Sampdoria gave Milan a four-game losing streak, and at the same time made everyone realize that the Milan dynasty had collapsed for a long year and Serie A had returned to the period of competing with each other.
Chapter 3 Yugoslav Football
After carefully watching the video of the game, Zhuang Ge keenly found a problem, that is, the expressions of Sampdoria players who won the big victory showed that they were not happy.
"It seems that the problem is not only AC Milan but also Sampdoria!" Zhuang Ge sighed that Milan’s problem is the players’ hunger for honor and the bad effects left by the World Cup in the United States, while Sampdoria? Their problem is their own boss!
Berlusconi wants to rebuild the Milan dynasty simply by staying with coach Fabio Capello and forming a team according to his wishes, so that the team can be revived in two or three years.
And Sampdoria? Mantovani Jr., the boss, doesn’t even realize that the worst person in the club is himself. Who can expect Sampdoria to regain its glory?
No, Milan and Sampdoria are now facing various problems. After beating Padova, Florence is going to participate in the last 16 of the European Cup Winners’ Cup. This time, they have drawn an opponent from Dinamo Zagreb, a Croatian team.
In the early 1990 s, the situation in Yugoslavia was turbulent, and Tito led the unity. At this time, the people of all ethnic groups in Yugoslavia turned against each other and attacked each other. Around 1991, the historical hatred of all ethnic groups in Yugoslavia was further intensified and eventually turned into war
The technology of splitting the national team of the former Yugoslavia is definitely not lost to a team. They used to be artistic football practitioners. They used to be green dancers, but they were political martyrs in the end …
Remembrance is a kind of remembering things that you don’t want to forget all the time, but in another emotion, commemoration is to forget an unforgettable memory.
Look at this string of names.
Mikhainovic, djukic, Proshchin, stojkovic, Bo Ban, davor suker, Mijatovic, Pan Caifu, savicevic, Jugovic, Boksic, Jarni, Milosevic, Kovacs, Zahovich, Cholovic, Kovacevic, Kezman, Stankovic, Modric …
Remember them and their football? Now they belong to different countries-Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and now savicevic has a new nationality-Montenegro, but do you remember that they once fought in the same name-Yugoslavia!
In 1997, the Yugoslav youth army that won the championship appeared in the name of European football, which represented the name of an era of Yugoslav football. From then on, they wrote a paragraph that belonged to them!
Summer in Italy in 1999? It used to be a splendid stage for the Yugoslavs. When they went to the World Cup for the first time, they shone brilliantly, but no one expected that this first time would be their last …
Although they lost 14 times to the powerful German team in the first match of the group stage, the young Yugoslav team was on a roll since then. Not only did they successfully qualify from the group stage, but stojkovic defeated the same gorgeous Spanish team with an Italian goal in extra time in the final!
In the quarter-final, ten Yugoslav men pressed Diego Maradona’s core Argentine Eleven to attack for ten minutes (Sabana Jovic was misjudged by the referee and sent off for the second yellow card in the 31st minute of the half-time) and finally lost 23 times in the penalty shoot-out! Stojkovic said after the game, "The penalty failure is nothing. The next World Cup is us!" But what he didn’t expect was that the game was complete. Yugoslavia sang the swan song in the international competition.
In 1991, Belgrade Red Star held high the Toyota Cup in Tokyo, and soon the red card made them face ten men early, from the Chilean team Kolokolo, but what did we see? Three wonderful goals directly kicked the Chileans back to their hometown, but who would have thought that this was the last performance of a group of Yugoslav geniuses!
