Chapter 271 Who Cares About Them?

PS: Solemnly declare: Due to the needs of the plot, the social groups, individuals and units involved in this article are purely fictitious, please take a seat. m Any similarity is absolutely coincidental!

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 the teams of the East Asian clubs that had no game missions, and went to the sidelines of the training field to observe the training of high-level European football teams.

Lazio did not continue to practice any physical fitness. After a simple recovery training, they started tactical training.

The three players who joined the team are also among them.

Both Ballack and Klose are very popular in China, which has attracted many non-Lazio fans for 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 very seriously.

Lazio did not modify its training plan just because there were people watching, arranging some group games within the team, which fans love to see.

That night, the whole Lazio team participated in a charity dinner hosted by their chest advertising sponsors. Lazio's jerseys and souvenirs were auctioned at the dinner.

The days of training in China were very busy for Chang Sheng.

Because it can't influence him to lead the team to train, his business activities are all in the form of stitches. After the training in the morning, he has to rush to the center of Shanghai to sign a contract and attend the press conference.

After an event ends. Then rush to the next event location without stopping.

Usually after two activities, he has to rush to Chongming Island.

Hurry back to host the afternoon training.

After the afternoon training, the evening time is also dedicated to commercial activities.

In order to make money, he ran back and forth. Weary.

Good thing I didn't drive by myself.

Otherwise, he might fall asleep while driving the car.

Lotito is also very busy during the time in Shanghai. He frequently attended various events, met with various business partners, and also met some leaders of the Chinese government.

They discussed all kinds of business and investment matters.

In Lotito's eyes, China is now just like what Marco Polo described. There is gold everywhere, and opportunities to get rich are everywhere.

But his most important purpose is to introduce construction funds for the new stadium he is in the design stage.

Although Lazio made 100 million yuan in the transfer market this summer, it cannot be said that all the money was invested in the project of the new stadium.

The daily operation of the Lazio club also needs money.

Needless to say, Lotito's unremitting efforts really made him a partner...

A Chinese consortium intends to take a stake in the Lazio club. They promise that if the stake is successful, they will help Lazio contact a company with guaranteed quality in China. An engineering company with a guaranteed reputation will help Lazio build the stadium, because this will be the number one project of a Chinese construction company in European sports projects, so the Chinese side should not ask for too high a price. They want to build this stadium into a Chinese stadium. The model project of the construction company in Europe.

At that time, Lazio's new stadium will be composed of three parts of funds. Part of it is the funds invested by the Lazio club itself, part of it is bank loans, and the rest is capital injection from the Chinese consortium.

However, the two parties now only have this willingness, and the specific details of the cooperation are still being discussed.

Lotito didn't know whether the negotiation would be successful in the end, but there was hope anyway.

And the reason why Lotito is willing to choose a Chinese engineering company is that the Chinese are very efficient. If the stadium is handed over to 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. year can be put into use.

For Lazio, the sooner the new stadium is put into use, the better, which means that they can recover their investment as soon as possible and start making profits.

As for the quality issue, Lotito is not worried, this is a sample project, who would make fun of a sample project?

Moreover, Chinese companies will do their best when exploring overseas markets.

So there is no need to worry about building too fast and quality problems.

Didn't I often say it, the famous Great Hall of the People. It only took more than nine months from the design drawings to the installation and commissioning of all decorations and equipment from inside to outside.

Now fifty years have passed, isn't it still doing well?

The key is getting Chinese construction companies to take the 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, the minds of these three teams are different.

For Shanghai Dongya, who are competing in the Chinese Premier League, they are most interested in this game, because first of all, the two clubs are cooperative clubs, so naturally they also want to join in. Secondly, for Xu Genbao, it is a rare learning opportunity for his players to compete with the top European teams in the game. Such an opportunity must be grasped and not be perfunctory.

The views of the other two teams are not quite the same.

In the second league, Shanghai Zhongbang is the weakest, and they can't choose any representative players, so they have a soy sauce mentality from the beginning.

And Shanghai Shenhua, the leader of Shanghai football, is more planning to treat this as a show.

Zhu Jun, the owner of Shanghai Shenhua, even plans to play guest players in this game.

