Chapter 1: People are good at being bullied, and horses are good at riding
On the morning of July 31, 2001, Yin Yang held a fax from the Italian Football Association's schedule for the new season, looked at it repeatedly, and found that the time was 10:05 a.m. on July 30.
In other words, the distance between Inter Milan's news and today's media publication time is no more than 24 hours......
Yin Yang was surprised and asked Chairman Moratti: "Are we sure we received this fax yesterday?" ”
"Yes!" Moratti replied somewhat strangely.
Yin Yang asked, "You haven't discussed it before?" ”
In response to Yin Yang's question, Moratti said with some disapproval: "There was a discussion, but there was too much nonsense, and I left early." In fact, what is there to worry about in this schedule, who can have a home field missing? ”
"You're so atmospheric!" Yin Yang praised with a clear conscience.
He didn't want to talk too much to Moratti, otherwise he would have to leave Moratti with the impression that he was calculating, incompetent, but timid......
In Yin Yang's opinion, this schedule is obviously not good for the Inter Milan team!
In the eighth round, Inter Milan started with a city derby with AC Milan. In the ninth round, it was the international derby with Juventus.
If you want to win two derbies at the same time, hehe!
There is also a little bit of this that makes Yin Yang complain.
The home stadium of the Inter Milan team's matches, fans like to call it the Meazza Stadium.
This world-famous stadium was built in 1926, and on March 3, 1980, the city government of Milan officially named it Giuseppe ~ Meazza Stadium.
And what about AC Milan? Their fans like to refer to their home stadium as the San Siro Stadium, which also has a history and a ......
At first glance, Inter Milan and AC Milan each have a stadium. In fact, the home stadium of the Milan duo is actually the same stadium, but the fan name and origin are different.
In football, home advantage matters!
Home advantage is not only the number of fans, but also the familiarity of the players with the venue. If you want to go a little further, you can also scatter some sand on the lawn, water a little more, etc., these can be called home field advantage, right?
However, with Inter Milan and AC Milan both playing at the same stadium, where does the advantage of this local derby come from?
Inter Milan must play AC Milan in the eighth round. Next, Inter Milan must travel to Turin to play an Italian derby against Juventus.
And the Juventus team's Alpine Stadium, for Inter Milan, is completely, a standard away national derby!
Didn't a philosopher say that a camel was crushed to death by the last bundle of straw?
The outcome of a football match is often determined by these small details!
Yin Yang wondered maliciously: "Is this because the Juventus team has changed blood this summer, and wants to hide behind the AC Milan team for a little respite, or to wait for work, ready to give the Inter Milan team a second attack...... What a lot of hard work! ”
Of course, speculations such as spending the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain can only be slandered or complained about secretly, saying that it cannot be spoken.
If Yin Yang said it, wouldn't it be a morale for others to destroy his own prestige? And isn't Mr. President Moratti already disapproving?
In fact, Yin Yang took a detailed look at the history and present from the original reality, and found that although Inter Milan and Moratti are the top three in the north, they are just tools for Juventus' Moggi and AC Milan Galliani and others to fight southern football.
Sometimes they give some sweetness, and sometimes they spare no effort to suppress it......
This Yin Yang can't be said, otherwise Moratti will definitely be angry, who will admit that he is inferior to others, right?
For Moratti, who wants to save face, these are all small things, small details, Yin Yang endured.
After all, Yin Yang's first official warm-up match has arrived, and victory is the root of his straight waist and pole to speak!
And there are still 27 days until the start of the new season, 26 days away, and the time for the eighth and ninth rounds of competition.
If he can't control the team, if the Meazza Stadium is standing and sitting with Inter Milan fans, or if Yin Yang turns the Meazza Stadium into a beach, then the result is zero, isn't it?
Instead of dwelling on these minutiae, look at what he and the coaching staff have laid out for this warm-up game......
The warm-up match was against League One side from England, Watford FC.
Watford are not a big team in their own right, and they are in the second tier of the English league, but their manager is a household name in Italy.
It's Vialli, the famous Vialli.
Vialli, who left Chelsea, joined Wadford in League One this summer and became the club manager, bringing in a number of quality players to the team and aiming for the Premier League.
The ambitious Vialli was particular about the warm-up opponents he chose for Wadford's side.
First, it can't be too weak.
The opponent was too weak to detect the Watford squad and could not play a role in sharpening the team's knives.
Second, it can't be too strong.
If the opponent is too strong, it will break the confidence of the Watford team, and it will not be good for Vialli himself. After all, the English League and the Premier League are in the same line, and the coaches and managers of the teams are part-time, and the party and government are all in charge.
So Vialli has his eye on his native Italy, the football giant Inter Milan team.
In Vialli's impression, the Inter Milan team is a team that is not weak when it is strong, and not strong when it is weak.
What reassures him the most is that in the summer, Coach Cooper missed the appointment, and the Inter Milan club had to hastily choose the unknown head coach KING.
It seems that now this KING coach is being hung up by the Italian media, waiting for the others to hand over the whip, and then the whip corpse!
Vialli is an Italian star, his connections in Italian football are not weak, and he also has a relationship with Inter Milan club, and it took some effort to finally treat the Inter Milan team as his team, one of the important opponents of Watford's summer warm-up matches.
Before the game, Vialli appeared quite "modest" in his acceptance of the media.
He said: "Inter Milan is not only a football giant in Italy, it is the premier football club in world football. If Wardford wins the Pirelli trophy, it will be a huge confidence boost for my players and will help us to make a push for the Premier League in the new season! ”
In the literal sense of the word, there is no problem at all!
Serie A is the Chinese abbreviation of the Italian Serie A, while English One is also the Chinese abbreviation of the English First Division. England and Italy are both football powerhouses, and it is generally unpredictable who wins and who loses against two first-division teams.
However, the Chinese abbreviations of Serie A and English One are only one word different, but in fact, these two teams are not at the same level at all.
If Watford is a Premier League team, Vialli's words are not an insult to the Inter Milan team, but the point is that it is not!
The media is certainly not a big deal, and after the artistic processing of the journalist editors, reports have been released about the Inter Milan team and Watford competing for the Pirelli Cup......