The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 729 The Dancing Elephant
The so-called open class, that is to say, not only the students of Harvard University who came to listen to Ye Qiu's speech, but also the teachers and even the leaders of the school, and all of them could feel the lively atmosphere of the whole class .

The speech, which was originally expected to be about 10 minutes long, ended up being 10 minutes longer than the scheduled time, and it didn't end until about an hour. This was mainly because the students in the classroom asked questions too enthusiastically, and it could even be said that Unexpected enthusiasm, they will even ask a lot of weird questions.

For example, they will ask Ye Qiu what it feels like to lose, and they will ask Ye Qiu if he will spy on the opponent's information like a spy, etc., but there are also some very constructive questions, for example, there are many People mainly revolve around how Ye Qiu forms a coaching team, how to analyze and study opponents, and so on.

Ye Qiu also answered all these questions one by one. Even at the end of the speech, when the host had announced the end, there was an obviously unnamed questioner from London, England who claimed to be from Tottenham Hotspur. Loyal college students were loudly asking Ye Qiu what the team's goals were for the new season.

"Are you really a Tottenham Hotspur fan?" Ye Qiu was about to step off the podium, but stopped.

"It's true, my membership number is 5201314!"

"Then don't you know that our Tottenham Hotspur have only one goal forever, and that is the championship!" After a pause, Ye Qiu smiled again, and confidently said to the student: "But I will do my best to get more.”

There was an incomparably warm applause again, and Ye Qiu left the lecture hall amidst the students' applause.

"A very wonderful speech!" Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Noria walked beside Ye Qiu, and the two walked out of the lecture hall side by side, and many college students who came out of the lecture hall were still there. He kept saying hello to them.

"Teaching some content of student management in the form of football, and full of many vivid cases, this is indeed very exciting, and it makes people very excited!" Nitin Noria praised the people beside him as he walked Ye Qiu.

He is an Indian descendant and the first dean of non-native descent in the history of Harvard University in more than 100 years. From this, it is not difficult to see the efforts made by this Nitin Noria in the past few decades .

"The students here are very good. It is very exciting to teach them, and it is also a very pleasant and comfortable process. Especially when communicating with them, I found that many of them have done Fully prepared, I thought they were not familiar with football and didn't even like it at all, but I found out that I was wrong!"

Ye Qiu's words made Nitin Noria chuckle, shook his head and said, "You're too modest, you know? Many, many young people fell in love with football and Tottenham Hotspur because of you. Some students proposed to set up a course dedicated to you on the school forum, which received support and approval from many students, so we are preparing for it.”

"I'm a native of Earth, please!" Ye Qiu joked.

"But there are so many people who regard it as an honor to listen to your lectures, or even study your past and success!" Nitin Noria said this very seriously, because he knew that there are Many, many students are fans of Ye Qiu.

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Ye Qiu's speech at Harvard University not only received enthusiastic support from the students, but even the American media paid attention and reported it. After the speech, it even appeared in a prominent position on major news websites in the United States. Major news TV stations also reported this incident one after another, and even many reporters came to the scene to interview the students.

Undoubtedly, this was a very successful speech, full of unknown details and content. At the same time, Ye Qiu was also using football to explain some of his management and business ideas and experience, which were well received by the students. support.

Harvard University also quickly uploaded the video of this one-hour public class on the official website, so that anyone who is interested can download it from the official website, and the video of this public class quickly attracted netizens all over the world. Their frenzied downloading and viewing has set off a trend of pursuit on the Internet.

Ye Qiu returned to New Haven soon after finishing the public lecture.

Tottenham Hotspur's pre-match training is mainly in charge of Mauro Tassotti. In this regard, the entire Tottenham Hotspur coaching team has accumulated considerable experience, so everything is very familiar. Even if Ye Qiu wasn't there, it wouldn't have much impact.

With the help of the news and attention generated by Ye Qiu's open class at Harvard University, Tottenham Hotspur also began to build momentum for the team's American training camp, and major sponsors also came up with their own unique tricks to win the media and fans Attention, especially in conjunction with Tottenham Hotspur's multiple publicity and promotion plans, for a while, Tottenham Hotspur completely occupied the important sections and news time of major newspapers and TV stations in the United States, causing a huge stir in the United States. response.

In this trend, Tottenham Hotspur played a warm-up match with AC Milan in Boston, and Tottenham Hotspur finally relied on Vidal's goal to beat AC Milan 1-0, but Tottenham Hotspur didn't play well in this game, it's just that the defense was better.

The media and reporters have also taken the initiative to find reasons for Tottenham Hotspur. After all, Tottenham Hotspur has just finished a round of difficult and cruel physical reserve training, and its poor performance is understandable.

