The fourth round of the FA Cup will not start until January 29, so York City is not in a hurry to prepare for the game against Tottenham.
As expected, Arsenal lost in the subsequent Premier League match between London and Germany.
Chelsea defeated Arsenal 3:1 with goals from Marcos Alonso, Hazard and Harry Kane!
As for Arsenal, just if Giroud pulled one back in the last minute of the game, it can be said that they saved a little face.
After Xhaka was suspended, Wenger was able to line up the midfield combination of Coquelin and Ramsey, but Chelsea completely controlled the midfield, so failure was inevitable.
What makes Pan Yi happy is that in addition to Chelsea and York City both defeating Arsenal on the field, York City Club has also made great progress in all aspects recently.
For example, the youth training system outside the club has become more standardized since the arrival of technical director Porter.
Youth teams in U12, U14, U16 and other age groups are gradually established and improved, and the recruitment of young players from all over the world is also proceeding in an orderly manner.
That's when one of the benefits of beating Arsenal in the FA Cup can be seen again.
After becoming more famous, more talented children will be willing to come to York City for trial training, and they will also be willing to join the club that is famous for cultivating young players.
Of course, Pan Yi's name still attracts attention. Who doesn't want to hang out with the best coach in the world?
At the same time, Porter has also been authorized to find more and better youth coaches from Europe.
For children, the club's facilities are of course important, but the most important thing is not their leader, that is, the coach.
In many teams in England, these roles are usually filled by retired players of the club, but they are often very professional.
In other words, it can be said that they are too "careerless", and they basically have the tactics and cooperation in the professional arena in their minds, but they are unable to combine them well with the nature of younger children.
Why are England players so often seen as lacking skill?
Some people think that it is because they have been given too much tactical awareness and lack of technical training since they were young. When they grow up, their skills are basically finalized.
And why do South American players seem to be more skilled?
Obviously, it is because they pay more attention to the talents of players when they are young, allowing their skills to be improvised, and exploring their creativity and technical potential as much as possible.
Even if they make a mistake and the team loses, the coaching staff will not reprimand them for it, but will give them encouragement and support.
Therefore, in such youth teams, you can often see shining points of genius, and when they grow up, they will also use such skills on the court.
As for those more advanced tactics, it's totally too late to learn them when you're an adult.
To put it in a simple sentence, no, the youth team never produces results, only the adult team does.
Therefore, the youth team should be a proving ground, giving young players as many opportunities as possible to make mistakes and let them realize their potential.
Then they will gradually understand in training and competition what is wrong, what is wrong, what should be done and what should not be done.
But at present, in the youth training camps of most teams in England, that kind of creativity has been stifled, which is why the British stars are often not quite satisfactory tactical machines, and few are as good as the South American stars.
talented player.
Of course, even if it is like England, it is still much stronger than the Dragon Kingdom.
After all, even if people pay more attention to tactics, those youth training coaches have not received professional or professional football training. At least they are professional in football, and the children they teach will not be too bad.
On the other hand, Longguo has a weak football foundation, and many of the so-called coaches at the grassroots level are just second-rate players who have played football.
In their eyes, being a coach for children is a way to make money.
So, how can he attract more children to sign up and pay money for his training camp? Of course, he can't get good results.
Therefore, it does not matter whether it is a middle school competition or an elementary school competition, whatever the probability is, it can be won.
If I had paid attention in children's competition venues, I would have seen that some coaches would even encourage young players to make big moves to "shock" the wrong team and thereby make a profit.
As for having your players try their best to cling to the arrowheads on the wrong side, even if they don't hesitate to make tackles, hugs and throws, that's fine.
So in Donglai, what kind of technological advancements have there been, and what kind of talents can be used?
As for those young players, they are even considered good, after all, they are still taught by coaches.
There are many people who have no coach at all and rely on themselves to watch TV and videos to understand and play blindly. Their level will be even worse.
Let's talk about Pan Yi's past life. He started playing football in middle school, and he could play for the middle school team or the university team. But it was only later that he realized that many of his playing methods were incorrect.
