For Lotito, Wu Lei's joining is something he welcomes.
So when Chang Sheng called him and told him that he planned to buy a Chinese player, Lotito shouted loudly and seemed more excited than Chang Sheng, the Chinese.
Although Chang Sheng said that he did not consider the Chinese market when he bought Wu Lei, Lotito was different from Chang Sheng. He really considered the Chinese market.
Since poaching Chang Sheng, the relationship between Lazio Club and China has become deeper and more frequent.
Lotito also benefited from these connections and cooperation.
Now the sponsor on the chest of Lazio club jersey is a Chinese automobile company, and Chinese companies and brands can be seen everywhere in Lazio.
This team has almost become a Chinese team.
Even if one day Lazio announces that they will move their home stadium to Beijing, no Italians will be too surprised.
Roma fans are now mocking Lazio and using this joke. They are mocking Lazio for being a Chinese team.
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On the second day of the press conference, major media outlets focused on Lazio's signing of a Chinese player.
However, the Chinese media and the Italian media have completely different focuses.
The Chinese media hailed the historic significance of Wu Lei joining Lazio, and they began to look forward to Wu Lei playing in Lazio, the top team.
They think Wu Lei might be the ice-breaker.
There are already Chinese players playing in the Bundesliga and the Premier League.
Serie A and La Liga have not yet been breached.
Among them, Serie A may be the most difficult, because Serie A is somewhat exclusive, especially for Chinese players.
Perhaps the Serie A official will not admit it, but this country and its league have hidden discrimination against the Chinese.
For a great head coach like Chang Sheng, there are all kinds of controversies surrounding him in Italy, let alone a mere small player.
With Chang Sheng's "protection", Wu Lei's future in Serie A is obviously much easier than that of his senior Ma Mingyu. Although Wu Lei and Chang Sheng do not admit these cares, the Chinese media believe that when the two people really get along,
, some things cannot be changed, there must be some care, even if it is not obvious, the phenomenon of care definitely exists.
Almost all Chinese media discuss this matter.
The Italian media doesn't seem to care about Wu Lei's strength and potential. After all, they have never heard of this person's name before.
Their focus is on Lazio.
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"When Chang was coaching Lazio, I was wondering when Lazio would buy a Chinese player, because the Chinese like to do this kind of gathering. Now finally here, a Chinese player I have never heard of, who is only 2 years old.
Nineteen years old, it is said that Lazio club will pay his parent team in China 1.5 million euros for him. What kind of game does Wu play in China? It is similar to the second level of our Serie B. For such a player
Paying 1.5 million euros really makes me wonder if Chang has benefited from this transfer..."
Pacheco commented on Wu Lei's transfer when participating in a certain program.
He almost got the truth right, but he only took it as a joke, as he was always victorious.
I never thought that he was actually the person closest to the truth. If he knew, he would probably cling to this point and destroy Chang Shengjie's reputation...
However, although Pacheco has always been victorious, his views this time are considered mainstream in the Italian media.
That is, everyone thinks that Lazio has more and more Chinese elements.
They had a Chinese head coach before, which attracted many Chinese sponsors, and now they finally have a Chinese player.
There were already many Chinese journalists, but now there are even more.
The outside of the Vermello training base has almost become a world dominated by Chinese reporters. Some Italian media joked that Chinese is the lingua franca there and Italian has become a weak language. You may not be able to communicate even if you speak Italian.
They were all a group of Chinese reporters chatting with each other in Chinese they didn’t understand, which made people feel like they were in China.
"Chinese head coaches, Chinese sponsors, Chinese reporters, Chinese players, even the construction team of the new stadium are Chinese, and they will have a Chinese name in the future... I think Lazio should simply change the color of their home jersey.
Okay, let’s change it from sky blue to red to represent China.”
"We said before that Lazio is the most Spanish team in Italy, but now I think we are all wrong. In fact, Lazio is the most Chinese team in Italy!"
The media made various complaints about Lazio's Chineseization.
In an exclusive country like Italy, a team like Lazio is indeed an anomaly.
What's even more unusual is that they can still succeed. I have to say that winning often is really unbelievable...
The complaints from the Italian media were a bit vicious, but they were right, Lazio is indeed a completely Chinese team.
This once Italian right-wing team has now become a red team that has always been victorious.
The lifeblood of this team basically has a strong Chinese flavor.
Not to mention that the team’s head coach is Chinese.
The club's president Lotito is now also a "friendly person" and "a good friend of the Chinese people" in the eyes of the Chinese government.
He probably spends a quarter of the year in China now, going around to attract investment and at the same time making a strong impression on Lazio Club.
