Few senior fans in China don’t like Baggio Zhuang songs, and so does he. He knows very well that this World Cup final has become a watershed in Robert Baggio’s career.
Fans often look at a failed hero group with a "painful and happy" mentality. After the penalty kick defeat, Italy brought the deepest memories to the fans who loved it. The tortuous World Cup course of the Italian team has been left in the minds of the fans for a long time. This is indeed a proud team, and every pride of it has melted into boiling blood. However, after the World Cup in the United States, Baggio said that he worked hard to erase the deep imprint of thousands of people on him, which was advertised as "incomplete beauty"
Zhuang Ge finally recognized that such a mark was unfair to Baggio as a hero. Although it objectively achieved an alternative "glory", he could not forget a "national hero" Baggio as a historical sinner overnight.
Romario said that the 1994 World Cup was a performance by himself and Baggio. Many years later, Saki said that there was no romario, Brazil or Brazil in that World Cup. Italy is nothing without baggio.
Think about it carefully. This World Cup should belong to Baggio. What did he gain? There is nothing but a code name of "Melancholy King". Although Baggio was still Baggio, he missed the penalty, but the pain was accompanied by him all his life. Fans and the media will associate this code name with him for the first time.
Before the 1994 World Cup, Baggio was an Italian darling, and Florence fans held a city-wide parade because of his transfer. He led Juventus to win a championship trophy again after many years; In 1993, European Footballer of the Year was the best reward for him.
Five goals in the World Cup, Baggio almost brought Italy to the World Cup finals on his own, which also made Baggio hope to reach the peak of his career.
History surprised everyone after this "Rose Bowl Battle", which turned out to be a turning point in Baggio’s career.
First of all, I enjoyed Baggio Juventus coach trapattoni hanging up and went to Lippi, the new arrival, to support the team’s rising star pierrot and rebuild the team at his core. Baggio was "defeated" in the competition in pierrot after the recurrence of the old injury in the World Cup, and then Moggi sold it to the "ally" AC Milan.
Although Berlusconi himself paid a huge sum of money to win the first star in Italy at that time, it was Capello and Sacchi who successively took charge of Milan. One of them disliked Baggio as much as Lippi, and the other "became enemies" after public opinion abandoned Baggio in the 1994 World Cup, so Baggio continued his sad career in Milan for two years.
Joining Inter Milan after the 9-year World Cup, Baggio hoped to win more trophies with Ronaldo and others, but I didn’t expect Moratti to invite Baggio’s first "enemy", Lippi, a team coach, to crowd out players he didn’t like at Inter Milan, so Bergomi, the old captain, retired and Baggio was forced to transfer to the newly promoted Marbrescia and entered the twilight of his career …
The second volume 9495 season
Chapter 64 The transfer market in the summer of 1994
The world cup fever is not over yet, and fans all over the world are still reminiscing about the dribs and drabs brought to them by the American summer.
However, the managers of Serie A clubs are enjoying the classic scenes at this time, because it is already July and the door of the European transfer market has been opened. All the general managers who want to strengthen the team have resolutely devoted themselves to this market.
Florence may be the only exception, because most of their transfer workers have already reported to the Italian Football Association for filing and completed all the formalities before the arrival of July 1. The Florentines have taken the lead in accomplishing their goals on the first day of the transfer market, and now they are standing by in front of the onlookers.
Just-elected Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is caught in the bribery scandal and cares about his own flag AC Milan Club. Therefore, since Benitez took office, he has been spending a lot of money to attract Milan. This summer, he rarely tightened his pockets. He bought from Juventus Di Canio, who played well in Naples (on loan) and bought back gullit, a midfielder who transferred to Sampdoria for the season, to replace lentini, who suffered a serious car accident in the season (the car accident in lentini can be said to be a family name in Italy), and Van Basten, who is still hanging high.
