[Football] Inzaghi couple

That year when I stood in the stands and saw the expression on the face of the man on the sidelines, I had an urge to jump off the stands to comfort him.

——The Autobiography of Maria Baggio

That day Inzaghi didn't know that he witnessed the first fusion of what was later dubbed the Big Three of football traffickers. In short, after coming out of his villa that night, Pirlo let his smile show. A relieved smile.

And Guti also seemed to have found some fun. After returning to his villa to rest for a night, he sneaked to the old place outside Redondo's house early the next morning, squatted for a while, and then caught up with him. Spanish aircraft.Speaking of the old antiques, ah no, it’s the old-timers. They also have a lot of Spain. When he goes back, he “scams and abducts” him and sends him directly to the United States on a one-way plane.

And Maria continued to get busy after Pirlo and Guti left that night. She had a much heavier workload than the other two.First of all, she had to contact the United States. Since the fat and water did not flow to outsiders, she put the future footholds of these European players in the major leagues on the Los Angeles Galaxy and Houston Dynamo, which she owns shares.Of course, she is a minority shareholder, so such a plan naturally needs to contact Anschutz, the actual owner of the club.Before that, she needs to make a plan first, and at the same time summarize the list of people who can be included in the American Elderly Gold Rush Group.This Inzaghi helped a lot, he provided the names of many veterans.Later, seeing Maria's expression of admiration for him being able to name such a person, he even listed the names of retired famous grandparents who were teaching children in the youth training camp.

Inzaghi finally looked at the list he and Maria completed together, and he was very happy. It feels really good that two people are working together in one direction. "If Robert also goes, I think he can instantly kill most of the people on this list." Of course he was talking about his brother-in-law Robert Baggio. After all, Baggio's popularity in the world is not comparable to that of ordinary players.

"Believe me, this is a very bad proposal. If possible, I hope that Robert will never go to the United States." Maria said solemnly. She also did the same thing when she was studying in the United States. Go to the United States to see her, which is why Inzaghi never met Baggio during his stay in the United States.The reason why Maria did not allow Baggio to go to the United States is naturally the World Cup in 94. Once Italy was so close to the Hercules Cup, but only missed a penalty, and it was Baggio who kicked that penalty away.Maria doesn't want to revisit Baggio's hometown and recall those unhappy things.Since even a brief visit to relatives was not allowed, she naturally wouldn't let Baggio go to the American Major League to play football.

"I see." Inzaghi could only silently regret the cruel fact that he would continue to meet his brother-in-law at least twice a year.

Maria was a little excited because she had found a new career development direction, and planned to stay up all night to perfect the plan, but was suppressed by Inzaghi.After Maria insisted several times that she would go to bed soon, he carried her directly to the bed.

After calculating the time difference the next day, Maria contacted Mr. Anschutz who controlled seven or eight major league teams by himself.Anschutz is very interested in the "major league excellent talent introduction plan" in Maria's mouth.Through what was essentially a sunset red tour organized by human traffickers, Anschutz saw an opportunity for the big leagues.

Before the major leagues, there was a professional league in the United States, but it only existed for one year, and it ended because of the lack of soil for the development of this kind of English football.Later, with the opportunity of the World Cup in the United States, the professional major league was established.At the beginning, the major leagues absorbed the experience of other American players like the NBA and NFL, and gradually attracted many fans interested in English football because of the American World Cup based on the characteristics of the United States.However, although there are more than a dozen teams at present, compared with the mature nba and nfl, the star flavor is still a lot worse.

Although Anschutz owned those clubs as a friendly sponsor at the beginning, he didn't care too much and gave away a lot of shares, but no one would want to see the team under his name make money.So Maria's plan can be said to hit it off with him, to introduce those big-name European stars, even if their strength has degraded a lot with age, but the name alone can still attract many fans.Anschutz is also very interested in even those stars who are already old. If they can't play football, they can be coaches.Think about it, the coaches on the bench are all big stars who can make fans stretch their necks, so how attractive this team should be.

