"Parma Club General Manager Ballardini confirmed the news that the team's head coach Baldini has been fired. The 0-1 away defeat to Atalanta, the deputy squad leader of the league, became the direct trigger for Baldini's dismissal...
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Li Ang opened his mouth wide and looked at the TV screen in surprise.
However, Banderas touched Li Ang with his arm and said, "Your 'companion killer' is really powerful. Their coach has dismissed the get out of class before the game even started."
Li Ang smiled bitterly and shook his head.
This was already two days after the match against Malaga. The Sporting Gijon team had already arrived in the small Italian city of Parma to prepare for the UEFA Cup quarter-finals against the Serie A team Parma.
They came to Parma last night. After a night's rest, while having breakfast in the morning, they learned from the TV news that Parma coach Baldini was dismissed.
This really surprised Li Ang. The game against Sporting Gijon was about to start, and Parma actually fired the head coach before the game...
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"This only shows that this team's patience with the head coach has reached its limit, otherwise it would not change the coach at this time." Ribery said. The players were also discussing this matter and thought it was too strange.
, they all made their own guesses.
When Fabio Grosso, the Italian left back of Sporting Gijon, heard the news, he felt sorry for Baldini because the latter had coached him when Grosso was playing in Palermo.
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The 46-year-old Baldini did not have a brilliant coaching experience before coaching Parma. In the 2002-03 season, he served as the coach of Empoli and then the coach of the second division team Palermo, but in January 2004
In August, the club believed that he failed to bring the team to the heights it deserved and was dismissed by club president Zamparini. However, in fact, Palermo was ranked third in Serie B at the time, and the record was actually quite good, and he was subsequently promoted to
Class A.
His resume is mediocre, so when Parma chose Baldini to coach, it aroused discussion last summer. People discussed this matter and came to the conclusion that Baldini was chosen because his salary was very low and he could save money.
Money - this is the most important thing for Parma, which is in financial crisis.
From the news, Li Ang learned that the name of Parma's new head coach was Pietrnani. He thought about it in his mind, but he still had no impression or memory of this person, so he could only explain that
This person's coaching performance was average, even poor, and he was unable to really stand out.
This also made Li Ang despise this person more or less. In his eyes, among the current coaches of the Italian team, Lippi, Ancelotti, Capello and other famous coaches can make him
He took a high look and saw that the others were Spalletti, Prandelli and a few other 'young coaches'.
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Parma has only 180,000 permanent residents and is considered one of the most exquisite cities in Italy. The Regio Theater located here is world-famous, even compared with La Scala in Milan.
Parma is a livable, exquisite, small, medieval, affluent and bourgeois city. It is even considered by some to be a unique place in the world. Parma’s ham is unique, Parma’s cheese is the industry benchmark, and Parma’s pizza brand
Barilla is well-known around the world—you can get it in any major shopping mall in the world—and Pomioli, the glassware brand from Parma, is equally renowned.
Of course, the whole Sporting Gijon team is not here to enjoy the trip, they hope to take away a satisfactory result from Parma: victory.
Li Ang is still relatively confident and looking forward to winning away games. The big reason for this is because of Parma's current poor situation: they are currently ranked 17th in Serie A. This team was among the top six in Serie A last season. Now Deep in the relegation zone. To make matters worse, Parma is in deep financial crisis.
In fact, as one of the seven sister teams in Serie A, although Parma was once famous, it has been in the lower leagues for most of the team's 101-year history. In fact, it was only in 1990 that the team Parma only became famous around the world after being promoted to Serie A. At that time, the dairy company Parmalat acquired the club, and CEO Callisto Tanzi personally became the club chairman. Historically, running a Serie A club has never been about making money. The way. An executive of a Serie A club larger than Parma once made it clear that to a large extent, when the bosses invest in a club, "either to engage in image projects or to buy a big toy." Tanzi is like this example.
Tanzi spent money like water and created Parma's "golden decade". Serie A in the 1990s was star-studded, and Tanzi's team was also full of superstars: Crespo, Parma's historical top scorer, is now the coach of Parma's youth team; Thuram, One of the most famous defenders in the history of the French team; Asprilla, a representative of Colombia's golden generation; and Cannavaro, the current main defender of the Italian national team... Parma has won 2 UEFA Cups and 1 European Cup Winners' Cup, 1 European Super Cup, 3 Italian Cups, now when you walk into Parma's Clezio Center, you can also see these victory paintings on both sides of the corridor. Under Tanzi's care, The Clezio training center was completed before the millennium. At that time, Tanzi wanted to move the team near the Parmalat headquarters in Clezio, so he funded the construction of this base.
Parma's success is not just a football team. Just as the Etihad Airways logo can be seen today on the jerseys of Manchester City and New York FC, the Parma jerseys at that time were also living advertisements for Parmalat. In the mid-1990s , Parmalat expanded its business to Eastern Europe, and Tanzi acquired Stoichkov, a former European Footballer whose career was on the decline. To sign the Bulgarian from Barcelona, Tanzi spent $10 million—— A rare high value in that era. When Parmalat entered Africa, Parma bought players from Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.
However, in 2003, a fraud scandal broke out at Parmalat, and the food empire collapsed. It was likened to "Europe's Enron." At that time, Parmalat was the 8th largest company in Italy, with 36,000 employees, and its output value accounted for 10% of the world's total. 1% of Italy's GDP. It is estimated that Parmalat's debt is nearly 20 billion U.S. dollars. Tanzi went bankrupt, was convicted of fraud, and was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison. Parma Club entered administrative trusteeship, and the court later appointed a bankruptcy agent.
To put it bluntly, the current future of Parma Club is bleak. The club does not even know who the future owner will be, or even whether any owner is willing to take over Parma.
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"The first game led by Pietrnani was against La Liga dark horse Sporting Gijon in the UEFA Cup. All we can do is wish Camiggiani and Parma good luck. If we can
Defeating Sporting Gijon at home and finally eliminating this opponent to enter the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup will be the best way for Parma to boost their morale..." "Gazzetta dello Sport" is looking forward to the game between Parma and Sporting Gijon.
time, so said.
"Kill Sporting Gijon, in the name of Parma and victory!" Parma's local newspaper "Poste Sardinia" published an article on the front page to cheer for the team.
April 7, Parma, in the visiting team's dressing room at the Tardini Stadium.
"Guys, you must teach this down-and-out opponent a lesson today." Li Ang was encouraging his players, "Tell them the gap between a team that aims to win the La Liga championship and a team that is relegated to Serie A!"
The head coach of Sporting Gijon said murderously.
PS: I'm not feeling well and have unbearable abdominal pain. I'll just do one chapter today and three updates tomorrow. Thank you everyone for your support.
