Chapter 34 Visiting Friuli - Team Bus

After two consecutive home games, Chen Fei and his team are about to face the situation of going to the away game, the first away game is to go to the northeastern border city of Udine in Italy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Udine, located on the border between Italy and Slovenia, is only 20 km from the Slovenian border. The city is small in size, with a land area of 56.81 square kilometers and a population of about 175,000. Situated on the crossroads of many countries, it is not a big problem that you don't speak Italian in Udine, if you speak Slovenian or German. In fact, many of the signs in the city are the product of the coexistence of Italian, Friuli (the native language) and Slovenian. Many of the locals speak Slovenian so pure that you don't even know that they are Italian.

The city also has an extremely old team: Udinese. The name of the club, Udinese, means Udinese. Founded in 1896, the club is the second oldest club in Italy, after Genoa (for some reason, the name of such a normal city has become the first word, so it has to be replaced by English). However, the 1993-1994 season was an absolute painful memory for veteran Udine fans. Last season, Argentine goalscorer Balbo, who scored 21 goals for the team, went to Rome, and Udinese, who was in history with 7 wins, 13 draws and 14 losses, ranked third from the bottom of the season, suffering the last relegation in the team's history.

However, although the team is now at a low point for the time being, Chen Fei is well aware of what kind of peak the team experienced in the late 20th century and early 21st century. Take a look at the players who played for Udinese during that period: German striker Bierhoff, Argentine striker Ruben Sousa, Danish midfielder Jorgensen and AC Milan legend Czech left-back Jankulovski have all left their mark here. In the 2004-2005 season, under the leadership of Spalletti, the team entered the Champions League group stage with Di Natale, Di Michele, Iaquinta and others as the core!

At that time, there was absolutely no real underdog in Serie A, even the team at the bottom of the rankings would have a few relatively good core players, and Udinese was no exception. Danish star defender Hellwig, Italian traditional center forward representative Del Vecchio, Polish central defender Kozminski and others are all the choice of the moment, and their strength is quite outstanding. In addition, Udinese's current record is also quite bad, before the game against Atalanta, it was 2 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses, with only 7 points, which is 3 points less than Atalanta, which has 4 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses, that is, a gap of one and a half goals!

In fact, in the 10th round, Udinese and Atalanta were in the same state, because Atalanta conceded more goals and fell behind Udinese. After Chen Fei took office, he scored 2 points each on the two strong opponents of Foggia and Parma, and then he barely climbed ashore. Therefore, this game is still a very important relegation battle before the Christmas holiday. If Atalanta can't get enough points on Udinese, then next facing a super strong opponent like Lazio, facing Signoli, who was so perverted that season, Chen Fei is really not sure, even if he keeps 1 point.

Udinese can't afford to lose this game, not only because they are currently low in points, but also because they only won a 0-0 in the last round against the underdog Piacenza, and in the last round, they were abused by Genoa 0-4! After this game, Udinese's opponents are Zeman's Foggia and Fabio Capello's AC Milan. Facing the Champions League champions of that season in history, Capello's domineering CA suppression made all opponents have to be highly nervous. It's a game where there is no way back for either side, it's a game that neither side can afford to lose, it's a game that was destined not to be calm from the start.

Three days before the tournament, on 25 November 1993, the Atalanta first team arrived in Udine, a major city in the Friuli region, to begin preparations for the next round of the league.

Facing Atalanta, who have been in the limelight in the last two games, Udinese coach Fidel actually has a headache. The full-back who became famous at Inter Milan is actually a native of Udine, and was a product of Udinese's own academy before he went to Bologna, Inter Milan and other teams in Serie A. The poor results in the first six rounds led Udinese president Pozzo to sack former head coach Vecini and bring Fidel to coach his hometown team. Helplessly, Balbo's departure was a bolt from the blue for the Udines, and the Friuli team, which was suddenly missing a sharp knife, plummeted. After Fidel took office, there was also some meaning that it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Unfortunately, at this time, Udinese met Atlanta, which was on the rise. The pressing intensity of Chen Fei's tactical system and the compression efficiency of the defense of the offensive second and third zones made Fidel quite jealous.

Therefore, head coach Fidel said in an interview with the media before the game: "I watched the video of the game since the Chinese became a coach, and I found that he is a very different guy. He always had all his players, including the strikers, start stealing on the spot after conceding the ball, as if everyone was a defender in that moment. And what's even more terrifying is that they actually succeeded. I know we haven't been in a great situation lately, especially when the 4-0 game took down the confidence of our players. However, the next opponent, Atalanta, is a team with a similar record to ours, and I hope to give our players some confidence and motivation back to them. ”

Regarding Fidel's pre-game comments, Chen Fei's performance was a little special: "Coach Fidel is right, I'm a different guy, otherwise you wouldn't call me a Chinese madman, would you?" The whole team is well aware that in fact we are only three points ahead of our opponents, Udinese. Therefore, this game is a relegation battle worth 4 points. Fidel said he wanted to regain some confidence in us, and I wanted to give it back to him as it was. We beat Parma in the limelight in our last game, and everyone's fighting spirit and confidence have increased. 0-4? I know that even a team like Genoa can beat them up into a sieve and I'm sure we can too. We came to Friuli, not for a vacation, but for victory! ”

However, Chen Fei never imagined that his bold words would bring a storm...

