Chapter 86 During the War of the Century

Flotino does love football, but he does not love football **, but football, the best dating platform in Spain. He knows how to control football, just like many construction companies under him, using this weapon to seek greater economic benefits for himself.

Unlike AC Milan President Berlusconi from football to politics, Florentino's life focus was originally in politics and had no choice but to move to the business world.

In 1971, Florentino, who had just served two years of military service, obtained an engineer's degree at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Later, he joined the association on the recommendation of Alespago Chaga, the then chairman of the Association of Road Engineers, and eventually became the head.

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

The 1970s was a turbulent period in Spain. After Franco's death and the young reformer Suarez became prime minister, Spain began its transition from dictatorship to democracy.

In 1978, Madrid ushered in a new mayor, and almost all the municipal representatives were replaced, but Florentino remained. Since then, he has been elected as a councilor of Madrid and was appointed as the director of the Transportation Infrastructure Bureau and Chairman of the Land Development and Reform Committee.

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

After that, Florentino gradually faded from politics and joined the Barcelona-based Padros Company, which was founded in 1965 and was facing a serious financial crisis. Florentino and his partner Torres bought the company with a symbolic biseta and got 10 0 million biseta's deposit insurance fund was used to restructure the company. From then on, he took advantage of the "primitive accumulation" completed in his previous political career to start business.

In 1993, Florentino, who served as a board adviser at OCISA Construction Company, decided to seize the opportunity of economic development. Driven by him, the company and its peers went through a series of mergers, and finally established a new company ACS in 1997, the Spanish "construction and service industry" The acronym became the largest construction contractor in Spain.

In the 1970s, there was almost no decent highway in Spain, but 30 years later, the highway has run through every corner of the country. In 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 Florentino's careful planning, ACS Group's business is getting 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, Florentino's construction team added an important force, Real Madrid Club.

The reason why Florentino stepped on the green field is simple.

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

In this highly popular country of football, the prestige of football clubs is self-evident, and being able to become the chairman of clubs such as Real Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia is not only a symbol of identity, but also equivalent to opening a direct communication door to the highest level of society.

In 1995, 47-year-old Florentino ran for the chairmanship of Real Madrid as a dark horse and finally lost to Mendoza by 698 votes. In 2000, he finally became the president of Real Madrid with a "superstar strategy".

Florentino took over a huge debt of 270 million euros in addition to Real Madrid's honor. In order to turn losses into profits, his businessmen can show their best: in 2001, Florentino sold Real Madrid's training ground in the center of Madrid to the Madrid municipal government for 480 million euros and moved to a new training ground on the outskirts of the city, where the venue was larger and better, and Real Madrid also turned it into a profit.

At that time, former Real Madrid president Sands had made the same effort many times on the sale of the stadium, but only Florentino succeeded.

Why?

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

Selling stadiums at sky-high prices and buying superstars, Florentino uses this simplest and rough way to make Real Madrid's attractiveness suddenly increase.

Starting with Figo, followed by Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham and Owen, Real Madrid has more and more fans, making Real Madrid surpass Manchester United and become the richest club in the world.

While helping Real Madrid become the richest man in the world's club, the superstar policy has also brought endless "locker room disputes" to Real Madrid. At that time, in a Champions League, Real Madrid lost at home to Arsenal, which lacked major generals due to internal consumption, and then lost to the lowest-ranked Marco. These two defeats became The fuse for Florentino's class.

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

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

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

Florentino is determined to return to the front desk and take charge of Real Madrid again, not to see the team so embarrassed. He wants not only superstars, but also honors. He wants Real Madrid to become the most powerful club in the 21st century.

When he decided to run, Florentino said: "We have ideas, models and ** to lead the club to regain the honor that belongs to us."

When he chose to leave Real Madrid, Florentino said in an interview: "I resigned for the benefit of the club, but I admit that it was a wrong decision. During my six years in charge of Real Madrid, the club has changed from institutional instability, economic and competitive problems to a model for the world, and has achieved success in competition and economy. We have reshaped the image of Real Madrid, consolidated the trademark of Real Madrid and made it more popular.

