Chapter 99 The Name of the New Stadium

Farewell to Paul, Lin Fenglei walked into the court with Smith. As soon as he entered the stadium, Lin Fenglei was shocked again. The stadium has a three-story stand. At a glance, the seats in the stand are dense. Now there is no one on the seats. It is empty, but Lin Fenglei can imagine what a spectacular scene will be when the stands are full of fans. .

Lin Fenglei couldn't help stretching out his arms, as if he wanted to hold all this in his arms. In fact, it's not that he hasn't seen a huge and magnificent football field, but the stadium in front of him is really his own.

After a while, Lin Fenglei turned his head and asked Smith, "How many seats are there in this stadium?"

Smith said, "Now there are 50,000 ordinary seats, 2,000 business seats and 100 boxes in the court. The capacity is about 53,000. If necessary in the future, 10,000 ordinary seats can be expanded. In this way, the capacity can reach more than 60,000.

Lin Fenglei said, "The other facilities of the stadium are complete, right? Have you reached the standard of declaring a five-star stadium?

Smith replied: "The hardware facilities of the stadium itself can fully meet the standard of declaring a five-star stadium. One of the criteria for applying for a five-star stadium is to require sufficient star hotel rooms near the stadium, including 500 five-star hotel rooms, which is due to the local Several new hotels have also been completed, so there will be no problem. Now that we have submitted the application materials for the five-star stadium to UEFA, it is expected that our stadium will pass the evaluation and officially become a five-star stadium by next season.

Lin Fenglei nodded with satisfaction. He has shares in several hotels near the stadium, and it will bring him a lot of income at that time. He doesn't think it's a lot of money, because he still has to pay off the loan of 200 million euros in ten years. How can he make more money?

Lin Fenglei remembered something again. He said to Smith, "The expansion of seats should also be put on the agenda as soon as possible and try to complete it next season. If I remember correctly, if you want to apply for the final of the UEFA Champions League, it will not only become a five-star stadium, but also can't accommodate less than 60,000 people, right? I hope to hold a Champions League final on this stadium in recent years. At that time, how wonderful would it be if the Gosho team could play a Champions League final in their own stadium?

Smith nodded: "Yes, boss, you remember nothing wrong. I will put the expansion of seats on the agenda immediately. This work can be completed in a few months at most during the interval of the league, and I promise that it will not affect the progress of the game. By next season, you will see a stadium that can accommodate 63,000 people.

"Oh, by the way, has the voting result come out now? What do the fans want this stadium to be called? Lin Fenglei asked.

After listening to Lin Fenglei's words, Smith laughed.

Lin Fenglei asked strangely, "Is there anything interesting?"

Smith said with a smile: "According to our poll results in various media, including the Internet, more than 100 million people around the world have participated in this voting event, and 90% of them want this stadium to be named 'Wind Thunder Stadium'!"

Lin Fenglei first focused on so many people voting. He asked with some surprise, "Are there really more than 100 million people?"

"Yes, our publicity work is in place, and we promise to draw 100 people from the fans who selected the final name of the stadium and ask them to watch a Champions League knockout match of Goshao on the spot. Goshao Club is responsible for providing round-trip air tickets, game tickets and food and accommodation on the day of the game. Now it seems that this game will be the home game between Gosau and Real Madrid. I believe this game will still be very attractive to the fans.

"Most of the voters will not be fans from mainland China, will they?"

"Of course, more than 70% of the votes in the online voting are from mainland China, but in other media, because most of the votes we choose are European media, these votes are mainly from the European continent. Generally speaking, of the more than 100 million votes, about 50 million are from mainland China, more than 30 million are from the European continent, and about 20 million are from other continents.

This number still makes Lin Fenglei very satisfied. Because of his relationship, the influence of the Goshao team in mainland China is beyond doubt, but Lin Fenglei hopes that the current influence of the Goshao team does not only come from mainland China. The current data shows that the Gosho Club is indeed a club with global influence. Of course, this is related to the extremely developed information dissemination in today's world, and it is also inseparable from Smith's successful propaganda methods.

