Red Rebels

69 World-class demanding

When a British Airways flight arrived at Kunming International Airport, no one thought that the three foreigners in business class suits and leather suits on the plane would represent a mission far across the ocean that would attract the attention of fans around the world. .

As soon as the plane landed and walked out of the gate, someone immediately came forward to greet them.

"Hello, Mr. Mark David" Manager Wang, who is in charge of reception at the Hongta training base, greeted Mark David politely.

The Hongta Base also sent a personal reception team, including General Manager Wang and his assistant, as well as a professional English translator. The Red Rebels also sent three people, namely Mark David. , the club’s dietary expert Derek, and first-team assistant coach Cassel.

The three of them came to Hongta Base in advance to understand some of the conditions at Hongta Base and urge them to improve, because the club will be preparing for the game here soon.

Pre-season preparations in every season are very important. The Red Rebels will pay attention to every detail to ensure that the team can prepare for pre-season games in the best possible condition. The training base is undoubtedly the most important one. Hardware facilities.

When he was still a fan, Xiao Yu once attributed the physical problems of Real Madrid players during the season to their pre-season national team. In fact, this is wrong. Even Camacho said that Real Madrid's commercial competition in the summer was not The culprit of players' physical fitness problems is actually that as long as commercial matches are properly arranged, they will not have any impact on pre-season preparations.

During the Red Rebels' last trip to Asia, they did not decide to arrange the club's training camp in China like this time. Therefore, this is the first time that the Red Rebels have looked for cooperation partners in China, so the club attaches great importance to it.

Since the sponsor of the National Bank of the Red Rebels this time is Audi, the Hongta base also arranged an Audi car to receive the trio of Red Rebels. It can be seen that General Manager Wang was very interested in Mark David along the way. The three of them paid special attention to it and handled it carefully, for fear of accidentally not being well received.

The Red Rebels are the leading team in today's football, and no team in the world can match their appeal. Although they have not yet arrived in China, fans and the media have begun to exaggerate the Red Rebels. The army is on the march.

After arriving at Kunming's Hongta Base, Mark David was entertained by General Manager Wang, but he still couldn't wait to inspect the situation at the training base. After all, the training camp was about to begin.

In order to ensure the quality of training, the Red Rebels had already set strict requirements for the hardware and software facilities of the training base and faxed the requirements to Hongta Base, urging Hongta Base to make rectifications in strict accordance with the requirements of the Red Rebels.

Maybe many people will think that a wealthy family is a wealthy family and has so many requirements. It is estimated that renting this national-level training base will cost a lot of money, right?

But in fact, all expenses of the Red Rebels at Hongta Base are free. On the contrary, Hongta Base will also give the Red Rebels free expenses of 00,000 pounds per day. In other words, the Red Rebels at Hongta Base In this half month of training, I can earn 500,000 pounds.

However, in return, Hongta Base can obtain the right to use the collective portrait of the entire Red Rebel team. Note that it is the collective portrait rights and not the individual. It can also attract investment during the training period, sell training tickets, etc., and then the Red Rebels will A week-long commercial competition was held in various cities across the country, playing 4 warm-up matches, and finally returned to Manchester.

As an expert in training, Cassell was mainly tasked with inspecting the training base. Under the leadership of the training base staff, the group inspected the player training area, living area, locker room, entertainment area and other places. Kassel is still very satisfied with the hardware facilities in these places. Although they are still far behind the Red Rebels' Newton Heath training base, they are at least pretty good.

However, Cassel was not very satisfied with the personnel inspection. He felt that the personnel at the training base were not professional enough, but the Hongta Base said that these were the best personnel they could select.

Kassel has no choice but to arrange professionals from the Red Rebels training base in certain important positions, such as locker room administrators, court lawn caretakers, etc. For this reason, the Honta base will pay these The personnel are paid during this time, as well as taking care of their daily needs.

In addition, Kassel also proposed as many as 50 areas and problems that need to be corrected regarding the software and hardware facilities of the training base, and strictly required Hongta Base to completely solve these problems before the training time.

"Isn't this too harsh?" General Manager Wang looked at the copy handed over by Cassel, which was densely packed with modification suggestions, and looked at Mark David with a wry smile.

The latter shrugged, "I'm sorry, Mr. Wang, I can't do anything about these things. I'm in charge of business, and Jim is in charge of everything in the training base. He is a professional in this field and he has very strict requirements."

Cassel, on the other hand, has a serious look on his face. He is always meticulous when it comes to matters at the training ground, so Xiao Yu and Mourinho can safely leave the assessment of Hongta Base to him.

"General Manager Wang, this is not harsh. In fact, we have relaxed our requirements very much. We can understand your difficulties, so we do not ask you according to the requirements of the Newton Heath training base. You know, these The requirements at our Newton Heath training base can only be regarded as very, very general requirements. If they were more stringent, it is estimated that the training base will need a complete overhaul."

Obviously Cassel was joking with the latter statement, but he was telling the truth.

"Mr. Jose Mourinho has a saying that the place that determines the victory of the game is often not on the field, but on the training field. Only by showing the best and strongest strength on the training field can it be possible to win on the game field. opponents, so we have very strict requirements on the training ground and do not lose to the court.”

General Manager Wang nodded with a wry smile. They had entertained Real Madrid and other European giants, but no team would put forward such a series of high-standard requirements like the Red Rebels.

However, the Red Rebels did not just make demands. Behind each request, Cassel listed the reasons and reasons for the improvement. Each of them was reasonable and reasonable. This also made General Manager Wang realize from this request. , the gap between the two countries’ football levels, especially in terms of professionalism.

Perhaps, after this experience of hosting the Red Rebels, Hongta Training Base will greatly improve its soft power.

General Manager Wang sighed with sadness.

