The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 399 Theobald

Although Ye Qiu said that Tottenham Hotspur would help Manchester United get three points in the final round, Ferguson didn't seem to appreciate it at all, and he beat Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 at Old Trafford. Send Ye Qiu's team out of the FA Cup.

Ye Qiu was actually mentally prepared for such a result, and even believed that everyone was mentally prepared, because the possibility of Tottenham Hotspur wanting to kill Manchester United at Old Trafford is really unlikely , and Tottenham Hotspur's main lineup played two consecutive games in the past week, so Ye Qiu played a lot of substitutes in this game.

Also because the two rounds of the FA Cup were played with a large number of substitute lineups, even if Tottenham Hotspur failed to win in the end, they still won widespread praise from the media. After all, Manchester United played with a full main lineup, especially the second team. In the round, it was just the absence of Giggs.

The game started at 20 o'clock in the evening. After the end, the team returned to London from Manchester. It was already past midnight. They went back to rest. They didn't need to report to the team the next day. They packed their things and went back to their national teams. According to reports, some players who were not selected for the national team can get a day off.

The elimination from the FA Cup didn't affect Ye Qiu at all, and it didn't even have a big impact on Tottenham Hotspur. Although Ye Qiu didn't say anything and everyone didn't ask, in fact, everyone thought Knowing that, Ye Qiu will start to properly reduce the team's game pressure.

With the current overall strength of Tottenham Hotspur, it is far from being able to insist on multi-line battles, especially at this sprint stage, securing the league is more important than anything else, so Ye Qiu gave up the FA Cup , Even he is considering, if necessary, he will even give up the UEFA Cup.

Now the UEFA Cup has fallen, and it is not as influential as when he led Ajax to win the championship. Whether it is from the winning bonus or the sensation caused, it is obviously not enough for Tottenham Hotspur to devote everything to the competition Ye Qiu's biggest goal this season is to ensure his qualification for the UEFA Champions League next season.

He must ensure the current development momentum of the team in order to have enough bargaining chips to retain his players.

Now that group of wealthy teams are staring outside like wolves, salivating at the players in Ye Qiu's team, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ribery, Messi, Fabrega Martinez, Mascherano, Alves... These players are all hot, and there is no lack of attention from the giants. Only by reaching the Champions League can they be eligible to retain them.

In Ye Qiu's previous life, even if it was a giant as powerful as Arsenal, the results of the team did not rise but fell for many years, and the players in the team fell apart one by one?Although there are Arsenal's own factors in this, but if the players want to leave the team, don't they have performance considerations?Is it not because they don't see a future at Arsenal?

Whether the player's career is long or short, who doesn't want to leave a brilliant stroke in his short career?And if you want all the fans to remember you, then you have only one way to perform on the broadest stage, and that is undoubtedly to go to the rich, because all the fans and the media remember only the rich!

It was a rare free time, Ye Qiu was at home all morning, with his wife who had just been discharged from the hospital, as for the two children, Ye Qiu's parents and father-in-law and mother-in-law were there, it really didn't matter to them.

After eating lunch, Ye Qiu took another nap, and then drove to Hertfordshire by himself.

From Totridge to Theobald Training Base, the distance and speed are faster than going north from London, because the traffic here is very convenient, and the traffic flow is not too much, basically there is no need to worry about congestion.

The Theobald Training Base looks like a slightly rectangular island if viewed from mid-air. Because the river channel was widened, both sides were reinforced, and the dense forest along the coast was left during construction, so this area The surroundings of the training base are isolated from the outside world, and only the main gate on the north side can enter and exit.

The gate of the training base is concave, and outside is a green area, planted with lush green grass and big trees, but because it is transplanted, it is not visible at present, at least until one or two years later, these All grow out, this place will become beautiful.

Facing the gate, on the right is the security building, two floors, the downstairs is the duty room and office, and the upstairs is the dormitory. The club hired a professional security team to be responsible for the security of the entire training base and 24-hour patrol work to ensure Will not be influenced and disturbed by the outside world.

From the gate, one of the obvious features of the whole training base is that you can't see the walls, because they are all covered by green belts. At a glance, you can only see the rows of trees planted inside and the trees outside. garden.

Even though the team hadn't officially settled in yet, the security guards still checked every car that came in and out. Even Ye Qiu's car was stopped, and they were only allowed to pass after confirming that it was Ye Qiu himself.

The Theobald training base has a large area. The roads are all made of environmentally friendly asphalt pavement. After entering the gate, the road is surrounded by green trees on both sides, and the ground is covered with grass. There is no dust, but it is also similar to the green area outside the gate. Similarly, the trees, flowers and plants are all transplanted, and the effect cannot be seen for the time being. It will take a while, but the whole environment can already be felt.

After the road came in, there was a large open space on the east side of the road. This is to build a home stadium for the youth team. It will be equipped with stands that can accommodate nearly [-] people. The venue also provides the same drainage and geothermal system as the first team. , The stands are also equipped with a roof for fans.

