Chapter 569 You can't be afraid
When Piacenza's bus drove into Milan City, they were greeted with enthusiasm. The harsh whistles and booed, as well as countless Inter Milan fans who were in blue and black jerseys, showed them who was home court.
However, a large part of these fans will not appear in the Meacha Stadium.
Although the final venue of this Italian Cup was decided from the very beginning to be played at the San Siro/Meazza Stadium, the home court of the two Milan champions, it was just a coincidence for Inter Milan, which reached the final.
Therefore, there is no problem in selling tickets because it is being held at home, so it is given more tickets to Inter Milan fans. The seats with a capacity of 80,000 people were finally decided to sell 60,000 tickets.
The two finals each have the right to sell 25,000 tickets, and all of this income will be directly owned by the two teams, and the remaining 10,000 tickets will be sold to individual tourists and neutral fans who want to watch the game.
Of course, due to the advantage of occupying a terrain, many Inter Milan fans still managed to grab these neutral tickets in front of the ticket office early.
After the fans took the seat one after another, according to the media's general consideration, although Inter Milan only has the right to sell 25,000 tickets, the number of Inter Milan fans present was definitely more than 30,000.
As for Piacenza, since Piacenza itself is a very small city, their home court, Leonardo Stadium, can only accommodate more than 20,000 fans, so in the end it can be said that it barely sold 20,000 tickets in hand.
In the end, the remaining 5,000 tickets and tickets provided to neutral fans were bought by Italian overseas Chinese who came from all directions and Chinese fans who came from China.
These Chinese fans naturally supported the Piacenza team, and for a time the court was filled with three kinds of flags.
Inter Milan's blue and black tones were in a region, and countless fans quickly worked and formed a huge TIFO of Inter Milan's mascot. As the teams on both sides began to enter the court, they began to move quickly.
On Piacenza, under the organization of Antonio, the Piacenza fans who came across the city also formed a simple TIFO, which was a huge wolf head, which was the team logo of Piacenza.
As for the neutral area in the middle, except for the fans who have spontaneously moved closer to the Inter Milan fan zone, the rest is the Chinese fan zone filled with five-star red flags and various bright red tones.
And this once again made everyone realize how huge the Chinese market is.
At least, young Blondes like Kaka, Messi, and Ronaldo will never have so many fans from their own country to support them when participating in the finals of various events.
"Hello CCTV, CCTV, audience friends, I am commentator Liu Jianhong!"
In the midst of noisy, Liu Jianhong and CCTV's broadcast team were on standby, with only 30 minutes left before the start of the game, and the two teams that were warming up on the court were slowly coming to an end.
Under such circumstances, Liu Jianhong naturally had to lay some previews in advance before such an important game.
"You can see that the warm-ups of both teams are very serious, and the coaches of both sides are also shouting at each other's players on the court. The conversation between Conte and Mourinho before the game is full of gunpowder. This game should not be too dull."
As the camera moved, Liu Jianhong and countless fans who had been around the screen until the early morning of Beijing time finally saw the two figures they had been guarding.
"According to the starting list announced by both sides an hour and a half before the start of the game, Chinese young player Wu Lei will no longer appear in the team's starting position in this game. Conte should have his own ideas about this. Of course, A Feng still firmly sat firmly in one of the team's starting positions."
"Okay, you can collect it!"
On the court, Conte took the lead in signaling his players, then turned around and walked directly towards the players' passage. He was very satisfied with the players' warm-up condition. The next thing he had to do was wait for the game to start.
"Leizi, don't be idle off the court. The coach may change you on the court at any time and be prepared."
Liu Feng was walking side by side with Wu Lei, using Chinese that only two of them could understand in the team. He patted his younger brother on the shoulder and gave him an encouragement smile: "Don't panic when you really go on the court, just do it!"
"Yeah, I understand Brother Feng!"
As Piacenza disappeared from the entrance of the player's passage, Mourinho on the field also announced the withdrawal of the team.
Twenty minutes left before the game started, both teams had returned to the locker room.
On the Meacha Stadium, only the fans of the two teams were left to compete with each other with their huge roars, as if they could help the team win the finals by just overwhelming the opponent.
"In this game, Mourinho also fired a smoke bomb at Piacenza. He had repeatedly emphasized every time he faced media inquiries that the team's midfielder Sneider would definitely miss the game, but after the starting list was announced, the Dutch midfielder was listed."
While the game had not started, Liu Jianhong continued to talk about the information he collected that could attract fans' attention.
"However, Inter Milan still has an absolute main player absent. Due to the serious injury of defender Lucio, Cordoba, who is not as strong as that, replaced him as the team's starting defender, which is likely to become the shortcoming of Inter Milan's defense in this game."
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Just as the commentators from all countries were playing the pre-match hot spot, Piacenza's locker room fell into a strange silence.
After entering the locker room, Conte sat next to him without saying a word. The team members also sat in their respective positions, lowering their heads and wondering what they were thinking. Slowly, a huge pressure spread.
The unexposed thing that the team has been holding on to finally appear at this moment.
"Everyone, I'm very nervous."
Finally, Conte spoke, and the first sentence he spoke made the tough image he created in front of the media collapse: "I'm afraid of losing."
"..." The players all raised their heads and watched the coach who led them through two seasons and finally reached the final.
"But you can't be afraid."
After a pause, Conte walked past the players one by one.
"For you, this will be the first honor and a milestone for you to move to a higher stage. This is your opportunity to defeat your opponents and let everyone know you. This game is about your future!"
Chapter completed!