Chapter 171: Chang's Dynasty Dream
Having experienced an economic crisis in Getafe, Chang Sheng is very clear about the role of money in the world of football.
He's not the kind of idealist who shouts things like "football takes politics and money away."
He is well aware that football, as the number one sport in the world, has never been clean.
If it is not linked to politics, how can it be so influential?
From UEFA to FIFA, which level of football officials are not politicians? Both.
Money is even more important.
To put it more seriously, without the intervention of money, modern football would never have achieved such rapid development, and it is far from becoming the number one sport in the world.
In these days, if you don't need money, you can't even do amateur football, and even if you play amateur football, you need money to buy jerseys, rent venues and transportation.
The development of football is now accompanied by the full involvement of commercialization.
Although the teams he has coached have always been financially tight, he never thinks there is anything to be proud of, and he never thinks that he is sticking to grassroots football. On the contrary, he really hopes that one day he can have a lot of money and just smash the players he looks like or something? He won't come? Take the money and smash it! Know until you smash him down!
Such a scene is very refreshing just thinking about it.
The dream is plump, but the reality is quite skinny.
But Chang Sheng never felt that it was bad for those clubs to be rich.
Manchester City are considered by many to be nouveau riche and despised by many. Chang Sheng thinks there is nothing wrong with nouveau riche.
Looking at Getafe, which was struggling on the verge of bankruptcy, Getafe fans must have hoped that a Middle Eastern tycoon would come and buy the club, and then spend 100 million yuan a year on the transfer of the team, and by the way, build a modern five-star stadium that can accommodate 80,000 people.
But alas, until the end, the Getafe fans did not wait for such a savior.
If Lazio has a lot of money. He had the confidence to say: "Our team does not make money by selling players. Chang Sheng will not let his players go, he will take this group of players to create a dynasty, a legend.
In a few years' time, world football will be remembered for him and his players.
Now, if his players are going to pursue their own bright future. Winning regularly won't stop them, but that won't affect the team's results......
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Chang Win doesn't want to affect the team, but how is that possible?
Chang Sheng's majesty is still there, so everyone will not show it directly, but what they think in their hearts, Chang Sheng can't control it.
When a player who was originally focused is distracted, his performance will naturally not be much better.
During this time, Chang Sheng rotated frequently, more often than when he played in the Champions League. It's because he wants to get the players who are not in the training center and are not in good shape out of the starting line-up, and then replace them with reliable people.
It stands to reason that this month should be a good time to stabilize the squad, take a bigger lead in the league, and finally seal the win.
Right now...... It's all in the soup.
On January 24, in the quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia, Lazio lost 1:2 at home to Fiorentina. Reaching the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia is not optimistic.
Three days later, on the 27th, the twentieth round of the league. Lazio drew 1-1 away at Torino and they almost lost, if not for Jose at the end. Passarella stepped up and headed the ball into the Torino goal from a corner......
On January 30, Lazio lost 0-1 away to Fiorentina and were eliminated from the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia.
Lazio played three league games in January. Three Coppa Italia matches.
Out of a total of six games, only the first two were won, and the next three were lost and one was drawn.
This month, Lazio's performance can be described as terrible. Ups and downs.
In the league, because of the two consecutive games without a win, their original seven-point lead over Inter Milan has become two......
The competition for the league championship, which was originally unsuspenseful, suddenly had a new suspense.
Morale is high on Inter Milan's side, sharpening their knives and intending to pull Lazio off the top spot in the league.
In addition to the first time, it is natural that the media is also indispensable for schadenfreude.
As I said before, Lazio's dominance in Italy has left many people bored and offended.
For every defeat of Lazio, these media will behave as if they were celebrating.
This time was no exception.
Lazio's winless run of two consecutive league games means that Lazio is in crisis.
In this way, it may be a little inadequate, a team is just two rounds without a win, it is a crisis, how do you let other teams live? Last season's Inter Milan had a four-game winless streak!
But that's the way it is, and the longest winless run for Lazio has been two games in a row after taking charge of Lazio with a regular victory.
Counting this one, there are four in total.
The first occurred in the 32nd and 33rd rounds of the 20052006 season, with one draw and one loss.