This is a disaster-stricken land-Romans, Turks and Austrians have all occupied it, but when no one can enslave them any more, they are caught in a war. Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (the per capita GDP of Yugoslavia in 1979 was $2,635) once stood together in the Catholic Church in this land. The Orthodox Church and Mosque can no longer coexist. Suk once fought side by side with savicevic, Bo Ban and stojkovic, Boksic and Pan Caifu, Proshchin and Jugovic became enemies overnight. The political haze shrouded football. Bo Ban was allowed to give the ball to savicevic only in AC Milan …
Yugoslavia was banned from the European Cup in 1992; Yugoslavia was banned from the 1994 World Cup; Yugoslavia was still banned from the European Cup in 1996, all because of the damn war! ! In this way, a generation of talented players wasted their golden years. The war wiped out their golden years (Yugoslavia, which could really be called the "golden generation" in the European Cup in 1992, was banned and replaced them in the Danish team and finally won the Drou Cup)
Croatia’s independence, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina … The continuous war has been looting this talented powder keg over and over again for a whole decade-these great players in the Balkans can watch the European Cup and the World Cup from a distance-this is also their stage, but politics and war have deprived them of their performance-they are spectators-and politics has polluted football!
The gorgeous movement is still playing, but the movement is half; The other half is missing forever …
After the split in Zhuang Ge’s world, Yugoslavia and Croatia finally entered the World Cup stage in 1999, and those talented people who are no longer young, their final glory shocked the world of Yugoslav football! Yugoslavia reached the top 16 in that World Cup and finally lost to the Netherlands in a penalty shoot-out. Croatia won the third place in the World Cup in France as soon as it passed by!
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Years of war have not kept the tenacious Croats away from their love for life. Now they are far away from the war. While comforting the wounds caused by the war, Croats do their best to pursue their love for life.
What should people do when they are away from war? If you don’t have this experience of Zagreb’s songs, you can imagine that it is just the most common answers of "supporting your family and rebuilding your home"
But all these are true. Zhuang Ge felt these things on the day he arrived in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, but he was surprised to find that almost all the local citizens he met were trying to do these "common things" seriously, and the most talked about topic was football!
After Zhuang Ge came to Zagreb, almost every "stranger" he met could find the common language of football. For example, the taxi driver talked about how he could kick the door of his neighbor’s house at the age of six. For example, before he checked into the hotel, he heard from two doormen that a wonderful street ball game would be staged in the afternoon on a lonely street.
Football is something that can heal people’s pain. Seeing this situation, Zhuang Ge thinks this statement is true.
Chapter 4 Dynamo Zagreb
Zhuang Ge’s trip to Zagreb didn’t end on the spur of the moment, because before he crossed into this world, he was curious about these countries that split from Yugoslavia.
If the prosperity of Yugoslav football benefits from Tito’s economic policy, rich Yugoslavs have enough energy to play football; Then, after the war, the economic level plummeted, and several famous stars such as modric, Olic, Zhe Ke, Ibisevic and Vidic still emerged in Yugoslavia … This is an incredible thing.
This time Zagreb came to antonioni and kenyon. These people did not approve of Zhuang Ge’s wandering around the place just far away from the war, but Zhuang Ge’s reason was crown spring.
"I, the owner of this club, should take practical actions to pay attention to the team’s performance in Europe. You know, there are not many heavyweight trophies in Florence’s honor room so far!"
Who dares to stop Florence from competing for the first Cup Winners in the history of the club? Kenyon dare not, antonioni dare not, and don’t want to be wise. No longer oppose Zhuang Ge. This time, it seems meaningless to go to Zagreb.
Enthusiastic Zagreb citizens welcome Florence almost without exception, which is unimaginable in many parts of Europe.
I intuitively felt the enthusiasm of Zagreb citizens for football, and also witnessed the true and simple spiritual life of the local people. Zhuang Ge was in a good mood and decided to take the initiative to pay a visit to his opponent in this Cup Winners’ Cup.
Dynamo Zagreb Club is not far from the hotel, and the taxi driver skillfully took Zhuang Ge and his party to their destination, but as soon as he saw the scene in front of him, Zhuang Ge was a little dumbfounded.
"Karin, are you sure this is Dinamo Zagreb headquarters?"
Holy shit. Really? The headquarters of the largest Croatian club actually stands in a piece of broken walls!
What caught Zhuang Ge’s eye was a slightly dilapidated small office building. It can be seen that this building has been in existence for a certain period of time. From the outside, after years of trials and hardships, the whole building surface can not help but be eclipsed.