Chapter 81 Funeral

After playing the league with Inter Milan, with the record of 18 consecutive victories in the league, the whole team rushed to Orchinove, which is Prandelli's hometown, where Mrs. Cappia's funeral will be held.

On the morning, Digan led the whole team in Florence and appeared in a local church in a black suit. In the church, Digan met Prandelli with a sad face.

Seeing that his disciples have arrived, Prandelli is also very comforted. For nothing else, his hard work over the years has not been in vain, at least he still has a certain weight in the hearts of the players.

"Rod! I'm glad that you can come today!"

Digan gave Prandelli a comforting hug. Looking at the coffin of Mrs. Capphia parked in front of him, his heart couldn't help but feel sore. After joining Florence, he also met Prandelli's wife. Cappilla gave him the impression that she was a strong and optimistic woman, even if she was sick at that time, but I have never given up my passion for life.

The love between Prandelli and his wife, even Digan, an uninteresting guy, is envious. In the Italian football world full of prodigal sons and **, like the Prandelli couple, it is really rare to have been helping each other for 25 years.

"Coach! You shouldn't have hidden it from us!"

Prandelli smiled bitterly and sighed again: "Kamia likes to be quiet. Besides, the team is at a critical moment, and I don't want to be distracted by my affairs."

Although Florence is not his first team, his feelings for Florence are definitely the deepest. In three years, the club has completely branded him. With Florence's step-by-step strengthening, this team has also become Prandelli's emotional sustenance. .

"I know the result of the game, Rod! You did a really good job. I'm proud of you!"

Digan finally smiled when he saw a smile on Prandelli's face and felt very comforted: "I think a victory will be the best gift for Mrs. Caffea."

Plander nodded and suddenly said, "Rod! You did a really good job, and everyone has seen it. Now this team will be able to go very smoothly even without me!"

Digan was stunned. He didn't expect Prandelli to say such a sentence, and he was shocked: "Coach! You~~~~~~”

Prandelli's eyes are full of deep sadness: "Rod! At the beginning, it was Kafeya who encouraged me to return to the coaching position, but now she is no longer there, and I can't feel any fun of life. I~~~~~~~~~"

Prandelli didn't finish speaking, and Digan didn't know how to comfort him. The two stood silently, waiting for the beginning of the funeral.

Digan can't help sighing at this moment. The touching love has branded the 50-year-old Italian middle-generation outstanding coach with affection and righteousness, which makes him have a different understanding and perception of football. Every time I think of this story about love, life and death, and football, it makes countless female fans sigh and marry a real man like Prandelli.

Born in the northern Italian city of Brescia, he began his career in Cremonese at the age of 17. At that time, he met a manno Ella. Kafeya's girl was 15 years old that year. Love at first sight made the two young people fall in love, and it was Prandelli's football skills that grew up with love. Four years later, he won the favor of the "Youth Army" Atlanta team and began his journey in Serie A.

was only one year in Atlanta, but Prandelli grew rapidly and attracted the attention of the top giant Juventus. In the summer of 1979, he joined the Bianconeri. From 1979 to 1985, he won three Serie A titles with the team. He wrote his name on honors such as the Italian Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup, European Super Cup and European Champions League, with Platini and Paul. Rosie and legendary superstars such as Tardelli supported the great Juventus era together.

In 1982, 25-year-old Prandelli married Kafiya. He once said, "Being able to grow up with her is a more precious experience than my professional football career."

Although Prandelli has achieved a grand slam in the league, he has never been called up by the national team. In 1990, at the age of 33, he announced his retirement and immediately picked up the whip of the Atlanta youth team for seven years. Except for briefly leading the first team as a caretaker coach in the 1993/1994 season, he spent the rest of his time dealing with young people, which also allowed him to accumulate rich experience in promoting young players.

Pendelli finally won the position of coach of Lecce in the summer of 1997, but his debut season was a little bitter for him. He won 6 games in the whole season but lost 20 games, and was finally relegated as the penultimate.

For good, Lecce's failed resume did not make Prandelli retreat, and he soon made a comeback with another small town team, Verona, a year later.

After completing the task of promotion, Prandelli led the team, which was originally aimed at relegation, to get 9th in the league in the 1999/2000 season. Then he chose to go to Venice to start a business again. In the 2000/2001 season, he led the Venice team to successfully promoted to Serie A, which also gained the reputation of "upgrading professional".

With his achievements in Verona and Venice, Prandelli finally got his first ** powerful invitation in 12 years of teaching and became the coach of Parma, one of the "seven sisters" in Serie A.

Although the Yellow-Black Legion had just let go of top superstars such as Buffon and Thuram at that time, the arrival of young talents such as Adriano, Mutu and Marchionni just played a role in Prandelli's ability to lead young people.

In just two years, the Palma Youth Army has shown strong combat effectiveness, and the combination of Ade and Mutu is even more majestic. 47-year-old Prandelli is only one step away from the famous coach.

Verona, Venice, Brescia and Parma have changed four cities in five years, which is part of Prandelli's life as a head coach, but it is all of Cappia's wife.

She wholeheartedly supports her husband's career, with a pair of children, and gives the greatest spiritual support to the family with the gentleness of a wife and mother.

In 2004, Prandelli got the first million euro contract in his coaching career and took over the coach of the giant Roma team. But just a month later, before he led Roma to play a first division, Kafeya was diagnosed with breast cancer!

