Chapter 1170: The End of the League (Part I)

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With the referee's whistle, the match between Fiorentina and Brescia finally came to an end. And this also means that the regular season of the Serie A season of the 02-03 season will officially end from this moment!

The reason for this is that Atalanta, who are fourth from bottom in the table, will need to play two legs of the play-offs to make a last-ditch fight for a place in Serie A next season. Therefore, in order to distinguish it from the play-off stage, the Italian Football Federation will call this stage the regular season.

With all 34 rounds of league games over, the final standings of the eighteen Serie A clubs this season are also hot at the same time!

As this season's Serie A champions, Fiorentina have won 26, drawn four and lost four of their 34 league games to 82 points. Although there is a certain gap between this championship point and the points during the five consecutive championships of the Purple Lily League, it is still enough for the Purple Lily to overtake Juventus and Inter Milan and other competitors in the league battlefield and successfully take away the championship trophy from the siege of strong opponents.

As the world's number one league and the league with the highest number of points in European competition in UEFA's official statistics, the top four teams in Serie A this season will qualify for next season's Champions League. However, there are some differences in the qualification of each team based on their ranking in the league. For example, Fiorentina, Juventus and Inter Milan, who are in the top three of the league, can get a direct entry to the round of 32 and a place in the group stage of the Champions League; AC Milan were unlucky, as fourth-placed Rossoneri had to start from the third qualifying round and win their opponents to qualify for the Champions League.

With the top four teams out of the table, let's take a look at the teams that qualified for the UEFA Cup. Despite a serious financial crisis since last summer, and even the big boss Craniotti was imprisoned for alleged financial fraud, Lazio has shown great cohesion and strong combat effectiveness at this difficult time, losing Crespo and Glendoni, the two cores of the former and the latter, and once rushed to the second place in the standings after not receiving a single lire salary for several months!

Although their performance in the second half of the league fell due to a lack of bench depth, and they ended the season in fifth place, the Blue Eagles still earned the respect of fans and media with their actions.

Compared to Lazio, whose players have worked together to overcome the difficult times and have shown a great mental outlook, Roma are much more vulnerable in this regard. Although the elder Sensi did not hesitate to sell his hard-fought property to raise the necessary funds for the club in order to ensure the team's competitiveness in Serie A, it is a pity that the Roma players do not seem to appreciate the love of their own owners.

Cassano, who spent a huge sum of $18 million to bring in, is still the boy who never grows up, and he has become synonymous with trouble, not only has he not grown up as expected, but he is constantly asking for a raise at this time. Totti has barely emerged from the shadow of the World Cup throughout the season, and news of a bad relationship with his team-mates such as Cassano, Montella and Panucci has seriously dragged the team back, and the Red Wolves' exit in the Champions League quarter-finals has a lot to do with it.

To be honest, in addition to the old Sensi, there is probably only a big boss in the entire Italian football world who can do this for the club. Even Zhuang Mingge would not invest so much in the club at such a cost in a similar situation. It is precisely for this reason that the performance of the Roma players at this time will be extremely disappointing.

Think about it, Lao Senci would rather sell his own property to keep the team's stars to ensure the team's competitiveness, but these players with high salaries do not understand the boss's hard work at all, either causing trouble everywhere or engaging in infighting in the locker room, or no one is thinking about uniting everyone to play well and improve the team's poor record. As a result, Roma, who were in a much better financial position than their city rivals, ended up in eighth place in the table, earning a place in the Confederations Cup.

Sandwiched between the Roma duo, the sixth- and seventh-placed teams in the table are Parma and Sampdoria respectively. However, only Sampdoria of the two teams qualified for next season's UEFA Cup. As for Parma, thanks to their reach for the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup this season, where they narrowly beat Claudio Ranieri's Chelsea side by one goal, the Milk Army will continue to represent Italy in the European Cup Winners' Cup next season.

With Parma going to the Cup Winners' Cup, the qualification for the League Cup, which was supposed to be allocated to them, was naturally postponed. As a result, Vicenza, who finished ninth in the standings, was the lucky winner, to the chagrin of Brescia and Perugia, who were tied on points but were in 10th and 11th place due to their disadvantage in terms of results.

Now let's mention here that in addition to Parma, which won the cup, another team that has qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup is Fiorentina II, which has been promoted to Serie B for the first time since its establishment but has an amazing performance!

In this season's Italian Cup, Mourinho's Fiorentina II team eliminated many strong opponents, including Roma and Lazio, and went all the way to the final!

In the first leg of the Coppa Italia final three days ago, the Fiorentina II lads had no stage fright against the mighty AC Milan, and the Rossoneri were beaten by Denmark international Thomas Tomason in stoppage time after a full 90 minutes of staggering at the Stadio Giuliano Sarti.

Despite losing the first leg, their opponents in the final, AC Milan, have already secured a Champions League place, so after a short discussion, the Italian Football Federation has resolutely announced that according to the relevant regulations, Fiorentina II, who have reached the final of the Coppa Italia, will represent Italy in next season's European Cup Winners' Cup!

After the results of the discussion of the Italian Football Association were announced, it immediately caused an uproar in the Apennine Peninsula, and many Italian clubs who watched the excitement of soy sauce smashed their glasses. After all, they didn't expect that the Italian Football Federation really had the courage to allow a new Serie B team like Fiorentina II to participate in next season's European Cup Winners' Cup!

Regardless, Fiorentina II is a Serie B team. If they were to play in the Cup Winners' Cup, it would be embarrassing for all the Serie A teams that did not qualify for Europe!