On the west side of the road is a dedicated double-storey news building, where there are ten independent interview rooms and a press conference hall with more than 100 seats, which are used to meet the needs of media reporters and fans for Tottenham Hotspur. interview request.

Going further inside is the central public garden area where the lake in the middle of Theobald's training base is located. This is also the area most appreciated by all fans and media after Tottenham Hotspur released the renderings. It will become A communal area for all first team and youth team players to rest, while the road also separates the east and west sides from the communal garden.

To the east is the youth training camp area of ​​Tottenham Hotspur. All the players of the youth team and the second team train here. Not only will there be 15 yuan professional, but all are equipped with geothermal, drainage and automatic spraying, etc. The training ground of the automated system will also build a three-story comprehensive training building for all Tottenham Hotspur youth academy players.

Not only that, Ye Qiu is currently co-initiating with Ferguson, Wenger and other Premier League coaches, hoping to persuade the FA to cancel the restrictions on the selection of players for the youth academy, for example, to allow the Premier League teams to expand the selection area for the youth team, allowing them Selections can be made across England, allowing the most talented youngsters to train at the best academy.

Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur's comprehensive training building will be equipped with player quarters.

After the training base is completed, most of the jobs here will be given priority to hiring Tottenham Hotspur fans, because Ye Qiu hopes to use this method to create a rich atmosphere in the training base in the shortest possible time. Club atmosphere, cultivate a club culture as soon as possible.

To the west of the public garden area is the first-team training area. There is an independent three-story training building dedicated to the first-team. Just like the training building for the youth team, it is also equipped with a complete and advanced gymnasium, indoor swimming pool, and sauna. , massage room, restaurant, entertainment room and other facilities.

Moreover, the dormitories specially provided for players to rest in the entire training building all adopt the standard of five-star hotels, so once they settle in, the team will not go to Tottenham Hotspur on the night before all future home games. Instead of staying in a hotel, stay in Theobald training ground, because this is the best hotel.

If that's all it is, Tottenham Hotspur's Theobald training base doesn't need to spend so much money at all, and it doesn't deserve such high expectations and evaluations from the outside world for this training base, because it's not just that the facilities are perfect , and very advanced, many are even used in football for the first time.

For example, the indoor swimming pool. The indoor swimming pool in the training building can not only adjust the depth, but also has cold, hot, normal temperature and jacuzzi pools. Tottenham Hotspur even purchased some special training swimsuits from the United States to help players Especially for some wounded, recovery training is carried out in the swimming pool.

This kind of hot and cold pool training, which promotes recovery from injury and relieves fatigue, has been used in some sports with good results, but it is the first time it has been used in football.

In addition, one of the standard training grounds in the first-team training area is surrounded by a series of ultra-high-speed high-definition cameras. , There is no dead angle to shoot every movement of the players in every position on the court, even the slightest, even the moment the player shoots the goal, the moment the ball touches the heel.

For this reason, Ye Qiu specially asked someone to write a brand new training system, which is specially used for analysis and research. In addition, Tottenham Hotspur also cooperated with Adidas to add chips into the players' training shoes for use in training. Record and collect players' heartbeat, stride frequency, and a series of data during their training, and transmit them directly from the chip on the sole to the computer in the research center for direct analysis.

Therefore, next to the training building of the first team, there is a single-storey research center. This is the heart of the Tottenham Hotspur training center, which is specially used to analyze the team's training and the various opponents in each game. Aspects of data and intelligence, and submitted to the coaching staff, as a reference for the team's preparations.

In addition, the team's research center also has other high-tech facilities and training methods, many of which are derived from Tottenham Hotspur's reference to other training bases around the world or training methods in other sports fields.

However, what Ye Qiu paid the most attention to was the round building next door to the research center, because there was a training facility that was unique to Tottenham Hotspur, and it could even be said that football and other fields had never had training facilities before.

Walking into this round building, you can see that the ground is laid with soft turf, and a circle is drawn in the middle of the turf. The radius of the circle is one meter, and the center of the circle is the center. It is a circle with a radius of 11 meters, surrounded by a wall composed of wall panels.

This is actually an idea that Ye Qiu got from the high-tech training room in Dortmund in his previous life. He placed sixteen football pitches on this round wall at different angles and heights. The principle is the same as that of table tennis and baseball pitching machines, except that the volume has become a football.

The principle of the entire training room is similar to the one in Dortmund, but Ye Qiu has improved it appropriately.

For example, the radius of the central circle is one meter. Players receive balls from all directions in this circle, and when the pitching machine is about to serve, the wall where the pitching machine is located will immediately turn white. The color of the Tottenham jersey, and when the ball is served, the horn on this wall panel will emit a preset sound to remind the players that the ball is coming.

After the player catches the ball, soon, another wall panel in the room will light up, still white, and there will be a sound to remind the player to pass the ball, and the player must pass the ball in the shortest possible time. Go inside this wall panel.

