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

Gao Zheng is proud. This pride comes from his talent and ability to completely surpass his peers at a young age. It comes from his unique existence in the Milan Youth Team.

However, he also knew very well that in the football world, potential and strength cannot be completely equated.

Many people have super talent, but in the end they failed to fulfill their talent in their careers, and they performed far less than people expected of them.

There are many influencing factors here.

For Gao Zheng, he almost became the next one to hurt Zhongyong. Even now, he couldn't completely say that he had fulfilled his talent that was once favored.

That's why he needs this championship so much.

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

Otherwise, what qualifications would he be proud of?

When we said "the mountains are there", when we look back on his career, we have not had a decent champion for a long time. Is this a matter of time?

Born in May 1991, he is almost twenty-three years old. What championships did those peerless geniuses win at this age?

What achievements did Ronaldo achieve when he was 23 years old? Brazilian Cup champion, Dutch FA Cup champion, Dutch Super Cup champion, Spanish Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Cup champion, European Cup winner, and UEFA Cup champion. Oh, there is also the World Cup champion who "winned" with the team in 1994, the Federation Cup champion in 1997, and two Copa America champions.

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

Maradona's successor Messi also had no shortage of honors when he was 23 years old: four La Liga championship trophys, two Champions League trophys, four Spanish Super Cups, one Spanish King's Cup, one European Super Cup and one Club World Cup. The country also has World Youth Championship and Olympic gold medals in terms of honors.

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

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

Strictly speaking, he has not had a championship trophy reserve team with no honors, and he has not won the championship in the Serie B.

He only has one Serie A top scorer in personal honors.

He is going to challenge Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo's man, but his honor is much worse at the same age.

Although there are objective reasons such as his injury and giving up football for a year, and Sampdoria's overall weak strength.

But no matter what, people will not consider these objective factors when analyzing data in the future. They will only see a very direct comparison of numbers, and their number of champions is zero.

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

Gao Zheng doesn't want such a situation to happen.

Sampdoria's strength is indeed not as strong as Manchester United where Cristiano Ronaldo was and Barcelona where Messi was, but this did not hinder Gao Zheng's ambitions.

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

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

When he had no ball to play, Sampdoria gave him the opportunity to return to the green field. The fans here supported him unconditionally, and even advised him to leave for his bright future. Where can I find a fan like Sampdoria?

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

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

Therefore, for the sake of oneself and others, this Italian Cup champion must be won.

In the afternoon of the game, Sampdoria's team came out of the room, gathered in the lobby, got on the bus together, and headed to the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

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

"...We, like all the teams that have reached the finals, have only one purpose, that is, the championship." Gao Zheng said confidently.

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

"Gao Zheng made his championship statement before going to the stadium, which reminded me of his announcement of booking the Golden Boot when he had only played thirteen rounds in the league last season. Will these two things have anything in common?"

"Gao is really too confident! Although what he said is true, look at what the players in Fiorentina said in an interview?" The Italian netizen posted a video clip below of Florence's captain Pasquale in an interview at a press conference before the game yesterday.

In the video, Pasquale seemed cautious: "...Sampdoria is not weak, we will do our best in the final. I believe the final champion will belong to the best performing side..."

Compared with Pasquale, Gao Zheng became much more arrogant.

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

Some people have analyzed that Gao Zheng's personality is actually not arrogant, but absolutely strong self-confidence.

Of course, at this time, everyone had not realized that Gao Zheng's confidence was not consistent with his honor. As long as Gao Zheng kept scoring goals, they took Gao Zheng's pride and confidence for granted.

The Italian Cup 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 second day of Beijing time.

This time is very unfriendly to Chinese fans.

But CCTV still spent a lot of money to get the broadcast rights for the Italian Cup final.

Although it cost a lot of money, it was quickly earned back all the money on advertising fees.

Although the time period is not appropriate, 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 time period of the Champions League. They always love to be accustomed to this kind of life of staying up late to watch football.

In fact, before this game, Italy had a plan to take the finals to facilitate the care of China's TV broadcasts, increase the ratings, and expand the influence of the Italian Cup in China... However, this proposal was eventually denied, especially Florence firmly opposed it.

After all, the Italian Cup's influence in China has nothing to do with them, so they naturally would not agree to this approach that they obviously prefer Sampdoria.

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

Feng Shiyao set the alarm clock early. At 3:30, she was woken up by her mobile phone alarm clock on time. After getting up and washing her face with cold water, she woke up the dormant computer living room with a larger screen TV and was able to receive it from Central Station 5. However, in order not to disturb her roommate, she could only watch the live broadcast with a small screen laptop.

At the same time, in another city, her roommate Xiao Yingying simply stayed in the bar with her friends she met with watching football for half an night, drinking and chatting, waiting for the start of the game. Although it was already three months old, everyone was not sleepy and was in high spirits. When the bar projection screen appeared on the bar's projection screen, they cheered.

In Genoa, Italy, the Chinese student football team was unable to go to the scene to cheer for Gao Zheng, but they all came to the bar where they often watched the football, prepared national flags and banners, and chose this old base to continue cheering for Gao Zheng. Looking at their complete set of belongings, it was like they would be seen by Gao Zheng from Rome.

Director Zhao and Guo Wei accompanied Yang Wenlong to watch the game in the football school office. The football training class at 3:30 in the morning was pitch black, and everything was quiet around. Only the light and sound of the TV's fluorescent screen in the office broke the darkness and silence.
Chapter completed!