Chapter 65: Unpopular
It was too late, it was too late, and a capital 10 figure rushed straight at high speed like a high-speed train, kicking the ball out on the goal line, and he was the only player who hadn't lost his cool before, Dunga. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Since the beginning of this season, there have been different voices in the Prato club and even among the fans about Chen Lin's heavy investment in Dunga. Prato is only a third-division team, but there are already people in the team with an annual salary of more than 500,000 pounds, plus various appearance fees, goal bonuses, league cup bonuses, this figure will even be expanded to 600,000 pounds, which is undoubtedly a big burden on the team's finances. And his salary alone is twice the salary of everyone else in the team, which also greatly highlights the irrationality of the team's salary structure, after being promoted to the second division this season, when other players re-sign contracts, there will be a large increase in salary, which is a potential crisis. You know, how many strong teams are because of the financial crisis and disappeared in an instant, modern football is a war of money, close to Prato to defeat the Foggia team, if not into financial difficulties, forced to sell stars, Prato to defeat the heyday of Foggia is simply an impossible task, in addition, there is Maradona after the departure of Napoli, in order to Maradona to gather the help of Europe, Napoli has to spend a lot of money every year to introduce outstanding stars from various countries, and gave them extremely high wages, which also led to Napoli's high debt, and finally fell into a complete predicament after Maradona's departure, turning a Serie A giant, who once won the UEFA Cup, into a second-rate team in Serie A.
And in terms of on-court performance, Dunga has not been able to come up with too many convincing proofs. With Prato winning almost all of their third-division opponents by a one-sided margin this season, it is almost all attacking players who stand out in the squad, with Dunga's stalwart at the back not significant. In this regard, many club members are questioning, since we already have overwhelming strength, why risk the collapse of the salary structure to spend a large amount of annual salary to hire an old man to come back for retirement.
And at this time, although Dunga has played for Pisa and Fiorentina for many years, and is an active Brazilian international, he has a lot of reputation in Tuscany, but he is not the captain of the champion Brazilian team after the 94 World Cup, and he has a certain bonus to Prato's fame, but it is not as big as imagined. It's just that almost all of the main players in Prato are introduced by Chen Lin, and all departments of the club were established after he took office, so the entire Prato club is almost Chen Lin's word, and almost no one can disagree with his opinion.
In fact, Chen Lin has heard these statements for a long time, but just like in some aspects he will be very aware of his shortcomings, and in others, he will be very stubborn and very insistent on his own opinions.
Dunga's role is by no means what those short-sighted guys can see from the surface, just talking about the 5-point PA potential value of Li Tie's rise, Chen Lin is willing to spend 1 million pounds to buy it. And this goal in this game also fully proved Dunga's value, when the whole team fell into blind impulsiveness and completely lost the offensive discipline, it was he who always pressed the rhythm of the game, otherwise Ancona would not have waited until the 87th minute to wait for this opportunity to counterattack; And when Pesoto, Zanetti, Fan Zhiyi, these defenders almost rushed to the front court to join the attack, he always stood silently in the backfield with Ayala and maintained the bottom line of Prato's defense; In the moments before Ancona launched a counter-attack, he had already calmly judged the offensive and defensive situation, and was the first player in the team to turn and chase back, otherwise he would not have been able to catch up with that goal at the last minute. Of course, there is definitely an element of luck in saving the ball on the goal line, his success rate is not much higher than blocking a penalty, no team will expect to save the team with this kind of defense, but when a player does complete such an extreme save, in addition to proving his greatness, it also proves his hard work and hard work on the field. The strength of this spirit is not comparable to the stats of a few goals and assists, this kind of player appears to be unknown most of the time, they will never be regulars in the big lists, but they will always be the cornerstone of a strong team and the leader who leads the team to victory. Dunga used his performances to teach the young Prato players a lesson, and for these intangible learnings, Dunga's £500,000 salary was worth it.
The Prato team, which had survived death, finally woke up like a dream, they finally calmed down and listened to the command of the old captain, and the Prato team's attack finally became orderly again.
