207 Philanthropic Pioneers

On the same night that New Manchester United beat the Freelance Club, Cape Town Ajax drew 2-2 with Abidjan Mimosa in another game, leaving New United at the top of the Italian table with three points.

Two days later, the new Manchester United took on Abidjan Mimosa.

Didier Drogba, who started again for the team, showed a very strong goal** against the team from his home country, and he was lively throughout the game, but Abidjan's mimosa was not a fuel-efficient lamp either, especially when the new United players were generally out of the game, causing them a lot of problems.

When the first half was tied 0-0, Mourinho decisively changed his formation in the second half, replacing Olic and Palacio, the two central midfielders were Arau Diarra and De Rossi, the two wingers were Ribery and Wright Phillips, and the back line reused Evra as the left wing-back, Chiellini and Curtis as the central defender, Hangrand as the right wing-back, and Cech replaced Almunia.

The first 20 minutes of successive substitutions were chaotic for the new United, with centre-back Giorgio Chiellini making a mistake that led to the goal conceded in the 58th minute.

However, Mourinho still chose to change the formation, he asked the players to suppress the opponent on the field, especially the central midfielder composed of De Rossi and Arau Diarra, firmly clamped Abidjan's mimosa midfield organization, coupled with Curtis's forward insertion from time to time, so that Abidjan's mimosa attack was completely suppressed.

And the opponent was suppressed, and the offensive of the new Manchester United gradually played out.

The duo of Palacio and Olic were both quick, with the former being more technically and the latter running more and being physically promising, and with Ribery and Wright Phillips in the back row, the new United gradually turned the tide on the pitch.

In the 81st minute, Evra on the left side of the new Manchester United broke the ball and passed to De Rossi to attack, after Ribery received the ball on the left side, he cut inside after passing a player on the opposing side, attracting the opponent's central defender and passing a ball behind him, Palacio got rid of the defense and scored a single knife, 1:1!

After the equaliser, the new Manchester United were more imposing, but Abijan's mimosa formation gradually retreated, making the situation on the field one-sided, but the new United were never able to convert the advantage into goals, and could only watch the opponent snatch a point from their own hands.

That night, on the same pitch, the freelancers unexpectedly beat Cape Town Ajax, with Yaya Toure coming alive, scoring a long-range shot and setting up a team-mate's score, while Kolo Toure was as consistent as ever.

The final score was 2:1!

After two rounds, the new Manchester United are in first place with four points, the freelancers are second with three points, and Abidjan Mimosa and Cape Town Ajax are tied for third.

In the third round, the new Manchester United faced Cape Town Ajax, although the latter was very tenacious in the game, but still could not prevent the new United from winning the game, the score of 1:0 made Mourinho a little depressed, because according to the team's performance, the score should be bigger.

The freelancers and Abidjan mimosa played a tight game, with the first half tied at 2-2, with Abidjan scoring in the second half, but Collo Toure scored with an assist on the right flank to help the freelancers equalise.

It's a pity that before the final game, Abidjan's mimosa player got another chance in the penalty area, but he was tripped by the freelance central defender in the penalty area, and the referee awarded a penalty, and Abidjan's mimosa striker personally hit the penalty, 3:4!

So far, all six matches of the Ghana Charity Tournament have ended, with New Manchester United in first place with 7 points, Abidjan Mimosa in second with 4 points, Freelancers in third with 3 points, and Cape Town Ajax at the bottom with only 1 point.

According to the pre-match agreement, in addition to the appearance fee, each team will be given a corresponding prize according to the ranking, but New Manchester United will donate all the prize money to the Red Rebels Charity Foundation, which will then donate it to the families of the victims of the disturbance at the Ghana stadium.

According to Mark Davy's statistics, these six games attracted a total of about 100,000 fans to watch the games, and based on the average ticket price of $10, the charity game alone generated $1 million in ticket revenue, plus other game revenues, and sponsorships, it is expected to raise nearly $1.5 million.

After deducting necessary expenses such as expenses and appearance fees, the remaining million US dollars were all handed over to the Red Rebels Charity Foundation, which also handed over all the money to the families of the victims within a week of receiving the money.

This matter has attracted considerable attention in Africa and Europe.

The incident of the Ghanaian stadium that killed more than 130 fans is well known, and there are many institutions that sympathize with the tragedy and help the families of the victims, but the new Manchester United is undoubtedly ahead of the curve in football, and their actions have attracted the attention of other clubs in Europe, and even many sponsors have been involved.

