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Chapter 518 Mental Breakdown! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

It’s funny to say!
The football craze in Hong Kong continues, attracting a large influx of investment and the signing of many high-level Asian players.

This is a wonderful virtuous cycle!
But no one expected that the football craze would force the Hong Kong British government to accelerate the development of the New Territories.

There's no way around it; Hong Kong Island is so small, yet it already has thirty or forty professional football teams. How many stadiums and training grounds would they need?

The Kowloon Peninsula and the main island are only so big, and with high-rise buildings and extremely dense buildings, there are already very few professional football stadiums and sports stadiums.

It's simply impossible to meet the training and official match needs of thirty or forty professional teams.

We can't expect professional teams to use school stadiums for training, can we?

Regardless of whether the school agrees, the team isn't happy about it either.

Not to mention, due to the popularity of football, there are even more amateur teams on Hong Kong Island. A few friends and colleagues can easily form an amateur team on the spot, and they also need to sweat it out on the field.

Some companies of a certain size form their own amateur sports teams. Whether they are sincere or not, they have to keep up with the trend.

In addition, the demand for stadiums from school-organized teams is quite astonishing.

The Hong Kong British government was willing to invest heavily in the construction of the stadium.

It's probably influenced by the British mainland; building stadiums and proper training grounds is not only a blatant political achievement, but also a way to make money.

In fact, the English Football Association (FA), based in England, also attaches great importance to the rapidly developing professional football scene in Hong Kong.

When it comes to substantial profits, the British devils dare not be careless at all.

Furthermore, if the Hong Kong Island League is well-organized, it can provide a continuous stream of excellent talent to the English Premier League and League One.

Previously, Wu Feng had heard that the English Football Association was quite disappointed that Ronaldo went to play in the Dutch league instead of the Premier League.

Anyone with a brain can see Ronaldo's potential; he's at least a European superstar.

What the Premier League currently lacks is a signature star.

By the time Beckham became famous, it was already 1998, and the Premier League had been running for seven or eight years.

Unfortunately, the English Football Association was too arrogant before and did not intend to treat the Hong Kong Island Football League as a subordinate league.

Naturally, they cannot enjoy preferential treatment regarding work permits.

How old was Ronaldo when he transferred?

They simply can't get a work permit, so they can't play in the Premier League. That's a very real problem.

The FA doesn't even mention this, and Wu Feng has no intention of revealing the truth. The situation is fine for now.

In fact, the Hong Kong Island Football League has already provided a number of excellent football talents to the English football scene.

This is especially true of the professional football teams under Wu Feng's management.

Wu Feng will not hesitate to give opportunities to anyone who performs well and has reached the level of playing in League Two or even League One.

Previously, weren't there quite a few Hong Kong tycoons who bought football clubs overseas, trying to emulate Chiang Tin-sang and him?

Most of the teams they bought were from League One and League Two teams.

Regardless of the circumstances, we need the help of our own people. Even if it's just as a supervisor, keeping an eye on things is good.

Wu Feng's Hong Kong Island Football Club mainly supplies suitable players to these English League One and League Two clubs.

The effect is quite good!

The playing style of Hong Kong teams is similar to that of English football. They are also accustomed to a fast-paced transition between attack and defense, which is particularly well-suited to teams playing in English football.

In addition, Eastern players are generally agile and have good footwork skills.

In lower leagues, they even stand out from the crowd.

For example, Su Jintou and Wu Congwen, whom Wu Feng highly regards, are both promising young talents who almost signed formal professional contracts with Manchester United.

He missed a great opportunity to join Manchester United because of an ankle injury at a crucial moment.

However, after joining Wu Feng's Hong Kong Island team, both players completely cured their ankle problems through traditional Chinese medicine treatments and have performed exceptionally well since.

Of course, while Fulham may not be considered a Premier League powerhouse at the moment, it is certainly no exaggeration to call them one of the Premier League's strongest teams.

Although they didn't win the Premier League title last season, they still finished third.

Most importantly, they made it all the way to the Champions League final last season, only to be narrowly defeated by AC Milan at their peak.

At this point, their abilities were clearly insufficient to secure a place in Fulham's squad.

They were loaned to a League One team, and they're reportedly performing quite well.

With Wu Feng as a role model, the other football clubs on Hong Kong Island naturally followed suit.

This directly opened up a channel between the Hong Kong Island Football League and the English Professional Football League, allowing many outstanding players from other clubs to go to England to play football.

Despite the fact that the British pound suffered extremely heavy losses in the previous pound crisis.

But its foundation is there; the salaries of professional players in England are much higher than those of professional players in Hong Kong at the same level.

As a result, ambitious and talented players from various East Asian countries flocked to Hong Kong Island to seek opportunities, and then naturally went to England to play football.

Under such circumstances, the Hong Kong British government would obviously not suppress the development of professional football on Hong Kong Island; on the contrary, it would vigorously promote it.

Then, new towns across the New Territories began building new football fields and stadiums specifically for professional and amateur teams to play and train.

In places like Sai Kung Tseung Kwan O, Yuen Long, and Tsuen Wan, the construction or planning of football stadiums has already begun.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the construction teams under various clubs have been busy with work for the past two years and are living quite comfortably.

Of course, no matter how well they live, the gap is enormous compared to Zhang Yong, who rose to prominence in the archipelago nation.

To put it bluntly, if Zhang Yong had come to Hong Kong Island on official business, the Hong Kong British government would have at least sent the Chief Secretary for Administration to the airport to receive him.

What's this called? The principle of diplomatic reciprocity!

It's possible that even the Governor of Hong Kong will have to intervene personally!

At this time, even the top leaders of Hong Kong's top triads were just spectators, not even worthy of being called minions.

Just thinking about it makes me feel a bit disappointed!
Sure enough, one morning in late July, the old parking lot of Hung Hing General Church was already full of luxury cars.

This meeting at the headquarters was unusually well-attended, with the most regional leaders present in recent months.

For no other reason than that they had already heard rumors that Wu Feng would come in person to talk to them about the Lanfang Special Zone in the Thousand Islands.

That said, even with the World Cup hype, it couldn't overshadow the fact that what happened in the archipelago was spreading rapidly in Hong Kong.

The past of the Lanfang Republic has recently become one of the hottest topics in Hong Kong.

ATV and TVB are constantly popularizing information about the Lanfang Republic!

(End of this chapter)