Chapter 808: A Trip to East Asia (Part I)

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After this unknown conversation, Zhuang Mingge asked the coaching staff several times what he thought of Pirlo, and the answer was that the young player was more proactive in training than he was last season, and became more tough in the face of close defense such as Gattuso and Makelele, and no longer actively avoided the opponent in the face of such defense because of so-called elegance or fear of injury.

It can be said that although the director Zì Pirlo has developed all kinds of bad problems in the past year due to his improper attitude and smooth sailing in his career, his reputation is obviously quite strong. At the very least, Pirlo did a good job of proving to all who cared about him that he walked the talk.

In this case, Zhuang Mingge will not tell Sù Pirlo, if he continues to teach and go his own way in training and games, then what awaits him will be the fate of being re-loaned by the team to Vicenza for training. After all, Zhuang Mingge didn't want a future superstar like Pirlo to be ruined prematurely because of his accidental crossing and become one of the countless football meteors who fell prematurely.

So, while doing so could halt Pirlo's technical progress for a year or so, this loan spell has allowed him to hone his mind better. Although Guidolin has the reputation of Xiao Zhuge and is indeed a good hand in tactical arrangement, he is not a good stubble, if Pirlo really returns to Vicenza, then Guidolin, who is extremely strict with the players, will definitely adjust him well and correct these stinky problems on him one by one.

However, as things stand, it seems that there is no need to send Pirlo out of Vicenza to be beaten by Guidolin, so that he can adjust his form and get rid of all that bad habit on his body.

What happened to Pirlo reminded Zhuang Mingge, who has always selected players with the vision of the future, that after bringing those future football superstars to Florence in advance, we should not only pay attention to their technical and physical growth, but also care about whether these players are strong at the mental level, help them establish a correct world outlook and outlook on life values, and don't lose the way forward because of premature fame or a momentary spring breeze. As a result, personal career development stagnates or even shows signs of regression.

I have to say that Zhuang Mingge's luck is really good, he has never encountered anything like this in so many years before. Figures such as Gattuso, Vieri, and Inzaghi did not grow any of them after coming to Florence, and all of them became talents, that is, this year, there was such a case as Pirlo, which has to make those who do not know the inside story sigh at his good luck and the viciousness of his eyes.

In fact, these players have proven in their previous lives that they have the ability to thrive in the face of adversity, so giving them a change of environment and more professional training can yield good results. But Pirlo is different, as he has historically been denied enough game time for the talented Nerazzurri and has had to spend time on the bench; It wasn't until he was loaned back to Brescia that he was depressed and regained the aura he had worn out at Inter Milan under the guidance of Robert Baggio.

And when Pirlo transferred to AC Milan, facing the competition of Rui Costa, Seedorf and other famous stars, he once again lost in the competition, if it wasn't for Ancelotti's genius to set off a tactical revolution in the front and back, then Italy is likely to lose one of the best midfield superstars in its football history!

Therefore, unlike Vieri, who can make a world with the stocking mode, Pirlo needs all-round care and careful care, and always pay attention to his growth trajectory and development dynamics, so as not to make him take a detour for some unpredictable reasons.

With Pirlo out of the way, let's turn our attention to the upcoming summer warm-up tournaments.

After a three-week recuperation and pre-season training session, Fiorentina finally entered the annual pre-season warm-up stage. However, this time, Fiorentina did not choose to find some low-level teams in Italy to slowly find the form of the official competition, but flew directly to East Asia, ready to start a vigorous gold rush this summer.

Although on the West Asian side, for example, the Qatar Football Association, which has a close relationship with Fiorentina, also extended an olive branch to them, hoping that the purple lily could consider coming to Qatar in the summer to play a warm-up match, but Zhuang Mingge and Antonioni did not hesitate to choose to decline - what a joke, who doesn't know how terrible the summer in Qatar is, where the average daily temperature is above 40 °C, and sometimes even reaches 50 °C! At this time, when I went to Qatar to play, didn't I obviously think that I was looking for death if my life was long?

However, this time Fiorentina is not alone in Asia to pan for gold, in order to maximize the influence of Serie A in East Asia, but also to seek greater economic benefits from it, they will hold a series of commercial competitions and activities in China, Japan and South Korea, together with Inter Milan and Parma, two clubs with good relations.

In addition to all the members of the Fiorentina first team, the players who participated in the East Asia tour this time also included Sun Jihai, who was temporarily recalled from Ajax. After all, since Fiorentina is going to play two friendly matches in China, it would be really stupid not to bring this big killer that can attract the attention of fans and the media.

Think about Dong Fangzhuo in his previous life, how many official games has this parallel commodity played in Manchester United? But Ferguson will bring him with him every time he brings the team to China, isn't it just to attract more fans to support Manchester United, and at the same time further enhance the Red Devils' ability to attract money in China?

Therefore, it is also the case that Florence brought Sun Jihai this time. Although in terms of personal strength, Sun Jihai is obviously not comparable to Zambrotta and Di Livio in the same position as him, but who makes him Chinese, and who does not take him?

He was also joined by Sun Jihai's team-mate Vicente at Ajax, as the development of Fiorentina's coaching staff and the young winger, who has also been loaned to the Netherlands, has been decided whether to return him to the first team for Fiorentina in the new season.

This is another function of the pre-season warm-up match, in addition to allowing the players to get back to the game, allowing the club to observe the form and competitive level of those loan players more directly, so as to draw a more objective conclusion and reduce the probability of the team's performance declining due to improper recruitment.