The Era of Emerald

During the period when Zhuang Mingge left, Fiorentina, who had initially completed the run-in, had smooth sailing in the second division.

In November, Fiorentina won 11 league games and 4 Italian Cup. Ranieri saw the potential of these young people and admired his boss' vision.

"The boss's vision is really accurate! Not to mention those players who played in Serie A, Vieri, Inzaghi, and Montella, who were previously unknown forwards, also scored goals. Tomasi's running ability Very good, Toldo is also a good seed for a world-class goalkeeper, even Jonti, who has the worst potential among these people, I think he can be the main force of the relegation team in the future." After a training session, Ranieri excitedly said to himself The assistant said, "As long as the club can keep these players and give me 5 years, I can make Fiorentina the second Sampdoria team!"

If Zhuang Mingge heard this, he would definitely say that Ranieri is too conservative: "If this team is handed over to Mourinho, he will be able to bring back the Champions League in three years."

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After the trip to France, Zhuang Mingge did not return to Florence, but flew to the United States from Monaco. He was going to start a project that he had envisioned for a long time: to build a modern experimental center. However, due to the technical limitations of this era, he had to First build the physiotherapy center to minimize the frequency of players' injuries. The other one is responsible for the establishment of the player database, and the construction of the information center for computer management, analysis and prediction will take some time.

Injuries are a terrible thing for any team.

For example, Redondo, when Milan spent 2001 million US dollars to introduce Argentines in the summer of 1700, Redondo was seriously injured and fell to the ground in a training soon. This serious injury can be said to have suffered heavy losses for both Redondo and Milan. The state plummeted, and it was not until 26 months later that he played the first game for Milan, and announced his retirement two years later; and the tens of millions spent by Milan were all in vain.

Numerous stars have disappeared from the green field prematurely due to injuries: Van Basten, Paul Sousa, Owen Hargreaves, Santa Cruz and Michael Owen who recently announced his retirement... Similar There are too many examples, so the establishment of a world-class physiotherapy center is the key to ensuring Florence's good results in the future.

"Tony, since we are talking about building a physiotherapy center, there are many sports medicine experts in Europe. Why do you have to come to the United States?" Karin looked puzzled. In the eyes of Europeans, American products can never compare This is reflected in many aspects, such as the NBA is known as the best basketball league in the world, but there are still many European stars who are unwilling to play in the NBA every year. They think that the European league is the world's top competition.

But we have to admire the team doctor of the nba team. The nba team will use 6 people to play 12 regular season games in more than 82 months. With extensive injuries, I have to say that their team doctor does have two brushes.

Although football and basketball are different in many ways, they still share a common language when it comes to injuries.

The purpose of Zhuang Minge's trip to the United States is to come to the United States to abduct two very famous doctors in later generations--Sun team assistant trainer Aaron Nelson and orthopedic surgeon Thomas Carter.

When it comes to the Suns' team doctor, the core is two people, its assistant trainer Aaron Nelson and orthopedic surgeon Thomas Carter.

Aaron Nelson, a name that is somewhat unfamiliar to fans, has a very high status in the American sports world-in the 2004 Athens Olympics, he was a member of the US Olympic Team Sports Medicine Committee. , such as the generation of 1993-meter flying man Gatlin and the physical state tracking of swimming prodigy Phelps, all belong to the scope of Nelson's work. In 2007, Nelson began to work as an assistant trainer for the Suns. Normally, trainers would not be involved in the team building of the NBA, but Nelson and the Suns were an exception. Ankle" health guarantee, allowing the Sun executives to rule out the doubts created by public opinion.A similar story happened before and after Stoudemire's minimally invasive surgery. It is well known that Stoudemire signed a big contract first and then suffered an injury. Regarding the fact that the Suns were cheated and whether Stoudemire could recover smoothly, there was a lot of controversy in the American sports medicine circle. Thousands of saliva, "Minimally invasive is not terrible." Although Nelson's statement is a bit nerve-wracking now, but no one can deny that Stoudemire handed over the average in the first season after recovery. 20.4 points and 9.6 rebounds.After that, there were a series of impressive achievements such as O'Neill and Reid.