Although Africa's economy is still relatively backward, the market potential of this land is gradually becoming known, and whether it is to do charity, or just use the name of charity as a breakthrough into Africa, these are not important, the important thing is that they help the poor people living here.

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After returning from Ghana, Kolo Toure also returned to Manchester with the team, while his younger brother Yaya Toure was taken to Belgium by scouts from the new Manchester United team.

The last two seasons have been terrible, in the 98-99 season they won the league title, but in the 99-00 season they fell to 8th in the league, and last season, they were even on the verge of the relegation zone, and although they rebounded in the end, they were only 11th in the league.

Genke were looking to rebuild their squad this season but struggled to find a midfielder who could attack and defend, and at this time, one of the scouts of the new Manchester United recommended Yaya Toure to them, and their head coach only looked at the footage and immediately decided to sign the Ivorian on loan and promised to be entrusted with the role.

New Manchester United signed a loan agreement with Genk, Yaya Toure will go to Genk for a year, with the latter paying Yaya Toure's salary, and after a year, Genk will have the right of first refusal to extend the loan for another year, but the new United will refuse to buy out.

Before Yaya Toure left for Belgium, Xiao Yu and Mourinho talked to him successively, saying that the club loaned him only because he could not apply for a labor certificate at present, even if he went to England, he could not play for the team, loan is the best choice, and during the loan period, the club will also pay attention to his game and progress.

Xiao Yu has already started to keep the lab on the radar of Yaya Toure and the scout in charge of the Belgium region to keep an eye on his game, so he wants to keep up to date with the Ivorian youngster.

Although Yaya Toure was not very interested in hearing about being loaned, after Xiao Yu and Mourinho's explanations and assurances, he also repeatedly said that he would definitely work hard to improve his strength and strive to join the national team as soon as possible and represent the national team.

And frankly speaking, going to the Belgian First Division is not necessarily worse than going to the English Second Division, after all, the latter is also getting a lot of attention, and the Genke team is also a stronger team than the First League, but Yaya Toure still thinks it is better to play in the same team as his brother.

After returning to Manchester, the new United began to engage in intense pre-season training, with the club arranging three warm-up games, as well as the pre-season Newton Heath Cup.

The Cup, which was approved by the FA last year by the new Manchester United and Droisden, will be a charity friendly between the two teams before each season, with proceeds going to charity.

Last year it was held at the Butcher's Knife Stadium in Droisden, and this year it will be scheduled at the City Stadium at New Manchester United.

Before it started, the new Manchester United's commerce department had already started to promote the game, and it was a charity match, so the ticket price was not high, although there was still more than half a month before the game, but 14,000 tickets had been sold out.

According to the investigation of the new Manchester United Ministry of Commerce, the scalpers outside have even raised the price of tickets to three times the selling price, and they are still in demand, so it can be predicted that the home attendance rate of the new Manchester United this season is still very optimistic.

The average ticket price for the new United is tentatively set at £15 this season, which is the lowest in League Two, but if all 14,000 seats can be filled, the ticket revenue alone will reach 210,000 per game, and the new Manchester United will have 23 home games this season and ticket revenue will reach 4.83 million pounds.

Of course, this is an ideal statement, and in fact it is impossible to fill all of them, but the new Manchester United have sold 5,000 season tickets so far, and the sales are very hot, so it can be seen that if it is not full, at least it should not be far behind.

According to Mark Davy, with sponsorship and other income, it is believed that this season the new Manchester United will be doing better than last season, and may even reach self-financing.

However, if you have to invest heavily in reinforcements next season, I believe that Xiao Yu will have to make a handful of blood at that time!

Xiao Yu is already very satisfied with the new Manchester United being able to have this kind of improvement this season, if he can really be promoted to the English League, let alone a handful of blood, I believe that ten blood, Xiao Yu is willing.

On the third day of returning to Manchester, Xiao Yu fulfilled what he had promised Curtis and others, and held a banquet in his new home, in addition to inviting the new Manchester United team, he also specially invited his new neighbors, the Beckhams couple, and a group of Manchester United stars.

But what he didn't expect was that in addition to the people he invited, Eva Snow, who was the hostess, would also invite more guests to the dinner at the same time.

This made Xiao Yu, who originally planned to get a group of friends together, could only watch the dinner party he prepared become the focus of media attention, especially the reporters who appeared outside his mansion that night, one by one, like bees smelling the fragrance of nectar, swarming over.

This person, it's really hard to keep a low profile!

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