Super Marshal

Lin Xia flew from BJ to London the day before the League Cup final and met Gao Han at the London hotel.

Along with her and Xiao Gaoshen was Gao Han's best friend Xiang Tianming.

Ever since Gao Han decided to sell Falcao and Ramirez to Chelsea, and Chinatown had initially reached an agreement on cooperation with the Qatar Investment Authority, Gao Han had already made the decision to build a new stadium.

Gao Han has high hopes for this new stadium, but he hopes it will be more than just a football stadium.

I think back then, the reason why he took over Chinatown was because this amateur team was the only Chinese team in Spain, and it had just been formed. However, it was miserably abused by amateur teams in other areas of Madrid.

The players knew that Gao Han was the coach, so they came to him, hoping that Gao Han would lead them to play games and compete.

Later, things went smoothly. With the help of the coaching system, Chinatown won the cup championship, and Gao Han also decided to set up a football team here to give the players a way to make a living and give the children in the Chinese community a chance to play football. environment.

Unconsciously, a few years have passed. Chinatown is no longer the amateur team that climbed up the low-level leagues. Today, Chinatown is a well-known La Liga team in European football, currently ranked in La Liga. Ninth place, good results.

Not only that, Chinatown is also one of the most outstanding youth training teams in Spain recently. The level of youth training is well-known in European football. The two Genius Days every year attract countless young football players to flock here.

But some things never change.

At that time, they named the team Chinatown, which represented the Chinese spirit of Fuenlabrada and even the entire Madrid area. After the team won the cup, the Chinese in the entire Madrid area were happy. Inspire.

Gao Han founded the Chinatown Club and further carried forward this spirit.

Over the years, as Chinatown's performance has become more and more outstanding, the proportion of Chinese in the first team and youth team has become smaller and smaller. However, many of the club's staff have followed Chinatown's upgrades. Every year, the club must come up with a team. A sum of funds is provided to arrange staff to further study and add value.

For example, former captains Dohei Yuan and Xiao Mu once coached in the Chinatown youth team and also studied in the coaching training class, but now they have gone out to coach, and both of them coached teams in the second league. After Gao Han, the first batch of Chinese head coaches to coach alone in the Spanish professional league.

During every traditional Chinese festival, Chinatown will hold a series of colorful activities to serve the Chinese community. For this reason, it has received many awards and recognitions from the Spanish Chinese Association, the Embassy in Spain, and even the domestic government.

It can be said that in the eyes of Gao Han and countless Chinese, Chinatown is more than just a football team. It is more like a symbol of Chinese solidarity and fighting spirit.

This is also the reason why Gao Han was unwilling to sell Chinatown shares from beginning to end.

But precisely because of this, Chinatown has also attracted the support of countless fans around the world, as well as many domestic fans.

When the media initially broke the news that Chinatown's home stadium was in poor condition and that it might be disqualified from home games, many fans from all over the world even donated generously on the Internet, hoping to use crowdfunding to help Chinatown renovate the new stadium. However, They were all politely declined by Chinatown.

Therefore, when planning to build a new stadium this time, Gao Han not only wants a stadium, he also hopes to see this new stadium in Chinatown as a condensed process of Chinatown's past ten years, and as a reflection of Chinese traditional culture and A display of spirit.

Accompanying Xiang Tianming was Deputy Chief Architect Li from one of the most authoritative architectural design institutes in China. As the Chinese representative, he cooperated with Herzog and de Meuron in Switzerland and witnessed the construction of the Bird's Nest. The whole process.

Deputy General Manager Li is not a football fan, but before coming to London, he got to know Gao Han and Chinatown and knew a lot about them. At this moment, after listening to Gao Han's words, he was even more excited. It made him feel something.

"Although we are a very young team, only ten years old, I hope our stadium can be more traditional and cultural, and can better reflect the differences between our team and other teams. ." Gao Han finally concluded.

Deputy General Engineer Li nodded and said: "Then it should be a bit heavy, and the shape should be enhanced by bricks or columns."

"You are an expert in this area, and you will be responsible for it." Gao Han chuckled, "But there is one thing I hope you can agree to."

"you say."

"I hope this stadium can use a design language that the world can understand to explain China's traditional culture and the unique background of our team."

Deputy General Li understood what Gao Han meant.

This stadium is in Madrid after all. When completed, it will be a landmark building in the southern suburbs of Madrid. Whether it is now or in the future, fans in Chinatown will face the world. If it is too traditional Chinese style design, It may be beautiful in the eyes of Chinese people, but not necessarily in the eyes of foreigners.

The meaning of Gao Han is very clear, which is to combine Chinese and Western elements and learn from each other's strengths.

Deputy Chief Li understood that this might be the reason why Gao Han invited the entire design team of the Bird's Nest.

After the experience of the last Bird's Nest, Deputy General Li believed that he should be more confident this time.

And their company also attaches great importance to this project, after all, this time it is in Madrid, Europe.

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After nearly two hours of communication and ensuring that Gao Han's series of requests were understood, Deputy Chief Li stood up and left.

Next, his team will cooperate with the Swiss architectural firm Herzog \u0026 de Meuron to jointly survey the land where the stadium is located. After obtaining a series of detailed data, they will start to design. Submitting a design plan for the first time will take at least several months.

Gao Han also knows that he can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and he can't be in a hurry.

