Chapter 45: Another Divine Blade

"Coach Spalletti, it's an honor to meet you!" As soon as the short bald head walked into the restaurant, he found that Chen Lin was already respectfully waiting at the door, which made him very flattered, and he hurriedly bowed his head and saluted: "How dare you do this!" “

That's right, Chen Lin is looking to replace Tsoko as the head coach for the new season. Spalletti. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 At this time, Spalletti was still a youth coach of the Empoli team, and his first time as a head coach was not until 1995, when he took over the helm of Empoli as an assistant coach by chance, and then, under his coaching, Empoli rose all the way to the first division for the second time in the team's 100th century. And Spalletti began his legendary coaching career! But Chen Lin is ready to rewrite history again!

At heart, Spalletti is a very human coach. Otherwise, he would not have gotten along well with so many club presidents, and every club he left was full of praise, and Roma even invited him to take the reins twice. He took the initiative to invite Chen Lin to sit down first to show the difference in status, which made Chen Lin very satisfied. Due to the problems of Chinese players, he is bound to be unable to just be the boss like other chairmen, and he will definitely interfere with the coach's employment when necessary, for example, the coach has let a young Chinese player sit on the bench for a long time, in his opinion, the team's results are secondary, and the primary purpose of his buying the club is to train Chinese players, but this is not something that ordinary coaches can bear.

"Coach Spalletti, I wonder if you've heard anything about Coach Tsoko?"

With a bald head, Spalletti's face instantly turned gloomy, and he nodded: "I heard it, it's really sad news, Mr. Tsoko is a very good coach, there is a lot to learn from me, I really hope he recovers soon." “

"Thank you, and I'm sure Coach Tsoko will be very happy to hear that Coach Spalletti has so much respect for him. However, I am here to formally invite you to take over the position of Coach Tsoko as Head Coach of Prato! “

Although Spalletti had expected it for a long time, he still couldn't help but feel refreshed when he heard Chen Lin's words, what young coach doesn't dream of becoming the head coach of a team one day? However, he was still a little hesitant by nature: "I don't know how you know about me?" “

Hearing Spalletti's words, Chen Lin groaned slightly, and could only lie: "I pay more attention to the development of our youth team, I have watched several matches between them and Empoli youth team before, and I am deeply impressed by Coach Spalletti's command level. “

Spalletti found it a little weird, but it made sense, and he couldn't help but praise: "Prato's under-17 team is really an unbeatable team, with players in almost every position so talented, and I believe they will shine in the future." “

Chen Lin smiled slightly, knowing that he was talking about the teenagers of the Jianlibao team and the few seedlings he recruited into the youth team last season: "These children are still Puyu, and they still need to be polished carefully." There is an old Chinese saying that 'Maxima is often there, but Bole is not often', I wonder if Prato is fortunate enough to invite Mr. Spalletti as Bole? “

"But my home is in Empoli, and my family is used to life here." Spalletti clearly didn't want to reply so quickly.

"Prato is so close to Empoli that you don't even need to move. And don't you want to coach those talented kids? It's wonderful to single-handedly make them superstars. Besides, it's hard for Empoli to give you a chance right now, and the manager's position is not often available! “

Hearing this, Spalletti was silent for a long time, and finally nodded and looked at Chen Lin: "Okay, you really convinced me, I hope to follow your guidance more in the future." “

In mid-June 1993, Prato announced the new head coach of the club, and the club would invite Empoli youth coach Luciano. Spalletti took over as head coach of the team.

Previously, Prato invited Dunga in a high-profile manner, which shocked the entire Tuscany region, thinking that Prato must be successful this season, and even achieving a double jump into the second division is not impossible. However, after the accident of the head coach Tsoko, Prato invited such a young coach who is not good-looking and unknown, so that the media in Tuscany can look at the decline, and you can know from Spalletti's resume that he only mentioned the third division when he was a player, which shows that the level is average, and he has not followed any Italian coach after becoming a coach, but only taught children in Empoli's youth team for a few days, how can people have confidence in such a "three-no" coach? As a result, most of the media are speculating that with Chen Lin's strength, if Prato does not do well, Spalletti will be out of class in a few rounds.

However, Chen Lin didn't have the heart to pay attention to what these media thought at this time, and he was now headache with another matter. The deal with Empoli seems to be hopeless, so it will have to find another replacement for Vieri and Yang Chen, although Chen Lin has been caring about the Prato youth team recently, and occasionally found Christian in the 17~19-year-old youth team. The name Rigano only found out that the Prato team still has such a treasure hidden. However, this 191cm tall high school striker who helped Fiorentina climb out of the abyss in the future is a famous late bloomer, who only played his first professional league game at the age of 26, and now his CA value is simply miserable, only 49, if it weren't for the 154 PA value, Chen Lin almost thought that he recognized the wrong person.

So although Chen Lin gave him a contract, he didn't expect him to help the team next season, he looked at another super god who had not yet been discovered by the world.

Filipe Inzaghi, one of Italy's most efficient strikers in the next two decades, does not have the skill of Baggio, the body of Vieri, and the lightning speed of Ronaldo, but he has only relied on his ability to grasp opportunities in front of goal and his diligence and love of football to become one of the world's top strikers.

Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti once praised Inzaghi: "Vieri has incredible power, Thierry Henry has incredible speed, but Pippo has incredible shots. He is the true king of the exclusion zone".

Juventus coach Lippi said of Inzaghi: "He is a threat from head to toe because he can shoot with any part of his body".

United boss Alex Ferguson said Inzaghi was "born on the offside line" and that "one second of negligence was enough for him [Inzaghi] to score and make you regret it for the rest of your life." ”

Pele commented that Inzaghi "is not so much a striker as a ghost".

Milan Sport newspaper commented on Inzaghi after his 17 hat-tricks: "Elven goalscorer, unpredictable running, tireless running, incredible point-grabbing." ”

However, the news that Colvesi brought back from the Piacenza club disappointed Chen Lin again. Last season, Inzaghi was loaned by Piacenza to League C1 club Lefe, where he scored 13 goals in 21 appearances but failed to impress Piacenza in the slightest. This season, Piacenza was promoted from the second division to the first division, but he did not have the slightest intention of recruiting Inzaghi back, but intended to loan him to the second division Verona club, which shows that there is no place for Inzaghi in the team.

While some of Piacenza's Academy coaches are unanimously optimistic about Inzaghi's future, they now need the immediate force to help them stay in the first division, and Piacenza is a small city of more than 70,000 people whose economy has never been very good. So when Colvesi offered to buy half of Inzaghi's ownership for £50, Piacenza quickly agreed, firstly because they did lack the funds now, and they themselves intended to rent Inzaghi out, and secondly, if Inzaghi was really a buildable material, it would be easy for them as a first-division club to reclaim Inzaghi from a third-tier team like Prato.

However, Chen Lin secretly snickered after knowing the news, he knew Piacenza's future experience very clearly, although he was barely promoted to the first division, but because of the lack of strength, they will return to the second division next season, at that time, most of the Prato was also promoted to the second division, and they were also in the second division, so it was difficult to say who was afraid of whom......

However, what Chen Lin didn't expect was that when he asked the players for their wishes, he got stuck here with Inzaghi. Although Piacenza was so sad that he had even moved to leave Piacenza, even if he did, he felt that he should join a higher-level club, and it was clear that Prato, who were in the third division, was not on his radar.