Chapter 429: Can't Stop
Do you remember the swimming pool in the famous film Life of Pi directed by Ang Lee?
When Yang Huan saw that period of time in his previous life, he had a dream that he could swim in that swimming pool.
After traveling through time, Yang Huan went to learn more about it in order to fulfill his wish.
As a result, I heard that the swimming pool called Molitor has been closed.
This made him feel a little regretful.
It was at that time that he made up his mind that wherever he went, no matter how busy or tired he was, he would go swimming.
After arriving in Miami, USA, and checking into this five-star luxury hotel, the first thing Yang Huan did was to run to the hotel's spacious outdoor swimming pool and have a good and refreshing swim.
There are blue sky and white clouds above my head, and the endless sea in the distance. It is quiet all around, and the only sound I can hear is the sound of my hands slapping the water.
Once in the water, it was so quiet that the only sound was my heartbeat.
That feeling is like a dream, very unreal
But it's very enjoyable, very, very enjoyable
Yang Huan usually only swims one thousand meters, but this time he was in great shape and swam a full two thousand meters.
In the meantime, he kept changing various swimming styles, such as breaststroke, freestyle, butterfly stroke and backstroke, he just played around and had a lot of fun.
After swimming until he was tired, he finally reached the shore and emerged from the water in front of Yoona, who was sitting by the swimming pool and playing with her legs in the water.
The sight of his head and face being covered in water made Lin Yoona giggle.
She doesn't like swimming, but she likes watching Master Huan swim.
Yang Huan reached out to wipe the water off Yu Jing's face, then saw her laughing so hard that she was bent over, and his heart moved.
Master Huan grabbed Lin Yoona with both hands and pulled her into the water before she could dodge.
With a splash, Lin Yoona quickly stood up after falling into the water, but was pushed hard against the smooth wall of the swimming pool by Master Huan.
Before she could react, Master Huan lowered his head and accurately found her sweet lips.
With a groan, Lin Yuner lost the battle before she could even react.
This kiss was not long.
Who made Master Huan swim two thousand meters just now?
"Hehe, that's quite sweet." Yang Huan smiled as he looked at Lin Yuna whose face was blushing.
Lin Yuna pouted her lips in grievance, which made Yang Huan's heart move.
"Yun'er, it seems that my family's unique breast massage technique is really effective. You can see that you have grown a lot bigger recently."
As he spoke, Yang Huan deliberately squeezed Lin Yuna with his body.
Lin Yuna's pretty face turned red now, she couldn't stand teasing the most.
"We Chinese medicine practitioners focus on long-term treatment. We can't stop. I will treat you when I have time in the future."
Lin Yoona knew what that ambiguous look meant without having to guess.
The girl felt shy and happy at the same time. She rolled her eyes and pouted again.
"Looking for you? Master Huan, what's the point of looking for you?"
Yang Huan was stunned, "Why is it useless?"
"Look at you, you couldn't even hold out for a few seconds when kissing me just now, and you were already out of breath. Tell me, what's the point?"
Yang Huan was depressed now. Didn’t he just finish swimming?
Men, the thing they can't stand the most is being told by their women that they are useless.
"Okay, you forced me to do that."
As he spoke, Master Huan raised his hands and used the Lushan Claw move.
"Look at me, I can shoot from the sky to the ground, and I can hit the target every time. I can grab the dragon claw hand."
Lin Yoona's exclamations and laughter were soon heard in the swimming pool.
Fortunately, Yang Huan directly booked the entire swimming pool, so he was not afraid of anyone breaking in.
But after all, it was a public place, and he was afraid of being peeped at from a distance, so Master Huan did not dare to do anything excessive. He just gave a slight punishment, and the real punishment would have to wait until behind closed doors.
After waiting for a long time until the two of them walked out of the swimming pool, they saw Long Wu and several bodyguards from the Dragon Group and the Phoenix Group waiting outside. Lin Yuner's face turned red again. She gave Master Huan a charming look and ran away quickly.
She also has to hurry up and prepare, because she has a performance at the lottery ceremony tonight.
Only after Lin Yuna left with her female bodyguard did Long Wu approach Yang Huan.
"Master, people from several clubs have arrived."
"Where?"
"The hotel's reception room."
"Okay, I'll change my clothes and come over."
Ten minutes later, Yang Huan, dressed in a casual suit and looking very energetic, appeared in the hotel's reception room.
In addition to Sun Yue, there was also an American man in his seventies accompanying Yang Huan.
When Peter Kunien saw this man, he immediately stood up with a look of shock on his face, and then he greeted him with great joy, "Hello, Paul, it's a great honor to meet you."
"I didn't expect to see you here, Paul." Arsenal's CEO Gazidis also stood up and greeted him.
In addition to Yang Huan and Sun Yue, everyone present, including Ron Gourlay, Nicola Cortes and other local players, also looked puzzled, not to mention Florentino, Rosell, Rummenigge, Richard Cudmore, Mubarak and David Gill.
Who is this old man?
But from the attitudes of Peternion and Gazidis, one can be sure that this old man is quite important.
Yang Huan seemed very satisfied with everyone's attitude and laughed.
