Three days later, on August 30, the Fiorentina squad will play in the first round of the league that had been postponed by the Italian Football Federation.

Although the second round of matches will not start until September 10, this is because it was the FIFA-mandated national team break day - for European national teams, it is the day to compete for tickets to next year's European Championship in England, and the Italian Football Federation will certainly not be brainbroken enough to let defending champions Fiorentina play in the league during the national team break......

Therefore, the players did not celebrate the UEFA Super Cup victory as before, but simply celebrated on the pitch, and then flew back to Fiorentina overnight under the organization of the club staff to recover their physical strength due to the long journey.

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"Hehe, this time Old Man Saki is really enough to give us Florence face, recruiting so many people at once." In the president's office in Florence, Zhuang Mingge smiled and threw a newspaper on the table.

The front page of the newspaper was impressively printed with the national team squad that the Italian national team coach Sacchi had just announced for the next European Championship qualifiers, and the Fiorentina players who had been ignored by the old man Sacchi finally got a hard-won opportunity: Lanna, Billindeli, Ferrara, Filicano, Toldo, plus Kripa in the midfield, Fiorentina had a total of six players called up to the latest national team squad this time.

"Coach Sacchi can't do it if he doesn't do it, as a team that won the double last season, if there is not even a local player in the team who is selected for the national team, it is a bit too much." Karin also said with a smile, "However, Coach Sacchi still seems to be very unfavorable to Roberto Baggio and refuses to call him up to the new Italian national team squad." ”

From Sacchi's choice, it seems that the "shoemaker" (Sacchi used to work as a shoe store salesman before becoming a football coach) thinks that Fiorentina's defensive system is still worth learning from his Italian national team, and this time it may be that so many Fiorentina players have been called in to get a closer look at this aspect.

As for the problem that Robert Baggio has not been able to participate in the national team after the American Shijie Cup, Zhuang Mingge can only say in his heart that he really can't help it, and the stubborn old man Sacchi will not launch his own prejudices because of Weishenme's "external pressure", which can be seen from the fact that he later forced away the main right-back Panucci when he "entered the palace in the second place" in Milan.

In addition to the six homegrown players who entered the national team training camp this time, Djokaeff, Davies and Rui Costa were also called up to their respective national teams. After Jacques became the head coach of the French national team, he did not hesitate to abandon Cantona, who has been at the heart of the French team's attack since Platini took charge, and Ginola, who made a low-level mistake in the Shijie Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria two years ago, and Djokaeff took the opportunity to become the right-hand man of Zinedine Zidane, the core of the new generation.

As for Davies's selection, it is more based on his amazing performance in Ajax last season, plus the Netherlands has always been known for producing excellent offensive players, and there are very few excellent defensive players, so an outstanding defensive midfielder like Davies is naturally regarded as a rare protected animal by the national team coach Hiddink, who has been worried about defense after Rijkaard's retirement, and Hiddink, who has been worried about defense after Rijkaard's retirement, can't wait to call the "wild boar" into the Dutch national team.

Rui Costa is in a similar situation to Davies, and as one of the representatives of Portugal's two-time World Junior Championships, Costa has naturally made the new national team squad.

It is precisely because Fiorentina will be withdrawn so many main players at once that the match date will be set for August 31: not one day earlier, because UEFA has just issued a directive a few years ago that a team is not allowed to play a second match within 72 hours after the end of the previous match; It doesn't work a day late, because the national team's registration date is September 1.

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On August 31, 1995, Fiorentina finally played the opening match of the 95-96 Serie A season, and they faced the red bulls Torino at the Stadio Franqui.

Torino finished eleventh in the league last season, at the mid-table level of Serie A, and although they did not rank high, they were in the closing stages of last season, when the Red Bulls upset the mighty Juventus "at home". From this point of view, it is still difficult for Fiorentina to win this game smoothly.

However, the Torino club first let go of the main scorer Sirenzi this summer, who scored 17 league goals for Torino in the 93-94 season, he is 191cm tall and he is a traditional Italian center forward, he and Riztri formed a tall and fast forward combination that led the team to a lot of valuable points last season, and his departure has left Torino without a "tower" that attracts the attention of opposing defenders.

Unfortunately, Torino spent heavily poaching Ghanaian star Abedi Bailey from relegated Marseille last summer suffered a serious injury during a summer training camp and will not be back on the pitch until at least January......

The backstage owner of the Torino club has shrunk his assets in last year's lira devaluation incident, and he has been reluctant to continue to invest in big-name players from the club, so the Torino team has only been able to keep the remaining first-team players in the huge Boseman wave throughout the summer, and there has been no major move.

The main scorer left the team, the core of the midfield was seriously injured, and the owner refused to continue to invest...... Morale hit rock bottom at the start of the season against a hard-fought Torino side, and in this context, they enjoyed their first league game of the new season.

In the face of such a demoralized Torino team, and at the same time occupying the home advantage, Ranieri naturally does not need to be so conservative, although sometimes his conservatism makes many people blame, but it also depends on who Florence's opponents are at the time.

So in this game, although Ranieri continued to use last season's 442 formation, but he made some minor adjustments to the starters in the midfield, Rui Costa started in place of Kripa who played the full 90 minutes in the UEFA Super Cup, Philippe Inzaghi and Ronaldo in the front line, and the left-back position was changed to Fortunato, who returned from illness.

With the referee's whistle, the game officially begins!