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On July 25, Fiorentina left Italy for Tokyo to play the first match of the East Asia Tour against Japan.

On the plane, the Fiorentina players were still reminiscing about last night's game with enthusiasm.

Fiorentina had just played a farewell match for their old captain Di Livio last night, and although Fiorentina invited only the opponents from the C team, the fans were so enthusiastic that the entire stand was occupied by the fans.

In the game, Di Livio scored one goal and Chen Yu scored two, and Fiorentina swept the C team with a U:l.

However, the players' memories of yesterday's game are not of course the big score, but after the game, all the more than 40,000 fans stood up to pay tribute to Di Livio, and shouted for a long time the loyal star who was relegated to C with Fiorentina and accompanied Fiorentina to complete the triple jump and enter Serie A.

"If I can have such treatment after retiring, my life will not be in vain."

The L-year-old Pacini said with envy.

Chen Yu sat next to Pazzini, he took off the headphones and said, "As long as you work hard, the fans and the club will see it." ”

Di Livio laughed and said: "You have to play for a club with a human touch, if you meet Real Madrid, I don't think you have a chance." “

Montolivo, who debuted with Pacini and played for the same team, smiled: "If you can get into a club like Real Madrid, the average player will die happy." ”

Chen Yuha said with a smile: "Don't think about relying on the giants to hold up your worth, and make the club great because of you, such as Maradona to Napoli." “

Pacini shrugged and said: "I don't dare, that's the king of the ball, there are only two in the entire football world, Pele and Maradona." ”

Fiorentina's assistant coach Gabriel Ping saw the lively conversation and said with a smile: "The head coach of the Japanese team is known as White Pele." ”

Ma Qiao patted Chen Yu on the shoulder, "We have Chen, call him White Bailey and Black Bailey." Knock them all over. “

Everyone laughed.

Montolivo said: "The captain is a top star in Europe, and he didn't blow up the airport when he came to Asia, and I heard that the captain almost didn't go back in China last time, and it was the army who came out to protect him. “

Pacini said: "That's for sure, Asia is the captain's hometown." “

Chen Yu smiled bitterly when he heard it, and said in his heart that Asia is my hometown, but Asia is not China, and there are many contradictions between China and Japan and South Korea, especially Japan, which is a feud, if there is no Nakata Hidetoshi, I am afraid Japan will not think of letting Florence come to Japan to play.

The Fiorentina players had many hopes that with the good results they played in Serie A last season and Chen Yu's fame in Asia, they would be sought after and loved by fans in Japan, but after arriving at Narita Airport, they found that the gap between reality and ideal is very huge.

The number of people who picked up the airport was only four or five hundred, most of whom were wearing Chen Yu's jerseys, and all of them were in standard Mandarin after speaking, so it was obvious that most of these were Chinese fans, while Fiorentina's players were rarely interested.

Seeing Chen Yu surrounded by Chinese fans and journalists, Montolivo smiled wryly and said: "Could it be that we have come to the United States, where people don't like football." “

Florence's manager Lu Casei's face couldn't hold back, and he shook his head and said, "I don't know what's going on."

Everyone was walking out in embarrassment, and the bus sent by Toyota, the sponsor of the game, which is also the sponsor of the Fiorentina jersey, arrived, and the person in charge, Tanaka, took the Fiorentina players on the bus with a polite face.

Lu Kaixi said to Tanaka unhappily: "It seems that your country is not very welcoming to us." ”

Tanaka touched the sweat on his head and smiled bitterly, he didn't expect such a situation, if he had expected it in advance, he would definitely have asked the company to organize a group of fans to come over to fill the scene.

However, seeing this scene, he could only explain: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, maybe because Mr. Hidetoshi Nakata didn't come, the mood of Japanese fans has been affected, and Real Madrid has just come before, and then Manchester United and Barcelona will also come, so ......"

Tanaka's words were not finished, but his meaning was obvious, there are no Japanese players in the Fiorentina team, and the fame is not as big as Real Madrid Manchester United, except for Chen Yu, there are no well-known stars, and it is normal for Japanese fans not to buy it.

It's good that Tanaka doesn't explain, but the Fiorentina players still think that Japan doesn't welcome such a commercial game, and Tanaka explained it like this, and the Fiorentina players are angry.

"You have to feed them wildly when you play." Montolivo said viciously in Italian.

"It's so fucking despiseful." Rigano was also furious.

Chen Yu's face was also a little unbearable, although Japan and China are enemies, but from the scope of the world, Japan and China are both Asian countries, and Europeans regard them as East Asia, and Chen Yu is also very unhappy when they are treated coldly in Japan.

"That's it, beat them hard, let them remember us."

Chen Yu also gave orders to his teammates in Italian.

