Four days ago, the victory over Parma at home gave a shot in the arm to Florence players who were physically and mentally exhausted because of the tight competition. Therefore, in the last official game in 1997, Florence took the seat at Frankie Stadium and beat Atlanta to pieces.
Due to the opponent’s lack of attack power, the Florence players put most of their energy into the attack. In the backcourt, Starr and Stam, the combination of central defenders, stayed behind to keep an eye on Doni, the arrow figure in Atlanta, to prevent the opponent from attacking himself.
In this way, we attacked Florence. In this game, the fans gave another wonderful goal performance. batistuta scored twice in the game. Inzaghi and Cruz, the substitute, each scored a goal. effenberg scored a long-range shot 30 meters away in injury time. Florence beat Atlanta 5-0 at home. This was wonderful for Florence in 1997.
Chapter 575 Golden Globe Awards
Capello didn’t say much after the home win over Atlanta. He told the players to pay attention to keeping in shape and physical condition during the Christmas holiday. After the Florence team was dissolved, the players quickly went to enjoy the only short holiday in the whole season.
This year, Serie A has a full two weeks of winter break. According to Capello’s planned schedule, Florence players will get a week’s rest. After the Christmas holiday, they will conduct recovery training at the training ground to prepare for the tight schedule after the winter break.
Christmas in the west is a family reunion day in the eyes of foreigners, just like the Spring Festival in China, but Zhuang Ge didn’t go home to reunite with his parents this Christmas, because old Corleone and his mother informed Zhuang Ge three months before Christmas that they wouldn’t spend Christmas in Florence this year and were going out to make a trip around the world.
So this Christmas Eve is a warm night spent by Little Groz and Karin in Florence villa with Zhuang Ge. What really happened on this night is not humane to the outside world …
A week passed quickly and Meimei spent a Christmas holiday with her family or girlfriend. Most Florence players arrived at the club training ground on time and waited for training, but three players did not show up where they should have.
Since 1997 is not the year of the competition, the selection criteria of the European Golden Globe Awards depend largely on the performance of the players in their respective clubs, and Florence’s coquettish performance in major competitions in the past two years is obvious to all. There is not much controversy about the winner of this year’s European Golden Globe Awards. Everyone knows that it will definitely come from this European hegemon who has risen strongly in recent years.
The only argument that can arouse fans is which Fiorentina player is more qualified to win the golden ball.
Some people say that it broke Nodal’s record of scoring goals in Serie A for nearly half a century. Some people in filippo inzaghi think that the alien Ronaldo is the biggest hero in Florence. Others think that batistuta and effenberg are the most qualified for Florence’s vice-captain and vice-captain … and so on.
Therefore, when the players noticed that Ronaldo, Lei Dongduo and Inzaghi didn’t show up at the training ground as scheduled and coach Capello didn’t comment on it, they suddenly realized that they had gone to the headquarters of French football magazine to attend the European Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
"It’s really lucky that Hernando and Ronnie are running laps in the training ground." vieri sighed with envy. "When can I win a golden ball award, not even the third bronze ball award?"
"Hey, what are you thinking?" Vieri poked his friend Dibiagio in Florence and said, "Filippo Serie A’s single-season goal record holder is certainly qualified to be the last three candidates;" Ronnie’s importance in the team’s attack is well known, and he will have no objection to being selected; Although Jurnando was not as long as us when he played in Florence, it is obvious to us that he was present … "
"All right, all right, Luigi (Dibiagio), don’t talk about it. If you talk about it, my confidence will be lost." vieri slapped Dibiagio with a wry smile and said, "Anyway, the three of them can win the top three in this European Golden Globe Award. I think our reputation in Florence will rise by a big margin."
"Of course," Di Biagio agreed with vieri’s words. "It is rare for the top three teams to win the Golden Globe Award at the same time. Even if we don’t do more good things ourselves, the media will make a big announcement for us there. How can these people not make a big report?"
"Ha ha" vieri walked over and nodded suddenly to speed up the running. "Let’s stop talking and run quickly, boss. He seems to have noticed us."
"ah? ！” Hearing this, Dibiagio hurried after him. He didn’t want to be made an example by the head coach on the first day of training. "Slow down and wait for me!"
