Chapter 81: The Funeral

After playing the league against Inter Milan and carrying a record of eighteen consecutive league wins, the Fiorentina team rushed to Olchinovi, Prandelli's hometown, where Madame Casphia's funeral would take place.

That morning, Digan led the Florentine team, dressed in a black suit, to a local church, where Digan met Prandelli with a sad face.

Seeing that his disciples had arrived, Prandelli was also very comforted, not for anything else, but for the fact that his hard work over the years had not been wasted, at least in the hearts of the players, he still had a certain weight.

"Rod! I'm glad you're here today! ”

Degan gave Prandelli a comforting hug, looking at the coffin of Madame Cafia parked in front of him, his heart couldn't help but be pantothenic, after joining Florence, he had also met Madame Prandelli, Cafia gave him the impression of a strong, optimistic woman, even if she was sick at the time, but never gave up her enthusiasm for life.

Prandelli and his wife's aiqing, even Degan, a guy who has no interest, is envious, in Italian football, which is full of prodigals and sluts, it is really rare to see a twenty-five year relationship like Prandelli and his wife.

"Coach! You shouldn't hide it from us! ”

Prandelli smiled bitterly and sighed again: "Kafia likes to be quiet, besides, the team is at a critical moment, and I don't want to be distracted by my affairs." ”

Although Fiorentina is not the first team he coached, but for Florence, he is definitely the deepest feeling, three years, this club has been completely branded by him, with Fiorentina step by step towards strength, this team, has also become Prandelli's emotional sustenance.

"I know the result, Rod! You've done a great job and I'm so proud of you! ”

Degan was comforted to see a smile finally on Prandelli's face: "I think a victory will be the best gift to Lady Kafia." ”

Prandley nodded, and suddenly said, "Rod! You've done a really good job, and everyone can see it, and now this team will definitely go very smoothly even without me! ”

Degan was stunned, he didn't expect Prandley to say such a sentence, and he was surprised: "Coach! You ~~~~~~"

Prandley's eyes were filled with deep sadness: "Rod! It was Kafia who encouraged me to return to coaching, but now that she's gone, I don't feel any joy in life, I ~~~~~~~~~"

Prandelli didn't finish, and Deegan didn't know how to be relieved, and the two of them just stood silent, waiting for the funeral to begin.

Digan couldn't help but sigh in his heart at the moment, and the touching Aiqing marked the 50-year-old outstanding coach of the Italian Mesozoic Era with great affection and righteousness, and gave him a different understanding and perception of football. Every time I think of this story about aiqing, life and death, and football, it will make countless female fans sigh, and marrying a real man like Prandley should be married.

Born in the northern Italian city of Brescia, Prandelli began his career at the age of 17 at Cremonese, a third-division club, where he met a man named Manuela. Kafiya's girl, she was 15 years old that year. Love at first sight made the two young people fall in love, and it was Prandelli's skills that grew up with Aiqing, and four years later he won the favor of the "Youth Army" Atalanta team and began his Serie A journey.

He joined the "Bianconeri" in the summer of 1979, and from 1979 to 1985, he won three Serie A titles with the team, and also wrote his name on the Italian Cup, the European Cup Winners' Cup, the European Super Cup and the European Champions Cup. Together, Rossi and legendary superstars such as Tardelli propped up the great Juventus era.

In 1982, at the age of 25, Prandelli married Kafia, who said: "Growing up with her was a more precious experience than my professional football career. ”

Despite his Grand Slam triumph in the league, Prandelli was never called up to the national team. In 1990, at the age of 33, he announced his retirement and immediately took over the coaching whip of the Atlanta youth team, a position he held for seven years. With the exception of a brief stint in the 1993/1994 season as caretaker coach with the first team, he spent the rest of his time working with young players, which gave him a wealth of experience in developing young players.

Prandelli finally took over as Lecce manager in the summer of 1997, but his debut season was a bit bitter for him, winning six games and losing 20 of them before finishing second from bottom.

Thankfully, Lecce's failed resume didn't deter Prandelli, who soon made a comeback a year later with another small-town side, Hellas Verona.

After completing the task of promotion to the first division, Prandelli led the team to a relegation-oriented team to a ninth place in the league in the 1999/2000 season. He then chose to go to Venice to start another business, and in the 2000/2001 season, he led the Venetian team to successfully promote to Serie A, and thus won the reputation of "promotion professional".

With his achievements in Verona and Venezia, Prandelli finally got his first seductive offer in 12 years as a coach to become the coach of Parma, one of the "Seven Sisters" of Serie A.

Although the Nerazzurri had just let go of top stars such as Gianluigi Buffon and Thuram, the arrival of young talents such as Adriano, Mutu and Marchioni played to Prandelli's strengths in mentoring young people.

In just two years, Parma's youth army has shown great fighting ability, and the combination of Ade and Mutu is even more imposing, and the 47-year-old Prandelli is just one step away from becoming a famous manager.

Verona, Venice, Brescia, Parma, four cities in five years, this is part of Prandelli's life as a manager, but it is all that Kafia has as a wife.

She wholeheartedly supports her husband's career, with a pair of children, with the tenderness of a wife and mother, to give the family the greatest spiritual support.

In 2004, Prandelli received the first million-euro contract of his coaching career, taking over the handicap of the giants Roma. But just a month later, before he had led Roma to a single league game, Kafia was diagnosed with breast cancer!

Family or career?