Originally, Maria just wanted to set the foothold of the stars in the two teams she owns shares in, especially the one in Los Angeles. After all, Los Angeles is very prosperous, and there are seaside and so on. For these stars from Europe, life It will be very convenient.However, Anschutz waved his hand and said that all his teams will open their doors to welcome European stars, and he will communicate with the president of the major leagues to formulate a talent introduction plan applicable to the entire league.His vision is very long-term. Only by developing the entire major league can his team make more money.

Maria, as a finisher or headhunter, would stand to profit handsomely from this plan, at least as far as she can tell from her drive after communicating with Anschutz.Maria called her brother Baggio and asked him to recommend players.Hearing that those old friends could earn a little more money before retiring and go to foreign countries to continue enjoying the fun of football, Baggio was very happy, and then made a list for Maria, and even went to the battle to fool her. The depressed mood that he missed the World Cup.

On the other hand, Pirlo's specialization is Albertini, and he is trying to persuade him to change his mind about going to Atletico Madrid.

After being grinded by Pirlo for several days, and after carefully considering his physical condition and the composition of Atletico Madrid's existing players, Albertini agreed to go to the United States.And he wasn’t the only one, he dug out the retired Milan team’s best right back, Mauro Tassotti, from the youth training camp. After retiring, he actually had itchy feet. He happened to go to the United States to have a look. Play as long as you can, and become a coach if you can't play to gain experience.

In addition to Tassotti, Albertini also persuaded the old goalkeeper Rossi who was going to Perugia for retirement. This old goalkeeper, who suffered from the double impact of Dida and Abbiati, hopes to get a main force in a foreign country. goalkeeper position.

As the president of the Italian players union, Albertini, who led the strike of Serie A players, is very influential among Italian players. He just made a few phone calls and cheated many people from other teams.At the same time, Albertini also made people see his ability to fool. In addition to Italians, he also fooled a German by the way. His former teammate Bierhoff has not played many games in Ligue [-] Monaco this season. It's not as expected, so let's go together.

Afterwards, Pirlo told Maria that it turned out that Demi was the most foolish among them, and the one who was most suitable to be a profiteer, and Maria also deeply agreed.She also complained to Inzaghi, maybe Albertini was forced to leave Milan may not only be the reason why Pirlo was in power, but also because he was too good at connecting and led a general strike against the club.However, Albertini did not become a profiteer in the future. The trade union activist became the chairman of the Italian Football Association.

Seeing that Pirlo and Albertini's record is good, Inzaghi, who is also receiving good news from Guti, is also not idle. In order to compete with his wife's friends, he directly fooled his agent Tinti , Said that he has a way to introduce those aging veterans to play abroad.Tinti is a first-class agent in Italy. Apart from Inzaghi, he is also Pirlo's agent, and Pirlo also found him. Someone has a way?

But no matter what, Maria gave the United States a very satisfactory list in the end, and this satisfaction was finally reflected in the annual salary of the European Elderly Gold Rush Group and the commission received by Maria's company, which made Maria's shareholder The three of them became more motivated.

Since the end of the league, Maria has been busy as the person in charge of the overall situation, and after the end of the league, she will also be responsible for the follow-up work when these players go to the United States, so that Inzaghi went to Asia with the Italian national team, Maria can only be a trapeze between the United States and Italy, so she missed the World Cup group stage in Italy.

Fortunately, before the end of the Italian group stage, Maria rushed from the United States to South Korea, just in time to watch Italy's [-]-to-[-] knockout round.However, Maria who appeared in the stands looked very bad. This may be the exhaustion of the long-term flight, or it may be caused by jet lag.

Maria dared to swear by her marriage with Inzaghi. She had never seen such a game, never seen a team as shameless as its Italian opponent.Looking at her compatriots on the court, they were kicked to the ground maliciously again and again, and after falling to the ground, the opponent's players still didn't let go of their hatred, and they had to make up for it a few times.Maria was as angry as the Italian fans around her. They wanted to rush down to the stands to show those rude and shameless guys a little bit of color.

