Chapter 643: Before the World Cup (2)

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While the entire Fiorentina club is busy with summer transfers, all the national team managers who are about to lead the team to the World Cup in France are not idle, and have used this last period before the start of the World Cup to make final changes to the 22-man squad for the competition.

Although Fiorentina has been in the limelight in Europe this season, the Purple Lily has not shown an overwhelming advantage in the number of internationals, and many Fiorentina players have been selected for the World Cup squad for various reasons!

The most unfortunate was Di Biagio, who was tackled by Didier Deschamps in the Champions League final, and was diagnosed with a sprained ankle by the Florence physiotherapy center during the post-match diagnosis, requiring a full month of recuperation!

For the Italian national team coach Maldini Sr., although the veteran coach admires Di Biagio's defensive stalwart, he does not want to go to the World Cup with a player who will not be able to play in the group stage at all. If the subject is replaced by Vieri, he can still think about it, but a midfielder like Di Biagio, the elder Maldini obviously won't think too much, because there are many, many players who can replace him......

Seeing that the chances of appearing on the World Cup stage this time were very slim, Di Biagio also moved his mind to transfer, and after recovering from injury, he and Tomasi transferred to Roma for a package price of 25 million US dollars, bidding farewell to Fiorentina after five years.

Effenberg and Redondo were also not included in the World Cup squad, but their situation is different from that of Di Biagio, who was not selected more because of irreconcilable conflicts with the national team manager.

Although the Tiger was permanently expelled from the German national team in anger by the German Football Association because of the middle finger incident four years ago, the tiger's increasingly mature table and the current situation of German football in recent years made the German Football Association begin to regret the impulse of the year, and secretly extended an olive branch to Effenberg before the end of the season, suggesting that he can apply for a return at any time, and the Football Association is willing to give him the green light to return.

The tiger, who was promised by the German Football Association, naturally did not want to miss this football event, and immediately prepared a large number of materials and handed them over to the Football Association together with the application, and the Football Association, which had a tacit understanding, was also very reasonable with a stroke of the pen, and immediately revoked the expulsion decision of Effenberg!

Just when most people thought that they would be able to see Effenberg, who led the team in club competitions, at the World Cup, German national team coach Vogtz was quite puzzled to keep Effenberg out of the national team. Winning the Delaunay Cup in England two years ago in the summer gave the manager the illusion that Germany doesn't need a brilliant but temperamental super-prick like Effenberg right now!

However, Vogts overlooked a very important point, that is, although the German tank was a little old in terms of personnel composition, it was not broken - Klinsmann was still the golden bomber, Andrés Müller and Summerr were at the peak of their careers, Koller and Reuter and other national team backbones were old and strong, and a little bit of good luck all combined to make Germany win the third European Cup!

And now? Klinsmann has announced that he will retire after the end of this World Cup, Summer, one of the heroes of the European Championship, is seriously injured and absent, there is a grapevine that the best German libero after Mateus will also retire from football after this season, Koller and Reut and other veterans that Vogts relies on the most have shown signs of decline this season, and the only players under the age of 30 in the squad are Kahn (29 years old), Lehmann (29 years old), There are a handful of people such as Babbel (26) and Zieg (26), and most of them are still only substitutes - the current German team can no longer be described as old, and the dilapidation is the most visible sign of the current German national team.

For Vogts's stern refusal, the face-damaged Effenberg was naturally furious, and publicly declared that as long as Vogts was still coaching the national team for one day, he would never play for the national team!

In this way, the stubborn Vogts abandoned the only world-class superstar in his possession and drove the aging German chariot to France.

Redondo, the other absolute mainstay of the Fiorentina team, suffered the same fate as Effenberg, but the arrogant Argentine prince did not give Passarela a chance to get rid of him. Before the World Cup arrived, he announced early that due to Passarella's "long hair ban", he would not represent the Argentine national team in this World Cup!

Of course, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Redondo's rejection of the national team is not just because of a ban on long hair. To put it bluntly, the strict disagreement between Passarella and Redondo in terms of tactical concepts, as well as the former's arbitrariness, are the main reasons why the Argentine superstar gave up participating in the World Cup!

Although the two superstars Effenberg and Redondo missed the World Cup have made fans around the world sigh, it is good news for Fiorentina, at least Fiorentina can not worry about the World Cup syndrome at the heart of their own organization in the new season.

In addition to Redondo, Julio Cruz, who has made many appearances as a substitute for Fiorentina this season, has also been kicked out of the World Cup squad by Passarella, and with first-class strikers such as Barty, Balbo and Crespo, Passarella obviously does not like this centre-forward who can only play as a substitute for Fiorentina.

The Italian national team is also full of bad news, after Di Biagio missed the World Cup in France due to injury, Ferrara was also kicked by the opposing striker in a warm-up match before the World Cup and was forced to leave the field. After the game, the hospital diagnosed that Ferrara had two fractures in his left leg, and if he wanted to recover enough to play, he had to recuperate for more than half a year!

Zhuang Mingge, who learned the news of Ferrara's serious injury, sighed gloomily in his heart, saying that although his crossing changed the time of the other party's injury in a certain way, it still failed to change the ending of Ferrara's broken leg.

As a result, after Di Biagio, Ferrara also missed the World Cup in France due to injury. This result made him extremely frustrating at the age of 31, after all, he was 35 years old at the World Cup in South Korea and Japan four years later, and it was unknown whether the national team coach would be able to take a fancy to him at that time, so Ferrara has always attached great importance to this World Cup, hoping to get a World Cup championship medal before he quits the national team.

And this untimely injury almost means that Ferrara will bid farewell to the World Cup stage forever! It's no wonder the Florentine guard was so frustrated.