football redemption

Chapter 104 You Will Have This Day

After the end of the 1999-2000 season, the players also had a holiday, but Batistuta stayed to train with Shaggy, not because he was attracted by Shaggy's charm but because Baggio sent him an invitation.

Italian coach Zoff refused the pleas of fans and the media, and did not bring the "bad state" Baggio.

The melancholy prince with pigtails decided to turn his grief and anger into strength and invite Batty to practice with him during the offseason. He wants the world to prove that Lian Po is older but more reliable than Zhao Kuo.

Every time Baggio sees Shaqi, he will think of what he said when he persuaded himself to join in Milan: "You will miss the last train of the European Cup this year, and coach Zoff will eventually exclude you. If you join Brescia next season, you will not be able to go to Japan and South Korea."

So every time he saw Xia Qi, he would give Xia Qi a hard fuck, and the good name was: teach apprentices.

Xia Qi knows that he has bad intentions, but if the idol wants to teach, of course he is willing to learn.

The extra training of the three has become a beautiful scenery in Florence this summer, but the training time of the two veterans is four hours a day, while Xia Qi is eight hours.

Xia Qi regards himself as a talented Kobe who is not the best, and firmly believes that Florence will also have the joy of being a champion at four o'clock in the morning
Training with the two veterans, Xia Qi still insisted on his own training plan, and only in his spare time would he learn Batty's heavy artillery timing and force skills, Baggio's running position and small-angle shooting skills.

The experience and skills of these veterans are precious, but they are not what Shaqi needs most. He needs this body to adapt to the rhythm of Serie A before the start of the league.

Xia Qi still benefited a lot from learning from the veterans, and some experience is a unique skill of the two of them for many years.

Xia Qi's football awareness and skills are all there, but this body is too weak. With training, many abilities are slowly developed. The feeling given to the two veterans is that their learning ability is too strong.

The two veterans praised everyone they met, and gradually Xiao Gaoli's football talent spread in the training base.

This made Lao Gaoli laugh from ear to ear, and with a wave of his hand, the club's nutritionists, trainers, masseuses and related logistics worked overtime during the offseason, and their wages doubled.

Xia Qi and the others felt comfortable, and a large group of people in the base scolded the vicious capitalists behind their backs.

With the opening of the European Cup in 2000, Lao Gaoli often invited the two veterans to watch the game at home.

If you don't go to the football match, of course, it will be better to watch it with like-minded friends.Baggio and Batty also readily accepted.

Here I have to talk about the 2000 European Cup. This year's European Cup can be called a "fight of gods", and the classics will be passed down forever.

Many Fiorentina players also contributed a lot of wonderful performances in this session.

The most popular European Chinese team to win the championship, the star-studded England led by Shearer, Beckham, Scholes and Owen vs. Figo and Portugal played by Rui Costa, is the most exciting match of this European Cup. The author thinks it is more exciting than the championship final.

In just 20 minutes of the first half, the Three Lions had a 2-0 lead. Beckham's golden right foot once again became a weapon with great lethality and became an eternal memory for people.

But in the ensuing game, England completely became the "Chinese team" and became unable to play, while Portugal just woke up from its dream.

Figo carried the banner of offense. He kicked the world wave directly [-] meters away from the England goal. The goalkeeper Seaman was indifferent, while another Portuguese midfielder Rui Costa sent a [-]-degree cross before the end of the first half. João Pinto leaned over and broke the goal to equalize the score.

Seeing Rui Costa's assist, Batistuta and old Gauri warmly embraced. Rui Costa is one of the cornerstones of Florence's revival and a good friend of Batistuta.

At the beginning of the second half, Portugal beat England aggressively, and England, like the Chinese team who only took a beating but never fought back, foolishly begged for defense and hoped to save a point.

It didn't take long for another surgical pass from Rui Costa to complete Nuno Gomez's counter-attack goal.In the end Portugal beat England 3:2.

Nuno Gomez is Fiorentina's striker this season. This time, Costa and Gomez's Fiorentina scored an overtake goal in Fiorentina's connection, which made Lao Gaoli's old heart almost unbearable.

He raised his wine glass to Batty and Baggio, and said vigorously: "Our goal this year is to win the championship."

Batty and Baggio showed tempting expressions on their faces. This was the purpose of their visit to Florence. The two looked at each other and drank the wine in their hands with a smile.

