Although I visited a nearby shopping mall, Zhuang Ge arrived at the visiting team’s locker room before the team.
Zhuang Ge carefully observed the visiting team’s locker room facilities. Before Zhuang Ge listened to kenyon’s introduction, the visiting team’s locker room in England would be much worse than the home team’s locker room. However, the scene shown in front of Zhuang Ge is obviously beyond his imagination. There are more than 2 square meters of showers in the visiting team’s locker room, and the shower heads are also very crowded. There are actually 4 squatting positions in the adjacent sanitation without any shelter; There is a simple wooden wardrobe and bench in the dressing room next door.
….. let’s visit a home team locker room, which is even worse than Frankie Stadium.
So Zhuang Ge said hello to Hillwood and got the permission of the chairman. Zhuang Ge slipped to the door of the home team’s locker room and hit the door before Arsenal arrived at the venue.
"Oh, my God, it’s not bad to go to the home team. Is it too much?"
The dressing room of the home team at Highbury Stadium has obviously undergone some careful transformation, not to mention that Zhuang Ge saw a lot of humanized design in the dressing room of the home team. The ground of the dressing room was paved with geothermal system, which can adjust the temperature freely and keep the temperature in the room. The local design for place sports equipment such as jerseys and sneakers is also quite reasonable, so that players can touch their own positions even with their eyes closed; Each position is also equipped with leather sofa cushions.
In addition, the home team’s locker room is also equipped with fresh food, fruits and drinks, leisure books and CD players, which can make players better participate in the game after relaxing; At the same time, the dressing room is equipped with a massage treatment room with a physiotherapy bed and a huge spa with not only a massage swimming pool but also a comfortable shower.
Compared with Frankie Stadium, which is still owned by Florence municipal government, Highbury Stadium is obviously transformed by Arsenal, and the dressing room in Florence is full of humanistic atmosphere, while the dressing room in Frankie Stadium is only used as a competition headquarters.
"It seems that even if Frankie Stadium can’t be owned by the club, it should be rebuilt as soon as possible. Florence can’t lag behind other teams in this detail." Zhuang Ge secretly made up his mind.
It is estimated that the Arsenal player has warmed up before the game. Because he stayed in the dressing room, Zhuang Ge has heard the cheers of the fans in the stadium, so he didn’t stay in the home team’s dressing room and soon came out of the dressing room, followed the signs and entered the VIP aisle and boarded the Highbury main stand.
The magnificent Old Trafford Stadium can accommodate 35 spectators. Highbury Stadium can be small and exquisite. On the one hand, every point here has been fully benefited; On the other hand, the potential weakness of limited development has become one of the factors that later restricted Arsenal’s later development.
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It’s a little hard to understand the game, isn’t it, when you look around at the passionate Arsenal fans who don’t know much about English football? Why are these English fans so excited? It’s a sign of excess energy-look at the stadium warming up before the game. Arsenal players are doing the most common half-court lap practice one by one, which can make them excited? Where is this truth!
Are they demonstrating by hundreds of Florence fans who have come from afar? That’s possible, but it’s not too much to make a mountain out of a molehill, is it
I saw Zhuang Ge wondering that kenyon once again played the role of "answering questions"
"Hehe, does the boss think that our English fans are much more fanatical than Italy?"
"Well, yes, I’ve always been that fans usually put their enthusiasm into the game, but these English fans seem to have some …"
"Some too fanatical, right? Because now the younger generation of English fans, their enthusiasm is largely in these stars. "
"Er, kenyon, after hearing what you said, how do I feel that this is similar to the situation in the NBA … fans are loyal to the stars, not the club. Once some stars leave the team, the number of fans will change dramatically?"
"Ha ha, you can see it, boss."
"It’s really sad, the birthplace of modern football. Now Britain has been completely eroded by American business culture," Zhuang Ge said without emotion
"What’s so sad? Don’t you think it will be much easier to make money from British people when Florence is developed? That’s not worthless Italian lira. That’s real pounds! "
"I always feel that you are an Englishman who says so a little against it …"
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Arsenal players return to the dressing room along the players’ aisle after warming up before the game. Their head coach Graham will make the final tactical arrangement and mobilization before the game.
After the warm-up, Arsenal players naturally gave way to Fiorentina players who came out of the players’ tunnel, but the fans in the stands shouted no less. However, they shouted slogans not to cheer for the visiting team, but to interfere with Fiorentina’s warm-up in every way and try to influence the state of the visiting players.
If the enemy, the London police will protect hundreds of Florence fans from afar. This time, the London police have taken extremely strict isolation and restriction measures against registered football hooligans. At the same time, their almost harsh qualification examination for British fans watching this game has greatly reduced the probability of mixing troublemakers in Highbury Stadium.
With the warm-up of Fiorentina players over, Arsenal fans need to wait a little longer to see the 9-minute wonderful drama jointly presented by Fiorentina and Arsenal at Highbury Stadium!
Chapter 134 Highbury War (2)
Seeing several referees and players coming out of the players’ aisle together, Zhuang Ge immediately went into the VIP box to watch the game.
Zhuang Ge wore headphones as usual and watched the game while listening to the commentary. At this time, the live commentator voice came out of the headphones.
