Chapter 335: Triggered by Italy's Exit (Part I)

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The news that Italy, the runner-up of the last Shijie Cup, was eliminated in the group stage of this European Cup quickly reached the ears of all Shijie fans, and this big upset made countless experts and fans fall through the glasses.

What's going on here? How did the runner-up of the Shijie Cup two years ago not even qualify for the group stage at the European Cup?

Such a huge gap, coupled with the current situation of Serie A teams in the European arena over the years, has made Italian fans full of resentment and anger at the poor performance of the national team in this European Championship.

Therefore, Zola, who missed a key penalty in the life-and-death battle with Germany, has been criticized by many Italian fans and the media, but his situation is quite good, after all, the Italian fell on the twelve-yard point two years ago, with such a foreshadowing, so Italian fans are still acceptable for Zola to miss a penalty this time.

Because the Italian national team was eliminated in the group stage, which caused great dissatisfaction among the fans, forced by the pressure of public opinion, and at the same time in order to appease the fans as soon as possible, the Italian Football Federation naturally found and announced the reason for the national team's early exit as soon as possible to calm the public anger.

However, Chairman Perrault obviously does not need to worry too much about this matter, because this reason is already clearly in front of him.

National Team Coach, Arango Sacchi!

The Italian Football Federation's move to throw Sacchi in front of the table is understandable, after all, this guy's insistence on abandoning Pagliuca and Roberto Baggio, the two major contributors of the American Shijie Cup, has caused outrage, plus the players who insisted on using AC Milan and Parma no matter what the circumstances, and turned a blind eye to Fiorentina, who had achieved excellent results in the past two years, these things have undoubtedly become the Italian Football Federation's accusations of head coach Sacchi's self-righteousness.

Especially after this season's Purple Hundred Synthesis won the treble, Sacchi's preferred choice of players in the European Championship has caused dissatisfaction among many fans and even the Football Association.

Costacuta, who has declined sharply, and Peruzzi, who has obvious weaknesses, can sit firmly in the position of the main central defender and goalkeeper of the national team, and the twin stars Nesta and Toldo, who played an important role in the road to the Fiorentina treble, were stunned to sit on the bench and did not get a minute to play, and the Dinghaishen Needle Ferrara in the Fei Lengcui back line did not even enter the 22-person squad, and Sacchi's selection criteria were once again questioned by countless people at this moment.

How can Abroni and Costa Kuta compare to the central defensive duo of Ferrara and Nesta!

Is Peruzzi better than Tordo and Pagliuca?

Three-time Serie A top scorer Signori, Italian football's pride Roberto Baggio, and Filippo Inzaghi, who is on the rise of Fiorentina, which one is better at scoring goals than Casirachi, Ravanelli and Roscito?

Even if you say that these people are not physically fit and can't play the role of a striker, then why is Vialli, who is the captain of Juve, ignored by you?

However, the Italian Football Association has no right to interfere with Sacchi's choice of which player to enter the national team, and there have been several times over the years when the Football Association has not been able to see and Sacchi has communicated privately a few times, but Sacchi is also unusually tough to the Football Association officials that the national team is his own territory, and no one, including the Football Association, is allowed to interfere in his own arrangement.

Since then, the relationship between the Football Association and Sacchi has also begun to deteriorate, but the Italian Football Association is not good to openly turn against Sacchi, after all, the local coach has led the team to win the Shijie Cup runner-up, if the relationship is stiff at that time or even dismissed Sacchi, the Football Association will inevitably suffer from many people's accusations.

And now, at this point in time when Sacchi's personal prestige has declined significantly, it is the Football Association's best chance of retaliation.

As the saying goes: if you don't accumulate virtue in ordinary times, the wall will fall down and everyone will push it. Sacchi, who led the Italian national team to "victory" in the group at the European Championship, faced such a situation at this time.

The Football Association regarded him as the culprit of the national team's early exit, and fans thought that his stubbornness ruined Italy's good prospects for winning the championship, and the media, which has always been at odds with Sacchi, also took the opportunity to fall into the trap at this moment.

As a result, the rebellious Sacchi had no choice but to hold a secret meeting with Football Association officials in Rome after the team flew back to Italy, and then Sacchi held a press conference, publicly stating that he was responsible for the early exit of the Italian national team at the European Championship, and announced his official resignation as head coach of the Italian national team.

However, Italy's early exit did not stop with Sacchi's resignation, with Gianfranco Zola's initial determination to stay at Parma to prove to the fans that his disappointing performance at the Euros, was nothing more than an accident. But Parma's new head coach Carlo Ancelotti didn't like the small striker and didn't intend to give him the absolute core of the team anymore, and after a secret conversation between the two, although it is not known what the two had discussed, Zuihou's result was that Parma put the team's former core Gianfranco Zola up for sale.

At this time, Chelsea, who had just signed Kripa for six million dollars, quickly stepped in to Zola's transfer and successfully signed Zola from Parma for £4.5 million!

"Gurlitt made a good deal this time." Zhuang Mingge, who was reading the newspaper, sighed when he saw the news of Zola's transfer to Chelsea.

As a traverser, Zhuang Mingge certainly knows how great energy Zola will burst out after joining Chelsea, not to mention, in Zhuang Mingge's previous life, Zola defeated Gullit, Vialli, Desailly, Hasselbaink, Terry and many other stars who have played for Chelsea and were elected as the greatest players in Chelsea history, which alone is enough to prove that Zola's performance at Chelsea is absolutely amazing.

However, although he knows Zola's ability, Zhuang Mingge has no intention of taking Zola sideways, because he knows that Zola is the kind of player who needs to be the absolute core of the team to be able to play his ability.

After selling Zola, Parma did not stop purging, and Stoichkov returned to Barcelona after an unhappy season in Italy, joining the Bulgarian and Portuguese centre-back Fernando Couto.

At the same time, at Carlo Ancelotti's behest, the elder Tanzi quickly got the players he wanted: Enrique Chiesa, who scored 22 league goals for Sampdoria this season, announced his move to the Milk Army, and Brazilian right-back Gianluigi Zemaria also moved from Flamengo.

In this way, with Italy's early exit as an opportunity, Parma took the lead in the change, and at the same time triggered a series of unexpected chain reactions.