On the night of June 2, 2008, the Italian national team arrived in Baden. Although it was already 22 o'clock at night, when the Italian national team bus arrived from the airport and arrived at the hotel where the team stayed in Baden, there were still hundreds of fans holding portraits of Italian national team players, shouting slogans, and welcoming the Blue Army.

Despite the tiring journey and extremely tired, Xiangnan still smiled and patiently signed his fans.

In the end, there were more and more fans. The hotel security guards had to go out to dissuade the enthusiastic fans, and the big names of the Italian national team were able to enter the hotel.

The hot spring hotel is famous for its meaning. There is a large hot spring bath behind the hotel. After experiencing the fatigue of a long-distance flight, I soaked in the hot spring and felt an indescribable feeling of comfort, and my whole body was filled with my ankles...

In the hot spring bath, Gattuso talked about his previous experience of taking a hot spring bath. It was when Milan went to Japan to play commercial competitions after winning the Italian League One in 2004.

However, if we count forward, the Italian team also stayed in Japan during the 2002 World Cup, but the memories of that World Cup were not very pleasant. Therefore, neither Buffon nor Pirlo, who had participated in the 2002 World Cup, had mentioned that past event.

Xiangnan squinted his eyes and talked to Ambroseni beside him. I don’t know why. Although Xiangnan and Ambroseni had just been in contact, the Milan midfielder and Chelsea striker became relatively friendly partners. For this reason, Xiangnan directly classified himself and Ambroseni as the same type of people--

Both of them are extremely serious and hard-working players!!!

At this time, the topic of Gattuso next to him was already flooding, gradually expanding from the Japanese hot springs to the Japanese waitresses in the hot springs…

Because there is no coach here, everyone is more chaotic.

Is this considered anti-Japanese war? Xiangnan smiled. He glanced at Ambroseni beside him and suddenly said, "Gnaro is really?"...

Ambroseni was stunned and suddenly burst into laughter. The whole hot spring bath began to stir up trouble...

Perhaps, the hot springs have a certain effect on promoting blood circulation and eliminating fatigue. Early the next morning, I woke up south and felt refreshed and opened the thick windows.\\\\\\\\\ You can see that there is a large vineyard not far behind the hotel, and the air seems to be full of the smell of vineyards...

The restaurant in the hot spring hotel is not as luxurious as imagined. At least it looks a little shabby than the hotel where Chelsea stayed in Moscow, even the glass of the restaurant was bulletproof.

However, the chef of the hotel made the ground and fruit sauce really tasted great, and later I found out that it was made with the unique local grape varieties produced in Baden's vineyards as ingredients.

The Italian national team training ground is not the place where they stay, not in Baden. Instead, in Enzordorf, not far from Baden, there is a stadium that can accommodate 20,000 people, which is the home court of the Austrian Admira team.

Since the players had just gone on a long trip, the amount of exercise on the first day of training was not large, mainly based on physical fitness reserves and small-scale passes and receiving.

In the next three days, Xiangnan's days were spent like the whole team, training, returning to the hotel, resting, soaking in the hot springs, practicing strength, and training in the training ground, the intensity was constantly increasing.

There is a famous European casino in Baden, and there are several players in the Italian national team. They are also quite enthusiastic about this. For example, Buffon was investigated by the Italian Discipline Committee for participating in betting on football. Although later, because the Italian national goal participated in betting, it was not a Serie A game, and was exempted from punishment.

In view of this, Donadoni called all the players to meet on the first day of the team's stay. If he found anyone appeared in the casino, the head coach of the Italian national team would not mind putting this guy on the bench and sitting in the full European Cup main game.

On June 6, 2008, the Italian national team and a local professional team played a warm-up match. The opponent was the Italian national team in the training ground in Enzordorf, and the home team Austria Admira.

In the end, the Italian team defeated the opponent 6:1.

Xiangnan made a substitute Casano in the second half and scored a goal and created a penalty kick, which performed well.

However, compared with Italy's outstanding offensive performance, the problems exposed by the Blues in the defense are even more serious. Specifically, Italy's great left-back Grosso in the 2006 World Cup, which has seen a big decline compared to the German World Cup.^^    ^^

The goal scored by the low-level team of Austria was the goal scored by their winger No. 7 Empozov easily broke through Grosso, and made a calm cross from the No. 10 Will model.

Xiangnan even saw the No. 10 Will model of Austria's Admira team and scored that goal, Donadoni's face on the sidelines suddenly became extremely ugly.

"Fabio is a little dangerous..." Luca Toni, who was partnering with Xiangnan, leaned over to Xiangnan and whispered.

Nodded to Nan. Indeed, Grosso's performance just now was too poor. It is hard to imagine that if it was the Dutch team, the opponent of Italy's first game, facing Robben's breakthrough...