But it was rejected by Lazio-in fact, it was mainly Chang Sheng who rejected it.

Although it is a commercial game, for Chang Sheng, this is also a warm-up match for the team's preparations for this summer, which needs to be taken seriously.

He didn't want Zhu Jun to play to attract attention, but it affected the team's warm-up effect.

After Zhu Jun's request was rejected, Shanghai Shenhua's attitude became relatively indifferent. They only selected a few marginal substitute players to join the United team on the grounds that the team would still play in the Super League. This excuse works flawlessly. Because it will be the eighteenth round of the Chinese Super League in three days, so it is understandable for them to say that preparing for the Chinese Super League is more important.

In this way, it is the Shanghai United team. In fact, it is mainly based on the players of the Shanghai East Asia team.

Some media and fans feel regret and regret that Shanghai Shenhua did not send the main players to participate in the game.

I think this will affect the excitement of this game.

But Chang Sheng felt that it didn't matter.

Shanghai Shenhua may think that without their main players. The viewing level of this game will decrease, and the suspense will be much less.

Chang Sheng did not buy their account.

Anyway, it's a warm-up match. It doesn't matter who the opponent is, he wished that the 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 all the same. I don't think Shanghai Shenhua sending the main players to the competition can make the game more exciting. Some, or more suspenseful — sorry, I find it funny to say the word suspenseful. For you guys it's a business game, for me it's a warm-up match. It doesn't matter who it is."

His words certainly offended some people. Especially the supporters of Shanghai Shenhua, but what he said is indeed the truth.

Even if the opponent in this game is Shanghai Shenhua, the opponent is the main player. Then go all out, and the game will be like that...

There is indeed a big gap between the strength of the European Triple Crown team and the second place in the Chinese Super League—still temporarily—.

Then Chang Sheng praised the East Asian football team and said that there are several players in the East Asian team who are capable of playing in Europe.

This kind of look down on Shenhua. However, praising Dongya's approach is actually Chang Sheng's counterattack against Zhu Jun.

Showing face to Lao Tzu? You are not qualified yet!

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Chang Sheng's words reached Zhu Jun's ears, which naturally made him very upset.

But what can I do if I'm not happy?

People don't trust him at all, his influence is useless to Lazio, and it is useless to Changsheng.

And it is impossible for him to send someone to slap Chang Sheng in the face again. That would have slapped itself in the face first.

But he was still able to think of a way to fight back.

The next day, it was reported that Shenhua hoped that the head coach of Shanghai United, that is, Xu Genbao, the chairman of the East Asia Club, would limit the playing time of Shenhua players and try not to let them play more than 45 minutes. They don't want players to waste their energy in irrelevant commercial games, while also increasing the risk of injury.

Obviously, this was Zhu Jun's idea.

He felt that by doing so, he was embarrassing the organizers and creating problems.

He made it clear that he would not give Lazio and Changsheng face.

This approach has naturally 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 make it to the squad. He does not need to participate in the Super League.

Of course, there are also media who speak for Shenhua—naturally, they need to pay money—they think that it is a commercial game anyway, and the club is right to maintain its strength for the Super League. No one can accuse Shenhua of doing so.

If it were a foreigner coach, maybe Lazio would not say anything, and would not participate in this topic at all.

But Chang Sheng is Chinese, and he is very clear about the messy things in Chinese football.

He also knew Zhu Jun very well.

It's petty, there is no reason or excuse, it's just chicken guts.

So Chang Sheng countered when accepting reporters: "I also think this idea is good. We can't ruin the Shenhua team's hope of winning the championship because of a commercial game. If these players are injured or physically weak during the game , causing Shenhua to lose this year's Chinese Super League championship, then we have become the enemy of the Shanghai fans. So why not, Shenhua Club recalled these players, so that they don't have to worry about this problem. And we can also play a serious game, don't have to think about those messy things. I'm serious, really, no one cares whether they come to the game anyway, I believe the vast majority of fans It's about Lazio, not about their 'important players' who don't even make the regular squad."

Chang Sheng's face was slapped.

It is really rare in the world that a business competition makes both sides feel like gunpowder.