The Era of Emerald

The 1997 Toyota Cup champion is - Florence!

Consecutively winning the Toyota Cup championship trophy under the noses of Japanese fans and even Asian fans made Florence's popularity among Asian fans start to rise crazily.

The alien Ronaldo, the spirit fox Inzaghi, the god of war Batistuta, the elegant prince Redondo, the Italian tank Vieri, the Brazilian heavy artillery Roberto Carlos... almost every main player of the Fiorentina first team, All have been wildly sought after by Asian fans.

The general manager of Kenyon, who is in charge of the commercial development of Florence, will naturally not let go of this great opportunity to occupy the Asian market easily.After all, the European football market at this time has already been divided up by teams from various countries. No matter how hard Florence tries, it is impossible to grab more market share from the already divided sphere of influence; South America is rich in football talents, and the forces are quite complicated. Florence may be in a quagmire if he enters there rashly; let alone North America, it is a football desert, and people there prefer to watch football. Ice hockey, baseball and even brutal football, not football as the world's number one sport.

Therefore, Asia, which has the largest population in the world, has naturally attracted Kenyon's strong attention, especially after occupying Japan's football market first, China, which is across the sea from Japan, has also entered Kenyon's Fayan, and he listed it as one of the key development markets in Florence.

By the way, Kenyon originally planned to go to South Korea to explore the road, but his idea was stopped by Zhuang Mingge before it could be implemented.

At the same time, under the suggestion of Zhuang Mingge, Kenyon did not choose to follow the model of developing the Japanese football market to seek official cooperation with the Chinese Football Association, but to use Adidas, an international sports brand controlled by Zhuang Mingge, through the sales channels of Adidas Sell ​​the peripheral products of Florence, so as to gradually establish the image of the brand of Florence in the hearts of Chinese fans.

Florence's strategy in the Chinese market is proceeding in an orderly manner.

The words are far away, now let us talk about the winner of the best player in this Toyota Cup.

Although it was Ronaldo and Inzaghi who scored goals in the game, they unexpectedly did not get the right to drive away the Toyota car in the selection of the best player after the game.With two assists in the game, the Portuguese midfielder Rui Costa stood out in the selection and drove away the new sports car with a smile as the Toyota Cup mvp.

After successfully winning the second Toyota Cup championship in the club's history, the Fiorentina players did not stop too much in Japan, a Far Eastern country, but rushed back to Italy on a special plane overnight-in less than two days In a week's time, they still have a UEFA Champions League group match and three league games to play (the No. 11 round of Serie A make-up match was arranged by the Football Association in the middle of the week before the No. 13 round match with Atlanta), the pressure is not undeniable big.

Fortunately, five days later, the Champions League group match with Leverkusen will be held at the Frankie Stadium, otherwise the Fiorentina players will have to rebel.After all, flying tens of thousands of kilometers back and forth to play two games in a week is quite a labor-intensive job. If these two games are still away...hehe.

On December 12th, the tired Fiorentina players ushered in the game against Leverkusen at home, which was also the final match of the entire group stage.At the same time, the result of this game will directly determine the fate of Leverkusen, Real Madrid and Liverpool in the Champions League this season.

Since the team just played a Toyota Cup in Japan thousands of miles away five days ago, the main players consumed a lot of physical energy on the way, so Capello carried out a large rotation in this game to ensure that the players They will not deform their technical movements due to fatigue, which will lead to injuries during the game.

Looking at Leverkusen again, under the temptation of the possibility of participating in the Champions League rematch, Daum decisively sent all the main players in this game, trying to take advantage of the opportunity of Florence's fatigue from the long journey to win at the Frankie Stadium. A victory, thus successfully getting another qualifying place from the group.

However, Fiorentina's starting lineup made Daum feel chills, because Capello copied the approach against Liverpool in the last round in front of him this time-three central defenders, three midfielders, and two full-backs ——Strict defensive defense in the backcourt plus a fast horse staying in the frontcourt to prepare for a quick counterattack. This kind of tactic is obviously bullying the defenders to turn slowly!

After the start of the game, the Fiorentina's intensive defense made the Leverkusen players who are playing very open and close quite uncomfortable. Among them, facing Fiorentina's concrete defense line, the only way for Leverkusen players to solve the problem is to keep kicking the goal directly in the midfield, trying to use long shots to blast away the goal guarded by Toldo.

Although Lamelo, Niko Kovacs, Kirsten and others have good long-distance shooting skills, it depends on the occasion.If they can really play a world wave under the personal care of Di Biagio, Davis and other top defensive midfielders, then Leverkusen may still have the possibility of winning.But it is a pity that Lady Luck did not visit Leverkusen today, so Kirsten and others' long-range shot either missed the goal or the angle was too square and was caught by Toldo.

While Leverkusen was facing the global problem of the iron barrel, Real Madrid took a three-goal lead at home early with Dave Suker's goal in the 3rd minute and Raul's second goal. Liverpool, although the Red Army, who was unwilling to admit defeat, pulled back two cities in the second half by Owen and Fowler, but German left-back Zieger completely shattered Liverpool's hope of reversal with a ground-breaking long shot in the No.807 minute. The score was fixed at four to two.

In the end, Leverkusen, who had nothing to do against the concrete defense, drew a [-]-[-] draw with Fiorentina in the away game. Under the good situation that winning the game can ensure their qualification, they regrettably lost the chance to advance to the Champions League round of [-] , Daum and his disciples paid precious tuition fees in this game.

At the post-match press conference, when answering questions from reporters on the spot, Daum did not express his distaste for Fiorentina's extreme defensive tactics. It is expected that Capello will use the iron barrel array in this game.

Daum's response at the press conference won the favor of many Italian media, so he also praised Leverkusen, who regretted being out of the game, saying that although his defeat was glorious, it was invisible for this new Champions League team in the whole of Europe. Played a free club image promotion advertisement.

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