champion professor

Chapter 453

This quarter-final is naturally very different from the past group stage period.

There was less than ten days between the two UEFA Champions League matches. In the past, whether it was the group stage or the round of [-] vying for tickets to the quarterfinals, there were at least half a month of rest.

These are nothing, the important thing is that there is a Premier League match between Arsenal and Liverpool in the Champions League, and this game happens to be a direct match between the two clubs.

This kind of coincidence is amazing.

And Arsenal are not out of the championship lineup yet, and they are only four points away from the top Chelsea. This is not an insurmountable gap.

Therefore, neither the league nor the Champions League can be easily let go.

Liverpool is hopeless right now, but they are very hopeful of qualifying for the Champions League.

Being able to get fourth in the Premier League will naturally allow you to get tickets to the Champions League by playing play-offs and qualifying matches.

Although this will allow the players to play a few more games, but for the huge prize money of the Champions League and to show their demeanor on the most shining stage in the world, the players and the club will not be stingy in this regard.

Now Everton is ups and downs, but Newcastle is declining due to the club's financial problems. The rest of the teams are not qualified to compete with Liverpool for this Champions League ticket-anyway, for a strong team like Liverpool, as long as they can qualify Go to the additional qualifying match of the Champions League, then the tickets for the main match will definitely float into Anfield.

It's just that if there is a little relaxation, Liverpool may be caught up by other teams. The end of the league does not mean that there are no variables.

Therefore, this battle does not involve qualifying for the Champions League, but it is equally important.

Even surpassed the last game, the importance of the first round of the quarterfinals entering the semifinals!
At the home court of the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal defeated Liverpool with difficulty. Shao Bo gave the players a special day off, and then they went all out to play and train at the Kearney training base to recover their state and physical fitness.

When the weekend came, they took a plane to Merseyside and Liverpool in northwest England.

The game has not yet started, check into the hotel, the Arsenal players will go to Anfield Stadium to adapt during the daytime of the next day, and then after an afternoon of rest, wait until the evening to start the second confrontation!

Liverpool is naturally named after the city. Shao Bo was still a little curious at the time, remembering that Everton was the first football club established in Liverpool, and Liverpool was established by some members of the Everton club.

Why didn't Everton use this place name as the name of the team and club first?

Like Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City... aren't these all excellent examples?
Later, after Shao Bo came here to learn more relevant knowledge, he realized that Everton is one of the more than 40 districts in Liverpool.

Shao Bo, who knew the truth, couldn't help but feel ashamed. When he was an ordinary fan, he would not deliberately understand a lot of knowledge, because there is not much need. Even if it is the home team he supports, he needs to spend a lot of money if he wants to know the history. time and energy.

Many things related to Arsenal were slowly learned by Shao Bo after he became the head coach.

After all, he was in China thousands of miles away in the past, and there was nothing he could do if he wanted to know something.

After this Premier League game with Liverpool is over, they will train here at Everton for a few days.

There are only three complete intermissions in total, and the back and forth is not enough to toss.

As Liverpool's mortal enemy, Everton is very willing to help Arsenal to suppress Liverpool - although Arsenal just defeated Everton earlier, but with the mortal enemy in front, some small differences between the two teams in the past Contradictions are no longer a thing.

"Abandon the secondary contradictions and grasp the main contradictions." Everton's top management and fans have a thorough understanding of Mao Xue.

After training at Kearney during the day, the Arsenal players took the bus directly to the airport in North London.

Heathrow Airport is too busy. This time they chose a small airport in the north. It is not big, but it is safe enough and arranges their own time with the club.

The money is not much, anyway, Emirates is helping to pay for these things, and it is a waste for the club not to fly.

Go to the hotel in Liverpool to rest for one night, and then wait for the game.

Before the plane flew over, a group of buses with the Arsenal logo painted on their exteriors slowly headed north from London.

This is a bus belonging to the club, and it is specially for fans who want to go to the away game.

As long as they hold Arsenal's away game tickets, fans can wait for these buses at the gate of the Emirates Stadium-according to the opening time of each game, the departure and driving time of these buses are also not certain.

The bus is not particularly luxurious, it is not as good as a dedicated commercial vehicle, nor is it as good as a player's bus specially used by the team.

However, this can be regarded as a club's preferential measures for fans.

Although Arsenal has a large number of fans and a deep foundation, fans who want to buy tickets to the Emirates Stadium have already made an appointment for 30 to 30 years, but will this patience really last until [-] or [-] years?
If there is, it is indeed a sincere and loyal fan.

