I'll it! Big news! Pagliuca, the main goalkeeper of the last Shijie Cup, was kicked out of the squad by Saki!

Zhuang Mingge was also stunned when he heard Sachi's speech, although Toldo was very happy to be selected into the squad, but Pagliuca's defeat made him very puzzled, after all, Pagliuca is much better than Butch in terms of game experience and personal ability!

However, at the moment, Sacchi obviously did not have time to make any official explanations for his statement, and the "shoemaker" continued to read the names of the players who were shortlisted for the European Championship: "Maldini, Carboni (this is the veteran who later played for Valencia), Costacuta, Abroni, Nesta, Torricelli, Mousi, the above seven defenders will represent Italy in the European Championship in England!" ”

If Pagliuca's defeat can be barely explained by the poor performance of his Inter Milan club in the past two years, then Sacchi's choice of defenders is simply incredible.

First of all, in terms of central defenders, with Fiorentina completing two consecutive league championships and winning the treble this season, Fiorentina's backline played a very important role, at least in terms of conceding a lot fewer goals than other teams, but only one of the seven defenders was selected, and even his central defender partner Ferrara in Fiorentina was squeezed out of the national team by the likes of Abroni and Costacuta, who were in serious decline, and this result made it difficult for many Italian fans to accept.

And the right wing-back is also quite controversial, even if Torricelli is superior, but in the selection of substitutes, whether it is Panucci, Billindeli, Zambrotta or Bergomi, the performance in this position is far better than Parma's Musi! What is this trying to do with Saki? Does he think that the 33-year-old Mussi is better than these players? Or do you want to put Parma and AC Milan together to play the European Championship? What an international joke!

Compared with the other two positions, the left-back selection is fair, Paolo Maldini's position as Italy's first left-back is unshakable, even if AC Milan's results have declined in the past two years, but his left side is already the most stable link, Roma's Carboni is not famous, but he is also a powerful man, and his selection is not controversial.

Sacchi's next squad was even more striking, with Fiorentina playing for Di Biagio, Cripa, Robert Baggio, Filipe Inzaghi and others not selected, while Rossito and Donadoni, who played in Udinese, were favored by Sacchi.

This is the point that Zhuang Mingge is most dissatisfied with, with Fiorentina's outstanding results in winning the treble this season, many players should have been selected, but after so many days of delay, Sacchi actually only took a fancy to Nesta and Toldo!

Such a result is undoubtedly an outright insult to Florence.

"Hello? Is it Kenyon? I remember that you were in charge of the club's external affairs, right? It is like this, I intend to hold a press conference in the name of the Fiorentina club, at which I intend to make a formal protest against Saki. Zhuang Mingge, who was so angry by Saki that he immediately took out his mobile phone and called Kenyon, who was outside to negotiate sponsorship fees with many sponsors.

"Boss, what are you going to do with the press conference?" Kenyon was a little puzzled, although he worked for Fiorentina, he was not an Italian fan after all, and he did not know what was happening at the Milanello base.

"That's the ......," Zhuang Mingge recounted what had just happened in Milanello to Kenyon, and said, "This old guy Saki is really too deceitful!" ”

"You're right, boss, Saki did a bit outrageous this time. I'm going to contact the press now, but I'd like you to reach out to the other Serie A clubs to protest the fairness of the selection of the internationals, so that we can feel less pressure on Fiorentina alone. ”

"Haode, I'll leave this matter to you." After speaking, Zhuang Mingge hung up the phone and began to contact other bosses......

While Zhuang Mingge was gathering allies, the reporters who had been shocked by Sacchi's announcement of the national team squad were about to leave Milan when they received a phone call from their boss asking them to immediately travel to Fiorentina for another upcoming press conference.

Naturally, these paparazzi, who have been involved in football for many years, smelled something unusual, and left their phones and headed for Florence.

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At 10 o'clock in the morning of May 29, Zhuang Mingge faced a group of sports reporters in the hall of the headquarters in Florence, and announced a blockbuster news: "Friends of journalists, on behalf of the Fiorentina club, I hereby formally protest to the current Italian national team coach Coach Arango Sacchi!" I think Coach Sacchi was seriously suspected of cronyism when selecting the members of the national team, which led to many more capable players not being included in the Italian national team at all! ”

Zhuang Mingge's words immediately made the reporters present very excited, and the president of Fiorentina openly questioned the fairness of the national team coach to protest against his choice of international players, which means that Fiorentina has completely torn his face with Sacchi, if Sacchi continues to coach the Italian national team after the end of this European Cup, I am afraid that the local players who play in Fiorentina will never be called by the national team in the future.

"Chairman Corleone, may I ask you to question the fairness of Coach Sacchi's selection?" A reporter present raised doubts to Zhuang Mingge, after all, this protest is really a bit surprising, although there will be some controversy about the Italian national team's entry list before each tournament, but no club has ever publicly protested to the national team manager about this.

"Do I need to elaborate on this?" Zhuang Mingge sneered and said, "Fiorentina's performance in various competitions in the past two years I think everyone has seen it, and we won the league and Cup Winners' Cup double last season!" And this season, our Fiorentina has won all the championship trophies that can be won, such a result, in exchange for Fiorentina only two internationals in the current national team squad! AC Milan, who have been beaten four times this season, have four players selected! In such a situation, why can't I question the fairness of this?! ”

Zhuang Mingge's remarks were reprinted in full by many reporters present on the front page of the newspaper the next day.