The Era of Emerald

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When Fiorentina swept Vicenza [-]-[-] and won the Italian Super Cup for the fourth consecutive time, almost all Serie A teams began to lament: Who can stop the Fiorentina from pursuing victory?

When Vicenza successfully beheaded the invincible Fiorentina in the Coppa Italia last season, many teams saw the hope of overthrowing Fiorentina's dominance.But unexpectedly, Fiorentina then used a series of brilliant records to make other Italian clubs feel deeply desperate!

Win the season undefeated!61 consecutive Serie A games unbeaten!Three consecutive Serie A titles!Champions Cup two consecutive championships!

The most frightening thing is that the situation of this Fiorentina team is completely different from that of AC Milan three years ago!When AC Milan, which swept Europe back then, completed the feat of three consecutive league championships, most of the players in the team were over [-] years old. For these veterans, it is very difficult to maintain this peak state. Therefore, then.

But Florence is completely different!Now the oldest player in their first team is Ferrara, who has just turned 30. For a central defender, it can be called the golden age of his career; Stars like Costa, they haven't even reached their golden age yet!

This also means that if Fiorentina can retain these players and keep them in their current state, Viola's dynasty can last at least five years!

Originally, these people put their last hope on Vicenza, the "nemesis" of Florence, but this dream was completely broken today.Viola used a bloody [-]-[-] to prove to everyone that the loss that time was just an accident. If it wasn't for Otero's godlike performance, Vicenza would have been eliminated long ago!

Now, Florence has finally returned all the debts owed by the other party from Vicenza with interest!

Not long after the Italian Super Cup ended, Fiorentina ushered in another event, the final of the European Super Cup.

Due to Zhuang Mingge's suggestion, the old man Johansson did not make any moves to expand the UEFA Cup this time. Therefore, while ensuring the viewing and intensity of the UEFA Cup, Johansson also canceled the UEFA Cup champion instead. The idea of ​​the Cup Winners' Cup Winners going to play the UEFA Super Cup.

Therefore, Fiorentina's opponent in the UEFA Super Cup this time is the winner of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup last season and Barcelona Club, one of the dominant players in Spanish football.

However, before the start of the UEFA Super Cup, Fiorentina will also send someone to participate in another event organized by UEFA, which is the UEFA Champions League group draw ceremony for the 1997-98 season.

On August 1997, 8, which was the day when the European Champions Cup group draw ceremony began, UEFA still set the ceremony to be held in Monaco this time.

"Maximo, I'm so glad to see you here!" Zhuang Mingge saw a familiar figure as soon as he walked into the venue of the lottery ceremony, and immediately greeted him enthusiastically, "Now, our Serie A There are four teams that can participate in the next group stage!"

"Haha, Antonio, are you underestimating my Inter Milan?" Although Inter Milan and Fiorentina are rivals in China, this did not hinder the personal relationship between Moratti and Zhuang Mingge. Boss Mo saw that My friend is still so cheerful, "Although my Inter Milan may not be as good as your Fiorentina in terms of overall strength, it is a matter of handholding against teams from outside the four major leagues." !"

As the well-deserved first league in Europe, Italy has three clubs, Fiorentina, Parma and Juventus, who have directly qualified for the group stage this time, while Inter Milan, which ranked fourth last season, won the third qualifying round. With a total score of one to one, Rozwezew from Poland successfully qualified for the main match of the Champions Cup.

"Hehe, that's true." Zhuang Minge thought about it, and felt that what Moratti said was indeed very reasonable. After the arrival of the Bosman era, the gap between teams became more and more obvious. Those who did not have many good players The small ball club is naturally not an opponent of giants like Inter Milan.

While chatting with Moratti, Zhuang Mingge was also observing other club representatives who came to participate in the draw ceremony.

The four clubs from Spain are Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Real Betis and Deportivo.Here I have to say that before Lopera was not brain-dead enough to exhaust his wealth to introduce Denilson, Betis could also be regarded as a strong team in La Liga.

In fact, many La Liga teams have had a history of being able to compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​​​the two giants, but in the end they all fell without exception, and most of the reasons for their decline were because these teams had a Brain-dead management (such as Valencia after 04, Lopera's Betis, Old Hill's Atletico Madrid), only a few clubs are unable to maintain the team for a long time because of the limited financial resources of the city where they are located The competitiveness led to the final defeat (such as Super Deportivo and Villarreal).

In the Premier League, although they suffered a five-year ban in the mid-to-late 80s, the English still relied on the excellent performances of the Premier League teams in European competitions in recent years to overwhelm their rivals Germany in the European competition standings. Down, eventually becoming the last league to qualify to send four teams to the UEFA Champions League.

This time, the Premier League teams that have qualified for the Champions League are the Red Devils Manchester United, the Magpies Newcastle, the Red Army Liverpool and the Gunners Arsenal.In Zhuang Mingge's view, among the four clubs, except for Manchester United, which is relatively difficult to deal with, the remaining three clubs are nothing to worry about!

Not to mention Newcastle, Zhuang Mingge has some impressions of this team. He remembers that since this season, the Magpies have caused civil strife following Keegan's dismissal. Although they are still those players, the overall combat effectiveness of the team has shown a significant improvement. Down; Liverpool before Houllier was just a team with more than flashy and less than practical; as for Arsenal?Forget it, let's not talk about it...

The three teams representing German football in the UEFA Champions League this season are Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen and Dortmund. Although there is one less seat than the Premier League, there are Bayern and Dortmund, two strong teams that reached the quarter-finals last season. Sitting in town, the British guy's confidence is actually not very strong.

After all, although the Premier League has surpassed the Bundesliga in the standings, the best result of a Premier League team in the Champions League in the past five years is a quarter-finals. Compared with last season's Champions League runner-up Dortmund, this result is really not enough watch.