The summer of 2008 was certainly not the most exciting deal of the European giants, as all eyes were on the European Championships in June and the Olympics in August.

Both events sent fans and sports fans around the world into a frenzy, but for Descartes, his mood was mixed and bitter.

Donadoni didn't reveal any intention of bringing in Descartes until the last minute, believing that his current squad would be enough to cope with the European Championships, but the fact was a blow to the stubborn Italian coach.

Italy have been drawn in Group C of this tournament with the Netherlands, the Gallic Roosters and the Balkan Eagles Romania.

This is definitely a veritable death group!

Italy's first game against the Orange Army, at the Bern Stadium in Switzerland, the place where the famous "Bern" miracle was staged, witnessed by more than tens of millions of fans around the world, the Blue Shirts were beaten 3:0 by the Dutch, Van Nisney, Sneijder, Van Bronckhorst's three goals, like three sharp swords, stabbed the new World Cup champion all over the body.

Even more worrying was the civil unrest that broke out in Italy after the game, when AC Milan defender Nesta received a text message from a teammate (possibly Gattuso): "We (Italy) are okay, but we are scared when we play, we can't form a team, we don't know who will play until a few hours before the game, he) Donadoni treats us as if we were all schoolchildren......"

said Santoni, a reporter for Roma Sport. Totti's complaints were even more horrible, but Totti didn't want him to write about them.

Italy's lack of leaders and lack of communication has created a deep chasm between Donadoni and his players, with whom Buffon is said not to have spoken for a week.

The panicked Azzurri welcomed their second opponent, Romania, two days later.

It was a team that were comfortably beaten by Italy in the warm-up matches, but the Romanians did well in qualifying, finishing top of Group G, beating the likes of the Netherlands and Belarus.

Donadoni made huge changes to the team's five positions in order to win, and the zebra prince Piero was in danger. Wore the captain's armband. Giorgio Chiellini and Panucci replaced Materazzi and Barzagli respectively, while Roma duo De Rossi and Perrotta replaced Milan's two big players Gattuso and Ambrosini, and the team changed from 433 in the opening game to 442, and the other two midfielders were Camoranesi and Andrea Pirlo.

But as Gattuso said. The Italian pair is already tired of playing under the command of Donadoni. They changed the content of the game without authorization. Piero dropped back to become a midfielder, and Toni burst forward alone, and the team finally showed the world in a 4411 formation.

Italy, who changed their formation without permission, were excellent in the first half. Toney scored a good goal that was wrongly judged offside, and it gave Italian fans hope.

But an annoyed Donadoni had forgotten his goals as Italy coach and saw that the team was gradually slipping out of his control, so he replaced Piero and Perrotta, Quagliarella and Cassano in one go.

Italy looked listless after returning to 442, having lost the desire to fight for the renegade Donadoni, before Mutu scored a goal for Romania to push Italy into a corner.

It was only at this time that the members of the World Championship woke up to the fact that perhaps they had been flowing with this factor that the greater the pressure, the greater the rebound, as it was in the '06 World Cup, and it was the same when they were about to be eliminated.

Panucci pulled one back for Italy with a header before Gianluigi Buffon saved the Romanian's penalty to give the Azzurri one last breath to go.

Their last opponent is France, who had beaten them by a big margin in the warm-up.

If there is any world-class team in this European Championship that has performed more chaotically than Italy, it must be the non-French team.

France comfortably beat Italy and Scotland in European Championship qualifying and should have topped their group had it not been for their slack in their final two games.

Coming to the European Cup, the head coach of the French team Domenech is also in high spirits, he told the media before the game that the only goal of the French team in this European Cup is to win the championship, and the Gallic Rooster has all the favorable conditions to win the championship.

But the cruel reality not only broke the heads of the Italians, but also made the French bow their proud heads.

In the first game of the group stage, the French team faced the Romanians who were not as good as the past and played offensive football, but halfway through the game, they found that the Romanians had not scared them at all, and the Balkan Eagles were also eager to tear off a piece of meat from the rooster, and as a result, the game ended, the two sides exchanged a 0:0 draw, and the Romanians even led the French 15-13 in the number of shots on goal.

An awkward draw put the French in a less favourable position and had to play attacking football again against the Netherlands in the second game in order to qualify.

As a result, the Dutch team, which was in full form in this cup, quickly made the French realize the reality, they killed the Gallic Rooster 4:1 in Berne, and defeated the World Cup champion and runner-up in two consecutive games.

This final battle will be directly related to who will survive and who will die between the two teams.

At 20:45 pm local time on June 17, Switzerland, the last two group games of Group C of the European Cup were played at the same time, at the Leiz Grund Stadium in Zurich, the 06 World Cup champion Italy faced the 06 World Cup runner-up France.

The final score proved one thing, compared to Donadoni, Domenech is a worse manager, Donadoni has no brains, but at least he still has persistence. Domenech was beaten by the Dutch from extreme conceit to extreme inferiority, and his substitutions in this game were incomprehensible, first replacing Ribery with Nasri in just ten minutes of the game, and then replacing Nasri with Boumsson in the 26th minute, and in less than 30 minutes, he actually made two substitutions in the same position!

