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In the World Cup in Russia, the German team was kicked out by the South Korean team.
The defeat of the German team gave the writers inspiration.
For example, "Champion Curse":
There is also the "Mexican Curse":
In addition to all kinds of curses, some people pointedly pointed out that Russia was not a blessed place for Germany at all. During World War II, Hitler was folded on this land.
Speaking of World War II, the narrator appeared again...
In fact, the heaviness of history cannot be summed up by a few light-hearted paragraphs.
There was once such a team that was retaliated by the Gestapo for defeating Germany, and most of its players died unexpectedly. There is a movie based on this real event called "The Great Escape".
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Although "The Great Escape" is based on tragic events, it is an out-and-out comedy starring Stallone, Mike Kane, and ball king Bailey.
In the late World War II, a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp was located in France and accommodated a number of allied prisoners of war.
There are two types of prisoners of war, one is officers and the other is soldiers. The officers gathered together secretly to plan the escape, and the soldiers had a bigger heart, playing football every day for fun.
German officer Steiner, a former retired player of the national team, looked at the prisoners of war playing football with an itch. Once, the ball rolled to Steiner's feet, and the prisoner of war Hatch (Stallone) asked him to kick it over. Steiner tipped his toes and turned the ball upside down, with superb skills.
At that time, the German Nazi offensive declined and gradually became fatigued. In order to boost morale, Steiner had a whim to engage in a football match to make the tall German team fight against the Allied POWs.
Steiner told Kobe the POW of this idea.
Kobe is a British captain and a former British international. Kobe said that it is possible to play games, but with conditions. First, we must provide special rations, meat, fresh vegetables, eggs, and beer; second, we must have uniform uniforms, footwear and socks; third, free selection of players, regardless of military rank, whoever can.
From hundreds of prisoners of war, it is not easy to find 11 who can play.
The most powerful seed player is the prisoner of war played by the ball king Bailey. His ball-bumping skills are breathtaking. Kobe asked him where he learned it. Bailey said, I’ve been kicking oranges on the street since I was a kid.
Hatch, played by Stallone, is the most troublesome player for Kobe. He is an American who is very motivated, but he doesn't know how to play football. Every time he kicks, he can't help but throws the ball with his hands. He mistakenly thinks football is rugby.
Kobe had an idea and made Hatch a goalkeeper.
The game is scheduled for August 15th in Paris, an occupied area, open to the public.
Behind the game, both sides are making their own calculations. The German Nazis wanted to use this ball game to boost the fighting spirit of the soldiers, and by the way, to publicize the concept of the "Greater German Co-Prosperity Circle" to the people in the occupied territories.
The Allies wanted to use the ball game to make a prisoner of war escape. Among them, Hatch in the team is a prison break veteran.
Kobe proposed to allow Eastern European prisoners of war to participate. The Nazis disagreed at first, saying that these people were war criminals who were locked up in concentration camps and wanted to see Marx sooner or later. At the insistence of Kobe, the Nazis made concessions and let him open a list.
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At the time of the training, Hatch escaped from the prisoner-of-war camp, joined the guerrillas, and worked out an escape plan. Then he went back and forth, pretending to be caught, and returned to the prisoner of war camp.
After Hatch returned, he was confined by the Nazis, but was warmly welcomed by other prisoners of war.
Kobe argued hard and insisted on letting Hatch play, claiming that no one can keep the goal except him. Although the Nazis were reluctant, they had to reluctantly agree.
On the day of the game, the Paris Stadium was crowded with people.
The Nazi soldiers patrolled the stadium with perseverance. The banners and flags bearing the swastika logo obscure the sky, and the top German army sits in a corner of the stands, holding the victory and being content.
This was a completely unequal ball game, but the Nazis wanted to be hysterical, and deliberately found a Swiss referee to show "fairness." On the Allied side, Hatch received a signal and took an intermission, which was the time to flee.
Game start.
The German players ignored the rules and fouled, but the referee pretended not to see it. Not long after, Germany scored a goal.
