Father Green

Chapter 365: Southampton's China Tour
After the team arrived in Chengdu, they held a meeting ceremony with many fans at the Chengdu Sports Center.Naturally, the stadium in the training base cannot satisfy so many fans. Due to the limited time, Sun Bin first arranged the accommodation, living areas, training grounds and fitness facilities in the training base.

Therefore, the construction of the stadium in the training base has not yet started. Since Sun Bin and Xu Genbao suggested that a football club should be established, Charlotte naturally planned to build the stadium into a professional football stadium.

He wants to separate the stadium and the training base a little bit. The training base is on the east side and is fully enclosed, with only two or three gates to enter and exit.However, he intends to adopt the approach of foreign professional clubs for the stadium. In addition to building a professional stadium with a capacity of 5 to [-] people, there are also some supporting commercial facilities around it.

Such as bars, coffee shops, fast food restaurants, jerseys, fan souvenir stores, etc. Of course, you can't become a big fat man with one bite, and you have to take your time with these things.

The Chengdu Sports Center with more than 4 people was almost full for this meeting, and many of them came from other cities across the country.Originally, Charlotte meant to meet up and show off her hands to give some gifts or something, but she didn't expect the fans to be so enthusiastic.

Because it is commercial in nature, tickets are naturally charged for this meeting, but the price is not expensive. The most expensive ticket is only about 200 yuan, and the cheapest is only a few dozen yuan.

However, according to this attendance rate, the income of this meeting will be several million yuan. Since the China tour in Southampton is operated by Charlotte's training base, this part of the income will naturally belong to Charlotte's training base. It belongs to China Panda Sports Investment Management Group.

In fact, after this part of the tickets is distributed to part of the rent of the sports center and then to the appearance fee of the Southampton club, there is not much money left.

In fact, Charlotte didn't expect these to make money. This year is just the team's China trip to test the waters, so his goal is to save capital.In order to lay the foundation for the future and improve the relationship with the fans, there is almost no money this year.

He knows that when Real Madrid and other European teams came to China to make money, they offended the Chinese fans enough. They are not fools like you look like "people are stupid and have a lot of money", so they will naturally not buy you in the future.

In order to let the fans carry on, Charlotte simply divided the players into two teams and had a team training match in this stadium. At the end of the day, [-] players (including several outstanding youth team players) signed some autographs together. The old football was kicked into the stands and given to the fans.

For the fans, this meeting is naturally of great value.Not only did I see the stars of Southampton, but I also saw Charlotte.In the end, I also got a signed football, which is of course worth more than 100 or even dozens of tickets.

After the fan meeting, the team's summer training is finally on the right track.The team practiced twice a day, from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am, and then from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] pm.

In fact, July in China is very hot, so in order to avoid the noon time when the sun is scorching hot, Charlotte asked the team to train at three o'clock in the afternoon, even though the temperature at three o'clock is still hot.

Many of the players are coming to China for the first time, Higuain may be the only player who has been to China before, so everyone is very interested in this mysterious country.But Charlotte expressly forbids the players to go out to play during this free time at noon.

Charlotte asked the players to try their best to stay in the room for a lunch break at noon. It could be taking a nap or playing some electronic products or reading books by themselves, as long as they don’t leave the dormitory building of the training base.

This is done so that they can concentrate on training in the afternoon. Otherwise, if they don't take a break at noon in this weather, they will definitely not have energy in the afternoon.So it is necessary to take a nap, and Charlotte is not, otherwise the players can play, after [-]:[-] pm, the players are free to move around, as long as they enter the dormitory building before [-]:[-] pm, there is no problem.

For the city of Chengdu, it is generally more interesting at night.It's too hot during the day, so everyone goes out shopping and eating at night in summer.

It is worth mentioning that Charlotte posted a paragraph on Weibo: "During this period of time, if any enthusiastic fans find that our players are playing too much outside, they can use Weibo to report and provide photos Or netizens who have video evidence will receive a jersey signed by me."

This microblog went viral as soon as it was posted, don't underestimate Charlotte's influence in the internet celebrity world.Of course, Southampton's players are actually very self-disciplined under the influence of Charlotte. After all, they have just finished their vacation, and they are not so hungry for nightclub girls.

So some weird netizens met Southampton players on the streets of Chengdu and not only rushed to take photos together, but also took photos or videos of them playing.The most interesting thing is that a fan photographed Pogba on a stage performing Sichuan opera in People's Park.

