The Era of Emerald

The short summer training camp passed quickly in the sweat of the players, followed by a series of warm-up matches arranged by the club management for the team to help the players get back to their game status as soon as possible before the start of the new season.

After all, compared to other teams in Serie A, Fiorentina, which won the Triple Crown last season, has two very important games before the start of the league, namely the finals of the Italian Super Cup and the European Super Cup!

Generally speaking, a warm-up event like the Italian Super Cup is not enough to attract too much interest from a strong team like Fiorentina, but whoever made the team win the Triple Crown last season made all Fiorentina fans wonder. What about the rapid increase in expectations for the team?Besides, if you don't bring back the remaining three champions (Italian Super Cup, European Super Cup, Toyota Cup) and upgrade them to the "All Champions", it would be too wasteful.

Naturally, Capello does not dare to neglect the expectations of the fans. On the one hand, these fans' evaluations of him can indeed affect the club's opinion of him to a certain extent. On the other hand, he has just taken over Fiorentina. Cup trophies to stabilize his position in the team.

Therefore, in a series of warm-up matches before the Italian Super Cup, Capello gave full play to the power of rotation tactics, allowing every player in the first team to get enough playing time, and Capello just took advantage of these The actual combat drills conduct more detailed observations on the players.

On July 7, Fiorentina played at home against Siena, a club in the same Tuscany region. Batty scored a hat-trick in the game and helped the team sweep the opponents in the same region 28-[-].

On August 8th, Fiorentina played against the Qatar national team at home. Ronaldo scored twice and Vieri scored a goal. Fiorentina was quite proud of it. Under the eyes of Crown Prince Al Thani, they only scored three goals for their opponents, which is not bad. The Qatar Football Association paid a fee of 4 million US dollars for this warm-up match.

On August 8th, Fiorentina played away against Lazio, lost Boksic and Di Matteo, and was forced into a Proti by his own boss, Zeman's team played very awkwardly. In the end, he lost the game 8-[-].

On August 8, Fiorentina challenged the Premier League club Chelsea in an away game. The two sides played brilliantly at Stamford Bridge. In the end, Viola finally beat the Blues 11-[-] with Inzaghi's lore before the end.

On August 8th, Fiorentina played a friendly match with Real Madrid in Madrid, Spain. This was also regarded by many media as a battle between Capello and Ranieri, the two former Fiorentina coaches.

Although Mijatovic scored the first goal for Real Madrid with a supplementary shot in the No.15 minute, Fiorentina then suppressed Real Madrid without Redondo with a fierce fight. Ronaldo and Djorkaeff each scored a goal , led Fiorentina to reverse their opponents and won five consecutive warm-up matches.

On August 8th, Viola ushered in the last warm-up match of the whole summer training, returning home to Fiorentina to face visiting AC Milan.

Facing the "enemy" Sacchi, a group of Fiorentina players were naturally extremely jealous. They didn't even use Capello as a mobilization before the battle, and rushed towards Milan with howls.

After coaching Milan, Sacchi's stubborn temper was committed again. Before this game, he took Panucci, who had a tense relationship with him, out of the starting lineup, and called it the profession of protecting young players. career.

By the way, Panucci is replaced by veteran Tassotti.

Maldini, Baresi, Costacurta, Tassotti, Rossi... Excluding the 28-year-old Maldini, there is no one in the entire Milan defense line who is younger than 30 years old, and Baresi and Tassotti are even more It is the "senior age" who is already 36 years old!Facing the 23-year-old Vieri and the younger Ronaldo, the result is naturally predictable.

Four to one, if it wasn't for the fact that Capello hadn't let Milan down for the face of his old club, the score of eight to one would have been nothing to worry about.

Winning all six games, this is the answer sheet that the Fiorentina players handed in before the start of the Italian Super Cup. Next, it is the Italian Super Cup that many Fiorentina fans are looking forward to!

On August 8th, taking advantage of the success of the Atlanta Olympic Games and under the coordination and organization of the Italian Football Association, this Italian Super Cup will be held in New York, the largest city in the United States!

Because Italy won the runner-up in the World Cup held in the United States two years ago, and the tears of Baggio who missed a penalty kick in the final touched many Americans. The Italian team won the final gold medal over a strong opponent, and the Italian team has accumulated a lot of fame in the United States. Therefore, it can be said that the Italian Super Cup is held in New York this time.

Because Fiorentina won two championship honors in the league and the domestic cup last season, according to the usual practice, this time the Italian Super Cup will face the "Triple Crown" Fiorentina and Atlanta, which won last season's Coppa Italia runner-up.

Atlanta didn't have many heavyweight signings this summer. After all, the club's business style is to rely on its own youth training system to train players and then profit from it. A big buy from AC Milan spent 200 million US dollars to introduce the world's most valuable Lentini is already considered a big deal. In terms of transfers, they sold their defensive general Paul Montero to Juventus, which made their defensive ability drop a lot. No matter how you look at it, Fiorentina, the treble-winning team on the next floor, seems a bit lacking in confidence.

It seems that in order to make a good start for the new season, and also take into account the running-in of the new aid and the team, in this game, Capello did not rashly put these newly introduced players into the starting list .

Goalkeeper Toldo, the four defenders from left to right are Fortunato, Ferrara, Nesta and Bilindley, and the better defensive ability is replaced by Bilindley mainly because the Atlanta line looks pretty good The offensive line - Lucarelli, Doni, Morfeo and Lentini's frontcourt combination is enough to make any team drink a pot.

In the midfield, Di Biagio is still the starting midfielder, Argentine Prince Redondo is watching the game from the bench, the German tiger Effenberg is in charge of the team's organization, and the wild boar Davis is on the sidelines to protect.The starting midfielder for this game is the Portuguese Rui Costa, because Capello discovered when studying the video of the game that after Montero left, the protection of Atlanta's defense against the front of the penalty area declined severely, which is very suitable for Costa. A traditional midfielder play.

As for the forward line, the team captain Batistuta has won a starting position with his excellent state and team status, and "Alien" Ronaldo has become Batty's partner in this game with his comprehensive ability. .

The war is about to begin.