Chapter 461: Decisive Battle of Munich (1)

After the match against Reggiana, Capello gave his players a day off to relax their nerves a little bit before the final began.

However, Capello is clearly a bit overly concerned this time around, with the vast majority of Fiorentina's current first-team squad having experienced last season's Champions League final against Ajax, and in such a situation, the players naturally know how to adjust their form before the game.

After a day's vacation, the Fiorentina team first conducted a two-day closed training camp in the training base, and then took a special plane to Munich, the site of the Champions League final, a city in southern Germany.

In order to confuse Dortmund and make the opposing coach Heathfield unable to guess the starting line-up on his side, Capello brought all the first-team members of Fiorentina to Munich this time.

Capello's move stunned Heathfield at once, and the German coach scolded the Italians in his heart that none of them were good, and each one was more cunning than the other.

After all, everyone knows that Fiorentina's bench depth is the best in Europe, of course, this is not to say that Fiorentina has a terrifying number of first-team players, but that the Purple Lily has many more strong players on the bench than other teams.

Not to mention anything else, just look at the forward configuration of the purple lily, and the people who can serve as the main strikers of a giant team in their first team are Ronaldo, Batistuta, Philippe Inzaghi, and Vieri!

That's crazy, isn't it? Heathfield felt a lot of headaches for this, after all, these players have the ability to decide the game, and Jishu characteristics are different, so it is difficult for Heathfield to make targeted tactical arrangements for Fiorentina without getting the starting line-up for Fiorentina.

Heathfield is struggling to speculate on Fiorentina's starting line-up in the final, while on the other side, Capello, who has already read countless footage of Dortmund's games, genuinely says he is under no pressure and can now guess what the opponent's starting line-up will look like with his eyes closed. Because although Dortmund is a strong team that can wrestle with Bayern in the Bundesliga, there are still obvious deficiencies in bench depth. Otherwise, Heathfield would not have lost the Bundesliga title with the team's focus on the Champions Cup.

Since this time the Champions Cup final was held in Germany, and there was a club from Germany such as Borussia Dortmund among the teams that entered the final, Dortmund, which has home advantage in many aspects, naturally took more care. For example, during the sale of football tickets, it is easier for Dortmund fans to buy tickets; In terms of the team's training time, Dortmund, who is also from Germany, is more preferential.

Fiorentina have been prepared for this, because this time last year, their opponent Ajax was also treated like this in Rome, and now it is just a reversal of roles, no big deal......

What's more, Fiorentina's players have already played a game against the home team Bayern Munich in the group stage of this season's Champions League, so they are not unfamiliar with this stadium.

Time passed like this, and soon it was the day of the finals.

Although the Munich people were very sorry that Bayern did not make it to the Champions League final on their doorstep, this did not dampen the enthusiasm of the fans for the final, and on this day, on both sides of the street leading to the Olympic Stadium, the citizens of Munich, coordinated by the tournament organizers, hung the flags of Fiorentina and Borussia Dortmund, setting off the excitement of the Champions League final.

Sitting in the car leading to the stadium, Zhuang Mingge found that the number of Dortmund flags on both sides of the street far exceeded that of Florence.

'I kind of understand the mood of Ajax at this time last year in Rome, it was a really uncomfortable atmosphere. However, Zhuang Mingge's emotion was exchanged for a snickering of Karin, Rebecca and others.

On the evening of the 28th, the Olympic Stadium in Munich, which can accommodate nearly 70,000 fans, was full.

Of course, most of the fans held up objects or jerseys with the Dortmund logo on them, and dyed the stands on three sides in a yellow and black color that is characteristic of Dortmund; Although nearly 20,000 Fiorentina fans could only gather in one stand due to their numerical disadvantage, they did their best to dye the entire stand purple!

"Chairman Johansson, Chairman Beckenbauer, it's a pleasure to see you here." As the official representative of the Fiorentina club, Zhuang Mingge and his entourage naturally entered the stadium from the VIP passage, but as soon as they entered the door, they saw several acquaintances of their own, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet them.

"Hey, Kid Antonio! What are you doing so politely! There's no paparazzi ambush here...... Fiorentina have been really good this year! I'm dying of envy...... Oh, and congratulations to your team for their longest unbeaten streak in the top five leagues. Due to the cooperation between GM and the German Football Association, coupled with the personal relationship with Zhuang Mingge, Beckenbauer did not put any football emperor in front of Zhuang Mingge, and greeted Zhuang Mingge very casually.

"Haha, Franz, it's good to be jealous of my Florentine results, and say that I am polite......" Zhuang Mingge said with a wicked smile.

"You kid, I originally thought you were quite serious, why have you become wilted and wilted now?" Beckenbauer said helplessly, originally he thought that the other party was a very honest person, but after contact, he found out that this kid was a guy full of ghost ideas, although many of his ideas were very constructive......

"Chairman Corleone, I'm looking forward to seeing a good final here today." Compared with Beckenbauer's enthusiasm, Johansson was much more polite, "I am quite optimistic about Fiorentina, I hope your team can get a satisfactory result at the end of the game." ”

"Chairman Johansson, Xiexie, your appreciation." In the presence of outsiders, Zhuang Mingge naturally couldn't show that he was very familiar with Johansson, so he replied politely, "I also very much hope that the players can win this game and bring back a second Champions League trophy for the club." ”

"Hey, Antonio, are you underestimating our German team?"

"Haha, how could it be......"

It wasn't until they walked to the VIP box that Zhuang Mingge and the others went in different directions separately and went to their respective Haode boxes. Johansson has an exclusive box as UEFA president, and Beckenbauer, who has been in contact with Zhuang Mingge for a long time, shares a box with Zhuang Mingge...... As for the president of Dortmund, who cares about him?

Although nominally the leader of German football, Beckenbauer, who comes from a Bayern background, has no interest in seeing the Dortmund man in the box.