Prato's 3-2 victory over First Division rivals Foggia in an almost hearty battle sent Prato and the entire Tuscan media into a frenzy, who even forgot about the slap they had been slapped, and reported the victory all over the place. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

With Fiorentina relegated this season, Tuscany has one of the best football atmospheres in Tuscany without a single team, leaving many local newspapers at a loss for what to write every week to attract readers. And just two days ago, in the fourth round of the Coppa Italia, Fiorentina were eliminated by the first division side Roma, making Prato the only remaining seed in Tuscany's Coppa Italia.

By the end of the first half of the winter break, Prato was unbeaten in Group A of the first division of the third division with 15 wins and two draws, nine points ahead of second-placed Perugia. In fact, with Prato's second team playing in the third league, people don't know what kind of accident can prevent Prato from being promoted to the second division.

In the C Cup, Prato also won all four games and entered the round of 16 as the group leader.

'Vieri scored a hat-trick in the first division and was really sad for Prato's opponents in the third division.

"It's too bullying to put Prato in the C division, they can go and play the first division." The Tuscan day complains in a tone similar to that of Desser.

"Unless there is another Supega air disaster, no one can stop Prato from escalating." Relations between southerners and northerners have never been very good, and Tuscans don't mind teasing them with the sadness of the Turineans.

However, Chen Lin has not been focusing on the club recently, after dividing the functions and powers of various departments, he is much more relaxed than before, as long as he is sure of the general direction, he has invested his energy on another thing - to obtain a football coaching certificate. For this purpose, he deliberately enrolled in the correspondence course of the Rome Institute of Physical Education. This summer, Chen Lin has a re-examination of himself, due to the influence of background, education, pattern and other aspects, he determined that he is not a talent in financial enterprises, but he is not willing to be mediocre, now he has Prato as a platform, he feels that he must do something. When, by chance, he sat at the back of the Prato dugout and watched Spalletti deploy his troops, command the opposing team, and defeat the opponent's team, he suddenly had an impulse in his heart, this is the job he yearns for.

And then, after some rational analysis, he determined his own thoughts. First of all, he is also from a sports background, and he can more or less touch the class, and he is only in his twenties, even if he starts from scratch, it is not too late to learn; Secondly, he has a future Italian coach like Spalletti around him to learn and consult, and the whole Prato to observe and practice, which is undoubtedly a huge help to the growth of his coaching level; Finally, he also has that incomparably magical computer, the database in the computer records in detail the detailed information of every professional player in every professional team in the world, which allows him not only to "know himself" very clearly, but also to "know the enemy" without any problems, and completely sit on the opportunity to anticipate the enemy. Is there anything more powerful for a coach than the talent of "knowing oneself and knowing oneself"?

Therefore, since the beginning of the season, as long as Prato plays at home, Chen Lin will definitely choose the stadium seat closest to the coach's box to "watch the game", so that he can learn Spalletti's method of commanding the team nearby, and he usually spends more time on the sidelines to observe the team's training. The reason why he didn't sit directly in the dugout without the title of assistant coach was that no one had done this, and secondly, he was afraid that Spalletti had ideas, and it would be a burden for the players to do so. However, an unexpected benefit is that his appearance so often makes the team's originally somewhat loose atmosphere because of the winning streak much more tense, and no one wants to perform badly in front of the team owner.

The arrival of the winter break has finally allowed the team to take a breather, and although the winning streak has put the players on their backsadd, it is actually quite stressful. And Chen Lin also received an invitation letter from afar on this day, Shen Yan planned the first "Prato Cup" national youth football match in China, after half a year of planning, it will start on January 2, and the Chinese Football Association invited Chen Lin to attend the opening ceremony of the game.

Chen Lin, who had great hopes for this competition, naturally agreed. After more than ten hours on the plane, he successfully fended off BJ International Airport.

In addition to the staff of the Football Association and the staff of the Prato domestic office, Chen Lin was greeted by Liu Wenxiong, the general manager of BJ Guoan Club.

Founded at the end of last year, BJ Guoan Football Club is the earliest professional club established in Chinese mainland, and it is also the only professional football team in the Chinese Football Professional League that has never changed its owner. Its predecessor was the football team of BJ Xiannongtan Sports and Labor Brigade, and Liu Wenxiong was the secretary of the Party Committee of Xiannongtan Sports and Labor Brigade at that time, so he served as the first general manager of the club when the club was established.

The Hongshankou Conference in 1992 has determined that Chinese football should be professionally reformed, especially the Party Central Committee attaches great importance to this area. Reform and opening up has broadened people's horizons and ideas, through more comparisons and exchanges with the world's mainstream sports, people feel more and more that China's sports organization and management, can not keep up with the drastic changes in the economy and society and the vigorous development of the sports industry, especially with the increasing number of sports exchanges, foreign advanced sports concepts and professional sports training, competition, management, operation mode soon spread to China, football was taken as a breakthrough in the reform of the first to put into the market. Therefore, since last year, from top to bottom, under the guidance of layers of politics, a large number of "professional" clubs have been established across the country.

