With this victory, they surpassed AC Milan to become the longest unbeaten record in five major leagues, and the only team will never share this honor with other teams again, which will make all teams worship!
Chapter 46 Before the final
The league is unbeaten in 59 consecutive games!
When the name of the longest unbeaten record holder in five major leagues was rewritten from AC Milan to Florence, the whole European football was boiling!
At present, the longest unbeaten record holders of the five major leagues are Nantes (32 games), Hamburg (36 games) and Real Sociedad La Liga (3 games). At that time, the top league was Nottingham Forest (42 games).
It can be seen that Florence can keep unbeaten in 59 consecutive games in the highly competitive five major leagues, which is an amazing achievement!
The vast majority of media in Europe have spent a lot of time reporting this incident. Such a news report in detail is definitely a hot topic that can attract people’s attention.
Florence’s popularity among fans has also risen rapidly in the minds of many fans because of this east wind. The name Florence has risen from an emerging giant to a height comparable to those of old giants such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and AC Milan, and from the current situation, Florence’s reputation has surpassed the momentum of these old giants!
This naturally caused many AC Milan supporters to be unhappy. After all, this record was originally their honor, but now Florence has taken it away, of course they will feel uncomfortable.
No one will deny the greatness of the Milan dynasty in the Three Musketeers era, but after all, it has become a thing of the past. Both Basten and Rijkaard have announced their retirement. gullit has also become a player and head coach of Chelsea. Many neutral fans are naturally more eye-catching and the most popular in Florence.
So when Berlusconi heard that Capello had led a team in Florence to break the longest unbeaten record that belonged to AC Milan, he was so angry that he broke his teacup and called Capello an out-and-out traitor.
Well, Berlusconi didn’t want to think about who threatened that Milan could lead the team to win the championship now because it was a coach, but he left such a top coach alive.
After the match against Naples, it will be ten days before the final of the European Cup.
Three days before the final, on May 25th, Florence had a Serie A match with Reggiana.
There will be a league game three days before the most crucial Champions League final. Even if Florence releases water in the game, it will affect the players’ status against Dortmund to a greater or lesser extent. This situation is absolutely undesirable for Florence club.
Therefore, it was already prepared that Zhuang Ge submitted an application to the Italian Football Association before the match between Florence and Reggiana after the semi-final of the Champions League with Juventus.
Reggiana naturally raised objections. Although they have now decided to be relegated at the end of the season, the club’s top management still hopes to make more money in the team’s last few Serie A games.
The number of people who come to watch the game on weekdays is naturally not as high as that on weekends, which is not in line with the management psychology of Reggiana Club, so they will resolutely oppose this matter.
The Italian Football Association is not stupid. When there was a dispute between the first and the penultimate league on the date of the game, these football association officials naturally expressed their support for Florence and moved the date of the game in Florence forward by two days to Friday.
The result was that that representative of the Reggiana club was very angry.
Reluctant to admit defeat, Reggiana leaked the matter to the paparazzi with a change of mind. They knew that because of Florence’s popularity, the spokesmen of these Serie A teams hoped that Florence would lose as soon as possible so that they could support the team and have enough breathing space.
Using the media to force the Football Association to retract its mandate, Reggiana’s abacus can be said to be ringing
However, the Italian media, which had high hopes from the Reggiana club, gave them a good beating.
Although these media are not very good with Florence because of their position, it can be said that they have set a new unbeaten record in Florence when they are a group of people who most expect Viola to lose-but this does not mean that they will unswervingly oppose everything in Florence.
With the Champions League final coming, the Italian media will certainly not be stupid enough to make trouble for Florence at this juncture. After all, if Florence wins the championship, it will be the glory of the whole Italian football.
Therefore, this time, just as the Reggiana Club was elated, all the Italian media pointed their guns at this doomed relegation team and criticized them for their own selfish interests and ignored the overall situation of Italian football.
Among them, the bitter words of Florence’s arch-rival Tuttosport have been to determine the relegation team. Don’t you insist on making more tickets? Wouldn’t it be easier to ask the Football Association for a sum of compensation directly?
The harsh words of the media have made the Reggiana club angry to death. Seeing the public opinion, the Italian Football Association will not care about the idea of this fishing team. In the eyes of football association officials, the Champions League final in Florence is much more important than the penultimate game of the first league.
Therefore, the Reggiana club, which was not supported, agreed to the pre-match plan.
On May 23rd, a 33rd Serie A match was played in front of Frankie Stadium.
For some economic reasons, the owner of the Reggiana club hopes that his team can teach the "outrageous" Florence a lesson, and it would be great if it could stop Viola from just creating an unbeaten league record.
But this is bound to be the wishful thinking of the president. Before the team was relegated and the club didn’t have this game, it gave huge bonuses to the players. The morale was low and the fighting spirit was low. How could Regiana be Florence’s opponent?
I’m afraid the biggest concern for Reggiana players now is not the upcoming game, but whether they can find a suitable home to take over after the transfer door is opened. After all, the income situation of Reggiana, a small club that has been relegated from Serie A, is absolutely unable to pay their salaries at the current salary level of these players during the season.
