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Chapter 93 Saki's Stubbornness

A few days later, Mullensten flew from Qatar to Fiorentina. Because he had experience in leading the team independently, Zhuang Mingge signed a job contract with Mullensten, hiring him as the director of the youth training department in Florence to manage the youth echelons at all levels in Florence. He will also serve as the head coach of the youth team of Florence.

Because Moniz has not been a coach for a long time and has not had enough experience, he is classified under the Youth Training Department and serves as the technical director, and is responsible for the technical training of young players.

As for the old coach who worked diligently in Florence for many years, he wisely accepted the suggestion put forward by Zhuang Mingge to let him retreat to the "second line". The old coach who completed his mission accepted a job of retirement arranged for him by Zhuang Mingge. The one who replaced him as the head coach of the Florence youth team was the Dutchman Murensten, who had just taken office in Florence.

When Mullensten and Moniz came to Florence, they took a fancy to the little Pirlo, whom Zhuang Mingge had previously recommended to the two. The two with green eyes immediately formulated a special training plan for Pirlo overnight. The complex content on it made Pirlo, who was already mentally prepared, stunned.

Not to mention that Pirlo lives a life of "pain and happiness" under the care of several "masters", let us turn our attention back to the Serie A field in the 1994-95 season.

In the ninth round of Serie A, Fiorentina continued to play the singular song under the leadership of Batistuta and defeated the visiting Bari 2-0 at home. Batistuta scored a goal to secure the victory, which was also his twelfth goal in the league this season.

In another game played at the same time, Parma, who had previously played alongside Fiorentina in the standings, tied with AC Milan at Stadium San Siro, and Fiorentina once again took the lead at the ninth round.

Since Batistuta scored goals in nine consecutive games since the start of the new season of Serie A, such outstanding performance naturally attracted the attention of many Italian media. Soon, the second day after the game against Bari, some media found a long-standing Serie A continuous goal record: the previous personal continuous goal record in the Serie A was set by a striker named Pasti. He scored goals in 10 consecutive games in the 1962-63 season. Batistuta scored another goal in the tenth round, and could tie this record that had been blocked for more than 30 years.

However, fans want to see Batistuta tie the record for a week, because the next weekend is the international match day stipulated by FIFA, and the tenth round of the Serie A will not start in two weeks.

Although Fiorentina has achieved good results this season, there are very few players recruited into the national team in the first team. Apart from Batistuta, who has long been the center of the Argentina national team's regular Indian team, only Djokav, who was recruited by the new French coach Jake, was "observed" by the national team.

As for Effenberg, another big-name foreign aid in the team? Sorry, Fogtz said that the impression Tigers left on him in the World Cup in the United States was so bad that he no longer wanted to give Effenberg a chance to join the national team.

As for Florence's local gang, it was even more tragic. Although Old Man Saki finally failed in the World Cup in the United States, the World Cup runner-up score was enough to block the mouths of many people.

So, the stubborn Sakchi continued to stick to his ideas. Although the two veterans, Baresi and Tasotti, announced their retirement from the national team after the World Cup, Sakchi still recruited five players from the poor AC Milan club, including Maldini Jr. and Albertini. Parma, ranked second, was selected by as many as seven! No one in the Serie A standings.

"Alanggo (Saki) did too much!" Antonioni saw the new Italian national team roster in the newspaper, and smashed the stack of newspapers onto the table. "We performed so well that this old guy would turn a blind eye!"

"Okay, don't be angry, come and take a sip to calm down." Zhuang Mingge handed Antonioni a cup of black tea he had just made and smiled, "I, the boss, wasn't angry. What's the matter with you being so angry? Besides, take a closer look, aren't there no names of Robert Baggio and Paliuca on the list?"

"Huh? This is really... Then tell me, what does this old man want to do?!" Antonioni was still angry and still had some flush on his face that had not yet subsided. "Or he would simply take AC Milan and Parma's mixed team to play in the European Cup in England!"

"I think the reason why there is no Fiorentine player selected may be because Sachi thinks we have no experience. In addition, the league has just begun, he wants to continue to observe Fiorentine's strength." Zhuang Mingge could only tell Antonioni in a nice way, so as not to get angry again.

"What happened to Baggio and Paliuka's defeat?"

"Jan Carlo, do you still remember the comment from "Milan Sports" after the World Cup?" Zhuang Mingge took a sip of black tea and asked.

"Ah, is it the comment that Saki can lead the national team to the World Cup runner-up because of the offense and Paliuka's defense?" Antonioni recalled and remembered the article that caused a lot of controversy, "You mean..."

"Yes, it is precisely because many people support this view that Sakchi wants to prove that his Italian national team does not use these two players, but can also achieve good results in the competition."

"This, this is too much of a joke, right?" Antonioni said in disbelief.

"Haha, this is just my guess. Maybe Coach Saki has other ideas." Speaking of this, Zhuang Mingge sighed in his heart. When he saw the big list offered by Saki, he already knew how unfairly Baggio and Paliukka would be treated by Saki in the next two years.

Looking back on Saki's coaching experience, it is indeed very extraordinary. He has the reputation of a "gold coach", but in fact he has won only a handful of championship honors... He was born as a shoemaker and has never received any formal coaching training. In Parma, he was the "godfather of Parma". When he came to AC Milan, he was even given the highest title of "gold coach". The series of football concepts he created that were not completely formed can deeply influence the later Capello, Ancelotti and even the younger Basten, Donadoni, Rijcard... He firmly walked his football path, a kind of advocating oppressive offense, a kind of emphasis on "life is endless and battles are endless", and a kind of Caesar's road that hopes to reshape the soul of the Italian nation. Success or failure is no longer important, he at least evokes the confidence of a nation!

It is such an extraordinary coach who can bring confidence to many people around him. After Zhuang Mingge experienced such a time-travel, he was surprised to find that Coach Sakchi revealed a strong "inferiority" emotion in his bones. With "inferiority", he can threaten the players abnormally again and again, get out of his way if he doesn't do as he asks, and he can also let the best players in the team watch the games of those unfamiliar players more than once.

Why did he repeatedly ignore the actual situation and stubbornly prove to the world that without Baggio, Paliuca's Italian national team would be even better? In the depths of his soul, isn't he a feeling of inferiority in his heart wandering alone?

The unusual experience of grassroots coaching naturally made Old Man Saki almost unique in the football circle. However, at the same time, the limitations of the grassroots coaching background also inadvertently created Old Man Saki's special style of "inferiority" hidden under the stubborn appearance!
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