Since most people go out for vacation during the Christmas holiday and many companies have temporarily suspended work, Florence has not actually been under a lot of backlog of work during this period, not to mention that Zhuang Mingge is still an absolute "hands-off boss".

Most of the work is distributed to the three general managers under his command to handle it. Zhuang Mingge himself only needs to grasp the general direction of Florence's development. This is Zhuang Mingge's attitude towards managing Florence. If everything has to be done by himself, what else do the club need to do?

Although part of the reason why Zhuang Mingge's approach is because he is very lazy...

With the end of the Christmas holiday, the players have also returned to Fiorentina one after another. They have to prepare for the second half of the season and sprint for the final championship honor!

Soon, the Fiorentine fans watching the training on the training ground found that among the players returning to the team, a familiar figure was missing, that is, the captain of Fiorentine, Batistuta!

The reason why the Argentine God of War did not return to the team is very simple. Saudi Arabia held the second Fahd Cup del Rey at the beginning of this year, inviting champions from the National Cup of Five Continents, plus the host Saudi team, a total of six teams participated.

As the winner of the 1993 Copa America championship, Argentina was naturally within the scope of invitation, and the Argentine Football Association also agreed to the invitation from the Saudi Football Association, which forced Fiorentina to lose its main scorer and captain most of the time in January.

Zhuang Mingge was very dissatisfied with this. When the Serie A began to sprint, Batistuta's absence was undoubtedly fatal.

Although Inzagi and Montera have also scored a lot of goals this season, their exciting performance is largely due to the existence of Batistu. It is precisely because of the top of Batistu Tower at the forefront that these young people have enough space to grow.

The most typical example is later Girardino. After joining AC Milan as a two-time Serie A silver boot winner in the summer of 2005, he scored 17 league goals in the 2005-06 season. Although the number of goals is not as good as when he was in Parma, this is largely due to the change in Girardino's position in the team and the diversion of his shooting opportunities with Shevchenko and Kaka. After Sheva left Milan, Girardino, who lost the protection of the superstar, became the player at the forefront, which was inconsistent with his own playing style. Kaka behind him was not a passer master, which directly led to a sharp drop in his goals in the few seasons after Sheva, and he was forced to leave AC Milan.

Although there is also a Vieri classmate in the first team in Fiorentina who claims to be "Batty's apprentice", Zhuang Mingge does not think that Vieri, who is not very famous, can replace Bata's role in Fiorentina.

The impact of Batti's inability to play was soon reflected. On January 8, Fiorentina went to Turin again to participate in the 15th round of Serie A. However, this time his opponent was not Juventus, but his city rival, Turin.

If you want to talk about which of the many clubs in Italian football is the most unlucky, Zhuang Mingge will definitely consider Turin as one.

The 1940s was the "Turinary Age" in Italian football history. This period of prosperity began in the 1942-1943 season before World War II. It was not until the Supega air crash in 1949 that it destroyed the entire Torino team.

The war in World War II not only destroyed Italy's economy, but also damaged Italian football's vitality, and also caused the loss of many elite players in Italian football. After World War II, Italy was in a period of reconstruction, teams such as Juventus, Bologna and Inter Milan that had dominated Italian football before the war all experienced unprecedented declines.

At this time, the rise of Turin allowed the Italians to see the hope of Italian football revival. The Italian national team, which was teamed with the Turin players at that time, had 9 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses in the international competitions in those years. In the friendly match between Italy and Portugal and Spain in 1949, the Italian team defeated Portugal 4:1 in ** and 3:1 in Madrid. In these two games, the Italian team started 11 players, and the Turin captain Valentino Mazzola even served as the captain of the Italian national team.

Torino also won five Serie A championships in the 1940s. After World War II, Torino even completed the feat of four consecutive league titles, pushing his city rival Juventus so hard that he couldn't raise his head.

However, God is willing to do anything. On May 4, 1949, when Turin returned home after the Latin Cup match against Benfica in Portugal, the plane hit Mount Supega near the airport, and the "Supega Air Crash" that shocked the world football world occurred. The air crash wiped out the entire team of Turin and has not recovered since then. More importantly, Italy also lost football elites, and all nine players in Turin were unfortunately killed, resulting in the Italian national team being eliminated early in the 1950 World Cup. Since then, the Italian team entered the "dark era", and Italian football also lost a dynasty team.

Since then, Juventus, who has been under Turin, has taken the opportunity to rise again, and the Turin team, which was hit hard, has fallen into decline. Although there has been a brief revival after this, its long-term poverty and weakness have made the "Red Bulls" unable to turn over.

This season, Torino sent away Uruguayan prince Enzo Franciscoli in the summer, bought African star Abedi Bailey from Marseille, who was relegated for counterfeiting, and introduced forward Riztelli from Roma (this guy later went to Bayern Munich to play for two years). In addition, Cirenzi, who scored seventeen Serie A goals last season, was not bad from the card alone.

In this game, Fiorentina, who was visiting Turin, not only lacked the main scorer Batistuta, but also the midfielder Effenberg and Dibiagio were suspended due to accumulated yellow cards. The left defender Lanna suffered a minor injury the day before the game and had to miss the game with Turin.

Ranieri was very distressed by the absence of many generals, and also allowed the Turin team to see a glimmer of hope of scoring on Purple Lily.

From the beginning of the game, Florence, who was short of soldiers, had no idea how to deal with the tortoise shell made by Turin. Vieri, who replaced Bati, did not have the power of the "human tank" that rushed forward in later generations. Inzagi was also submerged in the "human sea tactics" of the team. The absence of Effenberg and Dibiagio greatly weakened Fiorentina's control in the midfield...

In the 67th minute, Torino took advantage of a Fiorentina midfielder's pass error to launch a quick counterattack. Riztley got the ball and shook Tordo and then made a light right-footed push, scoring the only goal of the game. Fiorentina lost 1-0 away.

After this game, Fiorentina ranked second with 10 wins, 2 draws and 32 points, because in another game held at the same time, Juventus and Parma, who had previously scored 31 points, met in this round. In the end, Juventus won three-to-one at Parma's home court, successfully overtaking Fiorentina for two points and jumped to the top of the Serie A list.

But whether it was Florence's loss of the top spot or Juventus' regaining the top spot, these news were not published on the front pages of major Italian sports newspapers the next day, because the paparazzi dug up an even more shocking news:
Chapter completed!