Chapter 434 Chinese Team Lazio

For Lotito, Wu Lei's joining is something he welcomes. M

So when Chang Sheng called him and told him that he planned to buy a Chinese player, Lotito shouted loudly and seemed more excited than Chang Sheng, the Chinese.

Although Chang Sheng said that he did not consider the Chinese market when he bought Wu Lei, Lotito was different from Chang Sheng. He really considered the Chinese market.

Since poaching Chang Sheng, the relationship between Lazio Club and China has become deeper and more frequent.

Lotito also benefited from these connections and cooperation.

Now the sponsor on the chest of Lazio club jersey is a Chinese automobile company, and Chinese companies and brands can be seen everywhere in Lazio.

This team has almost become a Chinese team.

Even if one day Lazio announces that they will move their home stadium to Beijing, no Italians will be too surprised.

Roma fans are now mocking Lazio and using this joke. Ridiculing Lazio for already being a Chinese team.

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On the second day of the press conference, all major media focused on Lazio's signing of a Chinese player.

However, the Chinese media and the Italian media have completely different focuses.

The Chinese media hailed the historic significance of Wu Lei joining Lazio, and they began to look forward to Wu Lei playing in Lazio, the top team.

They think Wu Lei might be the icebreaker.

There are already Chinese players who have played in the Bundesliga and the Premier League.

Serie A and La Liga have not yet been breached.

Among them, Serie A may be the most difficult, because Serie A is somewhat exclusive, especially for Chinese players.

Perhaps the Serie A official will not admit it, but this country and its league have hidden discrimination against the Chinese.

For a great head coach like Chang Sheng, there are inevitably various controversies around him in Italy. Not to mention a mere small player.

And with Changsheng’s “escort”,

Wu Lei's future in Serie A is obviously much easier than that of his predecessor Ma Mingyu - although Wu Lei and Chang Sheng do not admit these cares, the Chinese media believe that when two people really get along, some things cannot be changed, and they will definitely Some care, even if it is not obvious, the phenomenon of care definitely exists.

Almost all Chinese media discuss this matter.

The Italian media doesn't seem to care about Wu Lei's strength and potential. After all, they have never heard of this person's name before.

Their focus is on Lazio.

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"When Chang was coaching Lazio, I was wondering when Lazio would buy a Chinese player. Because the Chinese like to do this kind of gathering. Now finally here, a Chinese player I have never heard of, who is only 2 years old. Nineteen years old, it is said that Lazio club will pay his parent team in China 1.5 million euros. What kind of competition is Wu playing in China? It is similar to the second level of our Serie B for such a player. Paying 1.5 million euros really makes me wonder if Chang has benefited from this transfer..."

Pacheco commented on Wu Lei's transfer when participating in a certain program.

He almost got the truth right. However, he only took it as a joke, as he had a habit of always being victorious.

It never occurred to me that he was actually the person closest to the truth. If he had known about it, he would probably have clung to this point and insisted on ruining Chang Shengjiao's reputation...

However, although Pacheco is always victorious, his views this time are considered mainstream among the Italian media.

That is, everyone thinks that Lazio has more and more Chinese elements.

They had a Chinese head coach before, which attracted many Chinese sponsors, and now they finally have another Chinese player.

There are already many Chinese journalists. More now.

The outside of the Vermello training base has almost become a world dominated by Chinese reporters. Some Italian media joked that Chinese is the lingua franca there and Italian has become a weak language. You may not be able to communicate even if you speak Italian, but you are surrounded by a group of Chinese reporters chatting with each other in Chinese that they do not understand. It makes people feel like they are in China.

"Chinese head coach, Chinese sponsors, Chinese reporters, Chinese players. Even the construction team of the new stadium is Chinese, and it will have a Chinese name in the future... I think Lazio should simply change the color of their home jersey. Okay. Changed from sky blue to red, representing China.”

"We said before that Lazio is the most Spanish team in Italy, but now I think we are all wrong. In fact, Lazio is the most Chinese team in Italy!"

The media made various complaints about Lazio's Chineseization.

In a country as exclusive as Italy, a team like Lazio is indeed an anomaly.

What's even more unusual is that they can still succeed. I have to say that winning often is really unbelievable...

The complaints from the Italian media were a bit vicious, but they were right. Lazio is indeed a completely Chinese team.

This once Italian right-wing team has now lost its winning streak.

The lifeblood of this team basically has a strong Chinese flavor.

Not to mention that the team's head coach is Chinese.

The club's president Lotito is now also a "friendly person" and "a good friend of the Chinese people" in the eyes of the Chinese government.