This will always be a problem for a lot of men.

But for Prandley, there is only one answer, and that is a wife.

The first in the life of this Italian man will always be the girl he first met in front of the chocolate hot drink shop.

Prandelli resigned from the team: "It was very difficult to make such a decision, but I am sure that it was the right choice for the first time in my life. ”

At the age of a man's most capable, without hesitation, he chose to turn away from the glorious stage, just for the sake of his beloved wife, and the whole of Italy was moved.

For the next year, Prandelli stayed at his wife's bedside to help her cope with her illness, and it was not until her condition improved that he returned to the church, this time with the same illustrious Fiorentina team.

In the 2005/2006 season, Fiorentina re-entered the top four of the league after many years, but missed the Champions League due to the "phonegate" incident, and then won the fourth place in the league in the 2006/2007 season, and in the 2007/2008 season, there was finally nothing to stop Prandelli's first Champions League journey.

Contrary to the successes on the pitch, Kafia's condition was getting worse, and Prandelli once pushed his wife in a wheelchair to the pitch and gently placed a purple lily in her hand before walking to the coach's box.

But just as a flower withers, Kafya's life has come to an end. At the junihou moment of her life, Fiorentina were on the verge of challenging Inter Milan for a seventeenth consecutive league win, and this time Prandelli once again chose to stay with his wife.

In the match with Inter Milan, the whole Fiorentina team wore a black veil and observed a minute of silence before the game, sending the most sincere respect for this out-and-out love.

Kafia had been gone for three days, and for three days Prandelli lived in memories of his deceased wife, who often sat alone in a study full of photographs of her. Sitting and sitting, my eyes are red. The children try to persuade their father to come out, but Prandley prefers to have sex with his deceased wife in his shijie.

The funeral began, after the mass, everyone came to the cemetery together, perhaps to pay tribute to this great aiqing, the sky was drizzling, Kafia's friend, a well-known local opera singer, in accordance with Kafia's last wishes, at her funeral, recounted her past with Prandelli.

As the opera singer said: Because of Aiqing, we are so sad.

At the age of 18, he met her at the age of 15. At that time, he had just become a professional footballer.

At the age of 25, he married her. By that time, he had become a regular in the Serie A championship team.

After 19 years of marriage, she developed breast cancer. At that time, he was a talented new coach, leading the underdogs to create miracles for two consecutive years.

Another 3 years passed, and in 2004, her condition deteriorated. At the age of 47, he just signed a contract with the giant Roma and got his first million-dollar annual salary.

In order to take care of her, his wealthy career ended in less than two months. A week before the start of the new season, he chose to resign to protect her time in Zuihou.

At the beginning of glory and splendor, at the center of fame and light, a man at the most capable age, without hesitation, turned away for her.

All of Italy was moved.

He just said lightly: What I do is just what any man should do for his family.

After a year away from the hustle and bustle, with her support, he made a comeback.

In 2007, she was gone. He said: Thank God, she is finally free from her suffering.

He said: In 25 years of marriage, we have only fought once. We used a tennis racket, and we had a net across it.

He also said: She is always by my side, and all the money I earn is given to her, so I never carry money in my pocket.

He bid her farewell in his own way, calmly and with dignity.

50 years old, is in the golden age of a man, elegant and handsome, personable, modest and polite, a wealthy coach, with an annual salary of 1.8 million euros. The legendary promotion and fortune and death of his wife, he took it all. If you stand on the stage of Do Not Disturb, you will definitely get a ticket to the Aegean Sea. What's more, this is a pizza country where models are full of people who worship football.

But Prandelli is mourning his and his deceased wife's aiqing in his own way.

After the funeral, the whole Fiorentina team will immediately go to Milan to prepare for tomorrow's Champions League group stage with AC Milan.

"Rod! What are you thinking? "Assistant coach Antonelli sat next to Degan.

Digan hesitated for a moment and whispered, "I have a feeling that Cesare seems to be planning to leave Florence!" ”

Antonelli was startled, suppressed the surprise in his heart, lowered his voice as much as possible, and said: "~~~~~How is this possible, Cesare is not a fragile person, although the death of Madame Kafia has made him deeply shocked, it is impossible for him to make such a decision!" ”

Degan smiled bitterly and said: "Cesare is indeed not a fragile person, but he lives a more delicate life than all of us, and the more people like this, the more they like to get into the horns, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for Cesare to come out." ”

When Antonelli heard this, he had to admit that Digan had a point, and he felt a headache, although the club had appointed him as the acting head coach of the team, but he found that he was simply not capable of taking charge of this youth team, and Prandelli had left too deep a mark on this team.

Antonelli thought and turned to look at Degan: "Rod! At this point you have to step up, once Cesare has made a decision, you have to be the new leader of the team, Fiorentina are in very good shape at the moment and we can't afford to fall short! ”

Degan smiled bitterly when he heard this, he didn't think about it, but he found it really difficult, even if he was a person who never admits defeat, but he must admit that he is in charge of a team, he does not have this ability, and without Prandelli's spring breeze and rain, it is just his high-pressure policy, there is no way to maintain the stability of the locker room and the team's combat effectiveness.

"Nope! It's not me who this team needs most, it's Cesare, only he can lead us to glory, I'm just a participant in it, I can't be the decision-maker! ”

Speaking of which, Deegan was also frustrated, but this is something that can't be helped, he is only the leader of the team, not the commander of the team.