After the ceremony, all the players of the national team were taken to the dormitory area by specialized staff, and then everyone gathered together to wait for room allocation.
Chang Sheng and Gao Hongbo continued chatting.
Chang Sheng gave Gao Hongbo a lot of advice on the Asian Cup - because he has watched the Asian Cup, he naturally knows what problems the Chinese team will encounter.
For example, he reminded Gao Hongbo to be careful about Qatar's host advantage. West Asians are very good at and willing to match-fix.
The Chinese team must beware of this.
Gao Hongbo nodded frequently and wrote down everything Chang Sheng said.
He no longer doubts what Chang Sheng said. Facts have proved that Chang Sheng has never said anything wrong. He is like a person who has traveled through time, knowing five hundred years before and five hundred years later.
When Chang Sheng and Gao Hongbo were communicating together, many international players were also observing Chang Sheng.
This is the most legendary figure in Chinese football, and they had only been able to know Chang Sheng through the TV before. They had never had such a close observation of this head coach who was full of controversy and legend.
He looks no different than an ordinary football coach.
He was wearing a suit for a formal occasion, but he didn't wear a tie, and the top button of his shirt was unbuttoned, so although he was wearing a formal suit, he was dressed casually.
However, when we are with Gao Zhi, everyone can still feel that in terms of temperament, Chang Sheng is better.
Although Chang Sheng is younger than Gaozhi, he is more confident and looks quite heroic.
This may be related to the fact that Chang Sheng has won many championships.
When a coach leads a team with good results, his whole temperament will change greatly.
I think back then, he was just a young coach in Getafe, and he must be completely different from the world-famous coach he is today...
After the rooms were assigned, Gao Hongbo informed them that they only had ten minutes to put their luggage and get familiar with the room, because the team was about to start training next.
The players of the national team were a little surprised when they heard that they had to train when they arrived at the training base.
However, I accepted it without objection.
Chang Sheng was watching these players closely.
Although he is not the head coach of the Chinese national team, he now looks at the team from the perspective of a head coach.
From this detail, he discovered that Gao Hongbo had done a pretty good job in controlling the team. At least no one publicly expressed their unwillingness or rejection.
They were just surprised. Then they accepted it.
If there were a group of ball tyrants on the team, it would probably be a different situation.
The players of the Chinese team quickly gathered at the No. 2 training ground in Vermelo.
Chang Sheng was still standing in front of them with Gao Hongbo.
But this time it was not Gao Hongbo who gave them a pre-training speech, but Chang Sheng who spoke first.
"I would like to welcome you, the players of the Chinese national team, to the Fermelo training base. Here you will train with Lazio. You can train with the highest level team. This is your luck.
But it is also your pressure, because you have the most fans in the world, including me. I am also your fan."
Chang Sheng patted his chest.
"I hope you train here with a kind of pressure. This pressure will help you achieve good results in the Asian Cup. Don't be afraid of pressure, the more you don't like it, the more it likes you. Lazio has the most pressure in the world
We are a team. We have not lost a game in the entire season and have won all! This kind of pressure is great. But my players performed very well. Because we are afraid of pressure, we use pressure as motivation. I
I hope you can do the same. No matter when, please remember that you are not here to travel, you are here to fight and train for the motherland. When you feel confused, think about when you first came into contact with football.
How do you feel and what are your dreams? Well, I wish you good luck. I will come to see you often. You must listen to the words of Coach Gao. He is the second best head coach in China."
"Who is number one?" someone asked bravely.
Chang Sheng glared: "This question of yours is so stupid. Of course I am the first one!"
The people nearby laughed.
That is, asking who is the highest-level head coach in China in front of Chang Sheng is so stupid!
Gao Hongbo also laughed.
Then amidst laughter, Gao Hongbo came up and announced the start of training, starting with the warm-up.
Chang Sheng looked at the side and found that the Chinese national team's warm-up was basically the same as Lazio's warm-up before training.
It’s also about running circles with the ball.
After the lap, it’s time to play with the monkeys.
Same thing with Lazio.
It seems that Gao Hongbo has moved his Lazio routine to the Chinese national team almost intact...
Chang Sheng doesn't have any objections to this. There is no intellectual property right in this thing. If you use it, others can't use it. There's no reason for that.
As long as it is beneficial to Chinese football, Chang Sheng doesn't mind at all.
After watching the Chinese national team's training from the sidelines for a while, Chang Sheng said goodbye. He still had his own work to do, and Lazio's afternoon training session was about to begin.
In this way, the Chinese team officially settled in the Vermello training base and trained with Lazio. Although they usually trained on two completely different stadiums, Chang Sheng fulfilled his promise and arranged for the Chinese national team to play with the Lazio first team.
There was a teaching match, and this was only the first week.
And Lotito is also particularly good at making money.
He sold the broadcast rights of this supposedly closed teaching game to a Shanghai TV station.
