Chapter 886: 2002 with a Slight Frustration
Wu Di still told Moratti what Zheng Zhi meant, and Moratti naturally couldn't understand Zheng Zhi's thoughts.
As the core of Inter Milan, leading Inter Milan to stand at the top of Europe for two consecutive years, why is there no urgent idea of renewing the contract?
When Ronaldo was leaving this summer, he didn't figure it out either.
It stands to reason that Ronaldo will continue to win more honours at Inter, so why should he go?
Now, he can't understand why Zheng Zhi didn't renew his contract.
But it doesn't matter, Zheng Zhi still has two and a half years left in the contract with Inter Milan, and there is at least one and a half years left to negotiate a contract extension, so there is no hurry.
Of course, he was so eager to talk to Zheng Zhi about renewing the contract, just to give Zheng Zhi a reassurance.
Could it be that he wants to leave?
Thinking of this, Moratti's heart chuckled, and he wanted to call Zheng Zhi.
But then I thought about it, forget it, this question is too abrupt, let's leave it until this summer, anyway, it's too much time, isn't it?
The news of the contract renewal is only known to Moratti and Wu Di, so it is impossible for there to be any coverage in the media.
However, Xiao Xiaoluo's amazing performance attracted a lot of media reports.
One of the reports from The Sun reads: "Manchester United are interested in signing Ronaldo next summer, with Cristiano Ronaldo, born on 5 February 1985, having been in excellent form in recent games, and Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson is hoping to sign him for around £10 million." ”
Half an hour after the news came out from The Sun, the Manchester Evening News published a similar story, "As Ferguson ages, Beckham and Ferguson are at odds, Ferguson is indeed interested in buying a young winger, Manchester United now only have one winger, Ribery, and obviously Cristiano Ronaldo is a pretty good option, or maybe Dutchman Arjen Robben can too." ”
The news came from the English side, not from the city of Milan. The news quickly caught the attention of Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho.
Whether it's groundless or not, this touches on the foundation of Inter Milan.
Robben is okay, Robben's contract is signed for 5 years, because Robben is over 18 years old. Ronaldo is different, he is still two months away from turning 18, and Ronaldo's contract with Inter Milan is only three years, which is not a professional contract in the true sense of the word.
If Manchester United wants to take him away, it is estimated that he can take him away at a very small cost!
This is dangerous information.
Mourinho is unclear whether United have been in contact with Ronaldo, if so, it will be troublesome......
Thinking about it this way, the risk of signing players under the age of 18 is here, and other clubs can pay a small price to dig into the wall, such as Messi and Cesc Fabregas......
You can't just train players for other teams in vain and everything will go down the drain.
So Mourinho found Xiao Xiao Luo and his agent Mendes, to do work for Xiao Xiao Luo, and in two months, he can sign a five-year professional contract with Xiao Xiao Luo, and whoever wants to buy Xiao Xiao Luo at that time, as long as Inter Milan is not satisfied, Xiao Xiao Luo can't go if he wants to......
Xiao Xiaoluo had actually read the newspaper before he met Mourinho, and he went to study with Zheng Zhi about this matter and asked Zheng Zhi's opinion.
It can be seen that Xiao Xiaoluo really wants to go to Manchester United, this thing has a dream of Manchester United and Real Madrid.
Zheng Zhi's opinion is that he should sign with Inter Milan, because it was Inter Milan who gave him a platform to shine, and it was impossible to put himself and Inter Milan in a passive position for a void future.
But the specific thing should be operated by his agent Mendes, Mendes should be handy in handling this kind of thing, as a player, there is no need to think too much.
So Mourinho finally reached a preliminary agreement with Ronaldo and Mendes in the office.
In February, the two sides will sign a four-year professional contract, and then Ronaldo will be able to get a weekly salary of £8,000, so that if Ronaldo wants to transfer later, Inter Milan will not be in a passive situation.
Will Xiao Xiao Luo sign?
Of course it will, the reason is very simple, if Xiao Xiaoluo does not sign, then Inter Milan will not be able to continue to let him play, there is no ball to play for half a year, and when Inter Milan wins any honors, what does it have to do with him? Do you have money to earn?
And what's the point of going to Manchester United in the current situation? Can it be better than Inter Milan?
There is no need.
Finally, there is a clause in the contract that the club must open a window of negotiation if Ronaldo has an offer of more than £20 million this summer.
In this way, the two sides reached a preliminary opinion......
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As the saying goes, people are in good spirits on happy occasions, and Ronaldo continued to perform very well in the subsequent match between Inter Milan and Brescia in the future new contract.
