Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

On June 30, FC United players did not have a World Cup mission, all gathered at Newton Heath Training Base, when FC United players came to Newton Heath Base, it was not like a training ground, more like a large garden, the outside of the training base was surrounded by a nearly four-meter-high wall, the wall was planted with green trees and vines, the training base gate said "FC United of Manchester", bright red made people feel comfortable.

As soon as you enter the gate is a large parking lot, three team buses and the private cars of the players and staff are parked here, in the center is the club's office building, which is a modern office building, the west side of the first floor is dedicated to the player lounge, locker rooms and showers, from the dressing room directly to the training ground of the first team, the south side is the staff restaurant, Lu Wei specially hired a number of nutritionists to customize recipes for the players, and a number of chefs who are good at British, French and Italian cuisine. There is even a Chinese chef here who serves Chinese specialties to the staff. On the east side of the first floor is a press room dedicated to media and an interview hall.

On the second floor are tactical seminar rooms, multimedia rooms, conference rooms, gymnasiums and massage rooms, as well as a medical laboratory extending from the building, which is located directly behind the building, with a total of more than 10 team doctors stationed, and several external Manchester Hospital medical experts responsible for data research and medical diagnosis of team members.

On the second floor is the office area of various departments of the club, such as the information department, marketing department, transfer department, finance department, equipment department, administration department, etc., and more than 300 employees work here in the ten-storey office building. On the west side of the office building is the training ground of the first team, and in order to ensure that the training of the echelons is not disturbed, the training ground of the reserve team and the youth team are separated, and there is a warehouse next to each training ground with various training equipment, which is prepared by the coaches to the training ground before the team assembles. On the east side of the office building is the staff dormitory, for players and staff who do not yet have a place to live and are far from home, and Lu Wei has also prepared a cabin here as a resting place to occasionally work too late.

When all the players were given an overview of the Newton Heath training base, all the players were stunned, is this a League One team? Many Premier League teams can't do this, it's too good, and that's not all, next to the Newton Heath training base is the Newton Heath Football School, which specializes in teaching young players in the youth team, the school directly connects to the youth team training ground of Newton Heath, which is convenient for young players and coaches to go back and forth, in addition, there is a small stadium that can accommodate 3,000 spectators next to it, as the home of the reserve team and the youth team.

FC United's real home stadium is located 3km northwest of the training base, and the opening ceremony will be held for it two days later, and the first game of the new home stadium, Lu Wei suggested to Walsh to invite Burleigh to play friendly matches at FC United's new home, maintaining the tradition of playing the first warm-up game of the new season with Burley every year, and holding it into a cup tournament, in addition to FC United and Burleigh, two teams are invited to play a knockout format every year, and the event is named"Friendship Cup" means that the participating teams are all teams that have friendly relations with each other.

This year, under the guidance of Lu Wei, a Premier League team and a Soviet B team became the guests of the first "Friendship Cup", the Premier League team is the old Redknapp's Queens Park Rangers, Jermaine has been transferred to the United States for surgery, it is said that the effect is good, the old Redknapp is also very grateful to Lu Wei for his love apprentice, under the instruction of the old coach, Queens Park Rangers agreed to FC United's invitation, and the Soviet B team is Robertson's parent team, At Queens Park, which has a 150-year-old tradition of playing football without money, it is a coincidence that two unrelated teams staged a "Queens Park" derby in the "Friendship Cup", and Lu Wei, who did not realize this, also met with the owners of the other three teams when the team assembled.

The first "Friendship Cup" did not have a pre-match draw, the first semi-final was played by FC United at home against Burleigh, and the other semi-final will be played at the same time at Giger Lane Stadium, the final final will be held at FC United's new home stadium, and the future tournament schedule will also be arranged in this way, but from the second year onwards, there will be a pre-match draw to determine the opponent in the semifinals, the ticket revenue of the match will be divided equally between the two sides of the game, and half of FC United's ticket revenue will belong to Burleigh. In return for accepting the newly established FC United, the other half will be given to local charities.

On July 1, 2014, people finally saw the appearance of FC United's new home stadium, the shape of the stadium has a very beautiful streamlined design, not the traditional circle nor the traditional square, the exterior wall of the stadium is red as the main body, and there are green and gold lines at the structural junction as embellishments, which is Lu Wei's way of paying tribute to the old Manchester United, across the road is a large parking lot that can accommodate 8,000 cars, and all FC United members can park here for free with their membershipFor convenience, an area is also set aside next to it as a parking lot for away fans, separate from the main parking lot to avoid some unnecessary conflicts.

Inside the parking lot is a football theme park and square, the huge square has a seven-a-side stadium and a five-a-side court, and various food and sports shops here form a commercial street, due to the large traffic on the road next to the stadium, fans can go to the stadium through two underground passages and two overpasses, the exit of the passage is a huge fan square, fans without tickets can watch the game through the monitor hanging outside the stadium.

The stadium currently has a capacity of 18,000 people, and also contains 200 seats for the disabled and 40 box stands, the fan stands are arranged at a 34° angle, no matter how high the seats can clearly see every corner of the stadium, a total of 12 escalators and 6 electric elevators have been built in the stadium to facilitate fans to enter and exit the stadium, and the fan shops and restaurants inside the stadium can meet the needs of everyone and the flow will not seem crowded.

There is also the exhibition hall of FC United Club, the wall of the hall is full of all the players who appeared for the FC United first team in the official match, their shirt numbers are arranged in chronological order of playing, and several other exhibition rooms are the historical exhibition created by the team, the introduction of meritorious players and the review of important games, and further inside is the honor exhibition hall, although there are only a few amateur league trophies now, it seems empty, but Lu Wei believes that there will be a variety of trophies displayed here in the future.

At 3 p.m., FC United's new home stadium was packed, not only fans, but also many players came here, including Sir Alex Ferguson, who has retired, as well as Giggs, Neville brothers, members of the Class of 92, Andy United. Dawson's older brother Michael and his teammate Aaron. Lennon, who received the loudest cheers from the audience was Sam. Ashton, Simon. Carden, Nick. Pratt and Jerome. Wright and Carl. When these FC United elders appeared in the stands, of course, they could not forget David sitting in the dugout. Chadwick, they are all heroes who created glory for FC United before Lu Wei, without them there would be no current FC United.

When Walsh walked to the center of the stadium, the whole stadium boiled, and Walsh did not let the fans wait too long, and simply made his own speech before announcing the name of FC United's home stadium.

"After a year of collecting and researching, we selected 10 names from tens of thousands of submissions, and then posted these ten names on the official website a month ago to be voted by your tens of thousands of fans, I am very happy, today this stadium has a name, its name is -

Red Stadium!"