football redemption

Chapter 98 Milan Derby
After getting old coach Ranieri, Shaqi returned to Florence to meet with Lao Gaoli.

"Look, our little hero is back."

"Grandpa, I am 21 years old this year."

Seeing old Gaoli and Xia Qi involuntarily feel a little closeness in his heart. This is certainly a blood relationship, but it is more of Xia Qi's respect for the old man. The future club chairman will never be as humane as Lao Gaoli and Moratti.

In the office, the two first chatted about some of the family's short stories, and Xia Qi should do his filial piety when he becomes a little Gaoli...

"Grandpa, I want to hire a general manager to take my place. I think it would be better to entrust professional things to professional people."

"Xiao Gaoli, I'm old, I..."

"Grandpa I know, I am not leaving Fiorentina, I like it here, I will always stay by your side, I just want to change positions, I am 21 years old, maybe my football potential is not great, but I want to try, of course if I can't, I will come back as vice president."

"..."

The two exchanged opinions on Xia Qi's future as a player. Seeing that Xia Qi was very determined, Gao Li had to back down.

"Do you have a suitable candidate?"

"No, I think Manchester United's Peter Kenyon and Chelsea's Kane are pretty good, you can think about it."

Of course the CEO wants old Gao Qi to play the role, Xia Qi's weight is not enough.

The two chatted about the prospect of Florence again,

Lao Gaoli has already developed all the projects that should be open source in Florence, but Lao Gaoli spends money lavishly, unable to make ends meet.

So while chatting, the two set their sights overseas.

"Grandpa, China has one billion people, and their economy is developing at a high speed. As far as I know, their state-owned TV station has been broadcasting our Serie A."

"Of course, we are a small World Cup!"

Lao Gaoli proudly leaned on the back of the boss's chair, pointing at himself excitedly.

Indeed, Florence did contribute to the prosperity of Serie A.

After showing off in front of his grandson, Lao Gaoli sighed and said, "It's a pity they are too poor."

During this period, the Serie A league was sought after in China, but the local Serie A's impression of mainland China still remained in Zhang Yimou's red sorghum.

Xia Qi stroked his forehead and said, "Who told you that the Chinese are poor? Eight years later, you will see their strength. In 20 years, there will be Chinese people waving Mao Zedong to buy, buy, buy... If it is not xenophobic, the whole Serie A belongs to them."

Lao Gaoli showed an expression that today is April Fool's Day.

Xia Qi didn't argue with him, saying: "If you are poor, let the Ministry of Commerce make a trip to find out."

"With such a big market, we should not give up. I plan to put the pre-season warm-up matches in China for the 2001-2002 season. We will play several warm-up matches with the Chinese national team and Chinese clubs."

Lao Gaoli hesitated. He really likes football and has little interest in making money.He pondered: "Will this affect our start of next season?"

Xia Qi shook his head and smiled: "The league starts in mid-August, and the European Cup ends on July 22. We arrange two warm-up matches from July [-] to July [-]. In this way, we have a training adjustment period of nearly a month. I think Mr. Ranieri will not object."

"So about the warm-up match, Ji Khenpo is arranged to negotiate with China. Which one do you think the Chinese club will choose?"

"China Guoan or Shanghai Shenhua, these are two traditional strong teams in China."

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The 1999-2000 Serie A season ended in mid-May, and now it is the end of February 5. Fiorentina still has eight games to play, and they are currently ranked seventh, which belongs to the salted fish position.

It's a pity that Xiaqi Gaoli has not registered in this season's Serie A, and he will not be able to help in the remaining games. Otherwise, with Xiaqi's strength, he can be the little Totti behind Batistuta.

Due to the European Cup in 2000, the players' rest time after the league was shortened, in order to allow Ranieri to master the locker room as soon as possible and familiarize himself with the team.

Shaqi asked the original head coach to dismiss get out of class before the end of the league and put Ranieri right.

Since Fiorentina is 17 points behind the leader Lazio, except for the theoretical possibility, it has actually withdrawn from the battle for the top spot.

3 points behind the No.9 AC Milan in the Champions League, Shaki certainly hopes that Ranieri can show his magic to lead the team to qualify for the Champions League.
The gold content of the UEFA Cup during this period was not worse than that of the UEFA Champions League, but its operating income was completely different, so the UEFA Cup was reorganized later.

To be able to compete for the Champions League is of course going to compete, but it must be admitted that this is very difficult. After Ranieri took over the task from Shaqi, Leicester City's bitter face appeared in advance.

Shaki, Ranieri met with the Fiorentina players, talked with several core players, and frankly told them about their plans for next year.

Players in this period are more emotional, and many people guard one city, especially Batistuta. He has no choice but to transfer. This year, he is 32 years old. If he doesn't work hard, he will have no championship.

