Chapter 1204: The First Championship of the Season

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As the farewell match came to an end under the reluctant gaze of the fans, Redondo and Effenberg officially ended their brilliant playing careers from today, took off the purple jersey they loved so much, and became part of the management of the purple lily. (Note: Redondo, who is organizing matters related to the retired star team, works in the Athletic Department of Florence, although Effenberg works in the same department as Redondo, but his main task is to serve as a player scouting for Fiorentina in the pan-German region, and playing on behalf of the retired star team can only be regarded as an adjustment to the life after retirement.) )

However, Fiorentina clearly have no time to lament the retirement of Redondo and Effenberg at this time, as they have a Super Coppa Italia match against last season's Coppa Italia winners AC Milan in three days' time.

On August 7, at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy, the players of Fiorentina and AC Milan walked out of the tunnel on time and stepped onto the grass under the watchful eyes of nearly 100,000 fans.

By the way, the Italian Football Federation originally planned to set the venue of this Super Cup in Tokyo, Japan, but because Fiorentina was preparing for the farewell match for Redondo and Effenberg, and the dates of the two matches were too close, the Football Association finally had to regretfully cancel this idea and set the final venue in Italy.

Although Fiorentina had played the farewell match for Redondo and Effenberg three days earlier, the intensity of the game was not so great that it didn't have too much of a negative impact on the players' fitness, allowing Heynckes to have enough resources to line up.

Gianluigi Buffon, Robert Carlos, Lucio, Nesta, Zambrotta, Makelele, Pirlo, Ballack, Vincent, Giuli and Diego Milito are the Fiorentina starting eleven for the Italian Super Cup final.

The reason why Heynckes did not put Vieri, the Fiorentina ace in the starting lineup, was because the German, through a series of performances in the team's pre-season warm-up games and summer training camps, realized that Vieri, who has reached the age of the year, has experienced a certain decline in recovery and physical fitness. Although the decline was not significant, Fiorentina's coaching staff was aware of the changes in Vieri.

So, after some discussion and consulting with the medical experts at the physiotherapy center and Vieri himself, Heynckes decided to limit Vieri's playing time from this season onwards in order to protect the career of the powerful center forward and prolong his professional life.

At the same time, Heynckes also changed Vieri's training program and game tasks, cutting back on him as the team's offensive finisher, intending to make him the tactical fulcrum of Fiorentina up front, allowing Vincent, who is younger, more physical and more resilient, to take on more scoring tasks.

Now let's take a look at AC Milan's starting line-up. As a master tactician, Ancelotti continued to lack creativity and variety in the arrangement, and still put on the 442 formation that Berlusconi strongly demanded.

Of the new signings that AC Milan brought in in in the summer, only Cafu and Kaka, two Brazilians, appeared in the starting line-up for this game, which was due to the transfer of the original main right-back Hellwig and Rui Costa suffered a minor injury during the pre-season training camp. If these accidents hadn't happened, An Fatzi would never have made any adjustments to the starting lineup that had formed combat effectiveness.

Once the game began, the AC Milan players, who had been given the right to kick off, made steady progress towards Fiorentina's half, organised by Seedorf and Baronho. After all, Seedorf is all too clear about Fiorentina's strong midfield interception ability and sharp and quick counter-attack after a successful tackle. Even, if they hadn't been careful enough to attack in the opening stages, what would have awaited them would have been a terrifying wave of counter-attacks from Florence.

The Fiorentina players skillfully built up a series of defenses in midfield, patiently waiting for the AC Milan players to come over and throw themselves into the net - after a season of running-in, these players have formed a good tacit understanding between these players, Lucio, Ballack and Milito, who only joined Fiorentina last season, have fully integrated into the Purple Lily's tactical system, and Nesta and others have become accustomed to the technical characteristics and style of play of these teammates, and know how to cooperate with them in various situations.

Therefore, for the opponent of AC Milan, the Fiorentina players did not have any fear and nervousness in their hearts at all. On the contrary, the flamboyant Lucio even took the initiative to tease his Brazilian compatriot and national team teammate Kaka: "Hey, Ricardo (Kaka's name), this is not Sao Paulo, and the defensive intensity is several levels higher than that of the Brazilian domestic league~ I'll let you see it today, I don't know if you're ready?" ”

"Hey, what do you want to do?" Kaka looked at Lucio nervously with a wary expression. Before coming to Italy, he specifically asked Ronaldo and Emerson, who had played in Serie A, and had a very clear understanding of the defensive intensity of this league, "I tell you, there are a lot of cameras here, and everything you do will be captured by these cameras......

As a result, Kaka, who was frightened by Lucio, did not miss the ball from Seedorf, and was successfully intercepted by Lucio, who was guarding the side, and played a wave of counterattacks, so angry that Seedorf nagged Kaka on the field, to the effect that he should concentrate on playing the game well and not be disturbed by the opponent's words......

For the criticism from his seniors, Kaka, as a well-behaved child, naturally bowed his head honestly and accepted it, while Lucio snickered on the side, and his ploy succeeded again.

With the addition of two new signings to AC Milan's side, there will be some inconsuming tactics when executing, while Fiorentina does not have this problem, which makes the pace of the game firmly in the hands of Pirlo and Ballack, and the Rossoneri, who have lost the initiative, can only passively resist the attack of the purple lily.

In the end, when referee Rossetti blew the whistle for the end of the game, the score on the big screen was fixed at 1-0, and Fiorentina defeated old rival AC Milan by one goal in the final of the Italian Super Cup to win the first championship trophy of the new season, which is a good start to the 03-04 season that has not yet officially begun.