Therefore, this teaching match played at the Vermelo training base was broadcast live on television, and many fans stayed in front of their TVs and computers to watch the match.
Such a grand occasion was beyond the imagination of those who initially opposed the Chinese national team going to Italy for training.
Not to mention those who opposed it, even those who supported it did not expect that the situation would turn out so well.
Every day, a large number of Chinese media gather outside the Lazio Vermelo training base, hoping to take videos and photos of the Chinese team's training.
At this time, Lotito fully demonstrated his characteristics as a profiteer. The club told these reporters that Lazio is now preparing for the game against Inter Milan, so the entire Formello training base is closed to the outside world, let alone reporters.
Fans are not allowed in.
The Chinese reporter protested: "Lazio has to face Inter Milan, so the excuse of closed training camp is ridiculous. Everyone knows that Inter Milan is no match for Lazio now. Lazio doesn't need an excuse at all!"
After hearing their protest, the club's press officer remained calm and explained calmly: "This is the head coach's decision. So I don't know, and I have no right to interfere."
Chinese reporters are not willing to give in. Are they just waiting outside?
What's the point?
It would be better to let the Chinese team train in Hainan and Guangzhou. That way at least they won’t be so harsh on us Chinese media. Those are our home stadiums!
Formello is now Lazio's home ground, and there is nothing they can do in their territory.
But Lotito will naturally not disappoint these media and return.
At this time it was his turn to come forward.
The smiling and cheerful Lotito is quite popular among the Chinese media because he has been to China more than once before and has dealt with the Chinese media.
So reporters basically know him.
After Lotito arrived, he smiled and greeted the reporters, even in Chinese!
Although he was not very fluent and could not understand it at first, after he repeated it many times, everyone finally understood. It turned out that he meant "sorry"...
After expressing his apology, Lotito was at a loss about the current situation. He said that this was an order personally given by the head coach Chang Sheng.
"He has absolute power in the team, and the Vermelo training base is his kingdom... So, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do..."
Lotito looked very embarrassed.
No one would suspect anything when he did this. Now the whole world knows that Lotito obeys Chang Sheng's words and doesn't dare to offend him at all.
So what Chang Sheng said was like an imperial edict to Lotito, no, it was more effective than an imperial edict.
So when Lotito said this, no one thought it was a problem.
They just frowned, unwilling but embarrassed.
Then at this moment, Lotito suddenly proposed a solution, which was to pay for the right to conduct interviews!
Although reporters think it is not good to do this, this is the only opportunity to go in and film the national team training...
What did they come to Italy to do?
Isn’t it just to cover the national team’s training preparations?
If you come here but can't even take a photo, how will you explain it to the leaders and readers?
This is not like being in China, this is abroad! My employer is not paying me to come to Italy for tourism!
So a reporter asked Lotito how much it would cost to go in and take pictures.
Lotito then came up with a very detailed plan, including how much it would cost to shoot for a single day, how much it would cost to only shoot in the morning, and how much it would cost to only shoot in the afternoon. There was also a seven-day package, which would be more cost-effective.
Save some money. In addition, there are monthly packages, which are also cheaper...
When reporters saw this detailed price list, they realized that Lazio was taking this opportunity to make money!
Previously, reporters praised Lazio in their own media for providing free food and accommodation for the Chinese national team, and that they were foreign leifengs in the new era.
As a result, now they are all slapped in the face by reality...
Obviously, a businessman will never make a loss-making transaction...
All the money Lazio spends on free food and accommodation must be earned back from their reporters!
But will you give me money?
If you don’t give me money, then don’t report it. People can now think of any terrible reason why Inter Milan has to have a closed training camp. Naturally, they will also think of other reasons to prevent them from going in for interviews...
If you can't get the report, how can you explain it to your superiors?
Some reporters turned around and left. They would rather not report it than pay this injustice.
For such people, Lotito sneered in his heart, I'll see if you can come back in a few days!
More other reporters had already begun to call their superiors for instructions. After receiving the answers, they all obediently paid Lotito and bought tickets to enter.
Of course, they must have scolded Lotito and Chang Sheng's 18th generation ancestors in their hearts: "Two poor guys who have never seen any fucking money in their last life!"
Lotito didn't care how they criticized him, as long as he made money.
Although these are small coins, no matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat. What happened to the small coins? How can you become rich if you don’t accumulate small coins?
He could even save the cost of disposable paper cups at the beginning. He didn't care about money.
Those reporters who bought tickets naturally took many photos and videos of the training.
And no one else bothered them, no fans.
Apart from reporters like them, there are also the national team players who are training.
The environment is quite good, which makes some people feel that the money spent is not in vain.
But when they think that instead of reporting for a day or two, they have to come and watch almost every day to see if there are any latest discoveries... they feel a headache.
Fortunately, they are not asked to pay out of their own pockets, otherwise Lotito's asking price could directly force them to resign. (To be continued)
