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Capello didn't say much after the big win at home to Atalanta, and after telling his players to pay attention to their shape and physical condition during the Christmas holidays, the Fiorentina team was disbanded on the spot and the players hurried to enjoy the only long break of the season.

This year's Serie A winter break is a full two weeks, and according to Capello's schedule, the Fiorentina players will be given a week's Christmas break, and the following week they will be in recuperative training at the training ground to prepare for the intensive schedule after the winter break.

Christmas in the West, like the Chinese New Year, is a day of reunion in the eyes of foreigners. But this Christmas, Zhuang Mingge did not return home to reunite with his parents, because the elder Corleone and his mother in this life had informed Zhuang Mingge three months before the arrival of Christmas, saying that they would not spend Christmas in Florence this year, and were going to run out of Florence to go on a trip around the world.

Therefore, this time on Christmas Eve, it was little Groz and Karin who accompanied Zhuang Mingge to spend a warm night in the villa in Florence. As for what happened that night, it is not enough to be humane......

The week passed quickly, and most of the Fiorentina players, who had spent a Christmas holiday with their families or girlfriends, arrived at the club's training ground on time to wait for the training camp to begin, but three players did not show up where they should have been.

Since 97 is not a major year, the selection criteria for the European Ballon d'Or are largely based on the performance of the players in their respective clubs, and Fiorentina's coquettish performance in major competitions in the past two years is obvious to all, so there is basically not much controversy about the winner of this year's European Ballon d'Or, and everyone knows that the road will definitely come from this European hegemon that has risen strongly in recent years.

The only thing that can cause debate among fans is which Fiorentina player is more deserving to win the Golden Ball.

Some people say that it is Filipe Inzaghi, who broke the single-season scoring record in Serie A set by Nodal that has been in the dust for nearly half a century, others believe that the alien Ronaldo is the biggest contributor to Fiorentina, and some people believe that Batistuta and Effenberg, the captain and vice captain of Fiorentina, are the most qualified to be elected...... And so on and so forth.

Therefore, when the players noticed that Ronaldo, Redondo and Inzaghi did not appear on the training ground as scheduled, and the head coach Capello did not say anything about it, they suddenly realized that these two people went to the headquarters of the French football magazine to attend the European Ballon d'Or ceremony.

"Lucky guys, Fernando and Ronnie." Vieri, who was running laps on the training ground, sighed in an envious tone, "When will I win the Golden Globe once, no, even if it's just the third-place Bronze Ball......"

"Hey, what are you thinking?" Vieri, a close friend of Vieri in Fiorentina, stabbed him with his elbow and said, "Philippe, as the holder of Serie A's single-season scoring record, certainly qualifies as the last three candidates; Ronnie's importance in the team's offense is well known, and there will be no objection to his selection; As for Fernando, although he didn't play as long as we did in Fiorentina, the role he played on the pitch was something we can see......"

"Okay, okay, Luigi (Di Biagio) don't talk about it, if you keep talking, my confidence will be lost by you." Vieri slapped Di Biagio with a wry smile and said, "Having said that, the three of them can win the top three of this European Ballon d'Or, and I think our Florence's fame may rise again." ”

"Of course." Di Biagio agreed with Vieri's words, "It's rare to see a team that can win the top three Ballon d'Or at the same time, even if we don't make a lot of noise, those good things will be there to give us free publicity, how can these people not make a big splash about such a big event?" ”

"Hehe, that's what I said." Vieri nodded with a smile, and suddenly increased the speed of running, "Let's not talk about it yet, run quickly, he seems to have noticed the two of us." ”

"Huh?!" Hearing this, Di Biagio hurriedly chased after him, he didn't want to be killed by the head coach on the first day of training, "You run slowly, wait for me!" ”

As Vieri and Di Biagio chatted on the training ground, everyone present was in an uproar when the news media who came to watch the Ballon d'Or ceremony found out that the three candidates were actually from Fiorentina - although Fiorentina had lifted all the trophies except the Coppa Italia in the past year, people at most thought that the winner of the Ballon d'Or would come from the Serie A giants, and they never thought that Fiorentina would be able to achieve the feat of winning the top three.

The last time the top three finishers were from the same club was at the Ballon d'Or in 1989, when AC Milan won the Champions League (Van Basten, Baresi and Rijkaard were the first, second and third), and the Milan team was known as a dynasty team.

Now, after eight years, Fiorentina, also from Serie A, has done the same!

Combined with Batistuta, Effenberg, Carlos, Nesta and Toldo, who have been shortlisted for 50 men, Fiorentina has eight players on the shortlist, accounting for nearly one-sixth of the seats, and the title of Europe's No. 1 club is well deserved.

In the end, Filipe Inzaghi, the Serie A single-season goal record holder, was third, Argentine Prince Redondo missed the Golden Ball in second place, and the alien Ronaldo defeated two of his teammates to take home the Ballon d'Or trophy and become the youngest European Footballer in history at the age of 21!

Although some people complained about Ronaldo's victory over Redondo and Inzaghi to be elected European Footballer of the Year, when the news of Fiorentina's players winning the top three of the European Ballon d'Or was reached through the media, Fiorentina's popularity among fans rose again.

The direct consequence of Fiorentina's popularity has increased dramatically is that if fans talk about football without mentioning two words about Fiorentina, they are likely to be regarded as pseudo-fans or newcomers to football.

After the European Ballon d'Or affair, Fiorentina played their first match of 1998 on January 4. Fiorentina fans have high expectations for this match and will be hoping to see the European Ballon d'Or winners get off to a good start to the new year with a home start to the new year, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Batistuta in mind.