The Era of Emerald

"Tch, the Rangers are really lucky. They can beat us for two consecutive seasons, and they are all at home." Most of the reason is that the team has to save energy for the weekend league, but no one thinks that losing is a pleasant thing, and the same is true for Zhuang Mingge.

"There's no way around it. If these Fiorentina players are really allowed to play three games halfway around the world in a week, will these guys be exhausted?" Karin smiled and looked at the young players who were playing The tempered Zhuang Mingge said, "Anyway, you have also been the president of Florence for three years. You have seen so many great scenes, and you still can't let go of this little thing?"

"It's acceptable in terms of ambition, but..." Zhuang Mingge lay down on the desk depressedly, and said sullenly, "I still really hate my team losing."

"Hehe." Karin chuckled lightly, and put a steaming cup of coffee on the table.

Not to mention Zhuang Mingge's complaints in the Florence headquarters, let us turn our attention back to this season's European Champions Cup.

After more than three months of competition, the European Champions Cup group stage of the 96-97 season has finally come to an end. The six teams that won the first place in the group, namely Fiorentina, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Manchester United, Monaco and Dortmund, won the direct prize. After some comparisons, the Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and Ajax, which has reached the Champions League final for two consecutive years, became the lucky ones. They got the final place. Two places to advance to the quarter-finals, these eight teams will be divided into four groups to fight against each other after the draw ceremony.

Trapattoni breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the team had qualified. Although Beckenbauer and other Bayern executives had expressed their support for his continued coaching, if Bayern were eliminated in the group stage, the Italian coach would be fine. He will be dismissed immediately and his coaching position will be unstable, even if this season he is very hopeful to lead Bayern to their first league championship in nearly three years.

Ajax's ability to reach the knockout stage this time can be said to be a surprise for Chairman Van Prager.The Dutch giants, which have suffered serious blood loss in the past two years, rely on the few remaining main players and the friendly sponsorship of Florence (two old players, Corini and Gianni Keida, plus the loaned Inzaghi Jr. and Materazzi), finally stumbled into the quarterfinals.The large amount of broadcasting income obtained by entering the knockout round gave Van Prager more confidence to rebuild a young guard, although Zhuang Mingge knew that the end of doing so would be to make this Dutch giants become a star supermarket again. ...

If someone laughs, someone will cry. In the last round, Rosenberg, who bravely brought down Milan, was unfortunately eliminated because of too little goal difference; another Premier League team, Newcastle United, also failed to win because of a point difference. A seat in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, which disappointed Alan Shearer, the number one center in England. He joined his hometown team with a Premier League transfer record. He originally wanted to lead Newcastle to a good result in the Champions League. Unexpectedly, as the runner-up of the Premier League, they failed to qualify for the group stage. [

Just as unlucky as Newcastle is La Liga runner-up Valencia. The Bats were also blocked from the quarterfinals because of insufficient points.

As for Milan, who didn't even get second in the group, I heard that Berlusconi was very angry at the team's failure to qualify from the group. , Sacchi is obviously impossible to continue coaching Milan.

As a result, as everyone expected, three days after Milan was eliminated from the Champions League, No. 3 Turati Avenue (where Milan headquarters is located) announced a piece of news: Arango Sacchi and Milan executives r An intimate meeting was held, and after friendly negotiation between the two parties, the work contract between coach Sacchi and Milan will be automatically terminated after the end of this season.

Due to the expansion of the UEFA Champions League group stage this time, the number of places in the knockout stage has not increased accordingly, resulting in many strong teams being eliminated in the group stage. This result has aroused protests from many teams.Later, even Barcelona and Real Madrid, which had no Champions League mission this season, began to express to UEFA through various channels that they hoped that the Champions League knockout round would start from the top sixteen instead of the current top eight.

After all, if the Champions League is still played in this way in the next few years, how many teams will become the ghosts of the current policy.

In the face of protests from many clubs, Johansson, who had long planned to further expand the Champions League, accepted the criticism from various teams very humbly this time.Immediately afterwards, Johansson announced in line with the will of the people that UEFA will further expand the European Champions Cup next season. The participating teams will increase from 24 this season to 32 teams and be divided into 8 groups; the group stage ends Afterwards, the top two in each group can participate in the next knockout round, and the No.3 in each group will be eligible to participate in the UEFA Cup competition of the season.

Johansson's plan immediately won the support of most clubs.The expansion of the Champions League means that the influence of the Champions League will be further enhanced. At the same time, the TV broadcast fee share of each participating team will also increase. In addition, the third team in the group can also play the UEFA Cup instead of going back to their hometown. Therefore, amidst the applause, this military expansion plan was unanimously approved.

However, none of this has anything to do with Fiorentina, who have already entered the Champions League knockout this season, at least not this season. Fiorentina's current goal is to play well in the last few games before the winter break.

In the No.12 round of Serie A on December [-]th, the main players who had been fully rested beat Perugia [-]-[-] at the Frankie Stadium without any suspense. Batistuta scored twice At a certain speed, Ronaldo and Inzaghi each scored a goal, helping the team win a big victory in the league and consolidate their position in the standings.

Three days later, in the 11th round of the Serie A make-up match (because Fiorentina went to Japan to participate in the Toyota Cup, the game was delayed and played now), Fiorentina fought against the Red Wolves led by Bianchi at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome for a full nine and 10 minutes, and finally Relying on Ronaldo's brace, Bianchi's stunned move (No. 605 minutes, he replaced Totti, who played extremely well with one pass and one she in the game) and Vieri's lore They defeated their opponents three to two and won three consecutive Serie A victories!

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