After this warm-up match, the Italian team will leave Baden on June 7, 2008, tomorrow to head to the city of the first group stage, the Swiss city of Bern.

The Italian and Netherlands matches were scheduled to be played in Bern, hundreds of kilometers from Baden.

The two group matches in Italy, Romania and France were played in another Swiss city, Zurich.

On the afternoon of June 7, 2008, the sunset of Bern hung in the air, extremely beautiful, the bus of the Italian national team. After a few hours of journey, we arrived in Bern.

With three days left before Italy and the Netherlands, the 2006 World Cup World Championship Italian team bus quietly drove into the small town near Bern.

The Italian team only played one game in Bern in this European Cup, so it is different from the Italian station in Austria that chooses tourist attractions like Baden. The hotel Italy stayed in Bern this time is a small town called knfngen, 15 kilometers away from Bern.

This small town is about 15 kilometers away from the center of Bern. It takes about 20 minutes to drive. Switzerland is a small country. This 20-minute drive is already quite a distance. Italy chose to be in the small town of Knfngen. This is enough to ensure that the big-name stars of the Italian national team can avoid the many enthusiastic fans in the city center as much as possible, so that they can prepare for the game with peace of mind.

The hotel where the Italian team stayed was a hotel called le-gende.^^    ^^ It is located in a quiet small village in knfngen. Among the four teams in this European Cup, except Italy. France and Romania in the same group will stay in this hotel when they come to Bern. Only the Dutch team chose the n hotel in the city center.

Now only the Italian team will check in to the Le-gende Hotel first, and France and Romania will not arrive until tomorrow.

The Italian national team bus is 10 minutes away from the hotel where the Italian team stays. Xiangnan noticed that Buffon could not wait. His excited expression was filled with the Italian national gate.

You know, since Donadoni issued a gambling ban order, several gamblers from the Italian national team have been depressed for several days. Of course, this has not affected the players' training. After all, as a professional player, there are still seriousness.

"Jian Luigi, what's wrong? Is there anything good about being so excited?" Xiangnan and Buffon's seats were next to each other, and they couldn't stand Buffon's excitement. Xiangnan couldn't help but ask.

Buffon was surprised by Xiangnan's question, "Andre, don't you know?"

"What do you know?" Xiangnan was even more confused.

The Italian country looked at Xiangnan seriously and confirmed that the boy in front of him was not pretending to be stupid. "I'm still wondering, why are you so calm along the way? It turns out that you don't know anything?"

"Gian Luigi, hurry up and say it, be careful I tell Seredova, saying you're having a mess outside!!!" Seeing that Buffon was just tickling somewhere, he kept it a secret, and Xiangnan couldn't help but threaten.

Seredova is Buffon's wife. At the age of 20, she won the runner-up in the Miss Czech selection. She was once a popular supermodel in the Apennine modeling industry and had a relationship with Milan's snatcher Inzaghi and Vieri. In the end, Buffon's appearance finally won the hearts of the beauty and finally entered the palace of marriage.

During the 2006 World Cup, when Italy and the Czech Republic were in the group match, Aurena Seredova, who was a Czech, wore the Italian flag and took over in the stands, and it became a topic of temporary discussion. Xiangnan even heard Gattuso mention it after entering the Italian national team. At that time, Buffon was even very proud of this for a long time...

Uh... I have to say, this is really... the most powerful evidence for the pure man!!!

Xiangnan learned about this famous love affair from Gattuso, a big mouth brother, and was almost surprised to put an egg in his mouth, and asked an almost idiotic question--

"Aren't Gnaro, Gianluigi angry when facing Philip Inzagi and Vieri?"

Gattuso, who was drinking water, almost choked and looked at Xiangnan with a strange expression, "It should be nothing, I'll ask another day..."

Uh... God testifies that Brother Gattuso is such a good student...

Now, when Buffon heard Xiangnan threatening his wife Seredova, he laughed even harder. This even attracted the attention of Donadoni, who was sitting in the back row. However, the head coach of the Italian national team took a look. Buffon, who was about to be breathless, and Xiangnan was angry, was rare to frown. He did not get angry.

Finally, when Xiangnan was already out of his anger, Buffon explained all this to Xiangnan while smiling.

After knowing the whole story, Xiangnan really had the urge to hit the wall. This was really too shameful. He swears in his heart that he must punish this little girl who dared to play tricks on him when he saw Joanna---

Yes. The method of punishment is to rectify the Dharma on the spot!!!

Every year in the European Cup, there will be a special group that attracts the attention of the media and fans. They are the wives of various national teams.

"Women's Group" has always been the most eye-catching sight in the stadium stands, and this year's European Cup is no exception.