Inter Milan beat Brescia 4-0, with Ronaldo scoring one goal and three assists, and after opening the scoring, he helped Adriano to score three hat-tricks in a row.
It looks like a supernova is really rising.
Immediately after the team went to challenge Lazio away, Ronaldo contributed another goal and an assist, giving Inter Milan an early two-goal lead and helping the team beat Lazio 2-1.
For a while, Xiao Xiaoluo was really beautiful, and even Zheng Zhi couldn't compare.
So much so that when playing against Udinese at home, Mourinho dared to rotate Zheng Zhi and put Zheng Zhi on the bench.
With two games in a week, Mourinho is not an exaggeration to make such a decision.
But as Adani and Rijkaard said before, Zheng Zhi has become less important, and this Inter Milan team can be without Zheng Zhi?
After all, it is a home game, and the state of Little Ronaldo, Adriano and Robben is so good that it is explosive.
As a result, the game was not as easy as imagined, Cordoba gave Udinese a penalty in the opening 3 minutes, Di Natale scored in one fell swoop, and then Inter Milan pressed the attack, but in the 19th minute, Di Natale was sneak attacked, and the score became 0:2.
Mourinho immediately made a substitution adjustment, replacing Zheng Zhi on the bench and replacing Cambiaso.
However, Udinese counter-attacked, unable to find their goal in the first half, and continued to lay siege to Udinese in the second half, but the first goal was delayed, and it was not until the 81st minute that Zheng Zhi used a long-range shot to pull a point back for Inter.
But in the end, it was still a 1-2 defeat at home.
The three points were quite frustrating, and they also lost the top spot.
However, after the game, the media used Cordoba as a scapegoat for the defeat, and Inter Milan could not have lost the game without his penalty and poor performance at the back.
Fellow AC Milan moved up to the top of the table, while Inter Milan finished second, level on points with Juventus.
Careless Jingzhou!
Jose Mourinho then put Zheng Zhi back into the starting line-up, but Inter Milan finally stopped their decline and beat Atalanta 1-0, but they could still only finish second.
And at this time, the European Golden Globe winner came out, and Ronaldo beat Zheng Zhi to be elected.
Out of respect for his friend Ronaldo, Zheng Zhi still attended the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
saw that Ronaldo won his third Ballon d'Or, and his own number of Ballon d'Or awards is still one.
The third-place Kahn did not come at all, because he knew that he would not be able to win the award, and the award must still be between Ronaldo and Zheng Zhi.
The Golden Ball Award has no advantage, let alone the World Footballer, according to past experience, in the year of the World Cup, the Golden Ball Award must come from the team that won the World Cup, and this award, Ronaldo is even more suspenseful.
The World Footballer of the Year award ceremony was held at the Town Hall in Madrid, Spain.
Zheng Zhi still attended.
After all, you can't stop attending just because you didn't win the award, he's not such a person, besides, even if he doesn't win the World Footballer, he and the Chinese team are very successful this year!
The male host of this award ceremony is the famous Spanish TV presenter Putías, and the female host is the beautiful Monica Martinez.
Zheng Zhi and Ronaldo sat in the first row, Ronaldo has been staring at Monica Martinez with a spring breeze, probably playing the idea of a beautiful woman again.
If Ronaldo wins the World Footballer again, then he will have 3 World Footballer of the Year awards, three European Golden Balls, three World Footballer of the Year, and the first person in the world.
No one has come close to Ronaldo, even if Basten, Cruyff and Zidane have been left behind.
And Zheng Zhi has won two World Footballer of the Year and one Golden Ball so far.
As for this time, it's basically going to be soy sauce too.
Of course, as far as the World Cup is concerned, he still has some achievements.
The first to be presented was the Ballon d'Or for the 2002 World Cup. There is no suspense in this award, it has been selected a long time ago. The guest of honor was Paco, who presented the bronze, silver and Golden Globe awards to Zheng Zhi, Kahn and Ronaldo in turn.
The second award was the 2002 World Cup Golden Boot. Again, there is no suspense. Zheng Zhi, Rivaldo and Kroos shared the Silver Ball with the same number of goals, while Ronaldo won the Golden Boot with nine goals in seven games at the World Cup.
Next up is the performance of the now popular band "Ketchup", which is also arranged by FIFA to liven up the atmosphere in the stadium and attract more people to football.
The third award is the Yashin Award, which was awarded to the best goalkeeper of the 2002 World Cup. There is no doubt that this award is for Kahn, and Chinese player Ou Chuliang is in second place!
The fourth award was the "Most Spectacular Team of 2002" award, which was presented by Real Madrid general manager Baldano. The personable Argentine announced the award to South Korea. In total, South Korea received 220,000 votes from fans around the world, accounting for 61% of the total votes.
