The Era of Emerald

In the new season, the three major betting companies in Europe—William Hill, Ladbrokes International, and bet365 all regard the defending champion AC Milan as the biggest favorite to win the Serie A this season, with an average odds of 1 to 1.85. At the same time, they I also dare not underestimate a powerful "civilian" team like Sampdoria, because just five years ago, they offered Sampdoria an odds of more than 1 to 10. As a result, Sampdoria's last The "accidental" championship resulted in heavy losses for these bookmakers.Before the start of the new season, Sampdoria, who performed well in Serie A last season, became the second favorite in the eyes of bookmakers, followed by Juventus, Inter Milan, Parma, Lazio, Roma And other traditional strong teams, although Fiorentina, as a "promoted horse", overturned AC Milan in the previous Italian Super Cup, but its odds are only ranked eighth in Serie A. Obviously, these bookmakers do not think that Fiorentina has enough The confidence to deal with the long league.

In the new season, after experiencing the glory of last season, Sampdoria began to show a little fatigue.Especially in the first half of last season, Sampdoria boss Paulo Mantovani passed away suddenly due to a car accident, which brought great shock to the team. In terms of player transfers, Pagliuca, who was at the peak of his career, , In exchange for the old goalkeeper Zeng Jia whose condition has begun to decline, it is a big failure both in the eyes of the media and fans...

In the new season, Juventus has changed a lot. Paulo Sousa and Deschamps rushed to aid from Portugal and France respectively. Pesoto and Iuliano have greatly enriched the Juventus defense. The famous gold medal coach Trapattoni, in charge of the Bianconeri coach, "Silver Fox" decisively mentioned last season's substitute striker "Pulsatilla" Ravanelli to the main lineup, together with Roberto Baggio and Vialli, to form A new offensive trident for Juventus in the frontcourt.At the same time, Lippi also promoted the young Alessandro Del Piero into the first team, a move that has extraordinary significance in the long run...

This season, for the historic Inter Milan, a far-reaching event also took place. "Oil King" Massimo Moratti ended the control of Inter Milan from Pellegrini in the middle of the season. This crazy Inter Milan fan is slightly dull after the end of the "Troika" era The Inter Milan has injected new vitality.After witnessing the team's tragic performance last season, Pellagrini made up his mind to start rectifying the team in order to get more "benefits" from Massimo Moratti, who bought up Inter Milan's shares. The locker room was contradictory, the short-lived 1990 World Cup best shooter Schillaci was sent to Japan, and the 91 European Golden Boot winner Pantsev, one of Yugoslavia's "Three Musketeers", was also sent to Japan one year in advance To the German team Düsseldorf...

This season, the Roman combination of Sensi, Mazzoni and Balbo, after a season of running-in, began to gradually move on the right track...

Still this season, Butch, Cannavaro, Zola, Cotto, Dino Baggio, Blanca...these names appeared for the first time in the main lineup of Parma's first team...

Still this season, Lazio boss Craniotti formed a "luxury" lineup for the Czech Zeman: goalkeeper Marchegiani; defenders Nesta, Negro, Favalli, Adani, Chamot ; Midfielders Gascoigne, Forsyth, Winter, Franceschini; Forwards Signori, Boksic, Divayo, Casiraghi... Their goal is to win the championship!

The Serie A season in 1994-95 is still fresh in Zhuang Mingge's memory. Such an important period of "history" has not undergone major changes. This makes Zhuang Mingge, who often "reminisces" about this period of history, feel extremely fortunate.Behind this legendary era, there are too many stories.

Everything before the start of the new season marks the start of a thrilling Apennine version of the "Seven Kingdoms War" performed by the "Seven Sisters of Serie A"!Just imagine, if there is a slight deviation in "history", for example, Fiorentina under my control fails to return to Serie A smoothly, or Lippi and Moggi fail to enter Juventus, then what will happen now What about the situation?Any such situation was beyond Zhuang Mingge's imagination.

Zhuang Mingge felt that he couldn't wait for the new season to start as soon as possible.

Three days later (September 9th), in the first round of Serie A, Fiorentina will face Cagliari at home. The opponent ranked No.4 in Serie A last season. It is a small club that relies on reselling players to make a living.Cagliari pursues the tactics of defensive counterattack. The striker combination of Muzi and Oliveira in the team is the key to their victory in the game.

However, with the strength of the current Fiorentina team, if nothing else, the impoverished and weak Cagliari is obviously just an "appetizer". Zhuang Mingge, who is looking forward to it, seems to have heard the fans in Frankie Stadium Cheers...

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The Cagliari Club was founded in 1920 by a group of Sardinian students.The team in the 1951-52 season won the first Serie C league title after the professionalization of the team.Cagliari has been hovering in the second division since the 50s. In the 1953-54 season, Cagliari successfully entered the promotion play-offs, but unfortunately lost and failed to be promoted to the top league. Yes, the team was relegated from the second division in 1960, but under the leadership of the young she riva, the team won the third division and returned to serie two two years later, and then succeeded again in 1964 Won the runner-up in Serie B and made his debut in Serie A.

在1969－70赛季，卡利亚里俱乐部首次获得了意甲联赛冠军（30场17胜11平2负），整个赛季仅失11球，是至今欧洲顶级联赛中最少的失球纪录，而球队的头号球星里瓦以21粒入球第三次捧走了意甲金靴。

Time entered the 70s. As Riva got old, Cagliari began to gradually decline from the peak. When Riva announced his retirement in 1976, Cagliari was relegated from Serie A with the bottom score.

In the first season after relegation, Cagliari and other three teams had the same points, so a play-off was held to determine the two promotion places. After the play-off achieved one draw and one loss, Cagliari lost the possibility of returning to Serie A immediately. Chance.

In the following ten years, Cagliari's performance can be said to be ups and downs, quite "elevator" style, first in 1979 won the runner-up promotion of the second division, and was relegated again four years later; the mid-to-late 1980s can be called Cagliari's darkest years, the team was relegated to Serie C in 1987 with bottom results.

Cagliari stayed in the Serie C for two full seasons, and finally Ranieri, who is now the head coach of Florence, led the team to complete the incredible "triple jump", first returning to Serie B in the 1988-89 season, and the following year Promoted to Serie A again.

After Ranieri left in the summer of 1991, Mazzoni succeeded him in the 1992-93 season and led Cagliari to sixth place in the league and a ticket to the UEFA Cup. In the 1993-94 season, Cagliari, who fought on both sides, reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. In the final two rounds, they lost to the final champion Inter Milan with a total score of [-]-[-]. The best result in Europe.

The Sant'Elia stadium is the home stadium of the Cagliari club. The stadium can accommodate 60000 spectators at the beginning. The highest attendance of the stadium; later, because the stadium became one of the venues for the 70000 World Cup, the Italian government carried out a reconstruction on the Sant'Elia Stadium, and the capacity of the stadium was reduced to 1990 people; during the Italian World Cup, the stadium hosted Played three Group F group matches (England drew 39,905:1 with Ireland, England drew 1:0 with the Netherlands and England beat Egypt 0:1).