Chapter 1004: Preparing for the World Cup (Medium)
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"It's another big year, I really hope that this time those national team managers can be merciful and stop staring at the Fiorentina family to pull out players." Looking at the national team call-up list in front of him, Zhuang Mingge sighed in his heart, and then with a stroke of his pen, he agreed to the request of these national team coaches to recruit players from Fiorentina to prepare for the upcoming World Cup in South Korea and Japan.
As the president of Fiorentina Club and the founder of the G14, a consortium of European giants, Zhuang Mingge certainly knows that the heads of major European giants, including himself, basically have a love-hate attitude towards international competitions such as the World Cup and the European Cup.
Each club can take this opportunity to discover these dusty pearls to enhance their competitiveness, and players can also use this to accomplish the feat of carp leaping into the goal, such as Skuhlavi in the '90 World Cup, Laudrup Jr. in the '92 European Cup, the Czech Golden Generation in '96, and so on; They can also use their players' outstanding performances at major tournaments to sell for a good price, so as to raise enough funds for the renewal of the team or the normal operation of the club, such as Toldo, who was sold to Inter Milan by Fiorentina two years ago, and Zinedine Zidane, who moved from Juventus to Real Madrid for a world record last year.
The hate is that at this time, those managers will use "participating in the World Cup/European Cup/Copa America" as a reason to recklessly send players from their team to participate in the national team competition, which will often have a very negative impact on the team's preparation for next season.
You know, for these football clubs in Europe, the summer camp is a very important job. Players need to recover from their holiday form during this time, readjust to the rhythm and intensity of professional competition, prepare for the new season, and form a good rapport with their new teammates...... All in all, summer training is an invaluable part of any team.
However, those international players who represent the national team in the tournament generally return one to two weeks later than others due to time constraints, which means that they will inevitably miss part of the club's summer training activities, coupled with the fatigue caused by the competition, the state of these players in the new season is bound to be greatly affected.
If a player is injured while playing with the national team and has to be suspended due to injury, then the team that the player plays for can be said to have fallen into blood mold. Because in this way, let alone waiting for the players to return to the team and then slowly run in the lineup, their own combat effectiveness will not be weakened too much, which is enough for these clubs to shout God in their hearts.
Kaka in his previous life is a prime example, the Brazilian superstar has not had a good time since his move to Real Madrid, and the conflict with Cristiano Ronaldo over technical characteristics is only part of the reason. Kaka's move not only caused a stiff relationship with the Real Madrid hierarchy, making his starting position replaced by newcomers such as Mesut Ozil, but also led to the recurrence of an old injury in his left knee, and his form plummeted.
That's why clubs are so reluctant to respond to the call-up order issued by the national team. After all, it is they who pay the players' salaries, not to mention the free use of the national team, and they have to pay for the injury, which affects the results and income of the new season, and no one will stand up to take responsibility for it, and anyone will feel unhappy.
However, it seems that because Fiorentina's record this season is not impressive, the attention of the national team managers is mostly attracted by the players and teams who are more impressive. And this, directly led to this World Cup, Purple Lily was selected by various national teams to have a lot fewer players than before, so that Heynckes shouted luck in his heart - the more players are not selected for the national team squad, it means that the players can have more time to prepare this summer, and the team will be more sure of good results in the new season.
Gianluigi Buffon, Nesta and Ljungberg were the absolute backbone of the national team, but those who played substitute and fringe roles in the national team were treated in the opposite direction, such as Italian national team coach Dino Zoff, who this time excluded the likes of Gattuso, Zanetti and Ferrara, and instead handed these valuable training camps to the better three players of Di Biagio, Tomasi and Glendoni.
As Zoff pays more attention to the form of the players and the results of the team he plays for this season, Fiorentina only six people have been selected for the Italian national team for the World Cup in South Korea and Japan (note: Panucci moved to Roma after Fiorentina won the Champions League in 01), and the number of finalists is the lowest since Sacchi stepped down as national team manager in '96.
Although he has secured the main position this season, Deco has not been favored by Brazilian coach Scolari, and he has made up his mind to use Ronaldo and Rivaldo, two famous superstars, and Ronaldinho, a newcomer he is quite optimistic about, to build an attacking combination, and naturally Phil will not add a player who needs the ball, and he prefers to use midfielders such as Kleberson and Gilberto to focus on defense, rather than an organizational midfielder like Deco whose style of play has been Europeanized.
In addition, because the Netherlands, known as the uncrowned king, was unexpectedly eliminated in the qualifiers and missed the World Cup finals, Stam, as the main central defender of the orange team, also did not have to work hard for the World Cup, so he had to focus all his energy on the club, intending to get some honors for the team in the new season.
Unlike Gattuso and Deco, who were unlucky enough to be selected for the World Cup squad, Makelele, who has never been taken seriously by the national team, was directly selected by Le Maire into the French national team this time. However, the French media and fans' evaluation of this is that if it were not for Deschamps' retirement and Petit's unexpected sinking in Barcelona, the 29-year-old Makelle may still have no future in the national team......
In this way, after the national teams of various countries announced their squads for the World Cup, people were surprised to find that only ten players in the Fiorentina squad had qualified for the World Cup in South Korea and Japan!