After scoring a goal by cheating, except for a few German officers applauded, the stands were silent and extremely depressed. The German side turned on the speaker and played the pre-recorded applause and cheers, creating an atmosphere of "false orgasm".
There were constant black whistle on the court and frequent fouls. The German players were heartbroken and beat Allied's top player Pele to a sluggish kick and left the field injured.
At the end of the first half, Germany led four to one.
During the intermission, Hatch led the players into a room with a pool in the middle of the room.
The crowd gathered around the pool, looking at each other, not knowing the so-called. Suddenly, the pool made a sound and a crack opened. When the water ran out, someone poked their heads out of the crack, greeted everyone, and fled from the secret road.
Facing the "free exit", the Allied players hesitated. They were unwilling to back down and determined to finish the game.
At the beginning of the second half, the Allied players returned to the court, their morale boosted, they ran like flying, and scrambled as if they were hanging up. Under the pressure of the black whistle, they kicked out their dignity in the face of the wolf-like Nazis.
The movie uses slow motion to finely portray the demeanor of the players.
In particular, goalkeeper Hatch, he was fully focused, determined his opponent, and saved shots again and again. Behind the goal, the Gestapo led the wolfdog slowly past the goal.
The Allied troops scored three goals in a row and should have evened the score. Unexpectedly, the referee was ignorant of his conscience and turned black and white, saying that the last goal was not counted, and the German team was still leading.
In the last four minutes before the end of the game, Pele, despite the injury, took the initiative to return to the game. After Pele came on the field, he got a pass from his teammate, dangled several people, and an upside down golden hook penetrated the Nazi goal.
The audience was thunderous, and even the Nazi officer Steiner couldn't help standing up and applauding.
The game was about to end, and the referee blew the black whistle for the last time and awarded Germany a penalty. At the last minute, Hatch miraculously saved the penalty kick. After all the Nazis were exhausted, he still couldn't win the Allied army.
The mood of the audience was completely ignited. They shouted victory, sang "Marseillaise", broke through the armed blockade of the Nazis, and flooded into the stadium generally, covering the prisoners of war players to escape.
The great escape of victory finally settled.
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The prototype of "The Great Escape to Victory" is an embarrassing tragedy.
In 1942, the Soviet-German battlefield fell into a stalemate. In order to whitewash peace and occupy Ukraine, the German army organized an international football match.
After getting the news, Cordy, the owner of a bakery in Kiev, signed up.
Cordy is a fan. He used resources and funds to recruit several football players to form a team. After signing up for the competition, Cordy named the team "Russia".
This little-known "bread team" was a blockbuster, first beating the Ukrainian puppet army 7-2, and then defeating Hungary 6-2. The third game was the most enjoyable, and it even beat the Romanian team with a score of 11-0. .
Kiev was a sensation, and the Nazis were terrified.
Next, the bread team ushered in its biggest rival, Nazi Germany. In the first game against Germany, the bread team defeated the German Army 6-0. In the second game, the German Air Force defeated the German Air Force 5-1.
The Nazis lost their eyes and forced the German Air Force and the Bread Team to rematch.
In the game, the German team used various methods to win, foul, ram, and even beat Ukrainian players. The referees of the SS turned a blind eye to this.
Despite this, the Nazis were still unable to win the game. The Ukrainians led 3-1 in the first half. During the intermission, a German officer broke into the locker room and threatened Ukrainian players not to allow them to win.
The Ukrainians were not afraid of rape and fixed the score at 5 to 3.
Unlike the successful ending of the movie "Escape to Victory", in reality, these Ukrainian players did not escape.
After the game, the Nazis launched a frenzied revenge for the Ukrainian players "not giving face" and took them into concentration camps. After torture, most of the players were killed.
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When we talk about the World Cup, what are we talking about?
Is it the star, the shady, the gambling? Or is it politics, death, disaster?
In this age of entertainment to death, every game, every victory and defeat, can give birth to a lot of talk. Exquisite and delicate jokes are mass-produced, wandering through insensitive mouths, while the ills of history, human wounds, lie there, quietly and unknown.
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