Chapter Ninety-Three: Saki's Stubbornness
A few days later, Mulensten flew from Qatar to Fiorentina, and because of his experience as an independent team, Zhuang Mingge signed a contract with Mulensten to hire him as Fiorentina's head of the youth department, responsible for managing Fiorentina's youth team at all levels, and he will also be the head coach of Fiorentina's youth team.
And because Moniz has not been a coach for a long time and is not very experienced, he is classified under the youth department and serves as the director of Jishu, who is responsible for the training of young players.
As for the veteran coach who had worked diligently in Florence for many years, he wisely accepted Zhuang Mingge's suggestion to let him take a back seat to the "second line". The veteran coach who completed the mission accepted a pension job arranged for him by Zhuang Mingge, and it was the Dutchman Mulensten who had just taken up his post at Fiorentina to replace him as the head coach of the Fiorentina youth team.
Mulensten and Moniz came to Florence in their first training session, and they took a fancy to the little Pirlo that Zhuang Mingge had strongly recommended to the two before, and the two with green eyes immediately formulated a training plan for Pirlo overnight, and the complexity of the content made the little Pirlo, who was already mentally prepared, stunned.
Not to mention that Pirlo Jr. lived a "painful and happy" life under the care of several "masters", let's turn our attention back to the Serie A season in 1994-95.
In the ninth round of Serie A, Fiorentina continued their triumphant run under Batistuta's 2-0 home win over visiting Bari, who scored the game-winning goal and his twelfth goal in the league this season.
In another match played at the same time, Parma, who were previously tied with Fiorentina in the standings, drew with AC Milan at the San Siro Stadium, with Fiorentina once again dominating at the end of the ninth round.
As Batistuta has scored in nine consecutive games since the start of the new season in Serie A, such an outstanding performance has naturally attracted the attention of many Italian media. Soon, the day after the match against Bari, some media turned up the long-standing Serie A scoring streak: Serie A's previous personal record for consecutive goals was set by a striker named Pastilli, who scored in 10 consecutive games in the 1962-63 season, and Batistuta only needs to score again in the tenth round to equalize this record that has been in the dust for more than three decades.
However, the time for fans to see Batistuta equalise the record is likely to be delayed by a week, as the following weekend is the FIFA-mandated international break, and the tenth round of Serie A fixtures will not start until two weeks away.
Although Fiorentina have had good results this season, there have been very few first-team players who have been called up to the national team. In addition to Batistuta, who has long been the center forward of the Argentine national team, there is only Djokaef who was recruited into the national team by the new French team coach Jacques to "observe".
As for Effenberg, another big name in the team? I'm sorry, Vogts said that the impression left on him by the Tiger in the American Shijie Cup was so bad that he didn't want to give Effenberg a chance to enter the national team anymore.
As for Fiorentina's homegrown gang, it is even more tragic, although the old man Sacchi ultimately fell short in the American Shijie Cup, but the Shijie Cup runner-up result was enough to gag many people's mouths.
So, the stubborn Saki continued to cling to his ideas. Although the two veterans of Baresi and Tasotti announced their retirement from the national team after the shijie Cup, Sacchi still recruited five players from the poor AC Milan club, including Maldini Jr. and Albertini, and Parma, who ranked second, was selected as many as seven! Fiorentina, who are at the top of the Serie A table, were not selected.
"Arango (Sachi) has gone too far!" After seeing the new edition of the Italian national team's squad in the newspaper, Antonioni slammed the stack of newspapers on the table, "We performed so well, this old guy will turn a blind eye!" ”
"Okay, don't be angry, come, take a sip to cool off." Zhuang Mingge handed Antonioni a cup of freshly brewed haode black tea, and said with a smile, "My boss is not angry, what's the matter with you being angry like this?" Besides, if you look closely, aren't the names of Robert Baggio and Pagliuca also on the list? ”
"Huh? That's really ...... Then tell me, what the hell does this old man want to do?! Antonioni is still angry, and there is still some unsubsided flush on his face, "Otherwise, he will simply take the mixed team of AC Milan and Parma to play in England and the European Championship!" ”
"I think the reason why there are no Fiorentina players selected may be because Sacchi thinks we have no experience, and the league has only just started, and he wants to continue to observe Fiorentina's quality." Zhuang Mingge could only pick up the good ones and tell Antonioni, lest this benevolent brother be angry again.
"And what about the defeat of Baggio and Pagliuca?"
"Giancarlo, do you remember that comment in the Milan Sports newspaper after the Shijie Cup?" Zhuang Mingge took a sip of black tea and asked.
"Ah, is that the comment that said that the reason why Sacchi was able to lead the national team to the runner-up of the Shijie Cup was completely because of Baggio for offense and Pagliuca for defense?" Antonioni recalled, remembering the article that caused a lot of controversy, "You mean ......"
"That's right, it's because a lot of people support this point of view that Sacchi wants to prove that his Italian national team can do without these two players, and he can achieve results in major tournaments."
"This, this is too child's play, isn't it?" Antonioni said in disbelief.
"Hehe, that's just my guess, maybe Coach Sacchi has something else in mind." Speaking of this, Zhuang Mingge secretly sighed in his heart, when he saw the list made by Saki, he already knew how unfair Saki and Pagliuca would be treated by Saki in the next two years.
Looking back on Sacchi's coaching experience, it is indeed very unusual, with the reputation of "gold medal coach", but in fact, he has only won a handful of championship honors...... Born as a shoemaker, completely "grassroots" to the point that he has not received any formal coaching training, in Parma, he is the "Godfather of Parma", came to AC Milan, and was crowned with the supreme name of "Gold Medal Coach", and he created a series of football concepts that are not fully formed, which can deeply influence the later Capello, Ancelotti and even the younger Basten, Donadoni, Rijkaard...... He was determined to follow his own path of football, one that advocated an oppressive attack, one that emphasized "life never stops, and the fight continues", a path of Caesar that wanted to reshape the soul of the Italian nation. Success or failure no longer matters, he at least arouses the self-confidence of a nation!
is such an extraordinary coach who can bring confidence to many people around him, after Zhuang Mingge experienced such a thing, he was surprised to find that Coach Saki revealed a strong "inferiority" emotion in his bones. With low self-esteem, he can abnormally threaten the players again and again, get out if he doesn't do what he asks, and he can also let the best players in the team watch the games of those unpopular players more than once.
In 96, he will repeatedly ignore the actual situation and the voice of the people, and stubbornly want to prove to the world that the Italian national team will be better without Baggio and Pagliuca? In the depths of his soul, isn't there a feeling of inferiority to the bottom of his heart, wandering alone?
The unusual grassroots coaching experience has naturally made Old Man Saki almost unique in the football circle, but at the same time, the limitations of grassroots coaching have also inadvertently created the special style of "inferiority" hidden under Old Man Sachi's stubborn appearance!