243 Theater of Dreams

The new Manchester United Academy has been around for four years, but it's already making a name for itself in England, and not just because of a Curtis.

In fact, no matter how bad the academy is, there may be one or two star embryos, but the key is that a group of new Manchester United have emerged!

Now there are many Red Rebels fans who chase the youth team as if chasing the first team, and their enthusiasm for the youth team is not lost to the first team at all, and even some young fans regard the youth team players as their idols.

Most of the players in the youth team live in the homes of fans in the vicinity, which strengthens the bond between the fans and the club, as well as fosters a sense of identity and belonging to the club.

The new Manchester United has negotiated with Manchester United, Liverpool, Leeds United and other teams to establish a youth league in the northwest of England, which has increased the number of youth teams of more than a dozen professional clubs nearby, and the number of fans who have watched the games has also increased, and many have even chased away from home.

With only three age groups in the youth league in the Northwest Territories, new Manchester United have attracted Jack Wilshere and Jack Rodwell to play in the Under-12 age group this season, Mike Richards has been promoted to the Under-14 age group, and Dave Thornton, who has been recruited by the new Manchester United from Italy, has also been placed in the Under-12 age group.

Theo Walcott, as a young rookie who has already made a name for himself in England, joined the new Manchester United after turning down offers from Chelsea, Southampton and other Premier League teams, and the club also values him very much.

After an assessment by the coaching staff, the club decided to place him in the Under-14 age group, as he is a great player in his age, but he has a flaw that almost all Academy graduates have in him: a lack of technical detail.

In recent years, the FA has frequently called for an improvement in the youth environment, one of the most important of which is the training of professionally qualified youth team coaches, and in many teams these roles are usually filled by retired players from the club, but they are often not professional.

For example, players in the under-15 age group often need to develop skills, and the reason why English players are always considered to lack skills is because they don't get this kind of training from a young age, and when they grow up, the skills are basically fixed.

However, the new Manchester United academy is different, developing the skills of the players from the start, encouraging the players to improvise and exploiting their creativity and technical potential as much as possible, even if they make mistakes that lead to the team losing, the coaching staff will not reprimand them for this, but will give them encouragement and support.

So in the youth team, there is often no shortage of genius flashes.

To put it simply, the youth team is never a place to produce results, the senior team is, so the youth team should be a testing ground, giving those young players as many opportunities to make mistakes as possible, let them reach their potential, do whatever they want, and then they will slowly understand what is right and what is wrong, what should and what should not be.

But in the academies of most of England's teams, that creativity is stifled.

Theo Walcott was excellent, but his technique never met the team's requirements, so Muhrensteen developed a technical training package for him to make up for his technical shortcomings, and he is only 11 years old, so he has plenty of time to work on this area.

Geniuses are often what can and need to be cultivated, and no one is born Ronaldo!

New Manchester United also attaches great importance to the academy, Xiao Yu not only equips the youth team with professional doctors, physiotherapists and other logistics teams, but also arranges a professional coach for teams of each age group.

In England, this kind of professional coach is relatively scarce, but under the leadership of Moniz and Mullenstin, the elder De Rossi, Palacio Sr., Darren Lyons, Carl Maternson and Gary Turner already have professional junior coaching qualifications, and the latter three are even studying for a higher level of coaching qualifications.

They are all very familiar with the whole academy system of the new Manchester United, and they know very well what the philosophy of the new Manchester United is to develop the youth team, but they adhere to the principle of developing their skills as much as possible before the age of 15, and after that, they start to instill in them positions and tactics.

As the Newton Heath training base continues to improve, the originally empty training ground turf has been improved, and a new indoor soccer stadium has been built, which is the most popular entertainment in Newton Heath, and with the support of the club and coaching staff, the indoor soccer league has been made an internal tradition that even youth team players can participate in.

At the same time, the number of staff in the lab is also increasing, and they are starting to include all the junior players who have joined the team in the scope of the lab's work, which is a big project, and they need a group of people to take care of this.

The Red Rebels Foundation has also set up a special service to help the families of players in need, in order to help those young players from difficult families, whether they have football talent or not, no matter what their family situation is, as long as they enter the new Manchester United Academy, as long as they encounter difficulties, the club will come forward to help them solve the problem.

On top of that, the new Manchester United's scouting network around the world has also spread out as much as possible, and they have started to search for young talent from all over the world, whether in Europe, Africa or South America.

