Lazio, Lotito a river in flood: “We will have a solid and strong future and the players must give their blood…”

Go back to talking Claudio Lotito that on the occasion of the celebration for the 25th anniversary of the foundation of Lazio Club Zagarolo he commented on many of the hot topics in the Biancoceleste home.

Future

I am convinced that despite the vicissitudes we will achieve certain results because Lazio is building a solid and strong future. Beyond the stadium project, we are now starting with the Academy and we have a sports center which is the largest in Italy. We have a media situation against us because when someone manages to build a team with a solid structure it starts to get annoying. Sporting results are fundamental but so is stability. Many teams today can achieve sporting results, we lost to more accessible teams and this is a symptom of a mental problem as the facts have shown with the coach who left. I want to clarify that Sarri has left but I paid my salaries until June, I didn’t save anything.

Tudor’s choice

Today a fighting coach arrived because Lazio has always been a fighting team and club and the strength of this club has always been the fans. When fans believe in a project and support a project, results are achieved. Unity is strength, we must be united, each with their own role because no one must forget the history of this company.

50 years since the 1974 Scudetto

Now we have started a battle to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first championship, a special stamp will be produced. We fight every day to make it clear that Lazio exists, is there and will be there.

Changes in society

Last year I changed the manager of the spring and youth sector. The Primavera had been relegated, they had not recovered, the women’s team had been relegated. We first created the conditions so that Lazio had a certain future and no idle talk. We created a structure, when I arrived there were wooden benches. Today there is a cutting-edge center that has no one. The Primavera team are third, four points behind Inter, the women’s team is first and when everyone acts defeatist I say that now we have six games against teams that on paper should be more accessible. If the team puts its mind and determination into it, we will have our say.

Spirit of Lazio

Lazio lives, has a determined, combative coach, carrot and stick or pedals or pedals. You need the desire, the team spirit, the desire to bring home the results and the results are carried forward all together because this team exists because the fans are there. You know that I have had some very tough talks with the players on the assumption that when they take to the pitch they must think that many people make sacrifices, not only of time, who also give up buying a pair of shoes for their children to follow their own squad. They have to give blood, they have to fight with their heart. Because we have a history, a tradition, we must embrace our cause. Anyone who believes in Lazio’s values ​​must live them every day with their behavior on the pitch.”

Relationship with the players

Last year, it’s good for you to know, we came second but in September they took January’s salaries. People need to understand that it is a pride to be from Lazio, a pride to work and fight on the Lazio pitch and not just for the salary. I am convinced that projects that are based on concrete and serious things bring results. They always wore them. Aren’t the players we have strong? It depends on how they take the field and what they do. The players go to the field. Immobile was the golden shoe, why? Can’t Castellanos see the door? And he will see it, in life the players will learn. Gila was a player that no one had seen, now you see it, he didn’t play for a year.

Tare’s farewell

Tare left, no one sent him away.

Derby

Lazio has potential, they must live it on the pitch. You lost a derby, what should we do? They had a shot on goal, someone missed a few goals. If they had my determination and my character they would win derbies. The approach to the match: either you take the field with determination or you don’t get the results. You have been here for 25 years, with sacrifices, a family history, because you believe in the project. The same thing the players must do on the pitch, they must go out with determination, malice, because they must give satisfaction to all of you and to all the fans in the world.