And fans who are willing to pay their own money to go away to support Arsenal are also loyal fans.

For these diehard fans, isn't it a good preferential policy for the club to spend some money to buy a few buses and save the fans some travel expenses?
A bus costs more than [-] pounds, and the fleet of buses consumes a lot every year.When calculated, it is not a negligible number in the operating cost.

However, this measure can greatly guarantee the loyalty of diehard fans to the club.

Moreover, this is an extremely effective way to promote word of mouth.

Just like advertising, fans, even those who don't watch football and have no interest in football, will think that what these clubs do is very good and humane.

How could such a club fail to attract fans and develop poorly?
It's not those ordinary teams that can't even stay in the Premier League next year, like relegation teams, living a life where there is no tomorrow.

Of course, that kind of life needs to be tight, and all the financial budgets are allocated to the most critical places.

It is not the salary of the players, but some necessary expenses.

Some poor clubs were even forced to sell their training bases.

Isn't that the case with Watford, otherwise how would the expansion of the Czerny training base be carried out?

The scale of Arsenal is constantly expanding, and even the training base is not enough for a Czerny training base.

Today's Czerny training base has far surpassed Manchester United's Carrington training base and has become the number one training base in England.

Even the England national team is willing to come here to prepare for the national team's games. Although this will cause wear and tear on Arsenal's training facilities, the consumption is not too great.

The club didn't even ask the FA for a penny because of this, which is necessary to maintain a good relationship with the upper management.

Of course, if any Arsenal player is injured while playing for the country and affects the game, then the FA must also compensate Arsenal to a certain extent.

G14's struggles over the years have not had much effect, but this policy can be regarded as sincerely beneficial to every club, but it is the rich clubs that make the most profits.

Ordinary small and medium-sized clubs do not have players who are qualified to participate in international competitions and win glory for the country!
Another advantage, of course, is that Arsenal players will feel comfortable training in a familiar training base, and will not be affected by the environment.

At least they are much smaller than other teammates, which will help them recover as soon as possible after returning and compete in the league and the Champions League.

It is this training and preparation environment that will have a great impact on the state of the players.

Therefore, many football critics believe that the Liverpool team will definitely have a considerable advantage, and this kind of location must be a big help.

Arsenal are preparing for the second round of the Champions League at Everton, how can it be possible to achieve the same effect as at the Colney training base?

Daydreaming!

Football commentators are expecting Liverpool to have an advantage in the second Champions League game, and that's why.

However, this game in the Premier League has not yet been played, and their predictions for this game are more inclined to "draw".

"The two teams today are in a critical period, but because of this, the two teams will be even more unable to afford to lose. This is the case in every game, which has also caused or someone in the two teams has used An extremely risky tactic, or a conservative defensive counterattack..."

Football commentators are analyzing Arsenal and Liverpool on BBC Sport, and there are plenty of TV shows like this.

Whether it is the BBC, Sky Sports, or other TV stations, they will comment and comment on various European football games, and the games between Arsenal and Liverpool are even more important.

Not to mention the corresponding reports, even a lot of TV programs related to this have been done in recent days.

Needless to say, the audience really bought it.

Except for the Champions League games, the recent league giants have not fought against each other. Most of them are games where big tigers abuse kittens, which is really uninteresting.

Nowadays, even fans in Italy and Spain are willing to learn about the news of the match between Arsenal and Liverpool when they feel that the strong team is tyrannizing the weak team.

The game hadn't started yet, but the confrontation between the two teams, which had received more attention because of the first game, became even more heated.

Today's trend is something other people didn't think of. The media are making a lot of money with this. With the ratings, they can turn it into money. This is a real benefit.

Otherwise, why does G14 always think about abandoning the entire UEFA and forming a small league of its own, all of which are composed of European giants.

Just like a football game, the "international league" mode that is common in live football looks like it.

Pro Evolution Soccer [-] has been sold and released for a long time, and now it has become the most popular football game.

More importantly, the spokesperson of this game is Arsenal Club.

As the most classic PES game, PES [-] is extremely tenacious and enduring. Even after years of improvement, FIFA football has slightly surpassed the contemporary PES, PES [-] is still hot.

Every year there will be real-time updates based on transfers and player status at the time.

Other generations of games in the same series do not have this treatment.

The ninth generation of Pro Evolution Soccer has not been released yet, but all game fans are looking forward to it. Maybe, the ninth generation will give them a different feeling, just like the novel experience this generation gave players?
Although Shao Bo has experience in later generations, he is still full of imagination about the ninth generation.

