Because they have won the Serie A championship for four consecutive years and are the well-deserved hegemons of Serie A. In addition, they have a Chinese head coach like Chang Sheng, so Lazio's popularity in China is very high.
Lazio players are also very curious about the homeland of the boss.
Although they have won many championships, their attitude is very close to the people.
Of course, if they go to other countries, such as Japan, the performance will be different...
At the Club World Cup at the end of last year, Lazio went from being a winning coach to being an ordinary player in Japan, with a very arrogant attitude. They looked like they didn't take Japanese football seriously at all, which made many Japanese football people quite angry.
But now, regardless of fatigue, they waved to the fans with smiles on their faces. After arriving at nine o'clock, they also complied with the fans' request for photos and autographs, and accepted the gifts from these Chinese Lazio fans.
Fans can roam around the lobby, take photos with others, and show off their trophies.
"Look, I got David's autograph!"
"What's this? I have the signatures of Jose, the old captain and Gotze!"
"I took a photo with Chang Sheng! Haha, envy me!"
Excited discussions like this can be heard everywhere in the hotel lobby.
Unlike Inter Milan, Lazio did not hire any bodyguards, just the hotel's most basic security personnel, so fans can have close contact with these big-name stars.
Chang Sheng is well aware of the desire of Chinese fans to have contact with top-tier European football. He also knows that these people will not be aggressive and does not want to find some bodyguards who are like his dead father to isolate them from the team.
He himself used to be a fan of China, and he feels the same way.
When we excitedly talk about European football on the Internet, European football is actually far away from us. We like their football, but they only see money in our eyes. We are just wallets that they can withdraw at will.
On the plane from Rome to Beijing, Chang Sheng told his players that he hoped they could experience the enthusiasm of Chinese fans in Beijing.
It can make these Chinese fans feel valued and spiritually satisfied. They no longer just think that the European giants are treating them as spies to cheat money.
As a head coach, that's all he can do for Chinese fans...
So when Mourinho scolded the Chinese fans who were taking photos from a distance in the hotel lobby and asked hotel security to drive them away, Chang Sheng and his Lazio players were mingling with the Chinese Lazio fans.
Soon, many Lazio fans appeared on the Internet, posting photos of themselves with Lazio stars and signing autographs. People were envious, saying that they were much happier compared to Inter Milan fans...
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Of course, Chang Sheng knows very well that what really wants to satisfy these Chinese Lazio fans is not just satisfying their requests for autographs and photos. The most important thing is to win the championship.
This is what Lazio fans care about most.
Whether they are Lazio fans in Italy or Lazio fans in China, everyone has the same appeal.
So after taking a short rest, Chang Sheng locked himself in the hotel room and studied his opponent's tactics.
When the entire Lazio team went to visit the National Palace Museum, he didn't even go.
His answer to the organizer was: "I am a Chinese, and I am just like you. So I have been to the Forbidden City many times..."
When the organizer heard this...the reason was impeccable. It was perfect.
It is indeed unnecessary for a Chinese to visit the Forbidden City Museum. Has Chang Shenghui never been to the Forbidden City? It is impossible even if you think about it, right?
So he agreed to let Chang Sheng work alone in the hotel room.
In fact, Chang Sheng has never been to the Forbidden City... Whether it was this life or the previous life, he had never been there.
But compared with football, he is really not interested in visiting places of interest.
When the Lazio players returned from the Forbidden City and happily discussed the splendid Chinese Palace, Chang Sheng had already figured out the basic tactical arrangements.
Next comes some training and then the competition.
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Perhaps the previous arrogant attitude angered the Chinese media and some Inter Milan fans, or perhaps the contrast with Lazio next to them was too strong. In short, during training, Inter Milan made some changes.
Their training was arranged more like a performance. There was a one-and-a-half-hour exhibition match. All the big-name players appeared on the stage, doing all kinds of tricks, and the Inter Milan fans in the stands were fascinated by the excitement.
Their injured mood finally improved.
However, after the training, most of the Inter Milan players, including Mourinho, still did not interact with the fans. Only their captain Zanetti ran to accept the cheers of the fans and thanked these Chinese international players.
Milan fans.
On the contrary, Chang Sheng did not deliberately arrange any performance training matches in public training sessions in order to please the fans, but instead trained according to normal training subjects.
The first is a fifteen-minute warm-up, followed by various individual trainings, and the last forty-minute team training and competition, which is very simple and is just for everyone to warm up.
But among these simplicity, there is something not simple.
Lazio's training started with warm-up, showing their own style.
