The Godfather of Football

With the intense construction work over the past three years, the main stadium of the London Olympics, Stratford Stadium, or the official more standard name should be Stratford Stadium, has finally been officially completed!

Receiving this news, everyone in London felt relieved. All the previous worries and concerns have come to an end temporarily. For a time, almost all the media and reporters from all over the world rushed to Stratford Stadium frantically, because on October 29th, Stratford Stadium will have a simple completion ceremony.

Speaking of completion, it is actually just the end of the construction work. There are still quite a lot of other things going on, such as the seats in the stands, and a lot of things such as the facilities of the venue have just begun, but it is basically not difficult to catch up with the Olympics.

After all, compared with Ye Qiu's previous life, now there is an additional 300 million euros of construction fees paid by Tottenham Hotspur in the past three years. If it is not completed on time, the London Olympic Organizing Committee can almost be pulled out and shot one by one.

Ye Qiu was still not satisfied with the progress of the project, as the Stratford Stadium was completed four months earlier than in his previous life. It was too slow. If it was done according to his standards, the stadium should have been completed and even put into use. However, the Olympic Committee is still wrangling over whether the opening ceremony of the Olympics can be held as scheduled. It was too much.

Many people attended the completion ceremony, including London Mayor Boris Johnson, London Olympic Committee Chairman Sebastian Coe and some important figures in London. The Tottenham Hotspur team, led by Ye Qiu, arrived at the Stratford Stadium on the team bus.

Under the arrangement of the on-site staff, they seemed to have come to their home stadium and got off directly from the internal passage of the stadium.

If it was broadcast live on TV, this should be the entrance to the player's passage, and go directly to the locker room.

There is no parking lot underground at Stratford Stadium. All parking lots are located underground at Zhenhua Building opposite Stratford. There is the largest underground parking lot in Europe, which can accommodate 15,000 vehicles. There is also a ground parking lot outside the hotel that can accommodate more than 1,000 tourist buses.

From Zhenhua Building to Stratford Stadium, it is just a few steps away.

The transportation near the Olympic Park is very convenient. The subway exit is in the north of the park. After exiting, there is the largest comprehensive shopping mall in Europe, which is also the earliest industry sold by the London Olympic Organizing Committee. It is not far from Stratford Stadium. In addition, the bus is also very convenient. If you drive by yourself, it may be a bit congested on the day of the game.

In order to solve this problem, when designing the highway of the Olympic Park, the traffic was directly introduced from the main road through the overpass to the underground parking lot. There are two entrances and two exits in the underground parking lot, plus intelligent management, the purpose is to solve the congestion of excessive traffic on the day of the game.

At this moment, the Tottenham Hotspur team got off the bus at the entrance of the internal passage of the Stratford Stadium. Looking over, there were overpasses extending in all directions outside the stadium, and they were already standing inside the Stratford Stadium.

In Ye Qiu's previous life, one of the important reasons why the Stratford Stadium was called the London Bowl was that it was like a bowl, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, a bit like the structure of the Bird's Nest Stadium, but you have to know that the original design of the Stratford Stadium was not like this. It was just that the London Olympic Organizing Committee reduced the design plan five times in a row due to financial budget constraints, and finally made the London Bowl.

The most well-known is the roof. The rectification plan proposed by the London Olympic Organizing Committee in the fifth time was to completely abandon the roof, but this plan was quickly rejected because London was rainy and it was impossible to have no roof, so they finally made a decision, that is, to reduce the area of ​​the roof, and the roof only covered about 60% of the stands in the end.

At that time, there was a saying that in order to reflect fairness, the low-priced stands had one more enjoyment than the high-priced stands, that is, the chic and poetic feeling of watching the Olympics in the rain.

Ye Qiu paid 300 million euros, and he also had a say in the design of Stratford Stadium, so the first decision he made was that there must be no roof, so he immediately decided on the first design of the designer, a movable and retractable roof. Once it encounters rainy and snowy weather, the stadium can be covered with a roof and become a closed space, and the game can continue inside.

Perhaps many people don’t realize that it’s just an extra roof, and it doesn’t seem to cost much more, but it’s not.

Just like the entire Tottenham Hotspur team is now walking into the stadium along the internal passage. Even if they are in the internal passage of the stadium, they will not feel the slightest bit of depression and stuffiness. This is because the stadium was designed with consideration of the entire large-scale and detailed air circulation, and even the wind speed.

Not to mention that there are fewer people now, even if the stadium is full and filled with 80,000 fans, and even if the third floor is added in the future, the number of fans on site will reach more than 90,000 or even 100,000, there will be no feeling of oppression due to the large number of people. This is because a wind tunnel experiment must be carried out at the beginning of the stadium's design. The purpose is to test the ventilation effect and air circulation quality, minimize the wind speed in the stadium, and ensure the smooth progress of the game.

Especially for some Olympic events, if the internal ventilation is too poor, causing athletes to be in a headwind state, it will definitely not work, and they will definitely be criticized and blamed, or even suspended.