This naming voting activity of the new stadium is equivalent to an image advertisement made by the Gosho Club around the world. Now it seems that this is also a very effective advertisement. It does not cost much, but the coverage of the advertisement is very large, and it is also very impressive. I believe that it will be mentioned in the future. Many people will be impressed by the new home stadium of the Shao Club.

Thinking of this, Lin Fenglei realized that in the name of the new stadium, the highest support rate was his own name - "Wind Thunder". He hesitated to say to Smith, "Does the stadium need to be named after me?" Isn't that a little bad?" He himself thought it was a little too flamboyant.

Smith smiled and said, "I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Before you became the master, although the Gosho Club had a history of more than a hundred years, its history can be completely described as lack of good. All the achievements of Gosho Club are brought by you, and even this stadium is brought by you. Before you, there was no legendary president, no legendary head coach, and no legendary star. Doesn't it need your name to be named after those mediocre people before? Is it named after those people who have nothing to do with the Gosho Club? In that case, I will be the first to disagree."

Lin Fengleiqi Ai Ai said, "I don't mean anything else. I just think that the people who use to name stadiums such buildings have generally passed away, but I'm still so young."

Smith laughed so much that he even burst into tears: "Boss, you are so interesting! There are many such precedents in history. As far as I know, the Bernabeu Stadium, the home of Real Madrid, was named when Mr. Bernabeu was alive. What's more, even if there is no such precedent, we can create such a precedent. With your achievements, you are fully qualified to do so. Besides, it is the consensus of the vast majority of fans to name the stadium by your name. If they use other names, I'm afraid they will be the first to refuse, right?

Lin Fenglei is also a very decisive person, otherwise he will not be able to succeed in the Gosho Club. After listening to Smith's words, he thought for a moment and nodded and said, "Well, let's name this stadium after my name 'Wind Thunder'."

The two discussed the details again and decided to use four Chinese characters on the gate of the stadium - "Wind and Thunder Stadium". Under these four Chinese characters, the Chinese pinyin of the word "Wind and Thunder" and the English of "court" are marked in smaller fonts, and the following is the team name and emblem of the Goshao Club.

The name of the stadium is still proposed by Smith. In his opinion, Lin Fenglei is a Chinese. His name has never used English free translation, so it is best to use his mother tongue; and Smith has been to China several times, and he has been very fascinated by beautiful Chinese characters. In his opinion, Lin Fenglei's name is very imposing. It represents storm and thunder. If it is written in the Chinese characters of dragon flying and phoenix dancing, it will be much more imposing than using English letters.

As for whether Europeans can understand Chinese characters or not, Smith believes that it is not a big problem. He believes that China's influence is growing in the world, and many people in Europe are now interested in Chinese culture and learning Chinese. With the increasing popularity and influence of Lin Fenglei, the two Chinese characters "Fenglei" will become the two most familiar Chinese characters for Europeans. Even for those who really don't understand these two Chinese characters, because they are curious about the Gosho team, they will definitely find out by themselves and explore the meaning behind these two Chinese characters. Moreover, Smith believes that the appropriate mystery brought by Chinese characters is also more conducive to improving the fans' interest in the Gosho team and the influence of the Gosho club.

Smith persuaded Lin Fenglei. In fact, Lin Fenglei certainly felt that Chinese characters were much more beautiful than English. He was just worried about whether the use of Chinese characters as the name of a stadium in Europe would not be accepted by Europeans. After listening to Smith's proposal, he also felt that it was a great thing to use Chinese characters as the name of the stadium on such a magnificent and beautiful course.

The two discussed and decided that after returning to the club from the stadium, Smith would immediately find a well-known calligrapher in China through his relationship in China to name the Fenglei Stadium. Of course, the Goshao Club will pay a lot of money.

Lin Fenglei also specifically urged Smith to use the cursive font in the name of the stadium. In his opinion, the cursive font is the font that best reflects the momentum of the stadium's name. Of course, it took a lot of time for Lin Fenglei to explain to Smith what the cursive font was. In the end, Smith did not understand what the cursive font was, so the two had to agree that after Smith found the calligrapher, Lin Fenglei would personally communicate with the calligrapher.