Sun and Moon Island, the third largest island in China and the youngest island in China. It is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River. It is the junction of the sea and sky. It is known as the "gateway of the river and Yingzhou of the East China Sea".

The origin of the name of Sun and Moon Island is derived from the name of the region set up on the island according to the "Binhai Zhiming" and Yang Wu set up Sun and Moon Town in Gu Junsha (also known as Xisha, one of the first two major sandbanks that formed Sun and Moon Island), which was the beginning of the name of Sun and Moon. In the 14th year of Zhiyuan in Yuan Dynasty (1277), the Tianci salt field was changed to Sun and Moon State. The Ming Taizu once gave the four words "Donghai Yingzhou", so it was once named Yingzhou or Ancient Yingzhou.

Although this island belongs to Binhai City, it is rare to visit here, as if it is a paradise. Even the locals in Binhai will subconsciously forget the island.

In the past, because Binhai and Sun and Moon Island were across the river, Binhai citizens rarely had the opportunity to set foot on Sun and Moon Island. Even under the current rapid development of the coastal area, Sun and Moon Island still maintained a peaceful life in the past.

Now, the tunnels and bridges between Sun and Moon Island and Binhai are still missing. The main way for people to enter and exit Sun and Moon Island is still on the ferry, so the passenger flow is still very small.

Sun and Moon Island is a product of the development of the Dajiang Delta. Its original location is the shallow sea outside the Dajiang estuary. When the Dajiang River flows eastward and flows into the estuary area, a large amount of silt and sand gradually deposits here due to the decrease in the ratio and slowing down the flow rate. On the one hand, it forms a coastal plain on the north and south coast of the Dajiang estuary, and on the other hand, it forms a scattered estuary sand bank in the river. In this way, Sun and Moon Island gradually becomes a typical estuary sand island. From the exposed water surface to the end, it finally forms a large island, and has experienced more than a thousand years of rising and collapse changes.

For thousands of years, the Chinese nation has been farming on this magical land, and historical records have been recorded in the Tang Dynasty.

Dongsha was exposed from the water from 618 to 626 (Dang Dynasty) and was located in the south of Dongbuzhou (now the Lusi area), facing the sea in the east, crossing the river to Taicangzhou in the west, crossing the river to Wusong Port in the south, crossing the river to Sheshan in the south, crossing the river to Jiading County in the south, crossing the river to Jiading County in the south, crossing the river to Langshan in the northwest.

The rise and fall of thousands of years have created the rich natural resources and cultural heritage of Sun and Moon Island. However, the Chinese Empire is now focusing on development and has no time to take care of this small island.

However, what made the people of the whole country have the most impressions of it is not the various descriptions in geography books, but the football school built on Sun Moon Island after Xu retired from the front line of the coastal football world and spent all his money.

For fans across the country, the old coach who once led Binhai Shenhua and Jinzhou Qianxin to win the top Chinese league championship is a legendary figure with a distinct personality. Although he has various shortcomings of an old-style head coach, such as stubbornness, arbitraryness, and feudal paternal style, it is undeniable that he is sincere to Chinese football.

Lao Shuai buried his head in training a group of children on Sun and Moon Island. This story touched many Chinese fans, but it did not help him develop this football school.

A few years ago, the number of Chinese entrepreneurs willing to invest in football was decreasing. Due to the dual impact of policies and the Chinese football environment, it was difficult for Xu Laoshuai to find sponsors to invest.

In 2001, when the ferry wrapped around the mud and sand at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the roar of the whistle resounded throughout the sky. This was the first time that 57-year-old Xu Genbao stepped on this strange land.

At that time, Sun and Moon Island was desolate and lonely, with bridges and roads not built, and they could only rely on boats when they traveled. The old coach's favorite disciple General Fan once described the remoteness of this place as "firing wildly with a machine gun, and there would definitely be no one to hurt."

The three words "Xu Laoshuai" that are in a huge contrast with the desolation here are the words "Xu Laoshuai". As the business card of Binhai Beach, his well-known name is known to everyone.

He has experienced glory and has fallen into the trough. He was called a "national treasure" by everyone in the uniform shouts of tens of thousands of fans, and was also called a "scam" when coaching was unfavorable.

It was such an old man who had seen strong winds and waves that placed the most important stop in his life here. Listening to the thunder on Chongming Island, a seed that concerns the future of Chinese football has awakened.

The old man's obsession with youth training originated from the 2000 Asian Cup in Lebanon. Although the Chinese team entered the semi-finals at that time, it was reversed 3:2 by the Fuso team led by Hideho Nakata. The old man couldn't help but sigh that the gap had slowly widened.

"We can't continue like this. China must cultivate its own stars!"

