With all the transfer work completed and the club's restructuring already in the hands of Poirot, Kenyon and Antonioni, Zhuang Mingge, who is not working, is ready to start a jihua that will benefit Fiorentina's future development - the construction of a training base that belongs to the club's own private property.

Most teams in Italy do not have their own training bases, and most are on loan to existing training facilities in the region.

Think about it, if a team does not have its own training base, it can only find some places to rent for training every year, which will first cost the club a lot of money and energy, and the environment of these loan training bases is also very bad, and players often have all kinds of accidents when training in this environment for a long time.

Even if the team wanted to spend money to renovate the training ground on its own, it would not be possible, because it was not the private property of Fiorentina and the club had no power to renovate it.

If Fiorentina had their own training base, it would have been a completely different story. If the club's premises don't meet their requirements, the club can also invest in further improvements to the training base, and the club will save a lot of money on the lease cost, even if the savings are fully invested in the day-to-day maintenance of the new base, which is much more cost-effective than renting the old and dilapidated venues.

Therefore, when Zhuang Mingge first became the president of the club, he sent Hercule Poirot to the outskirts of Florence to find a suitable land for the construction of a training base, and Poirot quickly replied: a piece of abandoned land that used to be an industrial area, the city government of Florence is selling it at a low price, and government officials have agreed to Poirot's proposal to convert the abandoned site into a training base, and the purchase of the land and the initial construction will cost about 8 million US dollars. So Zhuang Mingge happily transferred the funds from the 20 million funds allocated by the family.

Zhuang Mingge did not immediately remit all the $20 million provided by the family to the club's account, but instructed Poirot to report to him only when there was a shortage of funds within the club or when there was an urgent need for it.

After all, for a traverser, the biggest advantage is to know the direction of Shijie in the future, and if 20 million US dollars are sent to the club so easily, it will lose a lot of opportunities to make money......

So far, the money has only cost $8 million to build the training base.

With Antonioni, who is in charge of the team's day-to-day affairs, Zhuang Mingge drove to this abandoned industrial area on the outskirts of Florence, which had been bought at the club's expense and was now being renovated by a specialist construction company according to the club's requirements, with the aim of completing it within a year.

After getting out of the car, you can see the construction site in front of you, where workers from a construction company are dismantling the factories that used to stand in the industrial zone, and some of the necessary construction machinery has been driven into these construction sites.

"According to the original Jihua, the new training base will consist of two large areas, including four for the first team and four for the reserve, which will be divided into a separate area and will be the main body of the entire training base, next to the Florentine experimental center built by our Jihua. The experimental center is located in the center of the entire training base, which is mainly composed of three departments, namely the health center responsible for regulating the physical and psychological state of the players; The information center is responsible for establishing a database with detailed information and timely update of player data; Zuihou is a computer center that analyzes player data and makes effective predictions based on the data obtained from the analysis. Based on the drawings he had in his hand, Antonioni gave a detailed introduction to his boss.

"The coach's office area is next to the field of the first team, mainly including the tactical conference room, data room and other coach-specific rooms, the head coach's office will not be far from the training ground, we have to ensure that the head coach of the team can directly see the training of the players on the training ground from that room; The area also includes canteens and recreational venues, such as indoor soccer courts, billiards rooms, and video game rooms; At the same time, some of the functions of the health center are also housed in the office area, such as the massage rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms used by the players, and the design of these places is subject to the approval of the health center experts, so that the health of the players can be guaranteed to the greatest extent. ”

Antonioni clearly remembers how bad the training base he used to play football was: the locker room was ventilated everywhere, the training ground was like a rotten vegetable field, the team hired only a few team doctors, the degree of professionalism was very limited, and some players could not get timely massage and recovery, the most typical example is himself, the most serious injury of his career occurred in the 81-82 season, in a match with **, the opposing goalkeeper Martina hit him in the head, causing internal bleeding and skull rupture, And his heart stopped beating for half a minute!

Luckily, Antonioni survived and continued his glorious football career, but the serious injury caused his form to decline. Then in the 1982 Shijie Cup semi-final between Italy and Poland, he injured his leg and hit the goalpost, which directly led to his absence from the Shijie Cup final, and his own national team appearance record also came to an abrupt end, when he was only 28 years old.

Antonioni felt that this training ground was very different from the one he remembered before, and sighed, "If Fiorentina had these facilities when I was playing, my career would never have been a mere 15 years. ”

"Giancarlo, don't be so sad." Zhuang Mingge saw that Antonioni's mood was a little low, and hurriedly led the topic to a happy place, "Think about it, the club has now built a top training base, these Fiorentina players can effectively improve their competitive level by training under the most haode conditions, and at the same time, it will also enhance the players' sense of belonging to the club, Fiorentina has always been a place of loyalty, so we can't let the players loyal to the club suffer; Giancarlo, the other area is the venue used by the club's youth team, right? ”

Zhuang Mingge successfully diverted Antonioni's attention: "That's right, according to the current echelon division standard in Florence, we built with the standard of two fields per echelon, but the most important under-20 youth team has three fields, and the under-16 youth team and junior teams at all levels are standard. ”

"Similarly, a separate building will be built next to the youth team's pitch with the same health facilities as the first team."

When designing the training base, Zhuang Mingge insisted that a large number of trees should be used to separate the youth field from the first-team field, leaving only a trail in between, so that when the head coach promoted the young players to the first-team training, the players would cherish the opportunity to train with the first-team players.

The construction of the training base also includes a player's dormitory for the youth team players and a player's villa for some first-team players who cannot afford to buy a house in Fiorentina, free of charge, although the players will have to pay for the rest of the costs themselves.

Zhuang Mingge and Antonioni glanced at each other, and from each other's eyes, they both sensed the anticipation of the day when this training base was officially put into use.