Although the future development prospects of Celestial Empire football are very unoptimistic, and with Li Mudi's current funds and connections in China, it is basically impossible to make Volcano Mingquan, which has many congenital deficiencies, grow into a strong team that can compete with local tyrants such as Evergrande. But supporting Celestial Empire football can not just shout slogans, nor can it just do some low-impact interest promotion activities on the young generation, the most effective way is to directly engage in professional teams, although the result is definitely to lose money, but this kind of "stupid thing" must be done by someone, isn't it!

Fortunately, Volcano Mingquan can't compare with other teams with ambitions, and the goal of relegation this season and surpassing within three years is quite reasonable, so it doesn't need much investment, even if the commercial income basically can't recover the cost, but the gap will not be too big, and Li Mudi can still afford a loss of three or four million a year.

However, as the club's second-largest shareholder, the Torino coach can still use his status to facilitate some convenience, and he asked Gines to contact the club's general manager, Liu Pengfei, and provide the latter with a list of foreign players who fit the team's tactics and do not require high salaries. Prior to this, Li Mudi also had a phone call with Duan Xin, the head coach of the team known as the "Godfather of Bingcheng Football", and the two chatted for more than two hours, had a very full exchange on tactics and team lineups, and formed a good personal relationship.

And because Gines, Kaka, Cassie and other friends around him are directly or indirectly engaged in player agent work, and Valentino Cairo, the prince of Turin, also worked for an agency in Italy before, so some powerful players who cannot get ideal treatment in Italy and Spain can still go to the Celestial Empire to pan for gold through operations. Although Volcano Mingquan can't give foreign players too high wages, it can provide a platform for these European players to show themselves, so as to attract the attention of other local tycoons in the Celestial Empire, as long as they perform well enough, they are not afraid of not getting a new contract that satisfies them.

In this way, Gines personally went to Asia, his agency has a branch on the Celestial Empire side, and has also been involved in the work of matchmaking for the Celestial Empire team in terms of recruitment, but this time it is different, and it is very likely to form a long-term cooperative relationship if it is handled well, which is absolutely very important for the Spanish brokerage predator who wants to expand his business and influence in the Far East.

Several of his clients in Europe don't have anything to deal with recently, so Gines rushed to shift his focus to the Celestial Empire before the start of the new season's Tianjia League, and he won't be back for at least half a month. Li Mudi is also happy that no one is always nagging in his ear to pay attention to his image, participate in more business activities and other suggestions, and happily return to the life of an otaku.

On the first Saturday of March, in the first three matches of the 27th round of Serie A, SPAL beat Bologna by a narrow goal at home, and used these three points to successfully overtake Crotone and temporarily escape the relegation zone. And since the latter will face the strong Torino team away in this round, there is reason for the SPAL team to celebrate before the end of next week's game, after all, the pressure of relegation is too great, and one careless person could bury the entire year's efforts of the club's entire staff.

Napoli and Juventus, who are battling for the top two spots in the standings, also made their debut on Saturday night and late at night. The first Old Lady to make the debut completed an extremely boring duel with Lazio on the road, and the two sides only had 3-of-10 shots on goal in the whole game, and the crowd yawned repeatedly. In the end, Dybala's third-minute winner in stoppage time gave the Bianconeri a thrilling hard-earned victory, and it was worth mentioning that it was their only shot on target in the game.

The result of this game also brought a lot of pressure to Napoli, who came out later, and the Serie A leaders welcomed a strong opponent Roma at home in this round, and the two sides have been competing for the league runner-up position for the previous two or three seasons, and they are both attacking tactics, so every encounter is a wonderful battle of Mars against Earth. This was the case in the first leg of the eighth round of the season, and although the final score was only 1-0 and the Dolphins won away from home, the two sides combined for a whopping 26 shots on goal, which was not ugly on the field, and the match against Juventus was the two extremes.

Napoli did launch a fierce attack today, and Insigne broke the deadlock in the sixth minute of the game, but the visitors levelled the score a minute later with a superb lob from Turkish winger Yundale. The home team, unwilling to lose their lead in an instant, immediately launched a frenzied siege, forming six attacks in the next seventeen or eighteen minutes, but unfortunately none of them were achieved, but the Roma team overtook the score in the 25th minute. Dzeko received Florenzi's 45-degree diagonal cross from the right at the back post, leaped high to beat Albiol and smashed the ball into the opposite corner of the net, so that Reyna couldn't make a save at all.

The goal seemed to stunned the Napoli players, who had been dominating the pitch but were far less ferocious before half-time and had to return to the dressing room with a score of 1-2.

After the rematch, Maurizio Sarri should have given the order to attack with all his might, and the home team once again formed a wave of siege in the Red Wolves penalty area, but their crosshairs were a little bad today, and the front three of the front three brushed shoulders with the goal, causing the team's mentality to become more and more impatient. In the 65th minute, Insigne cut inside on the left side of the edge of the penalty area and fired a shot into the far corner of the goal, and the ball almost grazed the outside of the post and flew off the line. Seven minutes later, Roma almost replicated the attack, Dzeko cut inside on the right side of the home penalty area, and fired the same kick into the far corner, but the ball arced around Reina's ten fingers and then into the corner of the goal, making it 1-3.

