harleyscars Chapter 339 The Italian Cup
Chapter 339 The Italian Cup
Chapter 339 The Italian Cup
"Isn't it? These are first-team players?" Uchida looked at his new teammates and asked Yue Feng in a low voice in Huaguo dialect.
"Empoli is a small team. The players don't count us. The total value is only more than 3000 million, which is not as high as one of our main Inter Milan players." Yue Feng replied: "Most of their signings in recent years are from Serie A. The club’s retired main players and youth players, these people are cheap and able to play, and they are also in line with their team’s business strategy.”
Before leaving Milan, Yue Feng had fully studied Empoli, a small club, and had a general understanding of the team's situation.
At this moment, a bald uncle-like player wearing jersey No. 13 stood up and took the lead in applauding Yue Feng and Uchida.
"I'm Captain Luca, welcome to Empoli." The bald man said.
Although Luka spoke nicely, his face was expressionless, as if he dismissed Yue Feng and the other two.
After introducing each other with the new teammates, Yue Feng and Uchida stood side by side in the last row of the team.
The head coach Ranocchia gave a speech while introducing the situation of the new season that is about to start.
"Hey, Luka, these two guys are our new players?" A bearded and fierce-looking player next to the bald captain asked in a low voice.
"Mateucci, what do you think?" Luca asked without answering.
Mateucci stroked his beard, curled his lips and said, "I don't think they can help us, they just came here to gain experience."
"Hehe," Luka nodded slightly, seeming to agree with his bearded teammates, "It's not easy to mix experience, I hope they can compete with Liam and Pingner first."
After finishing speaking, Captain Luca glanced at the line behind him from the corner of his eye, where there were two players standing side by side, one white and one black.
Both of them are in their early 20s, and the white one is called Liam, who is Empoli's main left back.
The black player is called Pinner and is currently the main right back.
Yue Feng and Uchida Maren were actually loaned by Empoli to serve as their substitutes.
"On August 8th we will play a friendly match against Venice. I hope everyone can adjust their mentality and body through this game, because on the 7th we are about to usher in the second round of the Coppa Italia." Coach La Nokia said at the front of the line.
The players were all excited when they heard about the Coppa Italia, which is one of the few top-level competitions they can participate in.
The Coppa Italia is the highest-level cup competition in Italy, and teams from four levels, A, B, C, and D, can participate.
Due to the large number of participating teams, the Coppa Italia will have five rounds of single-elimination matches before the quarter-finals.
In the first round, a total of 36 teams in Class C and Class D will determine 18 winners first.
In the second round, the previous 18 winners and the 22 teams in the second division will decide 20 winners.
这20名将在第三轮与意甲上赛季排名9到20的12支球队混战，产生进入第四轮的16队伍。最后这16支队伍再捉对厮杀，决出8名强者。
In the fifth round, these 8 strong players who have broken through the siege will compete with the top 8 teams in Serie A last season to enter the quarter-finals.
The semi-finals of the Coppa Italia adopt a home and away two-round system to produce the final team that enters the final.
In the final, it will return to the mode of deciding the outcome. The two sides will compete for the Coppa Italia championship at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
"The Coppa Italia championship is not only won by the first-tier team. Our second-tier team also has a precedent for winning the championship. The football is round, and anything can happen. I hope everyone will do their best to achieve good results in the Italian Cup !"
When Ranocchia said this, his blood boiled with enthusiasm, as if he was not a young coach in his early forties, but a Serie A player who fought on the battlefield back then.
But this is actually nothing more than a bloodbath for the players. A second-tier team wants to win the Coppa Italia unless there is a miracle.
"Is there any second-tier team that has won the Coppa Italia?" Mato Uchida became curious when he heard what the head coach said.
"Napoli in the 1961-1962 season, they are currently the only team that won the championship as a second-tier team." Yue Feng replied.
"Awesome, your brain is simply a mobile database." Uchida Maren praised with a smile.
Yue Feng just smiled slightly, he felt that his superior memory was nothing to show off, it was all learned from reading the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child.
But what they said just now attracted the attention of many teammates around, even the bald captain Luca looked back at Yue Feng.
After the lecture, the coach Ranocchia asked the 33 players in the audience to divide into two teams to start the training match.
As rookies, Yue Feng and Uchida Maren did not start the game, but sat quietly on the bench with 9 other players to watch the game.
Coach Ranocchia blew his whistle, and the 22 people on the field immediately started to move.
The two teams were not randomly selected. Ranocchia deliberately selected the main players from the 22 people to form a team, and the rest of the substitutes formed a team.
Captain No. 13 Luca, bearded Mateucci, Liam, Pinner and others are all in the main team, wearing Empoli's all-blue home jersey.
Their formation is 352, Luca plays as a central defender, and Mateucci wears the No. 9 jersey and stands in the forward position.
Liam, whose skin was a little pale and flushed, played left wing back, which was also Yue Feng's good position.The right back Pinner took on the right wing back.
Yue Feng carefully observed the game and found that the 352 formation of the main team was different from that of Luka, and the other side played 4 defenders.
These players all wore green training vests outside the blue jerseys and stood in a standard 442 formation.
"It seems that Empoli also plays these two formations, which are very similar to Inter Milan." Yue Feng thought to himself, this may also be one of the reasons why the club loaned himself here. After all, similar tactics and formations can better make him and Uchida The two adapt to the new environment.
Yue Feng was watching the game carefully, when a crisp voice suddenly came from his ear: Hi, are you from Huaguo? "
Yue Feng turned his head and saw that the person talking to him was a tall, slender young man with big eyes and tanned skin.
"Stefano..." Yue Feng quickly found out the name corresponding to this face in his mind.Then he nodded and stretched out his right hand to the other party, "Yes, I am from Huaguo. Hello, Stefano."
Hearing that the other party said his name correctly, Stefano showed a surprised and excited expression. He only introduced himself just now, but he didn't expect this Chinese man to remember it.
"You Chinese people have really good brains." Stefano praised.
At this moment, the game on the field changed.Captain No. 13 Luka dribbled the ball straight from the backcourt, and then hoisted the ball directly to the opponent's penalty area with a long-distance pass.
The No. 9 forward, the bearded Mateucci, took advantage of the situation and shot the ball non-stop, breaking the deadlock on the field.
1-0!The home team scored first.
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