In fact, the current internal passage is a downhill section and then a climb, which is because of the consideration of the future renovation of the stadium.

You know, after the Olympics and Paralympics, this stadium will be transformed into a professional football stadium by Tottenham Hotspur, that is, the track will be demolished and the stadium stands will be expanded. At that time, in order to ensure the viewing experience of the fans on the scene, to ensure that the fans in every position can better and more clearly appreciate everything happening on the field without dead angles, and at the same time to ensure the atmosphere of the game on the scene and maximize the home atmosphere, a 45-degree stand slope is the most ideal.

But in order to achieve these two effects at the same time, the competition venue will have to sink at that time.

Walking out of the stadium passage, standing inside the stadium, looking up at the stands, although the seats have not been installed yet, everyone can easily feel that the stands are very steep, a bit like the oblique angles of the stands at Camp Nou and Bernabeu in La Liga. When designing the stands, the designers did follow Ye Qiu's advice and observed several other famous stadiums in the world, such as Camp Nou, Bernabeu, Allianz and Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, etc.

"After the Olympics and Paralympics, that is, in September 2012, we will dismantle these track and field tracks, dig deeper where we are standing now, expand the stands, and build a whole row of VIP boxes between the first and second stands." Ye Qiu introduced his plan for this home stadium to his players.

In his opinion, in order to ensure that there are no blind spots, the corners of the stadium stands are all in the shape of arcs, close to the stadium, so that fans can watch the game in the stands without blind spots, and even if they sit in the top stands, the third stand in the future, it seems that they are overlooking the entire stadium from a high position, which will be a great feeling.

The fans' seats are also particular. If the seats are wider like those at the Emirates Stadium, although the fans feel very comfortable sitting up, on the one hand, the space is too large, and on the other hand, the voices of the fans cannot be well concentrated, which will not form a good home atmosphere. In fact, Arsenal's Emirates Stadium is also the home stadium with the poor atmosphere in the Premier League.

The seats in the Stratford Stadium will be relatively close. At that time, all seats, including VIP boxes, business stands and ordinary stands, will use the same type of seats to ensure the best experience for all fans entering the stadium, and the ceiling design of the stands includes reflecting the shouts of the fans back to the stadium to achieve the best home effect.

In addition to this series of innovative facilities, Ye Qiu plans to build Stratford Stadium into a seven-star top home stadium, which will not only provide fans with visible enjoyment, but also a lot of invisible enjoyment. For example, Tottenham Hotspur has cooperated with Huawei, a Chinese communications giant, and Leaf Technology. Among them, Huawei provides IP network and wireless LAN, which will completely bid farewell to the past hard wiring era and enter the information intelligence era.

Not only that, Tottenham Hotspur will manage members in a unified manner in the future. Membership cards will no longer be limited to fan identity identification, but will also have functions such as value storage and shopping consumption. All membership cards will be real-name based. Fans can even book tickets directly through mobile phone APP and computer, just like buying tickets in a movie theater. After arriving at the stadium, they can directly enter by swiping their membership cards.

Moreover, Leaf Technology's lighthouse technology base station will be set up inside the stadium to push some discount promotions on commodities and food to fans' mobile phones. Fans can also order directly through the official APP on their mobile phones, and staff will deliver them to the fans' location in the shortest time. The whole process will not affect fans watching the game.

That is, fans used to have to leave their seats to consume, but now they don’t need to, you can order food while sitting in your seat.

Not only that, all kinds of sensors will be installed in every corner of the stadium, such as sensors installed under the grass of the stadium, so that the field maintenance staff can clearly understand the damage of the grass in the control room and provide maintenance, and the same is true for other places.

But this is not the most amazing part of this stadium. Ye Qiu’s real big move is that he decided to invest 30 million euros to build a set of cubic TV walls in the air of this Stratford stadium, similar to the one in the center of the basketball court. This kind of cubic TV wall has been used in the Schalke Stadium in Germany, but it is too small.

This time, the cubic TV wall that Ye Qiu decided to invest in will be suspended in the air 30 meters in the middle of the stadium, composed of four full HD 1080P displays using the most advanced technology, of which the two displays facing the main stand will reach 2,500 inches and 65 meters long, allowing fans sitting in any position of the main stand and the angle to see the TV clearly.

The display screens facing the stands on both sides are relatively small, but they are also 1,200 inches and 31 meters long, surpassing the display screens of many professional baseball clubs in the NFL in the United States and can be called the world's first.

But this huge record-breaking high-definition display screen is enough to give all companies a headache, including in the semiconductor field, because there is no processor in the world that can handle so many pixel values. After all, the screen is too large. However, Leaf Technology contracted this project and promised to complete it on schedule.

For this company known for its high-tech R\u0026D capabilities and innovation capabilities, no one doubts that they can do it. In fact, they have been developing display technology in the past few years. After all, Ye Qiu has been determined to promote Android to smart TVs from the beginning, so Leaf Technology also has quite a lot of patents and technologies for LED display technology.

