During the period when Zhuang Mingge left, Fiorentina, which had already completed the initial running-in, was smooth sailing in the second division.

In November's four league games and one Italian Cup, Fiorentina won a complete victory. Ranieri saw the potential of these young people and admired his boss's vision.

"The boss's vision is really accurate! Not to mention those players who were originally playing in Serie A, Vieri, Inzagi, Montera, these unfamous strikers also scored goals, Tomasi's running ability is very good, and Tordo is also a good seedling of world-class goalkeepers. Even if he is the worst potential among these people, I think he can still be the main force of the relegation team in the future." After a training session, Ranieri excitedly said to his assistant, "As long as the club can keep these players, I will give me 5 years, I can make Fiorentina the second Sampdoria!"

If Zhuang Mingge heard this, he would definitely say that Ranieri was too conservative: "If you hand over this team to Mourinho, he will be able to bring it back to the Champions League in three years."

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After the trip to France, Zhuang Mingge did not return to Florence, but flew from Monaco to the United States. He was preparing to start a project that he had been expected for a long time: to establish a modern experimental center. However, due to the technical conditions in this era, he had to build a physical therapy center first to minimize the frequency of players' injuries. The other one, who is responsible for establishing a player database, performing computer management, analysis and prediction, will take some time to build an information center.

Injuries are a terrible thing for any team.

For example, Redondo, when Milan spent $17 million to introduce the Argentine in the summer of 2001, Redondo fell to the ground shortly after being seriously injured in a training session. This time, it can be said that both Redondo and Milan suffered heavy losses. The Argentine superstar has fallen from then on, and it was not until 26 months later that he played his first game for Milan and announced his retirement two years later; and Milan spent all the tens of millions of dollars to be wasted.

Countless stars disappeared from the green field prematurely due to injuries: Van Basten, Paul Sousa, Irving Hargreaves, Santa Cruz and Michael Irving, who recently announced his retirement... There are too many similar examples, so building a world-class physiotherapy center is the key to ensuring that Florence achieves good results in the future.

"Tony, since it is said that it is necessary to build a physiotherapy center, there are many sports medicine experts in Europe. Why do you have to come to the United States?" Karin looked puzzled. In the eyes of Europeans, American products are never comparable to European local products. This is reflected in many aspects, such as the NBA claims to be the best basketball league in the world, but there are still many European stars who are unwilling to play in the NBA every year. They believe that the European league is the world's top event.

But we have to admire the team doctor of the NBA team. NBA teams have to play 12 people in more than 6 months to 82 regular season games. This is not counting in the subsequent playoffs. This density of games has not caused large-scale injuries. It has to be said that their team doctor does have two tricks.

Although football and basketball are different in many aspects, football and basketball still have a common language when it comes to injury issues.

The purpose of Zhuang Mingge's trip to the United States is to come to the United States to abduct two very famous doctors from later generations - Aaron Nelson, an assistant trainer of the Suns and Thomas Carter, an orthopedic expert.

When it comes to Suns team doctors, the core of them are two people, namely its assistant trainer, Aaron Nelson and orthopedic expert Thomas Carter.

Aaron Nelson, a name that is somewhat unfamiliar to fans, has a very high status in the American sports world. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, he was a member of the Sports Medicine Committee of the US Olympic delegation. At that time, not only the American men's basketball team, but also the physical condition tracking of the 100-meter swimmer Gatling and the swimming prodigy Phelps, all belonged to Nelson's work. In 1993, Nelson began to serve as an assistant trainer for the Suns. Usually the trainers did not participate in the NBA team building work, but Nelson and the Suns were an exception. When the Suns introduced Hill in 2007, it was him who "shapeds Hill"

The health guarantee of the ankle "makes the Suns' top leaders eliminated the suspicion created by public opinion. Similar stories happened before and after Stoudemire's minimally invasive surgery. As we all know, Xiao Si signed a big contract and then exposed the injury. In response to the fraud of the Suns and whether Xiao Si can recover successfully, it caused a lot of saliva in the American sports medicine community. "Minimal invasiveness is not scary." Although Nelson's statement now makes the scalp tight, no one can deny it. Xiao Si's first season after recovering, he delivered a record of 20.4 points and 9.6 rebounds per game. After that, O'Neal and Reed had a series of impressive results.