Where is the spectacle of the Korean team?
Zheng Zhi really couldn't understand that the Chinese fans who watched the game in front of the TV were already booing, of course, not only Chinese fans, but also Italian fans, Spanish fans and Portuguese fans......
The fifth award was the "2002 World Cup Fair Play Award", which was presented to Real Madrid coach Bosque. Since the award ceremony was held in Madrid and coincided with Real Madrid's centennial celebration, there were many members of Real Madrid who were selected by FIFA to present the awards. Bosque announced that the winner was the Chinese team. Zheng Zhi accepted the award on behalf of the Chinese team, and the Chinese team will receive a prize of 50,000 US dollars......
The sixth award is the "President's Special Award", which is awarded to a person who has made a special contribution to football. The guest of honour was Blatter, who announced that the winner of the award would be someone from outside the football world, but with a special contribution to football, and the winner was Indian girl Paminda Nagra. She plays a female footballer in a movie.
This was followed by a beautiful singing and dancing, with three energetic young men and a sexy and beautiful girl singing and dancing on the stage, adding a lot of fun to the conference.
The seventh award was the "Team of the Century" award, and the guest of honor was Blatter. The winner is the great Real Madrid team! Needless to say, Real Madrid's many accolades and the seven UEFA Champions League titles speak for themselves. Accepting the award on behalf of Real Madrid was the legendary Di Stefano, who is 76 years old.
However, Di Stefano, who received the award, did not have a happy look on his face at all, for the simple reason that the 20th century belonged to them, but in the 21st century, they have lost three times in a row......
It became the backdrop for Bayer Leverkusen and Inter Milan.
So, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a great irony for Real Madrid?
The eighth award is the "Lifetime Achievement Award". The winner is Santiago Bernabéu, the old president of Real Madrid. The Bernabeu died in 1978. Without him, there would be no Real Madrid today. The current Florentino took the stage to receive the award on behalf of the old chairman, and the current home stadium of Real Madrid is named after the old president. The Bernabeu is the greatest president of a world football club, and in his 35 years in office, he has taken Real Madrid to the top of the world.
This is followed by a three-piece band, whose soothing and melodious singing voice seems to bring people into a dream of infinite reverie.
The ninth award was "Most Improved Team 2002" and was presented by the famous Spanish star Putragno. He announced that the most improved award is the Chinese team. China's performance in this year's World Cup is indeed surprising, advancing to the World Cup finals for the first time and winning the third place, which is not so awesome in history!
It is still Zheng Zhi who receives the award on behalf of China.
The 10th award was the "Best Team 2002", and this year's top performer was Brazil. Although Brazil did not go well in World Cup qualifying last year, this year the team has a new look, topping the latest FIFA rankings, followed by France and Germany. Teixeira, president of the Brazilian Football Federation, took the stage to receive the award.
The eleventh award was "FIFA Miss World Football of the Year 2002". The three candidates are Mia Hamm of the United States, Prinz and Sun Wen of Germany. It's a pity that Sun Wen didn't attend the conference because of something. The guest of honor was a famous female referee in Spain, Sun Wen won the bronze ball award. The Silver Globe winner was Germany's Prinz. Miss World Football 2002 is Mia Hamm! This was voted for by 77 head coaches of the women's national team, and she also won the award for the second year in a row.
Next is a song called "SOBRE SON" brought by an American band, the three beautiful women are quite angry, and the performance is more engaged and enthusiastic, which pushes the atmosphere of the conference to a climax. Ronaldo's eyes are almost gone, and it seems that he has forgotten that the last award is going to be given to him.
The twelfth and final award, "2002 FIFA World Footballer of the Year". The award is voted for by managers from 148 countries.
There is no suspense.
The third is Karn. The second is Zheng Zhi. The first is Ronaldo! Ronaldo is the biggest winner of today's awards gala!
This is the third time Ronaldo has won the award, the first player to do so three times......
At this point, the 2002 FIFA Awards Conference is over.
It was a fruitful year for the Chinese team, which won the third place in the World Cup and won the 'Best Progress Award' and 'Fair Play Award'.
For Zheng Zhi personally, it is full of regrets, the second Golden Ball, the second World Footballer......
The only thing I'm looking forward to is 2003, the year without a big tournament, and that's the league and the Champions League.
Back in Italy, Zheng Zhi led Inter Milan to a 3-2 win over Jurgen Klopp's Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League to remain at the top of the group.
Then they won 2-1 away at Parma in the league, and although they are still second in the league, they can be regarded as a perfect end to 2002.
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