Chapter 460 Before the Finals
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Unbeaten in 59 consecutive games in the league!
When the name of the longest unbeaten record holder of the top five leagues was rewritten from AC Milan to Fiorentina, the entire European football world was in full swing!
Currently, the longest unbeaten record holders of each of the five major leagues are Nantes in Ligue 1 (32 games), Hamburg in Bundesliga (36 games), Real Sociedad in La Liga (38 games), and Nottingham Forest in the top league at the time (42 games).
It can be seen from this that Fiorentina is able to maintain unbeaten in 59 consecutive games in the five highly competitive leagues. What an amazing result!
Most European media have spent a lot of pages to report on this incident. Such a news report is definitely a hot topic that can attract people's attention.
Florence's popularity among fans has also risen rapidly with this east wind. In the minds of many fans, the name Florence has risen from an emerging giant to a height that can be compared with the old giants such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, AC Milan. Moreover, judging from the current situation, Florence even has the momentum to surpass these old giants in fame!
This naturally caused displeasure among many AC Milan supporters. After all, this record was originally their honor, but now it was stolen by Florence, they will certainly feel uncomfortable.
No one will deny the greatness of the Milan dynasty in the Three Musketeers era, but after all, this has become a thing of the past. With Basten and Rijcard departing and Gulit has also begun to serve as Chelsea's head coach as a player, many neutral fans are naturally paying more attention to Florence, which is the most popular at the moment.
So, when Berlusconi heard Capello, who was angry, and led the team in Fiorentina to break the longest unbeaten record that was originally AC Milan, he was so angry that he broke the teacup in his hand and scolded Capello as an absolute traitor.
Well, Berlusconi didn't think about it. Who threatened that Milan could lead the team to win the championship with a coach now, but she ended up leaving such a top coach alive?
After the match with Naples, it is only ten days away from the European Champions League final.
Three days before this final, on May 25, Fiorentina had a Serie A match with Regina.
There will be another league game three days before the most critical Champions League final. Even if Fiorentina lets the game go, it will more or less affect the players' status against Dortmund. Such a situation is absolutely undesirable for Fiorentina clubs.
Therefore, after the Champions League semi-finals with Juventus, Zhuang Mingge submitted an application for the early game between Fiorentina and Regina to the Italian Football Association.
Regina took it for granted objection, and although they have now confirmed to be relegated after the end of this season, the club's senior executives still hope to make more money in the team's last few Serie A games.
During weekday games, the number of people who come to watch the game on site is naturally not as high as during weekend games, which does not conform to the psychology of the management of the Regina Club, so they firmly oppose this matter.
The Italian Football Association is not a fool. When the league first and last league disputes over the game date, these Football Association officials naturally expressed their support for Fiorentina, shifting the date of this game in Fiorentina for two days and changing it to a Friday game.
This result made the representative of the Regina Club so angry that he smoked his orifices.
Reggiana, who was unwilling to admit defeat, changed his mind and leaked the matter to the paparazzi. They knew that because of Florence's popularity, the mouthpieces of these Serie A teams hoped that Florence could lose as soon as possible so that the teams they supported had enough breathing space.
With the help of the media, the Football Association forced the Football Association to take back its life, the Regiana people's abacus can be said to be a jingle.
However, the Italian media, who were highly anticipated by the Regiana Club, made them slapped for a long time.
Although these media have not had a good relationship with Florence due to their position issues, they can even be said to be one of the group of people who most expect Purple Lily to lose in the next game, but this does not mean that they will unswervingly oppose everything about Florence.
With the Champions League final coming, the Italian media will certainly not be fooled to cause trouble for Fiorentina at this critical moment. After all, if Fiorentina wins the championship, it will be the glory of the entire Italian football.
Therefore, this time, just as the Regiana Club was proud of their cleverness, all the Italian media pointed their guns at the team that was definitely relegated, criticizing them for disregarding the overall situation of Italian football for their own selfish interests.
Among them, the words of Florence's arch rival, "Turin Sports" are the most mean: they are already teams that have been relegated. Don't you just insist on making more money on tickets? Isn't it easier to go directly to the Football Association to ask for compensation?
The media's mean words made Regina Club angry. Seeing that the Italian Football Association, which is popular among the public, will not care about the idea of this bottom-sized team. In the eyes of Football Association officials, Florence's Champions League final is much more important than a league first and last game in the league.
Therefore, the Regiana Club, which did not receive support, had to agree to the plan to play in advance.
On May 23, a 33rd round of Serie A was staged in advance at Frankie Stadium.
Due to some economic interests, the owner of the Regina Club hopes that his team can teach the "rude" Fiorentines a lesson, and it would be better if it could stop the league unbeaten record just set by Purple Lily.
But this is destined to be just the wishful thinking of the Chairman. With the team already determined to be relegated in advance and the club did not offer huge prizes for this game as material incentive for the players, how could Regina, who is sluggish in morale and has no fighting spirit, be a rival to Florence?
What Regina's players are thinking the most about now is probably not the upcoming game, but whether they can find a suitable next player to take over after the transfer door is opened. After all, with Regina's income, this small ball that has been relegated from Serie A will definitely have no financial resources to pay their salaries next season according to the current salary level of these players.
Chapter completed!