Fortunato’s untimely death from leukemia has brought Zhuang Ge a great sense of accomplishment. Although Zhuang Ge doesn’t recognize himself as a saint, he can save a life through his own efforts. Zhuang Ge is still willing to do it several times.
According to the data sent back from the United States, although fortunato’s physical fitness has dropped a lot because of his illness and struggle this year, he is still under 24 years old, and he still has a great chance to return to the top. Even if fortunato can’t recover to the level he played in Juventus in the past, his talent and consciousness can still ensure that he can find a place in the first team in Florence.
However, it will be another month before fortunato can return to Florence from the United States, so Zhuang Ge sent a message to the player, telling him to take good care of his illness and not to rush back.
On the other hand, fortunato is obviously very touched by the boss’s heart. He knows very well that the club has spent a lot of money to treat his leukemia. If this matter is put in other teams, it is estimated that the players can get a solatium and spend the rest of their lives in the hospital.
During the call, fortunato tried to say that Zhuang Ge didn’t need him to pay the contract salary before he officially played in Florence, but Zhuang Ge refused without hesitation.
"Are you kidding? I know Andre (fortunato) that your family is not rich. You’d better keep your salary to support your family. Since Florence chose to sign it, you won’t pay you a lira less in the contract!"
Zhuang Ge’s words made fortunato across the microphone grateful. He secretly vowed in his heart that the club would not abandon him voluntarily. He was willing to play for a generation in Florence.
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Let’s put things aside in fortunato and return to Serie A.
At this time, the calendar has been turned to April 2, which is the 25th match day of Serie A.
In the round match, Fiorentina won the relegation at home. Brescia batistuta scored twice and scored 23 league goals in the game, far ahead of the scorer list.
Juventus didn’t stop to face another team of "holy alliance", AC Milan Bianconeri. They beat the Rossoneri 2-0 at the San Siro Stadium, finished the season and continued to lead by three points.
At this time, there are nine rounds left in Serie A, and some football media are also betting on whether batistuta will become the first player to score more than 30 Serie A golden boots in 36 years.
In an interview with reporters, batistuta said that he was very happy to have the opportunity to break the "30-goal curse" of Serie A golden boots. At the same time, Batty also said that leading Florence to win a league championship trophy is his greatest wish now.
However, Batty’s good wish depends on whether Juventus will make mistakes. Now Florence has the best hope to win not only the Serie A championship but also another trophy, that is, the European Cup Winners’ Cup.
In this week, Florence will go to London, the capital of England, to Highbury Stadium in the north of London, where the first leg of the semi-final of the European Cup Winners Cup will be played against the Premier League team Arsenal.
Arsenal has been the top team in England since its establishment. Once it entered the top league through the expansion of the first division after World War I, it has never left the top league. In the 1930s, the epoch-making "WM" tactics led by the famous coach Chapman swept across England and became the second team in the top league in England to win the league three times in a row-the first team to win this honor was Huddersfield-and now it is mixed with the first division.
Ten top league titles, six FA Cup titles, two League Cup titles, one UEFA Cup title and one Winner’s Cup title. Arsenal is undoubtedly one of the best teams in England.
If Arsenal is an aristocrat in English football, it is a standard civilian team compared with Florence …
Although the opponent was the famous Arsenal, Zhuang Ge didn’t take the lead, and regarded it as the Arsenal who paid attention to appreciation and technology and cooperated with Wenger in memory.
Therefore, this Arsenal manager is still the Graham.
At this time, Arsenal is still a unified English team, paying attention to physical confrontation, advocating strength and abundant physical fitness. The tactical play is long and heavy, and they occupy a larger defensive area and a high advantage.
Graham’s style of running Arsenal was tough and tough. In the late 1990s, Arsenal became the king of English football at that time, while Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and other teams were gradually declining and Sir Alex Ferguson led Manchester United to rise.
The invincible Arsenal won many honors, especially in the last round of League One in 1999, when Liverpool won the league title, it completely plunged the old English overlord Red Army into the abyss of no league title for more than 20 years.
However, it was a long time before the Premier League was founded. Zhuang Ge’s deepest memory of this Arsenal game was the European Cup Winners’ Cup final a year ago.
Although Arsenal were generally unpopular before the final and their rival defending champion Parma tried to be the first team to win the championship in the Cup Winners’ Cup, the result was surprising-Arsenal won the final victory.
Arsenal relied on tenacious defense and fierce tackles. With a successful sneak attack by striker ian wright, the "gunner" was stunned.
Although Zhuang Ge knows that facing such a difficult team seems to be going downhill with the aging of Arsenal’s main players, he knows that it takes effort to defeat such an experienced and mature Arsenal Florence.
The arrival of the first leg of the Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final has made the London police nervous. Although the Heather tragedy and the Fort Hilts tragedy have passed away, the football hooligans everywhere in England have made the police dare not take it lightly.
