Chapter 119 The Support of the Fans

Chapter 119 The Support of the Fans

Fans who have been in contact with Serie A will have some impressions of the name Atlanta, because his name is so unique and somewhat similar to the legendary ancient civilization Atlantis, it is easy to leave an impression on people.

However, the origin of Atlanta's name has nothing to do with Atlantis. Atlanta's name is taken from a goddess in Greek mythology.

The club was founded in 1907 by a group of wealthy Swiss immigrants, but the Atalanta club was not recognized by the Italian Football Federation until 1914.

Although Atlanta has almost become a century-old store so far, Atlanta has no honor to show.The only trophy was the Coppa Italia won in 1963.In the European arena is even more insignificant, the best result is to advance to the semi-finals of the 1988 European Cup Champions Cup and the quarter-finals of the 1991 UEFA Cup.

Atlanta's youth training system has produced countless famous stars, including Donadoni (now the head coach of the Italian national team), Tacchinardi, Morfeo (now the core of Parma's midfielder), Pacini (now the main striker of Fiorentina) , Montolivo (now Fiorentina midfielder, later moved to AC Milan), Pellizzoli (now Roma goalkeeper) and Darabona (nicknamed "Sam Missile") and so on.

In addition, Atlanta also has a not-so-good reputation, that is, they are a famous lifter in Serie A.

In the 2002/03 season, Atlanta was unfortunately relegated. Although they returned to Serie A the following year, Atlanta still failed to relegation in the 2004/05 season and was relegated to the Italian Serie B again.In the 2005-06 season, Atlanta fought hard and returned to the first division again.

Given that Parma has always taken relegation as its first goal before, and Atlanta's only goal this season is obviously also relegation.

The media dubbed this Serie A match a "relegation battle."

In fact, although the two teams are relegation teams, their points are not relegation at all.Parma ranks No. 2 in the standings with [-] league points, and Atlanta ranks in the middle and upper reaches with [-] points.

By the way, as a digression, at the beginning of the season, Roma, one of the two teams considered most likely to win the league championship, only accumulated [-] points after eight rounds of the league, which is slightly stronger than Atlanta.

On October 29, the ninth round of the league, the dark horse Parma played at home against the newly promoted Atlanta.

In this round of the league, there is a famous focus match between AC Milan and Inter Milan, commonly known as the Milan Derby.However, even with the Milan Derby, there are still many fans who pay attention to the match between Parma and Atlanta. Most of these fans are going for Parma or the "tyrant" Levi.

This situation was even more obvious at the Tardini Stadium, where the fans supported Levi with their actions.

Parma's attendance rate reached an astonishing 100%!
Of course, this is also related to Parma’s policy this season. Not to mention the 20% reduction in Parma’s overall ticket price, young fans under the age of 16 will get a [-]% discount on tickets, those under [-] will get a [-]% discount, and those under [-] will be free.In addition to the real-name system for buying tickets, on the one hand, it is to combat scalpers, and on the other hand, it can get fans' ticket purchase records.According to the fans' ticket purchase records, a certain discount will be given.For example, if you buy ten or more tickets in one season, no matter how many tickets you buy in the next season, you will get Parma membership for free, get a [-]% discount on ticket purchases, and give a number of reserve team game tickets.

These measures by Li Wei have successfully won the hearts of the fans. When the team is in trouble, the fans immediately use their actions to stand up and support the club.

When Levi walked out of the tunnel, he could hear fans shouting his name loudly, and many people held banners and images and danced towards him.

If you look carefully, you can see that the above slogans are all in support of Levi.

"Levi!Levi!Great Levi! ""grateful to have you!Let's be happy every weekend! "" Levi!Lead the revival of Parma! "" Come on, Li Wei!we support you! "There is also a portrait of Li Wei hanging on the stand. In the portrait, Li Wei opened his mouth and roared. The most unique thing is that he wears a laurel crown on his head, and there is a text next to it: So what about Nero!He is our king!
Li Wei felt his eyes a little sour.

These lovely fans...

With the sound of the referee's whistle, the game began.

It was Atlanta who kicked off first.

On the front line, Atlanta's coach Stefano Colantono chose the former Italian Mr. Vieri to partner with the former Inter Milan striker Ventola who helped Atlanta upgrade successfully. The two formed Atlanta's striker today.

As soon as Ventola passed the ball to Vieri in the middle circle, Parma's players rushed up.

Vieri didn't panic and passed the football back to midfielder Donati.

The Parma players still rushed up to press, and there were quite a few of them. Di Natale, Franck Ribery, Quagliarella on the front line and the attacking midfielder Hazard caught the Atlanta players by surprise.

However, the Atlanta players did not lose the ball. Although they had no way to pass the football out immediately, they succeeded in passing the football back to the goalkeeper in the end.

When the football reaches the goalkeeper's feet, it is difficult for Parma's players to continue to arrange a large number of pressing.

Because doing so will only make the three lines of the team's defenders, midfielders, and forwards stretched too far, making it difficult for players to connect.

Di Natale jogged over by himself to grab the opponent's goalkeeper.

Di Natale didn't think about grabbing the football, but he forced the opponent to open his feet earlier, rather than the goalkeeper taking the football for a walk in the penalty area.

Although there was only Di Natale alone, Italian goalkeeper Alex Calderoni did not dare to play with fire, and quickly kicked a big kick forward.

I don't know if it was a wind blowing in the air, but the football kicked by Alex Calderoni flew very far and very quickly, crossing the center line of the football field at once.

This unexpected big kick caught the Parma players by surprise. Vieri is worthy of being a striker, with a very keen sense of goal, and immediately inserted into the Parma penalty area.

Although Parma's players chased back for the first time, their speed was already slow.

Vieri was not greedy for merit, jumped up, headed the ball a little, and ferryed to Ventola who rushed to the front of the penalty area.

Ventola didn't make any adjustments, and directly kicked the goal vigorously.

Parma goalkeeper Handanovic tried his best to make a save, but the speed of the football was faster than him falling to the ground. In the end, the football rushed to the goal before Handanovic fell to the ground, causing a circle of white waves on the net .