So vieri scored a goal in the game, and Inzaghi led Fiorentina to beat Reggiana 3-0 at home neatly, extending the unbeaten record of the league to 60 games and winning the upcoming European Champions Cup final!
Chapter 461 Battle of Munich (1)
Capello gave the players a day off after the match against Reggiana, which was a little relaxation for them not to break the string before the final.
However, Capello is obviously a little worried this time. Most of Fiorentina’s first-team members have experienced the Champions League final against Ajax last season. Under such circumstances, the players naturally know that they should adjust their competitive state as before the game.
After the one-day holiday, the Florence team first held two days of closed training in the training base, and then took a special plane to Munich, the city in southern Germany, where the Champions League final was held.
In order to confuse Dortmund, the opposing coach Hitzfeld couldn’t guess his starting line-up. This time, Capello brought all the first-team members of Florence to Munich.
Capello stunned Hitzfeld with this move. The German coach cursed the Italians in his heart. Indeed, no one is a good thing, and every one is more cunning.
After all, everyone knows that the depth of Florence’s bench is the first in Europe. Of course, this does not mean that the number of Fiorentina’s first-team players is terrible, but the Viola bench is much more than other teams.
Don’t say don’t look at the Viola striker configuration in their first team can serve as the main striker of a giant team, including Ronaldo, batistuta, filippo inzaghi and vieri!
Isn’t this crazy? Hitzfeld is very headache about this. After all, these players have the ability to decide the game and their technical characteristics are different. Therefore, it is difficult for Hitzfeld to make targeted tactical arrangements for Florence without getting the starting list of Florence.
Hitzfeld is guessing that Florence was in great distress in the starting lineup in the final, but on the other side, Capello has read several Dortmund game videos. He really expressed great pressure. Now he can guess what the starting lineup of the other side is like with his eyes closed. Because Dortmund is a strong team that can wrestle with Bayern in the Bundesliga, but it is still insufficient in the depth of the bench. Otherwise, Hitzfeld would not have lost the Bundesliga champion who has won two consecutive championships in the Champions League.
As the Champions League final was held in Germany, Dortmund, a German club, was among the finalists, so Dortmund naturally got more care in many aspects. For example, Dortmund fans were more likely to buy tickets during the ticket sale. In the team training, the arrangement is also from Dortmund, Germany, and it is more preferential.
Florence was prepared for this, because their opponent Ajax was treated like this in Rome at this time last year. Now it’s just a role exchange. It’s no big deal …
What’s more, during the Champions League group stage of the season, Fiorentina players have already played a game with the home team Bayern Munich, so they are no strangers to this stadium.
As time went by, the final day soon arrived.
Although Munich people are very sorry that Bayern failed to hold the Champions League final at home, it did not dispel the fans’ enthusiasm for the final. On this day, Munich citizens hung the flags of Florence and Dortmund in coordination with the organizers on both sides of the street leading to the Olympic Stadium, which set off a warm atmosphere for the Champions League final.
Sitting in the car leading to the stadium, Zhuang Ge found that the number of Dortmund flags on both sides of the street far exceeded that of Florence. Looking around, a piece of gold represents Florence purple, which is really not much to see.
"Now I have a little understanding of Ajax’s mood in Rome at this time last year. This atmosphere really makes people feel uncomfortable." However, Zhuang Ge felt that Karin and Rebecca were snickered.
Munich Olympic Stadium, which can accommodate nearly 70,000 fans, was packed on the evening of 20th.
Of course, most fans hold high the Dortmund logo or jerseys and dye the three stands with Dortmund characteristics in yellow and black; Although nearly 20,000 Florence fans can gather in one stand due to the number disadvantage, they are not to be outdone. They have also tried their best to dye the whole stand purple!
"President Johansson, President beckenbauer is very happy to see you here." Zhuang Ge, the official representative of Florence Club, and his party naturally entered the stadium through the VIP passage. As soon as they entered the door, they saw several acquaintances who hurriedly stepped forward and greeted them.
"Hey Antonio little! Why are you so polite? There is no paparazzi ambush here … Florence’s performance this year is really excellent! I’m almost envious … By the way, congratulations to your team for creating the longest unbeaten record in five major leagues. "Because GM and the German Football Association have a close personal relationship with Zhuang Ge, beckenbauer didn’t put any football emperor in front of Zhuang Ge and greeted Zhuang Ge casually.
"Ha-ha, Franz is jealous of my Florence grades. Just say it, and say I’m polite …" Zhuang Ge said with a bad smile.
"You little boy, I thought you were serious. Why are you getting so bad now?" Beckenbauer some naively said that his partner is a very honest man, only to find out after contact that this little guy is full of ghost ideas, although many of his ideas are very constructive …
President Corleone, I am looking forward to seeing a wonderful final here today. Compared with beckenbauer’s enthusiasm Johansson, it is much more polite. I am quite optimistic about Florence and hope your team can get a satisfactory result at the end of the game.