Zhang Kangyang reveals the secret of Inter's success At the age of 32, he has become a master of management

Nian Zhou

2024-04-25 08:31Posted in Shandong Premier League commentator, Tencent Football Contributing Writer Creator in the field of sports

On April 25, Beijing time, Inter Milan won the 20th Serie A title in team history, and club chairman Zhang Kangyang talked about the management of the Nerazzurri and some stories within the team.

This is Zhang Kangyang's second Serie A championship after becoming the chairman of Inter, and under his rule, Inter Milan also won 2 Italian Cup championships, 3 Italian Super Cup championships, a total of 7 championships!

This also allows the 32-year-old Zhang Kangyang to chase Jello Moratti, tied for the second most in team history, behind Massimo Moratti with 16 titles.

Regarding the management of Inter, Zhang Kangyang said: "From the current work situation, my managers have understood or knew what I want when I am not talking, because we have been in this club for 8 years, and the people around me have been with me for at least 5-6 years, so they probably know my answer or what I want, and the communication with me is relatively smooth, and I hope that they can give me a real answer."

"If I put pressure on them, or if I let them lie to me, that's okay. The problem is that I don't want this to be the way it is for a whole long-term job, or for office culture. Piero [Osirio] is our sporting director, so in terms of work, he's done a lot, very good transfers. First of all, if I'm not mistaken, I was the first free transfer and one of the most important players right now, and De Vrij did it at the time. I remember signing Lautaro, half a year ago, during Christmas, Osirio said to me, it's very good to have such a striker now, I need your support for the chairman, I was not the chairman at the time, and then he said if you don't sign, if you don't support me to sign this player, then you are not a good president.

That was the first time he had told me with such certainty, and then I slowly began to put my trust in him. After he said that, I felt like I would trust him for once, and if he was so sure about a player, he would be a great player. Then he flew to South America, and then I said, no matter what kind of price, what kind of situation, since he is a good player, then we will try to sign him, and you can grasp the price when you negotiate. In the next few days of negotiations, he called me every day after the negotiation to tell me about the general situation, after all, South America is quite far away, and then I told him, sign this player, you don't have to tell me too many details, since you are so sure, you will sign this player. Now it's all history, and I didn't expect this player to be our captain now. I was particularly impressed that Antonelo was still our CEO and Osirio was sitting in my room. He said if you don't let me sign this player, you're not a good chairman. People might be a little angry when they hear it, but when I heard it, I was sure that my sporting director was confident that he was sure that this player was a good player, so I decided to do it. ”

Speaking about Marotta and Antonello, Zhang Kangyang said: "Marotta is definitely a very important one for me in my entire Inter period, and his arrival has given me further stability, spiritual stability, or experience blessings. Because after all, I haven't done this before, and I've had people who have done this kind of thing, who have such a long experience, and who have won so many trophies, and coming here helps me to be a little bit more confident when I make some decisions or do something. But the CEO is the CEO of a company, so his scope of work is not only about what players to buy, or every detail of the negotiation, he may also have operations, such as some management and details of the usual team, for example, even small as turf, as large as the transfer and contract of the player, or the contract of everyone in our youth academy, or how to recruit everyone, what should the rules and regulations of the company in the sports direction be? That's all I'd ask him about the range, but I'm not going to ask Osirio about it, because Osirio is my sporting director and he's the one who chooses the players.

"The CEO starts from the sale of tickets, from the preparation of the turf, from the negotiation of this sponsor including the operation of each day, after all, we have hundreds of employees on the Inter side, which is relatively large in Italy, and the players have thousands of contract relationships, so the other CEO Antonelo is in charge of more people, and he is more in charge of some details of the usual operation. So it seems that our main focus is on transfers or something, but in fact, a lot of work is still in the day-to-day operation, but maybe for me, there will be more actions during the transfer period, because a lot of actions, such as substitutions, some work adjustments, organizational adjustments, I will do it in the summer transfer period. ”

Talking about the gifts after Inter won the championship, Zhang Kangyang smiled: "To be honest, they ask me for it, and I usually give it, so this is also a shortcoming of mine, I know that other clubs definitely don't give it." In fact, we have this tradition every year to win the championship, and the contract is part of it, but outside the contract they will tell me or not. I will also encourage everyone, including the staff, depending on the situation.

"It may be a gift, or it may come in a different form, because I think although the club is losing money, the important thing is that as a sports club, especially Inter, first of all, you have to put the winning of sports competitions first, so I must give everyone the confidence to sprint in that direction, and then feel from the bottom of my heart that we have to win from the beginning of the season, and that is our direction.

Although 6 years have passed, Zhang Kangyang still remembers 2018, he recalled: "My heart is still the most turbulent in Lazio, because I haven't told many people, but in the 18th season, when I was really in charge of the club by myself, everything was decided or signed, and it began to be completely implemented according to my own ideas." I was under a lot of pressure that season because I didn't know if I was doing the right thing. The company also put pressure on me that it was still a business after all, so there was a period of time when we started losing after the winter. Then I started to shake myself and asked myself if I was doing the right thing. The result really dragged on until the last game, and at Lazio, this game can be said to go down in the history of Inter's entire return to the rise. I think Spalletti was a very successful coach at the time. ”

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