Why is his shot always weak? Is it because the distance between the supporting foot and the ball is good, and the ankle needs to be locked the moment it touches the ball... No one has taught him these relatively professional knowledge before, so how does he know?
This will cause his basic skills to be weak, and it will be difficult for his level to reach a higher level.
As for teenagers who play blindly on their own like that, there are definitely a few in the entire Dragon Kingdom, and even among them there are some who are truly talented.
Therefore, if Longguo football wants to truly improve, it cannot happen overnight. It requires everyone to make long-term efforts. At least, it must first spread the soil of football to every inch of the motherland...
Now, as the owner of York City Club, Pan Yi certainly attaches great importance to his youth training camp. Otherwise, why would Porter be allowed to take charge of that aspect of business?
Moreover, in addition to providing professional doctors, physical therapists and other logistics teams for the youth team, Pan Yi also helped Porter arrange a professional coach for each age group.
In England, such professional coaches are relatively scarce, but who is Pan Yi?
As a senior FM player, he even remembers the attributes of many youth training coaches, such as "working with young players", "judging player potential", "personnel management", "willpower", "discipline" and so on.
Bring him all those with high attributes!
Of course, those youth training coaches who originally belonged to big clubs are difficult to poach, but through Pan Yi's face recognition, it is possible to get many good ones, such as Peters who later went to Hoffenheim, and Marcio who was interested in playing in Italy C.
,etc.
They are all very familiar with and understand the entire youth training system, and they clearly know what York City's philosophy is for cultivating the youth team.
And they can very well adhere to a principle of exploring the skills of young players as much as possible before they are 15 years old, and only after that, start to instill in them positions and tactics.
While the York City training base is constantly being improved, the originally empty training base is also constantly improving the training ground turf, and a new outdoor football stadium is being built, so that training activities can be conducted when the weather is bad.
At the same time, the team's technical staff and medical team members are also increasing. They have begun to include the physical examination of all young players who join the team as part of their work scope, and everything has become more professional.
At the same time, the York City Foundation previously established by Pan Yi has also established special services to help families of players in need.
Then help those young players whose family background is relatively difficult. No matter what their family situation is, they can enter York City's youth training camp. If they encounter difficulties, the club will be obliged to help them solve their problems.
In addition, York City's scouting network around the world is also gradually spreading.
They began to search for young talents from all over the world for the team, whether they were in Europe, Africa or South America...
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As for Pan Yi, the even better news is that the expansion work of York City's home stadium and the West Siberian Stadium has been officially completed!
Please tell me whether the football in Longguo is really bad, but is it better than the engineering construction... Then I don’t know how far away the British can be!
A major project like the West Siberia Stadium to expand the number of seats to 10,000 people would normally take a year.
But the engineering company from Longguo that Pan Yi commissioned only took six or seven months to get it done!
That means that for every home game played by Jie Dong Lai York City, the ticket revenue can be doubled!
Of course Pan Yi is not satisfied with this.
At the thank-you banquet held for the designers and builders, Pan Yi specially found Zhu Zhongyi, the designer of that engineering company.
"Mr. Pan, is there something wrong?"
Zhu Zhongyi is a middle-aged man who looks a bit naive. It can be said that his appearance is ordinary.
But Pan Yi knows that he and his company are not simple.
BJ Workers Stadium, Capital Gymnasium, Wukesong Gymnasium, National Gymnasium, National Speed Skating Stadium "Ice Ribbon", BJ Winter Olympic Village... all have designs by their company.
Including the later 2022 Qatar World Cup final venue, Lusail Stadium, its iconic main steel structure and roof cable-membrane structure were also designed by their designers.
As for the modern stadium that can accommodate more than 90,000 spectators, it is a single cable-net roof building with the largest span and the largest overhang distance among similar cable-net systems in the world. It took Longguo's engineering group four to five years to build it.
It was built in a matter of seconds and put into use smoothly.
Did the Argentina team defeat France there and win their third Hercules Gold Cup in history?
