While Mendes was having a headache about Gao Xiaodong's transfer, Gao Xiaodong and Inter Milan were preparing for their second championship this season.

The Italian Cup is an elimination football match hosted by the Italian Football Federation. Players from Italy's three groups A, B and C can participate, but the same club can only send one team to participate. It is the highest-level football cup in Italy. The final adopts a single-game winning and losing system. A 90-minute draw requires 30 minutes of overtime. If you still have a draw in overtime, you will be able to win the penalty kick.

Like other leagues, the cup is a waste of money for giants like Milan and Juventus. Therefore, in the 78-year history of the Italian Cup, Inter Milan has only won five championships, and is not even as small as a league championship.

Even this season, Inter Milan did not take the Italian Cup seriously. They basically fought with a lineup of substitutes and main players. However, Sneijder played well in the Italian Cup and even led Inter Milan to the finals.

To this day, after winning the league championship in Inter Milan and reaching the Champions League final, this idiot event suddenly has important significance.

In the world football world, mainstream media calls the three championships of "League Champions + Champions Cup Champions + Top Domestic Cup Champions" the three championships. Some other cup competitions, such as the domestic Super Cup, the European Super Cup, the Europa League, etc., are not included. Being able to win the triple crown is equivalent to winning the Grand Slam in football matches.

In the history of Serie A for a century, there has never been a team that won the league, Italian Cup and Champions League at the same time in one season. Even in the great "big international era", Inter Milan did not do this. In the 1964-65 season, Inter Milan won the Champions League and the League, but lost to Juventus in the cup and only won the runner-up. Among other Serie A teams, the closest to this honor is AC Milan. The Ross and Blacks won the league and Champions League in the 1993-94 season, but missed the final in the Italian Cup.

In fact, it is normal for Serie A to have no triple-champion. Looking at the whole of Europe, there are only 5 teams who can win the triple-champion, three leagues, and only Manchester United and Barcelona won the triple-champion in the five major leagues.

In 1967, the Celtics of Scotland won the first triple crown, in 1972, Ajax won the second, and in 1988, Eindhoven won the third. However, due to the relatively low pressure of domestic competitions in the Netherlands and the Scottish League, their triple crown was not convincing enough, and no team in the top five European leagues won the triple crown.

It was not until 10 years later, in the 1998-99 season, Ferguson led the Red Devils and Manchester United to win the Premier League, the FA Cup and the Champions League three championships, and then 10 years later. Last season, Barcelona won the three championships in La Liga, the King's Cup and the Champions League, and later won the Spanish Super Cup, the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup, becoming the real Grand Slam team.

For Inter Milan, it is only 2 games and two championships away from the first triple-champion in Serie A history. In the Italian Cup final, defeated Roma and Manchester United in the Champions League final. To win these last two games, Inter Milan will set an unprecedented record.

For Mourinho, even if he does not leave Inter Milan next season, he hopes to win the first triple-champion in Serie A's 100-year history and surpass the "big international" era of that year.

Therefore, this Cup final against Roma became a match that Inter Milan must win.

However, it is not easy for Inter Milan to win the Italian Cup because their opponent is Roma.

In the league, Roma came from behind and created 20 unbeaten games, but unfortunately it was not able to reverse Inter Milan, which made Roma's firefighting coach Ranieri very regretful.

Now Roma finally has a chance to take revenge in the Italian Cup. Ranieri, who has always had a feud with Mourinho, definitely doesn't want Mourinho to become the first triple-winner in Serie A.

After the incident of the "Tel Gate Incident", Italian football has always been Roma and Inter Milan competed for the top spot. Roma will always lose in the league. Roma will mostly win in the Italian Cup. Now Roma is the team that Italy has won the most Italian Cup championships. They have won 9 championships in total. According to the regulations of the Italian football industry, if you win 10 times Serie A, you can sew a Venus on your chest, and if you win 10 times in the Italian Cup, you can sew a silver star. Roma is eager to become Italy's first team with a silver star on your chest.

Although the Italian Cup is not very important, Roma is now out of the league and the UEFA Cup, and the Italian Cup has become the only champion they can compete for. Whether from the perspective of preventing Inter Milan from becoming the triple crown or from its own interests, Roma is bound to win this game.

Tinder Ranieri said before the game: "Now for us, winning the Italian Cup is a very good reward for players who have fought for a season. I can't predict the final outcome of the final Champions League. I don't care whether Inter Milan can become the treble champion. I only know that we have to do our best in this game. Everyone knows the strength of Inter Milan, but Roma is not bad. The game is 55 and 5. I think the winner can be decided within 90 minutes, although we are also ready to play penalty kicks."

Rome captain Toti declared war on Inter Milan: "This is not a game, it is a battle. Every Rome fan should support the hell of the Olympic Stadium in Rome."

Roma's deputy De Rossi also vowed to defeat Inter Milan: "I was very sad when the league lost. We had hope of winning the championship. My only hope now is to defeat Inter Milan in the Copa Italy. I swear to the fans of Roma that we will definitely defeat the Inter Milan."

Although Inter Milan is stronger and will never give up on the Italian Cup, there are still many media and fans who are optimistic about Roma's upset. In addition to Roma playing at home, Inter Milan has also been somewhat unstable recently.

After Inter Milan defeated Barcelona to enter the Champions League final, the media kept revealing that Mourinho coached Real Madrid next season and Gao Xiaodong may also go to Real Madrid with Mourinho.

Before the Italian Cup final, after Milan Sports reported that Morati gave Mourinho a contract with an annual salary of 13 million euros, Rome Sports immediately revealed that "madman" Mourinho was unwilling to stay in the "Blue and Black Legion" and that he was even willing to cut his salary in order to take over the Bernabeu.

Although this news is still a recurring thing, the Roman media emphasized the salary cut this time, as if Mourinho was going to escape from Inter Milan, which made Inter Milan very annoyed.

Inter Milan Sports Manager Blanca held a press conference to appease players and fans, "This is an old news that has been spread all over the world last year. A reporter wrote so unconscience in order to sell, which made us very angry. We are very satisfied with Mourinho. Mourinho stayed very comfortable at Inter Milan. If he doesn't coach at Inter Milan next season, anyone would think it's unimaginable."

Inter Milan players have also come forward to support Mourinho, and they all expressed their belief that Mourinho will not leave them and will not give up a team that may win the triple-champion.

However, because neither Morati nor Mourinho made any speeches, Inter Milan fans were still nervous, not knowing whether the news was true or not.

The opponent is very strong and is playing at home. Mourinho is also worried that it will cause turmoil in the morale. The day before the game, he finally spoke and told the media and fans, "A team like Real Madrid, any coach wants to coach, and I am of course no exception, but this does not mean that I want to go to Real Madrid right away. Maybe one or two years later, at least now I am still the coach of Inter Milan. Now we should not put all our energy on these rumors. We are fighting for the first triple-champion in Serie A history. I hope everyone will put all their energy on the Italian Cup and take a solid second step to create history."
Chapter completed!