When Zhang Jindong opened an air conditioner store with his older brother in 1990, presumably he could not imagine making a fortune of $ 8.3 billion 30 years later. And surely he did not think that that Inter Milan of the Germans Matthäus and Klinsmann would now be his. The story is that that small store on a Nanjing street became Suning Holding Group , the second largest company in China , which in 2018 achieved revenues of $ 80.8 billion thanks to the profits obtained on its website, Suning. com, and his work in different sectors: financial, technology, real estate, entertainment, investments ... Everything to be included in the Fortune Global 500 list of the last three years.

Such has been Zhang Jingdong's business success that the years have motivated him to enter the world of sports. First with Jiangsu Suning , a team of the Chinese First Division of soccer (CSL) that last summer was on the verge of taking Gareth Bale . Then the big prize: Inter Milan . In the summer of 2016 , Suning reached an agreement for the purchase of 70% of the shares of the Italian club and, as the months passed and after many negotiations in the management of the organization, it was decided that Steve Zhang (Nanjing, 1991), son of Zhang Jingdong, became the youngest president in the history of the whole of San Siro. He did it when he was only 26 years old , at an age at which most twenty-somethings are signing and selling players, but in Football Manager . He arrived in Milan after having studied in several business schools and after being part of the analyst team of the multinational Morgan Stanley , under the obvious approval of his father and with one goal: Leo Messi . The young Nerazzurri boss, who still doesn't dare to speak Italian, is in love with the Argentine player. In fact, he came of age at the end of 2009, on the same dates that the Argentine star raised his first Ballon d'Or.

To promote the latest Inter-Naples , Suning-owned television used an image of the Barcelona player's shadow over the Duomo square , and Massimiliano Mirabelli , a former Inter scout, claimed on Italian radio this summer that Zhang was obsessed with the Argentinian. For this reason, regardless of what happens in today's final, in the Suning offices the young Chinese businessman is very attentive to all the news at the Camp Nou and the rumors that place Messi out of the Barça club. Not in vain, the great objective of the tycoon is to turn Inter into a great commercial brand, once he has assured a good sporting career. And there fits, of course, the '10' of Barcelona.

Inter presented the highest income in its history last year, had the public delivered in a San Siro that wants to remodel (the best average number of spectators in the country) and needs the definitive ' punch ' to reappear in the top-10 of most valuable clubs in the world (right now it's 15th).

In sports, Inter has not won Serie A since 2010 and has been close to the Juventus Scudetto for a couple of years , although without success. Zhang resists losing the Argentine Lautaro Martínez , whom he bought for 25 million from Racing and for whom he is asking for more than 100, with Barcelona as the main interested party. In addition, he does not plan to let go of Romelu Lukaku , the perfect companion of the South American attacker and who cost him 75 million, his most expensive signing. Between them they have 60 goals this season, so the lead is assured. For this summer 40 has already been spent in Achraf to polish his defense, and in winter more than thirty were left in Eriksen , which has been difficult to adapt to. Conte has complained about the board and could say 'goodbye', but Zhang keeps bills in his pocket to undertake another great operation that he will celebrate in the same way as his team's move to the final of the Europa League: millennial selfie on him grass.

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