The Godfather of Football

Although Ye Qiu said that Tottenham would help Manchester United get three points in the last round, Ferguson did not seem to appreciate it at all. He beat Tottenham 1:0 at Old Trafford and sent Ye Qiu's team out of the FA Cup.

For such a result, Ye Qiu was actually prepared for it, and even believed that everyone was prepared enough, because Tottenham wanted to beat Manchester United at Old Trafford, which was really unlikely, and Tottenham's main lineup had played two games in a row in the past week, so Ye Qiu played a lot of substitutes in this game.

Because both rounds of the FA Cup were played with a large number of substitutes, even if Tottenham failed to win in the end, it still won widespread praise from the media. After all, Manchester United played with a full main lineup, especially in the second round, only Giggs was absent.

The game started at 8 p.m., and after the game, the team returned to London from Manchester. It was already past midnight, and everyone went back to rest. They didn't have to report to the team the next day, and they packed up and went back to their national teams. Some players who didn't make the national team were given a day off.

The elimination from the FA Cup didn't hit Ye Qiu at all, and it didn't even have much impact on Tottenham Hotspur. Although Ye Qiu didn't say it, and no one asked, in fact, everyone knew that Ye Qiu had to start reducing the team's game pressure appropriately.

With the current overall strength of Tottenham Hotspur, it is far from being able to insist on fighting on multiple fronts, especially at this stage of sprinting. Ensuring the league is more important than anything else, so Ye Qiu gave up the FA Cup, and he was even considering that if necessary, he would even give up the League Cup.

The current UEFA Cup has declined. It is not as influential as when he led Ajax to win the championship. Whether it is the championship bonus or the sensation caused, it is obviously not enough for Tottenham Hotspur to invest everything in the competition. Ensuring the qualification for the Champions League next season is Ye Qiu's biggest goal this season.

He must ensure the current development momentum of the team to have enough chips to retain his players.

Now the group of giant teams are staring at the players in Ye Qiu's team like wolves, salivating at Van Nistelrooy, Ribery, Messi, Fabregas, Mascherano, Alves... These players are all in high demand and are not lacking in the attention of giant teams. Only by entering the Champions League can they be qualified to keep them.

In Ye Qiu's previous life, even a giant as powerful as Arsenal, whose performance has not improved but declined for many years, didn't the players in the team fall apart one by one? Although there are factors of Arsenal itself, if the players want to leave the team, don't they consider the performance? Isn't it because they can't see a future in Arsenal?

A player's career is neither long nor short. Who doesn't want to leave a brilliant mark in his short career? If you want all the fans to remember you, then there is only one way, to perform on the broadest stage, and that is undoubtedly to go to the big clubs, because all the fans and media remember only the big clubs!

It was a rare leisure time, and Ye Qiu stayed at home all morning, accompanying his wife who had just been discharged from the hospital. As for the two children, Ye Qiu's parents and father-in-law and mother-in-law were all there, so there was really nothing for them.

After lunch, Ye Qiu took a nice nap, and then drove to Hertfordshire by himself.

From Totteridge to Theobald training base, the distance and speed are faster than going north from London, because the traffic here is very convenient and the traffic volume is not very large, so there is basically no need to worry about congestion.

If you look down from mid-air, the Theobald training base looks like a slightly rectangular island. Because the river channel has been widened, both banks have been reinforced, and the dense forests along the coast were left when it was built, so the training base is isolated from the outside world on all sides, and only the main gate on the north side can be entered and exited.

The gate of the training base is concave, and outside is a green area with green grass and big trees planted. However, because it is transplanted, these are not visible at present. At least it will take one or two years for these to grow out before this place becomes beautiful.

Opposite the gate, on the right is the security building, which has two floors. The downstairs is the duty room and office, and the upstairs is the dormitory. The club has hired a professional security team to be responsible for the security of the entire training base and 24-hour patrol work to ensure that it will not be affected or disturbed by the outside world.

From the gate, a very obvious feature of the entire training base is that you can't see the wall because it is all covered by green belts. At a glance, you can only see the rows of trees planted inside and the garden outside.

Even though the team has not officially moved in yet, the security guards still check every car that comes in and out. Even Ye Qiu's car was stopped. Only after confirming that it was Ye Qiu himself, was he allowed to pass.

The Theobald training base is very large, and all the roads are paved with environmentally friendly asphalt. After entering the gate, both sides of the road are surrounded by green trees, and the ground is covered with grass, without any dust. However, just like the green area outside the gate, the trees and flowers are transplanted, and the effect cannot be seen for the time being. It will take some time, but the overall environment can already be felt.

After entering the main road, there is a large open space on the east side of the road. This is a home stadium built for the youth team. It will be equipped with a stand that can accommodate nearly 10,000 people. The venue also provides the same drainage and geothermal system as the first team. The stands are also equipped with a roof for fans.

To the west of the road is a dedicated two-story news building, which has ten independent interview rooms and a press conference hall with more than 100 seats to meet the interview requirements of media reporters and fans for Tottenham Hotspur.

