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Daily Dragon #212 - Mimring

"In 1989 Napoli - Italian champions - were playing Fiorentina at home.

A young, thin, tiny-looking player called Roberto Baggio with a shock of long curly black hair picked up the ball inside his own half. He then seemed to move with it in a strange diagonal direction. As one defender came towards him, he shifted straight towards goal, and with a little skip over another defender's leg, breached the entire defence. Almost without needing to dribble, thanks to a remarkable sense of the space of the pitch, he was through on goal.

There, as usual, he was cool enough to dribble past the goalie, get the ball caught up in his legs and still have time to slide it into the empty net."

1995-96: Sesongen da Claudio Ranieri ledet Fiorentina til 4. plass i Serie A og seier i Coppa Italia.

Det var et lag med fantastisk offensiv slagkraft. Sesongen før hadde Gabriel Batistuta blitt Capocannoniere med 26 mål, til tross for at klubben endte på en mager 10. plass. Sammen med Francesco Baiano på topp og med magiske Manuel Rui Costa som utrettelig tilrettelegger fortsatte det eksplosive angrepsspillet.

Ranieri klarte imidlertid nå å skape en bedre balanse mellom forsvar og angrep, blant annet hjulpet av svenske Stefan Schwarz' ankomst på midtbanen.