"Come, let me introduce you to Paul Tagliabue, the former CEO of the National Football League. He is now the chief consultant of the International Champions Cup."
When everyone heard this, they understood where this person came from.
It turns out that he is the former head of the American Football League
Anyone who knows a little about American sports must have heard of Tagoriyab.
The reason is simple. He is absolutely a legendary figure in the American sports world.
In 1989, when he took over the UL, or Major League Football, football was just a sport with annual revenues of only $970 million.
But it was during his time that UL's market expanded rapidly and its revenues soared. By 2006, when he stepped down, UL's annual revenues had reached $90 billion and its net profit had reached $5 billion, which was truly a miracle.
You know, even the world-famous NHA's total annual revenue is only 5 billion US dollars.
However, as the head of the group, Paul Tagliabue has always been very low-key in his conduct and therefore is not well known.
However, the business philosophy he established for UL is still being upheld by his successors even now.
The most memorable one was in 2002.
Tagliabue successfully persuaded New York's Times Square to close the square on weekdays for free.
For what?
The rock star Bon Jovi was invited to perform that day, and a total of 500,000 spectators came to watch the performance.
Since then, UL's opening concert has become famous and popular, and has once again become a money-making pool.
No one present had expected that in order to promote the International Champions Cup, Yang Huan would actually invite the retired Paul Tagliabue to serve as the chief consultant of the event.
Looking around the world, who else is more familiar than Tagoriab with how to operate and promote an event in the United States?
It was at this moment that everyone present had strong confidence in this event.
But those present were not three-year-old children, and they soon returned to normal.
After sitting down, Yang Huan began to ask Scudmore about the negotiations on the Premier League broadcasting rights in North America.
The latter came here to negotiate broadcasting rights.
Participating in the draw ceremony of the International Champions Cup is also a way to give Yang Huan some face.
But people who don't know must think that he represents the entire Premier League.
In fact, Yang Huan organized this International Champions Cup and also took good care of the Premier League teams.
Among the eight teams, the Premier League accounts for half.
This is certainly because the Premier League has been actively developing the North American market in the past few years, but Yang Huan is also consciously helping the Premier League develop the market.
Otherwise, wouldn't Inter Milan, AC Milan, Dortmund and other teams be able to do the same?
"Currently, several TV stations are very interested in the broadcasting rights, but we are still discussing the details."
Yang Huan nodded.
It is not difficult to hear from Scudmore's words that he is quite satisfied with the progress of the broadcasting rights negotiations.
The Premier League has also been continuously developing overseas markets in recent years.
The UK domestic market is close to saturation, and the European market is highly competitive. The copyrights of overseas markets and other platforms such as the Internet will become increasingly important, and the two major markets of North America and Asia are the top priorities.
In the eyes of many people in the European football circle, the American market is a treasure, but they don't know how to tap into it.
It's like you found a gold mine but don't know how to mine it. It's a helpless feeling.
Paul Tagliabue has his own opinion on this.
"From 2008 to 2009, the entire American sports market was affected by the financial crisis and shrunk significantly. UL has also reached a bottleneck in the past few years, and the market value of the UL team has shrunk by 20%."
"In the past few years, UL's overseas expansion plans have not been going well, especially in Asia, where the sports market is growing fastest. This has led to UL's market shrinking instead of further expanding in the past few years."
Everyone present nodded as they listened.
When it comes to the American market, they clearly don't have as much say as Tagoriyab.
"I have investigated and found that in the past three years, the markets of UL, NHA and MB Baseball have all shrunk. The situation of NHAR is relatively better."
Having said that, Tagoriyabu changed the subject.
"But the influence of soccer in the United States is expanding at an extremely fast speed, which no one had expected before."
When Yang Huan heard this, he couldn't help but think of the North American Invitational in his previous life, which seemed to have been held in 2009.
It seems that Company E was well prepared when running this event.
However, in Master Huan's opinion, this doesn't matter, it's just healthy competition.
One more event can also heat up the American football market and stimulate the American people's passion for football. It's a good thing.
As for who will get the most benefits from this big cake in the end, it depends on their respective means.
"I have studied the American soccer market over the past three years and I have found that the reason why the American public's passion for soccer has increased rapidly over the past few years is that, on the one hand, since the beginning of the new century, top European clubs and teams, represented by all of you present here, have been actively developing the American market, mainly through friendly matches and warm-up matches."
"Especially in the past three years, European giants and teams have changed their previous style of fighting alone and have landed in North America in groups to develop the North American football market. The effect is very good. In addition, the United States' outstanding performance in the World Cup has directly boosted the football enthusiasm in North America."
Those present were all the leaders of Europe's top teams, and they were all well aware of this.
Even Real Madrid cannot develop the American market alone.
But if the top teams all united, it would be different.
There is no doubt that Yang Huan's International Champions Cup is to provide such a platform for everyone present.
Once this event is stabilized, Yang Huan will also organize some other warm-up matches.
In this way, every summer goes wrong, year after year, and we are still worried that Americans will not like football?
Moreover, the largest immigrant groups in the United States are Hispanics and Latin Americans, who have a great interest in football, so developing the market will be much easier.
"Here, I want everyone to focus on discussing two teams"