The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 557 Genius Day

In the early morning, just after dawn, an old Ford Mondeo was driving quickly on the M25 Ring Expressway.

The radio in the car is playing the weather forecast for this morning, showing that the next few days will be the best weather since the beginning of winter in London. The ice and snow will melt and the weather will warm up. It will be very difficult to see snowfall again.

Although it is very clear that the weather forecast is an unreliable thing, Paul Brinton still smiled when he heard the news, and his already pretty good mood improved accordingly. Taking the opportunity, he raised his head and glanced at the top of his head. The blue sky was just a few thin clouds hanging faintly.

"I hope it won't rain!" Paul Brinton murmured hopefully.

The M25 road got into a tunnel, and when it came out, there was a branch road on the left side of the road. The sign of the A10 fork road indicated a left turn. Paul Brinton immediately turned on the left turn signal and slowly drove into the A10 branch. The road came to the four-fork intersection between Enfield and Chesent.

Going north around the circular road at the four-forked intersection, it didn't take long to come to a circular intersection with obvious road signs.

Tottenham Hotspur Theobald Training Base, turn left!

St. Mary's Public School District, turn left!

Both road signs clearly indicate pedestrians. Paul Brinton passed by here every day, so he just glanced at the street signs casually, then turned to the left and directly entered the road named Lieutenant Ellis Road, this is a road named after Lieutenant Ellis.

After driving forward for tens of meters, there is another small roundabout. Turn left and you will see Theobald Training Base. At the intersection, there is a very conspicuous Tottenham Hotspur team emblem. Cockfighting, and turning right is St. Mary's College. The gates on both sides are hidden in the dense woods, leaving only a small road to meet the roundabout.

In fact, both sides of the entire Lieutenant Ellis Road are densely forested, so that people can't see everything in the two famous places on both sides. There are almost no gaps, and they are completely hidden.

Paul Brinton turned left and walked through the woods to Tottenham Hotspur's Theobald training ground.

If the dense woods are just a disguise, then through the woods, you will feel suddenly enlightened, because the gate of Tottenham Hotspur is a very open park, full of all kinds of flowers and trees , Even in winter, it is covered with snow, but it still adds a bit of alternative scenery, especially those treetops covered with snow.

Seeing Paul Brinton's car, the gate opened slowly, and the latter drove to the parking lot behind the security building, where there was a parking space exclusively for him, because he was from Tottenham Hotspur's Theobald training base Security Captain.

The year 2010 is about to enter, and Paul Brinton has been working in Tottenham Hotspur for six or seven years. He is not very old. He is 45 years old. He has been a policeman for more than ten years. Injured, if you observe carefully, it is not difficult to find that his left leg is slightly lame, but it is difficult to find if you don't pay attention.

Back when Tottenham Hotspur's training base was still in Zigwell, Paul Brinton was already captain of security, and then moved to Theobald, and everything was emphasized for regularization. Paul Brinton once thought that he would be fired, but it turned out that he not only continued to be his security captain, but was also sent to training at public expense by the team.

The team paid for the five young security guards who were on duty at the Zigwell training base to receive formal security training, and then continued to return to the Theobald training base to serve. It is also expanding, and now there are more than 30 people under Paul Brinton, who take turns protecting Theobald Training Base 24 hours a day.

Not only that, when the team and the youth team go out to play, the security team also arranges staff to accompany them. After all, it is easier to use their own people, and these security guards have undergone formal training, especially the budget cuts of the Metropolitan Police Department in recent years. There were a lot of layoffs, and the wages were not very good, so Paul Brinton recruited many former London police officers to work as security guards in Tottenham Hotspur through his connections.

When Paul Brinton arrived in Theobald, the dedicated parking lot was already full of vehicles of all sizes, and by the time he walked to the security building, all the members of the security team were already in place, including those who had been on vacation. employee.

"Everyone!" Paul Brinton walked in front of everyone, except for those on duty outside the door, all of them were present.

"Today is the first day of the Genius Day, and it is also a major challenge we have accepted in recent years. I hope that everyone can stay vigilant and make sure that there are no accidents during the Genius Day. Do you understand? ?”

"Understood!" Everyone answered in unison. It is obvious that Paul Brinton has a high prestige among this group of people on weekdays, and Tottenham Hotspur's security guards are also very generous, at least compared to the annual cuts. The budget Scotland Yard is much better.

"Let me tell you some precautions for today!" Paul Brinton took out a notebook from his pocket, which was explained by Ron Gurley when he went to the meeting at White Hart Lane yesterday. For important matters, he must convey them to all his assistants as soon as possible to ensure that there are no problems.

