Chapter 1170 The League Ends (Part 1)
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With the referee's whistle, the match between Fiorentina and Brescia finally came to an end. This also means that the regular season of the Serie A League in the 2002-03 season also officially ended from this moment!
The reason why it is said to be the regular season is that at Atalanta, which ranks fourth from the bottom in the standings, needs to play two rounds of playoffs to make the final try for a Serie A place next season. Therefore, in order to distinguish it from the playoff stage, the Italian Football Association will call this stage the regular season.
With the end of the thirty-four rounds of the league, the final rankings of the 18 Serie A clubs this season are also released at the same time!
As the Serie A champion this season, Fiorentina has achieved 26 wins, four draws and four losses in all 34 league games. Although this championship point is a certain difference from the points during the five consecutive championships of the Purple Lily in the league, it is still enough to allow Purple Lily to beat competitors such as Juventus and Inter Milan in the league battlefield and successfully win the championship trophy from the siege of strong enemies.
As the world's No. 1 league and also the league with the highest points in the European Cup in UEFA's official statistics, the teams that have won the top four Serie A this season are eligible to participate in the Champions League next season. However, according to the rankings of each team in the league, there are still some differences in their qualifications. For example, if you win Fiorentina, which ranks in the top three in the league, Juventus and Inter Milan can directly enter the top 32 and get a place in the Champions League group stage; AC Milan is more unlucky, and the Ross and Blacks, ranked fourth, have to start from the third round of the qualifying round and defeat their opponents in order to qualify for the Champions League main match.
After talking about the teams in the top four in the standings, let’s take a look at the teams that have qualified for the League Cup. Although they have been in a serious financial crisis since last summer, and even the big boss Cranioti has been imprisoned for suspected financial fraud, Lazio has shown extremely high cohesion and strong combat effectiveness in this difficult time, losing the two core cores of Crespo and Grandoni, the first and second ones, and once reached the second place in the standings without receiving a one-lirae salary for several months!
Although his performance in the second half of the league declined due to insufficient depth of the bench and finally ended the season with the fifth place in the league, the Blue Eagles players still won the respect of the fans and the media with their practical actions.
Compared with Lazio, who united as one of the players to overcome difficulties and showed an excellent mental outlook, Roma seemed much more unbearable in this regard. Although in order to ensure the team's competitiveness in the Serie A arena, Old Sensi did not hesitate to sell his own industry that had been created through hardships to raise the necessary funds for the club, unfortunately, the Roma players did not seem to have received the love of their boss.
Casano, who spent a huge sum of $18 million, is still the boy who never grows up. He has become synonymous with trouble, not only did he not grow up as expected, but he kept asking for a salary increase at this time. Toti has hardly walked out of the shadow of the World Cup throughout the season, and has also revealed that he has had a bad relationship with Casano, Montra and Panucci, which seriously dragged the team down. The Red Wolf's exit in the Champions League quarterfinals has a lot to do with this.
To be honest, except for Lao Sensi, only Boss Mo Da can do this in the entire Italian football world. Even Zhuang Mingge will not invest so much in the club under similar circumstances. It is precisely because of this that the performance of the Roman players at this time makes people feel extremely disappointed.
Think about it, Lao Senxin is willing to sell his own industry and retain the team's stars to ensure the team's competitiveness. However, these players with high salaries do not understand the boss's efforts at all. They either cause trouble or engage in internal fighting in the locker room, or no one wants to unite everyone and play well, and improve the team's poor record. This has led to Roma, which has much better financial situation than their city rivals, finally ranked eighth in the standings and has barely gained a place in the League Cup.
The teams sandwiched between the two Roma heroes, ranked sixth and seventh in the standings are Parma and Sampdoria. However, among these two teams, only Sampdoria has qualified for the League Cup next season. As for Parma, because they reached the final of the European Cup this season and narrowly defeated Chelsea coached by Ranieri with one goal in the final, the Milk Legion will continue to represent Italy as the defending champion next season to the European Cup.
Since Parma is going to participate in the Cup of Winners, the qualifications for the League Cup that should have been assigned to them will naturally be postponed. Therefore, Vicenza, who ranked ninth in the standings, became this lucky person, leaving Brescia and Perugia, who were ranked tenth and eleventh in terms of mutual record disadvantages.
Now let me mention here that in addition to Parma, who has returned from winning the cup, another team that has qualified for the Cup Winners, is the second team of Fiorentina who has been promoted to the Serie B League for the first time since its founding.
In this season's Italian Cup match, Mourinho's second team coached by Fiorentina eliminated many powerful opponents, including Roma and Lazio, and passed the hurdles and entered the final!
In the first leg of the Italian Cup final three days ago, facing the powerful AC Milan, these young men from Florence did not have any stage fright. They fought with the Ross and Blacks for a full ninety minutes before losing, and were defeated by Danish international Thomasson in injury time.
Although they lost the first leg, their opponent AC Milan in the final has already won a Champions League place. After a brief discussion, the Italian Football Association resolutely announced that according to relevant regulations, the second team of Fiorentina, who reached the Italian Cup final, will represent Italy in the European Cup winners next season!
After the results of the discussion of the Italian Football Association were announced, it caused an uproar on the Apennine Peninsula, causing many Italian clubs who were watching the fun to break their glasses. After all, they did not expect that the Italian Football Association would really have such courage to allow a new team like Florence, a Serie B team, to participate in the European Cup Winners next season!
Chapter completed!