Due to the lack of manpower, Prato has been invested in the transfer of players, after receiving the transfer offer from the Prato club, the Trento club and the Varese club are very surprised, but no one will get along with the money, for the departure of Toldo and Pesoto The two teams have long been prepared, so after a simple bargain, the two teams quickly approved the transfer application. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, there was a problem in the subsequent personal negotiations, Pexoto quickly signed a contract with Prato, it seems that Bologna has not found him at this time, but Toldo hopes to go to a higher league, and his negotiations with Ravenna have been going on for some time, but Ravenna is obviously not willing to pay the same price as Prato, so the negotiations stalled.

For this reason, Chen Lin decided to make a special trip to talk to Toldo more. It was the off-season of the Italian leagues at all levels, and Toldo returned to his home in Padua for a vacation.

When Chen Lin arrived in Padua under the leadership of Pugli, it was almost dark. Padua is an ancient northern Italian city and an important industrial and commercial city in the Italian region of Veneto. It is bordered by the Paquiglione River, 35 kilometers east of Venice. It is famous not only for the church of San Antonio, built in the 13th and 14th centuries, but also for the famous University of Padua in Europe. This university is the second oldest university in Italy after the University of Bologna. The university was founded in 1222 AD and has always enjoyed great prestige in medicine and anatomy. It is home to the oldest botanical garden in Europe.

Eventually, Chen Lin met Toldo himself at a café not far from Toldo. After a brief greeting, Chen Lin pointed to the topic: "Francisco, I know you are worried, but please believe that I am absolutely sincere in taking a six-hour drive here today." This is only the first year I've bought Prato, I'm very ambitious for the future of Prato, and you can tell from the offer I made to Trento that Prato will never be a fourth-tier team forever. ”

Toldo is a character who doesn't talk much, just listens silently, and there is no expression on his face.

Chen Lin glanced at it, and finally threw out his hole card: "Francisco, if you don't believe me, I can promise you that if Prato can't be promoted to the second division within two years, you can leave automatically without paying any liquidated damages, and we can write this into the contract." ”

At this time, Toldo was finally a little moved, and being promoted to the second division within two years means that Prato must jump two levels in a row, which is not something that can be done easily, this Chinese is so bold.

In fact, Toldo thought about the past Prado matter, in the transfer of players, the transfer of goalkeepers has great particularity, because the goalkeepers of each team are a carrot and a pit, and they will not be replaced easily. Therefore, despite Toldo's reputation, there are not many teams that actually invite him, and going to some big clubs to be the second or third goalkeeper is something that is not considered for him at the age of 21. The most important thing at his age is game time, and the importance of a club president to him is undoubtedly a good guarantee of this. So in this way, going to Prato is not necessarily a bad choice.

Under Chen Lin's expectant gaze, Toldo finally nodded: "I agree to join the Prato club." ”

Chen Lin was immediately overjoyed: "Happy cooperation!" ”

It's another sunny afternoon.

"Knock Knock ......"

"Please come in!" Chen Lin said without raising his head behind his desk.

"Sir, you have a letter from China!" Miss Ella walked in with a large envelope.

"Thank you!" Chen Lin took the envelope as he spoke, only to see that the Chinese Football Association was written on the cashier. Looking at it, Chen Lin couldn't help but smile slightly.

The content of the letter is long, but it can be summed up in one sentence: "We sincerely welcome Mr. Chen Lin, President of Prato Club, to China to inspect the Junior League!" ”

As early as after the acquisition of Prato Club was completed, Chen Lin sent a letter of invitation to the Chinese Football Association through official channels, along with a series of qualifications issued by the Italian Football Association.

The content of the letter roughly portrayed him as a successful person who was successful in business abroad and cared about the domestic football career, and touted Prato as a football club with a history of nearly 100 years, although it was in a low league, but it was brave and ambitious. The letter was earnest, claiming that he firmly believed that China, which has the world's largest population, must have the world's largest number of the best football seedlings, and that the Prato club headed by him sincerely hoped to carry out a comprehensive cooperation with the Chinese Football Association to hold a youth football trial in China, and the selected outstanding football talents will be provided with the opportunity to train with the club's youth team free of charge, and if the results are outstanding, they will also participate in the Italian under-17 youth football league with the team.