"What appears in the picture now is that Mr. Graham, the head coach of Arsenal, won the Cup Winners’ Cup last year, which made him famous in Britain … But it is a pity that then he broke the scandal of accepting bribes in player transfer, which led to the chaos of Arsenal’s morale in the season. At present, Arsenal only ranks 12th in the Premier League and has already been out of the FA Cup and the Carling Cup. Unless Mr. Graham has the ability to break the spell of defending the Cup Winners’ Cup in the season, it may save his coaching career at Arsenal."
Yes, so it is! Zhuang Ge suddenly realized that he had never paid much attention to the Premier League. He finally recalled how Arsenal changed from Graham’s era to Wenger’s era in later generations.
It was last summer that Graham led the team to win the Cup Winners’ Cup, and he was eager to lead Arsenal to greater success. But just then, a reporter revealed that Graham had twice accepted bribes from Swedish agent Haug totaling 250,000 pounds, and then introduced two parallel players from the other side.
This scandal caused an uproar in English football. At that time, the Premier League was at the moment of re-establishing its brand image. Naturally, it was necessary to hurt the "culprit" Graham. After the end of the season, Arsenal lifted the contract with Graham and suspended him for five years. The FA also suspended him for one year.
Of course, the most natural loss is that Arsenal lost Graham’s bloody "gunner", and it was not until later that Wenger regained his vitality.
"Everything has advantages and disadvantages. The English club system allows the head coach to have a big transfer. Although this system does establish the prestige of the head coach in the team to a certain extent, it also allows the head coach to make long-term plans for the team according to his own ideas," Zhuang Ge said to Karin sitting next to him. "But on the other hand, this system will also enable the head coach to do some behind-the-scenes exercises and the coach’s defects will be truthfully reflected from the team, thus damaging the interests of the club."
"You’re right, Tony," Karin nodded approvingly. "In terms of the system, we can’t copy the Premier League model. We have to take a road with Florence characteristics."
What is it that the English system will make the shortcomings of the head coach reflected in the team? Let’s take Graham as an example. Graham’s management style is rough, that is, we often say "grasp the big and let go of the small" management ideas; In this style, the personal quality of Arsenal players has been generally poor for a long time. These problems were not very obvious when Graham was able to control the players. However, as Graham himself was deeply involved in the scandal during the season, various contradictions hidden in the team department finally broke out. Fighting, alcoholism, gambling and drug abuse broke out among Arsenal players, which also made Arsenal at the forefront for a long time, resulting in a straight slide in the record.
Just as Zhuang Ge and Karin were discussing the differences of coaching systems in different countries, the referee blew a whistle, which marked the first leg of the semi-final of Florence Arsenal Cup Winners’ Cup!
Today, Fiorentina’s starting line-up follows the starting line-up against Brescia-goalkeeper toldo and defender are Lana, Lala, Felicano and birindelli from left to right; The midfield is still Dibiagio, effenberg, crippa and djorkaeff; The two strikers are batistuta and filippo inzaghi.
Arsenal, on the other hand, is more famous than Florence now. In Arsenal’s starting lineup, there are Adams, Keon, Seaman, ian wright and other players such as McMahon, Haider, hartson and Mohsen, who used to be frequent visitors to the English national team. Judging from the number of appearances for the national team, Arsenal is a complete explosion of Florence, which also means that Arsenal players are much more experienced than Florence.
Therefore, when such an experienced and mature team was tempted by the championship trophy to temporarily give up fighting and unite with the outside world, the result was that it was not a small "trouble" to prepare for a defensive counterattack against Florence in the away game.
The cunning Graham’s arrival didn’t benefit the advantage of home game. He was determined to resolutely carry out the defensive counterattack intention. The Florence exhibition stormed. When defending, Arsenal left a striker in ian wright in the frontcourt. Even when they switched to attacking, Arsenal’s four defenders would never cross the white line in midfield and drag on at the end. Captain Adams even exaggerated that it was rare to go out in the square penalty area.
In fact, the defensive counter-attack game is not boring in most cases, which makes this kind of trick that the team breaks out and quickly counterattacks when the attack and defense change, which is the most wonderful moment to embody the art of defensive counter-attack and can also mobilize the enthusiasm of fans to the greatest extent.
However, if both teams are playing defensive counter-attacks, the boredom of the game can be imagined.
Ian wright, Arsenal’s only striker with the ability to score goals in the whole half, was successfully frozen by Florence’s defense line in the case of isolation; On the Florence side, djorkaeff is gorgeous and batistuta’s long-range shot has become a rare highlight in the whole half-court game
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At the end of half-time, I yawned straight. Zhuang Ge took off her headphones and her brain slipped again unconsciously.
Look at Arsenal, a British array now. Who could have imagined that in a few years, it would become a French day? From this point of view, it makes sense that Wenger has been criticized by the English media. Before his arrival, Arsenal was always a freshman in the international team of England. It’s a bit difficult to find a few England internationals in his post-Arsenal first team.
But then again, the strange phenomenon that English players have always been worth more than foreign players is probably the reason why Wenger has to make this choice. Arsenal’s financial difficulties have enabled Wenger to set his sights on foreign players with better quality and cheaper prices-considering that Walcott was fired for millions of pounds after playing a few good games, Wenger would of course prefer to choose cheaper foreign players!
Fortunately, Italy is not as crazy as England, otherwise I’m afraid I have to dig more future Italian stars, Zhuang Ge thought to himself.
Chapter 135 Highbury War (3)
"Tony, why do I feel that the area of Highbury Stadium is much smaller than Frankie?" Karin expressed her doubts to Zhuang Ge at halftime.