In addition, the football environment is getting worse and the prevalence of fake gambling and blackmail. He was unwilling to integrate into it and finally decided to take root in youth training.

The construction of the Sun Moon Island football base is a thoroughly arduous road and overcoming obstacles. For the sake of the "Manchester United in China" in Lao Shuai's mind, Lao Shuai even sold his house in the center of Binhai, recruiting sponsorships everywhere and looking at his face, without choosing to live a life of life like his peers and enjoy a retirement life.

In order to reduce the pressure of investment and pay off the loan as soon as possible, the old coach has used all his solutions.

The Open Source Festival was carefully calculated. When building the base, in order to save costs, he personally went to bargain with the supplier. The market price of glass was 100 yuan per piece, so he discussed whether it could be taken away by 50 yuan.

Germany imported turf for 1 million yuan per set, and he hoped to cut it in half. In Lao Shuai's words, this is not called bargaining, but asking for help. "I want to set up a base, it doesn't cost that much. If you think it's OK, just act as an advertisement for the product." Everyone agreed when they saw the 60-year-old man running so hard.

A stolen figure who has been in the football world for decades is willing to put down all his attitude and do anything for this base and for these children.

In his previous life, the old coach worked silently on Sun and Moon Island for 20 years, and sent a large number of players to Chinese football. His efforts changed the fate of many children, but he was still unable to change the inertia of Chinese football sliding into the abyss.

The ambition-ridden old coach did not realize that he worked hard but still could not resist the general trend.

However, the 180-degree change that occurred in the Sun Moon Island football base in this life originated from Gu Fei's visit in the summer of 2003!

The huge investment of "Huanyu Investment" has made the old coach no longer worry about funds, no longer have to waste his precious time and energy on reception and sponsorship, but can devote himself to the training of the base.

Of course, the rename of the Sun and Moon Island Football Base to "Gu Fei Football Base" is Gu Fei's only requirement for this base, and the old coach agreed without any hesitation.

In the blink of an eye, the "Gufei Football Base" has undergone earth-shaking changes, and today, it will usher in the most lively day since its establishment!

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On this day, after all Manchester United players had breakfast, they boarded the bus at the entrance of the hotel and headed straight to the dock.

According to Manchester United's event schedule at Binhai, they will spend the next three days at the football base on Sun and Moon Island, to maintain training status, and to have close contact with the base's young players.

This is an important itinerary for Manchester United's trip to China. It also caused an uproar in the media when it was announced, because they had heard that the old coach sold his house and borrowed a lot of money to run a football school on Riyue Island. However, there was little news in recent years, and no one was willing to go to the wilderness of Riyue Island for interviews. Everyone was also very surprised that Manchester United was going to train at the Sunyue Island Football Base.

No one expected that Manchester United did not train at the training base of the Binhai Football Team, and did not go to Gu Fei's alma mater, Fuhua University, but wanted to run to Riyue Island.

Some journalists also have well-informed news that "Huanyu Investment" became the largest shareholder of the Sun and Moon Island Football Base. They are also curious about what changes have happened to the base renamed "Gufei Football School" in the past three years?

With various questions, many media reporters drove behind Manchester United's bus and headed straight to the dock.

When people arrived on the ferry, they found that there were six large trucks loaded with cargo on the ferry. This was a fleet of transporting supplies to the football base. The load of goods made reporters realize that the football base is quite large, and perhaps the Chinese football media missed a lot of explosive news.

Accompanied by the sound of the whistle, the ferry slowly started, and Manchester United players stood on the deck, looking at the spectacular scene of the sea and sky in front of them, and felt very comfortable.

Since the trip to China started, every day has been combined with hotels, business activities and various tours, and we rarely enjoy the impact of nature, which has made Manchester United players feel a little bit of a suffocated.

Nowadays, the surging momentum of the China River has opened the eyes of Manchester United players. This is one of the best super rivers in the world and cannot be seen anywhere else.

In a corner of the deck, Gu Fei accepted an interview with Huaxia TV station, and the host interviewed him is currently the number one football commentator in China.

Wong Tai Sin came to Manchester United in order to have a commercial match between the 80,000-person stadium in Binhai and the 80,000-person stadium in three days. However, before that, he also had a very important task, interviewed Gu Fei and followed the camera to record the changes in Gu Fei's football base.

"Mr. Gu, what does football school mean to you?" After the greetings, Wong Tai Sin's interview officially began.

For Wong Tai Sin, he naturally has many more information channels than ordinary media reporters. It is actually not easy to know that the unknown Gu Fei football base is.

However, he still hopes to tell Gu Fei about the meaning of football school to him from his own words.

