Chapter Twenty-Eight: Serie A, I'm Coming

In the 14th round of Serie A, Brescia will face Perugia at home at the Mario Rigamonti Stadium. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

In the eyes of Chinese fans, Perugia is no stranger. In the 98-99 season, Perugia signed Japanese star Hidetoshi Nakata, successfully establishing him as a world-class player, and sold him to Roma in the 99-2000 season for six times the price he was at the time of transfer. Nakata then helped Roma win the league title with several crucial goals.

Perugia, who had tasted the sweetness of the deal, brought South Korea's Ahn Jung-hwan and China's Ma Myung-woo under his command in 2000.

Ma Mingyu thus became the first Chinese to land in Serie A, but unfortunately he did not succeed in Perugia, and he had to return to China in 01 after not getting a chance to play.

Ahn Jung-hwan's situation is even more bizarre, in the '02 World Cup, South Korea and Italy met in the quarter-finals, and South Korea played one of the darkest and most shameless games in the history of the World Cup (the other being the next match between South Korea and Spain). )。 With the help of the referee, South Korea dragged Italy into extra time, only to score the golden goal that knocked Italy out of Italy near the end of the match.

The day after the match, Perugia's president, Gauci Jr., announced that Ahn Jung-hwan had terminated his contract because he had "insulted Italy".

The most successful Asian player, the first Chinese to land in Serie A, An Zhenhuan who was expelled for strange reasons, these impressions constitute the Perugia club in the eyes of Chinese fans.

Zhang Shu didn't have much of an opinion about Perugia FC, in fact, he was quite happy when he heard that Ahn Jung-hwan had been expelled.

Make you Koreans dirty!

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In the home team's dressing room, Mazzoni is addressing the players.

In Italy, teams are not allowed to own their own football stadiums, all stadiums belong to the municipal government, and the team can only rent the home stadium by paying rent to the municipal government. This has resulted in a large number of smaller clubs having their home stadiums in a dilapidated state. The same is true of Riga Monti in Brescia, which looks extremely rudimentary compared to AC Milan and Inter Milan's San Siro/Meazza and Juventus' Alp. The stadium can only accommodate 27,000 people. Except for the stands on one side of the rostrum, the other stands do not even have a roof.

Brescia doesn't have a large population, so even with the small capacity of the Riga Monti Stadium, it's still rarely full. The board is said to have plans to renovate the stadium - not to increase the number of seats, but to reduce the number of seats to 16,000, just to make the attendance of the game look better. After all, the players will be undermotivated when they see an empty stadium.

So when Zhang Shu saw the shabby stadium from a distance on the bus, he was already mentally prepared for the humble locker room. Still, he was shocked when he saw the home dressing room, which was inferior to Milan's youth team.

I want a super big and super luxurious locker room!

'Anyway, pay attention to the assist from their left-back Grosso and counter-attack the gaps behind him when he goes up to assist. And their striker Mikoli, the back line must be attentive at all times, this Argentine is quite cunning, don't let him out of your sight! Other than that, the rest of Perugia is nothing to fear! Their defenders aren't very tall and I'm sure they'll be putting all their attention on Robbie, so the main point of attack for this game is Tare, and now I'm announcing the starting XI for this game。。。。。 "No one felt Zhang's complaint, and Mazzoni's tactical arrangements were coming to an end.

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The players who entered the starting line-up stood in the tunnel and waited for the game to start. The players who did not start did not need to go back to the locker room after warming up and sat directly on the bench.

The fans in the stands couldn't wait to sing and dance, and some even started to set off blue fireworks.

"Let's welcome the Rondinelle of Brescia!" DJs shouted over the stadium's radio.

"Little Swallow! Little Swallow! Little Swallow! ”

Zhang Shu looked strange, he turned his head and asked Igor next to him. "Coach, what's the situation with Little Swallow?"

"Swallow is the nickname of our team. You've been here for so long and you don't even know this? Igor gave him a blank look. Then there are the Biancoazzurri and the Leonessa. However, fans prefer the nickname Swallow. ”

Zhang Shu did not dare to continue to express his opinion. The nickname "Little Swallow" always reminds him of the crazy screen image in a certain Qiong Yao drama, but it seems that the people of Brescia are very happy with the nickname.

As the players entered, the fans shouted their names one by one with the DJ, and the cheers in the stands reached their peak when it was Baggio's turn.

Baggio is indeed the most popular player in Brescia, and Zhang Shu saw a huge Baggio jersey in the stands slowly being driven around the stands by fans.

When will you be able to enjoy the cheers of the fans like this? Led by the live DJ, the fans in the stadium called out their names and their voices resounded in the sky, which was exciting just thinking about it.

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With the referee's whistle, the game finally began.

Zhang Shudo watched the game on the field intently on the bench. It was his first time playing in Serie A – albeit on the sidelines. Compared to the stands, the view from the bench was not good, but it was close enough for him to watch the players on the pitch closely.

