"Parma club general manager Ballardini confirmed the news that the team's manager Baldini has been sacked, and the 0-1 defeat away to Atalanta in the league's vice-captains became the direct trigger for Baldini's dismissal......"

Leon opened his mouth wide and looked at the TV screen in surprise. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Banderas touched Leon with his arm, "Your 'peer killer' is really powerful, and their coach is out of class before the game even starts." ”

Leon smiled bitterly and shook his head.

It's two days after the match against Malaga, and the whole Sporting Gijón squad is now in the Italian town of Parma to prepare for the quarter-final match of the UEFA Cup against Serie A side Parma.

They arrived in Parma last night and, after a night's rest, had breakfast in the morning when they learned on the TV news that Parma coach Bardini had been sacked.

This was indeed a surprise to Leon, as the match against Sporting Gijón was about to start, and Parma actually sacked the head coach before the game......

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"This only shows that this team has reached the limit of patience with the manager, otherwise there would not be a change of manager at this time. Ribery said that the players were also talking about it, and they all thought it was so strange that they made their own guesses.

Italian left-back Fabio Grosso, who is part of the Sporting Gijón squad, was sorry for Bardini, who had coached him in the past, and it was when Grosso played in Palermo.

The 46-year-old did not have much of an illustrious managerial experience before taking charge of Parma, having been the manager of Empoli in 2002-03 and then Palermo in the second division, but in January 2004 the club felt that he had not been able to bring the team to the heights it deserved and was sacked by the club's president Zamparini, but in reality, Palermo finished third in the second division at the time, and was actually quite good, and was subsequently promoted to the first division.

The resume was lacklustre, so when Parma chose Valdini to coach, it was also the subject of debate last summer, and it was concluded that Bardini had been chosen because of his low salary and saving money - the most important thing for Parma in financial crisis.

From the news, Leon learned that the name of Parma's new head coach is Pietro Carmignani, and after thinking about it in his mind, he still doesn't have any impression and memory of this person, so it can only mean that this person's coaching results are very average, even bad, and he has not really been able to get ahead.

In his eyes, among the current coaches of the Italian team, that is, Lippi, Ancelotti, Capello, etc., these coaches can give him a high look, and the others are Spalletti, Prandelli and other 'young coaches'.

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With only 180,000 permanent inhabitants, Parma is considered one of the most sophisticated cities in Italy. The Teatro Regio is world-famous, on par with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Palma is a city of livability, sophistication, smallness, medieval style, affluence and petty bourgeoisie, and is even considered by some to be unique in the world. Parma's ham is unique, Parma's cheese is a benchmark in the industry, Parma's pizza brand Barilla is known to the world – you can eat it in any of the world's major malls, and Parma's glassware brand Pomioli, which is equally famous.

Of course, the whole team of Sporting Gijón is not here to enjoy it, they want to be able to take away from Parma a satisfactory result: victory.

Leon is still more confident and expectant of winning away from home, and this is largely due to Parma's current poor situation: they are now 17th in Serie A, a team that finished in the top six in Serie A last season, and is now deep in the relegation zone. To make matters worse, Parma is in deep financial crisis.

In fact, Parma, one of the seven sister teams in Serie A, was once very popular, but for most of the team's 101-year history, Parma have been in the lower leagues. In fact, it was only after the team was promoted to Serie A in 1990 that Parma made a name for themselves around the world. At that time, the dairy company Parmalat bought the club, and CEO Callisto Tanzi became the president of the club himself. Historically, running a Serie A club has never been a way to make money. The executive of a Serie A club larger than Parma has made it clear that to a large extent, owners invest in a club "either to do image engineering or buy a big toy", as is the case with Tanzi.

Tanzi spent a lot of money to create the "Golden Decade" of Parma. In the 90s, Serie A was full of stars, and Tanzi's team was also full of superstars: Crespo, Parma's all-time goalscorer and current coach of Parma's youth team, Thuram, one of the most famous defenders in the history of France, Asprira, a representative of Colombia's golden generation, and now the main central defender of the Italian national team, Cannavaro...... Parma have won two UEFA Cups, one European Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup and three Coppa Italia, and now when you walk into the Clezio Centre in Parma, you can see these victories on both sides of the corridor. Under Tanzi's care, the Clezio Training Center was inaugurated before the turn of the millennium. At that time, Tanzi wanted to move the team to the vicinity of the Parmalat headquarters in Clezio, so he funded the construction of the base.

Parma's success is more than just a football team. Just as the Etihad Airways logo can be seen on the shirts of Manchester City and New York FC today, the Parma jersey of the time was also a live advertisement for Parmalat. In the mid-90s, as Parmalat expanded into Eastern Europe, Tanzi acquired Stoichkov, a former European footballer who had a declining career. Signing the Bulgarian from Barcelona, Tanzi shelled out $10 million – a rare price tag in those days. As Parmalat made his foray into Africa, Parma bought players from Ivory Coast and Ghana.

However, in 2003, the Pamalat fraud case broke out, and the food empire collapsed, which was likened to "Europe's safety". At that time, Parmalat was the 8th largest company in Italy, with 36,000 employees and 1% of Italy's GDP. Parmalat is estimated to have a debt of nearly $20 billion. Tanji went bankrupt, convicted of fraud, and sentenced to more than 17 years in prison. Parma FC goes into administrative trusteeship, after which a bankruptcy representative is drawn up by the court.

To put it mildly, the future of the current Parma club is bleak, and the club does not even know who the future owner will be, or even if any owner is willing to take over Parma.

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"Pietro Carmignani's first game in the UEFA Cup against La Liga dark side Sporting Gijón is all we can do is wish Carmigiani and Parma the best of luck, if we can beat Sporting Gijón at home and finally knock out this opponent to reach the last four of the UEFA Cup, it will be the best way for Parma to boost their morale......" said Sport Milano as he looked ahead to the match between Parma and Sporting Gijón.

"Kill Sporting Gijón, in the name of Parma and Victory!" said Parma's local newspaper, the Sardinia Post, on its front page, cheering on the team.

In the away dressing room at the Tardini Stadium in Parma on April 7.

"Guys, you need to teach this down-and-out opponent a good lesson today. Leon is encouraging his players, "Tell them the gap between the team that aspires to the La Liga title and the team that is relegated from Serie A!"

The head coach of Sporting Gijón said murderously.

PS: I am not feeling well, the abdominal pain is unbearable, I will have a chapter today, and three more tomorrow. Thank you all for your support.

I beg for a commuter pass for support.