As a result, the chaotic French team was eliminated by the united Italians 2:0, the only surprise is that the French Football Association announced after the game that Domenech will continue to be the head coach of the French team and lead the team to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa!

The Italians, who stumbled to qualify, thought they had a breather, but who knew that their next opponent would be Spain, who had been on fire for nearly two years.

With the re-emergence of the "Cosmos Team" Barcelona and the formation of the "Galaxy Phase II" Real Madrid. Spain, which is composed of these two domestic giants, is proud of their record in recent years. They have not tasted defeat in all competitions since the World Cup, and it can only be said that Italy and Donadoni have bad luck when they meet such Spain.

The result did not surprise everyone, despite the stubborn resistance of the Italians. However, they eventually lost on penalties. Saint-Cassie's save left Saint-Buffon in his sights. The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and a generation of new people replace the old ones.

The hapless Donadoni not only ended his journey at the European Championships, but also ended his future with the Italian national team. The old coach, who had been completely irreconcilable with the dressing room, was then announced to be dismissed by the Italian Football Federation, and his naïve command implicated Albertini, who recommended him to become the Italian coach, who immediately announced his resignation from his position within the Italian Football Federation.

Donadoni finally got out of the way to Descartes's long sigh of relief, but the performance of the national team in the European Championship made him shake his head, Materazzi, Grosso, Piero and others are obviously old, and he doesn't know who will be left in Italy when he enters the national team.

The very different content of the game between Pavia and Arsenal has made it clear to Descartes that football is indeed an 11-man sport, and you don't have to be afraid of god-like opponents, but you have to be wary of pig-like teammates.

Of course, this is not to say that the Italian national team is all pig-like teammates, but it is a recognized fact that Italy has not received a lot of green and yellow in the past two years.

The former Azzurri team has faced the painful process of completely tearing down and rebuilding, and even the supposedly unbroken guard inheritance has also been broken, since Nesta, Cannavaro, Zambrotta and others, Italy has not deliberately proud of the world's defenders, Chiellini, Panucci, Ranocchia? They may still be a good player in Serie A, but looking at the world, Thiago. Silva, Nemanja Vidic, Terry, Pepe, which one is not more famous than them and is not worth more than them?

If Descartes returns to the national team at this time, he can only sigh that this is the best of times and at the same time the worst of times.

The talent-starved Italian team does need fresh blood like Descartes now, but in the whole of Italy, there will be no more than two or three players like Descartes, and Balotelli has begun to emerge at Inter Milan, and this sworn enemy of Descartes' youth is gathering energy under Mancini, and finally shines in the hands of Mourinho.

In addition, Italy's players at this age group are no longer up to the task, even in the national team, only De Rossi, Pirlo and Buffon are the only three who can play the main role, and the remaining players are either not as late as their careers, or they are still some distance from the world, they can only be called first-class players, but they are not superstars.

"There's still a long way to go!" In the exclamation, Descartes began his recovery training, the back muscles said that it was not serious, but it was not serious, because of the loss of muscle protection, the spine and other important parts were likely to suffer irreparable trauma, so he lay in the hospital bed for a month and a half before he was allowed to get out of bed and gain freedom of movement.

It's just that he can't do strenuous exercise now, and can only barely walk and stretch his waist with the support of An Jieli.

On June 27, Descartes finally heard a good news, the Italian Football Federation officially announced Donadoni's resignation, 23 months and 14 days in charge of the Blue Coats, Donadoni has been fighting, he is not only fighting with the enemy, fighting with the media, but also fighting with the players, fighting with his own position, from expelling Descartes to recruiting and insulting Totti, his enemies are almost all over the entire Italian football world, when the news of his departure was announced, the whole Italy was jubilant, as if the Chinese were celebrating the New Year.

Then the Italian Football Association announced the new head coach candidates, 06 World Cup meritorious coach Lippi once again into the Blue Coats, "Pi Phase II" project from now on to fully launched.

Immediately after that, Descartes received a call from Lippi, and the old man did not ramble on the phone, he just asked: "How is it, when can I report to the national team?" ”

Descartes only felt a sadness welling up in his nose, in order to return to the national team, he has been working hard for two years, desperately exercising himself at the Arsenal training base, doing his best in the Premier League and the Champions League, like Donadoni to make compromises, and revoking his oath of not wanting to work with Donadoni again and again, but the hard-hearted Donadoni has never wavered, he regards his authority as more important than the future of Italy, he is bent on reusing mediocre ability can only shake the majestic Di Natale, Quagliarella and others in Serie A, Just because these players were recruited by him, he can't tolerate others saying that they are not good at all, Descartes was removed from the national team by him, Piero came and went, and even Cassano, who has always had an eccentric temper, was trembling under him, such a person simply delayed the time of the Blue Coats for two years in vain.

Hearing the call of the national team again, Descartes was so excited that he almost cried to Lippi: "Sir, you can do it at any time!" ”

Lippi laughed on the other end of the phone, and then comforted him softly: "Don't worry, take care of your injury, the national team still needs you a lot, and then let me see what you have learned in the two years you have been in the UK." ”

"No problem sir, I'm always ready!" Descartes unconsciously straightened his waist, even if there was a slight spasm in his back, he could not make the slightest change in his mood, and after two years of waiting, he finally waited for the opportunity to return to the national team! (To be continued......)