January 9, 1940 was a special day for Lazio, as the team celebrated its 40th anniversary, and a baby was born in a traditional Lazio fan family in the city of Rome, named Craniotti. Many "Blue Eagle" fans will have such feelings www.biquge.info pen "Fun" Pavilion: This is God's arrangement, and it is destined to an indissoluble marriage between Craniotti and Lazio.

On 20 February 1992, Cragnotti took over the helm of Lazio and assumed the coveted presidency, a day that marked a turning point in his life and a glorious beginning for Lazio. In today's view, Kragnoti, who is almost self-made, always appears in public as a food tycoon and a business tycoon. Many people don't understand how he, who was in the period of strong business development and rising in life at that time, could take over the bad team of Lazio (Lazio has been hovering between Serie A and Serie B in the late 80s and early 90s of the last century, fighting for relegation every year, and was relegated for match-fixing), his answer is that he has a love for Lazio in his soul.

When it comes to running a football club, Craniotti has his own opinions, which have also been unprecedentedly successful. From joining Lazio in 1992 to leaving in 2003, Cragnotti has relied on the strong economic backing of the Cirio Group in the past 11 years, and has continued to buy powerful players, such as Gascoigne, Nedved, Veron, Crespo, Inzaghi Jr., Peruzzi, Salas, Vieri, Mihajlovich, Simeone, Mendieta and Stam have come to Rome City and become a member of the "Blue Eagles" camp, and Lazio has also gone from a relegation team to a European leader. In the 1999-2000 season, he reached the top of Serie A, and Craniotti's football career reached its peak. A hundred years of setbacks have forged Lazio and realized the dream of a skyrocketing dynasty, all of which is of course inseparable from Cragnoti, which seems to be fate.

Cragnotti has not only achieved great success in football, but also in business: the acquisition of the large multinational company Delmonte and the Brazilian cleaning company Bombril; After the acquisition of Royal Dutch Foods, it became a giant in the food industry. He has a unique thinking, innovative ideas, extraordinary courage and wisdom beyond ordinary people, when people are still talking about Abu's money strategy at Chelsea and Real Madrid's annual superstar policy, who would have thought that the pioneer of modern football "burning money" is Craniotti! It was the crazy introduction of hundreds of millions of dollars after he became the owner of Lazio that created a precedent for a lot of "burning money" in football.

Of course, it was 1993, but Craniotti couldn't contain his ambitions. Looking at the tape in front of him, he looked at the transfer manager Fao: "Someone recommended this player to me, what do you think?" ”

Fao is the old man before Cragnotti became the owner, and under Cragnoti's authority, he said with some caution: "There is a lot of potential, but the other club asks for a high price." ”

"I've heard about it, but do you think he's useful to us?" Craniotti pointed to the young players running as hard as he could, his eyes faintly at Fao, not knowing what he was thinking.

'He's got a lot of discipline, he's got a lot of fitness, he's got a good sense of defending, and if he grows up, he can be a big barrier in midfield, and there are very few players of that type in Italy right now. Fao tried to be as objective as possible in his opinion.

"Then buy him, Lazio's future is more than just an Alessandro. Nesta. 'For Craniotti, it's just buying a player, £500,000 doesn't make much difference with £1 million.

From great sorrow to great joy, Gianni Keda almost couldn't wait to go through the transfer procedures, judging from the figure of him taking everything and leaving the club, I am afraid that Prato will have one more mortal enemy in the future.

And with the departure of the players leaving, Prato's transfer plans for this season are also on the agenda. The first thing that needs to be added is the backline, with the retirements of Piertini and Colvesi leaving Prato's main right-back vacant, as well as a central defender who is not inferior to the main player.

Then there is the midfield, the departure of Padela has left Prato without a versatile midfielder, and in terms of forwards, Vieri and Yang Chen are naturally the main force that cannot be beaten, but they also need a substitute;

With these goals in mind, Prato's newly established departments began to operate at a high speed, but Chen Lin seemed to have a plan.

