As the capital of Ghana, Accra is the largest and economically developed port city in Ghana, as if it is a shining pearl in the barren land of Ghana, embedded in the West Gulf of Africa.

Perhaps due to the fact that few foreign teams usually come to Ghana, coupled with the fact that the new Manchester United team has Ghanaian star Essien, and it is a charity match, the new Manchester United team was welcomed by local fans and officials when they arrived in Accra.

In addition to the new Manchester United, the charity cup is also a freelance club that has just been wholly acquired by Xiao Yu, of which Melo is the chief executive, and Xiao Yu has also announced that he will improve the freelancers' academy and prepare to buy a stadium in Accra that can accommodate more than 30,000 people.

Xiao Yu's drastic move made Merlot feel excited, and at the same time, Xiao Yu supported him, so that his long-standing ambition was finally realized, so he started to do things, and the enthusiasm was very surprising.

In this charity competition, Melo also contributed a lot.

In addition to the new Manchester United and freelancers, the charity match was also attended by Abidjan Mimosa from Côte d'Ivoire, the old club of Kolo Toure and Yaya Toure, who is quite famous in Africa and is known as the Whampoa Military Academy of Côte d'Ivoire, from which the vast majority of the members of the Ivorian national team are said to be from.

The other club is from Cape Town Ajax, South Africa, which is Ajax's satellite club in South Africa, and they have a 51% stake in the club, which was originally formed in the hope that Cape Town Ajax can source stars for Ajax in South Africa.

When Xiao Yu agreed with Mark David and Gardner to invite these two clubs, he did not choose them randomly, but valued the background of these two clubs.

Abidjan Mimosa has a certain influence and scouting network in West Africa, while Cape Town Ajax can offer some experience to the new Manchester United, after all, Ajax also put down roots in South Africa through the acquisition of local clubs, Xiao Yu feels that this club should be able to help the new United run a good freelance business.

Of course, for running a freelancer, Melo has his own set of plans, Xiao Yu has seen it, it is very good, after all, Melo is very familiar with the football environment in Africa, which is incomparable to outsiders.

The three foreign teams were accommodated together in a hotel in Accra, but were arranged to train in different locations, with the new United being placed to train at a school near Accra.

While the team was on their way to training, Xiao Yu, Melo and Marc David invited the presidents of Abidjan Mimosa and Cape Town Ajax to the party.

At the party, Xiao Yu thanked the two clubs for taking the time to participate in the charity match, and promised them that the appearance fee of the game would be transferred to their club's bank account.

But that's just the beginning.

Next, Xiao Yu asked the two clubs for experience in running a freelance club in South Africa, and the two clubs did not hesitate to give advice, and at the same time promised to help as much as they could.

Through this gathering, New Manchester United has reached a friendly cooperation intention with Abidjan Mimosa Club and Cape Town Ajax, which I believe will play a certain role in the future development of New Manchester United.

Of course, Xiao Yu doesn't attach much importance to this, after all, in the short term, the most potential and outstanding rookies in Côte d'Ivoire are in the hands of Xiao Yu, as for other stars, although they also have strength, Xiao Yu feels that his team may not be able to use so much.

After saying goodbye to the two clubs, Xiao Yu also sent a friendly invitation to Mr. Michel van Praag, the chairman of Ajax in the Netherlands, through the chairman of Ajax in Cape Town, hoping to have the opportunity to meet him.

Van Praag is a pivotal figure in today's European football, he is one of the founders of the G14 group, the president of Ajax, and later the president of the Dutch Football Association, and has a very wide network in Europe.

If you can establish a relationship with such a person, this will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the future development of new Manchester United, especially when new Manchester United wants to enter the circle of giants, it really needs such a leader.

After seeing off the owners of the two clubs, Xiao Yu had just walked out of the conference hall of the hotel and immediately received an invitation from the President of Ghana to invite him to the Presidential Palace.

"I really can't see that you're quite popular!" Mark David said with a smile.

Xiao Yu shook his head and smiled helplessly, he knew that these were all burdened by fame.

You know, on Wall Street in the United States, Xiao Yu has become more and more famous in the past two years, especially the companies he founded, all of which have now become leaders in the field of network technology in the United States.

In addition, Xiao Yu is a good friend of Steve Jobs of Apple, and he is also a shareholder of Apple, and Jobs has mentioned Xiao Yu in interviews many times, thinking that if he is not obsessed with football, he will be a genius like Bill Gates.