God finally didn't favour the Ancona anymore, and a leak in the second half of extra time cost them dearly, and this time Inzaghi gave them the fatal blow.
If there is one person in the Prato team other than Dunga who has always remained calm in this game, it is Philippe. Inzaghi. There is no blind passing, no reluctant passing, no long-range shot from 40 meters away, some just run, pull, standing parallel to the opposing defender and waiting for the opportunity, but unfortunately in this game, the head of the bloodshot Prato midfielder gave him a lackluster pass, but he never stopped running in the front court, some of the runs even looked unreasonable, and later, Ancona's defenders began to despise this Prato striker who ran blindly, what can that kind of running do in addition to wasting physical strength. Therefore, when Inzaghi made some uncoordinated runs later, they did not watch so tightly.
This happened again and again after Inzaghi's fame rose later, and it is no wonder that the Ancona defenders, after all, keeping the defenders in that kind of close-to-man defense throughout the game is a great challenge for concentration and physical strength.
However, the price to pay for this was that when Inzaghi received Veron's straight pass from 35 yards, he was empty, and all he had to do was choose a comfortable position to shoot the ball out before defenders and goalkeepers pounced.
In the end, Prato won 1-0 at home. Truth be told, Ancona didn't have any big names worth mentioning, but like most Italian teams at this time, they defended tightly and had a complete tactical system, and they even fought in Serie A last season, only to be relegated to the second division this season. In this era, there is no easy Italian professional team to play with, and even if a team plays against them, it will not be so easy to win.
In the quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia, except for Prato from the third division and Ancona from the second division, the other games were even more unpopular. First up was the 2-1 victory over Venezia from the second division. Juventus with many stars such as Baggio, Vialli, Conte, Torricelli, etc., this game also indirectly led to Trapattoni leaving Juventus at the end of the season. Another upset that is not an upset is that AC Milan actually defeated Sampdoria away from home, for the classic game in history that has been talked about by countless Samp fans for many years, Chen Lin can't not know, originally in the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup, the last golden Sampdoria, scored three goals in a row after falling behind 2:0, and finally reversed AC Milan to win, and also left AC Milan, who won the Champions League and Serie A double this season, with an irreparable regret, no wonder Berlusconi later said: " Milan were unbeatable that season, but we were afraid of only one team------ Sampdoria led by Ruud Ruud.
In fact, this season was once the last glory of that golden Sampdoria team, losing the club's greatest president on October 14. After Mantovani, Sampdoria completely turned into a "mourning army". Many of the players in the team are Paul, and Mantovani has single-handedly caused the cultivation. Mantovani has a deep affection, and in order to fulfill the vow he made with the old man at the beginning of the season to "win another championship", the Sampdoria team after October 14 is crazy. They have played crazy games such as 4:1 victory over Atalanta, 4:1 victory over Napoli, 6:2 victory over Udinese, 6:0 victory over Foggia, 3:1 victory over Inter Milan, 3:2 reversal of AC Milan, and they finally won the Italian Cup this season and fulfilled their promise to the old man.
Unfortunately, this is also the most recent trophy in the future Sampdoria Honor Exhibition Room. After the death of Mantovani, his son Enrique. Mantovani took over Sampdoria. From then on, Sampdoria took a completely different path, and was finally liquidated and auctioned off in 2002. Sampdoria also became the only example of the decline of Serie A at that time, which was not due to economic reasons, but to self-destruction due to human reasons, which makes people sigh.
Apparently, Chen Lin saved Paul. Manvatoni's move changed history, as Sampdoria failed to win the Coppa Italia against mighty AC Milan and eventually won the title, but they had a bright future ahead of them.
Chen Lin then remembered that Ancona, whom Prato had just defeated not long ago, was also a purebred dark horse in this season's Coppa Italia, and perhaps even the biggest, and was known as "Lucky Ancona". In the Coppa Italia in history, Ancona faced opponents along the way who were either second-tier teams, or injured or internally turbulent first-division teams, until they made it all the way to the Coppa Italia final, only to be swept 6-1 by Sampdoria.