In the new season, the three major European bookmakers - William Hill, Ladbrokes International, Bet365 all regard the defending champion AC Milan as the biggest favorite to win the Serie A this season, with an average odds of 1 to 1.85, and at the same time, they no longer dare to despise Sampdoria such a powerful "civilian" team, because just five years ago, they offered Sampdoria more than 1 to 10 odds, and as a result, these bookmakers suffered heavy losses because of Sampdoria's "accidental" victory. Before the start of the new season, Sampdoria, who performed well in Serie A last season, became the second favorite in the eyes of the bookmakers, followed by Juventus, Inter Milan, Parma, Lazio, Roma and other traditional powerhouses, as the "promoted horse" Fiorentina, although it overturned AC Milan in the previous Italian Super Cup, but its odds are only eighth in Serie A, it is clear that these bookmakers do not think that the Fiorentina are confident enough to deal with the long league.

In the new season, Sampdoria is starting to show a hint of fatigue after a brilliant last season. Especially in the first half of last season, Sampdoria owner Paulo Mantovani died suddenly in a car accident, which brought a lot of shock to the team......

In the new season, Juventus has changed a lot, Paulo Sousa and Deschamps rushed from Portugal and France respectively, Pesotho and Iuliano greatly enriched the Juventus backline, "grassroots" coach Lippi replaced the famous gold medal coach Trapattoni and took charge of the Bianconeri coach, and the "Silver Fox" decisively mentioned last season's substitute striker "Pulsatilla" Lavanelli to the main lineup, and together with Robert Baggio and Vialli, they formed a new offensive trident in Juve's frontcourt. At the same time, Lippi has promoted young Alessandro del Piero to the first team, a move that will be even more significant in the long run......

This season has also been a major event with far-reaching consequences for historic Inter Milan. Massimo Moratti, the 'oil king', took control of Inter Milan from Manuel Pelleglini midway through the season, and the frenzied Inter fans breathed new life into the somewhat dull Inter Milan that had come to an end of the 'troika' era. After witnessing the team's tragic performance last season, Pelagrini was determined to start rectifying the team's dressing room conflicts in order to get more "benefits" from Massimo Moratti, who bought a stake in Inter Milan, and the short-lived 1990 Shijie Cup top scorer Schillaci was sent to Japan, and the 91 European Golden Boot winner Pantsev, one of Yugoslavia's "three musketeers", was also sent to German team Dusseldorf a year early......

This season, the Roma combination of Sensi and Mazzoniga Balbo began to gradually get on the right track after a season of running-in......

Still this season, Butch, Cannavaro, Zola, Cuto, Dino Baggio, Blanca...... For the first time, these names appeared in Parma's first team squad......

Still this season, Lazio owner Cragnoti has assembled a "luxury" squad for Czech Zeman: goalkeeper Maciegiani; defenders Nesta, Negro, Favali, Adani, Chamot; midfielders Gascoigne, Forsse, Winter, Francescini; Forwards Signori, Boksic, Di Vaio, Casirachi...... Their goal is to win the championship!

The 1994-95 season of Serie A made Zhuang Mingge remember vividly, such an important period of "history" has not undergone any major changes, which makes Zhuang Mingge, who often "remembers" this history, feel extremely happy. There are so many stories behind this legendary era.

Everything before the start of the new season marks the official start of a thrilling, "Serie A Seven Sisters" interpretation of the Apennine version of the "War of the Seven Kingdoms"! Think about it, if the "history" is a little bit off, for example, Fiorentina under his control did not return to Serie A, or Lippi and Moggi failed to enter Juventus, then what would be the situation now? Any such situation is something Zhuang Mingge can't imagine.

Zhuang Mingge felt that he couldn't wait for the early opening of the new season.

Three days later (4 September), in the first round of Serie A, Fiorentina will host Cagliari, an opponent who finished 12th in Serie A last season and is a small club that relies on reselling players to make ends meet. Cagliari pursued a counter-attacking tactic, with the team's high-pitched and fast combination of Muzzi and Oliveira, who were key to winning the game.

However, with the current strength of the Fiorentina team, if nothing else, the poor and weak Cagliari is obviously just an "appetizer", and the expected Zhuang Mingge seems to have heard the cheers of the fans in the Frankie Stadium......

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The Cagliari Club was founded in 1920 by a group of Sardinian students. The team won their first Serie C title in 1951-52 after the team went professional. Cagliari had been in the second division for the rest of the fifties, and in the 1953-54 season Cagliari managed to reach the promotion play-offs, but unfortunately failed to make it to the top flight, and unfortunately, the team was relegated from the second division in 1960, but under the leadership of young striker Leva, the team won the third division two years later and returned to Serie B, and then in 1964 they managed to finish second in Serie B and make their first appearance in Serie A.

In the 1969-70 season, Cagliari won the Serie A title for the first time (17 wins, 11 draws and 2 defeats in 30 games) and conceded only 11 goals throughout the season, the fewest goals conceded in Europe's top league to date, while the team's number one star Riva won the Serie A Golden Boot for the third time with 21 goals.

In the seventies, Cagliari began to decline from the top as Riva aged, and in 1976 when Riva announced his retirement, Cagliari was relegated from Serie A at the bottom of the table.

In the first season after relegation, Cagliari and other three teams were evenly scored, so the play-offs were held to determine the two promotion places, and after one draw and one defeat in the play-offs, Cagliari lost the opportunity to return to Serie A immediately.

In the decade that followed, Cagliari's results were up and down, with a "lift" style, first being promoted to the second division runner-up in 1979 and then relegated again four years later; The mid-to-late 1980s were arguably Cagliari's darkest years, with the team being relegated to Serie C in 1987 at the bottom of the table.

Cagliari spent two full seasons in Serie C before Claudio Ranieri, now Fiorentina manager, led the team to the incredible triple jump, returning to Serie B in 1988-89 and then promoted to Serie A the following year.

Following Ranieri's departure in the summer of 1991, Mazzoni led Cagliari to sixth place in the league and a place in the UEFA Cup in the 1992/93 season. In the 1993-94 season, Cagliari reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup, losing 3-5 on aggregate to eventual champions Inter Milan over two legs, the best result for the Sardinian team in Europe.

The Stadio Sant'Elia, home of the Cagliari club, initially had a capacity of 60,000 spectators, and at the time of the match against Saint-Etienne, a whopping 70,000 fans poured into the stadium, which was also the highest attendance in the stadium; Later, as the stadium became one of the venues for the 1990 Shijie Cup, the Italian government carried out a renovation of the Santa Elia Stadium, and the capacity of the stadium was reduced to 39,905 people; During the Italian Shijie Cup, the stadium hosted three Group F group games (England drew 1-1 with Ireland, England drew 0-0 with the Netherlands and England beat Egypt 1-0).