Chinese champion

Chapter 302

After Mario came to power, he did not routinely meet with the presidents of other clubs or communicate with league officials. His behavior surprised the other managers and presidents a little.

On the second day after he took office, Mario Moratti left Milan and brought a delegation to BJ, China. It is said that he was preparing to discuss cooperation matters with the Chinese Olympic Committee in 08, and he was full of confidence The said will come back with brilliant results.

After this news came out, the managers of other Serie A clubs laughed out loud. Everyone knows how difficult it is for football clubs to get involved in the 08 Olympic Games in China. They did not see that a super giant like Barcelona wanted to use "BJ2008" as a The advertisement on my own chest failed. Laporta flew to BJ. I don’t know how many times I couldn’t talk about it?This young kid didn't build momentum, nor did he hold a press conference in advance, but just sent an official letter to the BJ Olympic Committee and wanted to make a deal?Do not make jokes!
Everyone on earth knows how much the Chinese value the 2008 Olympic Games, and they are even more cautious when choosing a partner. Moreover, they have never considered cooperating with football clubs before. Even their own clubs have not been successful. Give you a foreign club to hook up with?
Unexpectedly, just three days later, a surprising news came from BJ. In a press conference jointly held by the BJ Olympic Committee and the Inter Milan Club, Marcio presented a piece to the chairman of the Olympic Committee. With the Inter Milan jersey with the number "08", the two parties have formally reached a cooperation intention. Before the end of the 2008 Olympic Games, the two parties will carry out extensive cooperation in various aspects, including the Inter Milan team going to China to participate in a competition before the start of the 07-08 season. Series of friendly matches.

Mario's shot immediately shocked the entire Italian and even European football.

Everyone is discussing, what kind of magic did the 31-year-old Yale doctoral student use to make the Chinese Olympic Committee, which has always been cautious, decide to become a partner with Inter Milan so quickly?

The more positive guess is that Massimo used his excellent eloquence and generous conditions to impress the officials of the Olympic Committee, and the darker guess is that Massimo bribed the officials of the Olympic Committee with huge sums of money. This result was obtained.

Of course, few people believed the latter guess, because the monitoring of officials must be extremely strict in such a large-scale game, and few people had the guts to do something when almost everyone was watching.

Another guess is that Massimo is a black magician who used his magic to brainwash all the officials of the Olympic Committee... Well, the people who come up with this conclusion are basically those who have read too many fantasy novels...

So what did Massimo do?

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"Bang!" The two goblets collided lightly, and then the owner who was obsessed with them drank the fine wine in the glasses.

Massimo Moratti looked at his son appreciatively, with a trace of doubt in his eyes: "Hehe, Mario, I didn't expect you to succeed! To be honest, I was really skeptical before approving you to go to China. What! After all, no football club has been able to catch the line of BJ before. Now I want to ask you, how did you do it? Of course, if you are not convenient to tell, I will not ask! "

Although the old Moratti said so, the curiosity in his eyes was unreservedly revealed.

Faced with his father's question, Massimo smiled: "There is nothing inconvenient, it's just that our Inter Milan has some unique conditions in terms of cooperation with China."

"What conditions?" Moratti asked eagerly. He has been leading Inter Milan for almost ten years, but he has never thought that Inter Milan can have any intersection with China, and his son has seen it since he took office. How can I be so bad?
"First, the core of our team's offense, the absolute main force is a Chinese." Little Moratti said slowly, turning the cup in his hand.

"You mean Pei Wei?" Moratti understood a bit, but he still asked: "But Pei Wei is just a player. I'm afraid his existence is not enough to touch the hearts of the Chinese people? You know, now Chinese football is not like before. There are more than a dozen Chinese players who can play the main force in the five major European leagues! For example, Wu of Manchester United and Hu of AC Milan have become the core players of the team, and these two teams I'm afraid your reputation is not inferior to ours, right?"

"No, Pei is different from them." Little Moratti shook his head: "Father, I'm afraid you don't understand Pei's impression in the hearts of Chinese fans and even sports officials. He is the first overseas player to return to China. The person who helped the Chinese youth team win the World Youth Championship, and his achievements in the European arena are well-deserved No.1 in China, the Copa del Rey, UEFA Cup, La Liga champion, Italian Cup, Italian League champion... He has already He has become a myth in Chinese football. In China, there are countless fans of him, and he was cultivated by our Inter Milan youth team, and now he is playing for our Inter Milan club. From this aspect, what else is there? Can this club compare to our Inter Milan?" He said with high spirits: "Second, do you still remember that China's largest sports channel CCTV 05 conducted a survey in [-]?"

"You mean..." Old Moratti remembered: "Of the eight European giants, the one with the highest support rate in China is our Inter Milan?"

"Yes, it can be seen from this point that Inter Milan has a wide network of contacts in China, and this is what the Olympic Committee needs to consider."

"I'm afraid these two points alone are not enough?" Old Moratti smiled: "It doesn't mean anything just because there is a representative of Chinese football playing in our club and the number of Chinese fans who like our club is the most. It’s just to add a little emotional point. To win the contract based on this, it can only be a joke, unless all members of their organizing committee are crazy fans of Pei.”

