Football giants

Chapter 428 Who Is This Old Man?

Remember the swimming pool in the famous film Life of Pi directed by Ang Lee?
When he saw that time in his previous life, Yang Huan had a dream, hoping to take a dip in that swimming pool.

After time travelling, Yang Huan specially went to find out about it in order to have a taste of his wish.

As a result, I heard that the swimming pool called Molitor was closed.

This made him feel a little sorry.

It was at that time that he made up his mind that wherever he went, no matter how busy or tired he was, he would go swimming.

After arriving in Miami, USA, and staying in this five-star luxury hotel, the first thing Yang Huan did was to go to the hotel's spacious outdoor swimming pool for a good, hearty swim.

The blue sky and white clouds are above the head, and the endless sea is in the distance, and the surroundings are quiet, only the sound of his own hands beating the water surface can be heard.

As soon as I entered the water, it was so quiet that only my own heartbeat remained.

That feeling is dreamlike, very unreal!
But it is very enjoyable, very very enjoyable!
Yang Huan usually only swims 1000 meters, but this time he was in a brave state and swam a full 2000 meters.

In the middle, I kept changing various swimming styles, such as breaststroke, freestyle, butterfly and backstroke, all of which I played casually and had a great time.

After finally getting tired from swimming, he reached the shore, and the whole person emerged from the water in front of Lin Yun'er, who was sitting by the pool and playing with her legs in the water.

The appearance of water all over her head and face made Lin Yuner giggle.

She doesn't like swimming, but she likes to watch Master Huan swim!

Yang Huan stretched out his hands to wipe off the water on his face, and seeing her leaning forward and backward with a smile, his heart skipped a beat.

I saw Young Master Huan grabbed Lin Yun'er who couldn't dodge with both hands, and pulled Lin Yun'er into the water.

Hearing a plop, Lin Yuner quickly stood up after falling into the water, but was pushed against the smooth swimming pool wall forcefully by Master Huan.

Before she could react, Master Huan lowered his head and precisely found her fragrant lips.

With a groan, Lin Yun'er didn't even have time to react, so she announced her fall!
This kiss was not long.

Who made Master Huan just swim 2000 meters?
"Hey, it's pretty sweet!" Yang Huan looked at Lin Yun'er who was blushing with a smile.

Lin Yuner's small mouth made a small mouth full of grievances, but it made Yang Huan's heart skip a beat.

"Yun'er, it seems that my family's unique knowledge is really effective. You see, you have grown up a lot recently!"

As he said that, Yang Huan deliberately squeezed Lin Yun'er with his body.

Lin Yuner's pretty face flushed red now.

"Our traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the long-term, and we can't stop our hands. I will treat you as soon as I have time in the future!"

With that ambiguous expression, Lin Yun'er knew what it meant without guessing.

The girl was ashamed and happy at the same time, she rolled her eyes, but pouted again.

"Looking for you? Master Huan, what's the use of looking for you?"

Yang Huan was taken aback, "Why is it useless?"

"Look at you just now, you just kissed, you couldn't hold on for a few seconds, and then you couldn't breathe, you said, what's the use?"

Yang Huan was depressed now, didn't he just finish swimming?
Men, the most unbearable thing is to be told useless by their own women.

"Okay, you forced me!"

As he spoke, Young Master Huan raised his hands and made a move of Lushan's Claw.

"Look at me, go to the sky and enter the earth, hit with every shot, catch X dragon claw hand!"

Soon Lin Yuner's exclamation and laughter came from the swimming pool.

Fortunately, Yang Huan directly booked the entire swimming pool, so he wasn't afraid of being broken into.

But after all, it was a public place, so I was afraid of being peeped from a distance, so Master Huan didn't dare to do anything excessive, he just punished slightly, and the real punishment had to wait until the door was closed.

After finally waiting for the two to walk out of the swimming pool, seeing Long Wu and several bodyguards from the dragon and phoenix groups waiting outside, Lin Yuner blushed again, gave Master Huan a flirtatious look, and hurried away as if flying away.

She also has to hurry up to prepare, she still has a performance at the lottery ceremony tonight!

When Lin Yuner left with the female bodyguard, Long Wu approached Yang Huan.

"Master, people from several clubs have arrived."

"where is it?"

"The living room of the hotel."

"Okay, I'll change and go!"

Ten minutes later, Yang Huan, who was dressed in a casual suit, appeared in the hotel's living room in high spirits.

Accompanying Yang Huan was not only Sun Yue, but also an American elderly man in his 70s.

As soon as Peter Kenyon saw this person, he immediately stood up with a face full of shock, and then greeted him in great surprise, "Hello, Paul, it's a great honor to meet you!"

"I didn't expect to see you here, Paul!" Arsenal's CEO Gazidis also stood up and greeted him.

In addition to Yang Huan and Sun Yue, Ron Gourley and Nicola Cortez and other people present also looked puzzled, not to mention Florentino, Russell, Rummenigge, Richard Scudemore, Mubarak and David Gill.

Who is this old man?
But judging from the attitudes of Peter Kenyon and Gazidis, people are sure that this old man has a lot of background!
Yang Huan seemed very satisfied with everyone's attitude, so he laughed.

"Come on, let me introduce to you, this is the former CEO of the NFL, Mr. Paul Tagliab, who is now our chief consultant for the International Champions Cup!"

