Chapter 5 The Passage of Time
Despite Isco's injury, Lazio's squad has been strong this season.
In goal, their main goalkeeper is German international Ter Stegen, a 29-year-old goalkeeper who was poached into the newly formed academy by Lazio at the age of 16. At that time, Borussia Mönchengladbach did not realise what a good goalkeeper he was.
So Ter Stegen has been training in the Lazio Academy for a long time, and after the age of nineteen he was dropped to the first team, playing with the team, although mostly as a substitute and had to go out on loan for three seasons in order to stay in shape.
Finally, when Handanovic was thirty-two years old, due to a serious injury, Ter Stegen successfully rose to the position and occupied the main position, and later after Handanovic returned from injury, he was reduced to a substitute.
Ter Stegen, who became the first-choice goalkeeper at the time of the 24-year-old, has now stood in front of Lazio's goal for seven seasons, and has been a solid performer nicknamed "Kahn Jr." If nothing else, he will become the second Handanovic to defend Lazio until his old age.
The thirty-seven-year-old Handanovic has changed from a young rookie to an old goalkeeper, and the goalkeeper's career has always been relatively long, so at the age of thirty-seven, he can still maintain his form, playing the first substitute goalkeeper in Lazio, and sometimes, in a game like the Italian Cup, winning will let Handanovic start, which can be regarded as a consolation and gratitude to the old goalkeeper who has guarded the door for Lazio for more than ten years.
Although Handanovic is no longer the main goalkeeper, he has always been training and waiting for the opportunity to play in the Lazio team. He didn't lose his temper in the locker room because his main position was gone.
Instead, he gave Ter Stegen all his experience and know-how.
Ter Stegen has benefited a lot.
He is currently in the process of obtaining his coaching certificate. I plan to become a goalkeeper coach after retiring.
It's just that he hasn't decided exactly when he will retire.
The third goalkeeper is the young goalkeeper who has been drawn from the reserve squad in the winning season, and is only 20 years old. It's just a matter of playing soy sauce, and although he's training in the first team, he still goes back to the reserve squad when he plays. Play in the Reserve League to stay in shape.
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At the back, Lazio are mainly talents cultivated in their own academy, and they often win the youth training system established at the beginning. It has long since blossomed and borne fruit.
This academy has not only produced a lot of players for Lazio's first team, but these players have also earned a lot of transfer fees for Lazio after the first team has been gilded.
For example, central defender Tuya moved to Inter Milan for 35 million euros after four seasons in the first team at Lazio. and Ettoremendicino, nicknamed "The New Vieri", also earned Lazio a transfer fee of 40 million euros.
The captain is José Passarella, who is still Lazio's main central defender, and although he is thirty-nine years old, his experience still makes him Lazio's main central defender. Sometimes, though, he makes mistakes. I'm older. There's no way around it.
Last season, Lazio failed on the third line. Among them, the key goal conceded by being eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Champions League was that he Jose Passarella made a mistake. So after that match, Jose Passarella was bombarded by the media for more than a week. Even Chang Sheng was shot while lying down.
Some media believe that Chang Sheng is cronyistic when employing people, just because he has a good relationship with Jose Passarella. Therefore, Jose Passarella has been used as the main central defender, which is not conducive to the renewal of Lazio's backline, and in the end Lazio paid the price for the stubbornness of winning constantly. If Jose Passarella had been taken earlier, perhaps the goal would not have been conceded, and Lazio would have reached the semi-finals......
However, Chang Sheng turned a deaf ear to this, and still trusted his "godson" Jose Passarella very much. The media scolded for a while, and after seeing Chang Sheng's stubbornness, they stopped scolding, because no matter how they scolded, Chang Sheng went his own way, and they couldn't affect Lazio at all, so why did they need to continue scolding?
Joining José Passarella's centre-back is Alessio Campoli, an academy-bred player who was once a highly regarded young talent like Tua. After Tuya left the team, Campoli replaced him as Lazio's main centre-back, alongside José Passarella.
Campoli looks a bit like Klose in his youth, but he's not a striker, he's a centre-back.
In 1992, he was only 29 years old, which was the year of play, and he had almost no shortcomings except for a little more injuries.