Things are really like vieri and Di Biagio chatting in the training ground. At present, many news media are watching the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony. When they find that all three candidates are from Florence, there is an uproar in the venue. Although Florence won all the trophies except the Italian Cup in the past year, people think that the Golden Globe winners will come from this Serie A giant at most. They never thought that Florence could actually achieve the feat of sweeping the top three.
To know the first time that the top three players came from the same club, it was in the year of the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony in 1999 that AC Milan completed this feat with a Champions League champion (Van Basten, baresi and Rijkaard were separated by one or two places), and that Milan team was called a dynasty team at that time.
Now, after a long time, Florence, also from Serie A, has also completed this great cause!
Together with the 50-person shortlist, batistuta, effenberg, Carlos, Starr and Florence, toldo, as many as one-sixth of the players have been selected, and the title of Europe’s first giant is truly owned.
In the end, filippo inzaghi, the record holder of Serie A’s single-season goal, came in third, while Argentine king Lei Dongduo came in second. Ronaldo, an alien who lost his arm in the golden ball, defeated two of his teammates and won the Golden Ball trophy. At the age of 21, he was the youngest European Footballer in history!
Although some people complain that Ronaldo beat Lei Dongduo and Inzaghi to be elected European Footballer of the Year, Florence’s popularity among fans has risen again by a big margin when Florence’s players won the top three in the European Golden Globe Awards through the media.
The direct consequence of the sharp rise in Florence’s popularity is that when fans talk about football, they are likely to be regarded as fake fans or just new to football.
After the event of the European Golden Globe Awards, Florence ushered in its first game in 199 on January 4th. The fans in Florence have high expectations for this game. They hope to see the teams with two European Golden Globe Awards winners, Ronaldo and batistuta, get a good start at home.
Chapter 576 World Cup grouping
Fiorentina’s first official match in 9 years was against Sampdoria Capello, who lost in the Italian Cup last season, and will lead the team to face the Navy on January 4 at Frankie Stadium.
Because Klinsmann and signori, two famous players, are still in poor condition, Morales, a new aid, is regarded as a parallel import after half a season’s poor performance. A few people in the first team, such as Montera, Veron and mikhailovich, are still reliable. Sampdoria was cut to the ground by Ma Zhuang Florence in the first league game of the new year.
Batty and Ronaldo each scored a goal to help Viola beat Sampdoria 2-0 at home, which also allowed Florence to stay far ahead of other competitors in the league standings.
Then three days later, in the first leg of the Italian Cup, Florence beat bierhoff 2-1, led by Houdusse vieri and Inzaghi scored goals to help Viola win easily.
On the weekend, in the 15th round of Serie A, Florence went away as scheduled. With the help of super substitute Cruz’s header in injury time, Brescia won 2-1 and extended the unbeaten record to 76 games!
After the match with Brescia, the European Golden Globe trophy has not been covered. Ronaldo has once again temporarily left the team. He will go to FIFA headquarters with Lei Dongduo and Inzaghi to attend the award ceremony of the World Player of the Year.
In order to better expand the influence of the title of "World Footballer of the Year" in international football, this time, the award ceremony of World Footballer of the Year and the draw ceremony of the French World Cup group were specially held on the same day.
First of all, the World Cup grouping was carried out. According to the comprehensive performance of each team in the past few World Cups, FIFA divided the 32 participating teams into four grades to avoid the appearance of too many strong teams meeting in the group stage, which would affect the enjoyment and attraction of the post-knockout stage.
The Italian national team led by Paolo Maldini was placed in the first class together with the host France, defending champions Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Romania and Spain.
Brazil, the defending champion, was drawn with Scotland, Morocco and Norway in the lottery ceremony. Although Brazil’s three opponents are not very strong, the extremely tough football style of Scotland and Norway is likely to bring unexpected trouble to the Samba Corps.
Perhaps it is because FIFA intends to take care of the host country, France, and the Gaul rooster is in the same group as Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Denmark. Needless to say, in the eyes of many people, these two teams are just sending children. Although Denmark won the European Cup in 1992, those champions are now old, and the trouble Denmark can cause to France is quite limited.