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For a player to be able to play in an international tournament like the World Cup, it is something he has dreamed of for the rest of his career. However, due to the limited number of participants in the World Cup, each national team is destined to have only twenty-two lucky winners to participate in this quadrennial event. Therefore, at this time, countless players who are hovering on the edge of the national team gate will desperately show themselves, hoping to be one of the lucky ones.

Now, when the old Maldini has made it clear, all the players who hope to participate in next year's World Cup have begun to express their determination to the old horse through various channels, get the opportunity to participate in this national team training camp, and then compete for a place in the World Cup 22-2 squad in the old Maldini's heart.

For the elder Maldini, he already knows the main lineup of the Italian national team. This friendly match, as he said in an interview, was specially arranged to check whether the form and characteristics of those fringe internationals met the tactical needs of the national team.

It is for this reason that newcomers such as Ambrosini and Coco, who have little national team experience, as well as old internationals such as Di Livio and Costacuta, who have been marginalized since the arrival of Maldini Sr., have all been recruited into the 22-man squad for the Italian national team this time. On the other hand, Fiorentina, as a big international player, is only one person this time, among all the Italian players in the first team of the Purple Lily, only one player Zanetti was brought to the national team by the old Maldini to participate in this training camp, and the other players have rarely got a small long vacation.

Both Materazzi and Fortunato were frustrated by not being called up to the national team. The former is easy to say, after all, the national team can be said to be full of talents in the position of central defender, Ferrara, Nesta, Bergomi, Cannavaro...... Even Maldini can have a world-class performance in the central defender position, and Materazzi, who is still lacking in ability, is facing such fierce competition, it is normal that he cannot enter the national team, and there is nothing to complain about.

Fortunato, who was hailed as Maldini's successor more than three years ago, experienced a leukemia, although he can still serve as a rotation player for the Serie A giants in terms of ability, but the gap period of nearly two years and the fact that he has never been able to dominate the competition with the two main left-backs of Fiorentina before and after Lanna and Carlos has almost lost the possibility of playing for the national team again. After all, defence-oriented Italy has never lacked good defenders. In the national team, Maldini Jr. is the first choice in this position, and even if he is unable to play for some reason, players such as Pexoto, Benarivo and Di Livio can fill this gap, and Fortunato has no advantage at all in this regard.

This precious little holiday was used by the Fiorentina players to regain the energy they had spent more than two months in the first two months, after all, the season has just begun, and the competition within the team is extremely fierce, and no one wants to be excluded from the tournament by the manager for being overly hedonistic during this holiday.

Although Fiorentina's first team did not have many players removed because of the national team this time, several of the players on loan of the Purple Lily were written on the new national team squad by the old horse. For example, Andrea Pirlo, who was loaned to Vicenza and hailed as a talented midfielder, Di Natale, who has a good role at Ajax this season, and Gattuso, who has earned the nickname "White Davies" at Monaco with his running and interceptions.

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The time will soon be on November 5th, and on this day, the play-offs of the European zone of the World Cup qualifiers will officially begin!

With Italy topping the group and qualifying directly, Russia's opponent in the World Cup play-offs this time turned into a more technically rough England national team.

While Russia's luck seemed good, avoiding the mighty Italy against a weaker England, in reality, it was even more difficult for the Russians to meet England in the play-offs than if they were against Italy.

In the face of the England national team, which is not weaker than itself in terms of body and tactics, and is even more comprehensive in terms of technical and tactical aspects, the Russians have no advantage at all. In the two-legged play-offs, Russia was first held to a 1-1 draw at home; A week later, at Wembley Stadium, the "Polar Bears" looked a little listless under the influence of the warm current of the North Atlantic, and the Three Lions finally won the game 2-0 to the cheers of tens of thousands of British fans!

In the end, England eliminated Russia 3-1 on aggregate and got a ticket to the World Cup in France.

After missing the World Cup in the United States, England, the birthplace of modern football, is back on the World Cup stage!

And Russia's exit means that in next year's World Cup in France, fans will not be able to see the curtain call performance of the former Soviet Union stars such as "Tsar" Mostovoy, Karpin, and winger Kanchelsky in the World Cup, which has to be said to be a huge regret.

With the official end of the thrilling play-offs, it was announced that the dust had settled on the European qualifiers for the World Cup, and a total of 15 European teams, including the host France, had obtained the ticket to next year's World Cup, accounting for nearly half of the top 32 seats, which shows the strength of European football.

Looking at the Italian national team again, because the old Maldini has called too many newcomers this time, there is a lack of sufficient tacit understanding between the players, so there have been many mistakes in the game due to the lack of tacit understanding between the players.

For example, for example, Di Livio as a left wing-back and Benarivo as a left wing-back behind him, they belong to the category of not calling at all in the game, the old Maldini expects Di Livio to attract the attention of the defenders, Benarivo takes the opportunity to insert an assist at the side of the routine is completely unachievable at their feet, either the former directly sprints forward with the ball, or the latter does not realize that he should be plugged in and cooperate with the former at this time.

Had it not been for Andrea Pirlo and Ambrosini, as well as substitutes Toni and Koko, who had relied on the skilful work of this small group to stabilize the situation on the pitch, Maldini Sr.'s side would have had an embarrassing result at the end of the game.

In this way, at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, the Apennine Army, which responded with a ragtag army, finally won the opponent with a score of 2-1 with goals from Pirlo and Ambrosini, and finally gave an explanation to the fans who came to cheer.