Chapter 719: Mr. Double

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Immediately afterwards, the host announced the player who won the second place in the selection, and this time it was Ronaldo, the winner of the last World Footballer of the Year, who took the stage to receive the award. In the past year, the aliens have performed well in both the national team and the club, so this time Ronaldo won the Ballon on Silver, and no one has expressed any doubts about it.

At the same time, the Fiorentina players have already started their celebrations in the conference room in advance!

"This is the second World Footballer of the Year from our Fiorentina team!" Effenberg laughed and opened a can of beer, held it up in the air, and shouted happily, "Let's have a toast for Ronnie to win the Silver Globe!" ”

"And Christian!" Stamm, who had already secretly drunk a large can of beer, added inarticulate as he reached for the large pile of food on the table.

"That's right!" Inzaghi jumped out with a beer can and said, "In the future, when we in Fiorentina compete with other teams, we can have a super luxury forward composed of two world footballers!" If nothing else, I'm afraid this name alone can scare a lot of people to death! ”

"Haha, plus these gentlemen, including Philip, Fernando (Redondo) and the captain, our current squad in Florence can definitely be called the most luxurious in Europe!" Toldo, who was also holding a large glass of beer, said cheerfully that the Italian international was also very excited to see how strong the team he played for had become.

(Note: Inzaghi and Redondo lost to Ronaldo in last year's World Footballer of the Year contest and finished second or third respectively, so they are known as Mr. Quasi, which means that they have the strength to compete for the Ballon d'Or but for some reason they were not really crowned, and Effenberg is also the same)

At the same time, a voice from the television added to the already lively atmosphere in the conference room: "Now I announce that the winner of the 1998 World Footballer of the Year award is ...... Christian Vieri from Fiorentina FC in Italy! ”

After the World Footballer of the Year ceremony, Vieri and Ronaldo did not immediately return to Florence to participate in the team's training, but ran together to Paris, France, where the French Football magazine invited them to attend the European Ballon d'Or, and also gave them both a long interview to be published in the new issue of French football.

This is the envy of other players in the Fiorentina team, you must know that the two major awards of the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or can be said to be the most coveted personal honor of all professional footballers, and now Vieri has the opportunity to become the second "Double Footballer of the Year" in the history of Fiorentina club, how can this not make them feel excited?

To be realistic, although Vieri and Ronaldo have no direct relationship with other Fiorentina players, please don't forget that the more gentlemen and superstars in the Fiorentina team, the more valuable others will also have a certain effect on the value of others - after all, the players who can play with these superstars in the same team want to know that their strength will definitely not be worse, and if other teams want to poach Fiorentina, they will naturally have to pay more transfer fees and give better treatment.

On the evening of Vieri and Ronaldo's arrival in France, the final results of the European Ballon d'Or were finally announced - Vieri, the new world footballer of the year, beat his alien teammates and successfully won this year's European Ballon d'Or!

Compared with the proud Vieri, Ronaldo seemed quite unlucky, in both selections, the alien only won the second place, quite embarrassingly won a double silver ball title; The Bronze Globe was awarded to Robert Baggio.

Ronaldo wasn't the unluckiest of all the candidates, though, as his Brazilian team-mate Rivaldo finished fourth in both selections and didn't even get on the podium......

After the announcement of the European Ballon d'Or, Fiorentina have welcomed the 14th round of Serie A this weekend, this time against promoted side Perugia.

Since Fiorentina played away from home, Vieri and Ronaldo did not get the opportunity to show the trophy to the fans before the game - after all, this is the home of Perugia, and letting them show the trophy here is tantamount to slapping all Perugia people in the face in broad daylight, and it is strange that Perugia will not play with Fiorentina at that time.

Fiorentina, who had a full week of rest, played the main part of the game: Vieri and Ronaldo partnered to form a gentleman-level striker, Effenberg and Redondo were the two gentlemen in midfield, Makelele was dedicated to defending, Ljungberg was responsible for the wide attack, Robert Carlos and Zambrotta were separated on the back, Nesta and Materazzi were partnered in the middle, and Toldo was still in the starting goalkeeper position.

The reason why Materazzi was put on the field, instead of letting Stamm or Hyypia be the starter, Capello had his own considerations: Materazzi had a very unpleasant time when he played in Perugia, and of course he wanted to "repay" the old club in this game, so Capello naturally pushed the boat to send Materazzi a favor, anyway, with Perugia's lineup, no matter who Stam and Materazzi played, the difference is really not big.

Perugia's table since the start of this season's Serie A is very much in line with the positioning of a promoted polo team, with the goal of relegation, they have a good table against the middle and lower teams, and when they play against the seven sisters of Serie A or a slightly inferior team, although they will also try to play these games well, but due to the huge gap in strength between the teams, Perugia's performance in the face of strong opponents is often unsatisfactory, once the big score is behind, they will unconsciously give up resistance.

As a result, the Perugia players at home were quite proactive in the first 20 minutes of the game, constantly attacking the Fiorentina goal in an attempt to take advantage of the home advantage to get some points on the league leaders.

However, Florence soon proved that the Perugia dream was nothing more than a delusional dream.

In the 22nd minute of the game, Perugia was intercepted by Redondo in the middle of the attack, and the Argentine midfielder immediately sent a long pass over the top, and the ball accurately fell in front of Ronaldo, who was successful in the anti-offside position, and the alien who formed a single knife easily scored a goal, 1-0!

After conceding the first goal, Perugia, who was eager to fight back, was soon broken through again by Fiorentina - Vieri shook the hearts of the Perugia players with a furious shot on the counter-attack in the 25th minute!

Eight minutes later, when Materazzi scored with a header from Redondo's corner to extend Fiorentina's advantage to three goals, the Perugia gave up their resistance altogether – in their opinion, rather than fighting the mighty Fiorentina to the death, it would be better to keep their strength and compete with their direct rivals in the relegation battle.

In the end, when the game was over, the score was fixed at 5-0, and Effenberg and substitute Inzaghi each scored the icing on the cake to give Fiorentina a big win to end the last game of 1998!