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After a successful away defeat to Bari, Fiorentina's next game will be against Inter Milan, led by Roberto Baggio and Novak Djokaeff.

However, before the start of the 20th round of Serie A, there is one big event that has temporarily caught the attention of Fiorentina fans, and that is the draw for the knockout round of the European Champions League in the middle of this week!

UEFA, which is rare to have a sense of existence, will not easily give up this opportunity to attract people's attention and make profits, and they have commercialized the draw ceremony to further enhance the influence of the Champions Cup; At the same time, UEFA also sold the broadcast rights to Murdoch's Sky TV at a high price, making a small windfall.

Zhuang Mingge, who came to participate in the draw ceremony as a representative of Fiorentina, immediately saw many familiar faces after walking into the ceremony venue: Real Madrid owner Lorenzo Sanz, Barcelona President Nunez, Bayern Munich President Beckenbauer...... These bigwigs, who will make European football tremble for a while when they stomp their feet, all appeared at the scene of the draw ceremony.

The reason why these people appear here is similar to Zhuang Mingge, because at this time, the national leagues are about to enter a critical sprint stage, and the head coaches of each team obviously don't have the leisure time to go to such an occasion to talk about it. It is in the manager's interest to lead the team to a good result or even to win one or more trophies.

But for the clubs, UEFA can't help but give face, after all, people also send them a formal invitation, no matter how rashly refute the other party's words, it will inevitably attract unnecessary trouble. Therefore, Beckenbauer, Nunez and other bigwigs will be invited to appear here to support the draw ceremony.

In the round of 16 of the Champions Cup, teams from Italy occupy four of the places, which means that all four Serie A teams participating in this season's European Champions Cup have passed the test of the group stage and entered the knockout stage, which naturally makes all Serie A fans cheer.

"Tony, which team do you think we will face in the quarter-finals this time?" Karin asked softly beside Zhuang Mingge, "Could it be a giant club that accidentally fell to the second place in the group to qualify?" ”

"I think our opponent in the quarter-finals should be a team that is not easy to play against. Karin, if you think about it, Fiorentina have now completed two consecutive Champions League titles, and it can almost be said that they are invincible. So, I think UEFA is probably going to create some problems for us in terms of fixtures and opponents. To be honest, Zhuang Mingge did not have much hope for Fiorentina's signing this time, because he knew that UEFA would definitely not allow Fiorentina to complete several consecutive Champions League titles like Ajax or Bayern Munich did 20 years ago.

If you know who the champions are before the season even starts, the appeal of football to neutral fans will drop dramatically.

Therefore, whether it is for the suspense of the game, the attraction of fans, or the huge benefits brought by the Champions Cup, UEFA will not make Fiorentina's path to the Champions Cup too smooth, and even if it can't stop them from reaching the final, it will have to create enough gimmicks and more strong confrontations in the process.

Zhuang Mingge guessed correctly, after Fiorentina won the Champions Cup last season, there began to be voices within UEFA to put more obstacles in the way for Fiorentina, and the reasons mentioned above are these reasons.

Platini, who was already looking at Florence, was unpleasant, and his younger brother expressed his strong support for this; Surprisingly, the old man Johansson, who has always wanted to praise Fiorentina as a new generation of European football, also expressed his approval of this voice.

In Johansson's opinion, if Fiorentina is to be promoted as the best team in Europe, it is clear that one or two Champions League wins are not enough. After all, giants such as AC Milan and Bayern Munich have experienced this, not to mention Real Madrid, who have six Champions League titles. Therefore, if Johansson wants to make Fiorentina popular, then Fiorentina will have to show a convincing performance in all competitions.

Needless to say, the 76-game unbeaten record that the Purple Lily has just set in Serie A cannot be said to be unbeaten, but it is definitely unprecedented in the five major leagues.

So, if Fiorentina can beat a big team on the way to the Champions League this season and successfully take the last trophy, then even if Johansson blatantly backs Fiorentina will have enough confidence to find a team that can compare with Fiorentina!

Football, although it is said to be a team sport, cannot be without superstars, because the former is the foundation of the game, while the latter is the key element to attract fans...... Many people start by liking a certain star and then gradually fall in love with football.

And what Johansson has to do now is to make Fiorentina a star team in Europe!

Just when Zhuang Mingge and Karin were whispering, the draw ceremony for the knockout stage of the Champions League had been announced under the guidance of the host!

Since Fiorentina qualified as group winners in the group stage of the Champions Cup, the Purple Lily's opponents in the quarter-finals will be selected from the eight teams that finished second in the group; Moreover, according to UEFA's rules for avoiding domestic teams and teams in the same group in the quarter-finals, Fiorentina was able to avoid Real Madrid, who were in the same group as them in the group stage, as well as Parma and Inter Milan, who qualified second in the group.

In other words, Fiorentina's opponents in the quarter-finals will be drawn from five teams: Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund, Deportivo La Coruna, Newcastle United and Ajax.

According to Zhuang Mingge's judgment, Newcastle and Deportivo La Coruna, who are not well-known in European football, are obviously unlikely to be opponents of Fiorentina; Ajax, who have suffered heavy blood loss in recent years and are inextricably linked to Fiorentina, cannot be picked up by UEFA, and it would be a big deal if it was said that the Dutch deliberately released water; Arsenal have been a soft-footed shrimp in European competition since Graham's resignation, and there is nothing to fear.

Therefore, the team that Fiorentina are most likely to meet in this round is their old acquaintance in the Champions League, Borussia Dortmund from the Bundesliga.

As a special guest of the draw ceremony, Welsh legend Ian Rush drew the Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund and Fiorentina together!

This is the third year in a row that Borussia Dortmund and Fiorentina have met in the Champions League, and it means that last season's Champions League final will be a repeat of this season's Champions League quarter-finals!