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With Fiorentina having changed little in the past two years and having won a number of heavyweight titles, most people actually know who will receive a ticket to the Netherlands and Belgium at the end of the season. For example, top centre-backs like Stam and Nesta, who can instantly take the backline up a notch, will only be shut out by Rijkaard (then Dutch national team manager) and Maldini Sr. when they are not affected by injuries or other unexpected events.

In addition, Ljungberg and Zivo (note: on loan at Ajax, the player himself is owned by Fiorentina) will not have too many problems with being selected for the Swedish and Romanian national teams respectively. After all, Sweden and Romania have shown some signs of lack of success in the past two years, and it is not easy for potential new stars such as Ljungberg and Zivo to emerge.

If they are not recruited into the squad, then these managers will be the ones who will bear the blame in the end; And recruiting them into the national team, on the contrary, can also allow those veterans who are ready to represent the national team for the last time to bring these young people, and pass on their accumulated game experience to these newcomers, maybe it will receive better results.

In fact, the real danger is that Makelele and Toldo are players with good strength, but because the national team has many players in the same position who are about the same level or have a higher level than them, their position in the national team is not stable. Therefore, if these people want to get the last train to the European Championship, they must do everything in their power to prove to the national team manager that they have something better than other competitors, or that they can provide the national team with help and complement in some way that no one else can provide. Only then will they have any hope of being selected by the manager and thus squeezing out other rivals for the upcoming European Championships.

Toldo may be better, as a member of the French World Cup winning team, plus the two years in Florence that has been a good performance, even if he can't take the position of the main goalkeeper from the strong rise of Buffon, but in the case of Pagliuca and Maciegiani starting to age, the new generation of Abbiati is still young and inexperienced, and Peruzzi, who is in the prime of life, has obvious advantages and disadvantages like him, it is not a problem for the old Maldini to bring him to the European Championship as a substitute goalkeeper.

In contrast, Makelle and Gattusoco, who have grown rapidly in the past two years, are far more unlucky. The former needs to challenge Deschamps, Petit and Vieira in the French team, and Le Maire, who succeeded Jacques as the coach of the French team after the World Cup, is notoriously unfond of newcomers. And Gattuso also needs to climb a series of mountains such as Antonio Conte, Di Biagio, and Ambrosini in the Italian national team to get the opportunity to enter the old Maldini's eyes.

There's no way around it, who made Makelele and Gattuso so unlucky, just in time for France and Italy to be the least bad in the defensive midfield?

As for the famous "Tiger" Effenberg, who served as the first captain of Fiorentina, due to the impact of the middle finger incident in the World Cup in the United States that year, and the fact that he and Vogts and his successor Ribbeck were not on good terms, Effenberg still did not receive a call from the national team this time.

By the way, after the Champions Cup final, when Zhuang Mingge privately mentioned to Effenberg about his return to the national team, the German Tiger was very clear at that time and rejected Zhuang Mingge's proposal very resolutely!

"The current German national team is a nursing home team composed of a group of old fritters who have achieved success and have no fighting spirit, and even if I go back, it will not make any difference." When talking about the German team led by Riebeck, Effenberg's expression was very disdainful, "Now it's just a fire pit that chooses people to eat, whoever jumps and dies, I don't want to touch that mold." ”

"Uh, it shouldn't be so strict, right?" Zhuang Mingge, who doesn't remember much about German football during this time, asked suspiciously, "Didn't you say that the German team has always been united?" So I think the German team is so underestimated by the outside world now, just because of the lack of an organizer in the team, and the aging of the main players. ”

"Boss, how can you believe all that bunch of that the media promotes? No matter what kind of team it is, how strong the cohesion is, it will also be divided into gangs. After listening to Zhuang Mingge's outsider's opinion, Effenberg first pouted helplessly, and then explained, "Even in the peak era when the troika led us to win the World Cup, the relationship between the two leading figures Klinsmann and Mateus was quite poor. If it weren't for Mr. Beckenbauer's pressure from above, the team would have been in chaos a long time ago, and how could there be the glory later? ”

"Uh......" After listening to Effenberg's remarks, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but be silent, he still trusted Tiger, a former German football insider, very much. To be honest, if it weren't for Effenberg's explanation, Zhuang Mingge would have always thought that the German team would be the German tank that is extremely united and has strong willpower. Now it seems that the actual situation is far more complicated than he imagined!

"Besides, in the current German team, it is the old immortal Mateus who really has the right to speak, plus Hasler, Thomas Link, and Jeremes who are on the side, and Riebek is an ornament. So, even if I go back, I won't be able to control the team like I did in Fiorentina, so how can I lead Germany out of the current predicament? As he spoke, Effenberg spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he could not do anything about it.

After listening to Effenberg's explanation, Zhuang Mingge could see that even if Ribbeck gave up his previous suspicions and decided to recruit Effenberg, the tiger who made up his mind not to jump into this fire pit would definitely not buy his account.

Alas, it seems that the German team in this world is destined to be the same as in history, after a complete defeat, it will be determined to tear down and rebuild, eliminate some of the big forces in the team, and usher in a new life.