Next season, Fiorentina's famous coach + superstar strategy will regain the strength to win the championship, especially the joining of Baggio will greatly increase the team's confidence in winning the championship next season.

In this way, Batistuta does not need to change clubs.

After all this work, Xia Qi returned to the main world.

There is a famous derby waiting for him to start...

When Maldini Jr., Xiaqi and their teammates were warming up at the Meazza Stadium, the stadium was already full of people. Xiaqi estimated that about [-]% of them were Inter Milan fans wearing blue and black sword-striped jerseys.

The AC Milan fans only occupied one stand, which was supposed to be the spiritual pillar of Shaqi and his teammates, but Shaqi was unwilling to face him today.

Because Xia Qi felt ashamed, mom and dad were there with eight children!
This is the Milan Derby. If you think about it with your toes, you know that a certain platform in China will broadcast it live. If you think about it again, is it possible that Chinese people can’t understand the Chinese slogan?Thinking about China's Douyin and micro-videos, Xia Qi wants to cry... People are lying, you are lying!

Xia Qi wanted to pretend that she didn't know them, but the eight girls didn't think so. They waved and greeted Xia Qi enthusiastically: "Xia Qi! Xia Qi! Xia Qi!"

Little Maldini was quite envious, and he touched Xia Qi's shoulder and said, "There are your fans in the stands! I'm so jealous."

Want to?I can give it to you, but it doesn't rhyme!

Husky among dogs, Maldini in football?
It seems to read it twice, and it is quite fluent!

.........

From the time when the players on both sides warmed up, the fans of Inter Milan continued to use all kinds of singing and cheering to declare their supremacy over the stadium. The voices of a small group of AC Milan fans were drowned in the singing of Inter Milan.

"This, this, this is the Milan Derby..."

Maldini raised his head and looked around the stands of the stadium. He stuttered a little. At first, the Inter Milan fans didn't exert their strength. Maldini didn't realize that tonight was different from usual.
Now Inter Milan's team song is getting into Maldini's ears from all directions. To be honest, it is quite scary.

"Are you okay, Daniel?" Xia Qi noticed the strangeness of his friend and asked.

Little Maldini continued to stammer: "It's okay, it's okay."

Shaggy heard it, it wasn't stuttering, it was the result of little Maldini's lips being out of control, his teeth were constantly chattering.

"Are you sure, brother pony? Your teeth are chattering." Xia Qi smiled and said, "I'll teach you a secret."

Little Maldini quickly closed his mouth tightly, and his voice fell silent. Then he looked at Xia Qi and told Xia Qi to tell him the secret with his eyes.

"You relax your mind first, and then say to yourself, they can't see me, they can't see me..."

You read with me: You can't see me, you can't see...

But when the warm-up began, Xia Qi found that Maldini was not really "good"

He didn't seem to be very focused during the warm-up, and his eyes would always glance at the stands, looking around.

The performance of the fans distracted Maldini Jr.

Even the little Maldini's parents in the VIP box could see it.

"Little Daniel was a little nervous, the singing and cheering of the Inter fans affected him."

Paolo Maldini said to his wife a little disappointed.

"It's Danny's first derby. Nervousness is always inevitable."

"No! Some people don't have the word nervous." Paolo Maldini looked at Shaqi with admiration. In his heart, Shaqi is a player with a big heart.

This kind of player is often born for the big scene, which is the watershed between superstars and stars.

Soon, when the players on both sides finished warming up and returned to the locker room, the stands were almost full of people, and the number of fans gathered outside the stadium became less and less.

Those who have tickets have entered the arena, and those who don't have tickets are also dispersing, going to the tavern they often go to, drinking with friends while waiting for the start of the live broadcast of the game.

Only a very small number of people are still reluctantly waiting outside the stadium, hoping to wait for one or two refunds.

Only such lucky ones are very few.There are only two Milan Derbys in a season. How many people will buy tickets for such an important game and then refund them?
After 15 minutes, the atmosphere on the scene suddenly became hot, because the live radio was broadcasting the starting lineup of Inter Milan for this game.

Every time a name is reported, it will cause cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami.

And after the Inter Milan players were reported, the live broadcast only used a weak "Let us also welcome our opponent AC Milan"

One sentence introduced all AC Milan players, as if Shaqi and the others didn't need names.

At the same time, the San Siro stadium was full of boos.

After the booing, players from both sides came on the field. Father Xia and the cheerleaders saw Xia Qi among the AC Milan players. Despite the loud cheers and boos, his expression was calm.

Xia's father is proud of his son. For the first time in the Derby, his son was so upbeat and relaxed.

The son is so good, he can't be a father, so he led eight children and one mother to dance cheerleading.

