Chapter 86 The Battle of the Century (Part 2)

Chapter 86 The Battle of the Century (Part 2)

Florentino does love football, but he is not a fan who loves football, but loves football, the best dating platform in Spain. He knows how to control football, just like many construction companies under him. Weapons seek greater economic benefit for themselves.

Unlike AC Milan chairman Silvio Berlusconi who entered the political arena from football, Florentino's life focus was originally in the political arena, and he had to turn to the business world as a last resort.

In 1971, Florentino, who had just completed his two-year military service, received his degree as an engineer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Afterwards, he joined the Association of Road Engineers under the strong recommendation of Alespargo Chaga, then president of the Association, and finally Be in charge.

In 1976, Alespargochaga became the mayor of Madrid, and Florentino followed him into the municipal government, becoming the youngest municipal representative in Spanish history.

The 1970s was a period of turmoil in Spain. After Franco died and the young reformer Suarez became prime minister, Spain began the transition from dictatorship to democracy.

In 1978, Madrid ushered in a new mayor, and almost all municipal representatives were dismissed. Only Florentino stayed. After that, he was elected as a city councilor in Madrid, and was appointed as the director of the Transportation Infrastructure Bureau, Land Development and Chairman of the Reform Committee,

But his official career was smooth sailing, but he suffered a defeat in the 1982 general election.

Since then, Florentino has gradually faded out of politics and joined the Padros company headquartered in Barcelona. The Padros company, founded in 1965, was facing a serious financial crisis at the time. Florentino and his partner Torres symbolized A generous peseta bought the company and received a deposit insurance fund of 1 million pesetas to restructure the company. Since then, he has used the "primitive accumulation" completed in his previous political career to start doing business.

In 1993, Florentino, who served as a consultant to the board of directors of Ocisa Construction Company, was determined to seize the opportunity of economic development. Under his promotion, the company and its peers underwent a series of mergers, and finally established a new company ACS in 1997 , which is an acronym for "construction and service industry" in Spanish, became the largest construction contractor in Spain.

In the 1970s, there was hardly a decent highway in Spain, but thirty years later, the highway has run through every corner of the country. During this process, a large number of government projects began to appear. Obviously, whoever has a good relationship with the government can get these government project orders.

Under the careful planning of Florentino, the business of ACS Group has grown bigger and bigger. In addition to the old construction industry, it has successively entered the transportation industry, telecommunications industry, and energy industry.

There are countless construction teams under the acs group, but in the summer of 2000, the construction team under Florentino added another important force-Real Madrid Club.

The reason why Florentino set foot on the green field is simple-influence.

Before the 1950s, bullfighting was the favorite activity of the Spanish upper class, but since then, football has replaced bullfighting and has become the most frequent entertainment for celebrities? Entertainment.

In this country where football is highly popular, the prestige of football clubs is self-evident, and being able to become the chairman of a club at a level similar to Real Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia is not only a status symbol, but also an opening A social door leading directly to the highest levels of society.

In 1995, the 47-year-old Florentino participated in the Real Madrid club chairman election as a dark horse, and finally lost to Mendoza by 698 votes. In 2000, he finally became the chairman of Real Madrid with a "superstar strategy".

In addition to the honor of Real Madrid, Florentino took over a huge debt of 270 million euros. In order to turn losses into profits, his businessman skills are fully demonstrated: In 2001, Florentino sold Real Madrid's training ground in the center of Madrid to the Madrid City Government for a sky-high price of 480 million euros, and moved to a new building on the outskirts of the city. The training ground, where the field is bigger and the conditions are better, Real Madrid also took advantage of this to turn losses into profits.

At that time, former Real Madrid president Sanz also made the same effort to sell the stadium many times, but only Florentino succeeded.

Why?

This is because only he has a good personal relationship with the former mayor of Madrid.

Selling the stadium at a sky-high price, coupled with the purchase of superstars, Florentino used this simplest and rude method to suddenly increase the attractiveness of Real Madrid.

Starting from Figo, followed by Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham, and Irving, Real Madrid has more and more fans. In one fell swoop, Real Madrid surpassed Manchester United and became the richest club in the world.

While the superstar policy helped Real Madrid become the richest club in the world, it also brought endless "locker room disputes" to Real Madrid. At that time, in a Champions League match, Real Madrid lost at home to Assen, who was short of major generals Na, and then lost to the lower-ranked Mallorca. These two defeats became the fuse for Florentino to dismiss get out of class.

On February 27, 2006, Florentino announced his resignation as the chairman of Real Madrid. After his resignation, he returned to the lifestyle of a construction businessman and stayed away from public attention. Even if he opened his mouth, he never talked about Real Madrid or football.

However, with the weakening of Real Madrid's influence and the gradual dimming of the stars in the Real Madrid team, Real Madrid fans are increasingly missing the creator of the "Galaxy Battleship".

On June 14, 2009, Florentino made up his mind to return to Real Madrid through the election. On the one hand, it is because of the needs of the club, and on the other hand, it is the needs of his construction career.

Florentino made up his mind to return to the front desk and take charge of Real Madrid again, not because he wanted to see the team in such a mess. He wanted not only superstars, but also honors. He wanted to make Real Madrid a leader in the 21st century. The strongest club.

As early as when he decided to run for the election, Florentino once said: "We have ideas, models and passion to lead the club to regain our honor."

When he chose to leave Real Madrid, Florentino once said in an interview: "I resigned at the time for the benefit of the club, but I admit that it was a wrong decision. During my 6 years in charge of Real Madrid, the club From an unstable system, with economic and sporting problems, to a role model for the world, with both sporting and economic success, we have reshaped the image of Real Madrid, we have strengthened the Real Madrid brand and made it more popular."

