Chapter 612: The End of the League (Part II)

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When Batistuta, as the team's first captain, lifted the league championship trophy, the atmosphere of the whole Frankie Stadium reached its best!

The Serie A winner of the 1997-98 season was, Fiorentina!

The AC Milan players who won the match had already left the stadium on the team bus, and they were not in the mood to watch Fiorentina celebrate their victory.

The last two seasons have been a nightmare for the Rossoneri, not to mention the league title that they once won and even European qualification has become a distant dream, so the huge gap is that the Milan players have no heart to celebrate a victory.

The Fiorentina players waved the trophy and the flag with the Fiorentina crest and celebrated the unforgettable occasion with the fans on the sidelines!

The feat of four consecutive Serie A titles is enough to make their name written in the history of football along with Fiorentina!

At this point, the 1997-98 Serie A season is over, although the fourth-to-last Atalanta still has two relegation play-offs to play, but by this time, it is estimated that no one will care about the results of the play-offs except for Atalanta fans.

Fiorentina have won 26 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses in 34 league games, accumulating 81 points, winning the Serie A title for the fourth time in a row, but there is obviously still a big gap compared to last season's 92 points against the sky.

Juventus and Inter Milan finished runners-up and third respectively in the league, while Carlo Ancelotti's Parma had the biggest laugh in the battle for fourth place in the league, with Udinese, Lazio and Roma having to accept that they would only play in the UEFA Cup next season.

With a last-minute win over Fiorentina, Claudio Ranieri's AC Milan overtook Bologna and Sampdoria in the final moments to move into ninth place in the table, missing out on European qualification.

As for last season's biggest dark horse, Vicenza was distracted by Guidolin's team too much in Europe this season, and with a lack of bench depth, the young club did not perform well in the league, and finally only overtook AC Milan to finish eighth in the league.

However, the Vicenza players were not frustrated as they reached their worst finals in the European Cup Winners' Cup and Coppa Italia this season, while Fiorentina have already secured qualification for the Champions League by their opponents in the Coppa Italia final, meaning they will qualify for next season's Cup Winners' Cup regardless of whether they win the trophy or not.

By the way, AC Milan is arguably the club that wants Vicenza to win the Cup Winners' Cup the most, apart from Vicenza itself. Because once Vicenza finally lifts the Cup Winners' Cup, then according to the rules published by UEFA, the qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup will be contested by the two teams eliminated in the semi-finals, AC Milan and Inter Milan.

In this way, whether AC Milan wins or loses, the Rossoneri will be able to secure a European place, which is of course the most desired outcome for AC Milan.

Napoli, Empoli and Brescia are the three teams who have been relegated directly from Serie A this season, while Atalanta play a two-legged play-off against Thessalonitana, with the winner qualifying for next season's Serie A.

In addition, Udinese's Oliver Bierhoff has been in astonishing form this season in the selection of the league's most coveted Golden Boot, with Zaccheroni making the most of the German centre-forward's header dominance to give the late bloomer the first Serie A Golden Boot of his career with 27 league goals in a single season.

Due to the fierce competition within the team and the multi-front battle, last season's Serie A Golden Boot Philippe Inzaghi has only scored 24 league goals this season, and has to settle for second place in the scorer list; Batistuta has started the season highs and lows, scoring a total of 17 league goals after the winter break, and is Fiorentina's second-highest scorer. Ronaldo and Vieri are joint seventh on the league scorers chart with 16 goals, along with Brescia centre-forward Hubnel; Julio Cruz continues to show his potential as a super-substitute, with Barty's Argentine compatriot scoring 12 goals in his very limited playing time, more than any of the star strikers who have made a name for themselves.

With Cruise in the past season and a half since joining Fiorentina, it was only natural that the Argentine striker had attracted a large crowd of team pursuits. Among these chasers, the Milan duo showed the most positive performance - the former urgently needed to find a striker who could take on the responsibility of scoring goals when Weah was aging and Kluivert's form was sluggish, and Cruz, who scored extremely efficiently, fell into the eyes of AC Milan general manager Galliani at this time; The latter's pursuit of Cruise is more due to the resurgence of the boss's forward collecting habits, although in the eyes of many, the Nerazzurri with Roberto Baggio (22 league goals), Djokaef (14 league goals) and Zamorano (10 league goals) already have a lot of good attackers, and there is no need to bring in other strikers.

Of course, Cruise is not the only player in the Fiorentina team who has been targeted by other clubs, and the bench players such as Ze Roberto, Zanetti and Materazzi, as well as the main rotation players such as Tomasi and Rui Costa, have also been affected by other teams.

However, at the request of Zhuang Mingge, Fiorentina avoided such topics on the grounds that "it is not appropriate to talk about this kind of topic during the preparation for the game" when mentioning the transfer issue in media interviews.

The Fiorentina players were also very cooperative with this request from the top, and they knew that if they wanted to move to another team to get a better contract, then they would have to have more championship honors. Therefore, before these two finals are over, the players will naturally not make any discordant voices at this juncture, because they know in their hearts that with one more title in the honor book, they will have more confidence to ask for higher treatment when negotiating a new contract with the club.

Therefore, after the curtain came down on Serie A, the Fiorentina players did not start to enjoy the long-awaited vacation like most players, or run to play for their country at the call of the national team manager, but were nervously preparing for the finals of the Coppa Italia and the European Champions Cup!