The second and third times both happened last season, and the fifteenth and sixteenth rounds were two consecutive rounds without a win, also one draw and one loss. After finally deciding to win the championship in advance, Lazio obviously relented, so they did not win the last two rounds.
And then this time.
For the media, this is already a big crisis for Lazio!
The key is that there is a big gap, and everyone has been saying that Lazio will definitely not be a problem to win the league this season. As a result, now in the two rounds of league games, Inter Milan has caught up, from a seven-point lead to a two-point lead...... If Lazio is really reversed by Inter Milan in the end, these media will have every reason to kill and ridicule Chang Won, and it is really interesting to see such an arrogant person deflated on the spot!
In the Coppa Italia, Lazio were also eliminated.
Before the season was over, a championship had already been lost.
Now that's all it takes, and the media can laugh at Tsunami and Lazio.
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“…… Lazio's rapid development has been a miracle in Italian football, and they went from a team on the verge of bankruptcy to league champions in just ...... Not a season. Chang is a head coach from China, and his Lazio is like China's economic development. It is growing at a rapid rate of 8 percent per year. This pace of progress is a shock and a shock to the whole of Europe, because it's not normal, it's not a normal trajectory for a team...... Now, Lazio's development has clearly reached a bottleneck. Because there was more demand for the players who played for Lazio in the first place, and Lazio FC could not meet these needs. This is how the contradiction was born...... If this contradiction is not resolved, I boldly predict that this will be the beginning of the collapse of Lazio. They will have nothing to gain this season! ”
Breno. After the last letter of Pacheco's bridge, he pressed enter and raised his arm again, and his body leaned forward and backward with this movement, as if he were playing the last note of a tune.
Pacheco was pleased with the manuscript he had just written, as if it were a classic song.
He reveled in it.
When it was said throughout Italy that Lazio was an armada, he did not believe in evil and stood up.
Finally, through his unremitting efforts and perseverance, he succeeded in finding Lazio's weakness!
As the saying goes. No matter how strong a fortress is, it is eventually breached from within......
Watching Lazio lose back-to-back games, be eliminated from the Carabao Cup, and be chased by Inter Milan to just two points in the domestic league, Pacheco felt quite accomplished.
If Lazio is really the Armada, then he is the hero who single-handedly sank the Armada!
The hero who saved Italian football!
If the success of the winning system is sustained, what will happen to Italian football?
The country will not be a country!
At that time, everybody will think that the winning set is good, everybody wants to be the manager of the everlasting one, and they are in a weird situation. With an arrogant personality, they look down on the traditions of their predecessors. They defy authority, they work against journalists...... Is this still worth it?
In the long run, Italian football can only be a miasma!
Just one winning game is already a headache for Italian football, if only a few more...... It's terrifying and unimaginable!
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Pacheco's opinion piece "The Dream of the Constant Dynasty" featured prominently in the latest issue of Milano Sport.
“…… Generally speaking, we call a team that can win the league three years in a row a dynasty. For Lazio, who are always winning, they are dreaming of such a dynasty. They have already won two league titles. With just one more take, they can build a sky-blue dynasty in Italian football...... But alas, it looks like it's time to wake up......"
The whole article is basically the same theme: not optimistic about winning and not optimistic about Lazio.
Pacheco cites a number of convincing examples of why a permanent win is unlikely to lead Lazio to a treble. Some are controversial.
Because it is an article from the Milan Sports Newspaper and because it is recommended by the editor-in-chief, Pacheco's article has a wide impact.
There are even Chinese media outlets that have translated the full text and reprinted it in their own newspapers.
The media hyping up this is like a carnival.
This kind of smear has been done before, but every time it wins, it turns the danger into a disaster.
But the media firmly believe that this time Chang Sheng will not be able to run, and it will definitely be planted!
Because this time it's about money.
And money, often winning, is powerless.
Lazio couldn't meet the salary demands of the stars, so they had to let the players go, watching the team that had always been strong in fighting power be dismembered and eventually fall apart.
I don't know how many times this has happened in world football, and no team has been immune.
Those teams that lack the foundation and financial strength, even if they have achieved short-term success, are just developing stars for the big teams.
To become a giant, it takes not a few talented players, but also enough background.
The heritage includes an excellent and glorious history, as well as strong economic strength.
And these, does Lazio have?
They can only be the poor lambs who are eaten in the world of the jungle.
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(To be continued.) )