And when such a person comes to Ghana, the Ghanaian political axe will naturally not be taken lightly.

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President Kufuor's meeting with Xiao Yu was arranged at the place where the Presidential Palace received foreign guests, which shows the importance they attached to Xiao Yu, and was accompanied by members of the Ghana Parliament and the Ministry of Finance.

Seeing that the other party made this meeting the same as meeting with foreign envoys, Xiao Yu felt very helpless, but he could only put on an official posture.

During the interview, President Kufuor repeatedly asked Xiao Yu whether he had any plans to invest in Ghana, but Xiao Yu did not give a clear statement, but Xiao Yu promised that he would continue to carry out his charity activities in the next few years, and he also said that he would use himself and New Manchester United as a bridge to let more people join the ranks of charity.

President Kufuor apparently also investigated some of the charitable activities of the Red Rebels Charitable Foundation in Ghana and Africa, and when he heard Xiao Yu say this, he also welcomed it, and promised to give Xiao Yu as much support as possible.

During the interview, Xiao Yu mentioned whether it is possible to make the charity competition organized by the freelance club an annual event, inviting several clubs to come to Accra every year to compete, and all the income from the competition is used for charity.

President Kufuor said that he would consider this matter carefully, and at the same time, for Xiao Yu's proposal to buy the stadium, the political axe also made it clear that he would negotiate carefully, and it should not be a big problem.

With the stadium and the academy perfected, Xiao Yu didn't invest much in freelancing, because the cost of running a football club in Ghana was not too high, and according to Melo's plan, he would be able to make freelancers pay for themselves within two years.

This is also what Xiao Yu is most happy to see.

While not all freelance players can be used by the new Manchester United, at least having such a club in Africa will make a big difference for the new Manchester United.

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After coming out of the presidential palace, Xiao Yu specially asked Melo to accompany him to the stadium that he was about to acquire, and found that the stadium was still very new, it is said that it had just been built for two or three years, and it is currently vacant, and the capacity is larger than the current city stadium of the new Manchester United, but the facilities are not as good as the city stadium.

The stadium disturbance broke out before, and Xiao Yu also attached great importance to the safety of the stadium, so that Melo must rebuild the safety facilities of the stadium to ensure that fans can watch the game with peace of mind when they come to the stadium, and at the same time prohibit those fans who like to make trouble from entering the stadium.

Melo agrees that only a safe stadium can attract more fans to the stadium.

In addition, Xiao Yu also made a lot of suggestions for freelancers, such as listing some well-known African stars in his past memories, reporting that they were players observed by New Manchester United scouts, and asked freelancers to find them, including Annan, the nephew of the United Nations Secretary-General who became New Essien.

After watching the court, Xiao Yu went to the scene to watch the freelance players' training, and he found the 20-year-old Chlo Toure and 18-year-old Yaya Toure among the players, and it is said that even their younger brother came to the freelance club together.

This made Xiao Yu think that with enough funds to back him up, coupled with his football knowledge that is ahead of others, he may be able to train freelancers to become the class masters of African football.

If that's the case, then it's really planting flags everywhere and blooming everywhere!

After leaving the freelance club, Xiao Yu returned to the hotel, just as Mark David and the team had returned.

After negotiating on some things, Xiao Yu had dinner with the team and then returned to his room.

He is a person who doesn't like nightlife very much, and this is Ghana, Xiao Yu doesn't think it's a good thing to look for excitement here, if one accidentally makes it like Edwards, then Xiao Yu will really be discredited.

Edwards is famous in the UK and football, but if Xiao Yu also makes any scandals, it must be known to the whole world, because he is also a celebrity on the Internet now, any news, whether true or not, anyway, as long as it is on the Internet, it is destined to be known to the world.

I had no choice but to ask Mark David to go to the hotel's fitness room to accompany the players to exercise.

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On the afternoon of the third day of the arrival of New Manchester United in Accra, at the stadium where the freelancers were ready to buy, the new Manchester United took on the freelancers' charity game as scheduled, which attracted more than 30,000 fans, and Ghanaian President Kufuor was present in person, and before the game, came to the center of the stadium to make a short kick-off ceremony for the charity match.

And with President Kufuor's first kick, this charity match finally kicked off!

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