It was another hot summer day, and Pugli and the club's interpreter Sarria appeared in the club's office building with two young men with young faces. Sarria was a language teacher and life assistant hired by the club for Perón to help him deal with some problems that he could not adapt to in Italy, and was previously an Argentine student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. However, with Veron's rapid integration into the team, his mission was basically completed, and he has been following Pugli around South America for half a year.

Inspired by Veron's nationality, Chen Lin specially searched for some information, but did not know that 1/3 of Argentina's population is Italian blood, so many Argentine players are easy to apply for Italian passports, which also makes them pile up in the Italian league, Serie A Argentine players in the top 10 scorers, Orsi, who has the least output, also has 76 goals, Batistuta, Crespo, Seevori, and Balbo are members of the Serie A 100-goal Hall of Fame. It is worth mentioning that 9 of them are of Italian descent or hold Italian passports, and even Maradona, the only exception among them, has a very Italian surname, and it is difficult to say that the ancestor of the football king has nothing to do with Italy. It is no wonder that later generations said that Messi and Laveć had Italian blood, and that the Italian Football Federation had tried to invite them to join the Italian national team.

For a long time, because the quota of foreign aid has to be reserved for his compatriots, Chen Lin is very sorry for giving up the recruitment of South American players, you must know that it is a gold mine for players, just like the alien who is still nesting in Cruzeiro in Brazil at this time. Veron's example gave him a different path, and from then on, he deliberately asked Puglie to search for similar players in Argentina, and it really got him to find some, like Crespo.

However, the 18-year-old River Plate talent is clearly ambitious, and he is not yet looking down on a Serie C side like Prato. Chen Lin finally locked up the two, one of them was still staying in the Argentine second division team Talleres at this time, if the Argentine first division league because of teams like Boca Juniors and River Plate, the level is barely enough to be the second-rate league in Europe, the level of the second division is about the same as Serie C, and the other is limited by physical conditions, has been unknown, although from the Argentine first division club Western Railway, but has never been selected for the national youth team.

At this time, Argentina's economy has been in recession, and the income of players cannot catch up with European clubs, so Argentine players will go to Europe when they have the opportunity. After promising double salaries, Pugli easily persuaded the two young lads to sign an intention at the end of 1992, but because it took time for the two to apply for Italian citizenship, and Prato was preparing to bring in Fan Zhiyi and Ma Minyu at the time, the foreign aid quota was full, so the deal has only been delayed until now.

Prato paid no more than £350,000 for the two deals, including £100,000 for Telleres and £250,000 for Rail West. Although South American clubs are famous for their lions' mouths, these shrewd vampires also know how to watch people's dishes, if it is a European giant like Inter Milan and Real Madrid who fancy their players, the price is naturally slaughtered to death, after all, with a mature scouting system like Inter, you can look at your players, they must be unborn geniuses, and such giants are not bad for money. In their opinion, Prato is just a third-tier club in Italy, how much money can they have, and they are afraid of scaring people away by offering a sky-high price, especially Talleres, it is rare to have a European club runway A B to pick people, most of the time they only stare at Boca, River Plate and other A-League giants, so Talleres quoted such a price, Hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a young player who has only played for a season, they are already a black conscience offer. You must know that in October 1993, when Xu Ganbao went to the Russian Super League at the same level as the A-League, the highest offer made by Zenit for several foreign aides was $200,000 (equivalent to 150,000 pounds), and almost no foreign aid in the A-League was worth more than $200,000 in the entire 90s, and the money at this time was still very "sincere".

The Western Railway offer is slightly higher, they were originally going to let Prato have a counteroffer space, after all, Prato's defender is not a star player, and he hasn't seen any potential in his 20s, you must know that the atmosphere of Argentine football is very strong, and many talented players become famous very early, and they don't play out at the age of 20, so they can basically be closed. However, I didn't expect Prato to hear the offer, and he didn't even hesitate, and agreed to it, which made the Argentines sigh that European clubs are stupid and have a lot of money.

But on the other hand, after getting the news that Puglie signed two players, Chen Lin almost woke up laughing from his dreams, only he knows what kind of light these two 178cm guys will shine in the future Argentine national team and even world football.