Tension hung over the Thames before the big game. More than 100 invited Italian policemen raised this kind of policing action to an international level. It seems that the police of the two countries continued to face the feud between Italy and England in the 1999 World Cup (referring to the fact that Italy beat England to win the third place in the final of the 1999 World Cup) and faced the football hooligans who were frantically looking for an outlet. Although the British police successfully smashed the football hooligans’ plan in that World Cup, this time the British had to turn to the Italian police who were always arrogant and inefficient.
Arriving in Florence, London the day before the game, the plane headed by coach Ranieri went directly to Highbury Stadium, Arsenal’s home stadium, for the only field adaptation training before the game.
Chapter 13 Investigation of Premier League Mode ()
Zhuang Ge also came to London with the team this time. On this trip to London, he didn’t just watch a semi-final of the Winners’ Cup. He had more goals.
While still on the plane, Zhuang Ge followed several general managers through the air.
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"I said the boss didn’t need to call Giancarlo and me for this team’s game in England, did he?" Kenyon, who was on the plane to London, said naively, "I am the general manager in charge of the commercial operation of the club, but the competition is not my responsibility."
"I said, don’t you want to see the commercialization level of the Premier League in the past two years? I heard that this league is quite prosperous. "Zhuang Ge smiled and turned to look at kenyon and said," Don’t you want to see how an English club conducts marketing? "
"Boss, you’re right," kenyon said with a straight face. "So what do you think we should start with this investigation?"
"Ha ha kenyon manager this matter you should already know? You don’t worry about what differences we may have. In terms of marketing, I’m a layman. I’m in charge of controlling the general development direction. You just do it … but before that, I’d like to hear your views on the current situation of English football. "
Cautious about the boss’s seemingly random questioning, kenyon didn’t dare to neglect it. After sorting out a little, he replied, "Britain, the birthplace of modern football, has always occupied an important position in the world football, and English football is the representative of English football, but the Heisel tragedy and the Fort Hilts tragedy that shocked the world have caused their club to suffer a five-year ban from FIFA and UEFA … far from the European football center, English football has experienced a sharp decline in its level in those years. Many old England. The decline of the club at the same time, due to the long-term suspension, there was a fault in the excellent players in England, which also affected the performance of the English national team and withdrew from the top European teams. The English national team failed to win the World Cup in the United States last year … "
"It is because of this institute that British talents are forced to start the Premier League?" Zhuang song interrupted kenyon memories and asked curiously.
"In a sense, it can be said that before the establishment of the Premier League, English football really reached the end of its tether."
"Well, I see …"
Although Zhuang Ge had heard the reports and introductions of the reasons why the staid British originally founded the Premier League before crossing the border, he always regarded it as a way for the English to break the established pattern and innovate.
I didn’t expect the Englishman to explain Zhuang Ge in kenyon before I could understand how embarrassed English football was at that time.
Where is this innovative situation? It’ s simply a way to rise up!
Think about the tragic situation of English football at that time, it seems that the British who have always been self-proclaimed gentlemen have the courage to cross the rubicon and learn from it. They completely let go of their own shelves and launched a new league operation model.
Thought of here, Zhuang Ge’s brain suddenly flashed and felt as if he had caught some key points.
"kenyon, what you just said has given me some inspiration. I think I have found what I should visit when I go to London this time." Zhuang Ge patted his side, although the competent general manager said.
"Well, what boss is it?"
Looking at the people who were seriously aroused the desire for knowledge, Zhuang Ge didn’t directly answer the answer when he had an epiphany, but once again threw a question to kenyon.
"Do you know what is the biggest difference between Premier League companies and our Serie A professional leagues?"
"Er, it seems that the Italian Football League includes all the teams in Serie A and Serie B, and the Premier League company includes 22 teams instead of 20 teams participating in the Premier League." antonioni thought about it and replied.
(Note that the Premier League had 22 teams before the 9495 season)
But when he saw Zhuang Ge smiled and shook his head, he knew that his answer was not correct.
On the other hand, after thinking for a while, kenyon replied, "Strictly speaking, an organization of the Italian Football League is relatively loose and more like a career-oriented management organization; However, the Premier League company is totally different. It is a profit-making commercial company. This company has completely escaped from the jurisdiction of the FA in terms of operation and management, and has achieved self-management and self-financing. Moreover, in such an organizational form, 20 Premier League teams have become a strong whole. They are like a community of heavily invested interests, and they have formed 20 fist forces to promote healthy competition … While Serie A is still in a leading position in major leagues, the overall function of the league has not been fully exerted. In many cases, our Serie A teams are fighting each other, sometimes even each other.
"That’s right!" Zhuang Ge said to kenyon, "In time, the Premier League team will definitely become our biggest opponent in Serie A, but unfortunately I have no power to change this."
"Boss, do you want me to report to the Italian Football Association …"
Antonioni’s words were interrupted by Zhuang Ge before he finished.
"Now don’t Giancarlo don’t you know our football association? In terms of unreliability, they can rank first in Europe! "
"So we just watch the Premier League team catch up with Serie A bit by bit?"
"You are too anxious now, Giancarlo." Zhuang Ge has some remarks about the patriotic plot of the general manager, but he can still understand it. "It is said that we must let all Serie A teams see the benefits of the Premier League model and unite everyone to force the Football Association to agree to this case."