"It seems that coach Lippi is going to let the main players adjust well and play the cup wholeheartedly. After all, Juventus still has a big advantage over Parma," Karin analyzed on the side

"Well, Karin, what you said is very reasonable." Zhuang Ge nodded and said yes while whispering. Remember that Juventus seems to have lost to Parma in these two finals this season? Should it not happen that Juventus won the embarrassing title of "King of Sanya" seven years earlier than Leverkusen?
After a week’s rest, Florence flew to Foggia, a city in southeastern Italy, for the 31st round of Serie A.
Before leaving Florence, Zhuang Ge informed the head coach that Ranieri Club had reached an agreement with Paris Saint-Germain. After the match with Foggia, the team could fly directly to Paris, France to prepare for the winner’s cup final in the middle of the week.
Ranieri has no problem with his boss’s decision. After all, the climate in Paris is still different from that in Florence. If you go there a few days ago, the players can better adapt to the local weather. At the same time, the King’s Park Stadium or the home club of Paris Saint-Germain will say hello to each other, which means that the team may have more time to adapt to the final venue.
On May 14th, Fiorentina played Foggia in the 31st round of the League as scheduled.
After Zeman, the meritorious coach, turned to Lazio, there was a whirlwind in Serie A two years ago. Foggia fell in the season. At present, they are only the third from the bottom to the fourth in Serie A. Genoa still has a three-point gap and a six-point gap from Padova in the relegation zone (the promotion and demotion rule in Serie A at that time was that the last three teams were directly relegated to the fourth from the bottom to participate in the play-offs).
Due to the relegation of this game, the morale of Foggia team was quite high from the first game. On the one hand, it was fierce to snatch Florence at halftime, and on the other hand, it relied on Russian striker Cory Vanov to attack Florence’s goal, trying to grab important points from Florence!
However, how can Florence, who dreams of winning the Serie A championship early these days, be frightened by a mere foggia?
Although Ranieri put several main players such as batistuta, effenberg and djorkaeff on the bench to prepare for the final of the Cup Winners’ Cup last week, they were replaced by vieri, tommasi and Corini, but Florence still firmly controlled the game situation.
In the 30th minute, vieri managed to score a goal by squeezing the opponent’s already-stabilized defense line. He was stupefied to blast the ball into the opponent’s goal with a Foggia defender hanging on his body!
Foggia launched a fierce counterattack against Florence in the following time. However, fifteen minutes after the halftime, it was successfully attacked by another Florentine striker, Montera Li, which successfully expanded the visiting team’s lead. This goal made Foggia completely give up the idea of winning.
When the referee blew the final whistle of the game, Florence players rushed to the stadium excitedly to celebrate the team’s first championship in the season and the first league championship in Florence in 26 years!
After all, even if Juve win in the first round, there are still three rounds left in the league, and the advantage of 9 points and mutual record is enough to ensure that the team will win the league championship at the end of the season!
Now that the league is not over, the Italian Football Association will naturally not give the championship trophy to Florence, but the joy of Florence players will not be weakened at all. In this season’s league title competition, Florence first played a "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with Parma and Juventus in the middle, and then gradually fell behind with Juventus in the middle, and even fell behind, but today they finally laughed at the end!
I won the Serie A championship before, and now Florence has the last important game left in the season! That’s the winner’s cup final in Paris on Wednesday!
Chapter 144 Before the decisive battle
In a blink of an eye, it has come to mid-May, when all the major leagues in Europe are nearing the end.
Fiorentina in Serie A has decided to win the first three rounds; And all the games have ended. The Premier League has the attacking combination of ginola, Shearer and Sutton. Black lost to Liverpool in the final round and miraculously won the Premier League championship with the draw of rival Manchester United. Although La Liga is not over yet, it is only a matter of time before Real Madrid, the leader, has a one-point advantage over Barcelona, the second place, to regain the league title. Bayern in Bundesliga has never met a team regarded as an opponent since the end of the season.
After the major league titles were released one after another, the fans’ eyes were focused on the three major European cups, and the winner’s cup final was the first one.
On May 14th, they challenged Foggia in Florence, and Zhuang Ge and Karin came to Paris, the capital of France, for the second time.
The first time I came to Paris was more than a year ago. At that time, I didn’t have much fame and wealth. I introduced ginola from Paris Saint-Germain and had to go to Paris in person. Finally, I was cut off by Blake with deep pockets.
At that time, Zhuang Ge was naturally not in the mood and accompanied Karin to visit Paris well.
This time, it’s different. Zhuang Ge came to Paris this time to watch his team play in the Winners’ Cup final on May 1, and now there are still several days before the final day. Naturally, there will be plenty of time to play in Paris with people with hearts.
So on their first day in Paris, Zhuang Ge and Karin visited the Arc de Triomphe, which is the symbol of the whole France-the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of social prosperity and national prosperity in the Napoleonic period.
In the evening, they wandered around the Champs Elysé es Avenue, the most beautiful street in the world. There were countless magnificent showrooms on both sides of the street, which made them linger. At the end of the avenue, the Arc de Triomphe and Concorde Square were even more dazzling in the colorful neon lights.
The next mor, Zhuang Ge took Karin to Versailles, 2 km west of Paris, where she visit its palaces, castles, gardens, Trianon palace and other famous landscape, and displayed exquisite art and statues of that royal family.