In addition to this classic game, there are many classic games in this European Cup.

England 1:0 Germany, ending the embarrassing record of 34 years without Germany in the World Series. Then England, like the Chinese team, could qualify after a tie, and Romania, which was suspended by the main core player Haji, defeated 3:2.

Both England and Germany failed to qualify, and the two most powerful teams fell in the death group. One of them, England, is really star-studded. This is the class they are most likely to achieve.

This session is also the farewell performance of the former Yugoslav football in the World Series, and there will be no former Yugoslav football since then.

Of course, the Italian team has received the most attention from the Fiorentina generals.

Buffon's injury shrouded the whole of Italy in pessimism. Only Florence was spring. Toldo, who replaced Buffon, won a battle against the Netherlands.
Toldo saved a Frank de Boer penalty in the first half and Kluivert hit the post again in the second half.

Within 120 minutes of fierce fighting, in the final penalty shoot-out, Toldo saved Frank De Boer's penalty again, and then saved Bosvelt's penalty. Stam took the penalty and flew to the audience.

The host Netherlands team took a total of 6 penalty kicks and only hit one.

After the game, the head coach Rijkaard announced his resignation, and the Italian head coach Zoff did not show a smile, which was in stark contrast to the "Victory Escape" players.Maybe he was regretting that he didn't bring Baggio with him at the beginning!
Toldo's brave performance made Fiorentina elated. A good goalkeeper is equivalent to half a team. This made Batty and Baggio more hopeful for the new season and more motivated to train.

The Euro 2000 final was a duel between Zinedine Zidane at his peak, Trezeguet's France and the amazing Totti's Italy.

As the proverb says: There is no high-level game in the final. In the first half of the game, the two sides played dull and dull than the Chinese Super League.

The situation changed suddenly in the second half, Italy took advantage of a tactical corner kick, and Totti planned a goal with his heel. In the end, Delvecchio opened the scoring.

The Italians were close to winning the cup, and this goal allowed Lao Gaoli and Baggio to sing the national anthem after drinking in their glasses.

Then Zoff considered the zebra prince Del Piero, who was more trustworthy than Baggio, failed to score two single-handed goals and missed the chance to seal the victory.

Piero's poor performance reminded the Italians that they still have a melancholy prince who is more trustworthy, but it was a pity that he was left in Italy and was not brought.

At that moment, Zoff's approval rating fell to an all-time low.

In the 93rd minute, the Italian's nightmare came, and the French team's Wiltord miraculously equalized at the end of the game.

Italy, full of joy, began to worry.Old Gaoli also held Xia Qi's hand tightly. Xia Qi really wanted to comfort the old man not to worry, but he already knew the result, so of course he couldn't say it.

The game went into overtime.

At that time, the golden goal system was implemented in the extra time. In the 103rd minute, after Pires broke Cannavaro's ball, he made a pass. Trezeguet shot with a bow and the ball went straight into the upper right corner of the goal.

Golden ball lore!

Do not believe in veterans, Italy, which likes the new and dislikes the old, suffered a backlash and helped France.

Perhaps, this is football, elusive.

After Del Piero lost two single-handed goals, Xia Qi looked at Baggio carefully, and there was no trace of schadenfreude on his face, but even more melancholy.

Baggio's worries finally became a reality. When Trezeguet scored a goal, Lao Gaoli slapped the table and scolded: "This competition system is too bullshit. It's unreasonable. We play better than the French."

Baggio cried, he picked up the glass and poured himself a glass silently, maybe it is the best time to get himself drunk.

"You seem to be calm?" Batistuta asked Xia Qi, whether it was the hysterical scolding of old Gao Li or Baggio's silent tears, it was a normal reaction in Batistuta's heart.

On the contrary, Xia Qi's calmness is very strange.

"Gavriel, although football is unpredictable, some things can be seen in advance. Roberto did not achieve anything in Inter Milan because the whole team fell into a black hole and had no chance to perform.

And Del Piero is different, Juventus is based on him, you look at last season's scorer list, where is he?Don't say that his function is not to break the door..."

Batty paused for a moment to ponder, and raised a glass to Xia Qi to indicate a toast.

He asked again: "Then who do you think will be the champion of the 02 World Cup?"