Going further in, it is the central public garden area where the lake in the middle of the Theobald training base is located. This is also the area that all fans and media appreciate the most after Tottenham Hotspur released the renderings. It will become a public area for all first-team and youth team players to rest, and the road is also divided into the east and west sides from the public garden.

To the east is Tottenham Hotspur's youth training camp, where all the youth and second team players train. There will not only be 15 professional training grounds equipped with geothermal, drainage, automatic sprinkler and other automated systems, but also a three-story comprehensive training building will be built for all Tottenham Hotspur's youth training camp players.

Not only that, Ye Qiu is currently co-initiating with Premier League coaches such as Ferguson and Wenger, hoping to persuade the English Football Association to cancel the restrictions on the selection of youth training camp players, such as allowing Premier League teams to expand the selection area of ​​the youth team, so that they can select from all over England, so that the most talented young players can come to the best youth training camp for training.

Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur's comprehensive training building will be equipped with player dormitories.

When the training base is completed, most of the jobs here will give priority to Tottenham Hotspur fans, because Ye Qiu hopes to create a strong club atmosphere in the training base in the shortest time and cultivate a club culture as soon as possible in this way.

Going west from the public garden area, you will enter the first-team training area. There is an independent three-story training building dedicated to the first-team. Like the training building for the youth team, it is also equipped with advanced facilities such as a gym, indoor swimming pool, sauna, massage room, restaurant, and entertainment room.

Moreover, the dormitories in the entire training building for players to rest all adopt the standards of a five-star hotel. Therefore, once settled in, the team will no longer stay in a hotel the night before all future home games of Tottenham Hotspur, but will stay in the Theobald training base, because this is the best hotel.

If it were just like this, Tottenham Hotspur's Theobald training base would not need to spend so much money, and it would not be worthy of such high expectations and evaluations from the outside world, because the facilities here are not only complete, but also very advanced, and many of them are even used for the first time in the field of football.

For example, the indoor swimming pool, the indoor swimming pool in the training building can not only adjust the depth, but also has cold, hot, normal temperature and massage pools. Tottenham Hotspur even bought some special training swimsuits from the United States to help players, especially some injured players, to conduct recovery training in the swimming pool.

This kind of hot and cold pool training can promote injury recovery and relieve fatigue. It has been adopted in some sports fields and the effect is very ideal, but it is the first time to be used in the field of football.

In addition, one of the standard training grounds in the first-team training area is surrounded by a series of ultra-high-speed high-definition cameras. The function of these cameras is that when the players are training in this training ground, these cameras can capture every action of the players in every position on the court from any angle without blind spots, even the slightest one can be captured, even the moment when the player shoots and the moment when the heel touches the ball.

For this reason, Ye Qiu specially asked someone to write a new training system specifically for analysis and research. In addition, Tottenham Hotspur also cooperated with Adidas to add chips to the players' training shoes to record and collect the players' heartbeats, stride frequency, and a series of data during their training, and directly transmit them from the chips on the soles to the computers in the research center for direct analysis.

Therefore, next to the first-team training building, there is a single-story research center. This is the heart of Tottenham Hotspur's training center, which is used to analyze the team's training and the data and intelligence of the opponents in each game, and submit them to the coaching staff as a reference for the team's preparation.

In addition, the team's research center also has other high-tech facilities and training methods, many of which are obtained by Tottenham Hotspur referring to other training bases around the world or training methods in other sports fields.

However, Ye Qiu pays the most attention to a circular building next to the research center, because it contains Tottenham Hotspur's unique, and even football and other fields have never had training facilities before.

Walking into this circular building, you can see that the ground is paved with soft grass, and there is a circle in the middle of the grass. The radius of the circle is one meter, and with the center of this circle as the center, the entire venue is a circle with a radius of eleven meters, surrounded by walls composed of wall panels.

This is actually an idea that Ye Qiu got from the high-tech training room in Dortmund in his previous life. He placed a total of 16 football pitching machines on this circular wall at different angles and heights. The principle is the same as that of table tennis and baseball pitching machines, except that the volume has changed to football.

The principle of the entire training room is similar to that of Dortmund, but Ye Qiu has made appropriate improvements.

For example, the radius of the central circle is one meter. Players receive balls from all directions in this circle. When the pitching machine is about to serve, the wall panel where the pitching machine is located will immediately turn white, which is the color of Tottenham Hotspur's jersey. When serving, the speaker on this wall panel will emit a preset sound to remind the player that the ball is coming.

After the player receives the ball, another wall panel in the room will soon light up, still in white, and there will also be a sound to remind the player to pass the ball. The player must pass the ball into this wall panel in the shortest time.

Not only that, if the player is catching the ball from the pitching machine, but the direction of the pass is behind him, the training room will default to giving the player some adjustment time, such as letting you stop the ball and turn around before passing the ball. However, if the ball is in some directions where you can pass it with one foot, the time will be shorter, which is to maximize the simulation of the scene in the game.