"The most urgent and critical problem I face is to develop a set of organizational model foundation so that no one can destroy it in the future. I will return to the club with more **, more ideas and stronger strength than in the past. I already have an exciting competitive plan in my heart, and I will gradually eliminate it. The current instability of the music department is also ready to meet huge challenges.

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

The declaration at the time of the election is still inaudible. Real Madrid's record this season can't be said to be a failure, but the league lost to Barcelona, the King's Cup lost to a third-class team, and now it has finally reached the Champions League final. Florentino is looking forward to Real Madrid to win the tenth Champions League under his leadership. Trophy, but less than a minute after the start of the game, Real Madrid's goal was broken by Fiorentina.

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

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

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

The game is still going on, and many of Real Madrid's stars have launched an increasingly fierce offensive, but the distance between the goal and the equalization is always a little worse.

Kim Mauro's performance is really good. His speed and impact have caused a lot of trouble for Florence's defense, but as the game progressed, Kim Mauro seems to be more and more impatient. Several times his teammates have run to the position. As a result, he still chose to fight by himself and wasted the opportunity.

However, Fiorentina is not impatient to play. It controls the ball under its feet completely according to its own ideas. There is no best chance, absolutely no risk to attack, and keeps the three lines very intact.

Anyway, it's Real Madrid that is in a hurry now, but Florentine players enjoy the feeling of playing with this galactic warship like this.

Half an hour has passed, and the score is still 1:0. During this period, the two sides also had several opportunities. Among them, Real Madrid's best opportunity appeared in the 15th minute. Kim Mauro's long shot penetrated Florence's defense, but unfortunately failed to break through Frey's ten fingers.

Similarly, Fiorentina had a chance to expand the score. Degan broke through with the ball, but the final shot was dragged out of the bottom line by Casillas.

More often, the two sides are fighting in the midfield, which is the scene that Prandelli wants to see, although Real Madrid has Harvey in the midfield. Superstars like Alonso and Kaka, but Real Madrid is at a disadvantage when it comes to control.

And 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 also couldn't sit still. He began to walk to the sidelines frequently and greeted the players over. The face-to-face teaching was not the same as the club's indifference to him. The player and his relationship with him was still very good.

Unfortunately, Pellegrini's arrangement has not been resolutely implemented at all. Who makes the court full of big names? Everyone has their own ideas. As a result, after the messy ideas are gathered together, Pellegrini is experienced in leading the team. In a season, he failed to completely complete Real Madrid. Pinch it into a whole.

If you can have two more years!

Pellegrini regrets that with this lineup, if he is given another two years, he can definitely bring out a super team that is enough to challenge Barcelona in Spain and overturn Florence in the Champions League.

However, Pellegrini doesn't have this opportunity!

The situation on the court was completely controlled by Fiorentina. After Real Madrid failed, the player's mentality became more and more impatient, especially Kim Mauro. He began to become unreasonable. As long as the ball reached his feet, he would not want to pass it out again.

It is understandable that Degan scored a goal, and as an opponent, Golden Retriever also wants to be the hero of the team. Goldman, scoring, and Golden Retriever is about to be a magic barrier.

Kim Remauro was so anxious that other players of Real Madrid were also infected. As long as he took the ball, Real Madrid subconsciously played that simple and rough tactics, such as elegance and aristocratic temperament. If he could find a little bit in this Real Madrid, it would be strange.

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

"Cesare! We are going to be champions again!" Antonelli looked very excited.

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

I'm going to be disappointed again!

In last year's Champions League final, Fiorentina has disappointed people once. It's not that they didn't play well, but it was so good that the ambitious Red Devils Manchester United and Sir Alex Ferguson were easily defeated.

This time, the result seems to be almost done!

"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 stunned and hesitated. He said that it was impossible not to do it at all, but he was different from Prandelli. He has been playing for Florence since he was a player. After retirement, from the head of the youth team to now, he really can't accept it if he leaves.

Prandelli smiled and said, "Don't be in a hurry to answer. Think about it 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'm used to working with you!"

As he was saying, the first half of the game was over, and the Fiorentina players walked off the field with a relaxed face. On the side of Real Madrid, everyone's face was gloomy.

Lost!

Such an idea fills most people's heads. Going on, they can't imagine another four empty season. Is this the end Real Madrid deserves?