Juventus changed its big signing style after Moggi became general manager. After careful calculation, they first dug up the season to lead Naples to win the sixth place in the league, and then signed two defense generals in Florence-Pesoto and iuliano. Although Moggi was put together by Zhuang Ge, he failed to bring Lala to the Alpi Stadium, but the arrival of Portuguese midfielder paulo sousa and French star didier deschamps showed Juventus fans a prototype of a super midfielder.
Mantovani Jr., the new president of Sampdoria, the third runner-up of the season league, seems to think that the existing staffing of the team does not conform to his "genius" idea, and he sold Villjoward to Zhuangge Florence, and at the same time released two foreign AIDS, gullit and Pratt, last season. Although he bought Yugoslav central defender mikhailovich from Rome later, he then made a deal that stunned many people. The No.1 goalkeeper of the Italian national team in the World Cup was at the peak of his career, and pagliuca got an old eye and Zeng Jia.
As cragnotti is still busy integrating the resources of the Cirio League at this time, Lazio has hired a Czech Zeman who has led the small club in recent years and played well. After Zeman came to Lazio to replace Italian goalkeeper dino zoff, he hired a young central defender Adani (who later played for Fiorentina and Inter Milan) as a substitute, as well as his Argentine defender Cha Mote in Foggia. The Czech is full of ambitions to show his talents in Lazio.
The defending Cup Winners lost, and Parma continued to seek opportunities to strengthen its strength in the transfer market with the financial support of the dairy giant Parmalat. They bought an old Italian international Musi from Turin, a representative of the Portuguese golden generation, and Hernando Cotto also came to Parma from Porto. At the same time, he also introduced Taffarel, the main goalkeeper of the Brazilian national team, to strengthen the defense strength.
I still think that the team is not strong enough. Old Tanzi continues to dig around and can’t hold on to Parma’s "offensive". Juventus sent star midfielder dino baggio to Tanzi and at the same time made up for the lack of main striker Melly. Old Tanzi dug up their main striker Blanca from relegated Houdusse (who is now the general manager of Inter Milan).
The season almost relegated from Serie A. At this time, Inter Milan has not yet welcomed the generous "great boss" to sell shares to Moratti family, and pellegrini will not continue to inject funds into the team. Therefore, Inter Milan only recalled the young striker Delvecchio on loan in Houdusse all summer.
Generally speaking, in 1994, the Italian transfer market as a whole showed a certain decline, which was inseparable from the Italian economic situation.
Since 1994, Italy’s economy has shown signs of depression, so many team owners have tightened their pockets. Without the financial support of backstage bosses and the lack of income through normal operation (especially depending on the broadcast), many small teams have lost the courage to defend their own worlds in the early 1990 s, and Serie A has slowly slipped from the throne of the world’s first league since then …
Let’s go too far. Let’s go back to the transfer market. Although there is no big change in Italy except Parma, it doesn’t mean that teams from other countries will learn from Serie A, especially Real Madrid and Barcelona, which have a large number of members.
The difference between Barcelona coach cruyff and President Nunez, who suffered a crushing defeat in the Champions League final, is well known. Therefore, the big Dutchman once held a transfer in terms of introducing players, and Danish star michael laudrup moved to his arch-rival Real Madrid to replace him as captain of Romanian national team Haji.
But the success in recruiting laudrup from Barcelona is obviously not satisfied with the former Real Madrid star, coach valdano, who moved to Madrid. He also brought his favorite Argentine midfielder Hernando Lei Dongduo, and Real Madrid also brought in a young native midfielder amavisca.
This year is the last year of Real Madrid President Mendoza’s term. He witnessed his arch-rival Barcelona’s four consecutive league titles, and he decided to continue to run for the presidency. Therefore, this summer, he was determined to burn his bridges and repeatedly made a big gesture.
The Premier League, which has been established for two years, is doing very well in the British Isles, but there are still few foreign aid willing to go there to play football.
Due to the unsatisfactory performance of the German national team in the World Cup in the United States, in recent years, the German team has not been able to give strength in the European arena. The German Football Association has called on Chinese players to return to China to play football and revive the Bundesliga in the trough.
