After the Champions League ended, it was the seventh round of the league, and Lazio met Fiorentina.
This is a contest between master and disciple.
In fact, it is not a master and apprentice in the strict sense, because although Stramaccioni has worked at Lazio for many years, he has always been an independent youth training camp director and has not worked directly under Chang Sheng, nor has Chang Sheng.
No matter what you teach him, he is able to be the head coach of the first team solely because he led the Lazio youth academy and performed well in the European Youth Champions League.
So he was spotted by other teams.
He once coached Inter Milan, but left Inter Milan after a high start and a low start.
Later, he took a year's rest at home and returned to coaching Fiorentina.
Coaching in Florence was much smoother.
Perhaps the failure at Inter Milan gave him valuable experience.
To say that Chang Sheng and him have a master-disciple relationship is purely a gimmick created by the media.
And it is much simpler to say this than to explain the relationship between two people in detail.
So whether Stramaccioni wanted it or not, everyone now believed that Chang Sheng was his teacher and he was Chang Sheng's apprentice.
Stramaccioni also once answered this question, and he seemed very open-minded in this regard.
"He can be said to be my teacher. There is no problem with that."
But actually it might be more accurate to say that the two of them are friends.
Italian football does not have the habit of English football. After the game, the coaches of both teams will get together for a drink.
But Chang Sheng and Stramaccioni have this habit.
When Stramaccioni was coaching Inter Milan, he played against Chang Sheng. Chang Sheng never showed mercy, so Stramaccioni never defeated Chang Sheng once.
Of course, this is also related to his own limited level. When he coached Inter Milan, Inter Milan's results were not very good.
Later, after he arrived in Florence, he played against Chang Sheng, and the two sides ended up winning or losing.
On the one hand, Lazio himself has fallen into a trough, and on the other hand, Stramaccioni himself has matured a lot.
What will happen in this encounter?
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In the seventh round of the league, Lazio faced Fiorentina led by Stramaccioni at home.
Fiorentina, ranked fifth, challenges Lazio, ranked third, in an away game. This can be regarded as a "strong dialogue", right?
But before the game, the atmosphere was very relaxed.
Stramaccioni also started joking with reporters when attending the pre-match press conference: "Don't set a trap for me. I will not start a war of words with him. That is really asking for it."
What a shame! Chang and I have played against each other many times, but the relationship between us has always been very good, and I enjoy this feeling very much. We are rivals on the court, but we are still good friends off the court."
The reporters naturally knew that, so the questions they asked were not aggressive, and they did not deliberately suppress one side and raise the other.
Because they know it's pointless.
In fact, at the very beginning, when Stramaccioni first started his solo career and coached Inter Milan, the media were keen on doing this.
When Inter Milan led by Stramaccioni played against the always-victorious Lazio for the first time, the media frantically instigated the relationship between the two and stirred up trouble.
Trying to incite hatred between each other, and then have a fierce competition like Mars hitting the Earth.
Then the two sides turned against each other after the game, so that every time Stramaccioni and Chang Sheng played against each other in the future, everyone would have something to talk about.
Of course, the game itself was indeed intense and exciting enough.
Since the winning coach Lazio, the games between the two sides have always been like this.
In the end, Lazio defeated Inter Milan at home.
However, the drama of antagonism that everyone expected did not happen.
After the game, Stramaccioni took the initiative to shake hands with Chang Sheng.
At the post-match press conference, the coaches of both teams also praised each other, and there was absolutely no bad word.
Stramaccioni also revealed a detail, that is, after the game, when he went up to shake hands with Chang Sheng, Chang Sheng took the initiative to invite him to have a drink together after the game.
It shattered all the rumors about the breakdown of the relationship between the two before the game.
Later, the media tried a few more times and found that each time they just saw two people showing off their affection, so they gave up the idea.
As of now, there will be no media attempts to sow discord between the two people, so this is just a gimmick for the competition.
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This game is no different from the previous confrontations.
For the football match itself, this is a very normal match.
There is no enmity or enmity between the two parties, and it is not a traditional place of death.
Everyone relies on their abilities on the court and hopes to win the game - this is the case in any game.
Fiorentina scored first in the game. The Fiorentina fans who came with the team were very happy, and the Lazio fans at home did not boo them.
