Deserved of Brazil s No. 9, but lost to luck. The strongman successively won the silver boots in the World Cup and Serie A.

A friend asked to talk about Kareka, the former Brazil No. 9 who had excellent skills but lost to the lucky one.

Antonio Carreca, born on October 5, 1960 in the State of Sao Paulo. Although there are endless local football geniuses, Kareka has been dazzling since she came into contact with football. Children of the same age cannot conceal Kareka's light at all. The Guarani Club, also in the State of São Paulo, recruited Kareka early and regarded him as the target of training. Kareka was promoted to the first team of Guarani when she was 16 years old.

The newcomer Kareka was a smooth journey. He first made his name in Guarani, and then got the call from the Brazilian national team. Santana, then Brazilian coach, valued Kareka very much, and gave this forward strongman many opportunities to play. Kareka's performance is also very successful, and he can always turn the opportunities created by Jike and other teammates into goals. So, before the 1982 Spanish World Cup began, it was generally believed that Carreca would occupy the main seat.

However, before the World Cup main competition was about to begin, Kareka, who was highly expected by the world, encountered injuries. This directly leads to the lack of strength in Brazil's forward line. Even if the Samba Legion's midfielder is dominated by masters such as Jiko and Socrates, I don't know how many opportunities have been created, but if Kareka lacks the Brazilian forward line, it just cannot seize the opportunity...

The most representative game happened in a strong dialogue between Brazil and Italy. Zico and Socrates both performed phenomenally, allowing the Brazilian team to take the initiative in the game and create more opportunities than their opponents. But Brazil's forwards just couldn't score, and they still needed Socrates and Zico to score in person. In sharp contrast, Italian striker Paul Rossi performed a hat trick.

By the way, Brazil's failure to laugh to the end in the 1982 World Cup is ultimately due to the weak front line. If Kareka is not injured, then the team that ends up laughing is most likely the Samba Legion.

After the 1982 World Cup, Kareka continued to shine in the Brazilian League and was definitely the number one striker in Brazilian football at that time. So when it was four years later, Kareca wore Brazil's No. 9 jersey without any suspense and showed it as the forward of Zhengyin.

Karekar's skills and performance are definitely worthy of Brazil's No. 9. During the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Kareca scored an exaggerated efficiency of 1 goal per game. With his help, the Brazilian team passed the hurdles and entered the quarterfinals and met the French team led by Platini.

In this highly anticipated game, Kareka continued his hot form and helped the Samba Legion score, which was also Kareka's fifth goal during the World Cup. But what is unexpected is that Brazil's number one star Jiko actually performed poorly in such a game and lost a crucial penalty, which made the Brazilian team miss the opportunity to solve the opponent within 90 minutes, which led to the defeat in the penalty shootout.

The Brazilian team is eliminated, which will naturally affect Kareka. The Brazilian strongman's goal data was fixed in 5 games and scored 5 goals. Although the goal efficiency is extremely high, it was suppressed by Reinkell in the scorer list and could only be ranked as the silver boot.

In the final analysis, Kareka was not lucky and encountered a low-probability incident where Jiko lost a key penalty. If it weren't for this, then Kareka could continue to participate in the game. With his hot state at the time, it was not difficult to continue to score goals, so he wouldn't have been in the silver boots. After the frustrated World Cup trip, Kareka gradually had the idea of ​​going out to take a look. In the summer of 1987, Kareca entered the Serie A and became a member of Naples, fighting side by side with the football king Maradona.

The sharpshooter wants to partner with the midfield master, which is not difficult to understand. From a pure football perspective, the combination of Carreca and Maradona is definitely a perfect match. But everything has its pros and cons. Kareka seems to have only seen the favorable side for him, but ignore the other side that is not good for him.

You must know that Maradona was the king of football at that time. Before Careca joined Naples, Maradona had already led the team to win the Serie A championship. To apply the popular Green formula at present, it is: "We are already champions before you come."

Careca partnered with Maradona under this background, and his role was destined to be underestimated. Whether it is the media of that year or the contemporary media, when talking about Naples, they basically focus on Maradona. As for players other than Maradona, they are not mentioned frequently...

Putting aside other Napoli players, let's talk about Kareka, in fact, they have made quite a contribution. The Brazilian strongman has maintained a stable goal efficiency since joining Naples. In his second season in the Serie A, the 1988-89 season, he scored 19 league goals. Basten, who was in full swing at the time, also scored 19 goals.

The goal efficiency of

can only be considered to be above average if it is in the contemporary Serie A league. It is quite difficult to compete for the league Golden Boot. But in the 1980s, that was another matter. Let's say that, 19 league goals were scored in the 1980s, and most of the time they could win the Golden Boot Award.

However, it is against this background that Kareka is in the Serie A. Because during the 1988-89 season, Aldo Serena broke out without warning and scored 22 league goals, even more powerful than Basten.

What makes people laugh and laugh is that Aldo Serena has only had such a strong season in her entire career. Most of the time, he can't even score double-digit goals in a single season. But it was this kind of low-probability event that was encountered by Kareka. What does it mean to be unlucky? That's it.

Kaleka's bad luck did not end there. By the 1990 World Cup in Italy, the Brazilian champion became even more unlucky. In the focus battle between Brazil and Argentina, Samba Legion was in the upper hand for most of the time, and I don’t know how many shooting opportunities it created. However, the mysterious and mysterious luck factor made the goal post reject Brazil's shot again and again. On the contrary, the Brazilian team, who was passive in the whole game, sent Samba Legion back to their hometown with just one goal opportunity.

Although Carreca was unwilling to accept it, he was already getting older and could only hand over the scepter to Bebeto, Romario and other juniors. I don’t know whether Kareka should cry or laugh. After he faded out of Brazil, the Samba Army won the championship in the 1994 American World Cup...