This project is definitely a challenge for Leaf Technology, but if it is successful, it will be a display to the world, and throughout the R\u0026D process, Leaf Technology's strength in TV and display technology will be greatly improved and improved.

Not only on the display screen, Stratford Stadium will also build the most advanced audio and entertainment systems, which will be provided to the stadium, VIP boxes and business seats, etc. These are all projects contracted by Leaf Technology.

In addition to these three major networks and systems, Leaf Technology also contracted another major project of the stadium, wind power generation.

The London Olympics has always been themed on environmental protection, but in London, solar energy is a very scarce clean energy source, because it is not easy to see the sun here, but the wind here is abundant, so using wind power to generate electricity has become an important topic.

Leaf Technology originally built a data cloud between Stratford Stadium and Zhenhua Building, but at the same time, they also contracted all the street lights and stadium lighting systems in the entire Olympic Park. The street lights outside the stadium all use halo masts, and the wind turbines in them can generate electricity by themselves.

In the past few years, engineers from Leaf Technology have expanded their research projects to various fields and aspects, among which new energy has always been a link that Leaf Technology attaches great importance to, and whether it is solar energy or wind energy projects, Leaf Technology has achieved considerable results.

For example, at the end of 2008, Leaf Technology announced that it had reached an agreement with the British government to invest in an offshore wind farm in the UK, and Leaf Technology China R\u0026D Center announced two major achievements in 2009. One is the intelligent control system for wind power generation, which can enable wind power generation equipment to better adapt to the changing wind intensity, reduce the failure rate, and increase the working life.

Another is the magnetic levitation power generation technology, which is regarded by the outside world as a major breakthrough in wind power generation.

Wind power generation is even the biggest obstacle to the development of new energy sources such as solar energy. It is also an important reason why the outside world has always been pessimistic about new energy sources. It is the cost-effectiveness, that is, the input and output are completely inconsistent with the interests of investors.

Wind power generation is like this. The mechanical friction of the wind turbine causes the conversion rate of wind energy to electrical energy to be very low. Even at low wind speeds, it may not be able to operate at all. The magnetic levitation technology provides this possibility and creates the possibility for high-power power generation.

Simply put, the engineers of Leaf Technology applied the principle of magnetic levitation trains to wind turbines, minimized mechanical friction, and developed a magnetic levitation vertical wind turbine.

After entering 2010, these two innovations have been industrialized in China first. According to this set of plans, the entire coastal area of ​​China and even some islands will achieve self-sufficiency in electricity.

Leaf Technology contracted the wind power generation projects of Olympic Park and Stratford Stadium, and the Theobald Training Base has also been transformed into wind power generation. Even the headquarters and data centers of Leaf Technology in Finland and other parts of the world are all powered by renewable energy such as wind and solar energy.

Leaf Technology has even begun to study the high-altitude wind turbine project, that is, putting the entire wind turbine unit at an altitude of about 250 to 600 meters and using wind power to generate electricity. Once successful, it will inevitably break the existing new energy pattern.

As Ye Qiu's ambitions grow, his requirements for the transformation of Stratford Stadium are getting higher and higher. In addition, Tottenham Hotspur's attendance is so impressive. According to Peter Kenyon's guess, the capacity of 80,000 fans still cannot meet the needs of Tottenham Hotspur fans and London fans. Therefore, the new stadium may further expand the third tier of stands in the future.

But in order to be able to put it into use in the summer of 2013, the third tier of stands can't be counted on for the time being. In addition, the use of some new technologies, including the development of the world's first TV screen, will make the renovation cost of Stratford Stadium completely exceed 100 million euros, and the budget has even been increased to 150 million euros.

Tottenham Hotspur has made huge profits in the transfer market in the past few years. In addition, the team has basically maintained a semi-final seat in the Champions League. Every season, it can get tens of millions of euros from UEFA. Therefore, the team's finances are very abundant and profitable every year, but it is still very difficult to come up with 150 million euros.

Ye Qiu also made a statement on this, telling Peter Kenyon to do it boldly and confidently, and funding is not a problem.

Although Tottenham Hotspur has 300 million euros in bank loans, they are all long-term low-interest loans. With the current total assets and development momentum of Tottenham Hotspur, there are still a lot of banks queuing up to provide long-term low-interest loans. You know, this is equivalent to queuing up to give money to Tottenham Hotspur.

So, no matter from which angle, Ye Qiu and Peter Kenyon don't need to worry about funds. Even if they see a real estate project with great potential and development prospects, Ye Qiu will continue to invest in loans.

After all, according to the current market environment, after the Olympics, the value and development of the London Financial District and the surrounding areas of Stratford Stadium will not decrease, because the entire transportation and other supporting facilities are very complete, so there is no room for price reduction.

Of course, Ye Qiu can see this prospect, and so can others. So as the Olympics approach, it is becoming more and more difficult to encounter any good bargain-hunting projects, and Ye Qiu is not in a hurry, just wait.