World Cup Opening Match
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The 2-0 win over hosts Qatar had been in
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Finding Ana Valencia
score twice in a row
He was the Man of the Match in the opening match of the tournament. The national treasure striker was the man of the match.
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With five goals in his last five World Cup appearances, he was rightly voted MVP of the tournament after the match.
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The ace, however, has a troubled off-field private life, and has been involved in an alimony lawsuit, and once appeared in an exaggerated scene at an off-field World Cup match where he was injured in a fraudulent attempt to escape from the police!
Ana Valencia scored twice in the first half to become the oldest player to score a World Cup goal at 33 years and 16 days old.
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The last time they played in the World Cup was eight years ago, when they finished with one win, one draw and one loss in the group stage, and all three of their goals that year came from Ana Valencia, meaning they scored all of their goals.
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The former Westham and Ewarton striker, who has scored five goals in his last five World Cup appearances, said after the match: "Since the draw, I've dreamed of playing and winning in this match, and I can say that my dream has come true.
Ana Valencia, who is playing for Ferran Barge, is the best player in the world.
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The player with the highest number of goals in history is a national treasure, but his private life is quite messy. In October 2016, he was wanted by the police for defaulting on alimony payments to his ex-wife, but at the time he had a World Cup 18 qualifying match against Chile to deal with, and as a result, he stole into the stadium with the help of his teammates, and before the end of the match, he was suspected of fraudulently injuring himself, and put on oxygen and slept on a stretcher and went straight to the ambulance, which at one point resulted in a rare scene of 12 police officers chasing after the stretcher bed from the sidelines of the stadium.
Ana Valencia was substituted in the 77th minute due to an injury.
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After the game, team leader Eduardo Alfaro said: "The goal means a lot to Ana Valencia, we have 4 or 5 players injured in this game, but all of them are not serious, Ana Valencia will be in the next game against the Netherlands, there is no doubt about it.