As soon as this letter came out, it immediately caused a great sensation within the Chinese Football Association. At this time, Chinese football is at a critical juncture of reform and transformation, and the Chinese Football Association, which has been using the old sports training model, began to pin its hopes on "take-it-or-leave-it" after suffering many heavy blows, and frantically admired the successful experience of Western football.

For the first time, Chinese football has been led by a foreign head coach to impact the World Cup, and Schlapner from Germany is expected to be the savior. Among the Germans, Schlapner's popularity in China at this time can be said to be second only to Marx and Engels, and he was almost hyped as a foreign god in football, and some reports said that he ranked before Beckenbauer in the ranking of German coaches. In fact, Schlapner writes very clearly about his experience: "I have been playing for my hometown of Lampeheim since I was younger...... I played at a lower and lower level: Division C, Division D, and finally Division E, which was the lowest in the adult division. "Schlapna's greatest pride is that he took Mannheim from the second division to the first division and finished sixth, which is not easy. This was many years ago, and it is also true that he was laid off in Germany for many years. He is expected to turn the tide and to be a big player who can win in key battles.

At this time, Schlapner's hair could be sold for 600,000 yuan, and his portrait was on the advertisements of various commodities in China, which can be described as a crazy era. The Chinese people are looking forward to the rise of Chinese football!

Pursuing the spirit of "please come in, go out", in addition to hiring foreign coaches, the Chinese Football Association also did one thing, that is, to form the Jianlibao Youth Team.

On April 25, 1992, the Chinese Football Association signed an agreement with Guangdong Jianlibao Group Company to formally establish the Chinese Jianlibao Youth Team. The agreement agreed that Jianlibao Group would invest 9 million yuan to set up a youth football team aimed at impacting the 2000 Olympic Games to learn advanced football experience abroad. Rong Yiren, vice president of the state and honorary chairman of the Chinese Football Association, even wrote an inscription for this: "It is necessary to cultivate football players with high moral standards, good psychological quality, modern technical combat level, brave, tenacious and courageous and dare to fight!" ”

In July this year, the national 77 and 78 age group members will be selected in Tianjin and Dalian, and then more than 80 teenagers who have passed the preliminary examination will start the second round of screening in Beijing. These young players can be said to concentrate most of the essence of China's age group. For the Chinese Football Association, which has been closed to the country for a long time, there is a complete blank in foreign relations, and the Chinese people who want to find a matchmaker can not find it. This is also why in history, Jianlibao players were selected in the summer of '92, but they didn't go to Brazil until the end of '93. And even in Brazil, no club accepts them, but rents a venue and practices on their own behind closed doors. First, I didn't play against a strong team in Brazil, and second, I didn't invite famous Brazilian teachers to come to the class to study, so I found a piece of land on the outskirts of a city in Brazil and drew a place to study abroad in a closed training. Is this kind of training useful? If you don't have the process of learning from others, you might as well practice it yourself at home. After the seedlings of the "Jianlibao team" came back, everyone did not find much shadow of samba football in them.

It can be seen how sick the Chinese Football Association was at this time, but just when they were blind, the Prato club's business invitation letter arrived. A group of Chinese Football Association officials led by Wang Junsheng suddenly had a sense of rain from heaven, although the Prato club is only an Italian C-level club, but it is a genuine Italian club.

The status of Italian football in world football in this era is unimaginable, Brazil at this time is not the later five-star Brazil, Italy has three World Cups like Brazil, and Serie A has the "Little World Cup" known as the "Little World Cup", which is the place where all the world's best players aspire. This has built up a great reputation for Italian football, and this is especially true in China. The first European football league broadcast by China Central Television is Serie A, it can be said that the impression of the Chinese people on the European professional league at this time is Serie A, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, Fiorentina The reputation of the seven sisters of Serie A is well known in China, and you don't see the black and red Milan Three Musketeers jerseys everywhere in the streets and alleys, which have even become a fashion in China.

"Brazil is good, but it's okay to go to Italy!" The leaders of the Chinese Football Association thought so.