Chapter 1157: Interlude

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Despite failing to secure a win in the first leg, a draw away from Ajax and a valuable away goal made up for Heynckes' regrets. After all, such a result is still quite favorable for Fiorentina, and the Ajax players, who failed to defend their home stadium and were given an away goal by the Purple Lily, will have to find a way to close the gap in the second leg. If Fiorentina were allowed to dominate the game, they would have been wiped out by the Purple Lilies in the second leg and eliminated from the tournament due to a lack of away goals. You know, using a helpless concrete defense to defend this advantage after the situation is dominant can be said to be the skill of all Italian teams!

Therefore, Ajax is well aware that the next meeting with Fiorentina will definitely be an extremely difficult game. Because they must erase the disadvantage in terms of away goals, but also be able to withstand the sharp and quick counterattack of the Purple Lily, and avoid conceding more goals than scoring goals.

As Ajax had to adopt an aggressive attacking strategy in the second leg to recover the away goal disadvantage, this gave the tactician Heynckes a lot of room to adjust, whether it was to focus on counter-attacking or to play against the opponent in the last game. The German coach could have chosen any of these tactics against Ajax and had to worry about guessing what tactics his opponent would use.

After the first leg against Ajax, Heynckes did not return to Fiorentina with his players, but announced his disbandment after a post-match press conference. Because of the nightmare of all the European giants, a new round of national team breaks has arrived at this juncture!

Faced with the call-up orders issued by the managers of various national teams, Fiorentina, who could not find a reason to refuse, had no choice but to let his players go to the national team competition. As a result, Robert Carlos and Lucio traveled to South America, Ballack to Germany, and local players such as Andrea Pirlo, Vieri and Inzaghi to Milan, where they will participate in the new national team training camp.

Of course, not all Fiorentina first-team players have been called up from the national team. For example, Deco and Diego Milito, who have been quite consistent since the start of the season, have not been able to enter the eyes of Pereira (the new Brazilian coach) and Bielsa this time, and continue to drift outside the national team.

Disappointed to learn that Pereira would choose to fight in Middlesbrough and that Juninho was not willing to bring him to the Samba Army, Deco finally began to consider the possibility of becoming an Italian naturalized citizen, and he could apply for Italian citizenship by this summer after living in the Apennines for more than four years; Diego Milito, who has dual Italian and Argentine citizenship, was clearly better in terms of action, and he went directly to Zhuang Mingge to express his desire to represent the Italian national team on the field.

I have to say that Milito's vision of judging the situation is really very vicious. He is soberly aware that the Argentine national team is now full of talents in the forward line, and there are very good players for Bielsa to choose from, and he is not allowed to get involved at all; On the other hand, the Italian national team, don't look at the current blue team has no shortage of good strikers, but in fact, Italy has almost never had a striker of the same level as them after Vieri and Montella, Cassano is more like a nine-and-a-half than a striker, and Toney's performance in Rome also proves that he is just a good traditional center forward, and there is still a big gap between him and the first-class.

Therefore, in Milito's view, if nothing else, as long as he can put on the Italian jersey and wait until Vieri and Inzaghi fade out of the national team, then the Azzurri will definitely have a place for him in the future striker!

Regarding Deco and Milito's statement, Zhuang Mingge was naturally very excited. After all, he is very aware that Italian football will fall into a state of scarcity in the next few years, although his intervention has allowed Grosso and Toney and others to grow up in advance, and also saved the fate of some meteors in previous lives such as Glendoni and Baronho, but for the whole of Italian football, these changes he made still seem to be a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, at this time, the addition of Deco and Milito is very necessary. Because these two players are fully capable of supporting the national team with Pirlo after Vieri's group of players get old, and help Italy through the most difficult period, so as to avoid the situation of Pirlo who struggled to support the national team alone in his previous life.

And, most crucially, although Italy has never been very welcoming to outsiders to the national team in the past, the situation is completely different today, with the success story of Camoranesi first, I believe that not many people will say anything about the arrival of Deco and Milito.

Therefore, after Milito and Deco expressed their desire to become Italian naturalized and represent the Azzurri in international competitions, Zhuang Mingge even expressed his strong support, promising to complete Deco's naturalization as soon as possible through the relationship, and also recommended them to Trapattoni in due course.

Of course, Zhuang Mingge also bluntly told the two in this conversation that he could not guarantee that Trapattoni would definitely bring them into the national team. Deco and Milito understood this, after all, the current boss in front of them was their top boss, not the head coach of the national team, and it was already very interesting to be willing to help them in this matter, and they couldn't ask for anything more at this time.

In this way, Milito and Deco left the Florence headquarters satisfied, and Zhuang Mingge had no intention of delaying time, and immediately after the two left, he called Trapattoni and informed the veteran coach of Milito and Deco's desire to represent Italy.

"President Corleone, thank you very much for your support of the work of the national team, Deco and Milito are players I admire and I am lucky to have the opportunity to coach them." Unlike his predecessor Zoff, Trapattoni is not a stubborn and rigid guy, and he is good at handling interpersonal relationships, and he will never dismiss Zhuang Mingge's face to face. What's more, in Trapattoni's view, Milito and Deco, players who have adapted to the style of Italian football and are also very good, if they are not included in the system of the Azzurri as soon as possible, but let them be brought back by the awakened South American giants, then the Italian people will definitely regret it in the future.

So, under the impetus of Zhuang Mingge's little butterfly, the fate of Deco and Milito in this life was quietly changed, and the wheel of history turned on a completely different path.