The White Dolphins, who were two goals behind, suffered a major blow to morale, and they were completely pushed off the cliff after five minutes. Kolarov's cross from the left flanked past the home team's two centre-backs and was cleared by Portuguese left-back Mario Rui at the back post, but his somewhat careless back-to-back kick gave the Argentine winger Perotti the chance to rush into the box to grab the spot, and the Redwolves sealed the win with his right foot into the bottom right corner of the net unguarded from the penalty spot. And coincidentally, Rui happened to be on loan from Roma this winter window to replace the injured left-back Gulam, which should be suspected of being undercover!

The 4-1 scoreline was a complete victory for Napoli, and although Mertens scored a brilliant long-range strike in stoppage time, it only saved them a little face. After losing this crucial game, the White Dolphins are only three points ahead of Juventus behind them with a game in hand, and only the latter can beat Atalanta in the replay to reach the top of the table with a direct win-loss relationship between the two sides, which is absolutely unacceptable for Napoli up and down, but the truth is so cruel.

The home team's 13-of-26 shooting statistics were finally exchanged for only two goals, which also made Roma's Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson highly praised by the outside world, and there has been some news that Real Madrid, Liverpool and other top giants are interested in bringing in the 25-year-old Brazilian international this summer.

However, none of this has anything to do with Li Mudi and his team, and unless the two teams ahead of them lose back-to-back, they still have no hope of winning the title this season. As for Alisson's ability, he is naturally ranked among the top in world football today, but his value will naturally keep up with being raised to an unimaginable level for ordinary people, and the Torino team, which is not very wealthy, will definitely not be able to be introduced.

So the Torino manager, who was not disturbed by the results of these two games, turned off the TV after Napoli were tied 4-1 by Roma, and after checking the list of players who have been confirmed for tomorrow's game through the FM system, he went back to bed. At this time, he never expected that a football tragedy was waiting for everyone to wake up.

On Sunday, March 4, 2018, Li Mudi, who got up early at five o'clock because of his biological clock, subconsciously called up the FM system in his mind after washing, and was about to watch the results of the Real Madrid game late last night, but found that the system with bright skin color had lost all its color, and the entire interface became black and white!

Immediately, a bold and blacked pinned unread message flashed on the main interface, reminding the host to check it in time. As a result, Li Mudi clicked on it, and when the words "Fiorentina defender Astori died in his sleep this morning" came into view, his heart seemed to miss a beat in an instant, and then a feeling similar to suffocation swarmed up, and his mind became blank, and it took a while to relax.

Although as a member of ordinary human beings, birth, old age, sickness and death should have been known for a long time, and they have also experienced the death of family members in daily life, but the current player suddenly died like this, I believe that few football insiders have encountered it.

Born on January 7, 1987, Italian central defender David Astori is from San Pellegrino Telme, a small town in the Lombardy district, so he showed his football talent from an early age before joining the academy of AC Milan, one of the two giants of the capital of Milan, and has since embarked on a short-lived, but not extraordinary professional career. In the summer of 2006, Astori, who had just been promoted to Milan's first team, was loaned to Serie C side Pizzy Hertton, and as the main centre-back, he helped the team win the Serie A league that year, but unfortunately failed in the promotion play-offs.

The following year, Ancelotti, who had a number of good centre-backs such as Maldini, Nesta, Bonella, Kaladze and Simic, once again loaned Astori, who had just turned 20, to Serie C, and his new club was replaced by Cremones, only to fall in the promotion play-offs a year later, and it seemed that some luck was not good.

However, his solid performances for two years in a row have put him on the radar of top-flight teams, and although their parent club AC Milan still do not need new signings at centre-back, Allegri was still discerning in 2008 and brought Astori to his side for €5 million. That year, he played 11 games for the team and grew rapidly, establishing himself as a regular at the age of 22 the following season, becoming a rising star in the media and industry insiders.

Astori made 179 appearances and scored three goals in six seasons in the Sardinian capital, finishing ninth in the league at best, but he was always an indispensable part of the defence. In the summer of 2011, Allegri had hoped to bring his love from his old club to his old club, and the Rossoneri were interested in welcoming back the team's academy members, but because of the difference of one or two million, Astori missed the best opportunity to join a big club when he was about to enter his prime.

Roma snatched Astori's loan rights from their city rivals at the end of July 2014, but the 27-year-old centre-back had to return to his old club due to injuries and a combination of injuries and imperfect chemistry with the manager. However, due to the loss of Astori and other quality players, Cagliari was relegated to the second division that season, but fortunately Fiorentina stepped in and took the international player on loan and buyout, so that he did not fall into an embarrassing situation.

In 2015, the Purple Lily officially announced the purchase of Astori, thus gaining their most trusted defensive gate. Pioli gave him the greatest trust last summer by appointing Astori as the team's first captain after the result of Paulo Sousa's retention. Just two days ago, the club was ready to start discussions with him about a new contract, and two weeks ago, his wife had just left him with a beautiful and lovely daughter, who was their first child. Last weekend, he set up his team-mate Biraghi for the only goal of the game as Fiorentina secured a valuable three points against Chievo.

This scene is vividly in front of all those who are familiar with him, but at this time, it is no longer a thing.

On the morning of the 4th, the Udinese club issued an announcement detailing the circumstances surrounding Astory's death. Tonight, the Purple Lilies will take on the Zebras away from home, so as is customary, the team checked into a local hotel in Udinese last night. When the team gathered this morning, everyone found that the captain of the team, who had always arrived early, was absent for no reason, so they asked someone to check on his room, and Astori was no longer breathing.