Mark. Iuliano, the future Juventus centre-back, helped the team win four Serie A trophies, and was one of Italy's main centre-backs, playing in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups and Euro 2000. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 This is a typical Juventus-style player, who looks old and quiet, but has a very high defensive efficiency, often successfully intercepting the opponent's attack with excellent judgment and positioning, and is known as the best marking central defender in Italy at his peak.

It's just that at this time, the 21-year-old is facing a fourth change of ownership. With Monza already relegated to the third division and the termination clause in the contract signed by Giuliano with Monza, it took little effort for Prato to make a deal with Monza and buy him for 1 billion lira (£500,000). Historically, Iuliano was at a low point in his life, changing clubs three times in three years, which was not a good reputation in any way, and in the end it was his parent team, Salerno, who reluctantly accepted him, but this time Prato took advantage of it.

Iuliano has been known in history as the poor version of Nesta, which shows that his technical style is also "soft", with outstanding defensive awareness, accurate help and man-marking skills. Don't underestimate the defensive skill of marking, he is almost a "soft" defender. In fact, most excellent strikers know how to wander in the shadow of the defender's sight, and more powerful forwards will also take the initiative to look for opportunities to get out of the guard's control, such as sudden acceleration of the switchback run, a wide range of cross transpositions, etc., which requires the defender to turn on the antenna radar in his head, and always be aware of the position of the opponent's striker. And predict what the opposing striker might do next. Therefore, any defender with excellent marking skills must have a very good sense of defense, and Iuliano is such an excellent defender.

In addition, in general, defenders with excellent defensive awareness do not necessarily have excellent physical qualities, and other aspects may be fine, but the competition for high balls often becomes a fatal weakness for these defenders. However, the 187cm tall Iuliano does not have such a problem, on the contrary, his header is also very good, which is lacking in many "soft" defenders.

This is somewhat similar to Ayala's style, but although the "combination of rigidity and softness" on the back line is the best match, the slight difference is that two "strong" defenders are prone to vulnerabilities when combined, while two "soft" defenders can often produce a good combination, unless it is a top striker like Vieri who is extremely unphysically buggy. In fact, although Ayala and Iuliano are classified as "soft" defenders, their physical fitness is not bad at all, so with the rotation of Iuliano, the position of Prato's central defender in the new season is at least guaranteed to be stable, and will not be randomly pierced.

Another jewel found by Chen Lin is Hellas Verona's young midfielder Damiano Tomasi. The 20-year-old was born into a family of avid fans in the Italian town of Verona. But as a child, he never imagined to become a soccer player. At that time, his ideal was to inherit his father's craftsmanship and become an excellent marble craftsman. His father was a well-known craftsman in Verona. Pieces of ordinary marble have been polished and carved by him to become all kinds of works of art. Damiano Tomasi loved to watch his father at work, how he created, how he gave new life to cold stones.

Football is just a hobby attached to Damiano Tomasi, which allows him to meet friends, open spaces on the street, school playgrounds, yards of partners' houses, as long as there is a relatively flat open space and a leather ball, it is the happiest time for him and his friends. As a child, he enjoyed football, he didn't care about winning or losing, he just chased the ball and ran to his heart's content, the only thing he had to worry about was not to kick and break the glass on other people's windows, so he didn't think about joining any academy.

However, those open spaces gave him his first skills, and he began to stand out, first when his friends rushed to ask him for a side, then when he started playing official games for the school, until Verona's scouts spotted him during a chance match, and then at the age of 18, he became a member of the Verona team.

However, at that time, the head coach of Verona looked down on Tomasi, who was born in wild football, and thought that he had no physical qualities but no brains, which was incorrigible in the eyes of the Italian coach who paid the most attention to tactical training. So he didn't play at all in the first year, and last season, he only got single-digit plays, which left Thomas with no vision for the future. In fact, if Hellas Verona hadn't changed their manager for next season, perhaps Tomasi would have really made a great marblemaker.

However, when the people from Prato's transfer department approached Verona, Verona president Pastorerello was not very willing to sell Tomasi, and it was he who recruited Tomasi into the team in the first place, and he still admired Tomasi's talent. It's just that his head coach has vowed to reassure him that players like Tomasi are picking up a lot of players in Italy, and his team has no shortage of such players at all.

Seeing that Verona refused not simply, Chen Lin decisively increased the price, anyway, after selling Pexoto, Yang Chen and Fan Zhiyi, the club earned more than 3 million pounds in transfer fees, even if it paid 1.1 million pounds for Piacenza, 550,000 for Empoli, 500,000 for Monza, and 900,000 pounds, plus the remaining funds from last season, Prato has 1.4 million pounds on its books. And next season's package tickets are about to start pre-sale, although the ticket price has risen to £10 a game again, but according to the popularity of the Prato market, the marketing staff are optimistic about the pre-sale volume.

So Chen Lin shouted an offer for the first time, and finally bought Tomasi for 850,000 pounds, which is quite high in the second division club deal. But Chen Lin didn't care at all, because Tomasi's CA/PA value was impressively 138/175, which is almost the level of a first-division player, and if Prato bought a midfielder of this level from a first-division team, he would definitely not be able to get it without 1 million pounds.

The technical characteristics of Tomasi are also a useful supplement to Prato, although Tomasi, who is known as the lungs of Rome in the future, is considered a midfielder most of the time, but in fact he is not Dunga, Li Tie This sweeping defensive back, although his defensive ability is also very strong, but his outstanding feature is mainly reflected in the ability to go back and forth between the two penalty areas vertically, in fact, the coverage width of the defense is average. His characteristics are more like that of a central midfielder, mainly ensuring that he defends in the middle and is responsible for suppressing the opponent's organizational core. In fact, all of Tomasi's abilities are based on his comprehensive skills, physical strength and strong ability to read the game, the three talents, defensive he can press in the front court, without worrying about losing position, because the strong game reading ability allows him to grasp the timing of the grab very well, which allows him to often fight for the team in the front court, and when attacking, because of his abundant physical strength and strong ability to read the game, he can often participate in the team's frontcourt attack," Teams with Tomasi tend to feel like one more person in both offense and defense. This is the most vivid evaluation of Tomasi, and this makes Tomasi often an offensive and defensive fulcrum for the team in the front court.

There is no one set of tactics that can take the whole world, and Prato will have to absorb players of all styles if they want to go far on several fronts, and the addition of Tomasi will undoubtedly give Spalletti more tactical options.