Chapter 998: Two Years (Medium)

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With this league title in Rome, coupled with the excellent results of previous years when he was coaching at AC Milan and Fiorentina, Capello finally established his position in Italian football and became the first active Italian coach!

Some people may be very unconvinced by this, why is Capello called the first active Italian coach? Obviously, there are Trapattoni and Maldini Sr., two famous coaches who are not inferior to Capello in terms of honor and popularity, why did Capello, who debuted later than both of them, catch up with these two seniors in status?

In fact, the main reason for this situation is that Capello has won too many trophies, not to mention, three Champions League titles alone are enough to make the vast majority of managers embarrassed. Coupled with the record of leading the team to win the league title seven times, Capello can be said to be the manager who has won the most accolades at club level in the past decade, and there is no one!

Compared with Capello, although the old Maldini has two heavyweight trophies in his hands, the World Cup and the European Cup, and is not inferior to Capello in the quality of the championship trophy, but in terms of quantity, he is more than inferior to the opponent. After all, apart from these two heavyweight trophies, Maldini Sr. has a lackluster record of honour in his books, which is worth mentioning for leading the Italian youth team to three consecutive European Youth Championships.

Not to mention Trapattoni, who has been impressive in the seventies and eighties, but since leaving the Juventus head coach in the summer of '94, the former gold medal coach has not won a major trophy for seven years. It can be said that although the current Trapp still has a huge reputation in European football, in terms of coaching level, this veteran coach who has passed the age of the sixtieth century can no longer be compared with Capello, Lippi, Ancelotti and other rising stars.

This is also the main reason why when Mo Lao Fox, who failed to invite Lippi II into the palace at that time, chose Trapattoni, the Italian media was generally not optimistic about Mogi's signing - compared with Capello and others, who are full of energy and courage and have enough tactical knowledge, Trapp seems to be somewhat lacking in vitality, and the team he brought out is also old-fashioned and dull.

The old Maldini is slightly inferior in honors, Trapattoni's coaching performance in recent years has been lackluster, and Ranieri, the representative of the new generation of managers, has been worse every year since he left Fiorentina, so Capello is the first current Italian coach to be deserved.

By the way, after the elder Maldini, who led the team to win the World Cup and the European Championship successively, decided to retire after the European Championship final and returned to Milan to take up the coaching whip of the Rossoneri, the Italian Football Federation unexpectedly chose Dino Zoff, who has the least coaching experience, as the new coach of the Italian national team!

For the selection of the coach of the Football Association, the media and fans in Italy are full of doubts, after all, although Zoff has the reputation of "Steel Goal" in the player era, has won many championships, and has made a lot of achievements in the position of general manager of Lazio, but he is only a complete novice in the position of head coach! Therefore, in the eyes of people, the Football Association's move is undoubtedly a gamble, and the bet is that Zoff can complete a magnificent transformation in the coaching position, and become the next Bealzot, or the old Maldini!

That's a long way off, now let's get down to business. If Fiorentina's performance in the first year after Zhuang Mingge's retirement was quite good, then the following 2001-02 season can be said to be the worst season since Purple Lily's return to Serie A!

This season, the 32-year-old Redondo and the 33-year-old Effenberg have declined significantly, and have been completely replaced by Pirlo and Deco, and have faded out of the main lineup. The old Redondo could no longer carry Fiorentina to win most of the games for a whole season, and under Heynckes' arrangement, they had to convince themselves to concentrate more and more limited energy on a few games to play for Fiorentina.

However, Pirlo and Deco, who have been cultivated as the successors of Redondo and Effenberg, are obviously unable to adapt to the position of absolute main force immediately, and they are accustomed to rotating with the two seniors, and they have to fluctuate a little under the huge pressure brought by the third-line battle, often playing one or two good games and then playing an abnormal game, making Fiorentina, which is still in the top ranks of Europe in terms of overall strength, lose a lot of points in aggrieved.

Looking at the expressions of these two young cores, Heynckes can be said to be happy and worried. The good news is that these two young men do have the potential to take over the mantle of Redondo and Effenberg, and in time they will become great; The concern is that Fiorentina have recorded their worst record since returning to Serie A this season under the new duo, and it would be a bad thing if those in the management lost faith in Andrea Pirlo and didn't have the patience to give them time to continue growing......

If Heynckes knew how to read minds, then he would have found that his worries were actually unnecessary, because the Fiorentina management, led by Antonioni, had not given up on the new duo of Pirlo and Deco at all. Everyone understands in their hearts that the reason why the team's performance on all fronts this season is unsatisfactory is that on the one hand, the form of the old duo Redondo and Effenberg has suddenly declined, and the ability of Fiorentina to control the rhythm of the game has declined a lot, and Pirlo and Deco, who have finally secured the main position, still need room for growth and time to run in with their teammates; On the other hand, the four top goalscorers – Vieri, Inzaghi, Shevchenko and Ronaldo – have all suffered injuries this season, with aliens and nuclear warheads missing as much as half of the games! The shortage of strikers forced Heynckes to play in the current unfavourable single-striker formation for most of the time, which was also a big reason for the decline in the Purple Lily's record.

When these factors come together, it would be hellish if Florence's results were as good as usual, after all, none of them are the protagonists of the novel, with their own anti-heaven system and all kinds of auxiliary bonuses, they can take a team full of injured soldiers and an incomplete lineup to take out a wolf-like strong opponent to win the final championship trophy!