The Era of Emerald

Time has entered November unknowingly. Zhuang Mingge, as an unscrupulous shopkeeper, handed over most of the work of the club to the three general managers. The rest of the time, he sat in the office and studied coaching courses by himself, teased Karin from time to time and was chased by the embarrassing Karin. When Florence had a home game, Zhuang Mingge would show up in the stadium box on time to watch the game. Very regular.

During this period, Fiorentina played another 3 league games, with a record of 2 wins and 1 draw. Ranieri began to rotate more first-line players while ensuring that the team's combat power did not decline. My life lasted until November 11th before there was a change, the cause was a newspaper news.

"shame!Ginola!Sinners of France! "

This was the headline on the front page of the French media "L'Equipe" that day.

What caused the always impartial L'Equipe to be so furious?

There is only one answer: in the World Cup qualifiers the day before, France lost to Bulgaria 1:2 and missed the World Cup in the United States.

Let's recap the game:

1993年11月17ri，94年美国世界杯预选赛欧洲区第6小组法国与保加利亚的比赛，法国队此役仅需踢平对手即可顺利出线。

The score between the two sides was still 1-1 until the end of the game. At this time, the French midfielder David Ginola took the ball to the frontcourt. The game will end at any time, and the French team is in sight.

Jacquet, who was the assistant coach of the French team at the time, stood up from the coaching bench and wanted to convey the message to the players that "hold on for a while, and the game will end", but it was just a few seconds that became the nightmare of the French:

Ginola dribbled the ball and was intercepted. The Bulgarian player directly sent a long pass to the frontcourt. Forward Kostadinov slammed it vigorously. The ball went over the head of the French goalkeeper Rama and hit the crossbar of the goal and broke into the net...

France lost their ticket to the 10 World Cup in the last 1994 seconds.

In Zhuang Mingge's view, the current situation of the French team is purely self-inflicted:

本来在世界杯预选赛还剩下最后两轮时，6胜1平1负积13分的法国已经遥遥领先同组对手，法国队只要在最后2个主场拿到1分就可以确保出线。但是对以se列一战，8分钟连失2球，法国2比3失利；而与保加利亚关键之战中场休息时，法国队主帅霍利尔竟然拿出香槟酒提前庆贺出线……

The French team is out. Zhuang Mingge, who has known about this incident for a long time, will not be surprised by it. What he cares about is the benefits that this incident can bring to him...

In terms of money, Zhuang Mingge, who had known the result of the game for a long time, ordered Hercule Poirot to transfer the "private money" of US$1000 million in his account (another US$200 million for the second phase of construction of the training base) a week ago. The money was delivered to the construction company) through a series of cao operations, it flowed into the major underground casinos in Southeast Asia to bet on the result of the game and the goal scorer.

The reason why Zhuang Mingge did not choose those famous European gaming companies to place bets is because although these companies are all profit-making commercial organizations, most of them are subsidiaries of some large groups. For example, Ladbrokes is affiliated to the Hilton Hotel Group. It is also a subsidiary of aim.

But among these gaming companies, the real bankers are those large consortiums that have always been low-key but powerful. They have a decisive influence in the political and economic circles of Europe. The order of the European gaming industry.

If Zhuang Mingge wants to make a profit through gambling, he must avoid these controllers of order and open up a new battlefield.

The original betting capital of 1000 million US dollars is not too small. If Zhuang Mingge bets on the result of the game, he will definitely take a big piece of "cake" from those large gaming institutions.

However, the "cake" is limited. If you move the "cake" that has been roughly allocated by others, new "variables" will inevitably arise.

Zhuang Mingge is very clear that although the overall environment of European football is very good, it is generally difficult for the will of gaming companies to affect players, coaches, and referees, but what if it affects some fans and the media?From Zhuang Mingge's point of view, this is not a difficult task.If this is the case, the "variable" outside the memory.It will be even more unpredictable, because this will truly fulfill the mantra that "the competition outside the football field determines the result of the game".

In addition, Zhuang Mingge also had another important reason for strategically abandoning the European handicap, and that was his scruples about his own identity sensitivity.It is precisely because those large gaming institutions in Europe have a strong background of large consortiums and even officials that they have stricter monitoring of gambling funds, and there are more or less indescribable hidden rules.

And Zhuang Mingge's 1000 million gambling capital.At this time in 93, it could already attract a lot of attention.