Stramaccioni is the director of Lazio's youth academy. While he was still in this position, he cultivated many useful young players for the Lazio first team.
Lazio fans also remember him well.
When Stramaccioni chose to fly solo, Lazio fans also sent their blessings.
When he suffered setbacks and failures at Inter Milan, Lazio fans also expressed their welcome to Stramaccioni to return to Lazio.
At that time, Stramaccioni expressed his gratitude to the Lazio fans, but he did not return to Lazio. Instead, he chose to rest at home for a year. During this year, he worked part-time as a commentator for Sky Italia, commentating on Serie A games.
This period of commentary career also allowed him to settle down and laid the foundation for his future success in Florence.
The relationship between the two parties is so good, how could they do something to make the other party sad?
Even if Fiorentina defeated Lazio, Stramaccioni's attitude at the post-match press conference would be very humble, saying that it was good luck. Anyway, it made Lazio fans feel comfortable and felt that even if they lost to him,
It's not a big deal.
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After Fiorentina scored, the first half ended with the lead.
In the second half, Lazio made some adjustments, regained control of the situation, and posed a greater threat to the goal.
Then Cavani turned around and hit the goal from outside the penalty area, equalizing the score for Lazio.
At that moment, Wanda Stadium erupted into huge cheers.
After equalizing the score, Lazio's morale was high and they pursued the victory and finally scored another goal in the 80th minute to take the lead!
After that, Chang Sheng adjusted again and focused on defense.
Stramaccioni was unceremonious and chose to attack.
In the end, things got better and Lazio successfully defended their goal and withstood Fiorentina's rapid attack.
In this encounter, Lazio defeated Fiorentina.
At the post-match press conference, the head coaches of both teams continued the tradition of complimenting each other.
Victory praised Fiorentina's tenacity, while Stramaccioni expressed his sincere admiration for Lazio's strength.
Later, some media said enough was enough, "I think the two of them just used each other's words to praise their own teams. This kind of press conference is the most shameless I have ever participated in! I think that in the future, Lazio and Fiorentina will
All subsequent press conferences should be cancelled! We are not here to watch two people flatter each other in a disgusting manner!”
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After seven league rounds, Lazio is still ranked third in the league.
Because the two teams before him, Napoli and Juventus, both won.
After this league match, the national team match day comes, and Lazio's Formello training base will be deserted again.
On national team game day, the most important thing for winning is to track each player's performance in the national team.
It is not just about looking at their condition, but more importantly, paying attention to their physical condition, lest they get injured again.
On the last national team match day, I injured two of my own people at once, and one of them was very seriously injured!
Fortunately, on this national team match day, Lazio's players were not plagued by bad luck.
They all finished their national team matches safely and then returned to Formello.
Chang Sheng let out a sigh of relief.
Lazio's current situation really can't afford any more injuries.
Because those who can get injured in national team games are basically their own main players.
Ji Ming and Wu Lei also participated in the national team's match day. They represented the Chinese team in the warm-up match before the play-offs of the 2022 Qatar World Cup, and their opponent was the South American team Colombia.
This is to prepare for the next two play-off matches in November. Because the Chinese team’s play-off opponent is Uruguay, the traditional South American powerhouse.
Ten years have passed, and Chinese football has made some progress, because many Chinese players are able to go to Europe and South America, where football is developed, to play and receive training. They have accepted advanced football concepts and fed back to China.
This is what Chang Sheng hoped to see back then.
In the past ten years when Chinese football has made progress, the name of the agency "Star Project" has been indispensable.
Nowadays, the "Star Plan" agency company secretly founded by Chang Sheng has become a well-known agency company in the real world. They don't know how to represent Chinese players, and now they have extended their tentacles into Europe, and with those big names
Brokers compete with traditional brokerage firms.
They have promoted many Chinese players to European competitions, and have also introduced European players who are about to retire to Chinese domestic leagues. Through these high-level European foreign players, they can promote the improvement of the level of China's domestic leagues.
Just like what Guangzhou Evergrande did back then.
So now the Chinese team can also advance all the way to the World Cup qualifying play-offs.
You must know that the previous national team could not even reach the top ten of the Asian qualifiers... (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
