Chapter 1375: Encounter Rivals Again
PS1: This is Monday's update.,It's a little late.,I hope you don't care too much about the update time.,I promise not to break the update......
PS2: Let's talk about the book friend group here, the group number is three, seven, zero, five, four, nine, nine, one, nine, nine, verifies that the answer is NTR knight, well, that's it.
PS3: Here, I would like to thank the book friends "Shura Xu Zhengyang", "Tian Yuan Han Qi", "Xiao Li Feihua" and "Dawang Yuyu Yuyu" for their rewards.
PS4: When France gave Ireland a penalty in the first minute, I thought the hosts were going to kneel this time, but I didn't expect it to be reversed in the end......
PS5: What is the dirty defense of Spain, the defense is all bright spikes, referee, did you not bring red and yellow cards? Fortunately, in the end, Italy won......
Despite the lack of stamina in the sprint last season and the competitiveness of opponents such as Juventus and Lazio, the Fiorentina players are confident of winning both the Champions League and the league this season. In particular, Nesta, Pirlo and Zambrotta, who experienced the first peak of Florence in the mid-to-late nineties, did not take this difficulty seriously.
In the eyes of these players, only the championship trophy won by a strong opponent is more valuable, and it is more worthy of the title of Fiorentina's top European giants and Serie A hegemon. If, like Bayern Munich, they maintain their dominance in the domestic arena by forcibly poaching the pillars of their rivals, so as to win the league title by an overwhelming margin every year, it is the last thing they want to see.
Only when the strength of the rivals is strong enough can it bring out the difficulty and better level of Fiorentina's victory. Not many top stars like to play in a league where they can only abuse vegetables every day and don't even have a single opponent to play. Because they have played in such a league for a long time, they often bring these stars themselves to relax and unconsciously relax their requirements, so when they encounter some teams with equal or slightly inferior strength, but more experience in playing against strong opponents, they often end up not very well.
The most typical example is Bayern Munich in the 02-03 season. At that time, Bayern, who was invincible in the Bundesliga, came to the Champions Cup, and the Bundesliga hegemon, who was accustomed to abusing vegetables at home, was difficult to find in the Champions League group stage, and finally ended up with a humiliating ending of returning home after the group stage.
Although a considerable part of this is due to the aging and decline of the main players in the Bayern team, it cannot be admitted that the days without opponents in the Bundesliga have indeed made the Bayern players relax their vigilance, making them unable to win smoothly in the face of a team like Deportivo La Coruna, which is a little worse than them but has a somewhat nervous nature, and was also knocked to the ground by this La Liga powerhouse in the home and away two-legged encounters, losing the face of the Bundesliga team.
However, while the strength of the rivals could make Fiorentina's title worthy of gold, the pressure on Fiorentina will also increase as they bolster their squads. This is obviously a rather serious test for the young players in the Fiorentina team who lack relevant experience.
Compared with Nesta and Pirlo, who have experienced all kinds of big scenes, young players such as Ribery and Luka Modric still have a little less knowledge and experience in this area. Should Fiorentina reach a stalemate or disadvantage in the title race, it is unclear how much of these players will be able to exert their energy under pressure.
At this time, the value of these veteran players in the Fiorentina team can be well reflected. The calm and calm attitude shown by Nesta and Andrea Pirlo in training and daily interaction has done a good job of calming the emotions of Fiorentina's players who lack experience in this area, allowing them to focus on playing on the pitch rather than always paying attention to the movements of their rivals.
In this way, with the leadership of these veteran players, the whole Fiorentina team started the pre-season training camp with high morale, and many people are eager to start the season now, so that those ambitious opponents can see how good they are!
However, before they can realise these ambitions, the Fiorentina players will need to go through a pre-season training programme crafted by a combination of the coaching staff and the physiotherapy centre. Only players who have completed all the items on the programme will be eligible to play for Fiorentina at the start of the new season, as for those who do not meet the criteria...... Well, Mourinho has another training plan for these people.
According to information leaked from within the Fiorentina coaching staff, once a player falls into this pit, then this training plan will definitely leave an unforgettable impression on him......
As a result, from the regrouping of the team to the first warm-up game of the new season, in the half month before the arrival of the first warm-up game of the new season, all the players of the Fiorentina first team can be said to be living a miserable life. At the end of every training session, they feel as if their bodies have been completely hollowed out, not to mention a lap in the nightclub, or simply go for entertainment and relaxation without extra energy.
Although the players verbally complained about the training plan arranged by the coaching staff, and looked like they could not bear Mourinho's cruel (harmonious) government, in private, they still recognized this pre-season training camp. After all, it was only by maintaining such a high intensity of training that they would be able to take a summer off and be physically active enough to cope with Fiorentina's need to fight on three fronts in the new season.
While Fiorentina was methodically conducting pre-season training and a series of warm-up matches to prepare for the new season, the time had already come to August 5, 2005, three days before the start of the 2005-06 Italian Super Cup final!
"Oh, Angelo (Di Livio), it seems that we are really lucky, we met such a strong opponent in the first official match after the summer training camp." After arriving in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, where the Italian Super Cup will be held, Mourinho said to Di Livio next to him, "It's just right that we can take this opportunity to observe the results of the team's pre-season training camp." ”
"Heh, hehe......" Di Livio laughed twice at Mourinho's remarks and did not make any comment. In his opinion, Mourinho's view is really a bit difficult to accept - at the beginning of the season, Juventus is a strong opponent, and if you lose, it can easily have a negative impact on the team.
It turned out that Fiorentina's opponent in the final of this Italian Super Cup was their sworn rival, the Bianconeri Juventus!