As for the other Thomas Carter, it is obviously disrespectful to describe it as a team doctor. This is recognized as one of the best orthopedic surgeons in the United States, especially an absolute expert in knee meniscus and cartilage injuries. As we all know, this is an NBA player. The most troublesome part, he even owns related patents for arthroscopic instruments.Since August 2000, Thomas Carter has become the chief team doctor of the Suns. He is also the backbone think tank of many hospitals and medical research institutions.

If you have read O'Neill's autobiography, you will intuitively feel the writing idea of ​​Shark's "the whole world is bad guys", but when referring to Thomas Carter's chapter in the autobiography, O'Neill gave a very objective evaluation: "He is the player's friend first, and the doctor second." O'Neill said frankly that the knee problem afflicted him far longer than the outside world imagined, and he also thought he needed a larger operation, "But Thomas said If you don’t need a knife, don’t use it, it’s in your favor.” O’Neill said, “If I hadn’t listened to him, my retirement date might have been two years earlier.” Dr. Carter’s philosophy of practice is: as long as it can be avoided Surgery must be avoided.

Grant Hill also experienced it when he came to the Suns. Hill, who was already numb after surgery in the Magic, put on a look, "It doesn't matter if I have another surgery, anyway, my knee has been moved for millions of knives." Dr. Carter just said calmly: "No surgery." Hill, who only played 200 games in seven years with the Magic and experienced five comeback failures, came to Phoenix at the age of 35.Missed a total of 15 games in the four years here - especially in the three seasons of 08-11, he only missed 3 games.Every game can see Hill actively running, jumping, and dunking, and he seems to be the healthiest player in the league.

Fortunately, Nelson was only regarded by the Sun as an ordinary trainer, and he was not passed on to be a miracle later. Thomas Carter has not yet signed a contract with the Sun. In addition to working in Arizona State Hospital, he also accepts Some private medical consultations, now is Zhuang Mingge's best chance to poach the two of them.

Thomas Carter is now a well-known sports medicine expert in the United States, so Zhuang Minge easily found Carter's address and contact information, and brought Karin to Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, USA.

At the Arizona State Hospital, Zhuang Mingge and Karin met Dr. Thomas Carter. At first glance, they would think that Carter was a well-dressed gentleman, but when they communicated, they would find that Carter was a very introverted person.

Since Zhuang Mingge had sent someone to make an appointment with Dr. Carter in advance, Thomas Carter also knew that the young man who came to visit him now was the chairman of a European club.

In Carter's office, Zhuang Mingge and Carter exchanged a few words of courtesy before getting straight to the point: "Dr. Carter, I know that you are the most famous sports medicine expert in the United States. The main purpose of coming here this time is to invite you to join Florence as the club that is about to be established. Director of Physiotherapy Center."

Thomas Carter is only a little famous now, and there is no such thing as a cooperation agreement with local companies and organizations in Arizona. After Zhuang Mingge promised to provide sufficient funds for the physiotherapy center, Carter readily agreed to Zhuang Mingge's invitation .

"It's a pleasant cooperation." Carter was very happy to be the director of a physiotherapy center. "But I can't go to Florence to join the job right now. Someone in Qatar asked me to go to see him."

"That's no problem, Dr. Carter, but I hope you can issue a list of medical equipment that the club needs to purchase as soon as possible, so that the team's medical work can get on track as soon as possible."

Carter readily agreed and said that he would fax the list to Zhuang Mingge as soon as possible.

After bidding farewell to Carter, Zhuang Minge rushed to meet the general manager of the Suns Colangelo non-stop. After promising to sponsor the Suns with a total of 500 million US dollars in the next three years, Colangelo readily agreed to Zhuang Minge's proposal about Aaron. Nelson's request to go to Fiorentina as a team doctor.

Afterwards, Aaron Nelson, who was called by Colangelo on the phone, didn't have much opinion after learning that he had been "sold". Zhuang Mingge, who was already ready to talk, felt that his punch had reached the cotton. .

In fact, job hopping is considered by Americans to be a sign of competence, and those who are incompetent will stick to a company. This is a cultural difference.