In the team's second warm-up match in New York, facing Manuel Pellegrini's star-studded Real Madrid, Tottenham Hotspur played a crazy offensive football with the La Liga giants. The 2:2 game ended in a tie. Nesta, who didn't play in the first warm-up match, started this time and played the whole game.

But also because of this, the team's defense was breached by Real Madrid twice, but Ye Qiu spoke highly of the team's performance after the game, thinking that the most important thing now is running-in and warm-up. He is already very satisfied with his performance. As for Nesta, he believes that as the schedule progresses, he will gradually integrate into the team.

Long after the team was still training in Theobald, Ye Qiu had asked the research center to tailor training plans and arrangements for veterans such as Nesta, Drogba, and Pirlo based on their physical conditions, and There are people who follow them and take care of their injury prevention.

Judging from the team's high-intensity physical reserve training in Theobald and after coming to the United States, they are not too old to run, especially Drogba. His physical fitness is still quite good, and the rich game experience accumulated in his professional career over the years has made this elephant more and more savvy, and he can even dance.

A giant elephant in Cote d'Ivoire that is so flexible that it can dance, scary, right?

With one win and one tie in the two warm-up matches, Tottenham Hotspur's performance can only be regarded as quite satisfactory. After all, this is the warm-up match stage. If the current state is too good, Ye Qiu will feel a little worried.

The third warm-up match was in Washington, and the opponent was Bayern Munich. After the Champions League final, Tottenham Hotspur once again encountered the Bundesliga class bully. After the introduction of Mandzukic this summer, Bayern Munich's frontcourt is obviously stronger. Aggressive, but the midfielder has not found a suitable candidate for the time being, so they still can't help Tottenham Hotspur in this game.

In the end, 2:1, Tottenham Hotspur defeated the opponent steadily and won another victory in the warm-up match.

The Bundesliga games come earlier than the Premier League, so Bayern Munich's current state is obviously better than Tottenham Hotspur, but the weakness of Heynckes' team is still quite obvious, especially the defense line, which is a big problem.

After the game in Washington, Tottenham returned to the New Haven training camp again. After four days of training, they went south to Miami along the east coast of the United States.

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Watson Island, one of the small islands located in the east of Miami, is a place that everyone wants to visit when they come to Miami.

To the east of this small island is the most famous beach in Miami, and to the west is downtown Miami. The beautiful views of Miami that often appear in Hollywood movies are basically on these islands and beaches.

Watson Island has the famous Miami Children's Museum, Miami's largest yacht port, and the most famous Jungle Island theme park, which is one of the most famous attractions in Miami, with more than 3000 kinds of wild animals and more than 500 kinds of plants. , is a place that all tourists must visit when they come to Miami.

But it is such a small island. A road connecting the beach and the urban area divides the island into two parts. The northeast half is the jungle and the yacht center, while the southwest half has only a children's museum, and the rest are open spaces. Because as early as more than ten years ago, investors proposed to build a commercial center here.

Around 2010, they officially proposed to build a skyscraper with a height of 970 meters here, which would surpass the Burj Khalifa and become the tallest building in the world, and the design and land acquisition of the whole plan had been completed. A program had to be shut down within the past two years.

The reason is simple, no money!

Everyone knows that this plan has great potential, because according to the design plan, the energy of the building will all come from renewable energy, 60% of which will come from wind energy, and also include the application of a series of new technologies such as greenhouse gas management and waste water recycling. The whole building has a very advanced ecological technology.

In addition, this skyscraper plans to build 160 floors, including a series of facilities such as amusement parks, observatories, trade centers, shopping centers, restaurants, shops, apartments, office areas, restaurants, docks, yacht clubs, etc., and will occupy the entire island. Most of the land in the southwest half, they even applied for a no-fly order from the Federal Aviation Administration.

In other words, because of this skyscraper, American planes in Miami will be forced to divert.

The reason is very simple. Even the Miami government is very clear that this is a city-in-a-city plan. Once successful, it will become a brand new commercial city in Miami. The new commercial center will create 30 construction jobs and [-] permanent jobs. Moreover, it can bring about [-] billion funds and one billion dollars in taxes to Miami's economy every year, which will directly drive the entire Miami economy to improve again. It is undoubtedly a big deal for Miami's ambition to become the commercial center of the Americas. help.

The Americas mentioned here are mainly aimed at the countries south of the United States. They have been talking about the Free Trade Area of ​​the Americas for the past ten years. Although the negotiations have fallen into a bottleneck, Miami has always been regarded as a very important business in the Americas. central city.

But such a plan has stalled because no banks are willing to provide financial support and loans.

