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Immediately afterwards, the host announced the second place in the selection. This time he took the stage to receive the award was Ronaldo, the winner of the last World Footballer. In the past year, the aliens have performed well in both the national team and the club, so this time Ronaldo won the Silver Ball Award, no one expressed any questions about this.

Meanwhile, Fiorentina players have already started the celebration in the conference room in advance!

"This is the second world footballer who came out of our Fiorentina team!" Effenberg laughed and opened a can of beer, raised the beer in his hand, and shouted happily, "Let's have a drink for Ronnie to win the Silver Ball Award!"

"And Christian!" Stam, who had already secretly drank a large can of beer, added a sentence in confusion, and reached out to grab the large pile of delicacies on the table.

"That's right!" Inzagi jumped out with a beer can and said, "In the future, when we Fiorentina compete with other teams, we can have a super luxurious front line composed of two world footballers! If we don't talk about anything else, this title alone may scare a lot of people to death!"

"Haha, plus these qualifying gentlemen, including Philip, Fernando (Redondo) and the captain, our current lineup in Fiorentina can definitely be called the most luxurious in Europe!" Tordo, who also held a big beer, said happily. Seeing that the team he played for had become so strong, the Italian goalkeeper was also very excited.

(Note: Inzagi and Redondo lost to Ronaldo in the World Footballer selection last year, so they are called Mr. Quasi, meaning they have the strength to compete for the Golden Ball Award but failed to be crowned for some reasons. This is the case with Effenberg.)

At the same time, the sound from the TV brought the already warm atmosphere in the conference room to a higher level: "Now I announce that the winner of the 1998 World Footballer is... Christian Vieri from Football Club in Florence, Italy!"

After the award ceremony of Mr. World Football, Vieri and Ronaldo did not return to Florence immediately to participate in the team's training, but ran to Paris, France. The French Football magazine invited them to attend the European Golden Ball Awards ceremony, and at the same time they had to give them a long interview to each other, preparing to be published in the new issue of "French Football".

This has made other players in the Fiorentina team envious. You should know that the two awards of World Footballer and European Golden Ball Awards can be said to be the most dream personal honors of all professional footballers. Now Vieri has the opportunity to become the second "double footballer" in the history of the Fiorentina club. Why doesn't they feel extremely excited?

To put it practically, although the personal honors Vieri and Ronaldo have nothing directly related to other Fiorentine players, please don’t forget that the more gentlemen and superstars there are in the Fiorentine team, it will also have a certain promotion effect on the value of others. After all, players who can play football with these superstars in the same team will know that their strength will definitely not be much worse. If other teams want to poach Florence, they will naturally have to pay more transfer fees and give better treatment.

On the night when Vieri and Ronaldo arrived in France, the final selection results were finally announced - Vieri, the new World Footballer, defeated his alien teammate and successfully won the European Golden Globe this year!

Compared with Vieri, Ronaldo seemed quite unlucky. In both selections, the aliens only won the second place, and were quite embarrassed to win the title of double silver ball; the bronze ball prize was won by Robert Baggio.

However, Ronaldo is not the most unlucky one among all candidates. His teammate Rivaldo in the Brazilian national team only won fourth place in both selections and did not even get on the podium...

After the European Golden Ball Awards were announced, Fiorentina ushered in the 14th round of Serie A this weekend, and this time their opponent is the newly promoted Perugia.

Since Fiorentina played away in this game, Vieri and Ronaldo did not get the chance to show the trophy to the fans before the game - after all, this is Perugia's home court, and letting them show the trophy here is tantamount to hitting all Perugia in broad daylight. It would be strange if Perugia didn't play with Fiorentina at that time.

Fiorentina, who had a full week of rest, played all the main players in this game: Vieri and Ronaldo teamed up to form a gentleman-level forward, Effenberg and Redondo were the two players in the midfield, Marklele was dedicated to defending, Lyonberg was responsible for the wing attack, Robert Carlos and Zambrota were separated on both sides on the back line, Nesta and Matrazi were in the middle, and Tordo was still in charge of the starting goalkeeper position.

The reason why Matrazi was allowed to play instead of Stam or Hypia as the starter was Capello's own consideration: Matrazi had a very unpleasant life when he played in Perugia, and he was vindictive and wanted to "reward" his old club in this game, so Capello naturally went with the flow and gave Matrazi a favor. Anyway, with Perugia's lineup, no matter who Stam and Matrazi were on the way, the difference was really not big.

Perugia's performance since the start of Serie A this season is very consistent with the positioning of a newly promoted team. With the goal of relegation, they have good performance against mid- and lower-level teams. When they play against Serie A seven sisters or a slightly inferior team, although they will also try to play these games well, due to the huge gap in strength between the teams, Perugia's performance in facing strong players is often not satisfactory. Once they fall behind in big scores, they will unconsciously give up resistance.

Therefore, the Perugia players who played at home seemed quite proactive in the first twenty minutes after the game started, constantly launching attacks on Fiorentina's goal, trying to use the home advantage to get some points from the league leader.

However, Florence soon proved with facts that the Perugian dreams were mere delusions.

In the 22nd minute of the game, Perugia's ball was intercepted by Redondo during the attack. Argentina's midfielder immediately made a long pass over the top. The ball accurately landed in front of Ronaldo, who successfully counter-offside. The alien, who formed a one-on-one goal, easily scored, one-to-zero!

With the first loss, Perugia, who was eager to counterattack, was quickly broken by Fiorentina again. Vieri used an angry shot in the counterattack in the 25th minute to shake the hearts of Perugia's players!

Eight minutes later, when Matrazi headed the corner kick from Redondo and expanded Fiorentina's on-field advantage to three goals, the Perugia completely gave up on resistance. In their opinion, instead of fighting against the powerful Fiorentina, it is better to retain their strength and compete with their direct competitors in the relegation battle!
Chapter completed!