Brazil won the game to celebrate the samba dance, the Spanish team star like a confident matador elegant display of "violence aesthetics", the Japanese team at the end of the game left thousands of paper cranes blessing opponents. The Qatar World Cup is an exciting football tournament and a showcase for the cultures of all countries. The cultures of Brazil, Spain and Japan have created different football styles, reflecting different customs and concepts.

Brazil: When martial arts meets Samba

Street football is very common, the beach, the streets and alleys can often see three or five people playing football, and occasionally passers-by join to kick. As a popular sport, football is loved by Brazilians, especially children from poor families, and many are football enthusiasts, even in the mud, barefoot football, they will desperately fight to attack.

In the context of popularization, Brazilian football created a unique way of playing (Ginga, which means "rocking" in Portuguese). The most common moves in the Renga style include acrobatic driving-over, inverted hook shooting, and passing with the thigh or back, looking agile and smart.

Wenga is a soccer technique that combines two art forms: one is a Brazilian martial art called Capoeira and the other is samba. Capoeira is a martial art that originated in Africa and was introduced to Brazil by black slaves during the colonial period, first becoming popular in the black concentrated areas of Bahia state.

Capoeira includes kicking, overhead, dodging, and other movements that often coincide with the beat of a drum, and then slowly develop into an acrobatic dance performance. Samba, which originated in Brazil, is characterized by a straight, bent leg kick. Renjia is a mixture of two art forms. It has both the dexterous ball-handling skills of pendulum swing and the attacking style of fast movement.

Ren Jia playing method fits the Brazilian optimistic, cheerful, leisurely and happy spirit. In the eyes of most Brazilians, Rakuten is a "gift from God", and the expressive and expressive Brazilians express this quality on the pitch through ball control, passing, scoring goals, celebrating dances, etc.

Junga play was once considered to be a street acrobatic, but in the 1950s, Brazilian star Pele used dazzling skills in the Brazilian league and the World Cup, so that the international football world saw the creativity of Junga play. With Pele's contemporary Brazilian star Garrincha, the flowing control of the ball made the Janga play further shine on the world stage.

Since then, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Neymar have also shown on the football pitch and play. Although soccer technology has evolved over the past few decades, and many of Brazil's best players have gone to Europe to play at the top level, the Brazilian game is still at the heart of the game.

However, some football insiders believe that the current trend of international football is obvious, and the European team's playing is more common, and there are not many occasions when Renplus kicking can really play. In addition, in the World Cup field or top-level competitions, the fight is fierce, although there are occasional rainbow scenes, but there are few opportunities to show any plus playing, lack of space to play.

Latin America's three biggest footballers - Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay - are, on the whole, more skilled and more agile than their European counterparts. The three countries have all done well in the history of the World Cup, and each has its own characteristics: Uruguay's style of play is more fierce; Argentina's style of play is characterized by spontaneous attacks; Brazilian football is more of an instinctive response to improvise, so there are often artistic movements, such as scorpion tail swing, heel pass and so on.

From the cultural level, both dance and martial arts are the display of the ability to control body language, and football is the same, the same is the control of physical coordination, through the mastery and skilled use of football skills, into the cultural characteristics and customs of a country has formed.

Japan: No one stole the number 10 shirt

Japan defeated powerhouse Spain at the World Cup in Qatar, but later lost on penalties to Croatia and ended up in the round of 16. What attracted attention outside the game was the neat dressing room and the 11 paper cranes that thanked the Japanese team after the game.

In Japan, players are required from an early age to tidy up the training ground after training before they can be dismissed, and bowing to opponents to show gratitude and respect after a game, regardless of whether they win or lose, is considered as important as winning or losing.

Paper cranes in the folding process, there are mountains and valleys, meaning that life has risen, there are lows. In addition to being used to wish patients a speedy recovery, paper cranes are also used to pray for victory in sports competitions.

On the field, the Japanese team members give the impression that the technical performance is relatively consistent, the execution is high, and the collective honor is higher than some individual free display and performance. Starting from the youth training, all the players standardized and unified a lot of ball control training, boring, but the players will be in order to get the coach's recognition, without complaining to obey the collective.

Therefore, teamwork, never give up, delicate technology, and a positive will to fight and a sense of responsibility have become the sports spirit that the Japanese team has always implemented.