Pan Yitong’s vision for the future new stadium certainly does not require the most advanced one. The main space includes the competition stadium, player rooms, press areas, bathrooms, spectator areas, VIP areas, restaurants, honor rooms and other functional areas...
In short, it is absolutely wrong and it will not disappoint the old and small Western Siberia!
At that time, it was of course very important to find such a capable and fast engineering company.
Facts have also proved that they are indeed very capable. They completed the stadium expansion project in a short period of time. Now it is natural for them to hand over the new stadium to the east.
"Gong Zhu, if you want me to help him design a new stadium, is there any problem?" Pan Yi said straight to the point.
Zhu Zhongyi was slightly startled.
After all, after the average team has completed the expansion of the stadium, they generally don't think about building a new stadium immediately, because it is difficult to turn around the funds.
But it was obvious that the Pan Yi in front of him was not an ordinary person.
"I wonder how big the stadium Mr. Pan wants is?" Zhu Zhongyi asked.
"About 40,000, which is about the same as Stamford Bridge." Pan Yi replied, "Of course, he also hopes that the stadium will have room for expansion, such as adding floors and seats."
Pan Yi thought that the number of York City fans is growing rapidly, and soon the supply of stadium tickets for 20,000 people will exceed demand.
However, due to the population and transportation constraints of Yorkshire, there is no great need to build a stadium that is too large - such as the one at Camp Nou.
Taken together, the stadium, which can initially accommodate 40,000 people, is sufficient.
In the later stage, if York City becomes a top club and can attract fans from all over the country, or even the world, to watch games, then the capacity will be expanded through an expandable design.
Before Zhu Zhongyi could answer, Pan Yi continued: "In addition, they really hope that we can help them plan the land around the Yidong New Stadium. He hopes that the new stadium can be the center and radiate outwards, combining business, shopping, and tourism.
Tourism and other integrated industries form a prosperous commercial zone.”
"Oh?" Zhu Zhongyi's eyes flashed, obviously he was interested, "Can the entire area be planned and designed? Can it be a big project?"
"What, are you having trouble?"
"How could that be possible?" Zhu Zhongyi laughed, and then took out his laptop from the briefcase he carried with him, "He happens to have a design drawing of a stadium there. Mr. Pan can take a look first. If it involves
To the surrounding facilities, I’m afraid he will have to conduct on-site inspections.”
"Oh? What a coincidence? Let's take a look at the stadium design first." Pan Yi looked at the computer.
Zhu Zhongyi turned on the computer and pulled out a few design drawings: "Wouldn't Qatar ask to host the 2022 World Cup? They need to build a lot of stadiums. They also participated in the bidding last year. And the design drawings of those stadiums were not shown to them at that time.
Yes, they were all considered too small and were abandoned. But in terms of the stadium’s design beauty and functionality, it is not much different from the 80,000-person stadium that was selected.”
Pan Yi nodded.
Then why don’t you ask us to find the reason? We have experience and ready-made solutions!
Then Zhu Zhongyi began to introduce to Pan Yi:
"That one has a bowl-shaped appearance, with the facade divided by a triangular grid. The roof is saddle-shaped, supported by a cable-membrane structure. It is high from east to west and low from north to south. The projection of the entire stadium is circular..."
"In that one, the main roof cable network adopts a double-spoke spoke tension structure with a span of 274 meters and a cantilever distance of 76 meters. It is shaped like a huge wheel-shaped bowl cover..."
"As for that, the biggest design highlight is its controllable folding roof. The roof is covered with folding polytetrafluoroethylene sheets and cables. When it is unfolded, it looks like a sail covering the square of the stadium..."
As expected of Longguo's construction engineering companies, they made sufficient preparations for wrong bidding.
With so many alternative plans, how can Party A be satisfied with any one?
"He thinks it looks good like that. A round stadium is easier to expand, right?" Pan Yi pointed to one of the design drawings.
When designing a golf course, the details that need to be considered are undoubtedly very complicated. As a layman in architectural design, Pan Yi cannot give too many professional opinions.
So he found one that looked good.
Of course, the beauty of the stadium is also very important!
