From coaching Real Madrid

Chapter 809 Football Technology War

Manchester City beat Queens Park Rangers 10-0, causing an uproar across the UK.

This created the largest winning margin in the history of the Premier League, breaking the record set by Manchester United in the 1990s.

The Times described Manchester City coached by Gao Shen as a record harvester, because Blue Moon has now broken Arsenal's unbeaten record that year and has become the team with the most unbeaten games in the Premier League.

At the same time, many British media outlets have written articles and issued appeals, believing that Manchester City is dominating the Premier League in an unstoppable manner, and that money from Middle Eastern tycoons is destroying the original ecological pattern of the Premier League.

Whether they are bragging or criticizing, Manchester City has always remained rational externally and has not participated in it.

According to Manchester City marketing director Fergal Harkin, this is actually quite normal.

Whether it is fans, media, or practitioners, it will take a while for them to accept Manchester City.

But now, Gao Shen has helped Manchester City get through the most difficult period.

Next, as long as Manchester City remains at the top competitiveness of the Premier League, fans and media will gradually accept Manchester City as a member of the Premier League giants.

This is a nicer way of saying it.

To put it crudely, when the media and fans find that they are unable to resist, they can only lie down and accept the ravage.

Although, their hearts are bleeding.

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When Manchester City defeated Queens Park Rangers in west London, Leeds United were at Leicester City and beat their opponents 1-0 away, with Paulinho scoring the goal.

No one noticed that this time it was Su Qing and Fernando Lucas personally led the team.

After Leeds United played Leicester City, sixteen rounds of the British Championship have been played, and Leeds United's record is 13 wins, two draws and one loss.

Yes, Leeds United lost a game not long ago.

However, the current White Rose is still leading the English Championship and has great momentum to break into the Premier League.

As Leeds United's performance became more and more outstanding, more players began to enter the national team. For example, Paulinho was selected for the Brazilian national team, as well as Courtois and Benteke.

These players have also made their mark one after another.

After the Leicester City game, Sarri led the team north and returned to Leeds, while Su Qing and Lucas went south to London.

That night, they met Gao Shen in a London hotel.

The next morning, as soon as the three of them finished breakfast, a special car from Huawei Company came to the door of the hotel. After picking them up, they headed west to Reading, dozens of kilometers away.

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After leaving London along the M4 motorway, go all the way west, even past East Reading, and get off at the West Reading junction.

At the entrance of the expressway, you can see a unique arc-shaped building with six rays extending out.

Huawei's driver said that that was the headquarters of Quantum Fund in the UK.

After passing the building where the Quantum Fund headquarters is located, behind is Tesco's logistics center warehouse and administrative headquarters around Reading.

But what really surprised Gao Shen was that the north side of Tesco was the home ground of Reading Club.

Going south from the road between the Tesco headquarters and the warehouse, you can see a huge wind turbine. Opposite is a five or six-story square building. It looks very ordinary on the outside, but this is Huawei.

Headquarters in the UK.

Gao Shen was really surprised.

Doesn’t that mean Huawei employees can walk to watch Reading games?

Strictly speaking, this is not Huawei's headquarters in the UK, at least not yet.

Because currently, the official headquarters of Huawei UK is in Basingstoke, just southwest of Reading, and the distance is quite close.

Huawei's European headquarters is in Dusseldorf, near Dortmund, Germany.

This time, the person who invited Gao Shen to meet at Huawei's headquarters was Yu Dazui, the President of Huawei's European Region who came all the way from Dusseldorf and was about to return to China to take over Huawei's consumer business.

Gao Shen also made a special trip for him!

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"Welcome to Huawei, Mr. Gao!"

As soon as I got off the bus, the person in charge of Huawei UK was already there to greet me.

In fact, they have met several times before, not only because of Leeds United's stadium WIFI business, but also sponsorship and other matters, mainly including other cooperation, such as Leeds United's big data center.

For Huawei, it is now in a critical period of comprehensive breakthrough in the European market, but the brand's image and influence have always been bottlenecked. But this time, the home WIFI business proposed by Leeds United seems inconspicuous, but it is

It opened up a new way of thinking for Huawei.

Because football is the best promotion medium in Europe, and each home court will serve tens of thousands of fans and there will be at least one game every week. What better opportunity is there than this?

After negotiating cooperation with Leeds United, Huawei keenly seized the opportunity and immediately organized branches in various European countries and formulated a vigorous promotion campaign. The focus was to cooperate with major football clubs to publicize and promote home WIFI and

A series of other supporting services.

"Now, in Western Europe alone, in the top leagues, we have won more than a dozen contracts and reached nearly a hundred cooperation intentions. Don't you know that competitors such as Cisco and Ericsson have not yet...

react to."

