The Era of Emerald

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For a player, being able to participate in an international competition like the World Cup is something he has dreamed of throughout his career.However, due to the limitation of the number of participants in the World Cup, each national team is destined to only have 22 lucky people to participate in this quadrennial event.Therefore, at this time, countless players hovering on the edge of the national team's gate will desperately express themselves, hoping to become one of the lucky ones.

Now that the old Maldini has clearly stated his position, all players who are expected to participate in the World Cup next year have begun to express their determination to the old horse through various channels, and get the opportunity to participate in this national team training camp. Compete for a place in the old Maldini's World Cup 22-man squad.

For the old Maldini, he already knows the main lineup of the Italian national team.This friendly match, as he said in an interview, was specially arranged to examine whether the state and characteristics of those fringe international players meet the tactical needs of the national team.

It is for this reason that rookies like Ambrosini and Koko who do not have much national team qualifications, and old international players such as Di Livio and Costacurta who have gradually been marginalized after the old Maldini took office They have all been recruited into the 22-man roster of the Italian national team in this issue.On the contrary, Fiorentina, who is a big player in the national football team, has only one player this time. Among all the Italian players in the Viola first team, only Zanetti was brought by the old Maldini to participate in the national team. During a training camp, the other players got a rare long vacation.

Both Materazzi and Fortunato were very depressed about not being called up to the national team.The former is okay to say, after all, the national team can be said to be full of talents in the position of central defender, Ferrara, Nesta, Bergomi, Cannavaro... Even Maldini can have a world-class position in the central defender. Facing such fierce competition, it is normal for Materazzi, who is not capable enough to perform at the top level, not to be able to enter the national team, and there is nothing worthy of his complaints.

The latter seems a little sad. Fortunato, who was hailed as Maldini's successor more than three years ago, experienced a bout of leukemia. Although he can still serve as a rotation player for the Serie A giants in terms of ability, he has nearly The two-year blank period and the fact that he has never been able to gain an advantage in the contest with Lanna and Carlos, the two main left-backs of Fiorentina, made him almost lose the possibility of playing for the national team.After all, Italy, which is mainly defensive, has never lacked good defenders.In the national team, Maldini Jr. is the first choice for this position. Even if he is unable to play for some reason, players like Pesoto, Benarivo, Di Livio and other players can fill this gap. Futu Nato has no advantage at all in this regard.

And this precious little long vacation is used by the Fiorentina players to recover the physical energy consumed by the start of the game for more than two months. After all, this season has just started, and the competition within the team is extremely fierce. No one wants to be too greedy for pleasure during this holiday As a result, he was excluded from the game list by the head coach.

Although this time Fiorentina's first team did not have many players transferred because of the national team competition, but there were a few players on loan from Viola who were written by the old horse on the new national team squad.For example, Andre Pirlo, who was loaned to Vicenza and was hailed as a genius midfielder by many celebrities, and Di Natale, who has performed well in Ajax this season, relied on running and intercepting in Monaco without hesitating physical strength. Gattuso, who got the nickname "White Davis".

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The time will soon arrive on November 11th. On this day, the play-offs of the World Cup qualifiers in the European region will officially start!

Since Italy won the first place in the group and directly advanced, Russia's opponent in the World Cup play-offs this time has become the England national team, which is more technically rough.

Although Russia's luck seems to be good, avoiding the powerful Italy and facing the less powerful England, in fact, for the Russians, it is more important for the Russians to meet England in the playoffs than if the opponent is Italy Difficult to deal with.

Facing the England national team whose physical fitness is not weaker than their own, and whose technical and tactical aspects are comprehensively suppressing their own side, the Russians have no advantage at all.In the two rounds of play-offs, Russia was first tied [-]-[-] at home by its opponents; a week later, at Wembley Stadium, the "Polar Bear" looked a little listless under the influence of the warm North Atlantic current, but in tens of thousands of players Amidst the cheers of the British fans, the brave Three Lions finally won the game [-]-[-]!

In the end, England eliminated Russia with a total score of [-]-[-] and got a ticket for the World Cup in France.

After the absence of the World Cup in the United States, England, the birthplace of modern football, reappeared on the stage of the World Cup!

And Russia's exit means that in next year's World Cup in France, fans will not see the "tsar" Mostovoi, Karpin, and winger Kanchelski. The curtain call performance at the World Cup has to be said to be a huge regret.

With the official end of the thrilling play-offs, it was announced that the European qualifiers for the World Cup have settled. Including the host France, a total of fifteen European teams have received tickets for next year's World Cup, occupying the top 32 seats. Half the number, the strength of European football can be seen from this.

Looking at the Italian national team again, because the old Maldini recruited too many new players this time, resulting in a lack of tacit understanding between the players, there were many mistakes in the game due to the lack of tacit understanding between the players. matter.

For example, for example, Di Livio, who is the left midfielder, and Benaribo, who is the left back behind him, are in the category of not calling at all in the game. Livio attracted the attention of the defensive players, and Benarivo took the opportunity to cover the edge and insert an assist, which was completely impossible to achieve under their feet. Either the former directly sprinted forward with the ball, or the latter did not realize that he should insert at this time. Cooperate with the former.

If it weren't for Pirlo and Ambrosini, as well as Toni and Koko who came off the bench, these players from Vicenza relied on the skillful cooperation of this small group to stabilize the situation on the field, and the old Maldini's team would be incomplete. Get an embarrassing result after the game.

In this way, at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the Apennines, who fought with a motley crew, finally won the opponent with a score of [-] to [-] with the goals of Pirlo and Ambrosini. It was finally for the fans who came to cheer There is an explanation.

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