Lin Xia flew from Beijing to London the day before the League Cup final and met Gao Han’s hotel in London.

Gao Han's close friend Xiang Tianming was also with her and Xiao Gaoshen.

Since Gao Han decided to sell Falcao and Ramirez to Chelsea, Chinatown and Qatar Investment Bureau reached a preliminary agreement on cooperation, Gao Han had already made the decision to build a new stadium.

Gao Han has high hopes for this new stadium, but he hopes it is not just a football stadium.

Thinking back then, the reason why he took over Chinatown was because this amateur team was the only Chinese team in Spain, and it was just formed, but it was tortured by amateur teams in other parts of Madrid.

The players knew that Gao Han was the coach, so they came to him, hoping that Gao Han would lead them to play the game and fight for a breath.

Later, things went very smoothly. With the help of the coaching system, Chinatown won the cup championship, and Gao Han also decided to set up a football team here to find a way out for the players and give the children in the Chinese community an environment to play football.

Before we knew it, a few years have passed, and Chinatown is no longer the amateur team that climbed in the low-level league back then. Chinatown is now a well-known La Liga team in European football. It is currently ranked ninth in La Liga and has good results.

Not only that, Chinatown is also one of Spain's newly emerging teams and one of the best youth training teams. The youth training level is well-known in European football. The two genius days each year make countless young football players flock to it and come one after another.

But some things have not changed.

Back then, they called the team Chinatown, which represented the Chinese spirit of Fuen Lavrada and even the entire Madrid region. After this team won the Cup championship, the Chinese in the entire Madrid region were excited.

Gao Han founded Chinatown Club, which further promoted this spirit.

Over the years, as Chinatown's performance has become more and more outstanding, the proportion of Chinese in the first team and youth team has become less and less. However, many of the club's staff have followed Chinatown and upgraded all the way. Every year, the club has to spend a sum of funds to arrange staff to study and increase value.

For example, former captains Tu Feiyuan and Xiao Mu, both of whom used to coach at Chinatown Youth Team and also studied in coaching training classes, but now they have gone out to coach. Moreover, both of them are coaching teams from the Second League, which are the first Chinese head coaches to coach separately in the Spanish Professional League after Gao Han.

During Chinese traditional festivals, Chinatown will hold a series of colorful activities to serve the Chinese community, and has been widely commended and recognized by the Spanish Chinese Association, the Embassy in Spain, and even the domestic government.

It can be said that in the eyes of Gao Han and countless Chinese, Chinatown is not just a football team, it is more like a symbol of the spirit of unity, mutual assistance and struggle among Chinese.

This is also the reason why Gao Han is reluctant to sell Chinatown shares from beginning to end.

But it is precisely because of this that Chinatown has attracted the support of countless fans around the world and many domestic fans.

When some media reported that when Chinatown had poor home conditions and might be disqualified from home games, many fans from all over the world on the Internet were generously donated, hoping to help Chinatown transform a new stadium through crowdfunding, but they were all politely declined by Chinatown.

Therefore, this time, Gao Han not only wants a stadium, he also hopes to regard the new stadium in Chinatown as a condensation of Chinatown's past ten years, but also a display of Chinese traditional culture and spirit.

Accompanying Xiang Tianming, Deputy Chief Architect Li of China's most authoritative architectural design institute, was also the representative of China. He worked with Swiss Herzog and De Mellon to witness the entire process of the construction of the Bird's Nest.

Deputy Chief Li is not a fan, but before coming to London, he had learned a lot about Gao Han and Chinatown and knew a lot about them. At this moment, listening to Gao Han's words made him feel even more touched.

"Although we are a very young team, and it has only been ten years since then, I hope our stadium can be more traditional, more cultural, and more reflect the difference between our team and other teams." Gao Han finally concluded.

Deputy Chief Li nodded and said, "That should be a bit heavy, and the appearance is set off by bricks or columns."

"You are an expert in this regard, and you are responsible." Gao Han laughed, "but there is one thing I hope you can agree to."

"you say."

"I hope this stadium can use a design language that the whole world can understand to illustrate China's traditional culture and the unique background of our team."

Deputy Chief Li understood Gao Han’s meaning.

After all, this stadium is in Madrid. After completion, it will be a landmark building in the southern suburbs of Madrid. Whether now or in the future, the fans of Chinatown will face the whole world. If it is a design that is too traditional Chinese, it may be beautiful in the eyes of Chinese and Chinese, but not in the eyes of foreigners.

The meaning of Gao Han is very clear, combining Chinese and Western styles to learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses.

Deputy Chief Li understood that this may be why Gao Han invited the entire design team of Bird's Nest.

After gaining experience in the last bird's nest, Deputy Chief Li believed that he would be more confident this time.

Moreover, their company attaches great importance to this project, after all, this time it is in Madrid, Europe.

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After nearly two hours of communication and ensuring that Gao Han had learned about a series of requests, Deputy Chief Li stood up and said goodbye.

Next, his team will cooperate with Swiss Herzog and De Mellon Architects to survey the plot where the stadium is located. After obtaining a series of detailed data, they will start designing it. It will take at least a few months before the first time the design plan is submitted.