"There will be [-] volunteers organized by fans coming to the training base later. Everyone is familiar with it. How to do it normally and how to do it today. At that time, I need four people to divide into two groups and bring volunteers to organize vehicles to park at the gate. This passage is not congested!" Paul Brinton pointed to Theobald's gate, and there was a grassy area beside the park outside where parking could be parked.

Every game at White Hart Lane, every game of Theobald Youth Team, Tottenham Hotspur will organize and receive some volunteers to help, so the Genius Day will continue for the next three days in this way.

"The first team area is not open to the public, so pay attention to the guard posts at the intersection. Also, our youth team's training building, research center, practice room, and indoor stadium are also closed to the public. At that time, there must be people at the gates of these places." , and all young players participating in the Genius Day activities, parents are not allowed to accompany them after entering the training building!"

Paul Brinton introduced a lot of rules, and the members of the security team below also carefully recorded them in their notebooks. All of them knew very well that although Tottenham Hotspur’s Genius Day It is open to the outside world, but only moderately, and it is impossible to allow everyone to run wild in the training base.

You know, there will be a lot of people coming to the scene today, and some scouts from other teams may even be mixed among them. If they are allowed to run around in the training base, no one knows what will happen.

"Finally, after a while everyone goes to their own posts, and at the same time, make sure that the road signs and facilities in the areas they are responsible for are in good condition. If there is any problem, immediately notify the people in the miscellaneous department to deal with it, understand?"

"Understood!" Everyone replied in unison.

With Paul Brinton waving his hand, everyone dispersed immediately.

Time is running out, the talent day selection starts at nine in the morning, and now there are less than two hours left, they must make final preparations as soon as possible, because in the next three days, they will There will be a lot of players' parents, fans and media reporters.

Paul Brinton used to be a well-known police officer in the London Police Department. The reason why he was able to become the captain of security was not only because of his resume, but also because of his cautious style of doing things.

After the meeting, he was still not at ease. He went from the park and parking lot outside the gate to Theobald's youth training area by himself. He walked almost every road, confirmed every link that needed to be confirmed, and made sure everything was safe. .

"Hello, Mr. Brinton!"

When Paul Brinton walked to the forked intersection outside Central Lake Park, he saw several people stop in front of the big map.

"Hello, Mrs. Ye!" Paul Brinton immediately walked up to Huang Chu and greeted him politely.

Huang Chu seldom appears in Theobald Training Base, but everyone knows her, because she is the kind of woman who is so beautiful that you will never forget it at a glance, and more importantly, she is also a doctor Very superb doctor with a high reputation both in Wellington Hospital and in London.

Standing beside Huang Chu are three men, two old men and one middle-aged man. Paul Brinton also knows these three men. Ye Qiu introduced him to him a few days ago. Two of them are old men of the team. consultant, while the middle-aged man is the team's newly hired director of youth training, Jan Olde Ricklink, former director of Ajax's youth training.

Those who can let Ye Qiu's wife accompany him in person are not ordinary people. They are all good friends and good mentors of Ye Qiu and his wife in their twilight years. Now he is a technical consultant for Tottenham Hotspur, and the other is Pim van Dude, a consultant for the R & D center.

Paul Brinton has never heard of these three people, but Ron Gurley once told him that Rick Link is the most vicious youth coach of Ajax, known as Hawkeye, He almost never loses sight of young players, and he is very good at organizing and maintaining youth training; Bobby Harms is an expert in youth training, including Cruyff, Van Ba Sten, Rijkaard, De Boer, Kluivert, Van der Vaart and other Ajax stars.

As for Pim Van Dude, I heard that he has rich experience in sports medicine and has cooperated with Peter Brandt.

Both Bobby Harms and Pim Van Doude have already retired, but Ye Qiu forcibly poached them to Tottenham Hotspur this time, which can be regarded as a good friend of Ye Qiu, but they will not stay for a long time. In London, but just come and go when the team needs it, that's all, because relatively speaking, they don't like life in London.

As for Rick Link, he will become the team's youth training director, and naturally he will stay in London for a long time.

The big map clearly lists the distribution of Theobald's youth training area, including every field, including every building, all appearing on it very clearly, clearly marked, and it also makes people feel Theobald The perfect and advanced state of Germany, especially those youth training fields, each field is equipped with monitoring and video recording, this is done to facilitate the research center to collect data and information, combined with the various sensors on the players, each In-depth analysis of players.

And when Huang Chu led a group of people into the youth team, passed the training building, and came to the training ground, and found that every training ground was very clean, this made Bobby Harms, Pim Van Dude and others all send out marvel.

You know, there has been a lot of snow in London in the past few days, and the weather has been relatively bad, but from the site, there is no trace of rain or snow at all. It can be seen that each site has excellent geothermal and drainage systems, and it is necessary to You know, Tottenham Hotspur's youth echelon follows Ajax's system, that is, six age groups, with a total of two groups for each age group, including from seven years old to, and each group has a dedicated area. turf.