In addition, Lazio Club currently has many Chinese sponsors.
For example, the advertisement on their chest jersey is that of a famous Chinese automobile company, their computer sponsor is China's Lenovo, their sports functional drinks are also Chinese brands, and their training ground is filled with billboards of Chinese companies.
Chinese characters are very common at the Fermelo training base.
So much so that even Lazio players’ tattoos have become popular with Chinese characters.
It even made a joke. In order to express his admiration for the boss, Mario Gotze tattooed a row of Chinese characters on his arm, which together means "50% off all invoices for certificates"...
When Chang Sheng saw this sentence, he almost went crazy laughing.
However, he was afraid of dampening Gotze's enthusiasm for learning Chinese, so he kept it in and did not tell Gotze the truth...
Gotze still doesn't know what the words he tattooed on his body actually mean, and he still displays them complacently.
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Lazio’s Sinicization phenomenon is indeed very serious.
And it is reflected in every aspect and every detail.
Although Chang Sheng never speaks Chinese in the team or club, many people in these two places have started to learn Chinese voluntarily.
The ubiquitous Chinese reporters near the Vermelo training base are the best people for these people to practice their spoken Chinese.
In addition, Lazio will choose one game every year to change the font of their chest advertisement into Chinese characters to pay tribute to China.
It is said that this is Lazio's "China Match Day".
In addition, in the Lazio club headquarters, there are Chinese signs everywhere, especially in the honors showroom.
In addition to the introduction in Italian, the sign under each trophy is also introduced in simplified Chinese. And it is definitely not the kind of inferior machine translation. At first glance, it is a real translation for Chinese people.
Let Chinese tourists see it and no one will feel uncomfortable.
In Lazio's honorary strength, such an introduction is only available in Italian and Chinese.
This shows that Lazio Club attaches great importance to China.
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Some Italian media complained before that Lazio might as well change their home jersey from sky blue to red. This was of course a helpless complaint, and no one would really take it seriously.
But soon the Italian media saw the Lazio club... no, maybe it was Lotito's undisciplined performance...
Some media released the latest spy photos of Lazio's second away kit.
This second set of jerseys is one that is difficult to use. Only when the colors of the first set of away jerseys and home jerseys conflict with the opponent's jerseys will the second set of away jerseys be chosen.
The color of the second away jersey does not have traditional colors like the home jersey and the first away jersey. For example, Lazio's home jersey is sky blue, while the away jersey is usually yellow.
In order to distinguish the second set of away jerseys from the colors of most jerseys, the colors will be very weird.
Therefore, the color of the second away jersey is often very "heavy".
This is the second set of away jerseys released by Lazio Club this time.
When the spy photos came out, everyone was stunned, especially the media who had previously complained that Lazio should change the color of their jerseys.
Because the second Lazio away jersey that comes into view is... a bright red!
Red shirt, red shorts, and even the socks are all red!
The second away jersey designed by Nike for Lazio is completely red. There are only some gold decorations on the collar, cuffs and shorts hems.
Other than that, it's just red.
Lazio really wears red jerseys!
"It seems we were right...Lazio really chose red as the color of their jersey! Even though it's not the home jersey, it's still an exaggeration, okay? This red jersey is really ugly!" said the company that exposed the spy photos.
The media finally complained, "How ugly does it look to be able to design such a jersey?"
But the media still overestimated Lotito's lower limit.
Lazio club later admitted that the photos in the spy photos were their team's second away jersey this season.
And not only that, Lotito also said in an interview that Lazio will give priority to using this set of jerseys in the Champions League away games in the new season and temporarily abandon the yellow away jerseys.
"We also plan to consider wearing this jersey to play games during the Spring Festival in China... In addition, we will also wear this jersey to compete in the Italian Super Cup in Beijing this summer..."
Although Lazio club officials have never directly explained why they use red away jerseys, after listening to Lotito's words, everyone knows now - what he is doing is nakedly trying to please the Chinese market!
Sure enough, after the release of the red away jersey, there was a strong response in China. Some Chinese media even said that the red away jersey is actually a love letter written by Lazio Club to Chinese fans.
The Chinese media also named Lazio’s away jersey “China Red”!
When the time comes, watching Lazio play in red jerseys, will it make people feel like watching the Chinese national team?
This may make more Chinese fans willing to consider Lazio as their home team.
In fact, they don't care whether this jersey is good-looking or not, they only care that through this jersey, they see the importance that Lazio Club attaches to Chinese fans, and that is enough.
In the face of financial interests, businessman Lotito really has no moral integrity at all... (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