Gao Han also knew that he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry and could not be in a hurry.

After seeing off Deputy Chief Li and Xiang Tianming, Gao Han called Armando Marcos and Cantalero, who were far away in Madrid, respectively, informed them of this matter and asked them to cooperate.

After Gao Han finished calling, Lin Xia also asked Xiao Gaoshen to fall asleep. After returning to the living room, she sat down next to Gao Han.

"Do you still remember Uncle Cheng?"

Gao Han was stunned at first, but soon remembered, "Of course I remember, how could I forget him?"

Louis Cheng, Cheng Louis, who followed his father to Madrid to develop Chinese people when he was very young, is also a core member of the Madrid Chinese Chamber of Commerce. He runs chain supermarkets and department stores in Spain. His business is quite good and he is also a hardcore fan.

When Gao Han founded Chinatown, Cheng Luyi was the first to support it and always sponsored Chinatown. Even now, Chinatown has developed, but it is still working with Cheng Luyi. Not only has the sponsorship fee not increased for many years, they are also allowed to use Chinatown’s team logo and player portrait rights when promoting and promoting.

However, Gao Han has not coached in Spain for many years and has gradually become a little distant from him. Lin Xia suddenly asked, Gao Han was stunned for a moment.

"What's wrong with him?" Gao Han asked strangely, why did he suddenly mention him?

Lin Xia smiled, approached Gao Han, leaning on his shoulder, "A few days ago, Uncle Cheng called me and told me something. I heard that his business has not been very good in the past two or three years."

"Why?" Gao Han was a little surprised.

"The economic environment is not good, and the previous business advantages are gone." Lin Xia looked a little sad when she said it.

"In the past, Chinese had two major advantages in running shops. One was that they were close to residential areas. Although the sparrows were small, they were all complete and very convenient. The other was that they had a long business time, almost seven by twenty-four hours, and were endless all year round. But now you can see that the Carrefour supermarket in Madrid was not shorter than that in Chinese stores, with more products, lower prices, and guaranteed quality."

"In the suburbs, many shopping malls have discount promotional stores that are cheaper than Chinese stores, larger in scale, higher in grades, and better shopping experience, so when it comes to shopping, consumers like to go to shopping malls."

Gao Han had heard of this news, but...

"I am a football coach, and I am not as good as them in business." Gao Han smiled bitterly. He was also helpless.

"I know." Lin Xia nodded, "But Uncle Cheng means that he and many business friends think that to change the current dilemma, one must keep pace with the times."

"What does it mean?" Gao Han still didn't understand.

"Aren't you going to build a new stadium?"

"Ah." Gao Han was even more strange. What does this have to do with the new stadium?

"What they call keeping pace with the times is to upgrade Chinese stores and supermarket chains, establish a large shopping center for the masses, provide high-quality and cost-effective Chinese products for middle-income groups, change the scattered situation where they fight each other in the past, and give full play to the advantages of aggregation."

When Gao Han heard this, he immediately understood, "What do they mean is, in our new stadium?"

Lin Xia nodded, "What do you think?"

Gao Han frowned and had a headache. The pillow was blowing...

According to the market research of Armando Marcos, there are shopping malls and discount malls in the southern suburbs of Madrid, especially in the surrounding areas of Fuen Lavrada. However, if the new stadium in Chinatown is completed, it will inevitably become a landmark building in the southern suburbs. In addition, the stadium is naturally attractive to fans, and the club does intend to make a fuss about business.

But the inside of the stadium is worth every inch of land, and it has to face fans on the stadium. It is not suitable to use it as a shopping mall.

But Louis Cheng had great kindness to Chinatown back then. It can be said that without him, there would be no Chinatown today. It would be really unreasonable to not help, not to mention that it also affects other Chinese people.

"How many people do they have? How large does it take?" Gao Han asked with concern.

"I heard from Uncle Cheng that there are already fifty or sixty companies that have intended this aspect in advance, and there may be more in the future, at least 10,000 or 20,000 square meters."

Gao Han nodded, and he had to admit that this idea was indeed good and he was very business-minded. This should be the so-called industrial upgrading. But if you give them an area of ​​10,000 or 20,000 square meters from the internal planning of the new Chinatown stadium, it would be a bit unrealistic. After all, Chinatown is also considering recruiting on its own, and some well-known companies, including Nike, are interested.

What's more, Chinatown's own fan shop and honor room will also be placed inside.

"In this way, Lin Xia, you call Uncle Cheng. It is definitely not possible inside the stadium, but I can build a shopping center outside the stadium for rent, plan with the stadium, and even leave an independent passage to the stadium stand."

Although Gao Han doesn’t know how to do business, there is a truth that he understands, that is, he can’t speak alone.

There is a shopping center around the stadium of Chinatown that specializes in selling high-quality Chinese goods. If it can be done, it will not only benefit Chinese bosses such as Cheng Louis, but also benefit Chinatown.

If it can bring warmth to the business around Chinatown Stadium, then...

Even if it is screwed up or failed, it will not cause much damage to Chinatown. At best, it is just that the stadium planning has an extra building and more money is invested.

As the saying goes, if you have too much debt, you won’t suppress yourself. Gao Han is now more courageous.
Chapter completed!