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"Hello, Mr. de Meuron!"

In addition to the academy recently, Xiao Yu has also been busy with sponsorship, but more importantly, the new stadium, which is related to the future of the new Manchester United, so he can't afford not to pay attention to it.

Regarding the land of the new stadium, Xiao Yu can make his own decisions, but in terms of design, he needs to find experts in this area.

There are not many architects who have impressed Xiao Yu in his previous life, including Jacques Herzog, the designer of the Bird's Nest, and his partner Pierre de Meuron, two Swiss whose designs are always amazing.

"Hello, Mr. Xiao Yu!" Both de Meuron and Herzog are in their early forties and are at the peak of their lives.

However, if you look at their dress and grooming, you can hardly believe that they will design so many classic buildings, including many excellent works in addition to the Bird's Nest, which are famous in Europe and even around the world, and last year they were awarded the Pritzker Prize, which is known as the Nobel Prize in the field of architecture, which shows their fame.

Herzog & de Meuron has offices in many parts of Europe, including London, where they previously designed the critically acclaimed Tate Modern.

"I came to London to meet the two of you this time, hoping that your company can design a stadium for me!" Xiao Yu said straight to the point.

De Meuron had already guessed that if it wasn't for the design of the building, there would be no need to come to them specifically, "I don't know how big the stadium Mr. Xiao Yu wants to design?" ”

"It's between 30,000 and 40,000 yuan, but I want to be able to leave space for additional floors, and we also hope that you can help us plan the land around us, and in addition to us, Audi is also planning to build a British flagship store over there, and I hope to be able to award all of these together."

This is a new cooperation between New Manchester United and Audi, Audi will lease the land near the fork in the road to build the Audi flagship store, which will be the largest flagship store established by Audi in the UK, and the new Manchester United intends to plan the other three leased plots of land around it, as well as parking lots.

According to Xiao Yu's words, Wal-Mart and the commercial area are opposite, but it doesn't matter, the new Manchester United will take the stadium as the center and plan the surrounding land to form another prosperous commercial area.

At present, many large companies are interested in the other three corners of the land, but the new Manchester United is not in a hurry to attract investment.

"So, it's the planning and design of the whole area?" De Meuron was immediately interested.

"Of course, I hope that the surrounding area can be transformed into a prosperous area with business, shopping, tourism and other integration with the stadium as the core, and the opposite of our stadium is the planned business district in Manchester."

"Well, then we'll have to go to the site and investigate it ourselves!" De Meuron said with a smile.

"However, regarding the court, we have a good design here, Mr. Xiao Yu might as well take a look!" Herzog obviously attached great importance to Xiao Yu's visit, and immediately opened his laptop, searched on it, and pulled out a few design drawings.

"This is something we recently designed to send to Munich, Germany, for a pitch design tender, and you know, we've never designed a pitch before, so we don't have a lot of experience with that." Herzog was telling the truth.

Xiao Yu leaned over and saw at a glance that the design of this stadium was the Allianz Stadium in Munich that he had seen in his previous life, but it still looked very rough, but from the perspective of appearance structure and creativity, it should be the Allianz Stadium.

There's a whole set of design plans below, but I don't know why, they didn't compete with this set.

"It's very famous, the design of this stadium is very sudden and bold, especially the design of the exterior wall lighting film, which is very eye-catching, but in my opinion, the budget of this stadium is probably very high!" Xiao Yu said with a smile.

"As a rough calculation, if the new Manchester United were to build 30,000-40,000 capacity, plus the planning and design of the surrounding plots, the budget would have to be at least around £250 million, and this is only the initial budget."

"Money is not a problem, so let's use this stadium as a design, you go to the site to survey it, and then sort out a complete set of design plans, and we will discuss it in detail at that time, how about it?" Xiao Yu made a neat proposal.

The two designers also had no opinion, and the two sides agreed on it.

Xiao Yu was full of praise for this Allianz Stadium in his previous life, but now he didn't expect that these two designers hadn't even taken this set of plans to bid, so it was naturally impossible for him to let them go.

This is known as the richest and most imaginative stadium in the world, and if the new Manchester United wins the stadium design, it will be able to compete with the Old Trafford derby to see whose stadium is more like the "Theatre of Dreams"!

ps: There is no saving draft, or the meaning of deliberately delaying the update, Lao Chen is not that kind of person!

Recently, there have been some sad things in a row, and I have been asking for leave, especially today, and I haven't come back until now!

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