Chapter 619 Ranieri's New Job
The UEFA draw and individual awards ceremony were held in Monaco on the second day. Since Trapani won the Champions League last season, many players in the team were selected for the best team, and Messi won the Champions League best player. His number of goals did not exceed Kaka, but he contributed two assists in the most crucial final, while Kaka did not have any outstanding performance.
This award made Messi truly enter the ranks of top stars, and he undoubtedly took the lead in the European Footballer of the Year and the World Footballer of the Year at the end of the year.
Trapani's Maicon won the best defender. Needless to say, his award was definitely due to his god-level performance in the Champions League final. Kameni won the best goalkeeper, Kaka won the best midfielder, and Messi won the best forward.
Trapani also had many players selected in the best lineup. In general, last season was another great victory for Italian football in European competitions after the 2002-03 season. They almost won everything. Trapani just won Sevilla and won the European Super Cup, which was another victory for Italian football. Sitting in the audience, seeing the players of the league standing up to receive the awards, Hugo was very excited. He hoped that Serie A would rise and restore the glory of Serie A in the past. Although he also understood that there were many things that could not be replicated last season, it at least gave hope to many people who were fascinated by this league.
Although he knew that the economic crisis was coming, Italy, a poor second-rate country, would also be very bad, and the Italian league would be affected. This might be the last glory, but such a moment gave Hugo confidence. He wanted to lead Italian football to resist the storm of the economic crisis and keep Italian football from falling.
The best coach was Ranieri, who led the team to win the treble, an unprecedented achievement. He deserved the title of the best coach. Ranieri took the trophy with a smile, and first thanked the Trapani team, and emphasized Hugo's name.
"I want to thank Mr. Gianluigi Colini in particular. I think he is the best leader! I feel very honored to work with him, and in my mind he is a good man, a truly pure football man. Many people don't know that he has contributed a lot to Italian football! I hope to use this stage to express my sincere gratitude to him!"
Oh, my God! Hugo was almost moved to tears. Those who know me say that I am worried and those who don't know me say what I want. I didn't expect that this silent old man also understands me? !
After Ranieri resigned from Trapani, he started his happy vacation life. This time he came to the award ceremony alone. Hugo chatted with him for a few words when he entered the venue. Ranieri really couldn't stay idle. After spending his vacation easily, he immediately took over the position of head coach of Juventus.
Juventus broke up with Deschamps this summer. Deschamps is a very stubborn person. Hugo is generally a good boss. Since he became the head coach, he didn't like to point fingers at the team. Deschamps is also a head coach that Hugo treats specially. The team construction is almost in accordance with Deschamps' plan, but this guy left.
Well, he threw himself into the arms of his old club without hesitation, but he still didn't get along with the top management in the end. As for the reason, no one knows, but generally it is some differences in the team building ideas.
Deschamps resigned in anger, and Juventus turned its attention to Ranieri. Ranieri is now a famous coach, a top coach, but Ranieri is not a tinker. He has the capital to choose the team he wants to coach. Of course, he really doesn't want to take over a new coaching position so soon, so Ranieri refused.
Later, under Juventus's continuous offensive, Ranieri finally agreed to come out and serve as Juventus' head coach. Juventus also spent a lot on him. As for the effect, it remains to be verified.
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Compared to the award ceremony, Hugo didn't pay much attention to the draw ceremony. For the vast number of European club friends, it's not that Trapani is afraid of anyone, but everyone is praying not to run into Trapani.
But Trapani is lucky. This time the draw is very lucky. As a seeded team, they are in the same group with PSV Eindhoven, CSKA Moscow, and Fenerbahce. This kind of draw is the legendary best draw. Except for the long away game, there is nothing to pick.
Morek and Giorgio were grinning from ear to ear, unable to hide their relief and happiness on their faces.
The senior executives of the other teams in the group who participated in the draw were not so relaxed. The bad thing about this group was that there was only one super strong team, Trapani, and the other three teams were of relatively average strength. They could immediately think that it would be extremely difficult to prevent Trapani from qualifying smoothly, but there was still one qualifying spot.
Putting aside Trapani, this Group G was a real death group, and the three teams would definitely fight to the death for the other spot.
Hugo remembered what Platini had said to him at this time. He told Hugo to rest assured that he believed that Hugo's team would not have a problem qualifying.
What does this mean? ! Is there something fishy here? !
After thinking about it, who cares, anyway, I didn't give money and I didn't cheat. If Platini really took care of it, it's not my business.
Hugo, who had not appeared for a long time, was blocked outside the conference hall by many reporters after the draw ceremony. Hugo had no choice but to accept a brief interview from the media.
"Mr. Colemani, your team achieved great success in both the Italian and European competitions last season. Are you confident that the team will continue this success in the new season? Are you satisfied with the draw results?!" The reporter from the French media "Team News" pointed the microphone at Hugo.
"I definitely have such confidence! Our goal is to win every game beautifully, and the championship of each event is our goal! As for the draw results, to be honest, I don't care who the opponent is, because we are definitely not the ones to be afraid of!" Hugo answered confidently.
"Everyone knows that your team has made a profit of more than 100 million through transfers this summer, and many main players in the team have left, and Trapani seems to have made up for the shortage this summer..."
The reporter of "442" was interrupted by Hugo, "We have also introduced many players. Isn't Beckham a superstar?! Isn't Henry a superstar?! We have also introduced other players. They did not spend much transfer fees, but that was determined by various specific circumstances. Transfer fees do not represent value, and they are priceless in our eyes. They will bring great help to the team!"
Okay, just ignore me! The reporter of "442" was speechless.
"Mr. Colani, can you tell us about Mr. Ranieri?! What did you talk to him about today?! Why did he leave Trapani?!" "Torino Sports Daily" is a storytelling platform, of course "Gazzetta dello Sport" and "Roma Sports Daily" are not much different. Now the media in Italy that is recognized as authoritative and professional is "New Sports" under Hugo. The reporter who asked this question was a reporter from "Torino Sports Daily".
Hugo is very annoyed by the media asking such questions. What a lunatic, what I talked about with Ranieri is none of your business!
"Mr. Ranieri is definitely one of the best coaches in the world. He has already said the reason for his departure. After achieving great success in Trapani, it is completely understandable to change to a new environment! There is a saying in China that you should retire after success. Mr. Ranieri's experience in Trapani is very suitable for this saying!"
"As for what I said to Mr. Ranieri just now, it seems to be none of your business. I can refuse to answer!" Hugo said to the reporter.
"Just this summer, several Italian clubs went bankrupt due to financial problems. This year the number seems to be greater than in previous years. Mr. Colemani, what impact do you think this will have on the future of Italian football?!" The reporter from New Sports asked such a question, which made Hugo fall into deep thought.