Player trades are sometimes a race against time, and if Giovanni Gurry had received Parma's offer beforehand, Prato would probably not have been a big deal. www.biquge.info So after Chen Lin inquired about Gali's residence, he drove over overnight with Colvesi and other people from the transfer department.

Along the way, Chen Lin predicted all kinds of difficulties in his heart, such as the level of the Prato club is too low, it is difficult to provide a high annual salary, etc., but he did not expect that after arriving at the destination, the conversation with Gali was surprisingly smooth.

And the reason for all this is Ghalry's origin. Born in Pisa, Tuscany, Giovanni Galli grew up in the Florentine Academy, and don't think that nostalgia for his homeland is the preserve of the Chinese, and the Italians have a more serious sense of region. Historically, Italy was divided into dozens of large and small countries after the fall of the Roman Empire, and it was not until the second half of the 19th century that it was reunited. Since the Middle Ages, the Tuscany region has been under the rule of the Grand Duchy of Florence for most of the time and has a strong independence. The language, food and customs of the people here are different from those of other parts of Italy, which makes the fans and players in this region very exclusive.

Gary is 36 years old, and he doesn't need to be told that he knows he's entering the final years of his career. The goalkeeper position has a strong peculiarity, most of the goalkeepers of each team are a turnip and a pit, after leaving Turin, he can only be a substitute no matter which first division team he goes to. For him, whether it is the World Cup (82), or the Serie A title, or the European Champions Cup, he has won them all, from the perspective of a player, he has won almost all the honors. So he doesn't need to be attached to a big team at the end of his career to fight for glory.

So what's the difference between playing as a substitute in Parma and playing as a substitute in Prato? Being able to return to his hometown to play football in the later years of his career and enjoy the love of his hometown fans is something that many players dream of. As for the salary, although Prato can't pay as much salary as the giants like Torino and Parma, because if a substitute goalkeeper is offered a salary several times higher than the main team, what do you make the people who work the field think, Chen Lin still found a workaround, he promised to make Galli the team's part-time goalkeeper coach, and then give him another salary. Although the income is still not as good as joining those first-division teams, it is not much different.

And Gary is also very happy with this arrangement, at least he will not be idle in the Prato team, and he can officially transfer to the team's coaching staff after retiring in the future. He doesn't have a few years to play, he has to think about his future livelihood, and being able to move from player to coach is naturally one of the best ways out.

Moreover, Prato is not as unknown as Chen Lin imagined, and has become the biggest dark horse in the Italian Cup as a third-division team for two consecutive seasons, making Prato famous in the whole of Italy, and in the past two years, due to the sinking of Fiorentina, Prato's excellent results have gradually been mentioned by many media in Tuscany, which also makes Prato faintly become one of the representatives of Tuscany regional football.

Born here and living here, Giovanni Gurry is not unaware of the Prato team, and the fact that Prato can play in the European Cup Winners' Cup next season is very attractive to many players.

So on the hot iron, Chen Lin invited Galli to Prato Club the next day to sign a formal player contract and a goalkeeper coach contract (because Galli himself is a former member of the Italian national team and has been in the industry for more than 15 years, he does not need to take an exam and is born with C-level coach qualifications).

In this way, Prato's squad for the new season is basically complete, and the next step is the team's run-in and tactical drills.

Before that, though, Prato has a few more commercial games to go through. Since Shen Yan moved into the Prato marketing department, he has been gradually expanding Prato's influence according to his own package. This includes commercial competitions, and although Prato is still only a Serie B team, it is no less well-known in China. And Shen Yan has always grasped Prato's "Chinese background" as the core value of commercial promotion, so it is natural to expand the team's influence in China. The team's first two warm-up matches of the new season will be held in China, against BJ Guoan and GD Hongyuan, which have become professional leagues.

BJ Guoan is a strategic partner of Prato in China, and the two sides have a series of cooperation such as information exchange, player exchange and sending coaches to learn, and playing a commercial game during the break between seasons is naturally one of the contents. Since the video of last season's game in Prato has been exclusively broadcast by GD Channel, if you want to choose one of the most influential regions in Prato in the country, it is undoubtedly the South China region covered by GD Sports Channel.

So the impact of this game is greater than the game with the BJ Guoan team, two months before the game, the GD Hongyuan team only slightly released the wind, and the tickets were snatched up in two days, so that the leaders of some provincial and municipal organs in GD Province also had to find the senior management of the Hongyuan club to get votes, and the Hongyuan senior management who underestimated the situation was so worried that they almost pulled their hair.

In addition to expanding the influence in the hearts of Chinese fans, Prato's trip to China also made a lot of money. The match with the Beijing Guoan team was okay, because the two sides are in a cooperative relationship, so Prato quoted a friendship price of 100,000 pounds. This price seems to be a lot, and Prato's air tickets and accommodation to China are the responsibility of Beijing Guoan Club, but in fact, a little calculation can be concluded that the ticket price of the 1994 A League is about 10 yuan ~ 20 yuan, and the ticket price of this kind of commercial competition is generally more expensive, can be sold for 25 yuan ~ 30 yuan a piece. With the capacity of 70,000 people in the Beijing Workers' Stadium, the home of the Guoan team, as long as the attendance rate reaches more than 60%, it is enough to protect the capital, but in fact, less than a week after the opening of ticket sales, the tickets have long been sold out, and it is conservatively estimated that the Guoan Club has made a net profit of more than 700,000 yuan in this game.

As for the match with Guangdong Hongyuan team, because it was Hongyuan Club who took the initiative to send an invitation, Prato gave a normal offer of 150,000 pounds. Because the capacity of the Guangdong Provincial Stadium, the home of the Hongyuan team, is not as large as that of the Gongti, Hongyuan naturally does not earn as much as Guoan, but the income in Guangdong is generally higher, and Hongyuan sold the average price of a ticket to more than 50 yuan, but it did not lose money.