During the visit, Zhuang Ge and Karin were lucky enough to hold a fountain performance in Versailles Garden, which made them intoxicated.
Then Zhuang Ge and his wife went to Notre Dame de Paris, the oldest and grandest Catholic church in Paris, which was famous for Hugo’s novel of the same name.
In the afternoon, they came to the Louvre, a world-famous art palace, where the collection of art is quite rich, among which the Mona Lisa is the most famous. This time, Zhuang Ge finally got a glimpse of her "Fang".
While Zhuang Ge and his wife were visiting the Louvre, the Florence team at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport arrived at their destination by special plane.
Media reporters from all walks of life who have been waiting at the airport saw that a team finally came out of the airport. At the first moment, they rushed over to the big-name stars batistuta and djorkaeff who had just left the airport exit, carrying their own various interview equipment on their shoulders.
Yu effenberg knows that this German midfielder has kept a respectful distance from this "dangerous man" one after another. God knows if this eccentric star will suddenly punch them …
Although there is little chance of entering the final list, Zhuang Ge asked all the members of Florence’s first team to come to Paris to feel the atmosphere of the final without injury.
Among the Florence youth team players, Zhuang Ge placed high hopes on several promising stars, and they also came to Paris with the team. Among them, Pirlo Jr., who joined Florence for more than half a year, was talented.
Vieri was talking and laughing with Pirlo when he walked out of the airport for the first time. When he saw a large group of reporters approaching here at high speed, he pulled a small Pirlo behind him and stood in front of him. He once kept order with a loud voice over many reporters and asked, "Hello! You all pay attention to me! Don’t squeeze! "
However, vieri’s words were obviously automatically filtered by many reporters carrying long guns and short guns, so the tragedy vieri made his tall body resist the impact of some people
"Hello, Mr Ranieri. Are you confident to beat Zaragoza in the winner’s final the day after tomorrow?" A strong young reporter gave full play to his advantages and squeezed his peers. He was the first to hand the microphone to Florence coach Ranieri.
Rao, a doormat like Ranieri, was also a little angry with the young reporter. Isn’t this nonsense? If you don’t win the confidence of your opponent, what is the match? Go home and hold the baby!
"We are more confident than gaming companies!"
Ranieri’s answer made the reporter, who had not been out for a long time, feel a little confused. When he came to his senses, he found that the Florence players had gone far, and many colleagues around him had cast regrets and despised eyes.
Because Zhuang Ge sent someone to contact Paris Saint-Germain in advance, with their permission, Florence players can temporarily make the training ground of Saint-Germain Club.
In the accommodation place, it is an advanced hotel not far from the training base. Zhuang Ge directly wraps two floors of the hotel with a stroke of a pen, creating the best rest environment for the players.
"What is the current situation of the team?" Zhuang Ge asked after settling down the players.
"At present, the first-team players are not injured, and Filippo (Inzaghi) has returned from injury. Dr. Thomas (Carter) said that he is physically fit to play," Ranieri said cautiously, glancing at his boss.
"That’s good," Zhuang Ge happily patted Ranieri on the shoulder and said, "Thanks to you, Florence won the league title this season. I’d like to thank you personally."
"Hehe boss, this is what I should do."
"I think I’ll send you the winning prize after the final." Zhuang Ge thought about it and added, "By the way, tell the first-team players that if they can win the game the day after tomorrow, the club will give them a winning prize of $50,000 … and everyone in the coaching staff will have the same prize."
"No problem! Boss! I will inform them! " Ranieri is really excited this time! After seeing off giuliano giannichedda and Giunti, the first team has two players even after pulling Tacchinardi!
The coach and the players get the same bonus … That means everyone can get $250,000!
Don’t underestimate the hundreds of thousands of dollars. At that time, the player’s salary was not as abnormal as it is now. Two years ago, the assistant Figo of your Barcelona team could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to sink himself …
Chapter 145 Battle in Paris ()
That night, when the first-team players learned that their boss was "generous", they all shouted "Long live the boss" excitedly in the conference room.
What is being a player? It’s just honor and treatment!
In Florence, there is honor to be won and such a generous boss is called the first class in Serie A in terms of personal treatment and competition bonus. How can any player want to leave Florence voluntarily? Unless it’s because this player can’t play in Florence and wants to get a chance.
The huge bonus "inspired" Florence players to be serious in training the next day, and their morale reached a peak.
Soon it will be the final day.
On the evening of May 17th, the night fell quietly in Cannes, Paris, with 46 spectators. The packed stands at the King’s Park Stadium were filled with fans from Florence and Zaragoza.
Zhuang Ge sat in the box as usual, wearing headphones and playing the box to watch the game on the screen.
This time he chose Murdoch Sky TV.
"Good evening, audience. Now you are watching the 199495 European Cup Winners’ Cup finals broadcast live by Sky TV. The two sides are from Fiorentina Club in Serie A and Zaragoza in La Liga. We are honored to invite the famous Danish star-Michelle, the commentator of Mr. michael laudrup’s match. Thank you very much for accepting our invitation to come here from your busy schedule. Now let’s say hello to the fans in front of the TV."
"Good evening, everyone. I’m glad to be here today. Let’s judge the ball."
"Michelle, a star who played in Serie A and La Liga at the same time, what do you think of both sides?" Asked the TV commentator.