In his memory, in fact, the ninth generation was not as successful as the Real Football Eight, and even if the later generations sell well, in terms of classics, the Real Eight is still the number one.

I don’t know how many friends who like to play football, play computer, and play games used to meet classmates in Internet cafes.Friends use Live Eight to play against each other. I don’t know how many friends have used Live Eight to go online and use various platforms to find opponents to hone their skills.

Even, I don’t know how many people played the game of Reality [-], because there was no Chinese version in the early days, and they didn’t know much about foreign football clubs, simply because the initial letter of Arsenal was A, which ranked first in the options of all teams. One, and was picked by the player.

After they play a few more times, they will gradually become interested in Arsenal and become fans of Arsenal!

Those are Shao Bo's youthful memories. Even with this brand new life, that kind of memory is still a precious treasure.

Because of this, Shao Bo readily agreed when the Coke Girl game company invited Arsenal to be the spokesperson for this generation of games.

And for the first time, he chose to authorize Shi Shi Eight.

If there is no authorization, then players around the world will need to patch the game. This is actually not a genuine approach, but everyone defaults to this to enhance playability.

Even the game manufacturer will not prohibit it for the promotion of the game.

Fortunately, with Shao Bo's endorsement, the Chinese version of Fact [-] was released at least less than a month after the English and Japanese versions were released.

There are two versions, simplified and traditional, corresponding to different habits.

In fact, these two versions are unified into the Chinese version, but you can choose the language mode.

In this way, there is no need for any domestic Sinicization team to help mainland players to Sinicize the foreign languages ​​in the game.

Football game players in the mainland can also say that they are playing legitimate games!
Perhaps, because of the direct launch of the Chinese version this time, more mainland players will know the club's team name directly through the Chinese characters under the team badge.

However, Arsenal's position is still the first one. Many players who are used to quickly and directly enter the game will still choose Arsenal when they come up.

This is the default option, and it was also the opinion put forward by Shao Bo at that time.

After the endorsement, Arsenal did not charge a lot of endorsement fees, and there was only one condition, which was to allow Shao Bo to put forward some opinions.

Fortunately, the game was not fully formed at that time, and his requirements were not high, just adding some programs and codes would be fine.

Programmers will indeed stay up for a few more nights because of this, and Shao Bo will be scolded for this, and there is nothing he can do about it.

But in this way, Scene [-] will be more classic than in the past, attracting players.

As the spokesperson of Fact [-], he will also be indirectly affected, making more fans and players who are not familiar with Arsenal interested in the club.

Now the game has been released for more than half a year, and the response has been good. Even in the North American continent, which can be called a football desert, because the popularity of football games is not bad, many new fans have been generated.

The Arsenal club has a department dedicated to receiving letters and feedback from fans. After all, this is the foundation of the club's survival.

Of course, the team does not need to deliberately please the fans. They only need to continue to win, and naturally new fans will continue to be attracted to the club.

However, in order to promote commercially, Arsenal must do so.

This is also some experience of Manchester United and Real Madrid becoming the most successful clubs, Shao Bo will also learn these things.

No matter what aspect is good for the club, it must be used and learned!

There must be such a character, to attract fans, to understand fans.

Just like every sales company needs to understand consumers and understand the market!
Winning the game, winning the championship trophy is the most important thing, this is the foundation.

And to respond to the fans, understand what the fans think, and help some fans, this is extra work.

Don't underestimate these extra jobs, at least Arsenal will get a lot of sponsorship fees every year, and these sponsorship fees far exceed the club's investment.

It can be said to make a lot of money.

It may be cruel to say it, but in fact, the club is no longer an organization established purely as a competitive team to win championship trophies when it was first established.

Making money, making commercial profits, is the most important thing for many clubs.

For ordinary teams, this means survival!

After all, most of the championship trophies are not related to the teams in the middle and lower reaches. Only two or three teams, or even one or two teams, are eligible to fight for the championship every year.

This has been confirmed at the beginning of each season. It is a bit sad that it is indeed a fact of football.

This is what years of commercialization have done to football.

Even Shao Bo couldn't avoid it.

However, if the impact of gold dollar football like Chelsea is stronger, football will undergo more terrifying and utilitarian changes.

There will be less human touch between the club and the fans, which is one of the reasons why Shao Bo hates those gold dollar footballs so much!

(End of this chapter)