The fourth round of the FA Cup does not start until January 29, so York City is not in a hurry to prepare for the game against Tottenham.
Arsenal indeed lost in the subsequent Premier League London derby.
Chelsea defeated Arsenal 3:1 with goals from Marcos Alonso, Hazard and Harry Kane!
On Arsenal's side, Giroud only pulled one back in the last minute of the game, which can only be said to have saved a little face.
After Xhaka was suspended, Wenger could only line up the midfield combination of Coquelin and Ramsey, but Chelsea completely controlled the midfield, and 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 within the club has become more standardized since the arrival of Porter, the technical director.
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.
At this time, one of the benefits of defeating Arsenal in the FA Cup can be reflected again.
After becoming more famous, more talented children will be willing to come to York City for trial training, and will also be willing to join this club known for cultivating young players.
Of course, Pan Yi's name is still an important factor in attracting people. Who doesn't want to work under 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 important, but the most important thing is their leader, the coach.
In many teams in England, these roles are usually filled by retired players of the club, but they are often not professional enough.
In other words, it can be said that they are too "professional", and their minds are basically filled with the tactics and coordination of the professional arena, but they cannot combine it well with the nature of younger children.
Why are English players so often seen as lacking skills?
Some people think that it is because they have been instilled with too much tactical awareness and too little technical training since childhood. When they grow up, their skills are basically finalized.
And why do South American players seem to be more skilled?
Obviously this is because when they were young, they paid more attention to the talents of the players, letting their skills improvise, 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 flashes 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 simply, the youth team has never been the place where results are achieved, the adult team is.
Therefore, the youth team should be a proving ground, giving those young players as many opportunities to make mistakes as possible so that they can realize their potential.
Then they will gradually understand in training and competition what is right, 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, this kind of creativity is stifled. This is why the British stars are often mediocre tactical machines, and there are few like South American stars. Genius player.
Of course, even a country like England is much stronger than the Dragon Kingdom.
After all, even if people pay more attention to tactics, those youth training coaches have all 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, in Long Country, the foundation of football is weak, and many so-called coaches at the grassroots level may just be second-rate players who have played football.
In their eyes, being a coach for children is just a way to make money.
So, how can I attract more children to sign up and pay for my training camp? That, of course, is to achieve results.
Therefore, no matter whether it is a middle school competition or an elementary school competition, you should win whatever you can.
If you have paid attention to children's games, you may have seen that some coaches even encourage young players to make big moves to "shock" the opponent and thereby profit.
As for having your players desperately entangle the opponent's arrowheads, and not hesitate to tackle and throw them, it's pretty good.
After this, what kind of technical progress can there be, and how can we talk about the use of talent?
And these young players are even considered good, after all, they are taught by coaches.
There are many more who have no coaches at all, who rely on themselves to understand by watching TV and videos, and just fumble around to play. Their level will only get worse.
Let's talk about Pan Yi's previous life. He started playing football in middle school and could play on the middle school team and the university team. But it was only later that he realized that many of his playing methods were inaccurate.
Why are my shots always weak? It was because the distance between the supporting foot and the ball was wrong, and the ankle would lock the moment it touched the ball... No one had taught him these relatively professional knowledge before, so how could he know?
This resulted in his lack of solid basic skills and difficulty in reaching higher levels.
And there are definitely not a few teenagers in the Dragon Kingdom who play blindly like this, and there may even be some who are truly talented among them.
Therefore, if Longguo football wants to truly improve, it really does not happen overnight. It requires everyone to make long-term efforts. At least the soil of football must be spread to every inch of the motherland...
And now as the owner of York City Club, Pan Yi certainly attaches great importance to his youth training camp. Otherwise, how could he let Porter take charge of this aspect of business?
Moreover, in addition to equipping the youth team with professional doctors, physical therapists and other logistics teams, 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 requirements", etc. Pull up all the tall ones for me!
Of course, those youth training coaches who originally belonged to big clubs are not easy to poach, but through Pan Yi’s face recognition, you can still get a lot of good ones, such as Peters who later went to Hoffenheim, and Masio who was playing in Serie 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 also adhere to the 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 position and tactics in them.
While the York City training base is constantly being improved, the originally empty training base is also constantly improving the training field turf, and a new indoor football stadium is being built, so that training activities can be conducted even 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 within their scope of work, 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.
This is to help those young players from relatively difficult families. No matter what their family situation is, as long as they enter York City's youth training camp and 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 he was in Europe, Africa or South America...
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For Pan Yi, even better news is that the expansion of York City's home stadium, the West Siberia Stadium, has officially been completed!
It is said that Longguo's football is indeed not good, but if it compares with its engineering and construction capabilities... I don't know how far it will beat the British!
A major project like the West Siberia Stadium, which needs to expand to 10,000 seats, would normally take a year.