As for another Thomas Carter who used a team doctor to describe it, it is obviously a bit disrespectful. This is one of the best orthopedic surgeons recognized in the United States, especially the absolute expert in knee meniscus and cartilage injuries. As we all know, this is the most troublesome part of NBA players. He even owns patents for joint endoscopic instruments. Since August 2000, Thomas Carter has become the chief team doctor of the Suns. He is also the backbone think tank of many hospitals and medical research institutions.

If you have read O'Neal's autobiography, you will intuitively feel the writing idea of ​​"the whole world is a bad person". However, when mentioning Thomas Carter's chapter in the autobiography, O'Neal gave a very objective evaluation: "He is first a friend of the player, and secondly a doctor." O'Neal admitted that knee problems have been tortured by him for a long time than the outside world imagined, and he once thought that he needed a larger-scale operation, "But Thomas said, don't use the knife if you can do it, which is beneficial to you." O'Neal said, "If I hadn't listened to him, my retirement date might have been two years ahead of schedule." Dr. Carter's philosophy of medicine is: As long as the surgery can be avoided, it must be avoided.

Grant Hill also experienced it when he came to the Suns. Hill, who had already had numb surgery on the Magic, acted like "It doesn't matter if I have surgery, anyway, my knee has been moved by millions of dollars." Dr. Carter just said calmly: "No surgery." Hill has only played 200 games in the seven years of the Magic. Hill, who has experienced five comeback failures, came to Phoenix at the age of 35. He missed 15 games in four years here - especially in the three seasons from 2008 to 2011, and he only missed 3 games. In every game, Hill can be seen actively running, jumping and dunking, and has become the healthiest player in the league.

Fortunately, Nelson was just treated as an ordinary trainer by the Sun and did not spread it to the magical ones later. Thomas Carter has not yet signed a contract with the Sun. In addition to working at Arizona State Hospital, he also received some private medical consultations. Now it is Zhuang Mingge's best opportunity to poach the two of them.

Thomas Carter is now a well-known sports medicine expert in the United States, so Zhuang Mingge easily found Carter's address and contact information and took Karin to Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, USA.

At Arizona State Hospital, Zhuang Mingge and Karin met Dr. Thomas Carter. At first glance, they would think Carter was dressed in neatly. When they communicated, they would find that Carter was a very introverted person.

Since Zhuang Mingge had sent someone to make an appointment with Dr. Carter in advance, Thomas Carter also knew that the young man who was visiting him was the chairman of a European club.

In Carter's office, Zhuang Mingge and Carter politely spoke to each other and got to the point: "Doctor Carter, I know you are the most famous sports medicine expert in the United States. This time I came here mainly to invite you to join Florence as the head of the club's upcoming physiotherapy center."

Thomas Carter is still a little famous now, and there is no such constraints as a cooperation agreement with local Arizona enterprises and organizations. After Zhuang Mingge promised to provide sufficient financial guarantees for the physiotherapy center, Carter readily agreed to Zhuang Mingge's invitation.

"Happy cooperation." Carter was very happy to be the director of a physiotherapy center. "But I can't join Florence right now. Someone from Qatar asked me to see him."

"It's OK, Dr. Carter, but I hope you can issue a list of medical equipment that the club needs to purchase as soon as possible so that the team's medical work can get on track as soon as possible."

Carter agreed happily, saying that he would hand over the list to Zhuang Mingge via fax as soon as possible.

After saying goodbye to Carter, Zhuang Mingge rushed to meet with Suns' general manager Colangolo. After agreeing to sponsor the Suns' total of $5 million in the next three years, Colangolo readily agreed to Zhuang Mingge's request for Aaron Nelson to go to Florence to serve as a team doctor.

Afterwards, Aaron Nelson, who was called by Colangelo, did not have much objection after learning that he had been "sold". Zhuang Mingge, who was already ready to speak, felt that he had punched him on the cotton.

In fact, job-changing is a kind of abilities in the eyes of Americans. Only those who are incompetent will stick to a company and refuse to leave. This is a cultural difference.
Chapter completed!