When the person in charge of the British district mentioned this, he couldn't help laughing and looked quite proud.

They should indeed be proud of it, this efficiency is really amazing!

As far as Gao Shen knows, it seems that in the previous life, the home WIFI of all major stadiums used Cisco's solution.

Of course, this business is actually not big. The main business of these communication providers is still with giants such as British Telecom and Vodafone. This is just a piece of fly meat, but the key is that it greatly helps to improve the brand.

This gives Huawei an opportunity to make an upward breakthrough.

They were able to roll it out so quickly this time mainly because they cooperated with telecommunications giants from various countries and got their endorsement.

Gao Shen praised repeatedly, this wolfish nature really has nothing to say.

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The group of people arrived at an executive conference room.

As soon as he entered the door, Gao Shen saw that familiar face.

Gao Shen used to see him every year when he watched the press conference.

There is also a very widely circulated video on the Internet, "Qualcomm...Qualcomm...Qualcomm...Kirin!"

Now that he saw the real person, Gao Shen felt unbelievable.

But the current Gao Shen is no ordinary person either.

As soon as Mr. Yu saw Gao Shen and others coming in, he immediately came up to them, welcoming and thanking them repeatedly.

This cooperation with Leeds United really surprised him.

And he flew here from Germany in person this time, also wanting to further discuss cooperation.

More importantly, he wanted to meet Gao Shen.

He is also very curious about Gao Shen. Not only Gao Shen is well-known in the football field, but his cooperation with Leeds United also shines in his eyes. He is really very interested.

When Gao Shen met Mr. Yu, it felt a bit like a fan meeting an idol.

My overall first impression is that it is refreshing.

How refreshing is it?

The whole meeting and conversation was full of laughter, giving people a particularly generous feeling.

When Gao Shen asked why Huawei chose Reading and Basingstoke for its headquarters, others would be more tactful, but Mr. Yu directly waved his hand, "It's because Vodafone and British Telecom are the headquarters, it's convenient!"

These two giants are Huawei's largest partners in the UK, and they have even established a Vodafone systems department.

Yes, if you dare to love, it is true that a gentleman keeps his balls open, while a villain hides his secrets.

However, this makes it easier to talk to each other without having to hide and guess each other.

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Gao Shen came here mainly to discuss further cooperation with Huawei.

Huawei previously sponsored Leeds United, and at the same time successfully established the Elland Road stadium WIFI project. The cooperation between the two parties was very pleasant, and Huawei's strength has also been recognized, not only in terms of hardware, but also in software.

Gaoshen has always had some business pain points.

Such as data collection and analysis.

Many people have noticed in the news that teams collect players’ training data mainly through instruments and equipment, such as sports vests, but this is actually very limited, and the data collected is not very accurate in terms of accuracy, and the player experience is also poor.

Very uncomfortable.

Gao Shen was thinking that with the current level of technology, he is fully capable of making better and more advanced wearable devices that can collect various information about players through sensors, including speed, running distance, speed, pace, and cadence.

, center of gravity balance, etc.

If the hardware aspect is excusable, then in terms of software usage experience, it really makes me want to curse.

If there was only one team, it could still be done manually, but now Leeds United is building a large database, not just at the headquarters, but also with scouts scattered around the world, who are uploading data anytime and anywhere.

If there is not a more advanced data processing system, sorry, Gao Shen will have to keep adding people to it. In the end, the entire big data department will become more and more bloated, and the labor cost will reach an alarming level.

There are also video analysts, video editors, and other types of work. Gao Shen believes that these heavy and mechanical labors can be streamlined, provided that an automated software system that is easy to use is developed.

Gao Shen even gave an idea.

For example, assign a smart wristband or other small item that can be carried around to a player, which can record the player's sleep, body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and other human-related data. At the same time, it can also be used as a smart door card for entering and exiting the club.

Player room key cards, etc.

When it comes to the training ground, combined with the on-site optical tracking cameras and various sensors in jerseys and sneakers, they can allow the club's big data center to grasp the players' training dynamics at the first time, and coaches can also use tablets and computers.

Check the team's training performance in real time, provide on-site guidance, and adjust the amount of training in a timely manner.

To put it simply, what Gao Shen wants is a complete intelligent ecosystem that can put everything about all players into it in every detail, including game videos and analysis.

Except for Su Qing and Lucas, who had heard him say it before, several Huawei executives present, including Mr. Yu, were all dumbfounded.

Is this still playing football?

It sounds like you are playing with high technology!

But it sounds very tempting, especially in line with Huawei's next strategic plan.

This is also the reason why Mr. Yu came to meet Gao Shen in person.

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