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William Hill is the most prestigious bookmaker in Europe and a banner company in the world gaming industry. Founded in 1934 and affiliated to William Hill Hotel Management Group, William Hill has a history of more than 70 years, has the reputation of "Gaming Company Spokesperson", and joins hands with Macau Hutchison Group Honors Inc., which is one of the most influential gaming companies in the world. Operating more than 1,500 betting shops in the UK and serving 300,000 customers worldwide, it is the world's largest telebetting service company. In addition to receiving bets directly from players, William Hill also accepts risk transfers from other bookmakers, acting as an "insurance company" in the gaming industry.

The company is known as the 'Premier League Compass', and as the name suggests, the company's odds are fairly favourable to the Premier League, League One and all leagues and cups in England. One of the distinguishing features of the company is that after the bet is accepted, the odds usually change very little. It shows that the company has a high degree of grasp of the event, the judgment is more accurate, and has a clear view and prediction of the trend of the event after being bet. The company also has a good judgment on several other major European leagues (Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1, Bundesliga). Due to the company's accurate judgment and strong strength, many small companies and some bookmakers' odds are copied from its odds. And the slightest change in its odds will have a certain impact on the average European odds.

For this European Cup, William Hill naturally opened a handicap, but I didn't expect that this time, William Hill miscalculated. According to the odds they offered, the German team with the highest probability of winning the championship should be the German team with the "golden generation" and the excellent players of East Germany, followed by the Dutch team with the AC Milan Three Musketeers and the "Ice Prince" Bergkamp, but what people didn't expect in the end was that it was the Danish team that came off the bench to win the Delaunay Cup, you know, the odds offered by William Hill before the game were 1:42.

To this end, Martin Brown, who is the head of the company's sales department. Ryan is really in a bad mood, you know, out of support for his home team, many Danes and Danes living in the UK have bought Denmark to win the championship, which is quite a big payout.

"Shit, these Danes are all his ma's lackeys, and this kind of thing can also be encountered by him." Martin. Ryan looked at the claims statement to his old friend, Robert Brown, who is also the head of the company's risk assessment department. Kenny said.

Kenny also looked helpless at this time, you know, this odds were taken out by their risk assessment department, and the first thing about this was to slap them in the face: "This can only prove one thing, football is round, anything can happen." And I've heard that there is another one who has guessed all the scores since the second round? ”

Martin. Ryan had a gloomy face and flipped through the report: "There really is such a guy, but the bet is only 700 pounds, which should be met by scattered betting." "The so-called scattered betting, is to buy hundreds or even thousands of different scores of lottery tickets, in short, there will be all guesses or most of the guesses, just like buying Mark Six, all permutations and combinations to buy a note, in short, there will be a note to win. Of course, this is impossible, no one will have so much principal, and I am afraid that the money in that way is not as much as the lottery ticket, but the probability of winning the lottery is certain if you buy more. Many bettors in Europe like to bet this way.

"That's also impressive, the odds are at least a few hundred times, right?" Robert. Kenny couldn't help but sigh.

“1：498！” Martin. Ryan affirmed Robert's statement.

Then the two of them couldn't help but sigh for a long time, lamenting this person's good luck.

That's right, it was Chen Lin who finally won the football lottery award, and with a "cheater" from the future in hand, it was difficult for him to guess a game wrong.

It's a pity that he had an empty pocket and couldn't get much principal, so he borrowed money from many relatives in China and some co-workers who came with him. finally scraped together 700 pounds, equivalent to more than 7,000 yuan, which was already quite a lot of money for Chen Lin in 1992.

In the end, the money made Chen Lin a net profit of 350,000 pounds, equivalent to more than 3.6 million yuan, and even if the tax is removed, nearly 300,000 pounds will be paid, which makes Chen Lin, who is almost poor and crazy, speechless. However, he didn't plan to spend the money indiscriminately, because it was just a drop in the ocean compared to the plan in his heart.

On the second day after receiving the prize, Chen Lin took a car to Putoca, which was only a dozen kilometers away from Florence.

Putoka is located in the northwestern foothills of the Apennines, next to the Bisenzio River, 16 kilometers southeast of Florence. It has a population of more than 200,000 people. It is an important wool textile center in Italy, and also has cement, textile machinery and chemical industries. There is marble mining nearby. There is a railway connection with Florence and Bologna. The architecture here is a mix of medieval Roman and Gothic architectural styles, with a strong Italian touch.