After arriving at the Kyoto Grand Hotel, Japan's head coach Zico attended the pre-match press conference with Fiorentina coach Prandelli and manager Lu Casey.

At the press conference, Zico admitted that it is difficult for the Japanese team to gather all the main players, even if it is impossible to come up with a Confederations Cup squad, because Asia is in the league period, and the players of the national team are the main players in their respective clubs, and it is very difficult for them to participate in a commercial match regardless of competing for the league title, even Real Madrid and Manchester United are afraid that they do not have such appeal.

However, Zico said that overseas players basically have the opportunity to participate in this match against Fiorentina, such as Shunsuke Nakamura, Hidetoshi Nakata, and Junichi Inamoto are all confirmed to participate.

Zico's words were obviously telling the truth, but they were also a big irritation for Florence. Fiorentina's head coach Prandelli was also a little unable to suppress his anger, he said: "Japan is undoubtedly the strongest team in Asia, even compared to the second-rate teams in Europe, they are not at a disadvantage, we will not treat this game as a child's play, even if it is a commercial game, there is a difference between amateur and professional in operation and participation." Fiorentina are not so amateurish, and we will please the Japanese fans and the Far East fans. ”

Even if Fiorentina received a cold reception in Tokyo, Chen Yu is still the darling and focus of the media, in the face of a Japanese reporter's question whether Chen Yu will start, Prandelli said: "Chen Yu will definitely start, he is the protagonist of this Asian tour, without Chen Yu, our tour is likely to choose the United States, but Chen Yu will do his best, but also depends on the opponent, it is certain that he will not work as hard as the Italian Cup final." ”

Fiorentina manager Lukesi said: "We will definitely face the Japanese fans in better shape, the team is recovering and we are better than the ones who just trained! It's a lot better to play. Fiorentina is a very professional club and we will not do anything for short-term commercial purposes that would damage the football market in the Far East and the public image of the club. Of course, we want to achieve the desired commercial benefits, but we have to focus on the interests of the fans and sponsors, which is the principle we have adhered to before coming to the Far East. ”

The fans were not enthusiastic enough, and the reaction of the Japanese media was also very cold, such as "Yomiuri Shimbun", "Asamuntian" and other media were more worried about whether Fiorentina would not be able to work, deal with it, and then take the money and leave. Japanese TV focused on Fiorentina midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata, who has been loaned to Bolton, hoping that Nakata can play well in this game and take revenge on his old club.

Hidetoshi Nakata was deeply dissatisfied with Fiorentina, but he also knew that the current Japanese second team was difficult to compete with Fiorentina, so he didn't say much before the game, just said that he would do his best and would not let Fiorentina win easily at the Tokyo National Stadium.

The game was played at half past seven.

Only about half of the fans came to the Tokyo National Stadium, and the more than 30,000 fans at Frankie Stadium must have been spectacular, but the 60,000-strong Tokyo National Stadium was sparsely populated.

When the Fiorentina players entered the stadium, the applause of the Japanese fans in the stands was also sparse, and only the Chinese fans and some Japanese fans gave Chen Yu their applause.

When the Japanese team came out, the scene erupted in loud shouts and applause.

Lu Casey was a little speechless and said to his technical director Corvino: "I heard that Japanese fans are more enthusiastic about chasing stars than Chinese fans, and they don't have much loyalty to their club, so how do I feel that is not the case now." ”

Corvino said: "That's our lack of star taste, change Ronaldo, Beckham, Zidane to try, we only have Chen here may be a star, the others are almost unknown to Asian fans, not to mention that Hidetoshi Nakata was also loaned by us." ”

Lu Casey sighed: "It seems that our boss's hope of opening up the Japanese market may be disappointed." ”

Corvino said: "It's hard to say, I think we should focus on China, Chen Yu's appeal in China is undoubtedly huge. ”

Lu Kaixi said: "We only have to look at the performance of the next stop in Beijing, China. ”

“…… Goalkeepers: Shusaku Nishikawa, defenders: Atsuto Uchida, Yuji Nakazawa, Maya Yoshida, Daisuke Muramatsu

Midfielders: Shunsuke Nakamura, Hidetoshi Nakata, Shinji Kagawa, Takami Usami

Forwards: Keiji Tamada, Yoshito Okubo...... In addition to the midfield, the Japanese team is basically a second-tier lineup, while Fiorentina has the main lineup: goalkeeper Frei, four defenders: Uj Farousi, Dainelli, Mahashi, Pancarlo, three midfielders, Fiore, Montolivo, Brocki, three forwards: Chen Yu, Pazzini, Di Natale ......"

While the on-site commentators were reporting on the starting line-ups of the Japanese team and Fiorentina, Chen Yu and Hidetoshi Nakata also completed the exchange of team flags and emblems and side picking, and the two sides returned to their respective positions and stood ready for the game.