In addition, the speed and rotation intensity of the ball thrown by the pitching machine can be manually adjusted and preset. After the player enters the training room, all the training processes do not require manual operation, and are directly controlled by the computer. After that, the computer will record the data and transmit it to the mainframe of the analysis center for automatic analysis.

High-definition cameras are also installed around the entire training room to record the players' every move during training here, and even some mistakes will be directly filmed. After that, the analysis team will give a report, and the coaching staff will guide the players based on this report, such as the details of some passing skills or some stopping skills.

Of course, as a football coach, Ye Qiu was not good at building such a training room. He could only provide some specific concepts and ideas, or give some professional advice. He handed all the details to Andy Hobb, a professor of electronic and mechanical engineering at Cambridge.

Andy Hobb is an Englishman and a fan of Tottenham Hotspur, so when Ye Qiu invited him to join the project, he agreed without much consideration and quickly organized a professional research team in his spare time to study and discuss Ye Qiu's ideas.

In fact, Ye Qiu's ideas were not complicated. Many things could be easily realized, such as pitching machines, wall panel color control, ball speed rotation, etc. These could be easily controlled, so the whole project was not difficult for those who were proficient in electronic and mechanical engineering.

And Ye Qiu was willing to spend money. In the past less than a year, he invested nearly two million euros in their project, and even promised that if they had any related research in the future, Ye Qiu would be willing to invest and support their research and development.

When Ye Qiu arrived, the white-haired Professor Andy Hopper was directing students to conduct tests. The entire training room was not very difficult. The most troublesome thing was the running-in test and the sound.

What Ye Qiu wanted was to simulate the game to the maximum extent, so the players received training after entering this room. The room would also simulate the sound of the game, which was the kind of sound waves that swept in from all directions when the players were deep in the court. How to create such a realistic effect and ensure that there would be no echo, and at the same time, the shouts from the wall board when serving and receiving the ball would not be covered by the sound waves that filled the entire training room, and could reach the ears of the players, this was a bit difficult.

"How is it?" Ye Qiu saw a graduate student from Cambridge in the training room being tortured by the pitching machine and sweating profusely. He couldn't help laughing and thought to himself, this guy shouldn't have much exercise, right?

"It's not a big problem, but there are still some details that need to be improved!" Andy Hobbs is a typical academic, and excellence is the label of people like them. Ye Qiu is very relieved to hand over this project to them because of this.

Not only that, if this project is perfected, he is also going to build a similar training room in the youth training camp to train the players of the youth team, and he has successfully applied for a series of patents, and this thing can also make money in the future.

The most important thing about the entire training room is this idea, as well as the running-in and testing after completion. The specific research and construction are not very difficult, so it should be in time for Tottenham Hotspur to enter the Theobald training base next season. At that time, Professor Andy Hobbs and his team will stay in the training base for further improvement and improvement.

"Oh, I forgot to congratulate you on winning the League Cup!" Andy Hobbs suddenly thought of this and shook hands with Ye Qiu with a smile. He has been staggered with Ye Qiu in the past period of time. Sometimes he came and Ye Qiu was not there, and Ye Qiu came and he was not there.

Ye Qiu expressed his gratitude for this belated congratulations. Andy Hope was born in London, grew up in Tottenham and now moved to Cambridge, but he is indeed a die-hard fan of Tottenham Hotspur. It's just that due to work and research, he couldn't follow every game.

Like Andy Hooper, I believe there are many people who cannot come to Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart Lane Stadium to watch the game because of work, family, or other reasons, but their love and attention to the club will not be reduced.

"Mr. Ye Qiu, you have to keep working hard. We have to make it to the top four this year!" Andy Hooper encouraged Ye Qiu with a smile.

Ye Qiu smiled, "Get it done, I will give you a season ticket for the next season!"

"Wow!" The students in the training room were all excited.

According to the current price of Tottenham Hotspur's season ticket, it is nearly a thousand pounds. There are a total of ten people here, including Andy Hooper. In total, Ye Qiu gave away nearly ten thousand pounds, which is really generous.

"Okay, you guys keep busy. I have something else to do. I'll leave first!" Ye Qiu still has something to do in the training base.

After saying goodbye to Andy Hopper and the others, Ye Qiu went around to take a look. At present, the first-team training area of ​​the Theobald training base has been basically completed, and the main buildings such as the training building and stadium of the youth training camp have also been capped and completed. The next step is landscaping and decoration. It is expected that it should be basically completed by 2008, and by 2009, the entire Theobald training base will be completed.

After Ye Qiu made a tour of the training base, he drove away from Theobald, drove south and turned to Chigwell. In a few months, the first-team will move out of this training base, and then this place will become the training ground for the youth team. Then, in another year, the youth team will move there, and the whole place will be sold.

However, Chigwell is located in the suburbs, so this piece of land is not valuable, but it is better than nothing.

Ye Qiu returned to the Chigwell training base. Because the team stopped training, he had expected that there would be no one here, but he didn't expect that when he was about to go to the office upstairs, he saw that there were still people in the training ground.