On the other hand, it has the largest percentage of expatriates in Italy. Prato translates into Chinese as "grassland", and like the grassland, she has an open mind and accommodates immigrants from all countries. It is the city with the largest number of Chinese immigrants in Italy. According to Prato's official statistics, there are more than 20,000 Chinese laborers, the highest among immigrants from all countries. More than 1,500 Chinese children were born in Prato, accounting for 18% of the total number of children in the city.

Chen Lin first came to Italy to work in Prato's "Chinatown", but later moved to the suburbs of Florence due to some opportunities, but he also came back here often, so he is very familiar with it.

Strictly speaking, Prato's "China Town" should be divided into two parts, one is the Io House on the outskirts of Prato and the industrial area of Davola; On the other hand, there are two streets near the city center, the Chinese gathering area of Dou Ya and the French standard Phillip.

Chinese billboards and light boxes can be seen everywhere, and almost all pedestrians coming and going are Chinese. The two modest streets are full of Chinese restaurants, gold stores, supermarkets, clothing stores, Internet cafes, travel agencies, barber shops, photography studios and other Chinese shops. In a community of less than two square kilometers, dozens of Chinese restaurants and Chinese goods stores alone have opened. If it weren't for the European-style buildings lining Chinatown on both sides of the road, there would not be much of a feeling of being in a foreign country on these two streets.

The Wenzhou dialect is a common language spoken by the Chinese in Prato, and the Chinese in Prato basically use their native dialect in their daily life and business dealings. Ordinary migrant workers and small business owners only do business or work in the Chinese community, and have very little contact with Italians, and only the bosses have contact with Italians when they do business. The Chinese in Prato have little knowledge of Western culture. Less than 5% of Chinese can read Italian newspapers and magazines in Prato, and most of the people who interact with Italians can only speak some daily language, and usually Chinese people either read Chinese newspapers, or watch Chinese TV, or watch Chinese videos to pass the time, and their spare time is very monotonous.

However, all this is likely to change because of Chen Lin's arrival, as he intends to buy an Italian football club. Through his multi-day research and analysis of the data on the "crossing computer", he found that China is not without good players, but the Chinese youth team has eliminated European and American giants in the World Youth Championships, Toulon Cup and other competitions, even in the face of football hegemons such as Brazil and Argentina, they can play tiger and tiger without falling behind. But why do the good seedlings of the youth team disappear as soon as they arrive in the senior team? In Chen Lin's view, the reason is that the level of China's league is not good, these players cannot get good training at all, and even the best talent is wasted.

But if you want to change the level of China's league, Chen Lin doesn't have that much ability, how dark and deep is it! Only a few match-fixing cases, referee fraud cases, and black gold cases revealed in the computer video materials made Chen Lin shudder, more than ten years later, even the chairman of the Football Association will be handcuffed, such an environment, what kind of league level!

Not at home, Chen Lin can only hope abroad and take the road of some South American and African countries, these countries are also not good in domestic leagues, but they have never lacked good players, because their first-class players basically play in major European leagues and have been fully trained. If Chinese players can also go abroad more and fight in high-level leagues in Europe, I believe that they can also raise the level of Chinese football to a higher level, at least there is no need to fear South Korea, Iran or anything.

However, compared with players from South American and African countries, Chinese players have a congenital disadvantage when they land in Europe. Countries in South America and Africa were basically colonies of European countries in the past, and many of their players are eligible to apply for European citizenship, even if they don't, they can apply for a second nationality after staying in Europe for a few years, which bypasses some restrictions on foreign aid in European leagues. Like the four major leagues, La Liga can only have three foreign aids, the Bundesliga can only have five foreign aids, the Premier League foreign aid must have a labor certificate, etc., which makes the foreign aid quota of each club very limited, and it is often used with extra care, and Chinese players landing in Europe are not only definitely regarded as foreign aid, but also China is a single nationality, and players cannot have a second nationality, so they can't get around these restrictions at all. This also makes Chinese players uncompetitive against African and South American players of the same level.

What Chen Lin plans to do is to buy an Italian club and spare no effort to bring in Chinese players, so that it can become a platform for Chinese players to land in Europe. The reason why Italy was chosen, in addition to being more familiar with here, is also because Italy's restrictions on foreign aid are relatively relaxed, Chen Lin knows that after the introduction of the Bosman Act in 95, Italy will promulgate a new foreign aid policy, which stipulates that Italian football clubs can only introduce two non-European players from abroad every year, but there is no limit on how many foreign players a team ultimately has, that is, if Chen Lin is willing, even if he replaces the entire team with Chinese players, there is no problem. Chen Lin's goal is to build such an Italian "Chinese club".