Not only the fans in the stands were angry, but also those Italian fans far away in Europe who did not come to the scene were also angry, or the whole of Italy was immersed in anger.

Listening to the commentator on TV berating the referee and opponents of today's game with undisguised anger, Baggio, who was sitting at home watching the game, was also very angry for not being able to make it to the World Cup.Fortunately, he is a Buddhist. Being used to chanting scriptures twice a day, he tried his best to lower his head to avoid the scene on TV that made him unable to calm down, and tried to calm himself down by silently reciting scriptures.

And his wife, Andrena, silently patted her husband's clenched hands to calm his emotions, but the TV just happened to scan the Italian fans watching the game in the stands, and she seemed to see a familiar figure, and couldn't help but called out.

"What's wrong?" Baggio looked up at his wife.

"I just saw that one of the fans in the stands looks like Maria." Andreina smiled and shook her head. She had just talked to her sister-in-law on the phone a few days ago and knew that Maria was in the United States to deal with the importation of players to the MLS. things.On the phone, my sister-in-law also complained to her about how troublesome it is to settle the players who are going to the gold pan.These guys really think that they are going to travel, and they must have delicious food and beautiful women. It really is the inferiority in their Italian blood.

Baggio didn't pay much attention, he thought his wife was wrong.After finally calming himself down somewhat, he stared at the TV screen intently again. Even if he couldn't fight with the national team on the field, he was willing to pray for them here, hoping that they could bring another victory to Italy. victory.

However, Baggio's prayers seem to have little effect, at least the current situation is not good for Italy, because they have to fight twelve people.

Inzaghi clenched his fists on the bench and looked seriously at his struggling teammates on the court. He found some physical problems after arriving in South Korea, and then was injured in training and missed the first group game. game.After that, he only played for more than ten minutes in the second game, and in the third game, he felt that he had a physical problem and was replaced early for safety. In this game, he was unable to play and could only cheer for his teammates on the bench.

It's just that this game is obviously beyond the scope of the whole game.They knew when their captain Paolo Maldini was kicked, when Koko and Totti were elbowed.Several coaches were a little dazed. They were all experienced football players, but they had never seen such a game in their careers.

The two sides fought 10-1 in the regular 1 minutes, and Vieri and Ahn Jung-hwan, who played for Serie A Perugia, scored goals respectively.

The overtime game is about to start, and the players who have already fought for 10 and [-] minutes seize the rest time on the sidelines and try to recover their physical strength.

"Sir, can I play?" Seeing his teammates exhausted and bruised, Inzaghi asked the team doctor in a low voice.Trapattoni has already made two substitutions and still has one final substitution in hand.Inzaghi wanted to play, his physical strength enough to support half an hour of overtime, and this World Cup still uses the sudden death method.Just one goal!As long as he can score a goal, he can end this dirty game!Inzaghi felt that the blood in his body was boiling and burning, and he was eager to play!

It's just a pity that the team doctor shook his head regretfully: "I'm sorry Pipo, I don't approve of you playing. For the sake of your career, you must stay off the court. And then—" He paused, "This way A brutal game, and you can’t even play.” After speaking, he went back to checking the physical condition of the players who played, after all, anyone with a discerning eye knew what they had experienced in those 10 minutes.

Inzaghi clenched his fists, allowing his nails to dig into his flesh fiercely.He never wanted to experience this powerless feeling again!The last time he felt so powerless was the European Cup final in 2000. He sat on the bench in good health and watched the Frenchman win the game.He didn't understand why he, who had scored every game before this final, was put on the bench in the most important final.But in today's game, he was powerless, and his body was not allowed to play.

After a short break, overtime began.At this time, the Italians would not have thought that they would experience an overtime game that would make them unforgettable.

In the first half of overtime, Totti received a pass from his teammate, and then dribbled in. A South Korean player caught up from behind, and many people clearly saw him kick Totti's knee hard. Nest location.At that time, Totti fell down. Such a fragile position was hit hard, and he could only hold the injured part weakly and groan.

