The Era of Emerald

Since most people went out on vacation during the Christmas holidays, and many companies temporarily closed their operations, there were actually not many backlogs of work in Florence during this period, not to mention that Zhuang Mingge was still an out-and-out "hands-off shopkeeper".

Distribute most of the work to the three general managers under him. Zhuang Mingge only needs to grasp the general direction of Florence's development. This is Zhuang Mingge's attitude in managing Florence. If everything must be done by himself, then What does the club want those employees for?

Although part of the reason for Zhuang Mingge's actions is that he himself is lazy...

With the end of the Christmas holiday, the players have returned to Florence one after another. They have to prepare for the second half of the season and launch a sprint towards the final championship honor!

Soon, the Fiorentina fans watching the training from the sidelines of the training ground found that among the returning players, a familiar figure was missing, that is Fiorentina's captain, Batistuta!

The reason why the Argentine God of War did not return to the team is very simple. Saudi Arabia held the second King Fahd Cup competition at the beginning of this year, inviting the champions of the five continents national cups, plus the host Saudi team, a total of six teams participated.

As the winner of the America's Cup in 1993, Argentina is naturally also within the scope of the invitation, and the Argentine Football Association also agreed to the Saudi Football Association's invitation, which forced Fiorentina to lose their main player and player for most of January. team leader.

Zhuang Mingge was very dissatisfied with this. When the Serie A league began to sprint, Batistuta's absence was undoubtedly fatal.

Don't look at Inzaghi and Montella also scored a lot of goals this season, but their wonderful performance is largely due to the existence of Batty.It is precisely because Batistuta is at the top to attract the attention of the opponent's defensive players that these youngsters have enough space to grow.

The most typical example is the later Gilardino. After joining AC Milan in the summer of 05 as the two-time Serie A silver boot winner, he scored 05 league goals in the 06-17 season, although the number of goals was not as good as in Parma. , but this was largely due to Gilardino's own status change in the team and Shevchenko and Kaka diverting his chances; After that, Gilardino, who lost the protection of the superstar, became the top player, which did not match his own playing style, and Kaka behind him was not a passing master, which directly caused him The number of goals dropped sharply in the next few seasons after Watts, and finally had to be forced to leave AC Milan.

Although there is a Vieri classmate who claims to be "Battie's apprentice" in the first team of Fiorentina, Zhuang Mingge does not think that Vieri, who is not much famous, can replace Batty's role in Fiorentina.

The impact of Batty's inability to play was soon reflected. On January 15th, Fiorentina once again went to Turin to participate in the No.[-] round of Serie A, but this time the opponent was not Juventus, but his rival in the same city — Torino.

To say which of the many clubs in Italian football is the most unlucky, Zhuang Mingge will definitely count Turin as one.

The 40s was the "Turin era" in the history of Italian football. This period of prosperity began in the 1942-1943 season before World War II. It was not announced until the Superga air crash in 1949 that destroyed the entire Turin team. Finish.

The flames of the Second World War not only destroyed the Italian economy, but also severely damaged the vitality of Italian football. At the same time, it caused the loss of many elite players in Italian football.After World War II, Italy was in a period of reconstruction. Veteran powerhouses such as Juventus, Bologna and Inter Milan, which once dominated Italian football before the war, all experienced unprecedented declines.

At this time, the rise of the Turin team allowed the Italians to see the hope of the revival of Italian football.The Italian national team based on the Turin players at that time had 9 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses in international competitions in those years. With a 1949:4 victory over Portugal and a 1:3 victory over Spain in Madrid, in these two games, among the 1 starting players of the Italian team, the number of Turin players reached 11. Turin captain Valentino Mazzola He also served as the captain of the Italian national team.

The Turin team also won five Serie A championships in the 40s. Among them, after the end of World War II, the Turin team completed the feat of four consecutive league titles, crushing their rivals Juventus in the same city.

However, by God’s will, on May 1949, 5, when the Turin team returned home after playing the Latin Cup match with Benfica in Portugal, the plane crashed into the Superga Mountain near the airport, and the "Supega" that shocked the world football happened. Pega crash".The air crash annihilated the Turin team, and it has not been able to recover since then. More importantly, Italy also lost its football elite. was eliminated early.Since then, the Italian team has entered a "dark age", and Italian football has also lost a dynasty team.

Since then, Juventus, which has been under the pressure of Turin, took the opportunity to rise again, and the tragically hit Torino team sank. Although there was a short-term revival after that, the long-term poverty and weakness made the "Red Bulls" "Always unable to turn salted fish over.

This season, Turin sent away Uruguayan prince Enzo Francescoli in the summer, bought African star Abedi Bailey from Marseille, who was relegated due to match-fixing, and introduced striker Rizzetli from Rome. Later, he went to Bayern Munich to play for two years), plus Sirenzi, who scored [-] Serie A goals last season, from the face of the card, it is not bad.

In this game, Fiorentina, who was a guest in Turin, not only lacked the main shooter Batistuta, but also midfielders Effenberg and Di Biagio were also suspended due to accumulated yellow cards. Left back Lanner suffered a minor injury the day before the game and had to miss the game against Torino.

The absence of many generals made Ranieri distressed, and it also gave the Turin team a glimmer of hope to score points on Viola.

From the beginning of the game, Fiorentina, who was short of major generals, had no way to talk to the tortoise shell made by Turin. Vieri, who replaced Batty, was not as powerful as the rampant "human tank" of later generations, and Inzaghi was also drowned. In the "crowd tactics" of the Turin team, the absence of Effenberg and Di Biagio greatly weakened Fiorentina's control in the midfield...

In the 67th minute, the Torino team took advantage of a Fiorentina midfield pass error to play a quick counterattack. After receiving the ball, Liztley shook Toldo and then made a light push with his right foot and scored the whole game. The only goal, Fiorentina lost [-]-[-] away.

After this game, Fiorentina ranked second with 10 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses with 32 points, because in another game at the same time, Juventus and Parma, who previously had 31 points, met in this round. Parma won [-]-[-] at home, successfully overtaking Fiorentina by [-] points and jumping to the top of Serie A.

But whether Fiorentina lost the top spot or Juventus regained the top spot, these news were not published on the front pages of the major sports newspapers in Italy the next day, because these paparazzi dug up an even more shocking news:

"Inter Milan changed hands!The son of an oil tycoon takes over the Nerazzurri! "