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When it comes to the desire for the championship, the strongest one is Gao Zheng.

Gao Zheng is proud. This pride comes from the fact that at a young age, he has shown talents and abilities that are completely beyond the level of his peers. It comes from his unique presence in the Milan youth team.

But he is also very clear that in the football world, potential and strength cannot be completely equated.

There are a lot of people with super talent, but in the end their careers fail to fulfill their talent, and their performance is far from what people expect of them.

There are many influencing factors.

For Gao Zheng, he almost became the next Hu Zhongyong. Even now, he can't fully say that he has fulfilled the talent that was once favored by others.

That's why he needs this champion so much.

Even if it is not as good as the league and Champions League champions, it is very important to him.

Otherwise, what right does he have to be proud of?

He said "the mountain is there", but when everyone looked back at his career, he didn't have a decent champion for a long time. Is this justified?

Born in May 1991, he is almost 23 years old. What championships did those peerless talents win at this age?

What achievements did "Alien" Ronaldo achieve at the age of 23? Champions of the Brazilian Cup, the Dutch FA Cup, the Dutch Super Cup, the Spanish Copa del Rey, the Spanish Super Cup, the European Cup Winners' Cup, and the UEFA Cup. Oh, and the 1994 World Cup champion with the team "lying down", the 1997 Confederations Cup champion, and two Copa America champions.

What about the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo? At the age of 23, he won two Premier League titles, one FA Cup, one UEFA Champions League, one League Cup, two Community Shields, and one Club World Cup.

Maradona's successor, Messi, also has no shortage of honors at the age of 23: four La Liga trophies, two Champions League trophies, four Spanish Super Cups, a Spanish King's Cup, a European Super Cup and a Club World Cup. cup. In terms of national honors, there are also World Youth Championships and Olympic gold medals.

There are also many superstars who have won many championships at this age.

Compared with them, Gao Zheng's honor is much poorer.

Strictly speaking, he doesn't have a championship trophy-the honor of the reserve team doesn't count,

Did not win the championship in Serie B.

In terms of personal honor, he also has only one top scorer in Serie A.

He is someone to challenge Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, but at the same age his honor is much worse.

Although there are objective reasons such as he was injured and gave up football for a year, and Sampdoria's overall strength is weak.

But in any case, when people analyze the data in the future, they will not consider these objective factors. They will only see a very direct comparison of the numbers, and the number of champions they have is zero.

They will wonder, Gao Zheng, what are you so proud of?

Gao Zheng didn't want this to happen.

Sampdoria's strength is indeed not as good as Cristiano Ronaldo's Manchester United and Messi's Barcelona, ​​but this does not hinder Gao Zheng's ambition.

If he can lead a team like Sampdoria to the championship, wouldn't that prove his ability even more?

In addition to this very rational reason, it is an emotional factor.

When he had no ball to play, it was Sampdoria who gave him the chance to return to the pitch. The fans here supported him unconditionally and even persuaded him to leave Sampdoria for his bright future. Where can I find it?

The old chairman admired him so much and valued him so much, but he failed to bring even one honor to the team before the old chairman passed away.

He will definitely leave Sampdoria in the future, but if he just leaves empty-handed and leaves nothing for the team, it would be a bit too sorry for the fans, old chairman, coaches and teammates who supported him.

Therefore, based on emotion and reason, for oneself and others, this Coppa Italia champion must be won.

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On the afternoon of the match day, the entire Sampdoria team came out of the room, assembled in the lobby, boarded the car collectively, and headed to the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

When boarding the car, Gao Zheng was stopped by the reporters. As the core of the team, everyone wanted to hear his views and expectations for the final.

"...We, like all the teams that reached the final, have only one goal, and that is the championship." Gao Zheng said confidently.

On the Internet in Italy and China, Gao Zheng's words quickly spread.

"Gao Zheng made his declaration of the championship before going to the stadium, which reminds me of his declaration of pre-ordering the Golden Boots in the thirteenth round of the league last season. Will there be any difference between these two things? Similarities?"

"Gao is really too confident! Although what he said is true, but look at what the Fiorentina players said in the interview?" The Italian netizen posted a piece of yesterday's pre-match news below Video clip of the interview with Fiorentina captain Pasquale at the press conference.

In the video, Pasquale appears cautious: "... Sampdoria is not weak, we will go all out in the final. I believe that the final championship will belong to the side that performed the best..."

Compared with Pasquale, Gao Zheng is much more arrogant.

However, both Italian fans and Chinese fans have accepted and got used to Gao Zheng's setting.

Others have analyzed that Gao Zheng's character is not arrogance, but absolute self-confidence.

Of course, at this time, everyone has not realized that Gao Zheng's self-confidence does not match his honor. As long as Gao Zheng keeps scoring goals, they will take it for granted that Gao Zheng is proud and confident.

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The Coppa Italia final kicked off at 8:45 local time.

Because Italy adopts winter time in winter, there is a seven-hour time difference between Beijing time and Rome, which is equivalent to 3:45 am the next day in Beijing time.

This time is very unfriendly to Chinese fans.

But CCTV still spent a lot of money to get the rights to broadcast the Coppa Italia final.

Although a lot of money was spent, the money was quickly earned back on advertising fees.

Although the time slot is not suitable, in China, there are still a large number of fans waiting in front of the TV, waiting to watch the live broadcast of the game.

For Chinese fans, this time period is the same as the usual UEFA Champions League game time period. They are always used to this kind of life of staying up late to watch football.

In fact, before this game, there was a discussion in Italy about whether to advance the final date to facilitate the TV broadcast in China, increase the ratings, and expand the influence of the Coppa Italia in China...but this proposal was ultimately rejected Already, especially Florence was firmly against it.

After all, the influence of the Coppa Italia in China has nothing to do with them, and they will naturally not agree to this obvious bias towards Sampdoria.

Many neutral fans and TV viewers in Italy also opposed this, because after 8 o'clock in the evening is their prime time for watching TV, there is no need to change their watching habits for the Chinese who are thousands of miles away.

Feng Shiyao set the alarm clock early. At 3:30, she was woken up on time by the alarm clock on her mobile phone. After getting up and washing her face with cold water, she woke up the sleeping computer - there is a TV with a bigger screen in the living room and can receive CCTV5, but in order not to disturb her roommate, she can only use a laptop with a small screen to watch the live broadcast.

At the same time, in another city, her roommate Xiao Yingying simply stayed up half the night in the bar with friends she met while watching the game, drinking and chatting, waiting for the start of the game. Although it was 3:30, everyone was not sleepy and was in high spirits. When the image of Gao Zheng warming up in the Olympic Stadium appeared on the projection screen in the bar, they cheered.

Farther away in Genoa, Italy, the Chinese football watching team had no way to go to the scene to cheer for Gao Zheng, but they all came to the bar where they often watched football, prepared large and small national flags and slogan banners, and chose this old base to continue to support Gao Zheng. Gao Zheng, come on. Looking at their full set of belongings, it seems that they will be seen by Gao Zheng in Rome when they wave the national flag in front of the TV.

Zhao Ju and Guo Wei accompanied Yang Wenlong to watch the game in the office of the football school. The football training class at 3:30 in the morning was pitch black, and everything was quiet, only the light and sound of the TV screen in the office broke the darkness and silence.

At this moment, in many, many corners, there are many such Chinese fans, waiting in front of the TV and computer, unable to hide their inner excitement, waiting for the opening whistle.