Section 1 Welcome to Clezio
"As you can see, everything in Clezio training base is the most valuable asset of the Parma team."
Listening to the people on the other side, as an official of the Parma Municipal Government, Rossi didn't care about what the Parma team had. This was just a routine matter and it was no big deal. However, the current situation of Parma team made him quite interested.
Opposite is a tall man. Although he is wearing a sportswear that he specially changed into to facilitate sports, he still has a strong sense of heroism. This temperament makes Rossi quite fond of it. People in the sports world need to be a little heroic.
"The Clezio training base was established in 1990. It was built when the economy was good and it was built when it was planning for a long time. It was built with four training grounds and two and a half formal grounds, locker room, massage room, operating room, bathroom, vortex hot water bath, modern rehabilitation center and conference room. Even the indoor training ground is very complete, with badminton courts, physical therapy rooms, and hardware equipment. Of course, it was built when we had money, for more than ten years.
It has not been changed, it is a bit outdated and is not a close eye to the times, but the most basic turf, locker room, bathroom, power room and other common facilities are very good. It can be said that our base is counted in Italy. If the new boss takes office, he only needs to add a geothermal system here and repair the bathroom, and this place can become a first-class training base. It won’t cost much in total, and it can handle everything in about 2 million euros.”
"I will remember... Mr. Borg, ask me, are you usually responsible for this?"
Borg turned his head, looked at him, and then spoke, "I am the team's physical fitness coach. I am only responsible for paying attention to the players' physical fitness exercise, physical fitness assessment, and status maintenance. More things are not what I consider. However, the team's manager Mr. Baraldi is discussing the team's custody with your city government. Coach Li, the youth training director of the youth training base, also has the club's affairs to deal with, and I am the only one who takes you to do an asset inventory."
"Thank you, sir, although I am a government member and have to take over the custodial Parma, as a fan, I have to thank you. Mr. Borg, if I remember correctly, you are a Czech? A Czech man can stay in the team when the club goes bankrupt and never go anywhere. This is really admirable."
"I stayed for my reason...Mr. Rosie, are you here to do asset statistics for the club, or are you here to ask questions?"
"I'm sorry, I'm just curious." Rossi shrugged. "They all said that the club is over-the Palmarat group has gone bankrupt, Mr. Tanji has been arrested, and if the government had not entrusted the team, I wouldn't have to come here to count what you have. I'm curious if anyone would still want to stay at Palma Club."
"Are we people also the assets you need to count?"
"Of course you are not our assets on paper, but if you are willing to stay, our team will definitely be more convenient when looking for a new boss to take over." When talking about this issue, Rossi was still very sincere. "Parma is one of the best clubs in Italy. We are the seventh sisters in Serie A, so we shouldn't be done just that. Although I am a government staff member, I am also a fan of Parma. I hope he can rise again - if he can't rise, at least, maintain playing in Class A and give fans a pastime. I don't want it to end up like Fiorentina. They are bankrupt, but the fan base is still there, and if he wants to make a comeback, he can find a boss. But Parma's group goes bankrupt. If Parma goes bankrupt, this team will be really over. Parma's city is too small and we can't make a comeback."
"I can't control these things." Borg hesitated for a moment, but shook his head. "I stayed here just because I promised others to stay and cannot leave now."
"Is it Li Bin?" Rossi blurted out and asked, "I heard that after Mr. Plandelly left, the remaining people are headed by the youth training director Coach Li Bin. If anyone can persuade you to stay here, then it's only Li Bin."
Rossi didn't know the name Li Bin for a long time, but this did not prevent him from being impressed by this name.
"After your tone, are you dissatisfied with him?" Borg asked back.
"Of course. He is just a youth training supervisor, but I heard from people that he is the most valuable person in this team." Rossi spoke, "Although I don't know, don't think I don't know, there are rumors in the entire Italian football world now: Parma's most precious wealth is not the team's training base or the team's honor room, but the team's youth training system. Parma's youth training system is maintained by him, Li Bin. Whoever can poach Li Bin is equivalent to getting the entire Parma inheritance! He should be ashamed of this! He is a coach trained by Parma. If it weren't for Parma, how could he have what he is today? A Chinese man was valued in Parma. He should be grateful and give everything for Parma. But I heard that he actually hooked up with the three northern top three, which is too inappropriate, right?"