If all the twelve pieces of turf are to be installed with geothermal, drainage and other systems, the cost is also a surprising figure.

Many people are surprised by the cost of Tottenham Hotspur's Theobald training base. Many people even think that it is exaggerated, but that is because they do not understand the inside story. On the surface, Theobald There is no difference in the German training base, just like the training ground of this kind of youth team, is it different from the training ground of other teams?
If it is in normal times, you really can't see the slightest difference, because you can't see the geothermal heat and drainage, or even the cameras and sensors hidden in every corner of the training ground, but when it snows and rains, You can clearly feel the difference between them.

Only those in the know can clearly know that Ye Qiu spent a lot of money to build Theobald, not wasting money, but in one step, creating the most complete and advanced training base in the world. Such money can achieve such effects, Great value!
Among other things, just aim at Chelsea, towards Manchester City, and invest the same money. Do you have the ability to build a new Theobald training base?Stop dreaming, you won't be able to do it even if you spend double the money!
"It's really a big deal!" Bobby Harms was also full of admiration.

Obviously, they are not only praising Xiobold's youth training conditions, but also praising Yeqiu's dedication and ambition. At least in this respect, Ajax can't catch up with flattery because they lack such ambition Aspirations also lack such a foundation.

Didn't you say something?How bold is the heart, how productive the earth is!
"He still does things the same way. He pursues perfection a little too much. He is still tossing and tossing. Not long ago, he even set up a special analysis system and invested a lot of money!" Huang Chu was complaining about her husband.

It's not that you feel bad about money, but that when others praise your husband, you have to be humble and say something about your shortcomings in a tactful manner.

At least, Huang Chu is not the kind of woman who will praise her husband with others.

"I know, that system is very popular now. Ajax also planned to ask him for one, but the cost will be more expensive!" Bobby Harms understood Huang Chu's careful thinking. The two old men helped match up the relationship, so they don't know what's going on in Huang Chu's heart.

"Turn around and ask him to give you a set!" Pim Van Dude said with a laugh.

Paul Brinton followed. He found that he couldn't speak, because no matter what he said, it was inappropriate. After all, this group of people were Ye Qiu's closest family members and friends.

"I heard that he plans to build a youth training center in Theobald?" asked Bobby Harms.

This time Paul Brinton finally had a chance to talk, "Yes, Mr. Harms, it will be arranged next to the Central Lake Park, and it will be open to children under the age of seven, but they need to be accompanied by their parents, and no fee will be charged. fee, just to develop interest in football for Tottenham Hotspur in children."

"It's a good idea. It's based on the long-term, and it can subtly let the children accept Tottenham Hotspur's youth training culture." Pim Van Dude explained Ye Qiu's thoughts directly.

Building a team, especially a team with culture and background, is not just about how much money you invest, how many superstars you buy, and how many championships you win. Wrong, you have these, But it doesn't necessarily mean that you have culture and background, because you lack a core culture, a core culture that can infect people.

It seems that when everyone mentions Manchester United, they will immediately think of the spirit of the Red Devils. Why?
Also, many low-level teams often have quite a lot of diehard fans in the fan base. No matter how bad their performance is, no matter how bad their performance is, they still have so many diehard fans. Why?
It can be said that building the club's culture is a very long, long and complicated process. It requires you to start from all aspects and fields, from the first team, to the youth team, to children, and even to all aspects of society. Both require you to establish your own image and unique culture.

Only in this way, when others think of you, they will naturally think of your culture and agree with it.

After Paul Brinton accompanied a group of people to stroll around the youth training area, the staff and volunteers of the club also arrived in Theobald one after another, and the busy talent day selection activities finally kicked off. screen.

At 08:30, more and more fans began to appear outside, and the team arranged to pick up the players and parents of the players who participated in the talent day activities also arrived at Theobald.

The whole training base started a busy day, especially when more and more fans flocked to Theobald, wanting to see with their own eyes the so-called talent day selection event and witness the end of Tottenham Hotspur When it comes to picking out what kind of talented young players, it is inevitable that some scouts from other teams will be mixed in the crowd.

They are just like the scouts who mixed in with the Ajax fans and pretended to visit De Tokmoster, hoping to use Tottenham Hotspur's influence and connections to find opportunities to pick and poach them. on the teenager.

For such things, Tottenham Hotspur has no way to stop it, so there is a rule in the team's genius day activities, that is, all scores will not be announced to the public, even players and players' parents do not know.

The analysis report of the players who participated in the talent day selection event is only known to Tottenham Hotspur insiders.

(End of this chapter)