Chapter 320: Controversy (I)
The 1995-96 season came to an end with Fiorentina's success in winning the European Champions Cup at the Stadio Olimpico.
Next, the Fiorentina players are divided into two groups, one is the players who have no game tasks in the summer, such as Ronaldo, who can't wait to go on vacation after receiving the bonus, after all, they really need to rest and adjust their mood after a long season.
The rest of the players did not leave Fiorentina immediately, but waited here for the call of the national team manager, because in the coming month, there is another much-anticipated tournament to be held in England: the European Football Championship!
Since Jacques succeeded Houllier as the coach of the French national team, the coach who resolutely said "no" to Cantona has established a French team with Zidane as the core of the new generation, and as Zidane's most powerful helper in the midfield, Djokaeff naturally booked a ticket to England early.
Compared to the triumphant Djokaeau, Fiorentina's other players are a bit of a cup.
As the first team in the history of Italian football to win the treble, Fiorentina players have been recognized by fans and professionals alike, so their selection in Italy's squad for the European Championship is also very high.
However, fans have apparently forgotten that the current coach of the Italian national team is not the good old man Vecchi, but the notoriously paranoid Sacchi.
Although Sacchi did not like to see these players in the Fiorentina team who are not his own direct members, Fiorentina's excellent results this season have also made him hesitate to choose a player, and he has to think carefully about the Italian country's participation in the 22-man squad for this summer's European Championship in England.
After all, Fiorentina's main squad has a lot of local players, such as Roberto Baggio, Ferrara, Cripa, Filicano, Lanna, etc., as well as Filipe Inzaghi, who has scored 18 league goals this season, Nesta, Di Biagio, Zambrotta, and other young talents who are known as the next Baresi, all of whom have contributed to Fiorentina's treble this season.
If Fiorentina, who won the treble this season, did not even make a single player for the Italian national team for "some reason", then Sacchico would have drowned in the saliva of all the Italian fans and media......
While Sacchi was delaying the announcement of the European Championship player list, the head coach of the German national team, Vogtz, set an example for Sacchi.
On May 24, Vogts announced the national team squad for the European Championship in England, and the German coach, who is not good at handling player relations, promoted the "golden bomber" Klinsmann to become the captain of the national team, and Matthaus, who had an extremely tense relationship with Klinsmann, naturally failed to be selected for the European Championship squad and became the first big-name star who missed the European Cup.
Fiorentina Effenberg and Mateus became brothers, and despite his treble title as the heart of Fiorentina's playmaking team this season, head coach Vogts still kicked him out of the squad simply because of his "past record" in the Shijie Cup in the United States.
The defeat of Effenberg and Mateus from the national team has completely angered the German media, who believe that it is completely unacceptable for the manager and players to bring personal grievances to the national team. In a routine interview, when Vogts complained to reporters that there were so few outstanding players in German football in recent years that he had to select talent from some mid-to-lower teams, the reporter unceremoniously asked Weishenme without Mateus and Effenberg?
As a result, Vogts, who felt extremely embarrassed, had no choice but to end the interview hastily, and hid in the training base of the German national team in a shallow manner, desperately training the 22 international players who had been called up to the European Championship squad, trying to respond to people's doubts with excellent results in the European Championship.
It seems that it was stimulated by Vogts, and Italy, which had not announced the national team squad for a long time, finally released the news publicly: on May 28, Italian national team coach Arango Sacchi will announce the 22-man squad for the European Championship in England at the Milanello training base!
Fiorentina, who have not been taken seriously by Sacchi, how many places can they occupy in the Italian national team this time?
After the eagerly awaited wait of countless Italian fans, the time soon came to reveal the answer.
On May 28, in the conference hall of the Milanello training base, under the protection of heavy security personnel, Italian coach Sacchi faced many reporters and announced the 22-man squad for the European Cup finalized by himself!
"Antonio, how many Italian players do you think Fiorentina can play in the next European Championship?" Rebecca Groz, sitting in front of a TV in a mansion in Florence, asked.
"Hehe, I can't really guess this, I think only God can know what kind of structure Sakhy's brain is." Zhuang Mingge shook his head with a smile and said, "Two years ago, in the American Shijie Cup, Sacchi abandoned Vialli and Mancini, and as a result, he won back a Shijie Cup runner-up for Italy. โ
"How can it be ...... like this" Judging from Rebecca's expression, the rich girl obviously couldn't believe the stubborn and self-righteous style that Zhuang Mingge said, and Alyssa, who was sitting on the other side, also puffed out her mouth when she heard this. In their opinion, if Italy wants to do well in the tournament, the first thing is to unite all the players as much as possible, rather than the head coach taking the lead in engaging in infighting there, "No matter what, the best players in Italy are those people, there may be a few people who have some conflicts with Coach Sacchi and miss the national team, but he should not be stubborn enough to exclude a large number of good players......
Just as Rebecca said this, the press conference broadcast live on the TV finally got to the point.
"Friends of the journalists present, I will announce the 22-man squad of Italy for this European Championship, starting with the goalkeeper position, the three selected players are รngel Peruzzi from Juventus FC, Fiorentina goalkeeper Francisco Toldo, and Parma main goalkeeper Luca Buci!"
Sacchi's first words at this press conference caused an uproar in the venue, no one thought that in the goalkeeper position, two years ago in the United States Shijie Cup played well, and Robert Baggio worked side by side to send Italy to the Shijie Cup final No. 1 goalkeeper Pagliuca would actually be selected for this European Cup squad at this time!