Chapter 619 Before the Final
Vicenza, a small club from Serie A, defeated the famous Chelsea, and won the European Cup Winners Championship in the 1997-98 season. This result made countless brick players' glasses shatter.
Although Chelsea is not a top-notch team in the Premier League, the Blues have won the fourth place in the Premier League this season, so in the eyes of many people, they only rank eighth in the league this season, and there is no player in the team. Vicenza is obviously worse than Chelsea in terms of strength.
However, reality gave these people a loud slap. In this final, Vicenza, the "weak" in the eyes of most people, not only did not adopt a conservative style, but instead used active offense to defeat the opponent and won the first Winners Cup championship in team history!
Even Vicenza, who ranked eighth in Serie A, can beat Chelsea, which ranked top four in the Premier League. How cruel is the competition in the Serie A! After the final of this Cup of Winners, many people are thinking about the problem.
The result of this final made the title of the No. 1 league in the Serie A more veritable, and the Serie A teams also have greater appeal to the stars, because players with some skills want to go to the Italian league with the highest level to prove their strength. Once they can become famous in such a league, they can earn a better contract.
After the final of the Winners Cup, the European club competition in the 1997-98 season was the final of the Champions League, which attracted the most attention from fans.
What? You asked when was the final of the League Cup? Sorry, I forgot to say that the League Cup final and the Italian Cup final were scheduled to be held on the same day.
Although due to Zhuang Mingge's disruption, Inter Milan, who reached this final in history, changed to participate in the Champions League event, Sampdoria, who performed extremely poorly in the domestic league, showed amazing combat effectiveness in the European arena, and passed the hurdles and met with Lazio, who also represented Serie A to participate in the League Cup.
In the finals, facing Lazio, who was better and began to calm down under Eriksen's training, although Sampdoria struggled desperately, she finally lost one-to-two and lost the League Cup championship.
It was not until this time that the media and fans who were waiting for the Champions League finals to come were surprised to find that the three European Cup finals this season have almost completely evolved into a one-man show in Serie A!
The two sides of the Champions League final are Fiorentina and Juventus. The two teams participating in the League Cup finals, Sampdoria and Lazio, are also from Serie A. The Cup of Winners were not included in Serie A, but perhaps more because the only team representing Italy is Vicenza.
Although AC Milan was expelled from the G14 league, judging from the performance of the three major European Cups this season, the Italian team still has a considerable advantage in the European arena!
It is precisely for this reason that some fans even joked in an interview that if UEFA allows Italy to send two teams to the Cup of Winners, maybe even this cup will eventually become a Serie A civil war...
Although I don’t know what UEFA will think after hearing this speech, will it adapt to the people’s hearts and allow Serie A team to stage a civil war in the next season’s Winners Cup. However, in the upcoming Champions League final, it has been confirmed that it will stage a civil war between Italian teams in front of all fans who are paying attention to this game!
On May 23, at 5:30 pm local time in the Netherlands, the entire Florence team took a bus from the hotel and headed to the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium.
The Amsterdam Athletic Stadium, which can accommodate 51,600 people, is a modern stadium built by the Dutch government for the European Cup held in the local area two years later. It is one of the best stadiums in the Netherlands and the current home stadium of Ajax Club.
Before the start of this final, more than 50,000 tickets had already been sold out. Fans of the two sides who supported Fiorentina and Juventus went out together and divided the tickets in just a few days!
Zhuang Mingge, who entered the field early through the VIP channel, even saw that many fans who had not bought tickets were standing in the square outside the court. They didn't want to miss the final and wandered around the square, trying to buy a ticket from the scalpers at a high price.
Some people may say, isn’t it just a fight between Fiorentina and Juventus? These two teams will have to meet at least twice a season. Is it necessary to make such a ticket difficult to get?
Well, but this is the first time in the 43 years since the founding of the Champions League, two teams from the same country met in the Champions League final. How could it not make fans, especially those Serie A fans, excited!
Florence and Juventus met in the Champions League final, which proved from another perspective how strong the current Serie A is!
"It seems that Coach Lippi plans to focus on stability in this game!" Looking at Juventus' starting list in the finals that he just sent, Zhuang Mingge sighed.
"Actually, it is normal for Coach Lippi to make such arrangements. After all, Juventus' overall strength is still worse than that of our Fiorentina. Moreover, since the Juventus composed of Pierro and Otero is smarter and has insufficient offensive ability, defensive counterattack is the most correct choice for Juventus." Karin added from the side, but she was not talking to Zhuang Mingge, but explaining to the "pseudo-fan" Groz on the other side.
"Okay OK, Karin, I understand what you said. Don't always treat me as a ball blind who doesn't know anything, okay?" Little Groz frowned, looking dissatisfied.
"Oh? Then Rebecca, come and tell me, who is Juventus' main goalkeeper?" Hearing Groz's statement, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but tease the opponent and asked with a wicked smile.
"Is this a question?" Little Groz said proudly, holding her rather spectacular chest, "Of course it's Paliuka!"
"Puff..." Hearing this, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help laughing out loud, thinking that it was a good thing that guy Morati didn't hear you say that, otherwise he would have gotten angry with him and smoked his orifices?
"Antonio! You bullied me again! Don't laugh!" Seeing Zhuang Mingge laughing aside, Groz didn't know that he had made a common sense mistake again?
The angry little Groz threw himself at Zhuang Mingge with his teeth and claws, scratching the latter and begging for mercy, while Karin was hiding aside and laughing secretly.
Chapter completed!