When everyone heard this, they understood the origin of this person.

It turned out to be the former head of the NFL!
Anyone who knows a little bit about the American sports world must have heard of Tagliab.

The reason is simple, he is an absolute legend in the American sports world.

In 7000, when he took over the NFL, the Major League Football, football was just a sport with an annual revenue of only $[-] million.

But in his hands, the NFL's market expanded rapidly, and its income continued to rise. By the time he left office in 900, the NFL's annual revenue had reached 50 billion U.S. dollars, and its net profit had reached [-] billion U.S. dollars, which is a miracle!

You know, even the NBA, which is popular all over the world, has a total revenue of only 50 billion US dollars a year.

However, Paul Tagliab, as the leader, has always been very low-key in his dealings with others, so he is not well known.

However, the business philosophy he established for the NFL back then is still being adhered to by his successors even now.

The most memorable one was in [-].

Tagliab managed to convince Times Square in New York, which closed weekdays for free.

What are you doing?
On that day, rock king Bang Jovi was invited to sing, and a total of 50 spectators were attracted to watch the performance!

Since then, the NFL kick-off concert became famous in one fell swoop, became a hit, and once again became a pool of money!
No one in the room would have thought that in order to promote the International Champions Cup, Yang Huan would invite the retired Paul Tagliab to serve as the chief consultant of the event.

Looking around the world, who else is more familiar with how to operate and promote an event in the United States than Tagliab?
That is to say, at this moment, everyone present has extremely strong confidence in this event!

But none of the people present were three-year-olds, and they soon returned to normal.

After sitting down, Yang Huan began to ask Scudemore about the negotiation of the broadcasting rights of the Premier League in North America.

The latter's trip is for broadcast rights negotiations.

Participating in the draw ceremony of the International Champions Cup is to give Yang Huan a face by the way.

But those who don't know must think that behind him is the entire Premier League.

In fact, Yang Huan also takes good care of the Premier League team in organizing this International Champions Cup.

Among the eight teams, the Premier League occupies half of the country.

This is certainly due to the Premier League's active development of the North American market in the past few years, but Yang Huan is also consciously helping the Premier League develop the market.

Otherwise, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund and other teams can do the same?
"At present, many TV stations are very interested in the broadcast rights, but we are still discussing the specifics."

Yang Huan nodded.

From Scudemore's words, it is not difficult to hear that he is quite satisfied with the progress of the broadcast rights negotiations.

The Premier League has also been developing overseas markets in recent years.

The British domestic market is close to saturation, and the competition in the European market is fierce. Copyrights in overseas markets and other platforms such as the Internet will become more and more important, and the two major markets of North America and Asia are the most important!

In the eyes of many people in the European football circle, the US market is a treasure, but they don't know how to tap it.

It's like you have found a gold mine, but you don't know how to mine it. It's a helpless feeling.

In this regard, Paul Tagliab has his own views.

"From 20.00 to [-], the entire American sports market was affected by the financial crisis and shrank significantly. The NFL has also developed to a bottleneck in the past few years. The market value of NFL teams has shrunk by [-]%."

"In the past few years, NFL's overseas expansion plan has not been going smoothly, especially in Asia, where the sports market is developing fastest. This has led to NFL's market not only not expanding further in the past few years, but shrinking."

Everyone present couldn't help but nodded.

For the US market, they are obviously not as good as Tagliab.

"I have investigated, in the past three years, including the NFL, including the NBA, including the MLB Major League Baseball, the market has been shrinking, and the situation in the NBA will be relatively better!"

Having said that, Tagliab changed his subject.

"However, the influence of football in the United States is expanding at an extremely fast rate, which is something no one thought of before."

When Yang Huan heard this, he couldn't help but think of the North American Invitational Tournament in his previous life, which seemed to have been implemented since [-].

From this point of view, RS company is well prepared to operate this event.

However, in Master Huan's opinion, it doesn't matter, everyone is competing in a healthy way!

One more event can also heat up the American football market and mobilize the enthusiasm of the American people for football, which is a good thing!

As for who can get the most benefits from this big cake in the end, it depends on their own methods.

"I have studied the American football market in the past three years, and I found that in the past few years, the enthusiasm of the American people for football has increased rapidly. On the one hand, since the beginning of the new century, represented by everyone present, the top European giants and powerful teams are actively developing the American market, mainly through friendly matches and warm-up matches."

"Especially in the past three years, instead of the previous individual combat style, European giants and powerful teams have landed in North America in groups to develop the North American football market. The effect is very good. Coupled with the excellent results of the United States in the World Cup, it directly stimulates football enthusiasm in North America."

Those present are all at the helm of the European giants, and they are all aware of this.

If you want to go it alone to develop the US market, even Real Madrid can't do it.

But if the giants are all united, it will be different.

There is no doubt that Yang Huan's International Champions Cup is to provide such a platform for everyone present.

Once this event has stabilized, Yang Huan will also organize other warm-up matches.

In this way, every summer goes badly, year after year, are you afraid that Americans don't like football?
Moreover, the largest immigrant groups in the United States are Hispanics and Latin Americans. They have a great interest in football, and developing the market will get twice the result with half the effort.

"Here, I want everyone to focus on the two teams!"

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