"Mr. Pan has a good vision." Zhu Zhongyi said with a smile, "When the stadium was designed, the issue of capacity expansion was really taken into consideration. The initial design capacity of the stadium was 45,000 people, but the stadium structure should be designed to have three floors.
Are the stands covered by a roof in the first place?"
"If it is fully constructed, it will be able to accommodate more than 80,000 fans! And some areas can be further raised to the fourth floor."
"The Qatari side hoped to build 80,000 people in one step, so they did not adopt that plan."
Pan Yi nodded, isn't he? He is so professional!
"What is the budget we have given to build that stadium?" Pan Yi asked.
"That stadium, coupled with the land planning and design around the stadium, it is difficult for Keke to give an accurate figure now. According to his rough estimate, it is at least about 300 million pounds." Zhu Zhongyi typed on the computer
keyboard, and replied.
300 million pounds, that number seems a bit scary, but is it normal?
For example, the Emirates Stadium built by Arsenal in 2006 cost between 400 million and 500 million pounds.
Moreover, the initial capacity of the Emirates Stadium reaches 60,000, and if it is in a big city like London, the construction cost will be higher.
Therefore, building such a modern stadium in Yorkshire includes the design of surrounding facilities. Is 300 million pounds a very reasonable price?
"Well, let's use that stadium as the design. I will go to the site to survey, and then compile a complete design plan. They will discuss it in detail then, how about it?" Pan Yi suggested simply.
Zhu Zhongyi was stunned again.
Can that be 300 million pounds?
Is it really possible for a League One club to be built by someone so stupid?
Pan Yi saw Zhu Zhongyi's doubts and said with a smile: "I don't have to worry about money, he can take care of it. I can just go ahead and design with confidence!"
For Pan Yi now, money will soon no longer be a problem.
Don’t forget, since Pan Yi bought Bitcoin early, he has already saved about 30,000 Bitcoins.
And now in 2017, although the current unit price of Bitcoin is still around US$1,000, by the end of the year, it will skyrocket to US$20,000!
In other words, if Pan Yi throws Bitcoin out when the time comes, he will lose $600 million.
At that time, Pan Yi's own money was enough to build that stadium!
And Pan Yi will not sell them all by then. After all, the peak price of Bitcoin will occur in 2021, and the unit price at that time will be close to 70,000 US dollars...
Even in the early stages of stadium preparation, Pan Yi does need funds from outside. But there is no need to worry about that.
In Pan Yi's plan, commercial operations include not only the club itself, but also the vicinity of the stadium.
The Ming City Government is also planning that area, which makes Pan Yi clearly see that once the surrounding land is operated, the rent alone will be enough for York City to benefit from it in the future.
According to the estimates of Horta and Ministry of Commerce staff, once the new stadium is completed and York City performs well, and if the value of nearby land also increases, just renting out the land at the four corners will be enough to bring money to York City every year.
The income is no less than 10 million pounds, and that does not include the income from the stadium operation.
That area is very undeveloped and has huge business potential.
If nothing else, just take a look at the companies that are currently interested in York City. All of them are desperately trying to invest money in the club. And if the news of building a new stadium is released, how many companies will want to come in?
Not only do you want to sponsor it, but you also want to get a share of the profits of such a commercial center.
It is conceivable that under the operation of the York City Department of Commerce, once more and more large companies settle near the new stadium, the city government will definitely focus on planning the west and south of the city stadium, so that the entire area will benefit.
From this, you can imagine how prosperous it will be there.
This is an investment that will bring unlimited benefits to the club, and it is also a potential stock that many companies are flocking to!
Therefore, when the time comes, we will open the door to attract investment. Some companies want to throw money in, but Pan Yi is not panic at all. As long as we can withstand the initial consumption, there will be Bitcoin to cover the bottom later, so I am afraid of losing a hair!
But, seeing how confident Pan Yi is, Zhu Zhongyi also agreed to Donglai, patting his chest and promising to come up with a plan soon!
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During that period, Zhu Zhongyi and his design team watched a game in the 26th round of the English League One in Western Siberia, where York City played Oxford United at home.
