The Era of Emerald

The team's transfer work has all been completed, and the club's reorganization has been handled by three general managers, Poirot, Kenyon and Antonioni. The idle Zhuang Mingge is ready to implement a plan that is beneficial to the future development of Florence—— Build a training base that belongs to the club.

Most teams in Italy do not have their own training bases, and most of them rent existing local training facilities.

Think about it, if a team does not have its own training base, it can only find some places to rent out for training every year. Doing so will first cost the club a lot of money and energy, and at the same time, the environment of these rented training bases is also It's very bad. Players often have various accidents when they train in this environment for a long time.

Even if the team wants to spend money to transform the training base, it is impossible, because this training base is not the private property of Florence, and the club has no right to transform it.

If Florence has a training base of its own, the situation will be completely different.If the club's venue does not meet its own requirements, then the club can also invest in further improvements to the training base. At the same time, the club will save a lot of rental costs for this, even if the saved money is fully invested The daily maintenance of the new base is much more cost-effective than renting those old and dilapidated sites.

Therefore, when Zhuang Mingge first took office as the club's chairman, he sent Hercule Poirot to the outskirts of Florence to find a suitable land for training bases, and Poirot quickly responded: a piece of abandoned land that used to be an industrial area, The government of Florence is being sold at a low price, and the government officials have agreed to Poirot's proposal to transform the abandoned site into a training base. The purchase of the land and the initial construction will cost about 800 million US dollars, so Zhuang Mingge readily transfers it from the family. In the 2000 million funds, this fund was crossed over.

Zhuang Mingge did not immediately remit all the 2000 million US dollars provided by the family to the club's account, but ordered Poirot to report to him the use of the funds only when there was a shortage of funds within the club or when there was an urgent need.

After all, for a time traveler, the biggest advantage is to know the future direction of the world. If 2000 million US dollars is sent to the club so easily, it will lose a lot of opportunities to make money...

So far, this fund has only spent 800 million US dollars on the construction of the training base.

Pulling Antonioni, who was in charge of the daily affairs of the team, Zhuang Minge drove to this abandoned industrial area located on the outskirts of Florence. This land has been purchased by the club and is currently being remodeled by a special construction company according to the club's requirements. Strive to complete it within one year.

After getting off the car, looking around, there are lots of construction sites in front of you. The workers of the construction company are dismantling the factory buildings of the various factories that originally stood in this industrial area. Some necessary construction machinery has already driven into these In the construction site.

"According to the original plan, the new training base will contain two large areas, including 4 first-team dedicated fields and 4 reserve fields. These fields will be divided into a large area separately and will be the main body of the entire training base. Next to the venue is the Florence Experimental Center that we plan to build. The Experimental Center is located in the center of the entire training base and is mainly composed of three departments, which are the health care center responsible for regulating the physical and psychological state of the players; A database with updated player data; the last one is a computer center responsible for analyzing player data and making effective predictions based on the analyzed data." Antonioni made a detailed explanation to his boss based on the drawings he got. introduce.

"The coach's office area is next to the first team's field, mainly including tactical conference room, reference room and other coach-specific rooms. The head coach's office will not be far from the training ground. You can directly see the training situation of the players on the training ground; the area also includes canteens and entertainment places, such as indoor football fields, billiard rooms, and video game rooms; at the same time, part of the functions of the health center are also placed in the office area, such as The massage rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms used by the players must be designed with the approval of experts from the health center, and the health of the players can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.”

Antonioni clearly remembers how terrible the training base he used when he played football: the locker room was ventilated, the training ground was like a rotten vegetable field, and the team hired only a few team doctors with very limited professionalism. Players can't get timely massage and recovery. The most typical example is himself. The most serious injury in his career occurred in the 81-82 season. Tina hit him on the head, causing internal bleeding, a fractured skull, and his heart stopped for half a minute!

Fortunately, Antonioni survived and continued his glorious football career, but this serious injury caused his competitive state to decline; then in the 1982 World Cup semi-final between Italy and Poland, his injured leg hit the post. , directly led to his absence from the World Cup finals, and at the same time, his own national team appearance record also came to an abrupt end. At that time, he was only 28 years old.

Antonioni felt that this training base was completely different from the one he remembered before, and said with emotion, "If Fiorentina had these facilities when I was playing football, my career would definitely not be just 15 years."

"Giancarlo, don't be so sad." Zhuang Mingge saw that Antonioni's mood was a bit depressed, and hurriedly brought the topic to a happy place, "Think about it, the club has now built a top-notch training base, and these Fiorentina players are here. Training under the best conditions can effectively improve one's own competitive level, and at the same time enhance the players' sense of belonging to the club. Fiorentina has always been a place where loyal ministers are produced, so we cannot let players who are loyal to the club suffer; Giancarlo, The other area is the field used by the club's youth training echelon?"

Zhuang Mingge successfully diverted Antonioni's attention: "That's right, according to Florence's existing echelon division standards, we have built two venues for each echelon, but the most important youth team under the age of 20 has three. The field, the under-3 youth team and the youth teams at all levels are standard equipment."

"Similarly, a du li building will be built next to the youth team pitch with the same health facilities as the first team."

When designing the training base, Zhuang Mingge insisted that a large number of trees separate the youth training field from the first-team field, leaving only a small path in the middle for communication, so that when the head coach transfers young players to the first-team training, the players will cherish the connection with the first-team Opportunities for players to train.

The construction of the training base also includes player dormitories for youth team players and player villas for some first-line players who have no money to buy a house in Florence. The accommodation fee is free, but other expenses need to be paid by the players themselves.

Zhuang Minge and Antonioni looked at each other. From each other's eyes, they both felt the expectation for the day when the training base was officially put into use.