After the Cup Winners' Cup draw, Fiorentina did not face the next game at the weekend of the week, as the international break came once again.

The only thing to be thankful for is that apart from Djokaeff, Fiorentina have not been called up to play for the national team.

Batistuta is due to the Argentine Football Federation's lack of scheduled matches, and Effenberg continues to be rejected by German coach Vogtz from the national team, and it seems that it will be difficult for the Tiger to change his national team appearances......

As for the homegrown players in the Fiorentina squad? I'm sorry, but the head coach of the national team, Sacchi, seems to have been short-sighted recently......

Therefore, when Serie A continued on February 19, there was a concentrated outbreak of the "FIFA virus" in many teams in Serie A, and Fiorentina, which had a sparse number of internationals, was spared.

Cagliari continued their excellent form after the winter break, bottoming out with a 2-0 win at home to Parma, bringing the Sardinian side three wins and one draw in their last four matches (Juventus in the 17th round, Fiorentina in the 18th round, AC Milan in the 19th round and Parma in the 20th round), and these ten valuable points have put them ahead in the relegation battle.

Fiorentina is going to challenge Cremonese away in this round of the league, although Batty's form has declined after the winter break, but the god of war's deterrence against the opponent's back line has not decreased in the slightest, Fiorentina is using Batty to pull out space after pulling in the front, from the midfield high-speed insertion of Kripa to score the only goal of the game, so as to get three points away from home.

The Bianconeri, who are at the top of the table, have a number of big players out injured in this round and have a hard-fought game against Napoli at the Alp Stadium, and in the end, Juventus were able to maintain a two-point lead thanks to a goal from Baggio before the end of the game.

Next, in the middle of the week, the entire Fiorentina squad travels to Moscow, 2,600 kilometres from Florence, where they will face the first leg of the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup.

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Russia is the most vast country in Shijie, with a total territory of 17.075 million square kilometers, accounting for about 11.4% of Shijie's total land area, and a coastline of 34,000 kilometers.

The Russian Federation is located in the northern part of the Eurasian continent and includes most of Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is bordered by the Barents, White, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian and Chukchi Seas of the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Bering, Okhotsk and Japan Seas of the Pacific Ocean to the east, and the Baltic, Black and Azov Seas of the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It is bordered by Norway, Finland, Poland, China, Mongolia, North Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and other countries, and across the sea from Japan and the state of Alaska of the United States.

Russia is a hodgepodge of ethnic groups, in addition to the Slavs, there are also tough Nordic people and rugged Mongols, the integration of many ethnic groups in the country, plus the national system in sports, so it is inevitable that Russia can become a sports power. Football is certainly among them. Football in the former Soviet Union has its own characteristics, that is, it pays attention to speed, and often uses concise, bright and practical two or three people to quickly cooperate to tear through the opponent's defense, which makes the former Soviet Union occupy a place in Shijie football.

The 1956 Olympic football championship was the starting point of the "golden generation" of the Soviet national team, and it was the members of this team that made the former Soviet football go to Shijie, and Neto, Simon Young, Strytzov, and Yashin were among the representatives. The 1958 Shijie Cup was the first Shijie Cup tournament in which the former Soviet national team participated, but unfortunately they were in the group of death, and England, Brazil, and Austria, the third runner-up of the Shijie Cup in 1954, were in a group, and the Soviets ended up in the quarterfinals. It is worth mentioning that Yashin became the best goalkeeper of that Shijie Cup, which also laid the foundation for the life of Yashin's legendary goalkeeper.

The Soviet national team, between the end of World War II and the 70s, was one of the brightest teams in Shijie football. From 1960 to 1972, the name of the Soviet team appeared in the semi-finals of the European Championship four times in a row, while also finishing fourth in the 1966 Shijie Cup. Later, with the retirement of the representatives of the "golden generation", Soviet football entered a low period.

The abstention in the opening match against Chile in the 1974 Shijie Cup put them out of the Shijie Cup from the start.

But soon Soviet football bottomed out, and this time their leader was "Ukrainian Lightning" Blokhin. The leading scorer of Dynamo Kyiv won the top scorer in the Soviet League four times in a row from '72 to '75, and then again in 1977. However, political reasons caused him to miss his first trip to the Shijie Cup, which was the 1974 Shijie Cup, in which the Soviet Union drew 0-0 at home with Chile in the Shijie Cup play-offs between Europe and South America, but at that time, there was a mutiny in Chile, and the mastermind behind this mutiny was the US government. Due to the feud between the Soviet government and Pinochet, the Soviet team abstained before the second leg, and the Chilean team was able to participate in the 1974 Shijie Cup.

In 1982, under the leadership of Boksic, the Soviet team returned to the Shijie Cup. This time, the Soviet team was reborn, with the veteran Blokhin and the famous goalkeeper Dasayev. Although the Soviet team lost the first game against Brazil, the Soviet Union won 3-0 against the weak New Zealand team. Next, when facing the Scottish team with the "King of Liverpool" Dalglish, the Soviet team suffered a lot. Thankfully, Blokhin's brilliant play and Dasayev's brilliant performance eventually ended in a 2-2 draw with Scotland and eliminated them on goal difference. However, in the second stage of the group stage, the Soviet team was unfortunately eliminated due to a small goal difference.

The elimination of the qualifiers for the 1984 European Championship also brought Boksic's national team coaching career to an end.

In 1986, Lobanovski led the team to score six goals for Hungary in the first game, but in the 1/8 final against Belgium, Swedish referee Friedrichsen shamelessly awarded Belgium two obvious offside goals, and the former Soviet team was out of the tournament.

At Euro 1988, the Soviet Union reached the final of the European Championship and played a classic match with the Netherlands to finish runners-up. At the same time, the Soviet Union also won the gold medal in the football competition at the Seoul Olympics that year.

The 1990 Shijie Cup was the swan song of the Soviet team in international competitions. The glory of Euro 1988 was over, and in the first game of that Shijie Cup, the Soviet Union lost to Romania, and then against Argentina, Maradona repeated his old trick, once again using his "hand of God" to block the Soviets' shot on the goal line, and the morale of the Soviet team finally lost that game, and the group stage was over.

The glory of Soviet football soon fell in the midst of political upheaval, and in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet national team naturally ceased to exist.

After that, the wave of market-oriented reforms swept through all industries, including sports, and the national system of the Jihua economic era completely collapsed, and Russian football began to reform in the market.

But few athletes who have grown up in the country's institutional environment have been able to adapt quickly to this change, and with the country's economic weakness brought about by shock therapy, Russian sports have entered a cold winter, and football has collapsed.

By 1992, Russian football clubs were facing a shortage of food and clothing, and many clubs could not afford air tickets, so many clubs had to travel to and from Europe by bus.

Russian football, like its homeland, has become a "sick man" in the transition period, riddled with serious illnesses - match-fixing, bribery, black whistles, and a sluggish football market.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin was a veteran tennis fan who could dedicate millions of dollars a year from state revenues to the development of tennis in Russia, despite the protests of the Duma parliament, but he was stingy with giving football the same treatment.

It was not until a series of economic reforms after Putin came to power in 2000 that the Russian economy began to recover, coupled with the financial investment of large conglomerates, that Russian football gradually recovered from the cold winter.

In this "cold winter" season, Zhuang Mingge and Karin came to Moscow, the capital of Russia.