He now probably spends a quarter of his time in China. He attracts investment everywhere and at the same time makes Lazio club feel more present.

In addition, Lazio club currently has many Chinese sponsors.

For example, the advertisement on their jerseys is from a famous Chinese automobile company, their computer sponsor is Lenovo, their sports functional drinks are also Chinese brands, and their training grounds are also full of billboards of Chinese companies.

Chinese characters are very common in Formello training base.

So much so that even Lazio players are getting Chinese characters tattooed.

There was even a joke because of this. Mario Gotze tattooed a row of Chinese characters on his arm to express his admiration for the boss, which means "50% discount for all invoices"...

Chang Sheng almost laughed himself crazy when he saw this sentence.

However, he was afraid of dampening Gotze's enthusiasm for learning Chinese, so he kept it to himself. He didn't tell Gotze the truth...

Gotze still doesn't know what the words he tattooed on his body mean, and he is still showing them off complacently.

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The phenomenon of Chineseization in Lazio is indeed very serious.

And it is reflected in all aspects and details.

Although Changsheng never speaks Chinese in the team and club, many people in these two places have spontaneously started to learn Chinese.

The ubiquitous Chinese reporters near the Formello training base are the best objects for these people to practice their spoken Chinese.

In addition, Lazio will choose a game every year to change the font of their chest advertisements into Chinese characters to pay tribute to China.

It is said that this is Lazio's "China Match Day".

In addition, in the Lazio club headquarters. There are Chinese signs in various places, especially in the honor exhibition room.

In addition to the introduction in Italian, the signs under each trophy are also introduced in simplified Chinese. And it is definitely not the kind of inferior product translated by machine. It is a translation that is truly for Chinese people.

Chinese tourists will not feel uncomfortable when they see it.

In Lazio's honor strength, such an introduction is only available in Italian and Chinese.

This shows the importance that Lazio club attaches to China.

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Previously, some Italian media complained that Lazio should just change the home jersey from sky blue to red. This is of course a helpless complaint, and no one will really take it seriously.

However, Italian media soon saw the Lazio club... no, perhaps it was Lotito's shameless performance...

Some media released the latest spy photos of Lazio's second away jersey.

This second set of jerseys is the kind that is difficult to use. The second set of away jerseys will only be chosen when the first set of away jerseys and home jerseys conflict with the colors of the opponent's jerseys.

The colors of the second set of away jerseys are not traditional colors like the home jerseys and the first set of away jerseys. For example, Lazio's home jersey is sky blue, and the first set of away jerseys are generally yellow.

In order to distinguish the second set of away jerseys from the colors of most jerseys, the colors will be very strange.

So the colors of the second set of away jerseys are often very "heavy".

This is the case with the second away jersey released by Lazio this time.

When the spy photos came out, everyone was stunned, especially the media that had previously complained that Lazio might as well change the color of the jersey.

Because the second away jersey of Lazio that came into view was... a bright red!

Red top. Red shorts, even the socks were red!

The second away jersey designed by Nike for Lazio was completely red. There were only some gold trims on the collar, cuffs and the bottom of the shorts.

Other than that. It was red.

Lazio really used a red jersey!

"It seems that we were right... Lazio really chose red as the color of the jersey! Although it is not a home jersey, it is also exaggerated, okay? This red jersey is really ugly!" The media that exposed the spy photos finally complained. "How ugly is the aesthetic to design such a jersey?"

But the media still overestimated Lotito's bottom line.

Later, Lazio admitted that the photos in the spy photos were the second away jersey of their team this season.

And not only that. Lotito also said in an interview that Lazio will give priority to using this jersey in the away games of the Champions League in the new season, and temporarily give up the yellow away jersey.

"We also plan to consider wearing this jersey to play during the Spring Festival in China... In addition, we will also wear this jersey to play in the Italian Super Cup in Beijing this summer..."

Although the Lazio club has never explained why they use red away jerseys, everyone knows it after listening to Lotito's words-this is just naked to please the Chinese market!

Sure enough, after the release of the red away jersey, there was a strong response in China, and some Chinese media even said that the red away jersey was actually a love letter from the Lazio club to Chinese fans.

There are also Chinese media that gave Lazio's away jersey a name, called "China Red"!

When Lazio plays in red jerseys, will it make people feel like watching the Chinese national team?

This may make more Chinese fans willing to regard Lazio as their home team.

In fact, they don’t care whether the jersey looks good or not. They only care that through this jersey, they can see that Lazio Club attaches great importance to Chinese fans, which is enough.

In the face of money and interests, businessman Lotito really doesn’t care about his integrity at all...