But the engineering company from Longguo commissioned by Pan Yi probably only took six or seven months to get it done!
This means that for each subsequent home game played by 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 designer and constructor, Pan Yi specially found Zhu Zhongyi, the designer of the engineering company.
"Mr. Pan, is something wrong?"
Zhu Zhongyi is a middle-aged man who looks a bit naive, and his appearance can be said to be ordinary.
But Pan Yi knows that he and his company are not simple.
BJ Workers Stadium, Capital Gymnasium, Wukesong Stadium, National Gymnasium, National Speed Skating Stadium "Ice Ribbon", BJ Winter Olympic Village... all have their company's designs.
Including the Lusail Stadium, the later venue for the 2022 Qatar World Cup finals, its iconic main steel structure and roof cable-membrane structure were also designed by their designers.
This modern stadium, which can accommodate more than 90,000 spectators, is a single cable-net roof building with the largest span and longest cantilever distance among similar cable-net systems in the world. However, Longguo's engineering group only took four or five years to build it. It was built in no time and put into use smoothly.
It was here that the Argentina team defeated France and won the third Hercules Gold Cup in their history!
Pan Yi's vision for his future new stadium is of course to be the most advanced. The main spaces include the competition stadium, player rooms, press areas, bathrooms, spectator areas, VIP areas, restaurants, honor rooms and other functional areas...
In short, it will definitely not be the old and small West Siberia now!
At this time, it is of course very important to find such an engineering company with the ability and speed.
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 to leave the new stadium to them.
"Gong Zhu, if I want you to help me design a new stadium, do you have any questions?" Pan Yi said straight to the point.
Zhu Zhongyi was slightly startled.
After all, after the average team expands 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 no ordinary person.
"I wonder what size the stadium Mr. Pan wants?" Zhu Zhongyi asked.
"About 40,000, which is about the same as Stamford Bridge." Pan Yi replied, "Of course, I also hope that this stadium can 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, we also hope that you can help us plan the land around the new stadium. I hope that the new stadium can be radiated outwards from the center, combining business, shopping, tourism, etc. Integrated industries form a prosperous commercial zone.”
"Oh?" Zhu Zhongyi's eyes flashed, obviously interested, "Is it the supporting planning and design of the entire area? That is a big project."
"What, are you having trouble?"
"How could it be possible?" Zhu Zhongyi laughed, and then took out his laptop from the briefcase he carried with him, "I happen to have a design drawing of a stadium here. Mr. Pan can take a look at it first. But if it involves Regarding the surrounding facilities, I’m afraid I’ll have to conduct an on-site survey.”
"Oh? Such 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 several design drawings: "Isn't Qatar going to host the 2022 World Cup? They need to build a lot of stadiums. We also participated in the bidding last year. The design drawings of these stadiums were shown to them at that time. However, they were all considered too small and were abandoned. But in terms of the design beauty and functional completion of the stadium, it is not much different from the 80,000-person stadium that was selected."
Pan Yi nodded.
Isn't that why I'm looking for you? It’s experienced and ready-made!
Then Zhu Zhongyi began to introduce to Pan Yi:
"This one has a bowl-shaped appearance. The facade is divided by a triangular grid. The roof is saddle-shaped and 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 this building, 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..."
"The biggest design highlight of this one 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 top of the stadium..."
It is indeed a construction engineering company in Longguo and has made sufficient preparations for bidding.
With so many alternatives, how can Party A be satisfied with any one?
"I think something like this looks good. A round stadium is easier to expand, right?" Pan Yi pointed to one of the design drawings.
The details that need to be considered when designing a stadium are undoubtedly very complicated. As a layman in architectural design, Pan Yi cannot give too many professional opinions.
He just found one that looked good.
The beauty of the stadium is of course also very important!
"Mr. Pan has a good vision." Zhu Zhongyi said with a smile, "At the beginning of the design of this stadium, the issue of capacity expansion was really taken into consideration. The initial design capacity of this stadium was 45,000 people, but the stadium structure was designed to have three floors. The stands, initially, were covered by a canopy.”
"If it is fully constructed, it will be able to accommodate more than 80,000 fans! And some areas can continue to be raised to the fourth floor."
"However, Qatar hopes to build 80,000 people in one step, so it did not adopt this plan."
Pan Yi nodded, isn't he? He is so professional!
"What is your budget for building this stadium?" Pan Yi asked.
"This stadium, coupled with the land planning and design around the stadium, it may not be possible to give an accurate figure now. According to my rough estimate, it will be at least about 300 million pounds." Zhu Zhongyi typed on the computer keyboard, and replied.
300 million pounds, this figure seems a bit scary, but it is also 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 reached 60,000, and since it is in a big city like London, the construction cost will be higher.