Oxford United did not pose much of a threat to York City. York City showed very strong dominance throughout the game and completely suppressed Oxford United.
Initially, with goals from Lin Liangming, Kulusevski and De Ligt, York City defeated Oxford United 3:0 and continued to lead the standings.
The warm atmosphere at York City's home court and the high-spirited emotions of the fans for 90 minutes also deeply affected Zhu Zhongyi and other Dragon Kingdom designers.
They all expressed that they must design the new stadium well so that it can more fully display the style of York City players and fans!
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Dragon Kingdom’s speed certainly lives up to its reputation.
Just one week later, Zhu Zhongyi delivered the design drawings that embodied the team’s wisdom.
And Pan Yi passed it directly with a stroke of his pen, and held a high-profile press conference to announce that York City was about to build a new stadium!
Of course, this was outside of Pan Yi's plan.
By doing this, on the one hand, can he strengthen the confidence of the players and fans and let them know whether Pan Yi is serious about playing there? A new stadium has been built, so he must ask for further development there, instead of being like some capitalists.
Almost just take the money and run away!
On the other hand, it is also equivalent to an advertisement, meaning that wealthy companies from all over the world should come and take a look. Those who are seeking sponsorship, investment, and settlement should all take a look.
, there is no such store after passing that street!
When the reporters came to the York City Club's press conference room and saw the stadium design presented on the huge projection in front of them, they couldn't help but be stunned.
Beautiful and grand! Is it a stadium designed for a League One club?
Even many wealthy clubs don’t have that! (The Milan duo are crying)
Soon, reporters were rushing to ask Pan Yi about the stadium.
"Excuse me, Mr. Pan Yi, how much does that stadium cost?"
Pan Yi smiled: "Together with the surrounding land management, the total construction cost is about 300 million pounds!"
All reporters at the scene exclaimed.
I wonder if Wenger could have built a new stadium for Arsenal back then, and they were immediately put into the predicament of selling their captain every year to raise money, and that was not a strong Premier League team.
As a League One team, York City can spend so much money to build a stadium, which has to be said to be very surprising.
When the reporter asked Pan Yi that question, the latter smiled and nodded:
"For that stadium, they have a complete set of planning plans. They plan to operate all the surrounding land, which will become a large commercial center in York County in the future. Therefore, he also hopes that companies that are interested in developing with them will
, you can contact their Director Horta as soon as possible..."
A reporter asked again: "Can you, Mr. Pan Yi, are you that confident? Will there really be so many companies choosing to invest in us?"
Pan Yi replied calmly:
"First of all, their director Horta has already signed cooperation agreements with many companies including Adidas, Citibank, Volvo, and Okamoto. They are very interested in the new stadium plan and will work on it as soon as possible.
Inject capital.”
"In addition, the Western Siberian company controlled by Mr. Abu and Mr. Musk's SpaceX will continue to invest funds, which will also help them to a large extent."
"It's very... do we think that as the owner of York City, he has very little money?"
As he said that, Pan Yi winked at the reporters.
"There are rumors that Mr. Pan Yi has accumulated a large amount of Bitcoins in your legs, and their value has reached about 30 million US dollars..." A reporter from "The Sun" stood up, "And the world has so many Bitcoins.
There are very few people who own coins. Some people speculate that I am Satoshi Nakamoto. What do I think about this?"
"..." Pan Yi was speechless for a moment.
The news from "The Sun" came very quickly, but the question of whether he was Satoshi Nakamoto was too suspenseful, right?
Satoshi Nakamoto is not the founder of Bitcoin, but he rarely discloses his true information, so guessing who he is is still fun for many people.
But I didn't expect to guess that Pan Yitou was...
Lord, if he is not Satoshi Nakamoto, why should he have one million Bitcoins anyway? Is it really necessary to wait until the end of the year to sell them?
Seeing that Pan Yi did not reply, the "Sun" reporter nodded and wrote in the notebook in his lap: "Pan Yi chose to acquiesce when faced with doubts about whether he was Satoshi Nakamoto..."