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After the dust settles on the Italian Super Cup, the new Serie A season does not start immediately, because before that, the national team managers of European countries are preparing for the upcoming European Championship qualifiers.

As a result of leading the Italian national team to win a World Cup title, the elder Maldini, as a meritorious manager, did not be dismissed after the World Cup, as is the case in history, but signed a new contract with the Italian Football Federation. If nothing else, the Italian football legend and godfather of the Italian youth army will be in charge of the Apennines until the end of the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan!

Italy were placed in the same group as Denmark, Switzerland, Wales and Belarus at the European Championship qualifying ceremony.

Opinions on the results of this grouping are mixed in Italy.

Fans are obviously not very satisfied with this group, after all, if you look at the fame and past records of these teams in the same group as Italy, it will still be difficult for Italy to break through from this group to the European Championship finals.

Not to mention anything else, the Danish team, the winner of Euro 92 alone, is enough to cause a lot of trouble for Italy in the eyes of fans. Coupled with Wales with famous players such as Ryan Giggs and Speed and Switzerland led by Chapuissat, in the eyes of many people, Italy's group can be said to be full of mines, and if you are not careful, it is very likely that the gutter will capsize.

However, compared to the worried fans, the elder Maldini was happy in his heart, because he knew very well what a good signing Italy had drawn this time.

Nowadays, most of the creators of Danish fairy tales are dying, especially after the World Cup in France, the Laudrup brothers announced their retirement from the national team, which made the strength of the Danish team suddenly slip from the quasi-first-class in Europe to the second-rate in Europe, and it will never be the same again.

The problems faced by the two teams Wales and Switzerland at this time are similar to the situation of Denmark, although the former has first-class stars such as Ryan Giggs and Speed, but after the aging of star goalscorers such as Rush and Saunders, a shortage of strikers is inevitable; Chapu Isat is a rather outstanding striker, but the Swiss team's weak midfield has held him back, and there is no cause for concern.

So, compared to Group 8 where Yugoslavia, Croatia and Ireland are all in a group, and Group 4 where France, Ukraine and Russia are all in a group, Italy is in a really good group. At least the other teams in the first group are unlikely to pose much of a threat to Maldini's side, and at best they can only cause a little trouble.

As a result, Maldini Sr., who knows a lot about the rest of the group's opponents, is optimistic about Italy's qualification, believing that as long as the players can play every game seriously, then reaching the European Championship finals is a matter of hand.

Due to the retirement of the veteran Bergomi from the national team after the World Cup in France, and the main central defender of the national team Ferrara has not recovered from a serious injury, and the main players of the national team such as Baggio and Maldini have passed the age of standing, so the old Maldini has recruited some new faces from various Italian clubs in the new national team squad, ready to start updating the national team.

For example, Montella, a small plane that played for Sampdoria, Di Natale, who played well at Ajax last season, and Koko, a rising star in the defense who played in Vicenza, and Ambrosini, a young midfielder, etc., have all been recruited by the elder Maldini into the national team for close observation.

And the selection of these newcomers will naturally squeeze out the seats of players who originally occupied a place in the national team.

The first to bear the brunt was Pierrot, who filled a whole bottle of soy sauce at the World Cup. With Vieri and Inzaghi on the forward line, and veterans and new stars such as Robert Baggio, Totti, and Pirlo in the midfield, the position of the Bianconeri is extremely embarrassing for the Bianconeri Prince, and he does not get many opportunities to show his face.

In this regard, Mo Lao Fox expressed dissatisfaction with the employment of the old Maldini at the beginning, and believed that the Italian national team with Pierrot as the core of the new generation should be established......

There is no way for the old Maldini of this world to look down on Pierrot, who let those honors that should have belonged to the Zebra Prince now belong to Florence under the disturbance of Zhuang Mingge, a traverser?

Without the aura of these champions, Pierrot is naturally inferior to the increasingly sophisticated and calm Baggio in the eyes of the old horse, as well as the equally young and talented Totti and Pirlo.

As a result, the unlucky Pierrot was kicked out of the national team squad by Maldini Sr.

In addition, Ravanelli and Di Livio, two players who had previously been selected in Italy's squad for the World Cup in France, have become difficult brothers with Pierrot, mainly because they are both in their thirties and their place in the national team is not indispensable, so once the old Maldini starts to renew his steps, fringe internationals like them will definitely be the first to be eliminated.

On the Fiorentina side, although Di Biagio, Tomasi and other players have switched to other teams, Fiorentina still occupies a lot of places in the national team: Toldo, Nesta, Materazzi, Zambrotta, Pirlo, Inzaghi and Vieri and other seven old Maldini players have all been selected, plus the teenager Di Natale, these eight players declare Fiorentina's unshakable dominance in the national team.

In this way, the Italian national team, which has undergone some personnel adjustments, finally ushered in the first official match since the end of the World Cup in France.

On September 2, Italy, who visited the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, under the control of three midfielders, Baggio, Albertini and Pirlo, firmly controlled the trend of the whole game, completely shattering the Welshman's dream of winning points at home!

In this game, the elder Maldini fielded a starting lineup that many Italian fans were quite unfamiliar with: goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, defenders Pesoto, Nesta, Cannavaro and Panucci, midfielders Andrea Pirlo, Albertini, Dino Baggio and Roberto Baggio, and forwards Montella and Chiesa.

Although the main strikers such as Vieri and Inzaghi did not appear, the forward line of Montella and Chiesa is not something that the Wales backline can handle, not to mention that they have a midfielder with such a strong assist ability and an extremely strong backline behind them.

In the end, thanks to goals from Montella and Chiesa, Italy beat Wales 2-0 away and won their first European Championship qualifier!