"The most urgent and critical problem I face is to develop an organizational model foundation, so that no one can destroy it in the future, I will bring more passion, more ideas and stronger With the strength back at the club, I already have an exciting competitive plan in mind, and I will gradually eliminate the current instability of the club, and I am ready to face great challenges."

"We are executing a great plan that will ensure that Real Madrid continue to be the greatest club in the world and the best club of the 21st century."

The declaration made during the campaign is still in my ears. Real Madrid's record this season cannot be said to be a failure, but they lost to Barcelona in the league, lost to a third-tier team in the Copa del Rey, and now they finally reached the Champions League final. He was looking forward to Real Madrid winning the tenth Champions League trophy under his leadership. As a result, the game started less than a minute before Real Madrid's goal was broken by Fiorentina.

And in the following period of time, he could not see any changes in the team at all, which made him completely lose patience with Pellegrini.

Of course, although Florentino supported Pellegrini in front of the media before again, in fact, he had already made up his mind to invite Magic Bird to the Bernabeu.

The only difference is that if he wins the Champions League, Florentino can make Pellegrini go more decently, but if he can't win the championship, he will let Pellegrini go painfully.

The game was still going on, and Real Madrid's many stars launched more and more fierce offensives, but they were still a little short of scoring and equalizing the score.

Jin Maoluo's performance is really good. His speed and impact have caused a lot of trouble for Fiorentina's defense. However, as the game progressed, Ronaldo became more and more impatient. Several times, his teammates had already run in place. , In the end, he still chose to hit the door by himself, wasting the opportunity in vain.

On the other hand, Fiorentina played calmly, controlled the ball completely according to their own ideas, did not have the best chance, absolutely did not take any risk of attack, and kept the three lines very complete.

Anyway, it is Real Madrid who are in a hurry now, and the Fiorentina players enjoy the feeling of playing with this galaxy battleship like this.

Half an hour has passed, and the score is still 1:0. During this period, the two sides had several chances, among which Real Madrid's best chance came in the 15th minute. They broke through Florence's defenses, but it was a pity that they failed to break through Frey's ten fingers.

Similarly, Fiorentina also had a chance to expand the score. Digan took the ball and broke through, but Casillas dragged the final shot out of the baseline.

More often, the two sides are fighting in the midfield. This is the scene Prandelli hopes to see. Although Real Madrid has superstars like Harvey Alonso and Kaka in the midfield, when it comes to control If not, Real Madrid will be at a disadvantage.

Moreover, Real Madrid's midfield interception ability is not as good as that of Fiorentina. If you fight for the midfield, Xiao Cangyu: This wave is not a loss!

Pellegrini couldn't sit still anymore. He began to walk to the sidelines frequently, calling the players over, and teaching him face-to-face. Unlike the club's indifference to him, the relationship between the players and him was still very good.

It's a pity that Pellegrini's arrangement can't be resolutely implemented at all. Who makes the field full of big names? Everyone has their own ideas. Greene has rich experience in leading the team. In one season, he failed to completely knead Real Madrid into a whole.

If you can have two more years!

Pellegrini felt regretful in his heart. With this lineup, if he was given two more years, he would definitely be able to bring out a super strong team that could challenge Barcelona in Spain and overthrow Fiorentina in the UEFA Champions League. Team.

However, Pellegrini has no such opportunity!

The situation on the court was completely controlled by Fiorentina. After Real Madrid's mad attack failed, the mentality of the players had problems and became more and more impatient, especially Ronaldo, he began to become unreasonable, as long as the ball arrived At his feet, don't even think about spreading it.

People can understand that Degan scored a goal. As the opponent, Ronaldo also wants to be the hero of the team. After scoring goals and scoring, Ronaldo is almost in trouble.

ronaldo was in a hurry, so that other players in Real Madrid were also infected. As long as they got the ball, Real Madrid would subconsciously play that simple and rough tactics, what elegance, what aristocratic temperament, if it can be played on this Real Madrid team If you find a little bit of it, it's a strange thing.

Seeing this, Prandelli couldn't help laughing, and turned back to the coach's bench. There was nothing to worry about in this game, at least there was no problem in the first half.

"Cesare! We will be champions again!" Antonelli looked very excited.

Prandelli laughed and said, "The showdown of the century! I'm afraid the fans will be disappointed again!"

Disappointed again!

In last year's Champions League final, Fiorentina had already let people down once. It wasn't that they played badly, but they were too good, allowing the smug Red Devils Manchester United and Sir Alex Ferguson to be easily defeated.

This time, it seems that the result is almost the same!

"Old man! I'm leaving! Are you interested in going to the national team with me and continue to be my head coach!"

Prandelli's next stop has been basically determined. Lippi will leave the position of head coach of the national team after the World Cup, and Prandelli will be the next head coach of the Italian national team.

Antonelli was taken aback, hesitant in his heart, saying that it was impossible to not want to, but he was different from Prandelli. He had been playing for Fiorentina since he was a player. Now, if he leaves, he really can't accept it in his heart.

Prandelli smiled and said: "Don't rush to answer, think patiently, anyway, there is still a long time before the end of the World Cup! But I still hope you can agree, after all, I am used to working with you!"

Just as he was talking, the first half of the game was over, and the Fiorentina players walked off the field with a relaxed expression. On the Real Madrid side, everyone's face was full of gloom.

lost!

Such thoughts fill the heads of most people, and they don't dare to think about it any more. Another season where all four players are empty, is this the ending that Real Madrid deserves?