Not only that, if the player is facing the pitching machine to catch the ball, but the direction of passing the ball is behind him, at this time, the training room will give the player a little adjustment time by default, for example, let you stop the ball and turn around before sending the ball, but if it is In some directions where the ball can be played with one kick, the time will be relatively short, which is to simulate the scenes that appear in the game to the greatest extent.

In addition, the speed and rotation intensity of the ball thrown by the pitching machine can be manually adjusted and preset. After the players enter the training room, all training processes do not require manual operation, and are all directly controlled by the computer. The data will be recorded by the computer and transmitted to the host computer of the analysis center for automatic analysis.

High-definition cameras are also installed around the entire training room to record every move of the players during training here, and even some mistakes will be directly captured. A report guides the players, such as some details of passing skills, or some details of stopping skills.

Of course, as the football head coach, Ye Qiu is not good at how to build such a training room. He can only provide some specific concepts and ideas, or give some professional advice. Engineering professor Andy Hooper is in charge.

Andy Hooper is from England and a Tottenham Hotspur fan himself, so when Ye Qiu invited him to join this project, he agreed without much consideration, and quickly used his spare time to organize A professional research team was set up to study and discuss Ye Qiu's ideas.

In fact, Ye Qiu's ideas are not complicated, and many things can be easily realized, such as the pitching machine, such as the control of the color of the wall panel, such as the speed of the ball, etc. For a mechanical engineer, it's not that difficult.

Moreover, Ye Qiu is also willing to spend money. In the past less than a year, he has invested nearly 200 million euros in their project, and even promised that if they have any related research in the future, Ye Qiu is willing to invest. , to support their research and development.

When Ye Qiu arrived, the gray-haired Professor Andy Hopper was instructing the students to conduct the test. The whole training room was not very difficult, the most troublesome thing was the running-in test and the sound.

What Ye Qiu wants is to simulate the game to the maximum extent, so after the players enter this room to receive training, the sound of the game will also be simulated in the room. , how to create such a realistic effect, and ensure that there will be no echo, and at the same time, let the shouts issued by the wallboard when serving and catching the ball not be covered by the sound waves filling the entire training room, and can reach the players' ears , this is a bit more difficult.

"How is it?" Ye Qiu couldn't help laughing when he saw a graduate student from Cambridge in the training room who was sweating profusely from being tortured by the pitching machine. He thought to himself, this guy shouldn't exercise much ?
"It's not a big problem, but there are still some details that need to be improved!" Andy Hopper is a very typical academic, and excellence is the label of people like them. It is also because of this that Ye Qiu feels relieved about this project. to them.

Not only that, if this project is completed, he plans to build a similar training room at the youth training camp for the training of youth team players, and he has successfully applied for a series of patents. It can also make money.

The most important thing about the entire training room is the idea, as well as the running-in and testing after completion. The specific research and construction are not very difficult, so it should be used in time for Tottenham Hotspur to enter the Theobald training base next season. At that time, Professor Andy Hooper and his team will stay at the training base for further improvement and improvement.

"Oh, I forgot to congratulate you, you won the League Cup!" Andy Hopper suddenly thought of this, and shook hands with Ye Qiu with a smile. Yes, Ye Qiu is not here, Ye Qiu is here, but he is not here.

For the belated congratulations, Ye Qiu thanked him. Andy Hooper was born in London, grew up in Tottenham, and now moved to Cambridge, but he is indeed from Tottenham. Die-hard fans, but because of work and research, they couldn't follow every game.

Like Andy Hooper, I believe that there are still many people who cannot come to Tottenham Hotspur’s White Hart Lane to watch the game because of work, family, or various other reasons. Their love and concern for this club in their bones will not be less.

"Mr. Ye Qiu, we have to keep working hard, we are going to enter the top four this year!" Andy Hopper encouraged Ye Qiu with a smile.

Ye Qiu smiled, "Finish it, and I'll give each of you a season ticket for the next season!"

"Wow!" The students in the training room immediately jumped up.

According to the current season ticket price of Tottenham Hotspur, it is close to [-] pounds. There are a dozen of them here including Andy Hooper. Ye Qiu gave away nearly [-] pounds, which is indeed enough. Proud.

"Okay, you guys keep busy, I still have something to do, so let's go first!" Ye Qiu still has something to do in the training base.

After bidding farewell to Andy Hooper and others, Ye Qiu walked around again. At present, the first-team training area of ​​Theobald Training Base has been basically completed. The buildings are also capped and completed, and the next step is greening and decoration, which is expected to be basically completed by 2008, and by 2009, the entire Theobald training base will be considered complete.

After Ye Qiu made a tour of the training base, he drove away from Theobald, went all the way south and turned to Zigwell. The first team will move out of this training base in a few months. At that time, this place will become the training ground for the youth team, and then one year later, all the youth teams will move there, and all of them will be sold here.

But Zigwell is located in the suburbs, so the land is not worth much, which is better than nothing.

Ye Qiu returned to the Zigwell training base, because the team stopped training, so he had expected that there would be no one here, but what he didn't expect was that when he was about to go upstairs to the office, he saw that there were still people in the training ground. someone.

(End of this chapter)