Golden Greenery

Chapter 38 Milan and Naples

Rosenery has been waiting eagerly for the 'strongest lineup' of their beloved Rossoneri this season.

In the 18th round of the league, AC Milan faced newly promoted Naples at home. Ancelotti lined up two forwards, Ronaldo and Pato, two attacking midfielders, Kaká and Zhuo Yang, a dream foursome in the frontcourt, plus Pirlo at the back. Regardless of whether the formation is reasonable or not, this is undoubtedly the most powerful midfield and frontcourt offensive configuration in the hearts of Milan fans.

Not to mention Pato himself, in fact, even head coach Carlo Ancelotti did not expect Pato to start. No matter how much he is praised, after all, he is only 18 years old and has never experienced a top European league before. Starting in his first home game is obviously very risky. Once the performance is poor, it may have a negative impact on Pato's development prospects.

In Ancelotti's plan, Pato will gradually increase his playing time from the bench against Udinese in the next round, depending on the situation. This will be good for Milan and the young Pato. However, last night, Ancelotti suddenly received a notice: Tomorrow, all four of Chokaropa must start at the same time!

Of course, An Pang knew where this commanding spirit came from. He was already used to it. While accepting it happily, An Pang was secretly glad in his heart: Fortunately, Pipo's injury has not completely recovered, otherwise, hehe!

Jiu Ye suffered from slight thigh muscle discomfort during the training camp after the holiday. His 5-year-old arms and legs are old, and recovery is slow and he dare not be careless. However, he is still the most popular among Roseneri and also Beiji. The Prime Minister's favorite. If he is added to Berlusconi's instructions, do you think ten Ancelotti and one can arrange the formation?

After their rival Naples was relegated due to bankruptcy in 2004, Italian film tycoon De Laurentiis quickly acquired the club within five days, and then made a difficult start from the C-League. Finally, last summer, the team was sold to the club because of football champion Marado. The nationally renowned team brought back the first division.

Italian football has always emphasized the north and the south, with Rome as the boundary, and all the important football towns are in the north. Milan, Turin, Rome, Genoa, Florence, the weak south has always been a foil.

But the emergence of Manadona broke all this. He joined Naples from Barcelona for $7.8 million in 1 day. The 7.8 million in that era was much more exaggerated than the 78 million that Zhuo Yang has now. At that time, it was extremely rare to exceed 1 million.

Manadona created Naples, and Naples also created the world champion. During the seven years he played here, Manadona led Naples to break through the iron curtain of the top three in the north, winning two Serie A championships, two runners-up and one third. At that time, it was the peak period of Italian football, and Germany, England and Spain were not enough.

The image of Lao Ma as a revolutionary rebel during that period was very suitable for football, so it is not surprising that he was made a god. When Manadona finally becomes the kind of person he always wanted to overthrow, God will no longer be in the world, but will become a niche only suitable for being enshrined high above.

In fact, it can be said that the emergence of Manadona happened to be the beginning of the commercialization era of football. Football needs an idol, continuous hype material, and always exciting slots. Therefore, instead of saying that heroes create the current situation, it is better to say that the current situation creates heroes.

Of course, Lao Ma deserves the title of King of Football. He has contributed to football. Countless people around the world have become fans because of him. He has made football quickly occupy the high ground of the world's number one sport at the beginning of the popularity of television. , at least this is the case in China.

Today, Naples still has the largest number of fans in Italy outside the three northern powers, and his prestige in that city is still extremely high. More than ten years have passed, and the "De-Maradona Movement" carried out by generations of Naples club executives has still achieved little success.

At the end of last year, Manadona said casually in Argentina: Lavezzi is the best player in Serie A today and he is my successor.

In fact, what Lao Ma said was to express his anger with Zhuo Yang, who had just won the World Footballer.

But it allowed Naples' Argentine substitute forward Lavezzi to take the main position from then on. No one in that city dared to violate God's will.

Ezequiel Lavezzi is only three months older than Zhuo Yang this year. Although he was born in Boca and has a standard stocky Argentinian football figure, he is actually very different from Maradona. Lao Ma is a ZìYóu-style modern midfielder in the frontcourt, while Lavezzi is a winger or shadow forward. The template should be "Little Donkey" Ortega or Lao Ma's disciple "Dwarf Tiger" Zola.

Lavezzi is very good, but everyone knows that it is nonsense to say that he is better than Zhuo Yang now. Therefore, Lao Ma's words made Lavezzi the main player and put him under a lot of pressure.

AC Milan's striker today is the Ropa Samba duo, while Naples has launched the Pampas combination of Lavezzi and Roberto Sousa. This Sousa is the core of Naples' forward line now, and he is a veteran who has followed the team back from Serie C step by step. Although the number of goals is a little shabby, he is quite stable. Whether in C or B, he is a Will score 8 every season.

In fact, Zhuoyang knows this Naples fairly well, because Hamsik almost transferred here last summer. Naples favors Grenades very much, and their transfer offer of 18 million is also quite sincere. Grenades was very excited at that time and asked Boss Zhuo for his opinion. After analyzing from his own perspective, Zhuo Yang felt that Naples should be very suitable for the development of Grenades.

In the end, the transfer was not completed. On the one hand, Madibao made a reservation due to the poor record. Naples and Hamsik did not agree on their personal conditions. The main reason was that Naples could not give the expected commitment to the team's midfield core. However, Naples did not give up and still maintained contact with Madiburg and Grenades. The fat man said it would be about the same this summer.

Since the Manadona era, Naples has had a feud with the three northern powers, and the first to bear the brunt was AC Milan, which was the hegemon at the time. Milan and Naples fans have never dealt with each other, and they always caused some trouble when they met in the past. They didn't meet each other two years ago because of the "degeneration" of Naples. When they met this year, the two sides immediately picked up the old tradition.

At noon, a group of Naples fans who were traveling north provoked passing Milan citizens in a snack bar three streets away from San Siro. As a result, they were surrounded by hundreds of Rosenelli who were gathering for the game after hearing the news. Ten minutes later, the police rushed two unconscious Naples fans with blood on their faces to the hospital.

The San Siro was full today, and the Naples fans in just two stands were not afraid at all in front of 80,000 Roseneri. They hung banners that righteously denounced off-field violence, and launched fireworks and air raids with Milan fans in adjacent stands, which was gorgeous and spectacular.

"Duck, how are you? Open your eyes?" Zhuoyang asked Pato.

Pato curled his lips: "Brother Zhuo, I'm not bragging to you. This kind of scene is only at the level of a second-tier football market in Brazil."

Ronaldo took over: "Yes, we Brazilian fans are much better than these two."

"And Brother Zhuo." Pato added: "Don't call me 'duck' in English, okay? It sounds like someone who does that." (To be continued)

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