In the early hours of the next morning, in the middle of the night, the team bus carrying the players to Udine in front of the hotel where Atlanta was staying obediently stopped in the special parking space for the big car. Although the security guards patrolled the inside of the hotel, the temperature outside was about the same as that of the refrigerator, and the hotel was located in the suburbs, so there were basically no cars passing by. But it was such an ordinary night that couldn't be more ordinary, but something really happened.

In the dark night, a car drove slowly, did not enter the hotel parking lot, but found an open place on the side of the road and stopped. From the car, a few people got down, and it seemed that they were still holding something in their hands, sneakily all the way into the hotel parking lot. They didn't even have a flashlight, but it was easy to pinpoint the location of the only bus, which was currently the only one in the parking lot. I saw those people circle around the car a few times, stop for a moment, pick up what they were doing, and within a few minutes, several people took advantage of the night to get into the car and drive away from the scene.

Early the next morning, the alarm clock on Chen Fei's mobile phone just rang, and he was about to delay in bed for a while, but he heard someone slamming his door frantically, shouting while smashing the door: "Oh no, Chen, something is wrong, go and see!" Get up! ”

Chen Fei woke up suddenly, grabbed the coat of the hanger and threw it on, and opened the door. Standing outside was none other than Fitness Coach Pitch!

"Chen, it's no good, our bus... Hurry up and get dressed and go see! ”

"Bus? What happened to the bus? Wasn't it okay before parking last night? ”

"Oh, hurry up and take a look!"

Chen Fei hurriedly put on his pants and shoes, and was dragged by Pidge's wrist to the parking lot, and all the players who came to Udine were also on the parking lot! As soon as the players saw Chen Fei come out, Ulala surrounded him! Captain Fei Long couldn't suppress the anger in his heart: "Chen, the Udine people are too much!" You see! ”

Chen Fei saw the scene of the bus in front of him, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day! He was furious and yelled, "What's going on??! ”

It turns out that the sneaky people of yesterday are some of the extreme fans of Udine! They were angered by Chen Fei's rhetoric and thought that Chen Fei was despising them. So I took advantage of the night to put on white spray paint (the main color of the Atlanta team is dark blue and black, and the white spray paint is particularly eye-catching), and sprayed a lot of provocative sentences on the body of the Atlanta bus!

"Chinese monkeys, go back to Bergamo!"

"Chinese monkeys, I can give you the phone number of Udine Zoo, you should belong there!"

The most excessive one is to openly smear the goddess emblem of Atlanta, and leave a message: "Bergamo monkeys, your 'goddess' has become a big flower face haha!" ”

The main body of Atlanta's crest is a profile portrait of a long-haired woman, symbolizing Tethys, the goddess of the sea. Even the Atlanta club's nickname is Dea, which means goddess. Therefore, this blatant violation of the team emblem made the Atlanta club angry from top to bottom!

"Damn Udine, if I let me know who did it, I'll beat him to the point where he can't stand up!" Bison Zampania couldn't contain his anger and threw a few punches into the air!

"I've been training here since I was a child, and for many years, we've never been provoked like this!" Tacinati is Atalanta's own academy, so naturally he can't control his emotions.

"I've come here from Montevideo, I've already made this place my second home, these Udine bandits, I'm not done with them!" Montero was also indignant.

Chen Fei suddenly thought of what was going on at this time, and he himself understood that it was probably yesterday's interview that made the home team fans think that he was provoking them, so it would be like this! However, he did not have the slightest regret or panic, on the contrary, Chen Fei, who had calmed down, decided to finally pour a spoonful of oil on the fire!

"Listen to me, everybody!" Chen Fei shouted, and everyone slowly quieted down, but they were all panting, "I'm just as uncomfortable as you are about this, everyone knows that the team emblem is our face, and when they do this, they are spraying paint on our own faces, do you agree?!" ”

"No !!"

'Right now, we don't know who did it, and we can't do it with the fans. On the contrary, the calmer we are, the less they will achieve the purpose of people like them. We keep our anger to the table and take it out on the pitch! To win one more goal is to slap the Udine fans in the face one more time! You say don't you? “

"Yes!!"

"Okay, let's all disperse first, just do some strength in the hotel gym this morning, and I'll deal with the rest of the matter." 、

The players listened to Chen Fei's instructions and scattered back to their respective rooms, ready to go to the gym for training.

"In this way, whoever has a camera will take a picture of this scene and send it to the police station so that the police can intervene in this matter. At the same time, send the photos to the Udinese club and our club, and don't forget our Bergamo daily newspaper, which cannot be concealed and cannot be concealed, painted in white paint. Let's be ourselves first. Chen Fei told the coaching staff his opinions, and the members of the coaching staff also agreed with Chen Fei's views, and then they went to contact and deal with it

"That's the only way, but Chen, you're too bold! The reporter interviewed you and said, you see, now it's okay! Adrio reminded Chen Fei.

"Afraid of what? I'm like this, I love what's wrong, I don't like to listen to pull down! Anyway, I'm not lying, I can only blame them for their own lack of strength! Tell you Danielle, I just deliberately wanted to test them, but I didn't expect them to provoke so much. I thought they might fight back, but I didn't expect it to be done in such a way. But it's okay, anyway, the players' will to fight is up, which is more beneficial to us. If they are too calm, it will be a problem. ”

"Hey, you... I really don't know how to say hello to you... Adrio was helpless.

After this little episode, this game, which was already very gunpowdery, became even more tense. Two days later, at the Friuli Stadium, matchday officially arrived. Where will the next developments go?