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Lazio's first training session at the Chongming Island football training base attracted the attention of more than a thousand fans and hundreds of reporters.
In addition, Xu Genbao also gathered all East Asian clubs' teams that had no competition missions and went to the training ground to observe the training of high-level European football teams.
Lazio did not continue to practice any physical fitness. After simple recovery training, they began tactical training.
Three players who newly joined the team are also among them.
Ballack and Klose are both very popular in China, which has attracted many non-Lazio fans to Lazio.
The team is training on the training ground, and the fans on the sidelines cheer from time to time.
Many Lazio players are used to the enthusiasm of Chinese fans. They went to Beijing to participate in the Super Cup last year and experienced such a scene.
So they were not distracted by the fans on the sidelines, but were training seriously.
Lazio did not modify its training plan just because there were people watching, and arranged some intra-team group competitions that fans would like to see.
That night, the entire Lazio team attended a charity dinner hosted by the sponsor of their chest advertising. At the dinner, Lazio's jerseys and souvenirs were auctioned. The proceeds from the auction will be donated to impoverished mountainous areas in the west to support the education of children there.
The days of training in China were very busy for Chang Sheng.
Because it could not influence him to lead the team's training, his business activities were always exploited. After the morning training, he had to rush to the center of Shanghai to sign a contract and attend a press conference.
After an event is over, rush to the location of the next event without stopping.
Usually after two activities, he has to rush to Chongming Island.
Rush back to host the afternoon training.
After the afternoon training, all the evening time was dedicated to business activities.
In order to make money, he traveled back and forth and was exhausted.
Fortunately, he wasn't driving by himself, otherwise he might have fallen asleep while driving.
Lotito was also very busy. During his time in Shanghai, he frequently attended various events, met with various business partners, and also met with some Chinese government leaders.
They discussed various matters of attracting investment.
In Lotito's eyes, China is now just like what Marco Polo described, with gold everywhere and opportunities to make a fortune everywhere.
However, his most important purpose is to introduce construction funds for the new stadium he is currently in the design stage.
Although Lazio made 100 million in the transfer market this summer, it cannot be said that all of this money was invested in the construction of the new stadium.
The daily operations of Lazio Club also require money.
Not to mention, Lotito's unremitting efforts really made him win a partner...
A Chinese consortium is interested in taking a stake in Lazio Club. They promise that if the stake is successful, they will help Lazio contact an engineering company with guaranteed quality and guaranteed reputation in China to help Lazio build the stadium, because this will be the first European sports project of a Chinese construction company.
It is the number one project in the stadium, so the Chinese side should not ask for too high a price. They want to build this stadium into a model project for Chinese construction companies in Europe.
By then, Lazio's new stadium will be composed of three parts of funds. One part is the capital invested by the Lazio club itself. One part is a bank loan, and the rest is the capital injection from the Chinese consortium.
However, both parties currently only have this willingness. The specific details of cooperation are still being discussed.
Lotito doesn't know whether the deal can be concluded in the end, but there is hope.
And the reason why Lotito is willing to choose a Chinese engineering company is that the Chinese are very efficient. If the stadium is built by an Italian company, it may take four or five years, but if it is replaced by a Chinese construction company, it may only take three years.
It can be put into use within a year.
For Lazio, the sooner the new stadium is put into use, the better, which means they can recover their investment and start making profits as soon as possible.
As for quality issues, Lotito is not worried. This is a model project, and who would joke about a model project?
Moreover, Chinese companies will do their best when exploring overseas markets.
So there is no need to worry about building too quickly and causing quality problems.
Didn’t Chang say that the famous Great Hall of the People only took more than nine months from the design drawings to the installation and commissioning of all decorations and equipment from the inside to the outside.
Now fifty years have passed, isn't it still fine?
The key lies in getting Chinese construction companies to take this project seriously.
That is the depth of cooperation.
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After three days of training in Shanghai, Lazio played a game against Shanghai United at the Shanghai Hongkou Football Stadium.
Shanghai United is mainly composed of players drawn from three professional football teams in Shanghai to challenge Lazio.
However, these three teams have different thoughts.
For Shanghai East Asia, which competes in the Chinese League One, they are most interested in this game, because first of all, the two clubs are cooperative clubs, so they naturally want to support them. Secondly, for Xu Genbao, his players can compete with each other in the game.
The competition between the top teams in Europe is a rare learning opportunity. This opportunity must be grasped and cannot be taken lightly.
The views of the other two teams are not quite the same.
Shanghai Zhongbang is the weakest team in the Chinese League Two and cannot select any representative players, so they had a soy sauce mentality from the beginning.