But soon, he ran into trouble again.

This trouble comes from Derek, the diet expert of the Red Rebel Army. The purpose of coming to Hongta Base this time is to inspect the food conditions of Hongta Base. You know, a total of 60 people from the Red Rebel Army arrived this time. At the Honta base, especially in terms of the players' diet, the Red Rebels require balanced nutrition and healthy food.

But when I came here, I inspected the Hongta Base Catering Department on-site, and after reviewing the menu based on the menu faxed by the Red Rebels, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

According to the requirements of the Red Rebels, breakfast consists of hot dogs, skim milk, non-alcoholic soft drinks and freshly squeezed juices, as well as some toast, butter, jam and other foods to meet the different needs of the players in the Red Rebels. , the Hongta base has been done quite well.

For lunch, there should be caviar, pizza, pasta, spaghetti and other staple foods, as well as meat foods to supplement calories. They also followed the menu that Derek had faxed before, but when it came to the selection of meat, Hong Ta The base provided beef, pork and chicken, but Derek told them that professional players generally do not eat pork, but beef is eaten with every meal, but there is no need to prepare it the day before the game because beef is high in fat and is not good for the body. of smoothness.

In addition, Derek was very dissatisfied with the dining tables prepared at Hongta Base. He demanded that all of them be replaced with round tables. Not only at Hongta Base, but in fact, wherever the Red Rebels went, they would Eating at a round table.

"In our Red Rebel Army, Ronaldinho and Ramsey have the same status. They eat the same food and receive the same treatment. There will be no difference." Derek smiled as he explained why he adopted the round table.

General Manager Wang understands this, although it will cost a lot of money to replace a few dining tables.

Finally, there is the requirement for the entertainment room. The Red Rebels specifically requested that an indoor football stadium be arranged at the training base. It can be a temporary arrangement, as long as the players can have a good indoor football game.

"Every season's pre-season warm-up, our team will organize indoor football games. This is the reason and motivation for our players to maintain tacit cooperation, and this has become the tradition of our team."

General Manager Wang also immediately agreed to this request. In addition, he also tried his best to satisfy some of the Red Rebels' entertainment facilities requirements. After all, these are just some details that can be improved slightly.

When Mark David, Cassel and Derek discussed it and determined that this was basically it and there were no other problems, General Manager Wang couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He really discovered that the requirements of the Red Rebels were actually not high and the cost was not much, but every detail was important, and almost every request was visible. They and the world's top professionals The gap in standards also made General Manager Wang realize that this is the best opportunity to improve the soft power of Hongta Training Base.

However, the next day, when being interviewed by an authoritative domestic sports newspaper, General Manager Wang couldn't help but sigh.

"I can guarantee that this is definitely the highest reception level in the history of Hongta Base. All aspects are prepared to the highest level, especially in terms of service awareness. We specially invited a number of professional English translators, and many college students also took the initiative to Requests to come and volunteer have greatly improved the quality of our personnel.”

"The officials of the Red Rebels have made unprecedented demands on us, even down to the details of the placement of sneakers in the locker room, the degree of watering on the training ground, etc. We can learn a lot from here, and we hope we can Through this reception, we will improve the soft power of Hongta Base and make us a veritable football training base with the best software and hardware in the country."

In addition, Hongta Base has started a series of investment and naming activities. After all, they want to recover the 500,000 pounds invested in the Red Rebels. For example, they have begun to launch a Red Rebel face-to-face event to let the Red Rebels Rebels fans enthusiastically signed up to participate, providing them with the opportunity to face-to-face with the Red Rebel superstar.

In addition, they will also launch training viewing tickets. Although at the request of the Red Rebels, these tickets are not expensive, but they are very popular, and the Hongta Base has exerted their strong creativity on this and opened up a A wide variety of different types of ticket packages to serve different fans.

And some things used by the Red Rebels are bound to become props used by Hongta Base. It is currently said that they have started to open an auction area on the Internet. It is said that one valuable item will be auctioned every day. The Red Rebel star personally The used items, but what they are, have not been revealed yet.

Strictly speaking, Hongta Base paid the Red Rebels a lot of money this time, but they are still very confident that they can recover their investment as much as possible during this period. After all, the parent company behind Hongta Base is also preparing to take advantage of it. This time the Red Rebels arrived to make a big splash, thereby increasing the company's influence.

However, the Red Rebels have always attached great importance to their image and refused to cooperate with tobacco, gaming, gambling and other industries, so they will not be able to use the Red Rebels for activities. However, they can still use the Red Rebels indirectly to increase the influence of enterprises. owned.

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While the Hongta base was making a series of rectifications in response to the requirements put forward by the Red Rebels, Mark David rushed to Beijing and met his eldest brother John, who was in charge of some of Xiao Yu's investments in the mainland and philanthropic undertakings in Beijing. In addition, the Red Rebel Charitable Foundation is also being planned.

The day before the Red Rebels arrived in the country, Mark David held a press conference and announced that the National Bank of the Red Rebels would donate all their income, excluding a small part of necessary expenses, to Charity.

According to outside speculation about the Red Rebels, this time the National Bank's revenue, including the Hongta base, including game ticket revenue sharing, sponsorship sharing, etc., will likely exceed 5 million pounds, and this does not include sponsoring the team, etc. forward income.

In addition, Mark David also said that in addition to donating the 5 million pounds to the Wenchuan earthquake, a charity party will also be held in Beijing. He hopes that through this party, people from all walks of life can be invited to participate, hoping to help the poor in the country. More donations were raised for area disabled and out-of-school children.

"I can assure everyone that we come to China not to make money. If we want to make money, we will go to places that can help us make more money. We come here just because we have our fans here. For those who need our help, we will use practical actions to prove our determination.”