Two days later, the new issue of Sports Weekly published a long newsletter entitled "Chinese in Italy" on the front page, and opened a column called "Prato Documentary" in the third edition of the European football news area, each issue telling a short story of the Chinese in Prato. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info immediately attracted people's attention, at this time the Internet has not yet risen, and even computers have not yet been popularized, newspapers are still the main way for people to understand the outside world. As soon as the two articles of "Sports Weekly" came out, the sales of the current issue exceeded 250,000 copies.

Although at this time, "Sports Weekly" was not the football sports newspaper that dominated the country later, it already had a good influence in Central and South China. Many domestic fans began to know that there is a small city called Prato in Italy, there is a football club run by Chinese, and there is a group of Chinese chasing football dreams there.

However, Chen Lin, who was far away, didn't know all this, he was having a headache about other things.

Entering December, the team's performance is still stable, although it did not play the proud record of seven wins in November, but it also remained unbeaten with two wins and one draw, and continued to lead the ranking of Group B of League C and II. However, attrition was inevitable at this time, starting with the team's main striker Bassalino being severely violated in the away game against San Marco, resulting in a medial ankle fracture and requiring at least two to three months of rest, and then Materazzi was sent off for a serious foul at home to San Giovanni and was unavailable for the next two rounds.

The importance of the former and last two players to the team is undoubted, although Materazzi has not changed his hot temper this season, but with his outstanding physical fitness, he has always been at the top of the steals list in League C 2; Although Barcelona Lino does not score as many goals as Yang Chen, his height of 194cm and excellent header have always been an important tactical supplement to the team. After the game that was forced to draw by San Giovanni, it can be seen that due to the loss of Barsalino, Yang Chen's offensive pressure suddenly increased a lot, and in order to compete for the landing point, he often had to engage in hand-to-hand combat with those experienced Italian defenders, which is obviously not what the 18-year-old is good at.

Fortunately, after the match against San Giovanni on the 20th, the team entered the winter break, and there was no resumption of the competition until January 10, and the team still has a way to think about it.

Chen Lin thought of the tall figure of the youth team, which was picked up cheaply when he went to Modena to complete the Doni deal. However, he was born in 1977 and is only 15 years old now, and he may have to wait two years.

Since there is no potential in the team, there is only reinforcement. Just as Chen Lin was carefully searching in his mind for a list of stars who would become famous in the future, head coach Cuoko proposed a candidate, which immediately attracted Chen Lin's attention.

"Christian is the best player I've ever coached, he came out of Prato, it's a pity that Torino already has Enzo? Sifo, Carlos? Aguilera and ****** Casagrande, who couldn't play in Turin at all, had some conflicts with the manager the other day, and the Torino team had a deliberate abandonment of him......"

Chen Lin's eyes suddenly lit up after figuring out who Cuoko was talking about. It's no wonder that after this season, Torino will let him go to Ravenna, who is still in the first of the year. This transfer, dubbed by Torino fans as "the decision of the top ten idiots in team history", made the Bulls regret it for two decades.

When Chen Lin and the others approached the Torino team, the Torino team was planning to rent out Chen Lin and their target, so it didn't take much effort for the Torino team to agree to the deal, and the key now depends on the player's wishes.

It can be seen that the protagonist respects Cuoko, and the two should have kept in touch all the time, after Dao Ming's intentions, Chen Lin did not let Cuoke play the emotional card as soon as he came up, but preemptively said: "Christian, we are meeting for the first time, but I have been following you for a long time." In my eyes you are the perfect core of the team in my heart, you come from Prato and have the ability to become a world-class player, I didn't contact you before because Prato is still too low, but when I heard the news that you might leave Torino, Coach Tsoko and I immediately came. ”

"Maybe you have to say that even if you leave Torino, you can still join other teams, if you can't go to the first division, you can go to the second division, and you won't be reduced to playing in the fourth division. But I would say, that's what you're aiming for? Is your goal to play in the second division? ”

"No, Christian, your goal should be to be a world star, but now that you're twenty years old, you've been in Turin for three years, what you need now is a game, a stage to prove yourself."

"Christian, you need to be the heart of the team, and you can only really show what you can do if the whole team plays around you, even if you can play in a second division team next season, but you are sure that you will get a chance to play? Even if you can play as a main player, it will take you at least a season to adapt to the team, right? So when will you really shine and be favored by the giants? ”

"But if you join Prato everything is different, there is the manager who knows you best, there are teammates who have worked well with you, there are the stadium and living environment that you know best, although we are still in the second place this season, but now after 17 rounds, we are nine points ahead of the second place, if you join again, we will definitely qualify directly. But I'm not here to get promoted, even next season's League I don't put it in my eyes, our goal is the second division, it's the first division, if you don't believe it, you can go back to Prato and have a look, this is the first season I've taken over, and I've invested more than a billion lira in the team. I can sign you to a contract, and if we can't get promoted to the second division next season, I can let you go without a lire transfer fee, so it's really just a year late to get into the second division, and the future could be bright. ”

But the object of Chen Lin's words at this time was silent, and after a long time, he raised his head and said, "Sir, your words really make me very moved, I think I need to think about it." ”

Chen Lin and Cuoke glanced at each other and nodded slowly.

Two days later, Chen Lin received a positive reply, and I have to say that Cuoke played a big role in this. Prato then signed a loan-to-buy deal with Torino, under which Prato will cover all the remaining wages of the loaned player for the season and pay 8 million lira (about 8,000 pounds) in rent, and at the end of the season, Prato will pay another 200 million lira (about 200,000 pounds) in the transfer fee, which is also the largest in the history of Prato.

Although he paid a lot, Chen Lin couldn't help but be happy in his heart, just for that name: Christian. Vieri.