Rossi's intense words made Borg silent for a moment. After a while, he spoke, "The core asset of Parma Football Club is indeed not the training base here. Parma's most valuable asset is the scout, football schools, and player network built on 300 football schools around the world and its control. They are those cooperation contracts and connections. We have 83 football schools, five satellite clubs in Italy, plus our own mature coaching model, and the experience and systems summarized by the team over the years of work. These things are priceless. Although they seem to be just a few pieces of paper that can be invalidated at any time, they are indeed Parma's most valuable asset. And I think, even if you don't know the details and just know a rough idea through the media, you should be able to understand who made it all."
"Li Bin did all this and he shouldn't turn the network run by the team into his own network. Parma gave him the opportunity to work, so he should give everything for Parma." Rossi said angrily, "It was Parma who gave him the opportunity, and this is all right!"
"Okay? Mr. Rossi, you are not a football player, and you may not be sure what the situation is in the whole of Italy's youth training. It's 2004, not the time for the invincible Serie A world in the 1990s. Look at the top three in the northern world, and then look at the few young people who have come out in the past few years. You will know how bad the whole of Italy's youth training has reached. If it's right, then what he should do is to take the team's money, go to various places around the world to watch a few games every year, and then meet with the agents, and report to the team according to the agent's recommendation.
A list of players' inspections, and according to this list, let the team sign up - just like everyone does. Italian youth training coaches do this. They don't care what their youth training camp looks like. For them, youth training is equivalent to weak football countries. Digging young people from weak football countries is equivalent to completing youth training training, and they have made contributions. Of course, there may be some differences. Juventus digs France, Inter Milan digs Argentina, AC Milan digs Netherlands and Brazil, but in essence, there is not much difference. But you must be clear about what Li Bin did."
Borg looked up at the base, "I've been here for five years, and I saw how he works. I saw how he works. I saw how he ran to many countries in Africa, South America, North America, and Asia, where he visited local football schools, established cooperative relationships with them, trained coaches, and helped them, and thus developed them into the team's contract school. I also saw with my own eyes how he built the team's scout network around the world, built a dedicated archive room in the team, three computers, three scouts, and every day
The job is to inspect players through videos sent from all over the world, which is why we have the scout network that dominates Italy. Not to mention, the youth training concepts and training methods of this team were all established by him - you also know that five years ago, before 1999, it was difficult to stand up and question Saki's chain defense philosophy - do you really think these things are supposed to be? If everything he does is really supposed to be, then why among all the youth training supervisors in Serie A, he is the youth training supervisor who was snatched by the three northern top three, and not others? Opportunities are for you.
A capable person, right?" Borg continued, "What you do is not about how simplistic you say, but about what you have done. The football schools in various places contacted by Li Bin have established a cooperation method with them. Parma trains football coaching talents for them and gives them some products from Parma. It can be said that it has almost no money spent, and has won up this huge network of football schools. The money for Milan to set up a football school in Africa is enough for us to complete the layout of the entire West Africa. What do these rely on? It is not about boasting about how much you are.
I attach great importance to youth training, but rely on making more contact, exchanges with those countries, inspecting, guiding local football, and doing more practical things. Why do everyone know now that Parma's youth training network is maintained on Li Bin? Because everyone knows that this network is compiled bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit. If he leaves, this network will leave with him. Li Bin is now valued because he is a person who is really serious. His capital is earned by himself, so what is unacceptable?”
Borg said this and was also filled with emotion, "You, fans and management, have always only focused on the people above. You only focus on the head coach, the players, the managers, and regard them as the treasures of a team - but you don't understand, the importance of a team and the staff at the bottom, and you don't pay attention to it. Behind a team, 23 first-team players is a youth training echelon with up to 300 people and a 50,000 people's attention. Do you think Li Bin has received such attention too much? No, I think this is not enough. For Italy now, a youth training network, if it can be used well, it means that you have mastered a great opportunity, which means that your business can be restless in the next ten years, and that a team has the possibility and hope of long-term development - why don't such capital be sold at a price?"
"Is this why you chose to listen to Li Bin? For the benefit behind this scouting network?" Rossi asked, "But he is a Chinese!"
Chapter completed!