The Italian players on the bench all stood up and looked around the field, and someone shouted: "Yellow card, free kick!"

It's a pity that there is no free kick, but there is a yellow card, and it was given to Totti.The Ecuadorian referee, who had been swaggering for more than 90 minutes, ran up to Totti, who was in agony, and showed him a yellow card for diving!

The stands of the stadium were boiling, and the so-called fans in South Korea who yelled wildly for the normal game shouted loudly, proud that their players escaped a yellow card, and even they kept mad at the Italian fans and players. Hush up.

And the Italian fans at the scene also shouted loudly, they shouted at the referee desperately, shouting at him that this is not a flop!It's a pity that the fighting gene does not exist in the blood of the Italians, they can only shout loudly, instead of taking a look at the arrogant Korean fans next to them.

Maria glared at the Korean fans fiercely. She really wanted to rush over and hit them, but reason told her that it was not a good choice. Of course, if possible, she hoped that the first person to hit was the damned referee!

The situation on the field deteriorated further. Totti had already received a yellow card before. If this one was counted, he would be expelled directly because he received two yellow cards in a game and turned into a red card.Totti, who has a bad temper, yelled loudly at the eyeless referee, while his teammates kept begging the referee to change the sentence, and Vieri, who had a simple and honest face, kept clasping his hands and begging.It's a pity that the referee had no intention of changing the sentence at all. He showed Totti a red card and sent him off directly.Totti could only walk off the court with anger and confusion.

Seeing Totti's slumped look, Maria felt that her previous hatred for his firm opposition to Baggio's return to the national team was much less.At this moment, they are all Italian!

Next, the Italians, who have already experienced more than 90 minutes of rough games, will complete the next game in a 10-on-11 state. From the penalty just now, it is completely certain that the referee should also have their Korean blood. The Korean team started to go even crazier. and brutal aggression.

And an even more unbelievable scene happened in the second half of overtime. After receiving the ball, Vieri passed it to his teammate Tomasi. Tomasi scored the ball into the South Korean team's goal, and the goal was scored!

The Italian fans at the scene and in front of the TV began to cheer in unison, and the Italian bench was also full of cheers. The golden ball won, which means that they can finally end this game that they no longer want to remember.

But the joy only lasted for a few seconds, and then it stopped abruptly, because the bastard referee who became the protagonist of today's game blew his whistle-the goal was invalid!Offside!

The South Korean fans immediately cheered, and the South Korean broadcast signal immediately pointed the camera at the cheering fans, instead of replaying the goal just now according to the usual practice.

The Italians on the court protested to the referee, and Trapattoni also protested to the fourth official, but unfortunately everything was of no avail!

Perhaps it was because a necessary goal was blown into an invalid goal. Italy's morale was greatly affected, and they already had an ominous premonition.

And a few minutes later, when everyone thought there was going to be a penalty shootout, the Korean scored!Instead of falling on the penalty spot where he usually falls, the Italian died suddenly!

At the same time that the goal was scored, the referee, who was obviously single-minded with the Koreans, immediately blew the whistle that the goal was valid and the game was over!

The South Koreans on the field and in the stands were boiling, and the cameras recorded their obliviousness when they celebrated. Perhaps in the next ten or decades, these audio and video will become part of an ugly game forever etched in shame. Post!

And how fierce the Koreans celebrated, how sad the Italians were. The camera captured Maldini touching his eyes and other Italians crying, including Inzaghi.

Maria stood in the stands, surrounded by Italian fans immersed in an atmosphere of grief.She didn't cry, she just stood there and coldly glanced at the Korean fans who were like clowns in the stands next door, and then looked at the Italian players in the stands, especially the man.

At this time, Maria regretted her decision to conceal their marriage all the time before, otherwise she would definitely be able to stand by his side as Inzaghi's wife to comfort him at this moment!Time to make some changes!