Shanghai Shenhua, the leader of Shanghai football, plans to treat this more as a show.
Shanghai Shenhua's boss Zhu Jun even plans to be a guest player in this game.
But being rejected by Lazio was mainly because Chang Sheng rejected it.
Although it is a commercial game, for Chang Sheng, it is also a warm-up game for the team in preparing for this summer, and it needs to be taken seriously.
He didn't want to let Zhu Jun play to attract attention, but it would affect the team's warm-up effect.
After Zhu Jun's request was rejected, Shanghai Shenhua's attitude became relatively cold. They only selected a few marginal substitute players to join the United team on the grounds that the team still wanted to play in the Chinese Super League. This excuse was perfect. Because three days later it was
It’s the 18th round of the Chinese Super League, so it’s understandable that they say preparation for the Chinese Super League is more important.
In this way, it is said that it is Shanghai United, but in fact it is mainly composed of players from Shanghai East Asia Team.
Some media and fans expressed regret that Shanghai Shenhua did not send its main players to participate in the game.
I think this will affect the excitement of the game.
But Chang Sheng felt it didn't matter.
Shanghai Shenhua may think that without their main players, the enjoyment of this game will be reduced and the suspense will be much less.
They always win but don't buy their fault.
It was just a warm-up match anyway, it didn't matter who the opponent was, he wished his opponents were all East Asian players.
A reporter raised this question at the pre-match press conference. Chang Sheng showed his arrogance to everyone. He shrugged and said: "It doesn't matter, it's the same. I don't think Shanghai Shenhua can make the game more exciting by sending the main players to participate."
Some, or more suspense. Sorry, the word suspense makes me laugh. For you, this is a business competition. For me, this is a warm-up match. It doesn’t matter who the opponent is."
Of course his words will make some people unhappy, especially Shanghai Shenhua supporters, but he is indeed telling the truth.
Even if the opponent in this game is Shanghai Shenhua, the opponent is the main player, and they go all out, the game will be like that...
The gap in strength between the European Triple Crown team and the second place team in the Chinese Super League is still temporary.
Then Chang Sheng praised the East Asian football team and said that several players in the East Asian team are capable of playing in Europe.
This approach of looking down on Shenhua but praising East Asia is actually Chang Sheng's response to Zhu Jun.
Are you trying to show off to me? You’re not qualified yet!
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Chang Sheng's words reached Zhu Jun's ears, which naturally made him very unhappy.
But what can you do if you are unhappy?
People don't give a shit about him at all. His influence is of no use to Lazio, nor is it useful to winning teams.
Moreover, it is impossible for him to send people to slap Chang Sheng in the face again. In that case, he would be slapped in the face first.
But he can still think of a way to fight back.
The next day, it was reported that Shenhua hoped that the head coach of Shanghai United, Xu Genbao, the chairman of East Asia Club, would limit the playing time of Shenhua players and try to prevent them from playing more than 45 minutes. They did not want the players to play in irrelevant games.
In important business competitions, physical energy is wasted and the risk of injury is increased.
Obviously, this was Zhu Jun's idea.
He felt that by doing this he was embarrassing the organizer and causing problems.
He made it clear that he would not give face to Lazio and Chang Sheng.
Naturally, this approach has been criticized by some media, who think it is too petty. He is originally a marginal substitute for the team, and it is difficult to even make the squad. There is no need to participate in the Chinese Super League, so why do you need to maintain physical fitness?
Of course, there are media who speak for Shenhua, and naturally they have to pay for it. They think that it is a commercial competition anyway, and the club is right to maintain its strength in the Chinese Super League. No one can accuse Shenhua of doing this.
If there were a foreign head coach, maybe Lazio wouldn't say anything and wouldn't participate in this topic at all.
But Chang Sheng is Chinese, and he is very clear about the messy things about Chinese football.
He also knows Zhu Jun very well.
He is just a petty person, without any reason or excuse, just a petty person.
So Chang Sheng counterattacked when accepting reporters: "I also think this is a good idea. We can't ruin Shenhua's hope of winning the championship just because of a commercial game. If these players are injured during the game or lack of physical strength,
, causing Shenhua to lose this year's Chinese Super League championship, then we will become the enemy of Shanghai fans. So otherwise, Shenhua Club will recall these players of its own, so that they don't have to worry about this problem.
And we can also play a serious game without having to think about those messy things. I am very serious, really, no one cares whether they come to the game anyway, I believe that most fans
It’s Lazio we’re here to watch, not their few ‘important players’ who don’t even make the squad for regular games.”
Chang Sheng's face was slapped hard.
A business competition has caused both sides to get angry, which is really rare in the world. (To be continued...)
