Chapter 32 Old Friends and Master and Disciple (One Hundred and Five/One Hundred and Thirty-Four)

After the Champions League ended, it was the seventh round of the league, and Lazio met Fiorentina.  m

This was a contest between a master and a disciple.

In fact, it was not a master and a disciple in the strict sense, because although Stramaccioni had worked in Lazio for many years, he had always been an independent youth training camp director and did not work directly under Changsheng. Changsheng had never taught him anything. He was able to be the head coach of the first team entirely because he led the Lazio youth training camp and performed well in the European Youth Champions Cup.

So he was noticed by other teams.

He once coached Inter Milan, and left Inter Milan after a high start and a low end.

Later, he was unemployed and rested at home for a year, and then came out to coach Fiorentina again.

The coaching in Fiorentina was much smoother.

Perhaps the failure in Inter Milan gave him valuable experience.

Saying that Changsheng and he were a master and disciple was purely a gimmick hyped by the media.

And it is much simpler to say this than to explain the relationship between the two in detail.

So whether Stramaccioni is willing or not, everyone now thinks that Changsheng is his teacher and he is Changsheng's apprentice.

Stramaccioni has also answered this question before, and he seems very open-minded in this regard.

"He can be said to be my teacher, there is no problem with that."

But in fact, it may 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 head coaches of both sides will get together for a drink.

But Changsheng and Stramaccioni do have this habit.

When Stramaccioni coached Inter Milan before, he played against Changsheng, and Changsheng never showed mercy. So Stramaccioni never beat Changsheng once.

Of course, this is also related to his limited level. When he coached Inter Milan, Inter Milan's performance was not very good.

Later, after he arrived in Florence, he played against Changsheng. Both sides won and lost.

On the one hand, Lazio itself fell into a trough,

On the other hand, Stramaccioni himself matured a lot.

What will happen this time?

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In the seventh round of the league, Lazio played against Florence led by Stramaccioni at home.

Fiorentina, ranked fifth, challenged Lazio, ranked third, away. This can be regarded as a "strong dialogue", right?

But before the game, the atmosphere was very relaxed.

Stramaccioni joked with reporters during the pre-match press conference: "Don't set traps for me. I won't have a verbal battle with him. That would be a shame! I have played against Chang many times, but our relationship has always been good. I enjoy this feeling. The opponents on the court are opponents, and we are still good friends off the court."

The reporters naturally knew this, so the questions they asked were not aggressive, and they did not deliberately flatten one side and lift the other side.

Because they knew it was meaningless to do so.

In fact, at the beginning, when Stramaccioni just came out to coach Inter Milan, the media was keen to do so.

When Inter Milan, led by Stramaccioni, played against the ever-victorious Lazio for the first time, some media frantically provoked the relationship between the two and spread rumors.

Trying to incite hatred between each other. Then come a fierce game like Mars hitting the Earth.

Then the two sides turned against each other after the game, so that every time Stramaccioni and Changsheng played against each other in the future, everyone would have something to hype.

Of course, the game itself was indeed intense and exciting enough.

Since Changsheng coached 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 turning against each other that everyone expected did not happen.

After the game, Stramaccioni took the initiative to shake hands with Changsheng.

At the post-match press conference, the head coaches of both sides also praised each other, and there was absolutely no bad words.

Stramaccioni also revealed a detail, that is, after the game, when he went up to shake hands with Changsheng, Changsheng took the initiative to invite him to have a drink after the game.

All the rumors about the breakdown of the relationship between the two before the game were shattered.

Later, the media tried a few more times and found that they only saw the two people showing their love every time, so they gave up the idea.

Until now, there will be no media trying to sow discord between the two, and this will be used as a gimmick for the game.

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This game is no different from the previous confrontations.

For the football game itself, this is a very normal game.

There is no grudge between the two sides, and it is not a traditional dead end.

On the court, each relies on its own ability and hopes to win the game-this is the case in any game.

Fiorentina scored first in the game, and 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 training camp. When he was still in this position, he trained many useful young players for Lazio's first team.

Lazio fans also remember him well.

When Stramaccioni chose to fly solo, Lazio fans also sent their blessings.

When he encountered setbacks and failures in Inter Milan, Lazio fans also expressed their welcome to Stramaccioni's return to Lazio.

Stramaccioni expressed his gratitude to the Lazio fans at the time, 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, No big deal.

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After Fiorentina scored, they took the lead to end the first half.

Lazio made some adjustments in the second half, regained control of the situation, and became a greater threat to the goal.

Then Cavani turned around and hit the goal outside the penalty area, equalizing the score for Lazio.

At that moment, Wanda Stadium burst 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.

The head coaches from both teams continued the tradition of complimenting each other at the post-match press conference.

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 team. This kind of press conference is the most shameless I have ever participated in! I think that in the future, Lazio and Fiorentina will The press conference should be cancelled! We are not here to watch two people flatter each other!"

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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 game, 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.

Not only to look at their status, but more importantly to pay attention to their physical condition, for fear that they will get injured again.

On the last national team match day, I injured two people at once, and one of them was very seriously injured!

Fortunately, on this national team match day, Lazio players were not plagued by bad luck.

They all finished their national team matches without incident and returned to Formelo.

Chang Sheng let out a sigh of relief.

Lazio's current situation really can no longer withstand the torment of 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. The opponent was the South American team Colombia.

This is in preparation for the next two play-off games in November. Because the Chinese team's play-off opponent is Uruguay, a traditional South American powerhouse.

Ten years have passed, and Chinese football has made some progress, because many Chinese players can 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 wanted to see.

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 China's domestic league levels.

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 make it to the top ten of the Asian qualifiers...