And this year's defeat to Irbid, the invited Schlapner proved that he is not a foreign immortal, and the call for Chinese football to rely on self-reliance sounded again, and the launch of the professional league has become an imminent and impatient thing. Therefore, under the Football Association's "concerted efforts" and "fighting day and night", in less than half a year, a complete set of regulations, systems and rules of the professional league have been established, including the famous "delisting and transfer system" in the future, "12 seconds to measure the line of life and death", etc., and the domestic league is also allowed to join foreign aid for the first time.

As the saying goes, people must ask for something, and Liu Wenxiong came to greet Chen Lin precisely for this matter.

The A professional league has been determined to officially start in February next year, at this time, the head coach of the SH Shenhua team, Xu Ganbao, has led people into the north of the desert of Russia, it is said that three strong Russian foreign aid has been selected to join. SH and BJ, as China's two economic, cultural and political centers, have always been unique in various fields, how can the BJ team, as the representative of northern football, see itself lagging behind? However, due to some objective factors, the BJ Guoan Club at this time really had no way to deal with foreign affairs, and it is difficult for later generations to imagine how China tore apart the closed fields little by little at that time. This is also why, when other clubs were dominating foreign players, BJ Guoan Club did not bring in its first foreign player until 1996.

In the end, the senior management of BJ Guoan Club thought of a good relationship with Prato Club last year because of Yang Chen's transfer. In fact, Yang Chen can be regarded as the first agricultural altar physical labor brigade single-handedly cultivated, although there is no professional contract in this era, but there are organizational relationships and archives, which in China is sometimes better than professional contracts, at that time, few people have the courage to abandon these things, Yang Chen is no exception. However, the BJ football team considered that there was already a combination of Gao Feng and Gao Hongbo in the team, and there was indeed no position for Yang Chen, so in the end they did not make it difficult for Yang Chen, and even the training fee was not let out of the Prato Club, which can be regarded as a solid sale of Chen Lin's favor.

Therefore, Chen Lin also showed enthusiasm when he saw Liu Wenxiong, in China, his foundation can be said to be similar to nothing, no matter how Liu Wenxiong says, it is equivalent to a department-level cadre, multiple friends and many roads, multiple enemies and many walls, Chen Lin still understands. What's more, among many clubs in China, Chen Lin's impression of BJ Guoan can be said to be relatively good, in that era of buying players and bribing referees to control the results of the game, BJ Guoan Club has never had a big scandal, and has always insisted on promoting its own youth players, insisting on focusing on itself, which is also a rare clear stream in the big quagmire of Chinese football.

Therefore, when Liu Wenxiong vaguely proposed that he hoped that the Prato club could help introduce several excellent European foreign players to join BJ Guoan, Chen Lin did not refuse. In any way, Prato and he need to find an ally in the country. However, he has other plans for foreign aid: "Brother Liu, I don't know what BJ Guoan's budget for foreign languages is?" ”

Liu Wenxiong groaned slightly, and then slowly spit out and said: "We are also crossing the river by feeling the stones, I don't know how much salary is appropriate, and the tentative price is 800 US dollars per person per month." ”

Chen Lin sighed in his heart when he heard this, he knew that Liu Wenxiong was not lying, and Fan Zhiyi, who had the highest salary for A players at this time in history, was only 2,500 yuan per month. However, at this price, not to mention inviting excellent European professional foreign aid, even ordinary professional foreign aid may not be able to be hired, at best, a few European amateur players are invited. Therefore, Chen Lin could only say tactfully: "Brother Liu, foreign players come to play in our China, to put it bluntly, it is for the word 'money', the living conditions in Europe are good, the consumption level is high, and even the salary of ordinary players is not low." I wonder if you've ever considered South American players? “

Liu Wenxiong nodded: "We naturally know the level of South American football, but we are not afraid of the jokes of our brothers, we are even more blind over there - a smear, there is no way." ”

Chen Lin finally threw out his purpose at this time: "Our club has signed scouts in South America, and we have also found a few good seedlings, so it depends on whether Brother Liu believes me?" “

Liu Wenxiong had a heartiness of a northerner: "Brother, what you said, I don't believe you are still looking for you?" It's just the seedlings you found, willing to cut love? “

Chen Lin said with a smile at this time: "It's not a matter of reluctance, my club's foreign aid quota has already been set, and all of them must be reserved for Chinese players, and those good players in South America can only watch and eat." “

Liu Wenxiong listened to Chen Lin's words, and immediately stood in awe, how difficult it is to build a football club, he has already initially realized that in order to maintain competitiveness in the Chinese league, it is still necessary to introduce foreign aid. In the highly competitive league environment in Europe, you can only bring in Chinese players, and you don't know how difficult it is to get mixed up.

"This is a person with a real sense of responsibility for Chinese football!" Many years later, in a casual conversation, Liu Wenxiong made such an evaluation of Chen Lin. Since this conversation between Chen Lin and Liu Wenxiong, the relationship between the two sides, which was originally just a pure interest relationship, has begun to transform into a relationship of sincere cooperation.