Compared to Florence, which is also part of Tuscany, Prato is very quiet and quiet, except for many artistic touches. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Prato is also an ancient city with well-preserved ancient walls. However, the structure is very loose, almost all low-rise buildings, high-rise buildings are completely nowhere to be seen, and a population of less than 200,000 people is scattered across this vast plain, strolling along the banks of the Visenchio River, with its old bridges sparkling, peaceful and relaxing. Just like Xu Zhimo's "Gossip of the Mountain Dwelling in Fei Lengcui" said: "All the beautiful scenery is like a picture in front of your eyes for your leisure appreciation." ”

Lange, home of the Prato team. The Bisenchio Stadium is located on the banks of this beautiful river, and in fact many courses in Italy are named after places.

Originally, Chen Lin had no hope for the Bisenzio Stadium, and he had never had the opportunity to see the home stadium of the Prato team before, and the three friendly matches were all away games, but he also knew that the Bisenzio Stadium was a small stadium with only 6,750 seats, of which more than 1,000 seats were still standing. Chen Lin originally wanted to wait for Prato to be promoted to the senior league and lease a stadium again, anyway, in Italy, public sports facilities like stadiums belong to the government, and the team club only leases and uses, and has no property rights, and when it comes to teams of this level in the top five European leagues, the size of the stadium can often determine how big a club's development prospects are, otherwise why Wenger is always reluctant to pay for people when Arsenal is still in Highbury, although he can compete with Manchester United in terms of record, In other respects, it always seems inferior, isn't it because Highbury Stadium can only accommodate less than 40,000 people, while Manchester United's Old Trafford can accommodate 50,000 or 60,000? Don't underestimate the gap of 10,000 or 20,000 people in this stadium, Arsenal will accumulate a season in ticket revenue that will be one-third less than Manchester United!

Modern football is about money, money is not necessarily everything, but no money is everything, Chen Lin has gradually begun to understand.

However, the reality tells Chen Lin how naïve his idea is, in Italy, all the big stadiums that can be hung up are famous, although the nominal property rights belong to the government, but in fact most teams have signed long-term lease contracts with the government, such as Prato team signed a 99-year contract to lease the Bissenchio stadium. And each team's home stadium has a special meaning for each team, entrusting the feelings of players and fans, just like their own home, easy to not be touched by outsiders, even small clubs will not easily share a match venue with other teams, like the Milan duo is a complete exception, and in fact, when AC Milan uses the stadium is called San Siro, Inter Milan uses it called Meazza to indicate their territorial rights.

So Chen Lin's idea of wanting to change the stadium is undoubtedly idiotic. But after Chen Lin entered the Bisenchio Stadium, he still couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It's really small, after seeing the Frankie Stadium in Florence, which can seat more than 50,000 people, there is no roof, no VIP stands, and the outdated and dilapidated Bisenchio Stadium makes Chen Lin feel like returning to the countryside from the big city.

Chen Lin walked to his seat while thinking about his thoughts, he asked Miss Ella to prepare tickets for him two days ago, and Chen Lin also asked Miss Ella to take some tickets and give them to the local Chinese community, one is to thank them for their help in the process of acquiring the Prato Club, and on the other hand, he hopes to cultivate the fans of the Prato Club among the local Chinese. After all, Prato now has a Chinese president, and there is also a Chinese player in the team.

However, when Chen Lin walked up to the stands, he unexpectedly saw two acquaintances. One is Luca? Luca, the old goalkeeper at the Corsivantino training ground? Corsi, the other is Lu Heng, a Chinese taxi driver who has been in the car several times.

"Dude! This way! ”

Seeing Chen Lin walking towards him, Lu Heng greeted Chen Lin excitedly, and then said to several fans with the same Chinese faces around him with a red face: "How about it, I said I know Chen, right?" He's also a member of our zj! He has the ability, you haven't seen it, so many ghosts are going to come to cheer him on, we can't be inferior to ghosts, right? ”

Several Chinese around nodded one after another, but at this moment, a group of fans gathered in the stands behind the home team's coach's seat collectively booed here, obviously coming for Chen Lin, which made Chen Lin feel embarrassed.

"Don't mind, Chen, any team will have radical fans!" Old man Luca? Corsi comforted Chen Lin: "But the vast majority of the fans are behind you, it's been a long time since the chairman of the team is willing to spend a lot of money to strengthen the team, as long as the team performs well, the rest of the people will support you, because we all love it here!" ”

Chen Lin concealed the unhappiness in his heart, smiled and nodded at the old man, and then sat down beside him.

There is no box at the Bisenchio Stadium, and even if Chen Lin is the chairman, he has to sit with other fans to watch the game. Lu Heng chattered behind him, Chen Lin just nodded from time to time, he wanted to see how many people would be filled in the stadium, more than 6,000 people, the price of a ticket is 6,000 lira (about 3 pounds), if every game can be filled, then there will be nearly 20,000 pounds of income at home, there are 18 teams in Group B of the Italian League C 2, which means that at least seventeen home games can be played in a season, plus cups and even play-offs, That adds up to almost 400,000 pounds. But the premise is that the seats are full, Chen Lin looked around, the attendance rate of the entire stadium was only a little more than sixty percent, and the Chinese fans he expected could only be seen sporadically, although the Chinese population in Prato is large, but most of them are busy with their livelihoods, and the Chinese do not accept football culture since childhood like the local Italians, as a foreign population, they have not yet developed the habit of watching football.

"The income of a home stadium is only 10,000 pounds, and even the salary is not enough to pay......," Chen Lin lamented in his heart, and thought about seeing in the game, after the 21st century, the average star in the top league, the annual salary is millions of pounds, with the current capacity of the Bisencio Stadium, even if the average ticket price reaches 400,000 lire after entering Serie A, the annual income is only three million pounds - just enough to pay the annual salary of a first-class star, not a top star. In fact, he knows that Prato's attendance in the C2 League is already quite good, with an average attendance of more than 4,000, after all, Prato has a population of more than 200,000, and there is only one professional team in this city, Prato, and the history is long enough, but after all, the influence and attraction of the C2 League are only so great.

The atmosphere in the stadium now proves this, and despite just over half the attendance, the Prato fans erupted in huge cheers as soon as both sides entered, waiting for the game to begin! Prato is a light industrial city, and its fans are mainly middle- and lower-class workers and employees, so they don't watch the games quietly like the white-collar elite.

This violent cheer made Chen Lin feel refreshed and began to enjoy the game on the spot.

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