Because the total investment of this plan is also very astonishing, as high as 40 billion US dollars, so for American banks suffering from the subprime mortgage crisis, it is really difficult for such a plan to arouse their interest.

But not necessarily for others.

Ye Qiu was holding a parasol, facing the evening sun, and appeared on the construction site in the southwest of Watson Island. Chen Zhong was also holding an umbrella, walking beside him. He had just arrived from Tara, the capital of Florida. Hassi returned to Miami with a promise.

"They have agreed to let us take over, and they have also agreed that you will build a new stadium here, and will use public funds to help your new stadium, but we have no such benefits, and even the bank wants us. Go and get it done!" When Chen Zhong spoke, he felt that the state council was giving preference to one another.

Over the years, the government has been encouraging domestic enterprises to invest abroad, including the United States of course. Although Huangtian Group is actively transforming, it has successfully set a precedent for several real estate projects abroad, and has done a lot for domestic real estate companies. A good example is to go abroad and make money all over the world.

To use Chen Zhong's joking words, let people in other countries in the world become house slaves.

Of course, similar to this kind of project with an investment of up to 40 billion U.S. dollars, Chen Zhong himself also did a lot of research within the Huangtian Group, and in the end they all agreed that with the current strength and relationship of the Huangtian Group, it is better to bring a group of Domestic business partners can fully implement this plan.

In the short term, this plan is good for the economies of Miami and Florida, and it has a very large stimulus effect, but in the long run, when you contribute more than one billion in taxes to them a year, when your city-within-a-city Plan to become an important part of Miami's economy, so you can influence some of their policies.

This truth is common all over the world!

"However, to be honest, I heard that the football market in Miami is not good. Why did you choose to establish a new team here?" Chen Zhong was full of doubts about Ye Qiu's decision.

Frankly speaking, even without Ye Qiu, Huang Tian Group could win this skyscraper project, but why did Ye Qiu choose to build a new team in Miami, a city that is not interested in football?
You know, around the century, Miami used to have two football teams, the Miami Fusion and the Tampa Bay Rebellion, but both teams announced their withdrawal from the major leagues in 2001. The reason is very simple. The fans here don’t buy it. , not many viewers.

After hearing this, Ye Qiu chuckled, "It was the beginning of the century, but now it's 2012, so it's been 11 years!"

The major leagues at the beginning of the century did not have much appeal, but in the past ten years, the American football market has become more and more popular with the active development of the European giants. It can be seen from the two major sports, and the number of fans is also increasing.

The American Major League is different from the European League. It has a fixed number of teams. That is to say, once it is established, it will be difficult to join a new team. This means that Miami Tottenham will monopolize the entire league in the future. In Miami, and even Florida's football market, the team has great potential for future development.

Moreover, given the business environment in the United States, the major leagues have formulated a series of measures such as salary caps to encourage healthy management. The development potential of major league teams in the future is really amazing. Coupled with the relationship and influence of Tottenham Hotspur , I believe there is a lot to do.

"It is precisely because everyone feels that the American football market is not good and not many people are interested, so I came in. When everyone realizes that the American major leagues have begun to enter high-speed development, an American major league team will be worth a lot. Amazing, especially for a major league team with a beautiful state-of-the-art football stadium!"

Ye Qiu is convinced that this is a very good deal, but his future business focus will still be on Tottenham Hotspur.

This is somewhat similar to the approach of Ajax and Ajax Cape Town in South Africa. The difference is that Ajax Cape Town is more about providing talents and youth training for the parent team. Ajax blood transfusion is required, so this mode is very stressful for Ajax.

But Miami Hotspur is different. This is one of the wealthiest cities in the United States. Set up a team here and participate in major league games. Miami Hotspur can support itself, and then rely on Tottenham Hotspur to send a batch An outdated superstar, Miami Tottenham can definitely gain a foothold in the United States, and has more appeal in Miami and Florida.

This is why Beckham and even LeBron James are so optimistic about this team, and they try their best to find Ye Qiu through connections and get some shares. This is an investment, an investment in the future.

And Ye Qiu is now releasing some shares to attract these stars. Not much else to say, as long as LeBron James shows up to watch the game from time to time out of the psychology of supporting his team, the attendance rate of this stadium is estimated It will not be low, and its influence in the United States will not be bad.

"I may not be as good at business as you are, but when it comes to football, buddy, you are too far away from me!" Ye Qiu smiled and patted Chen Zhong on the shoulder with a very offensive attitude.

Although Chen Zhong has a very resentful expression, in fact he is very clear that even in business, especially some investment vision, he is not as good as Ye Qiu. At least Ye Qiu has proved it with facts in the past few years. up to this point.

(End of this chapter)