Although those large European gaming institutions headed by Ladbrokes will not refuse no matter how large the bet amount is.However, Zhuang Mingge has heard about the "big customer monitoring mechanism" set up by these gaming companies in his previous life. If he is not careful and some of his details are controlled by the gaming companies that are waiting for him, it will be a bit of a loss. up.

After all, if those red-eyed gaming organizations think that Zhuang Mingge, as an insider in the football world, must have some kind of "fame" in the gambling process, then it will be impossible to argue.

What's more, the typical case of Tapi has just come out in the football world, and they are cracking down on match-fixing. If Zhuang Mingge gets involved at this time, he will definitely get into some trouble, so choosing the European handicap is obviously not in Zhuang Mingge's interest.

Become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of those special interest groups before they have achieved fame?Zhuang Mingge didn't like this feeling.

"Tony, the news from Southeast Asia has come back. It is conservatively estimated that your net profit from gambling this time has reached 5000 million US dollars." On the train, Karin Segrand reported to Zhuang Mingge the profit from gambling in Southeast Asia. Karin did not ask how Zhuang Mingge guessed the detailed results of the game. She chose to trust her "childhood sweetheart" and firmly believed that Zhuang Mingge would not do anything unsportsmanlike. "In addition, Tony , I would like to ask, why did we rush to Paris, France?"

That's right, Zhuang Mingge is taking his "Senior Secretary" Karin with him at this time, transferring from Milan to take an express train to Paris, France. He wants to use this incident to gain an "unexpected" benefit, which is to introduce the French The culprit in the out incident - David Ginola.

Ginola's mistakes at the last moment ruined the French team's dream of the 94 World Cup in the United States, and his own destiny has changed since then. The French public opinion media and fans have denounced him. "Murderer and sinner of the French team.

Houllier, the head coach of the French team at the time, believed: "Ginola made two mistakes: he sent a free throw too quickly before the spot without delaying the time; he also criticized Papin before the game, which affected the morale of the team... ..."

In the original world, Ginola left the French national team forever because of this mistake, but Paris Saint-Germain did not abandon Ginola, and Ginola therefore devoted all his energy to the club. In the next two seasons, he helped the team win the Ligue [-] championship and the French FA Cup. Such achievements make Ginola very popular in the transfer market.

But in Zhuang Minge's current world, the Paris Saint-Germain club that David Ginola is currently playing for is also rejecting Ginola's existence at this time. The club sent Ginola to the reserve team, and there is no official game to play Ginola, who played, maintained his state through training while trying to find the possibility of a transfer.

But to his disappointment, except for the long-lost English team that expressed interest in him, most of the other top league teams have no intention of introducing a player who cannot represent the team because the foreign aid quota in the team is full. foreign aid.

Ginola is reluctant to go to England to play football. After all, he has heard of England's rough football style in France, and the French who advocate romance and art can't avoid it.

After Zhuang Mingge saw Ginola's tragic situation in France as a "street rat" that everyone shouted and beat from the newspaper, he carefully analyzed the possibility of Ginola joining Fiorentina, and felt that Ginola, who had no ball to play, should Will not exclude joining Fiorentina, which is expected to return to Serie A this season; another point is that after the team rebuilds, the team's beginnings are gradually divided into two tactical systems: Batistuta is increasingly relying on teammates' crosses to score goals Scored, while Effenberg's passes increasingly favored Inzaghi and Montella.This is not because there is any conflict between the two, but the difference in the technical style of the two caused this situation.

We can also see from history that the 98-99 season when Fiorentina had the best performance when Batistuta was playing was Batty, Edmondo and Rui Costa formed a frontcourt partner. Batty is not top-notch in terms of technology, speed and breakthrough, he is a pure center forward, and Costa's technical style is more suitable for matching with speed or strong forwards like Shevchenko or Inzaghi, so There must be an all-round frontcourt player between the two to act as a fusion agent, and Edmondo is such a fusion agent.

Zhuang Minge believes that the current Effenberg is a defensively enhanced version of Costa, and Ginola should also become another "Edmundo": he has excellent passing and scoring abilities, and is also good at breakthroughs.Ginola can have a good chemical reaction with Effenberg and Batistuta after joining, which is a very good choice for Fiorentina.

So Zhuang Mingge made a decisive decision and immediately took action, telling Karin to call Paris, packed up his things briefly, took Karin with him, and went to Paris, France to grab Ginola.