I have to say that during this period, German players were really a group of team leaders. Many of them played for overseas giants and returned to their motherland, andreas moller to transfer Dortmund, Rudi V?ller to Leverkusen, and Ha Silei to join Karlsruhe … Except before the World Cup, it was confirmed that Klinsmann was unwilling to return to effenberg because of the "middle finger incident", and almost all famous German stars returned to the Bundesliga.
However, the European transfer market has little to do with Florence now. After all, Florence’s signing targets have been achieved this summer. Now Zhuang Ge’s main concern is how many dollars the team can "circle" from the sponsor negotiations this year.
Chapter 65 "Generous" Sponsor
In 1993-94, Florence won the Italian Serie B and the Italian Cup double crown. Under the leadership of the general manager kenyon, who was in charge of the commercial operation of the club, she spared no effort to publicize the stunt that "the second-division team won the Italian Cup" (at this time, the world cup champions can participate in the European Cup Winners’ Cup with very high quality), which made Florence make great progress in market development and popularity.
Last summer, those one-year sponsorship contracts signed by Florence expired, which coincided with the expiration of those major sponsorships during the Celigori period, such as the sponsorship of jerseys and chest advertisements. Therefore, before the World Cup, Zhuang Ge let Kenyon release the news that Florence will hold a public tender for the team’s season sponsors at the club headquarters on July 31.
At the same time, Zhuang Ge also asked kenyon to make a detailed list of sponsorship projects in different categories, from jersey chest advertisements to Frankie Stadium billboards to team cars and buses … a total of more than three.
Florence’s move surprised the whole Italian football. Therefore, the Italian club was not as commercialized as the later generations. The way to win over the sponsors of the team and to do business was based on the previous sponsors’ habit of negotiating the sponsorship amount and then renewing the contract. They rarely took the initiative to replace the existing sponsors. Therefore, when they saw that Florence had made such a trip that was almost in the "money eye", they did not secretly laugh at Florence’s "money worship"
In the eyes of these people, Florence’s line of "looking forward to everything" is different from selling the honor and dignity of the team. Those well-known enterprises will not choose such a club combination if they have their own brand image.
Zhuang Ge sneered at this. It is a commercial line for the club to seek advertising sponsorship. Since public bidding can maximize the interests of Florence, why not? Do you have to wait until the Premier League teams surpass Serie A before Florence can be commercialized? What logic! A bunch of conservative antiques!
Not to mention the heated discussion caused by the trip to Florence. At the same time in Italy, a group of wretched old people sat around a conference table at the headquarters of the Japanese Football Association in Tokyo and seemed to be arguing fiercely about something.
"Listen to me, everyone." Sitting in the middle of the conference table, an old man with gray hair controlled a somewhat chaotic scene. "I have some ideas about Italy."
"Gentlemen, since President Chuanyuan has made a speech, let’s listen to Mr. Chairman’s opinion first."
This old man is known as the "Father of Japanese Football". At the age of five, Saburo Kawaguchi still seems to have retained his temperament when he played football. He participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games in the 1960s, won a precious Olympic medal and successfully shipped to the J League for two years. He was recently promoted to the president of the Japanese Football Association (previously the vice president of the Japanese Football Association and the president of the Japanese professional league).
"Football is a very neglected sport in Japan. Over the years, we have invested a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to create a trend, especially in the past two years, all of you present in China’s professional leagues have paid a lot on behalf of Japanese enterprises …"
"Mr. Chuanyuan, we all admire your efforts in football on Sunday … So what do you think?" Because it has been discussed for a long time before, I have to speak and interrupt Kawasaki Saburo. The spokesman is the representative of Tian Company.
Saburo Kawaguchi is very dissatisfied with someone interrupting his emotional speech, but he can’t show it. After all, today’s football match depends on the investment of these big money owners.
"At present, Japanese football is in a bottleneck period, and we need to let more young players and coaches learn those advanced tactics and modes of transport in Europe. Florence, the sponsor of this public bidding just gave us a very good opportunity."