Family or career?

This will always be a problem for many men.

But for Prandelli, there is only one answer, that is his wife.

The first Italian man in his life will always be the girl he met for the first time in front of the chocolate hot drink shop.

Plandelli resolutely resigned to the team: "It is very difficult to make such a decision, but I am sure that this is the right choice in my life."

At the most capable age of a man, he did not hesitate to turn around and leave the glorious stage, just for his beloved wife, the whole Italy was moved.

One year later, Prandelli stayed by his wife's bed to help him face the disease together. It was not until his wife's condition improved that he returned to the teaching world. This time, he was accepted by the Fiorentina team, which also had a glorious history.

In the 2005/2006 season, Fiorentina entered the top four of the league after many years, but missed the Champions League due to the "telephone gate" incident. After that, it won the fourth place in the 2006/2007 season. In the 2007/2008 season, finally no factor can block Prandelli's first Champions League. The journey.

Contrary to the victory on the court, Kafeya's condition is getting worse and worse. Prandelli once pushed his wife in a wheelchair to the court together and did not forget to walk to the coach's bench and gently put a purple lily in her hand.

But just as the flowers will wither, Kafeya's life has come to an end. At the last moment of her life, Fiorentina was about to challenge Inter Milan's 17-game winning streak, and this time Prandelli once again chose to stay with his wife.

In the match with Inter Milan, the whole Fiorentina team wore black veil and observed a minute of silence before the game, sending the most sincere respect for this deep love.

Kamia has been away for three days. During these three days, Prandelli lives in the memory of his deceased wife. He often sits alone in the study full of his wife's photos. Sitting, my eyes turned red. The children tried to persuade their father to come out, but Prandelli preferred to make friends with his dead wife in his own world.

The funeral began. After Mass, everyone came to the cemetery together. Perhaps to commemorate this great love, it rained lightly in the sky. Kafeya's friend, a well-known opera singer in the local area, followed Kafeya's last wishes before her death and said at her funeral that she and Pu Landley's past.

As the opera singer said: We are so sad because of love.

At the age of 18, he met her at the age of 15. At that time, he had just become a professional player.

At the age of 25, he married her. At that time, he had become the main force of the Serie A champion team.

19 years after her marriage, she suffered from breast cancer. At that time, he was a new coach who showed his talent and created miracles with weak brigades for two consecutive years.

Three years later, her condition worsened in 2004. 47 years old, he just signed a contract with a rich family in Rome and got his first million annual salary.

In order to take care of her, his career ended in less than two months. A week before the start of the new season, he chose to resign and guard her last time.

At the starting point of glory and glory, in the center of fame and glory, a man turned away for her at the most capable age.

The whole Italy was moved.

He just said lightly: What I do is just what any man should do for his family.

After a year away from the hustle and bustle, he came back with her support.

In 2007, she left. He said: Thanks to God, she was finally free from pain.

He said: In 25 years of marriage, we have only fought once. We use tennis rackets and across the net.

He also said: She is always by my side, and all the money I earn is given to her, so I never carry money in my pocket.

He said goodbye to her calmly and with dignity in his own way.

50 years old, at the golden age of a man, elegant and handsome, elegant, modest and polite, the coach of a rich family, with an annual salary of 1.8 million euros. He occupied the legendary promoted and rich wife. If you stand on the stage of Not Disturbing, you will definitely get a ticket to the Aegean Sea. What's more, this is a pizza country where models are extremely popular with football.

But Prandelli is mourning his love with his deceased wife in his own way.

At the end of the funeral, the whole Fiorentina team will immediately go to Milan to prepare for the Champions League group match with AC Milan tomorrow. Prandelli is not here. At this time, the team's family is Degan, but Degan seems to be worried at this moment.

"Rod! What are you thinking about?" Assistant coach Antonelli sat next to Degan.

Digan hesitated for a moment and whispered, "I feel that Cesare seems to be planning to leave Florence!"

Antonelli was shocked, suppressed his inner surprise, lowered his voice as much as possible, and said, "How can this be? Cesare is not a fragile person. Although Mrs. Kafeya's death hit him deeply, it is impossible for him to make such a decision!"

Degan smiled bitterly and said, "Cesare is indeed not a fragile person, but his life is more delicate than all of us. The more such a person is, the more he likes to get into the horns. I'm worried that it's difficult for Cesare to get out."

Antonelli had to admit that Degan was very reasonable. He felt a headache. Although the club had appointed him as the acting head coach of the team, he found that he did not have the ability to take charge of the youth army at all. Prandelli's brand on the team was too deep.

Antonelli thought and turned his head to look at Degan: "Rod! At this time, you must stand up. Once Cesare makes a decision, you must become the new leader of the team. Florence is in very good condition now, and we can't fail!"

Digan smiled bitterly when he heard this. It's not that he didn't think about it, but he found it really difficult. Even if he is a person who never admits to losing, he must admit that he doesn't have the ability to lead a team, and without Prandelli's spring breeze. It's just his high-pressure policy, he can't keep the locker room at all. Stability and the team's combat effectiveness.

"No! What this team needs most is not me, but Cesare. Only he can lead us to glory. I'm just a participant in it. It's impossible to be a decision maker!"

At this point, Degan is also depressed, but there is nothing he can do. He is just the leader of the team, not the commander of the team.