On October 3, 1993, the seventh round of the Italian League C1 ushered in, and the Prato team, which had won all six games, challenged the Empoli team with three wins, one draw and two losses. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Empoli itself is only a small town of 40,000 people, it is difficult to attract the attention of big business owners, the team's youth system is not perfect, some small players have just shown a little talent before being poached by the "boss" Fiorentina team in Tuscany, and they can often only be exchanged for some Fiorentina youth team abandoned, in the past they were more like Fiorentina satellite team.

In the 1982-83 season, the team invited Gianpaolo Vitali as the coach of the team, Vitaly made a change in the team, introduced several players who were very strong in the lower leagues and promoted a few good young people from the youth team, under the leadership of Vitaly, the team changed its tepid appearance. In the 1985-86 season, the team invited Salvimini, a meritorious player who played 124 games for Empoli as a player, as the coach, Salvimini had coached Empoli in the 1978-81 season and had average results, but this time, Salvimini created a miracle, and when the overall strength was not particularly improved, Empoli became the dark horse of that season, He actually brought Empoli to Serie A in history.

During this period, Empoli's youth training began to gradually improve, and here is one person to mention, who was the manager of Empoli at the time, Silvino. Bini. It was this guy who made Chen Lin suffer a dumb loss during the summer transfer period. Having worked for the club since 1947 at the age of 18, he worked for 40 years as an apprentice, working his way up to manager's secretary, sporting director and finally team manager. Therefore, in the early 80s, he became the manager of the team and began to advocate increasing the construction of youth training, although Empoli's local football resources are limited, but he extended his tentacles to the whole of Italy, especially in the south of Italy, where the economic conditions are backward but the football talent is rich. Kacha, Di. A group of young talents such as Francisco, Gaudieri, and Daniel Barry have all become Serie A stars in the future.

However, the youth training that was just starting at that time was obviously not able to immediately give great support to the first team, Empoli's first team still needed to replenish the strength, Empoli's promotion to Serie A somewhat unexpected elements, plus the limited financial resources themselves limited the recruitment, in addition to the loan of young Bayano from Napoli, only from Sweden hastily introduced Extrom and hurriedly began their first Serie A journey, at that time their squad even included 4 players who played in the third division three years ago, However, Empoli's Serie A debut was absolutely amazing, 1:0!!!!! They actually won the powerful Inter Milan team, and won Ascoli away in the second round to win two consecutive games, but as the league deepened, the gap in overall strength gradually appeared, and then a 6-game losing streak completely knocked the team back to its original shape, and finally relied on Udinese's 9 points deducted to make themselves lucky to be relegated, the happiest thing about them this season is not only to stay in Serie A, they can finally break their wrists with the Tuscan boss "Fiorentina", and the two sides played over two legs, Empoli are unbeaten with one win and one draw.

By the time they reached the "second year of Serie A", the team's lack of experience was exposed and luck began to drift away from them, the team was penalized with five points for allegedly engaging in sports fraud last season, and the team's president, Grazzini, resigned. Bini had to take over on an interim basis, and after this series of turmoil, the team was relegated back to the second division as the bottom of Serie A.

After the relegation, the Empoli team originally hoped to regroup, at this time Caccia, Gaudieri, Di Francesco have been promoted to the first team and become the main players, Bayano also returned from Napoli, and also poached Juventus's Vignola, the team hopes to return to Serie A immediately, but just like the unexpected promotion to Serie A that year, this time they were surprised again, but they did not return to Serie A, but even fell into the abyss of the third division two levels in a row.

