It is precisely because Wang Ai sees this that he is different from ordinary stars.For example, agreeing to go to Inter Milan not only has a personal development intention, but also has a factor that there are fewer Serie A games and can spare an extra month to prepare for the Beijing Olympics next year.This is also the reason why Ambassador Fu was very reluctant to hear the news that Wang Ai was leaving, but he still nodded in support after Wang Ai's phone report.Outside Milan Airport, Wang Ai dialed a phone after taking time to put on simple makeup, answered a few words and hurriedly walked out of the airport and got into a black MPV, and then the car blended into the traffic in a low-key manner, and it was unlikely to turn into an underground parking lot, and from another passage, a white MPV entered the trend again.In the car, Wang Ai, who finally got rid of the possible tracking, put his mind at ease and turned his head to look at Schlapner with a smile on his face, the old man has not changed, and in recent years, he has completely gotten rid of the danger of poverty in his later years by relying on the contracts of a large number of Chinese players.So although he has started to lead the team, this time he still went out in person.The two are in a working relationship, and they are friends outside of work.Schlapner's significance to Chinese football is extraordinary, in that era when football was like the wind, this old German man used his professionalism and gentleness to open the second period of learning from the outside of Chinese football, and brought many new ideas, new tactics, new training and new systems to the closed Chinese football world at that time.Even if he was dismissed from class because of poor grades in the end, few people scolded him, this is a figure who can be called the godfather of Chinese football.Xu Genbao once said publicly: I learned a lot from Schlapner.That's Xu Genbao!
Xu Genbao, who has been unconvinced all his life!
Even Wang Ai indirectly benefited from him.The number one star under him back then was Gao Hongbo, and many of Gao Hongbo's teachings to Wang Ai were inherited from Schlapner!
And this old man is as informed and interesting as he was back then, which also makes the relationship between the two more harmonious.After talking for a long time, the aged Schlapner patted his head as if he had just remembered: "Dear Wang, I'm sorry, I actually forgot to introduce you." ”As he spoke, the old man pointed to the "driver" in the front row with a baseball cap and big sunglasses, who was always silent: "He is Javier Zanetti!"
Captain of Inter Milan for eight years. ”When Wang Ai heard this, he was surprised and unbelievable, he had long heard that Zanetti was a humble and caring person, and he didn't expect him to be able to keep a low profile to such an extent, to be honest, it was already courtesy for him to meet Wang Ai in advance.Zanetti probably knew how surprised Wang Ai was, looked up and looked in the rearview mirror happily, and squeezed his eyes at Wang Ai, feeling proud of his prank.Wang Ai opened his hands: "I don't know what to say, but Javier, you just surprised me too much and made me happy."
I suddenly felt confident about the rest of my life. ”"Haha, that's exactly what I was hoping for."
Wang Ai and Zanetti had never met or chatted, but after this little episode, the two became familiar at once.It was early in the morning in Milan, and after asking Wang Ai what he wanted, Zanetti drove directly to the northwest, and half an hour later arrived at Appiano Gentilile, which is 34 kilometers away from the center of Milan in a straight line and nearly 40 kilometers away.To the west of the town is a large forest, and at the edge of the forest is the Trainingcentre, the training center of Inter Milan.There are three full-size pitches and a training ground with multiple goals.On the east side of the training center, that is, near the main entrance, there is also a "museum" of Inter Milan history, which displays and displays a lot of Inter materials, which are not of much interest to ordinary fans, so they are not placed in the headquarters honor room near the Domo church in the center of Milan, but here.The exhibition is not aimed at ordinary fans, but at the players who come here to train, so that they can naturally feel the past glory of this century-old club.What is the background?
This is called heritage, and this invisible guidance is often the spiritual source of a wealthy club's regain of glory.The town of Appiano is 13 km from Como in a straight line, 34 km from Milan and 30 km from the Meazza Stadium.It's the same reason that Chelsea's Cobham is 28 kilometres from the city centre and 22 kilometres from the stadium: poor!
It's better to run far, it's inconvenient, but it's also worth it.Interestingly, although AC Milan's training base, Milanello, is a bit more luxurious than the Appiano training base, such as 5 standard courses, with woods and lakes, etc., it is actually more remote.It is located 38 km from the center of Milan and 20 km from Como.Milanello's location is also northwest of the city of Milan, but more west than Appiano.In fact, Inter's Appiano base was built in 1962, and Milanello was built a year later, but both chose the northwest direction of Milan, and what is more interesting is that the distance between the two bases and the common home stadium is more than 30 kilometers, but the distance between the two bases is less than 10 kilometers.Specifically, after passing west through a large forest, the Appiano Forest Park, from the base of Appiano, is the town of Tradate, and then through this town, passing by two villages and two woods, is Milanello.The two bases are not really between Milan and Como, but more precisely between Milan and Varese, on the east and west sides of the town of Tradatay.It could even be argued that these two bases are more like suburban bases in the city of Varese, after all, they are only a little more than 10 kilometers from the city, and not as far as Milan.The two bases are in the northwest corner of the city of Milan, so close to each other, Andrea Rizzoli, who built Milanello, has no intention of fighting with Angelo Moratti (old Moratti), and the ghost doesn't believe it.In the past, Wang Ai's understanding of the discord between the two Milans was still a bystander, but listening to Zanetti's introduction without a trace, Wang Ai, who had just walked into Appiano, clearly felt the love-hate intertwining between the two when they looked at each other: Why aren't you dead yet?
It is also a coincidence, after Zanetti's reminder, Wang Ai remembered that March 9 next year is the day of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Inter Milan, commonly known as the "Centennial Celebration"!
No wonder Moratti and the whole Inter Milan are so ambitious and take their arrival so seriously.Those who have made meritorious contributions to the club at major celebrations of the club will often be praised for a long time, and even promoted to club legends.If you can make outstanding contributions in the year of the centennial celebration, of course, the role will be even greater.If we can move towards the "big international era" in this year, it is of course what the club, fans and even Wang Ai himself dreamed of.()