Therefore, building such a modern stadium in Yorkshire also includes the design of surrounding facilities. The price of 300 million pounds is considered a very reasonable price.
"Well, let's use this stadium as the design. You can go to the site to survey, and then come up with a complete design plan. We can discuss it in detail then, how about it?" Pan Yi suggested simply.
Zhu Zhongyi was stunned again.
This is 300 million pounds!
As a League One club, can you really have the money to build a club right away?
Pan Yi saw Zhu Zhongyi's doubts and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about money, I can take care of it. 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 it is 2017. Although the current unit price of Bitcoin is still only about 1,000 US dollars, by the end of the year, it will suddenly skyrocket to 20,000 US dollars!
In other words, as long as Pan Yi dumps his Bitcoin when the time comes, he will get $600 million.
At that time, Pan Yi's own money was enough to build this 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...
However, in the early stages of stadium preparation, Pan Yi still needs funds from the outside world. But there’s no need to worry.
In Pan Yi's plan, in addition to the club itself, commercial operations also include the vicinity of the stadium.
Now that the city government is also planning this area, Pan Yi can 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 the staff of the Ministry of Commerce, once the new stadium is completed and York City performs well, and the nearby land also increases in value, just renting out the land at the four corners will bring an inflow to York City every year. Less than £10 million in revenue, and that doesn't include revenue from stadium operations.
This area has not yet been developed and has huge business potential.
If nothing else, just look at the companies currently interested in York City. Every one of them is 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?
This is not just a sponsorship, but also a desire to get a share of the dividends 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's next step will definitely be to 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 this place will be by then.
This is an investment that will benefit the club endlessly, and it is also a potential stock that many companies are flocking to!
Therefore, when the time comes, as long as it is open to attracting investment, some companies will want to throw money in, and Pan Yi will not panic at all. As long as you can withstand the initial consumption, you will have Bitcoin to protect you later, don’t worry!
So, seeing how confident Pan Yi was, Zhu Zhongyi also agreed, patting his chest and promising to come up with a plan soon!
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During this period, Zhu Zhongyi and his design team also 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.
In the end, 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 is indeed well-deserved.
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 also held a high-profile press conference to announce that York City was about to build a new stadium!
This is of course also within Pan Yi's plan.
On the one hand, he did this to strengthen the confidence of the players and fans and let them understand that Pan Yi is serious here! A new stadium has been built, so we must continue to cultivate it, instead of just taking money and running away like some capitalists!
On the other hand, this is also equivalent to an advertisement, which means that wealthy companies from all over the world should come and take a look. Those who want to sponsor, those who want to invest, and those who want to settle in, please take a look. There is no such store after passing this 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 atmospheric! Is this a stadium designed for a League One club?
Even many wealthy families don’t have this! (The Milan duo are crying)
Soon, reporters were rushing to ask Pan Yi about the stadium.
"Excuse me, Mr. Pan Yi, how much does this 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.
You know, in order to build a new stadium for Arsenal, Wenger immediately fell into the dilemma of selling his captain every year to raise money, and this was still 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 posed this question to Pan Yi, the latter smiled and nodded:
"We have a complete set of planning plans for this stadium. We plan to operate all the surrounding land. This will become a large commercial center in York County in the future. Therefore, I also hope that companies that are interested in developing with us will You can contact our Director Horta as soon as possible..."
A reporter asked again: "But, Mr. Pan Yi, are you so confident? Will so many companies really choose to invest in you?"
Pan Yi replied calmly:
“First of all, our Director Horta has signed cooperation agreements with many companies including Adidas, Citibank, Volvo, and Okamoto very early. They are very interested in the new stadium plan and will work on it in the first place. Time infuses capital.”
"In addition, the Western Siberian Company controlled by Mr. Abu and Mr. Musk's SpaceX will also continue to invest funds, which will also help us to a great extent."
"Also...do you think that as the owner of York City, I am very poor?"
Speaking, Pan Yi also winked at the reporters.
"There are rumors that Mr. Pan Yi has accumulated a large amount of Bitcoins in your hands, and their value has reached about 30 million US dollars..." A reporter from "The Sun" stood up, "And there are so many Bitcoins in the world. There are very few people. Some people speculate that you are Satoshi Nakamoto himself. What do you think of this?"
"..." Pan Yi was speechless for a moment.
The news from "The Sun" came very quickly, but the fact that he is Satoshi Nakamoto is too suspenseful, right?
Satoshi Nakamoto is the founder of Bitcoin, but he rarely discloses his true information, so guessing who he is is a lot of fun for many people.
But I didn't expect that I would guess Pan Yi's head...
The main reason is that if he is Satoshi Nakamoto, he must have one million Bitcoins in his hand. Why should he 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 hand: "Pan Yi chose to acquiesce when faced with the doubt that he was Satoshi Nakamoto..."
