Chapter 935: The Dutch Call (Part I)
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"It's over! Congratulations Florence! They defeated Valencia, the biggest dark horse of the Champions League this season, 3-0 in the Champions Cup final, and regained their footing at the top of all European clubs! This is the fourth time that Purple Lily has won the Champions Cup in the past five years! With such brilliant results, I am afraid that only when the Champions Cup was first established in the fifties of the last century, Real Madrid, which completed five consecutive Champions League championships, can be compared with it! In the live broadcast room of Sky TV, the commentator was shouting excitedly, "However, considering the fierce pace and the huge difference between the technical and tactical level of football and modern football in football more than 40 years ago, I think Fiorentina, who have won four championships in five years, is stronger!" ”
"In Fiorentina's road to winning the title this season, the Purple Lily has eliminated Barcelona, Real Madrid and Valencia, three teams from La Liga, which can really be said to be a well-deserved La Liga nemesis!" At the same time, England legend Lineker, who was present as a guest commentator, said with a smile, "Haha, I wonder if the Spanish Football Federation will rank Fiorentina as the least popular team in Spain this year?" ”
"Haha......" Lineker's joke suddenly caused laughter from many people in the live broadcast room, and it is no wonder that the three La Liga teams were successively killed by Fiorentina, becoming a stepping stone on the road to the Purple Lily championship, and the Spanish Football Association would not be able to do it without Fiorentina's villain.
After all, if Fiorentina had not come out to stir up the situation and complete this script according to the original historical trend, then there would be three La Liga teams in the Champions League semi-finals this season, and the Champions Cup final would have become a civil war between La Liga teams! And now, under the obstruction of Florence, this qiē has become a mirror.
Although no one in the Spanish Football Federation knows about these things, that doesn't stop some from fantasizing what it would be like if Fiorentina missed Barcelona. As a result, in the end, the top four places will be occupied by La Liga, and then the Champions Cup will be very likely to be spent in Spain or something, all of which will be given to YY by these people.
With the Spaniard's frustration out of the way for now, let's turn our attention back to the Stade de France. At this moment, the Fiorentina players, who have received the gold medal from UEFA President Beckenbauer, are passing each other on the podium, the championship trophy, which symbolizes the highest honor of European clubs!
According to the old rules, the first to win the trophy is naturally the team's captain Effenberg, then the head coach Heynckes, the vice-captain Redondo and Ferrara, then the main players and the main rotation, and finally the last substitutes who usually don't get many opportunities.
With tears streaming down her face, Nicolas Berti took the Big Ear Cup from Zanetti's hand and kissed it fiercely. For the veteran whose career is running out, it is already a wonderful thing to be able to win a Champions Cup before retiring to make up for his regrets!
"It seems that the decision to return to Florence for retirement was the right one." Berti hugged the trophy and thought with joy, "I was just going to retire with the intention of earning a pension, but I didn't expect to win a Champions Cup and Coppa Italia, which is really profitable." ”
In this way, with Fiorentina beating Valencia by three goals in the Champions Cup final and winning the Big Ears Cup back to Italy for the fourth time in five years, the European battlefield of the 1999-2000 season finally came to an end after more than half a year of war!
For Fiorentina fans, this season has undoubtedly been a season of pain and joy. They were delighted to have brought both the Big Ears Cup and the Coppa Italia back to the Frankie Stadium, but the defeat in the league was also very frustrating.
However, now is clearly not the time to lament the league title that has flown away, because this Champions League title is more than enough to make up for the pain caused to Fiorentina fans by Lazio!
The players, who flew back to Florence overnight with the Champions League trophy, celebrated with their fans in the new business district centred on the Stadio Frankie early the next morning, and did not return until the early hours of the next morning.
After a one-day championship spree, the Fiorentina players, who had been on the move for most of the year, quickly split into two parts. Some of them will stay in Florence to participate in the celebrations organized by clubs and the municipality, and then travel to the world to enjoy a wonderful summer vacation; As for the other group of players, they have not yet had the opportunity to enjoy this long break after the club competition, because they will have to accept the call-up from the managers of their respective national teams to rush to the Netherlands and Belgium to prepare for the European Championship, which will start on June 10!
And now it's May 30th, which means that Fiorentina's international players who will represent the national team in the European Championship only have ten days at most to run in and practice tactics with those teammates of the national team!
In fact, long before the Champions League final began, all the managers of the national teams that qualified for the European Championship finals had already announced their tentative 40-man squad. The reason why there are still some football powerhouses, such as Italy and Spain, have not submitted the final list of 22 to UEFA, is because the Champions League final between Fiorentina and Valencia has not yet ended, and the elder Maldini and Camacho do not dare to make decisions lightly before observing the competitive state of these players up close.
In addition to the two unlucky guys Maldini and Camacho Sr., there are also the head coaches of the national teams of Sweden, the Netherlands, France and other national teams who share their same illness. These managers are all cursing UEFA in their hearts at this time, why did they set the date of the Champions League final so late, so that they didn't even have much time to run in the team. I don't remember that they were part of the crowd watching the Champions Cup final in front of the TV at the time.
Fortunately, Beckenbauer's UEFA team has been more or less reasonable, setting the deadline for teams to submit their squads on June 3, a week before the opening of the European Championships. Otherwise, Maldini Sr. will have to pray to God when they decide on the squad and that the players they have selected will not be in too bad shape......
So, all they need to do now is to select 22 lucky winners from a team of 40 in the only five days they have left, and then lead them to the quadrennial European Cup!