After seeing off Deputy Chief Li and Xiang Tianming, Gao Han called Armando Marcos and Cantarero in Madrid respectively to inform them of the matter and ask them to cooperate.

After Gao Han finished the call, Lin Xia also put Xiao Gaoshen to sleep. After returning to the living room, he sat down next to Gao Han.

"Do you remember Uncle Cheng?"

Gao Han was stunned for a moment, but soon remembered, "Of course I remember him, how could I forget him?"

Louis Cheng, Louis Cheng, is a Chinese who came to Madrid with his father when he was very young. He is also a core member of the Madrid Chinese Chamber of Commerce. He runs a chain of supermarkets and department stores in Spain. The business is quite good, and he is also a die-hard football fan.

When Gao Han founded Chinatown, Cheng Luigi was the first to stand up and support it, and has always sponsored the Chinatown team. Even now, when the Chinatown team has developed, he still cooperates with Cheng Luigi. Not only does the sponsorship fee There has been no increase for many years, and they are allowed to use Chinatown's team emblem and player portrait rights in publicity and promotion.

It's just that Gao Han has not been coaching in Spain these years, and he has gradually become alienated from him. Lin Xia suddenly asked, and Gao Han was stunned for a moment.

"What's wrong with him?" Gao Han asked strangely, why did he suddenly mention him?

Lin Xia smiled, got close to Gao Han, and leaned on his shoulder, "A few days ago, Uncle Cheng called me and told me something. I heard that in the past two or three years, his business has also been declining. Great."

"Why?" Gao Han was a little strange.

"The economic environment is not good, and the previous business advantages are gone." Lin Xia looked a little sad when he talked about it.

"In the past, Chinese people had two major advantages in running stores. One was that they were close to residential areas. Although they were small, they were well-equipped and very convenient. The other was that they had long operating hours, almost 24/7, all year round. But now You see, the Carrefour supermarket in Madrid has been operating for as long as the Chinese stores, has more product varieties, cheaper prices, and guaranteed quality."

"In the suburbs, many discount stores in shopping malls are cheaper than Chinese stores, larger in scale, higher in quality, and have a better shopping experience. So for the same shopping, consumers like to go to shopping malls."

Gao Han has heard about this news, but...

"I'm a football coach, and I'm not as good as them in business." Gao Han smiled bitterly, and there was nothing he could do about it.

"I know." Lin Xia nodded, "But what does Uncle Cheng mean? He and many business friends feel that to change the current predicament, we must keep pace with the times."

"What do you mean?" Gao Han still didn't understand.

"Aren't you planning to build a new stadium?"

"Ah." Gao Han was even more surprised. What does this have to do with the new stadium?

“What they mean by advancing with the times is to upgrade Chinese stores and supermarket chains, create a large shopping mall for mass consumers, provide high-quality and cost-effective Chinese products to middle-income groups, and change the past situation of fighting for each other. Decentralize the situation and bring out the advantages of aggregation.”

When Gao Han heard this, he immediately understood, "What do they mean, in our new stadium?"

Lin Xia nodded, "What do you think?"

Gao Han frowned and had a headache. The pillow was blown by the wind...

According to Armando Marcos’ market research, there are shopping malls and discount shopping malls in the southern suburbs of Madrid, especially around Fuenlabrada. However, if the new stadium in Chinatown is completed, it will definitely become a landmark in the southern suburbs. Sexual architecture, coupled with the fact that the stadium is naturally attractive to fans, the club is indeed interested in making a fuss about business.

But the space inside the stadium is precious, and it faces the fans inside the stadium. It is not suitable for use as a shopping mall.

But Louis Cheng was very kind to Chinatown back then. It can be said that without him, Chinatown would not be what it is today. It is really unreasonable not to help, not to mention other Chinese Americans.

"How many people are there? How much area do they need?" Gao Han asked with concern.

"I heard from Uncle Cheng that there are already fifty or sixty companies interested in this area, and there may be more in the future, requiring at least 10,000 to 20,000 square meters."

Gao Han nodded. He had to admit that this idea was really good and very business-minded. This should be the so-called industrial upgrading. But if the internal planning of the new stadium in Chinatown gave them an area of ​​10,000 to 20,000 square meters, This is a bit unrealistic. After all, Chinatown is also considering recruiting investment on its own, and some well-known companies including Nike are interested.

What's more, Chinatown's own fan store and honor room will also be placed there.

"In this case, Lin Xia, you call Uncle Cheng. It will definitely not work inside the stadium, but I can build a shopping mall outside the stadium for rent, plan it together with the stadium, and even leave an independent passage leading to the stadium stands. "

Although Gao Han doesn't know much about business, there is one truth he understands, that is, it's hard to sing alone.

There is a shopping mall specializing in selling high-quality Chinese products around the stadium in Chinatown. If it can be done, it will not only be good for Chinese owners such as Cheng Luyi, but also good for Chinatown.

If it can invigorate businesses around the Chinatown Stadium, then...

Even if it messes up and fails, it won't cause much damage to Chinatown. At best, it will just be an extra building in the stadium plan and an extra investment of money.

As the saying goes, a lot of debt doesn't weigh you down, but Gao Han is now more courageous.

Just think of it as repaying the kindness of the past, and by the way, do your best for the Chinese people in Madrid.