The unique way of cheering attracted the attention of the live broadcast. When the dance was over, Bawajia’s parents began to change clothes. AC Milan’s team uniform became Chinese red, and each had a Chinese character on their chest.

composed exactly

There is Xia Qi in football,
Huskies among dogs!
Bonaventura and Calhanoglu, who started the game, looked at Shaqi enviously: "Your family is so loving."

Xia Qi's face was full of tears, he was indeed so loving, a poem suddenly came to his mind: Cooking beans burns the bean sieve, the beans are weeping in the cauldron.

.........

"Players from both sides are on the field! Welcome everyone to watch the Milan Derby!"

Beep! ...the whistle is on!

Xia Qi stepped onto the lawn, and the light screen lit up:

Long-term mission: the Medal of Bright Ball (gold), already worn.

Side Quest: Win the Milan Derby.

Complete the task: reward 300 gold coins, 200 blue coins, and 150 green coins.

Rewards: One simulation card and two training cards.Free attribute points award two points.

Failure: deduct two points from any physical attribute, one point from the technical attribute, and one point from the mental attribute

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After the start of the game, Inter Milan, who played at home, took advantage of their home game and launched a fierce attack on AC Milan's goal.

Judging from the scene alone, Inter Milan's players are more active and full of fighting spirit. Whether it is reputation or their own strength, Inter Milan's players are louder and more powerful than AC Milan's players.

But footballs are round,
In football, those who gain power often don't score.

In the 20th minute, Shaqi assisted, and Romagnoli inserted in the back row opened the scoring for AC Milan.

"Romanioli puts in and shoots! Beautiful! The goal is scored!" The live broadcast commentator Noy shouted: "Beautiful! Shaqi's pass is beautiful! Romagnoli's insertion is beautiful! The two consecutively brought us beautiful goals."

0: 1!

Instead, AC Milan took the lead by one goal.

After scoring the goal, Romagnoli ran to Shaqi who passed the ball to him. Yesterday, for the sake of harmony in the locker room, as the captain, he criticized Shaqi mercilessly.

Just now when he plugged in the space, he was still muttering in his heart: I wonder if Xia Qi will pass the football over.

As a result... this character has a perfect score!

"I really didn't expect that it would be AC ​​Milan who scored the first goal. After the opening, Inter Milan played against AC Milan. They did not turn their advantages on the field into goals." Thomas felt sorry for Inter Milan.

"Haha! Thomas! This is football! In fact, it's fine, Inter Milan is forced to explode at home, and the next game will be even more exciting."

In fact, the next game did develop according to this rhythm.

Inter Milan, who fell behind at home, was clearly irritated.Falling behind, they strengthened the interception and organization of the midfield.Those who win the midfield win the world,

Inter Milan's ball possession rate has reached 60.00%. Second, they are not a passing team, and their opponent is not a weak team!

Generally speaking, the team that has just scored a goal will have great morale, and then the team that lost the goal will chase after it.

But in the Milan derby tonight, it was the exact opposite.

The lagging international launched a pounce, so that the leading AC Milan did not dare to attack.

They were afraid that the goal they just scored would be equalized by the opponent, which would be too demoralizing.

So AC Milan had to reclaim the defense.However, although AC Milan has shrunk its defense, facing the ferocious Inter Milan, their defense is still a bit embarrassing.

Full-back Calabria received a yellow card in the No. 30 minute. Two minutes later, Bonaventura also received a yellow card because he tackled Nainggolan in defense.

In a short period of time, AC Milan had two yellow cards, which shows how critical the situation is in defense.

However, AC Milan fans feel that this should be a referee's problem.Because the game has been played so far, AC Milan has two yellow cards, but Inter Milan has no yellow cards.

"Black whistle!" Trusova cursed again in Russian dialect that no one could understand

Next to her, AC Milan fans are yelling at the Italian country

They thought the referee was too partial to the home team.

At the beginning of the game, the movements of both sides were actually quite big. After all, this is a derby, and there is a smell of gunpowder added.

It stands to reason that it doesn't matter if the two sides of this kind of derby are a little bigger, and the referee generally won't blow it.This ensures the smoothness of the game.

If you want to give it, the size should be the same, but in fact Inter Milan has been ignored a few times when it deserves a card. No wonder AC Milan fans are dissatisfied.

After the referee issued two consecutive yellow cards to AC Milan players, AC Milan really had to be more cautious when defending.

This just gave Inter Milan players a chance.They took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on AC Milan's goal.

And in the No.401 minute, Icardi accepted Ingoland's pass and broke the goal

"Icardi!" Thomas shouted excitedly: "Inter Milan equalized the score! Now the score is 1:1! That's right! This is the Milan derby!"

The live broadcast was also chanting: "Nice goal, it was scored for us by..."

All the Inter fans chanted: "Icardi!"

Amidst the cheers, Icardi ran towards the fans with open arms, greeting his subjects like a king.

(End of this chapter)