The Era of Emerald

Not to mention the old man Sacchi who blatantly ran away at the press conference, let us turn our attention back to the Serie A season of 96-97.

After talking about the top teams, let’s take a look at the teams that were unfortunately relegated—the three clubs of Perugia, Verona, and Reggiana became the last unlucky ones. Both popularity and material rewards are far inferior to Serie A's second division.

Among the three teams that were relegated, the Perugia club can be said to be the most unlucky. After all 34 league rounds were over, it had the same 37 points as Piacenza and Cagliari. There are also two more wins than Piacenza.

However, Perugia is unlucky because of the relegation system of Serie A. When two teams have the same points, the first basis for dividing the ranking is not the number of goal difference, but the number of teams with the same points. Teams compare their wins and losses with each other to determine the final ranking.

Therefore, against Piacenza, one draw and one loss did not mean a win. Although the two games against Cagliari were mutually beneficial, but the away goals were few ([-] to [-] at home in Perugia, [-] to [-] away). Jia became the third team to be directly relegated from Serie A this season,

As for Piacenza, which is ranked fourth from the bottom, after two rounds of relegation play-offs, it managed to retain its qualification for Serie A.

Let's take a look at the teams that have qualified for next season's European competition.

According to UEFA's distribution plan for next season's European competition places announced two months ago, the number of countries' European competition places will be directly linked to the total points of each country's European competition in the previous five seasons.The three top leagues with the highest points ranking, that is, Serie A, La Liga and the Premier League, can send four teams to participate in the European Champions Cup and its qualifying matches next season.

Under the reminder of Zhuang Mingge, the old man Johansson discovered the loopholes in the Champions League restructuring plan in time. It is not like in history, after Liverpool won the Champions League trophy, they almost missed the defending champion because they were ranked fifth in the league. After the joke, the rules of the Champions Cup were revised urgently.

By the way, in fact, Liverpool’s dilemma also happened in La Liga in the 99-00 season. At that time, Real Madrid, which won the Champions League, ranked fifth in La Liga that season. The Spanish Football Association persuaded the fourth-ranked Zaragoza Giving up the Champions Cup places allowed Meilinger to participate in the Champions Cup next season.However, when the 05 Champions League champion Liverpool also faced the same situation, Everton, the rival of the Red Army in the same city, refused to give up the Champions League place, which almost made Liverpool the first defending champion to miss the Champions League next season.In the end, it was UEFA who gave Liverpool a wild card to solve this problem.

Therefore, after being reminded by Zhuang Mingge, Johansson, who realized that there were loopholes in the rules, quickly revised the reform draft, stipulating that the defending champion can directly enter the Champions Cup group stage and qualify as the No. 16 seed. At the same time, the number of teams participating in UEFA matches from its member countries remains unchanged.The only exception is that when the defending champion fails to qualify and comes from a member with only one Champions League spot (ranked No. [-] or lower in points), the team can get a wild card, starting from the first The qualifying round started step by step.

It is precisely because of this that Fiorentina, who successfully defended the Champions League, automatically obtained a place to directly advance to the Champions League group stage, as did Parma and Juventus, and Inter Milan, ranked fourth, will go to the Champions League qualifying round.

In addition, the teams that qualified for the UEFA Cup are Lazio in fifth place and Udinese and Sampdoria behind Vicenza.The reason why Vicenza, who won sixth in the league, did not qualify for the UEFA Cup is because Guidolin's team won the Coppa Italia this season, so they will represent Italian football next season to participate in the European championship. Players Cup game.

On the scorer list, Philip Inzaghi won the Serie A Golden Boot this season with a record 37 goals. In the last game, he successfully surpassed Nordahl's Super Pippo with a big four and thus became his single season. The new holder of the Serie A scoring record.

Inzaghi's former teammate Montella won the silver boots. The local striker who was once paid by Zhuang Mingge showed a better state than in history. 24 league goals are definitely not a small number. It is a pity that Montella was out of luck and met Inzaghi with a statistic.

As for the other Fiorentina forwards, the alien Ronaldo scored 23 goals in his second season in Serie A, ranked third in the scorer list with a slight disadvantage of one goal, and won the bronze boots; Vieri, who became famous in the Rossoneri game, ranked fourth on the list with [-] league goals. The Argentine god of war Batistu, who only scored [-] goals in the league this season Tower and Chiesa tied for tenth in the scorer list.

Among the eleven players ranked top ten in the Serie A scorer list this season, four are actually from Fiorentina, and three of them are in the top four. The Fiorentina team has scored a total of 1947 goals in this season's league. The ball, tied with AC Milan, became the team with the second most goals scored in a single season in the history of Serie A (the team record for goals scored in a single season was created by Turin in the 48-125 season, when the Red Bulls scored [-] goals in that season. ball).

Although it failed to break the record created by the Turin team half a century ago, Fiorentina's achievements this season have surprised countless people.

Didn't it mean that Capello's tactics are extremely utilitarian and conservative?When did he become so powerful on offense?This still makes people alive!

The Fiorentina fans were laughing from ear to ear.

The meritorious coach Ranieri retired after the end of last season, which made Fiorentina fans worry about the future of the team. However, the arrival of the famous local coach Fabio Capello and the team under his leadership The series of achievements made by the fans completely relieved the hearts of the fans.

Italian Super Cup champion, European Super Cup champion, Toyota Cup champion, Serie A champion and European Champions Cup champion... This season, Florence has won all the competitions except the Italian Cup!

Although Fiorentina fans regret that the team failed to win the Triple Crown, they also know very well that such things as the Triple Crown are almost impossible to come by. It does not mean that a strong team will definitely win it. For the Triple Crown, luck plays a very large factor in this.

So far, the 1996-97 season of Serie A has come to an end, and the Fiorentina players have left the team after participating in the championship celebration held afterwards.Some people started their annual summer vacation trip, traveling around the world with their families; while some people had to respond to the call of the national team coach to participate in the upcoming national team competition...