The second thousand and forty-ninth chapters can only play step ball if you have money
"If we have our own large stadium, it will not only be more convenient, but our income from tickets and ancillary products will definitely increase a lot, and we don't have to pay expensive rent. This is a good thing, a great thing!"
Minister Li said: "But you have to be mentally prepared. The ticket price is expected to drop by then. The current ticket price is still a bit high, which is not conducive to marketing!"
Yu Hong said, "If the new stadium has a capacity of 30,000 people, even if the price is reduced, our revenue will be huge. Unfortunately, the football atmosphere here is not as good as that of Songjiang, let alone the North Shore!"
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At this time, Yu Hong said with an extremely envious tone: "Look, their stadium now has 20,000 seats, but every game is full, and the ticket prices are also the most expensive and cheapest in the country.
Tickets cost two yuan!”
"After one game, they estimate that they can earn more than 50,000 yuan in ticket revenue. Plus other ancillary income, the income is at least 60,000 yuan!"
"It doesn't take much a month. If you play four games, it will be 240,000 yuan a month, and it will be more than two million yuan a year!"
"If their income hadn't been so high, they wouldn't have been able to continue to sign outstanding players at high prices. We have also contacted their current captain Li Bo. The signing fee is too high and the salary is also high. There are only teams like North Shore.
That’s why I’m willing to spend such an expensive price to sign someone.”
While Minister Li and Yu Hong were talking about the team's affairs, in another box, Feng Zisang, the general manager of the North Shore Football Club, and several other people were sitting together.
The general manager of the North Shore Footstepping Team, Feng Zisang, is not very famous. He is a retired military officer. He liked playing football when he was serving in the army, and he also served as the captain of the football team for his unit.
After retiring, he chose to go into business, but he didn't get involved for a few years and continued to play stepball on weekdays.
Later, as he was playing around, he discovered that whenever a group of friends played a regular football game, many people came to watch.
In response, he came up with an idea and invited another amateur step team from the North Shore to hold a commercial competition.
That game changed his entire life!
Because more than 8,000 spectators came to watch that game!
This is not free to watch, but there is a fee, and the tickets are not cheap, costing 50 cents. At the beginning, they only expected a few hundred people to watch.
They had calculated at the beginning that as long as there were 500 spectators, they would not lose money!
But in fact, eight thousand people came to watch that game.
In that game, he used the ticket income to pay for the venue rental, the players' match fees, and even gave him an extra nearly three thousand yuan.
From then on, he was out of control, organizing competitions every three days, and established the North Shore Football Club for corporate operation, becoming one of the earliest commercially operated football clubs in the Tang Dynasty.
But in the early years, even though it was a commercial operation, it was still amateur in nature, and you had to contact other clubs for competitions.
Later, the officials of the Tang Dynasty Empire began to promote football and make it professional, so the North Shore team became the first professional football team in the Tang Dynasty Empire.
Now, the North Coast Football Club and twenty other teams from Northern Zhejiang, Jiangnan Road, South Anhui Province and a few Jiangbei Road and North Anhui Province form the Pan-Jiangnan Football Professional League.
As for why it is limited to these places, it is naturally due to transportation and distance factors.
The Tang Empire was too big, and although there are trains and ships in the modern era, the transportation speed is still relatively slow. Therefore, taking into account the factors of teams traveling to and from games, neighboring teams formed a professional league together.
Now in the Datang Empire, there are a total of five professional league systems in different regions. Each league is independent of each other. Of course, the rules and the like are unified. After all, there is a Datang Buqiu Professional League above.
However, the only competition nationwide is the No. 1 Scholar Cup. However, the No. 1 Scholar Cup is actually divided into regional group matches to select the qualifying spots, and then the regional competition is held. Finally, two teams are selected to enter the finals and go to Jinling.
Participate in the game at a neutral venue!
The reason for establishing multiple league systems and establishing a regional system is simply that the Tang Empire is too large and there are no airplanes these days. It cannot be said that it is wrong to let a team from Beihai Province travel to Haidong Province to compete.
This would take more than a month just to travel back and forth.
Moreover, the Tang Dynasty people actually have a lot of professional footwork teams. Basically every city has one or even several professional footwork teams. If it is a big city, there are often several professional footwork teams. As for business, every city has one or even several professional footwork teams.
Every school will have a step team, and there will be regular competitions.
Then some large companies often have footwork teams, and other amateur footwork teams among the private sector are also quite widespread.
In addition, there are also many military infantry teams. However, the military infantry teams generally do not have contact with civilian infantry teams. They are usually internal competitions within the military. Every year, two winning teams are sent to participate in the final competition.
finals.
This final is also called the Royal Football Match.
The level of this event is much higher than that of the No. 1 Champion Cup, because Sheng Tianzi will attend in person every time, and the specifications are the same as the Royal Polo Match.
Of course, high specifications do not mean high competitive levels!
In terms of competitive level, the No. 1 Champion Cup is still higher!
Because the football teams within the military are all organized into divisions or units of the same level, the range of player selection is limited. There may be a few very good players in a team, but others are mediocre.
But professional football is different. You can poach people from anywhere. As long as you have sufficient funds, you can poach a group of outstanding players and add a star captain to form a luxurious team.
But even so, the two major royal events are still the most grand sports events in the Tang Empire every year. Who makes the Holy Emperor watch these two events every year?
As for the No. 1 Champion Cup, it is a national carnival event. There will be hundreds of thousands of spectators watching the final. The royal family can only send one representative to show their face every year.
How to put it, in Li Xuan’s words, people have fun only once a year, so I won’t join in the fun!
If Li Xuan actually went to see it, the estimated number of hundreds of thousands of spectators would instantly turn into several hundred...
Because no one dares to let hundreds of thousands of ordinary people come within a kilometer of the Holy Emperor!
In any case, there are a lot of various football teams in the Datang area, and people in the Tang Dynasty love to play and watch them.
So much so that in the small area of Songjiang Prefecture, there are actually three footstep teams competing in the Pan-Jiangnan Professional League. In addition, there are many teams competing in low-level competitions. There are a total of eight professional footstepping teams in the entire prefecture.
So many
There are many step-by-step teams, which is also the basis for organizing many competitions.
The rapid development of football in the Tang Dynasty also means that the people's livelihood and economy of the Tang Dynasty have been greatly improved.
Because the consumption related to football is definitely a non-necessity consumption. If you don’t have a little spare money in your pocket, who will spend money to buy tickets to watch a football match!
Only when the economy improves and people have more spare money in their pockets can we support this kind of non-essential consumption!