The Era of Emerald

() After losing the second round of the league, Fiorentina severely slipped from the top position, and was overtaken by Juventus, Parma, AC Milan, Lazio and other teams that won this round, and the league ranking fell to No. .6 position.

After losing this inevitable game, Ranieri led the team back to Fiorentina dejectedly. Although the fans did not criticize the players for this loss, the gutter overturning incident did give Fiorentina a big blow. The team, and especially Ranieri himself, rang the bell.

After the loss, Ranieri recalled that his boss reminded him not to underestimate Vicenza a few days before the game, but he was full of confidence at the time and did not take these words to heart...

Ranieri, who finally recalled this incident, broke out in cold sweat instantly. After all, no matter where in Italy, the head coach cannot conflict with his boss, otherwise his job will be lost, and a rich man like Florence There are not many ambitious teams in Europe, and they can't find a better job with their own resumes.

So after returning to Florence, Ranieri visited Zhuang Mingge immediately, and sincerely admitted to him that he had made the mistake of underestimating the enemy.However, to Ranieri's surprise, Zhuang Mingge didn't seem to be furious because Ranieri ignored his suggestion this time, but comforted him with kind words and asked him to lead the team well.

In this way, Ranieri returned to the training base in a daze, and continued to prepare for the next game.

If Fiorentina is still the team that was dominated by young people two years ago, then it is very likely that they will take a long time to recover from this loss.But now it’s different. In the current Fiorentina first team, there are 25 players over the age of 12, all over the field. It will not affect their mental state at all.

In the following week, Fiorentina will face the test of the first round of the European Champions Cup group stage. They will challenge the overlord of Scottish football - the Glasgow Rangers Club in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.

This is the third time that the Fiorentina club has participated in the European Champions Cup. The last time it participated in the European Champions Cup was in the distant 69-70 season. Since then, Viola has never won a league match. Champion, the desire to participate in the European Champions Cup again naturally became a mirror image.

This time, the Florentines who have been waiting for 25 years are finally looking forward to the European Champions Cup!

In Group C where Fiorentina is located, in addition to the lack of strength of the Romanian champion Steaua Bucharest, both the La Liga champion Real Madrid and the Scottish Super League champion Glasgow Rangers are very difficult opponents.

The Glasgow Rangers, who were already in decline under the blow of their old rival Celtic, rose strongly after the steel tycoon David Murray took over.Taking advantage of the English team being banned by UEFA in the mid-to-late 80s, Rangers used huge financial resources to attract a group of top British local players, and even became a representative of British football for a time.Even now that the Premier League has been in operation for more than three years, there are still many excellent players in the Glasgow Rangers, such as Paul Gascoigne, the creative midfielder of English football, Scottish center and former European Golden Boot winner Michael Koist, supplemented by famous players such as Brian Laudrup and Mikhailchenko, is a very powerful team.

Facing such a team, Ranieri, who has just learned a lot from Vicenza, will naturally not put on the airs of the Serie A champion, and he will not dare to lose after just losing a league game. The club's first Champions League match in nearly 30 years.If even this game is lost, no matter how tolerant the Fiorentina fans are, I am afraid that Ranieri himself will be quite aggrieved for a long time to come.

On the day before the start of the UEFA Champions League group match between Fiorentina and Rangers, Zhuang Mingge quietly took Nesta, who was not included in the 18-man squad for this game, to visit Gaia, who just transferred from Lazio to Rangers this summer. Scoyne.

As I said before, Gascoigne was originally the core of Lazio's organization, but he was seriously injured by Nesta, who was still playing for the Blue Eagles, during team training, and was forced to rest for half a year before returning to the team. to the pitch.

But when Garza, who returned from injury, returned to the first team, he was surprised to find that there was no place for him in the team. During his injury, the Czech Zeman distributed the team's organizational work to Di Matteo, Fossey and others made the Blue Eagles realize the transformation during Gaza's absence for half a year, and the Englishman is no longer the indispensable one.

In this period, Craniotti has not obtained a large amount of funds by listing the Lazio club for financing, and naturally he will not support such a rotation player with a high salary for no reason.So this summer, the boss of Carat sold Garza to Scotland for 870 million pounds.

After Nesta learned of Gascoigne's transfer, he has been depressed, thinking that it was his reckless move that forced Gascoigne to transfer to Scotland, which caused him to rarely make tackles during the game. He also often hesitates and misses opportunities when fouling.

Therefore, this time, Zhuang Mingge took advantage of his position to bring Xiao Nei to visit Gascoigne, hoping to untie the knot that had troubled him for a long time.

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"Hahahaha... kid, you think too much!" Gascoigne couldn't help laughing after hearing Nesta describe the purpose of this trip, and patted Xiao Nei on the shoulder fiercely , "As players, as long as we have the ability, where can we play? There will always be a team willing to accept you."

Although Gaza's bad life style and loose attitude are often criticized, in general, Gascoigne is still a good person with a straightforward personality. Garza easily forgave him for Ta's unintentional mistake back then.

"but……"

"You cultural people just have a lot of things to do, don't say anything, come and drink this for me, and this matter will be settled!"

"Okay, now that you've said that, Alessandro, don't be so smudged, cheers!" Zhuang Mingge also raised a glass full of beer and shouted loudly.

"Cheers!"*3

At this time, none of the three people present realized how much impact this conversation would have on Nesta's future career...