Perugia put on a defensive counter-attacking posture away from home, stockpiling a large number of defensive players in the middle in response to Brescia's characteristics of attacking with Baggio as the core of the middle. Attackingly, they relied on the assists of full-backs to threaten Brescia's goal.

In the face of such an opponent, Brescia is not impatient, since Baggio returned from injury, Brescia's players seem to have found the backbone, they are full of absolute trust in Baggio, this trust comes from countless games, although there is almost no running and dribbling, but as long as the ball can be passed to his feet, Baggio will be sent to the most dangerous place in the most reasonable way.

Brescia's attack paid off in the 24th minute, when Baggio received the ball and went straight behind Perugia on the right, and the inserted left midfielder Bacchini received the ball behind the defender, and he didn't stop the ball, but passed it directly into the box, where Tare's header rose high in the middle and slotted home.

“goooooooooooooooooooool~~~~~!!!” The live TV commentary gave a roar in Italian that represented the goal. "The 24th minute of the game! Taray from Brescia breaks the deadlock! ”

After the goal, Taray ran towards the corner flag, and the other Brescia players caught up with him and hugged him, and a group of people formed a circle.

Mazzoni's tactics of allowing Tare's main attack to completely restrain Perugia today, and although Baggio is very capable of scoring, he does not necessarily need to let Baggio finish the final blow. When Perugia's attention is on him, Baggio can also assist his teammates to score, and that's where the power of the nine-and-a-half comes in. Tare, on the other hand, did a good job of filling the center forward position when Toney was injured, giving Brescia another scoring point. Without the ability of a tall center forward to attack, it would be difficult for the team to meet a team like Perugia who is stuck in the middle.

The completely suppressed Perugia conceded another goal before the break, and in the 40th minute, Baggio took a free-kick from the wing and Tare's header scored twice.

Perugia made a change at half-time and stepped up their attack at the start of the second half, pulling a point back with a cross from the right by Grosso in the 64th minute and Mikoli heading a head at the back post. The goal gave Perugia hope of victory, and they pressed hard, only to be counter-attacked by Brecy a few minutes later.

In the end, the helpless Perugia defender Di Loreto pulled down Baggio in the penalty area, and the referee decisively awarded a penalty. To the cheers of the crowd, Baggio converted the penalty kick, his 187th Serie A goal, the most of any active player, behind Barty, Hignoli, Chiesa, Crespo, Philippe Inzaghi and Montella and Bierhoff.

After the goal, Baggio ran to the bench to celebrate, and the substitutes stepped forward to hug their beloved captain, and Zhang Shu also ran up.

"Zhang, get ready to play." Baggio hugged Zhang Shu and whispered to him.

Zhang Shu looked at Baggio in surprise, Baggio squeezed his eyes at him, let go of him and continued to hug the other comrades-in-arms one by one.

There is no intrigue in the big clubs, only mutual support between teammates, there is no high-pressure domination of the manager, only Mazzoni who sympathizes with him. The years in Brescia were the happiest of his career. Baggio knows he won't be away too far away and is willing to do his best to pave the way for Brescia's future before he retires.

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Not long after the restart, Baggio rubbed his thigh after a few steps before making a substitution gesture to Mazzoni.

"Zhang, get ready to play!" Mazzoni anxiously stood up from the bench, and the team's current strikers were only Baggio, Taray and Zhang Shu. If Baggio were to be injured again, he would be left unavailable. The thought of the situation he was about to face made Mazzoni feel agitated.

Since the goal just now, Zhang Shu has been warming up on the sidelines. It's normal for substitutes to get up from time to time to warm up, and Mazzoni didn't take it to heart, but he didn't expect it to come in handy now. Zhang Shu took off his training uniform and stood directly in the substitution area on the sidelines.

"Ahh The televised commentary also revealed that there was a situation on the pitch: "Let's take a look at the slow-motion replay, there was no physical contact with anyone, Baggio was rubbing his thigh muscles, fortunately not his knees. ”

'Brescia are in big trouble right now and thankfully time is running out and they are two goals ahead at the moment.

Igor went to the fourth official with Mazzoni's signed substitution slip, and Baggio was slowly walking to the sidelines.

"Brescia with a youngster。。。。。 Zhang replaces Robert Baggio. The commentator was stunned for a moment when he saw Zhang Shu, who was standing on the sidelines with black hair and yellow skin, but fortunately reacted quickly, he picked up Brescia's player information from the table and continued to read it. Brescia's No. 28 player Zhang this year. Sixteen years old, from. China.. Fresh move from Brescia Under-17 to the first team. ”

Sixteen years old, China, in this commentator's Serie A commentary career for so many years, these two words have hardly been said. This made him a little stuck when he said those two words.

Zhang Shuke didn't care what trouble he had brought to the commentator, but now he was standing on the sidelines, excited.

The real Serie A, I'm coming!