After a brief period of success, the team seemed to be back to its former calm, and after two years in the third division, Empoli brought back Gianpaolo in the 1990-1991 season. Vitali, hoping that he could help the team return to the second division, but this time Vitaly could not do anything, but soon the historic turning point for the team came, and in the summer of 1991, Fabricio was born. Corsi bought the team and became the new president, and the team began to enter a period of real stability, and after buying the team, Corsi began to think about increasing the construction and scale of the youth academy with the team manager Bini, and at that time Caccia, Di Francesco and Gaudieri had all become Serie A players. The team's new star Vincenzo Montella has also been promoted to Empoli's first team and began to make repeated achievements for the team, and the youth team has also emerged Billindeli, Gallant, Bijica, Fecini and other new stars, Corsey's arrival has brought stable financial support to the team, although it is impossible to invest like other big teams, but it is already very good for such a small city team.

But it has to be said that Empoli have been really unlucky this season, Silvino. With great difficulty, Beanie left Montella and Billindelli behind, and was preparing to make a big splash. Unexpectedly, Montella suffered a serious injury in a commercial game in August and was reimbursed for the entire season. Empoli lost their sharpest spearhead, and although the defensive line composed of Billindeley, Gallant, and Bjica was still efficient, they could not carry the grain of the front line, and at the beginning of the season, they were disqualified from competing for promotion from the first group.

Facing his most familiar old club, which is such an Empoli team, Spalletti decisively replaced Dunga, Vieri, Inzaghi, Ma Mingyu, Fan Zhiyi and others who participated in the first round of the group stage of the C Cup only three days ago, and Li Qiyu and Yang Chen partnered as strikers, and Li Tie and Veron formed a double back. Because of their previous participation in the World Junior Championships, this is also the first time that Li Qiyu and Li Tie have participated in the first team since joining the Prato club. At the same time, Li Liuyu, who was born on July 6, 1977, also broke the record for the youngest appearance in the senior team in Prato's history.

However, this is not the end, this game, because Prato is only a dozen kilometers away from Empoli, and Tuscany is the place with the largest number of Chinese in Italy, Empoli, which can accommodate nearly 20,000 people, is rarely full. This season, due to the extremely hot sale of season packages, many Chinese fans could not buy tickets on the home match day in Prato, so they turned their brains to several C1 teams in the same Tuscany region, such as Empoli, Modena, Pistoia, these teams will play at least two legs with Prato this season, and the distance is close, often dozens of minutes to arrive, with Italy's developed transportation network, and watching home games is no different.

Therefore, at this time, Empoli's home stadium has simply become a sea of Prato fans, which makes the Empoli team, which is already underdogged, even worse. After 70 minutes of stubborn resistance, Materazzi, who came on as a substitute for Fan Zhiyi, suddenly stepped up and cut the ball off Empoli's forward feet with an unusually ferocious tackle, and then immediately passed to Federico Jonti on the left.

Sensing danger, Billindeli immediately rushed forward, playing at right-back at Empoli. Billindelli is a very traditional Italian defender who, although not very physically, has excellent defensive awareness and a very solid fundamentals. To be honest, Empoli lost the ball very suddenly in front of the pitch, and when it came to switching between attack and defence, he was already very quick to react. But his opponents are not general.

Jonti has both offense and defense, and her skills are very comprehensive. After joining Prato, he has been diligent on and off the field, and although there are few shining moments, he has no complaints about playing as a substitute. However, don't think that Jonti is a panacea, as the all-time Italian national team would have moved from Perugia to AC Milan a few years later if he hadn't joined Prato, where he was once developed as a central midfield player and played as the Rossoneri's playmaker until Andrea Pirlo and Rui Costa joined Milan.

At this time, Jonty made a beautiful over-the-top pass and instantly found Li Xuanyu, who had already sprinted to the back of Empoli's backline. Li Liuyu looked back at the moon with a beautiful blow, and pushed the ball from Jonty into an arc, just around the Empoli goalkeeper in front of him, and hoisted it into the net. With this goal, Li Liuyu once again broke the record for the youngest goal in the history of the Prato team.

The Empoli were depressed, and the Prato were jubilant, but Chen Lin, who was watching the game with the team, looked at the situation of Empoli, and a plan that had been dead was about to move again.

PS: I've changed some settings in Chapter 56, so it's best for everyone to go back and take a look, in case you don't understand it in the future.