When Japan put forward the goal of winning the football World Cup by 2050, it was regarded by many as an unrealistic dream and was ridiculed. But then Japanese football through Germany, Spain and other strong teams to learn tactics and tactics to play, encourage Japanese players to play overseas clubs and develop youth football reserves and a series of actions, with deeply rooted in the national character of the "ninja spirit", hardships, step by step to show the world to the World Cup, to achieve long-cherished aspirations of efforts and action.

The image of the powerful and mysterious Japanese ninja is a symbol of Japanese culture. The ninja spirit of completing tasks regardless of personal fame or loss is also fully reflected in Japanese football.

Compared with the happy football culture spirit and personal charm represented by Brazil, Spain and other football strong teams, it is difficult for the Japanese football team to find such talented players as Messi and Maradona. In youth soccer training, a kid with a strong shot and a preference for big foot kicks is not welcome on the team. Putting too much emphasis on personal performance can be seen as pushy and pushy.

In a team, the number 10 represents the core player in the attack. At first, the number 10 was worn by Pele, and later became the number owned by the most powerful people in the team, Maradona and Messi have worn the number 10 shirt.

Japan has a number 10, and it is a myth that no one dares to be a number 10. The Japanese players' jersey numbers are counted and chosen by themselves, and if two people want the same number, they will guess.

For example, the famous football player Hidetoshi Nakata, his shirt numbers are 7 and 8. Because the Japanese think the number 7 is lucky, the Japanese jersey number 7 is actually more powerful. Because the world knows that No. 10 is the core of the midfield, to organize the game, to attack, so Japanese players do not rob No. 10, do not want to highlight themselves.

Spain: The blood and passion of the matador

Spanish players are known as "matador", and they fight on the field with the spirit of the matador. Football and bullfighting are both sports that can reflect the national identity of Spain. Spanish bullfighting is a sport, but also art, Hemingway said that "bullfighting is the only art that makes the artist in danger of life and death."

Spanish football has a brave, noble and elegant belonging to the matador. Commentators often use the word "gorgeous" to describe Spain's style of play. Spanish players, like bullfights, elegantly display the "aesthetics of violence."

In recent years, bullfighting has been resisted by some people and its popularity in Spain has gradually declined, but the Spanish people's love for football has never decreased. For Spaniards, the blood and passion that erupts on the court is no less than that in the bullring.

Many Spanish teams are highly skilled and focus on individual performance, like confident bullfighters. When it comes to tactical pursuits, Spain espouse a dizzying combination of quicksilver. The Spanish team has an obvious advantage in ball possession, which is like the bullring, which must be a man playing with the bull, and needs to have absolute control.

For Spanish football, the result of the game is important, but the process is also important, which is like bullfighting, the process of "killing the cow" must be elegant, must show the "beauty of violence" gracefully. "Sugar cane is not sweet at both ends", this elegant and gorgeous kicking method in Spain, also has a rollover. Too much emphasis on ball control, the high ball control rate sometimes becomes a liability. In the World Cup arena, Spain's gorgeous playing has been Japan and Morocco team washed away, had to go home.

Spanish football is also a clash of cultures. Known as the "Galactico" Real Madrid club is located in the capital Madrid, from the cultural heritage is considered to be the representative of the "Castilian spirit", Castilian people are the main ethnic group in Spain. "Real Madrid" not only has the word royal in its name, but also has a close connection with the royal family and the upper echelons over the years.

Fc Barcelona, at the beginning of its establishment, was called the "soul of Catalonia", which was endowed with a strong cultural attribute and a sense of national belonging by the Catalans, a minority ethnic group with distinct cultural characteristics. Therefore, the "Real Madrid" versus "Barcelona" matches are regarded as the national Derby of Spanish football, is the "spirit of Castilla" and the "soul of Catalonia" match, is the collision of two cultures, each time is a spark, passion.

In addition, there is the Basque country's Athletic Bilbao club, which has been described as the "most quixotic" team. The protagonist of the novel "Don Quixote" sees the windmill as a giant, rushing to challenge it single-handedly, fighting a battle that cannot be won, persistent and foolhardy. In the world of football, Athletic Bilbao has its own obsession. Even when playing against such "giants" as "Real Madrid" and "Barcelona", they also took out the dedication of Don Quixote to fight windmills, and showed no fear of brave "bright sword".