The Italian Football Association also organized the wives and girlfriends of national team players to come to the venue of every game to cheer for the players. However, the hotel where the wife group is usually located is a certain distance from the hotel. This is also considered that it does not affect the players' training and competitions...

Uh...just. To be honest, these few kilometers are not a barrier for the national team big names and wives or girlfriends to meet...

In this group of wives, famous members include---

Aurena Seredova, runner-up of Miss Czech, super model, wife of Italian national Buffon;

Rosaria Cannavo, supermodel, Italian Rome central defender Panucci's girlfriend; the supermodel Cannavo, among the fans of Rome, can be said to have a higher status than Rome central defender Panucci. Cannavo is the famous Roman godmother. When Rome won the championship in 2000, he ran naked to celebrate and became famous...

Her lifelong love and career were closely related to the Roman team.**   ***The famous work of the Roman godmother was a famous sister-brother relationship with Casano, which was once a famous relationship. Later, after Bari's bad boy went to Real Madrid and had a new love in Spain, Cannavo's feelings for Roman players were the upper hand, and the Roman godmother found a new safe haven in the arms of the old Roman man Panucci.

Uh...but, now, Casano is on the team, which is really...Isn't it embarrassing?

In addition, there is ---

Mata, supermodel, Zambrota's wife;

Deborah, Pirlo's wife; Joanna, supermodel, Xiangnan's girlfriend!!!

Xiang Nan finally understood what Joanna was going to give her surprise, but this is also the reason why Xiang Nan usually only focused on training and did not pay attention to media reports. Otherwise, the news about the Italian wife group would be a big focus in media reports.

At this time, in the Italian national team, Big Barrie, who was as unscrupulous as Buffon, had another one facing south, plus Pirlo, Panucci, Zambrota, Gattuso...

Yes, these days, a star is really not that rare than finding a cat that doesn't steal fish... The hotel is a castle that has been renovated. It has a history of 400 years. In the hotel, traces of the medieval European times can be seen everywhere. Although it seems a bit simple, you can feel that it is classical and elegant, and contains a profound historical background, which makes Xiangnan, who likes classical architecture, very happy for a while.

In the le-gende hotel, you can already feel the atmosphere of the European Cup in a strong sense. In the central hall of the le-gende hotel, there are three European Cup memorial jerseys in the cabinets. In addition to the host Switzerland and the special European Cup memorial jerseys, there are also the Italian team's jerseys that are staying today. Tomorrow, after the Romanian and French teams arrive, the jerseys of these two teams will also be hung here.

However, today, the protagonist of the Le-gende Hotel is the Italian national team. All the waiters have changed into Italian team jerseys to express their welcome to the team. In addition, the logo of the Italian team can be found in many places.

Although I knew that Joanna was less than 3 miles from the Le-gende Hotel, Xiangnan had no choice but to train with peace of mind.

However, the experienced Buffon is already teaching experience to the South Xinting

"Andre, don't worry, tomorrow, the coach should arrange for a half-day vacation."

When Buffon said this, he steadily rushed Xiangnan's shot, whispering in Xiangnan's ear, like a resentful woman in the deep boudoir...

The breeze in the small village of Knfngen blew, and two hungry men vented all their energy on the black and white elf...

Uh...it should be, a group of men...hungry men!!

Xiangnan has not experienced the 2006 World Cup. But he can fully feel the unfriendly sentiment towards the French team in the team, which permeates the Italian team's training, the strength room, and even the topic of conversation after dinner.

Uh... Speaking of the wife group, it is not only Italy. In this European Cup, the most famous wife group is not Italy. It is Italy's arch rival France.

Because, among the French wife team, the most eye-catching thing about the French team is Ednis, the girlfriend of head coach Domeneck.

Ednis, an ordinary football reporter, was crowned as the head host of France Channel 6 after meeting the French national team Domeneque.

Uh... This, the wind on the pillow can get insider information.

The players of the Italian national team are disgusted with the French national team head coach Domeneck from the heart. After the 2006 World Cup, Domeneck had a quarrel with the Italians on different occasions, and the Frenchman had become the enemy and object of teasing the most hated by the Italian national team's locker room. Now, with such a humble French national team head coach, we need to make good use of it.

Therefore, in Gattuso's mouth, Domeneck became a typical representative of an old cow eating young grass.

"Gnaro, what, Ed. Dennis is really 25 years younger than Domeneck?"

Gattuso's eyes were wide open, and it was obvious that Xiangnan was very dissatisfied with the reliability of his news.

Feeling Gattuso's fierce appearance and pure heart, hurt self-esteem, Xiangnan couldn't help but despise this gossip man...
To be continued...