zidane, Torres, Beckham, Baggio …… Nearly 100 jerseys from 1984 to 2018 will be on footballshirtretro.com
These classic jerseys are engraved with the same memories and joys, gratitude and fondness that have been woven into the years.