In addition, there are two players from the academy, both of whom were born in 1994 and are now 27 years old, and are the middle generation of Lazio. They are Joseph Pierets and Ricardo Se Pieri.
In terms of ability, they are weaker than their predecessors, so they can only play as a substitute. But only because they're in Lazio.
If it was in other teams, they would have been the main team a long time ago.
The main right wing-back is Falahoni, who came out of the Lazio Academy. At the beginning of the Lazio youth team, he played at central defender, partnering Tuya, and was later transferred to the first team by Chang Sheng, because there were too many central defenders in the first team, so he was transformed into a right-back and played as a substitute for Azpilicueta.
Later, Cesar Azpilicueta went to Chelsea for a transfer fee of 40 million euros, and Faraoni officially became Lazio's main right-back, and until now, he has been Lazio's number one choice on the right flank.
His replacement was Albertani, a 23-year-old from the Lazio Academy in 1998.
The main left-back is Thornton, who came out of the Inter Academy Academy, the player born in 1991 made a name for himself at an early age, but he also fell quickly, and later moved to Newcastle.
Victory brought him back from cold England, and Thornton became another proof of Lazio's ability to turn stones into gold.
At Lazio, Thornton became a regular after two seasons of training, pushing Barzaretti to the bench. Barzaretti retired five years ago, and no one can shake Thornton's position.
His substitute rotation was Bochetti, who was 35 years old and could only play as a substitute.
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In midfield, Lazio can be regarded as a strong player. The thirty-six-year-old Modric is no longer Lazio's playmaker and can only play as a substitute.
Thiago Alcantara is a talented player who was trained in Barcelona's academy La Masia, and his father is Brazil's Mazinho, who won the World Cup in the United States in 1994.
He later moved to Bayern Munich to follow his mentor Pep Guardiola. Four seasons ago, Victorious poached him from Bayern Munich to Lazio.
Let him succeed Modric.
He did a great job.
But now at the age of thirty, he is facing the threat of young people, and his place is on the verge of being lost......
Marco Verratti is an Italian midfielder that Lazio bought back from Paris Saint-Germain. Born in 1992, he is now 29 years old, and he is also in the year of fighting. In midfield, he and Thiago formed the core of the organization, and the two worked together tacitly, and he was hailed by the Italian media as "Pirlo II", which shows his style of play and level.
Casemiro is the hardest player in Lazio's midfield, he used to play for Sao Paulo and then Lazio poached him into Lazio's academy, so he can be regarded as a good player in Lazio's academy.
He also has the delicate footwork of a Brazilian player.
He was called to the first team because Ledesma left the team and he is Ledesma's heir.
Wu Lei, in the 2011/2012 season, was brought to Lazio by Chang Sheng from Shanghai East Asia Club, China, and he created many firsts for Chinese players - the first Chinese player to play in Serie A, the first Chinese player to score in Serie A, and the first Chinese player to win the Best Foreign Player Award in Serie A......
Wu Lei, who was born in 1991, is now thirty years old, and when he gets older, his physical explosiveness has declined, and his speed is not as good as before, but his position has also changed from the previous frontcourt free man to the back midfield, and he has become an organizer.
At the moment at Lazio is mainly doing rotation.
And finally, do you know who squeezed a famous player like Thiago into leaving Lazio?
Do you remember Xiao Ji Ming, the son of middle-aged reporter Ji Leng?
That's right, the demon who was discovered by Chang Sheng to be a potential of -10 is now a talent, and it is he who dwarfs Thiago.
He made his senior debut at the age of sixteen, scoring in the first team at the age of 17 and then went out on loan for a year due to a surplus of talent in the first team, returning to the first team at Lazio at the age of eighteen.
In his first season, he was only a substitute rotation, and in his second season, last season, he made both Thiago and Verratti feel threatened.
The nineteen-year-old has the style of a big man in the midfield, calm and calm, and his overall view is amazing.
His excellent mid-range and long-distance passing ability allows him to be a good midfield playmaker.
In addition to being able to organize attacks, he also has the ability to shoot from a distance with a kick, which is his main scoring weapon.
He played 30 league games for Lazio's first team last season, scoring five goals and providing eight assists.
He is said to have become the favorite for this year's European Golden Boy Award.
He will be Lazio's future hope, Chinese supernova Ji Ming!
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