In the video, Pogba was instructed by a Sichuan opera actor, then took a mouthful of liquid in his mouth, and then sprayed it out at the torch in his hand, and a ball of fire burst out of Pogba's mouth.

This netizen immediately uploaded the video, and then Art Charlotte: "I want to report!! Boba is playing with 'fire'!!"

Charlotte was also amused by this netizen. He reposted the video and said: "This kid looks good in tomorrow's training!"

Everyone could see that Charlotte was joking, and anyone who knew him knew his character.

In fact, the relationship between Southampton and Chinese fans is very good. At the end of training at noon and afternoon, almost every Southampton player will sign autographs and take photos with the fans who are staying here outside the training base.

The players' training time is always accompanied by Charlotte's devil-like training, and they spend it in the laughter of the city.

Soon the team's training camp came to the final stage, and Charlotte's last period was basically to lead the team in some commercial activities.

In a blink of an eye, the team is about to leave Chengdu to start a commercial match. In the last period of time in Chengdu, Southampton played three friendly matches against the newly established Sichuan Longfa Club, Sichuan Tiancheng Club and Chongqing Lifan Club. Perhaps the strongest team is the Lifan team.

Such games are purely communicative, so Charlotte mostly uses substitutes and rotation players.

Then Southampton will go to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong to play against the local Beijing Guoan, Shanghai Shenhua and Guangzhou Evergrande respectively. In Hong Kong, they will play against the famous Hong Kong star team. A team composed of many Hong Kong film and television stars competed together.

In fact, Xu Genbao also wanted to play a match between SIPG and Southampton in the Shanghai schedule, but due to the relationship between Southampton's time, Charlotte rejected this proposal.After all, if you play two games in Shanghai, you will stay in Shanghai for a few more days, because it is impossible to play back-to-back games a day, so when the Saints' China trip is over, they will basically be full of injuries.

There is no doubt that the opponents in these friendly matches are not strong for Southampton, and the three teams in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou have slightly let Southampton show a little strength, and the remaining few games are basically young players. Playing with substitute players, the main force and the core only played for three minutes and were replaced by Charlotte, or were replaced by Charlotte in the last three minutes.

All games are broadcast live simultaneously on the "ICU" live broadcast platform. Of course, major sports video companies such as Sina, PPTV, and LeTV have also purchased the broadcast rights. In the local games, the Panda Sports Investment Management Group under Charlotte did not charge local fees. The rebroadcasting fees of sports channels are provided free of charge to media such as sports channels in Beijing and Guangdong, as well as five-star sports in Shanghai.

This year's situation is quite special. Many European giants have not made a trip to China. Even if some European giants come to Asia, they are doing business in Singapore and other Southeast Asian regions, as well as South Korea and Japan. There is no team coming to China.

The European giants are basically in the United States this summer. This year marks the start of the first Guinness International Champions Cup. AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, Everton, Chelsea, Valencia, Real Madrid, etc. The giants have traveled to the United States to participate in this commercial game.

It is worth mentioning that the predecessor of this event is the World Football Challenge, which has been held since 2009. Only in 2010, due to the World Cup in South Africa, this event was suspended for one year.

So under such circumstances, Southampton, the only European team that has landed in China, is naturally welcomed by fans all over the country. In addition, their head coach is Chinese Charlotte, and they are also the champions of the Premier League and the Europa League. Winner, this situation has led to the stadium being full in almost every game, and there are still many fans who have not bought tickets.

Chinese fans gave their enthusiasm to Southampton, which caused the Saints players to consume more energy.Because they have interaction with the fans before and after the game and during the usual training, but there are too many fans who come, so a large number of autographs caused the players to shake their hands, and because of the large number of group photos. , Their facial muscles are a little stiff.

Under such circumstances, Charlotte's plan this year was to preserve her capital, but she still made a lot of money in the final settlement.

You must know that because of the consideration of capital preservation, many commercial cooperation Panda Sports offer very low prices. At the same time, Southampton will send a lot of signed jerseys and footballs to some lucky fans every game.

In the "ICU" live broadcast, Charlotte also specially invited Zhan Jun, Huang Jianxiang, Duan Xuan, Zhang Lu and Li Yuankui and other domestic football commentators to join in and comment on these friendly matches.Previously, they all came to "guest appearances" because of their friendly relationship with Charlotte. After all, there are no major events this summer that require them to comment, so naturally there will be plenty of time.

As a result, under the condition of making a profit, Charlotte naturally expressed that she still had to pay them.After all, one yard is worth one yard. If you don’t make money yourself, it’s not easy to pay them, but it’s different if you make money, although the fee is actually not high.