Their warm-up only ran three laps with the ball, and it ended quickly. Then more than 20 people were divided into three groups and formed into three circles to make monkeys. In the eyes of the fans, it was monkey tricks, but for Lazio,
This is their traditional warm-up program.
The fans in the stands cheered just for this warm-up.
Watching Lazio players pass the ball quickly in a small area and perform various difficult passing and receiving coordination, the Lazio fans in the stands kept cheering.
"Our Chinese coaches can also train such a team!"
"I am looking forward to Gao Hongbo's national team more and more, because he learned from Chang Sheng in Lazio!"
This is not what the Chinese Lazio fans said, this is the sound of reporters discussing with each other on the sidelines of the training ground.
The number of fans who came to watch Lazio's training this time was completely unfamiliar to Inter Milan fans, and their passion was even better.
In the stands to the west, organized fans waved flags and sang the team song "lazio_sul_prato_verde_vola, lazio_tu_non_sarai_mai_sola" in harmony.
After the official training begins, every move of the star player can cause cheers and songs in the stands.
As the fans waved flags and sang loudly, a special group of fans who had been relatively silent in the central media area of the stands finally showed their special skills. They sang a unique song for each player in standard Italian.
The "theme song" was written, and all the fans in the audience played it. Only then did they realize that they were a group of Lazio fans from Italy!
These Blue Eagle fans who followed Lazio to Beijing!
They are not the "uncool" who are not welcomed by the club, but die-hard Blue Eagles fans who simply love football.
This group of fans later joined the Chinese fans in the west stand and waved to show their huge flag. On a black background was the Lazio team emblem with the word "fans" below it, and they also held up
A piece of white cardboard with the words "8145_m_perte" written on it expresses their ardent mood of flying from Rome, 8,145 kilometers away, to Beijing to support their beloved team.
Accompanied by the passionate and uniform singing of this group of fans who came from afar, domestic Lazio fans also responded accordingly. They distributed blue and white papers and held them above their heads, turning the west stand into a sea of blue and white.
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The singing began to fill the entire stadium. If an uninformed person only listened to this singing, they would think that the Super Bowl had already started.
Who would have thought this was an ordinary training session?
The Lazio players who were training were also moved by this scene, and they even became distracted during training. Some players looked up at the stands from time to time, with surprised faces on their faces.
"These Chinese fans are so...crazy!"
"God. I thought such a scene could only happen in Italy..."
"It turns out that we are already a world-famous team. Can we be compared with teams like Manchester United and Real Madrid?!"
"It's so unforgettable. It's a pity that I don't have a camera now, otherwise I would definitely take a photo and tell my family how popular I am in China, ha!"
Faced with the players' distraction, it was rare for Chang Sheng not to scold them.
"Let them feel the enthusiasm of Chinese fans, which will help them win the Super Cup." Chang Sheng shrugged to assistant coach Di Matteo. "They will know who they are playing for on the night of August 8.
war. And the voices of Chinese fans can also influence them, thus forming a positive interaction."
In fact, Chang Sheng was quite excited.
He knows that the number of Lazio fans in China is not large. In China, giant teams such as Milan, Juventus and Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool have a large number of fans in China.
fans.
As a second-tier team in Italy, Lazio does not cultivate many fans.
But because it is the lowest level, this team is becoming more and more popular in China, and the number of fans is also increasing year by year.
In fact, this is not only true in China, but also in Italy.
In the past, when people mentioned Roma's football team, they would think of Roma first. Now more and more people will think of Lazio first.
This is all his credit.
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After training, club president Lotito walked to the sidelines to thank the Lazio fans who had been shouting for an hour and a half.
Then the players walked off the field one by one, and the Lazio fans in the stands chanted the names of these players.
Everyone responds enthusiastically to those fans.
The naughty Gotze even kept raising his hands, asking everyone to shout louder when calling his name.
So he got a big cheer.
But the person cheering loudest in the team was not him, but Chang Sheng.
Chang Sheng was the last one to leave the court.
The stadium was full of shouts of "Always win! Always win! Always win!!"
There is Mandarin, which is well-spoken, and Italian, which sounds awkward.
Chang Sheng raised his fist amidst the thunderous cheers.
His action naturally won even louder cheers from the Lazio fans. Some even burst into tears with excitement!
Because this move is the classic move that Chang Sheng used to provoke all Roma fans at the Stadio Olimpico!
Although Chang Sheng did not speak, he used this action to express his confidence to the fans that the Super Cup champion is our Lazio! (To be continued...)