"If Ronaldo is healthy, and if Ronaldinho, who we just signed this year, can grow up healthy, it should be Brazil, but I hope it will be Italy. So we all have to work hard, the Champions League, the America's Cup, the World Cup, the European Cup, we conquer it one by one."

"Cheers to the Champions League."

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No matter how sad Lao Gaoli or Baggio are, life must go on.

With the end of Euro 2000, Fiorentina's signed players returned to the club for training.This season's Fiorentina is actually no worse than Lazio and Juventus.

The new players transferred from Fiorentina before this season, Baggio, Pirlo, Ronaldinho, Lucio, Maicon, and Shaqi, who made Ranieri a headache, joined the first team.

Other players: 17-year-old Pepe, 16-year-old Chiellini, 16-year-old Thiago Silva, 16-year-old Mascherano, these four went to the Fiorentina youth team and played in the Serie C 1st division this season.

Ranieri was not idle during the suspension period. He studied the roster of players this season. After several intra-team matches, he finally finalized the main lineup as a 433 lineup before going to China for the warm-up match:

Goalkeeper:

Main force: No. 1 Francisco Toldo

Substitutes: No. 12 Giuseppe Tagliaratra; No. 22 Matteo Maregini
Guard:

Main players: No. 2 Thomas Repka; No. 3 Moreno Torricelli; No. 4 Lucio; No. 5 Maicon

Substitutes: No. 6 Aldo Felicano; No. 13 Luigi Pagliuca; No. 26 Paolo Vanoli;
Midfielder:

Main players: No. 10 Manuel Rui Costa, No. 24 Andrea Pirlo, No. 99 Roberto Baggio
Substitutes: No. 14 Sandro Coes; No. 21 Mauro Bressan; No. 16 Angelo Di Livio, No. 11 Ronaldo Dinho;

forward:

Main players: No. 20 Enrico Chiesa, No. 8 Predrag Mijatovic; No. 9 Gabriel Batistuta
Substitutes: No. 18 Nuno Gomez, No. 12 Shaqi; No. 22 Korotta; No. 7 Guillermo Amor;
Xia Qi compared Capello's winning lineup of the Roman team in history and found that the famous coach Ranieri was right. Perhaps Pirlo and Ronaldinho are indeed rare midfield masters, but for Florence at this time, Vieira and De Rossi are more suitable for the current Florence.

Thinking of this, Xia Qi thought of Yaya Toure in 83, and Essien in 82 should be in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana's Novice Village at this time, so scouts can go there quickly.

If two people join, Pirlo will be surrounded by someone to defend, and Pirlo's ability can be better utilized. Ronaldinho dominates the frontcourt. If his body can be trained, Fiorentina will be the favorite to win the championship in the next ten years.

After finalizing the main lineup for this season, Florence began to set off for China, which is the most important marketing for Florence this year - to develop the Asian market.

China's economy in the millennium has been greatly developed, and of course it is far from being as vigorous as the future. The opposite of the economy is Chinese football.

No one would believe that the Chinese football team in 2000 was actually the strongest in history. Under the leadership of head coach Milu, next year they will reach the finals of the 02 World Cup and start the peak moment with zero goals and zero points.

Judging from the mentality of a time traveler, this year's Chinese football is really too strong.

The first match of Florence's visit to China was held at the BJ Workers Stadium with the Chinese team.

The football market in 2000 was very hot, although Fiorentina was not the most familiar AC Milan and Juventus to Chinese fans.

But in his team there is Roberto Baggio, who is a heartthrob. The 94 World Cup captured the hearts of thousands of girls. Of course, most of the girls at that time are now married women, so Baggio was dubbed by the media: "Mother-in-Law Killer".

The team also has flowing long hair, unruly beard, the sun who likes to shoot machine guns after scoring goals, and Batistuta, the god of war who is domineering and absolutely unmistakable.

There are also Rui Costa, the soul of the Portuguese twin midfielders, Chiesa, Gomez...

So Florence is still very popular in China. Many female college students held banners, chased the bus, cried and shouted the names of their idols...

When the whole team arrived at Gongti, the audience was full. Many people held portraits of Batty, Baggio, and Costa, wore their jerseys, and chanted the names of their idols without stopping.

"The Chinese fans are very enthusiastic!" Ronaldinho said secretly while leaning on Xia Qi's shoulder.

"This country has the best fans in the world."

"I will be chanted for anything..."

"Don't worry, you will have this day!"

(End of this chapter)