"Of course not enough." Little Moratti picked up the wine bottle and filled his father's and his own glasses with red wine: "It just makes it easier for them to accept us. The key is to see what we plan to cooperate with them, and what they can get."

"Then what are your conditions?" Old Moratti asked with great interest. After all, the Olympic Games is a super-large comprehensive event. Although football is one of the highlights, it still does not represent all of them. From this aspect It is not unreasonable to say that there is no football club other than Inter Milan that can have a relationship with the BJ Olympics, because compared with the Olympics, football clubs can provide very little.In old Moratti's mind, his son must have made great efforts in other aspects.

"We are a football club, so of course we have to start with football." What the son said was unexpected: "In fact, football, the world's number one sport, has not been so in line with its own value in the Olympics. .”

"Because only athletes under the age of 23 are allowed to participate, the level of excitement is greatly reduced. Although winning the championship will be counted as two gold medals, but due to the difficulty, only those in South America and Africa who have difficulty in other events The countries that win the championship will attach great importance to football, just like Argentina and Nigeria."

"In China, people's enthusiasm for football is now unprecedentedly high with the good results in the World Cup and the outstanding performance of players playing in Europe. China is a big sports country. The last Olympic Games They won No.2 in the gold medal list, second only to the United States. This time it is hosted in their country. If they don’t even have the mentality to fight for the first place, it is impossible. In fact, they can win the gold medal Most of the projects in the last session have been won, and under the current circumstances, the football championship that can count two gold medals will naturally become important, so we opened up the situation through this place." Moratti Jr. Having said that, he paused for a while, picked up his glass and took a sip of red wine.

Old Moratti was so engrossed in listening that he even forgot to drink the red wine. When he heard his son stop suddenly, he hurriedly asked, "How did you do it? Tell me, son, you want to kill your father!"

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you right away!" Little Moratti didn't dare to make his father anxious, and hurriedly put down the glass: "I provided three conditions to their organizing committee. The first is to select players to come to our club in batches. They are all players of the age for the 08 Olympic Games. They take turns to participate in the training of our team. I think this will be very beneficial to their growth. Even if they cannot meet the requirements of the first team for the time being, they can also participate in the reserve team. Competition, isn’t that how Pei Wei came out of it?”

"Yes. This request is very reasonable and within our tolerance!" Old Moratti nodded.

"Secondly, when their Olympic team is formed, they will train and compete in our club for a year and participate in the Italian youth team. At the same time, we are also responsible for helping them find some opponents in Europe. In 08 Years ago, this team was considered a special reserve team for us, and at the same time, we have the right to give priority to signing after we find good seedlings.”

"This seems to be a bit difficult to handle, mainly because the Italian youth leagues are played by second-tier teams from various clubs." Moratti frowned, "But it doesn't matter, we can apply to the Football Association, I think It should be fine."

"For the third one, we can only say that we tried our best, and BJ also expressed his understanding." Moratti put it off.

"what is the problem?"

Little Moratti smiled bitterly: "Didn't that fellow Blatter say that in order to maintain purity, he suggested that all three overage players allowed in the Olympic football match should be revoked? In other words, only players under the age of 23 are allowed to participate. It is very detrimental to the Chinese team! Our promise is to find a way to prevent this proposal from becoming a reality through the influence of our Inter Milan. You must know that there are no players in China who can surpass Pei Wei and the others , if super players like Pei Wei, Wu from Manchester United, and Hu from AC Milan join the Chinese Olympic team as overage players, the possibility of the Chinese team winning a medal is more than [-]%!"

"I'm afraid this problem is the most difficult to solve?" Moratti said disappointedly: "You must know that Blatter is very stubborn sometimes! It is very difficult to change his way of doing things."

"For this question, I think we don't need to do anything, just wait." Moratti said confidently.

"Oh? How do you say it?" Old Moratti asked quickly when he heard that his son had a solution.

"Everyone knows Blatter is a big mouther, and there's a joke about him: 'You can come up with 51 ideas a day, but [-] are crap.' I guess he said that and forgot. Besides, he still said this sentence last year. Until this year, who has heard the following? I guess only countries like the Chinese Football Association that attach great importance to this Olympic Games will remember it? And this regulation also This is not to say that it can be changed. First of all, if there are no overage players, the excitement of the game will definitely be compromised. This will greatly reduce the number of fans watching the game and cause losses to the host country. Such a result may not be the result of the International Olympic Games. What the committee wants to see, I think even if Blatter remembered what he said, it would be very difficult to implement it!"

"It makes sense." Old Moratti still expressed his hesitation: "What if this regulation is still implemented?"

"Then we can't stop it!" Little Moratti smiled slyly: "BJ also knows how difficult it is for us as a club to persuade FIFA. They only need us to do our best. When the time comes We tried our best but still couldn’t stop it, so it can’t be our fault!”

"Haha! Well said!" Moratti began to admire his son a little bit, as it turned out that the wave behind the Yangtze River pushes the wave ahead!It seems that God has not abandoned Inter Milan!After taking away Facchetti, the wise and wise chairman, he gave Inter Milan a new Mario Moratti!
"Son! Cheers!" Moratti raised the cup in his hand: "For the glory of Inter Milan!"

"For the glory of Inter Milan!" Mario also raised his cup.

(End of this chapter)