The Era of Emerald

After the draw ceremony of the Cup Winners Cup, Fiorentina did not usher in the next game this weekend, because the national team game ri came again.

The only thing Zhuang Minge is thankful for is that, except for Djorkaeff, no Fiorentina player has been called up to participate in the national team.

Batistuta is because the Argentine Football Association did not arrange matches, and Effenberg continued to be rejected by the German coach Vogts from the gate of the national team. It seems that it is difficult for Tiger to change the number of his national team appearances ...

As for the local players in the Fiorentina team?I'm sorry, the national team coach Sacchi seems to be short-sighted recently...

Therefore, when the Serie A league continued on February 2th, there was a concentrated outbreak of the "FIFA virus" of many Serie A teams, and Fiorentina, which had a small number of international players, was spared.

Cagliari continued their excellent form after the winter break. After bottoming out, they gave Parma a 17-18 at home this round. So far, this small team from Sardinia has won in the last four They achieved three wins and one tie in the first round of competition (the 19th round against Juventus, the 20th round against Fiorentina, the [-]th round against AC Milan, the [-]th round against Parma), and these ten valuable points also allow them to Take the lead in the relegation battle.

And Fiorentina is going to challenge Cremona away in this round of the league. Although Batty's state has declined after the winter break, the deterrent effect of God of War on the opponent's back line has not declined at all. After pulling in the frontcourt, he pulled out the space, and scored the only goal of the game by inserting Kripa from the midfield at high speed, thus scoring three points in the away game without any risk.

The top-ranked Bianconeri has several generals missing this round due to injuries. They played extremely hard against Naples at the Alpi Stadium. Finally, with a goal by Baggio before the end of the game, the battalion was full of injuries. Juventus struggled to win at home and continued to maintain a two-point lead.

Next, in the middle of this week, the Fiorentina team will go to Moscow, 2600 kilometers away from Florence, where the team will usher in the first round of the European Cup Winners Cup quarter-finals.

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Russia is the most vast country in the world, with a total territorial area of ​​1707.5 million square kilometers, accounting for about 11.4% of the world's total land area, and a total length of 3.4 kilometers of coastline.

The Russian Federation is located in the northern part of Eurasia, and its territory includes most of Eastern Europe and North Asia.It borders the Barents Sea, White Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea and Chukchi Sea in the north of the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Sea, Sea of ​​Okhotsk and the Japanese Sea in the Pacific Ocean in the east, and the Baltic Sea in the west. , Black Sea and Sea of ​​Azov.Adjacent to Norway, Finland, Poland, China, Mongolia, North Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and other countries, across the sea from Japan and Alaska of the United States.

Russia is a hodgepodge of nationalities. In addition to the Slavs, there are tough Nordics and rough Mongolians. The integration of many nationalities in the country, coupled with the national sports system, makes it inevitable that Russia will become a sports power.Soccer is of course included.Football in the former Soviet era has its own characteristics, that is, it pays attention to speed, and often uses simple, clear, and practical two-three players to quickly tear apart the opponent's defense. This speed allowed the former Soviet Union to occupy a place in world football.

The 1956 Olympic football champion happened to be the starting point of the "golden generation" of the former Soviet national team. It was the members of this team that brought the former Soviet football to the world. Xin is one of the representatives. The 1958 World Cup was the first time for the former Soviet Union national team to participate in the World Cup. Unfortunately, they happened to be in the death group. They were divided into a group with England, Brazil, and Austria, the third place in the 1954 World Cup. In the end, the Soviets stopped at 14 finals.It is worth mentioning that Yashin became the best goalkeeper in that World Cup, which also established Yashin's legendary goalkeeper's life.

From the end of World War II to the 70s, the Soviet national team was one of the most dazzling teams in world football.From 1960 to 1972, the name of the Soviet team appeared in the semi-finals of the European Cup four times in a row, and also won the No.4 of the 1966 World Cup.Afterwards, with the retirement of representatives of the "Golden Generation", Soviet football entered a low period.

Their first forfeit against Chile in the 1974 World Cup put them out of the World Cup from the start.

But soon Soviet football bottomed out, and this time their leader was "Ukrainian Lightning" Blokhin.The main striker of the Dynamo Kiev team won the best shooter of the Soviet League for 72 consecutive times from 75 to 4, and then won the best shooter again in 1977.However, political reasons made him miss his first trip to the World Cup, which was the 1974 World Cup. At that time, there was a mutiny in Chile, and the instigator behind this mutiny was the US government.Due to the discord between the Soviet government and Pinochet, the Soviet team abstained before the second round, and the Chilean team was able to participate in the 1974 World Cup. Since then, Soviet football has once again entered a low period.

In 1982, under the leadership of Boksic, the Soviet team returned to the World Cup.This time, the Soviet team seemed to be reborn, with veteran Blokhin and the famous goalkeeper Dasayev.Although the Soviet team lost in the first game against Brazil, facing the weak New Zealand team, the Soviet Union defeated their opponents [-]-[-].Next, when facing the Scottish team with "Liverpool King" Dalglish, the Soviet team suffered a lot.Fortunately, Blokhin's outstanding performance and Dasayev's outstanding performance finally tied with Scotland [-]-[-] and eliminated the opponent by relying on the advantage of goal difference.However, in the subsequent second stage of the group stage, the Soviet team was unfortunately eliminated due to a small goal difference.

The elimination of the qualifiers for the European Cup in 1984 also brought Boksic's national team coaching career to an end.

In 1986, Lobanovski led the team and scored six goals against the Hungarian team in the first game. However, in the 18-final against Belgium, the Swedish referee Friedrichsen shamelessly awarded two obvious offside goals for Belgium. , The former Soviet team was out of the game.

In the European Cup in 1988, the Soviet team reached the final of the European Cup. Together with the Dutch team, they presented a classic game to the fans and finally won the runner-up.At the same time, the Soviet Union also won the football gold medal in the Seoul Olympics that year.

The 1990 World Cup was the Soviet team's swan song in an international competition. The glory of the European Cup in 1988 is over, and in the first game of that World Cup, the Soviet Union lost to Romania. Afterwards, in the game against Argentina, Maradona repeated his tricks and once again won He used his "Hand of God" to block the Soviets' shot on the goal line. The morale-stricken Soviet team eventually lost in that game and went home after the group stage.

The glory of Soviet football quickly fell in the political upheaval. In 1991, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Soviet national team naturally ceased to exist.

Afterwards, the wave of market-oriented reforms swept across all industries including sports. The national system in the planned economy era completely collapsed, and Russian football began to market-oriented reforms.

However, few athletes who grew up in the national system environment can quickly adapt to this change. In addition, with the weakening of the country's economy brought about by shock therapy, Russian sports have entered a cold winter, and football is even more sluggish.

By 1992, all football clubs in Russia were facing a situation of lack of clothing and food. Since they could not afford air tickets, many clubs could only take buses to and from European stadiums.

Like its motherland, Russian football has become a "patient" in the transition period, suffering from serious illness-fixing matches, bribery, black whistle in power, and the football market is in a downturn.

At that time, Russian President Yeltsin was a senior tennis fan. He could disregard the protests of the Duma Parliament and spend millions of dollars from the state fiscal revenue to develop Russia's tennis every year, but he was stingy in giving football the same treatment.

It was not until a series of economic reforms after Putin came to power in 2000 that the Russian economy began to recover, coupled with the financial investment of large consortiums, that Russian football gradually recovered from the cold winter.

In this "cold winter" season, Zhuang Mingge and Karin came to the capital of Russia - Moscow.