"For me, the football base is more of a seed!" Gu Fei pondered for a while before he said solemnly: "I am alone and I can't change the general trend of Chinese football, but I hope to sow the seeds and water them hard, and one day Chinese football will thrive!"

Football is a sport of 11 people, and behind a successful football team is not just the efforts of players on the court.

After taking over Manchester United for a year and leading Manchester United to sweep European football, Gu Fei gradually realized that behind the success of Manchester United club is the result of countless people's silent dedication.

Although Gu Fei is outstanding in strength, he is not a god. Manchester United's strength is based on the fact that everyone has world-class players in other positions.

At Manchester United club, players only need to train hard and play seriously, and all trivial matters outside the court are handled by professionals, such as lawn maintenance, equipment operation, tactical analysis and training plan formulation. They all have fixed processes and fixed procedures, and everyone performs their own duties, and finally the team's greatest combat effectiveness can be exerted.

In a sense, modern football is more like a production line, creating a team through various different processes, and the genius performance of players on the court makes modern football even more brilliant.

"Now fans are quite unfamiliar with football bases. Everyone is curious about what you and Mr. Xu have done in the past three years?" Wong Tai Sin has also read some internal information and knows that the investment in football bases in the past three years has exceeded the imagination of ordinary people, and there has been no output so far.

Wong Tai Sin has always believed that capital investment is always seeking returns. Gu Fei invested so much in football bases, so he couldn't do charity, right?

"In the past three years, we have been laying a solid foundation and dare not have the luxury of reaching the sky!" Gu Fei talked about the football base and was full of energy and said: "Maybe the input and output are not proportional, but 'Huanyu Investment' does not have any pressure to recover."

Football is different from other industries. If you invest in football, especially when investing in Chinese football, don’t think about getting a return soon.

Unlike the tennis schools that Gu Fei spread all over the country, Gu Fei Football Base does not have any branches nationwide, but only enrolls students every year across the country. All children are far away from their families and train and study on Sun and Moon Island, and need to endure loneliness.

In Gu Fei's plan, the football base can send players to the Chinese Football League on a large scale and the European Football League should be after 2010. If more and more Chinese players could go out at that time, perhaps the base could enter a virtuous cycle of self-sufficiency, which also indicates that Chinese Football has embarked on the right path.

Manchester United clubs play an extremely critical role in the development of football bases. After all, with Manchester United, Chinese football has a bright light to move forward in Europe. Gu Fei's connections accumulated in European football can lead the way for Chinese football.

Wong Tai Sin's interview passed between the Q&A between the two people. No one would realize that many of the problems mentioned in this interview became the solution to Chinese football many years later, but people nowadays cannot see this.

Huang Taishen admires Gu Fei's enthusiasm for investing in football from the bottom of his heart. After all, he understands the speed of "Huanyu Investment"'s development and growth over the years. If the funds invested in the football base are placed in other fields of "Huanyu Investment", he may be able to double their returns in three years.

However, the more he knows Gu Fei, the more he knows that Gu Fei is not a businessman in the traditional impression of people. Although he is young, he has a gully in his chest.

Over the years, the foundation under Gu Fei's name has invested billions of huge funds in many public welfare undertakings, which has changed the fate of many children. However, Gu Fei is always away from the flash and does not mention the foundation's work.

Only senior reporters of Huaxia TV, who can access internal information, can clearly understand everything the Gu Fei Foundation has done in the past four years. The trust of the senior executives of the Chinese Empire in Gu Fei is inseparable from a series of work of the foundation.

Huang Daxian has also had many contacts with Gu Fei and knew that Gu Fei was an optimist full of idealism. He has always advocated giving everyone a chance, and maybe they could realize their life ideals.

The more he contacted Gu Fei, the more he was impressed by Gu Fei's personal charm. He once promoted various activities of the Gu Fei Foundation in many programs, not to please Gu Fei, the superstar, but to join the foundation from the bottom of his heart.

During his usual vacation, Wong Tai Sin also actively participated in various activities organized by the Gu Fei Foundation, and called on his friends and colleagues around him to participate, becoming an extra-staff active member of the foundation.

As he participated in more and more charity activities, Wong Tai Sin even found that his impetuous aura was gradually dissipating, and it was reflected in his work that his condition was getting better and better, and eventually won more recognition from the audience!

Huang Daxian enjoyed the conversation with Gu Fei very much, but just when he was having a good time with Gu Fei, the whistle sounded again, and the ferry had already stopped at the ferry on Sun and Moon Island.

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When the convoy got off the ferry, the spacious dock road stunned the media reporters who came to Sun Moon Island for the first time. After all, this is a world of difference from the backward Sun Moon Island they remember.

Of course, the reporters didn't have time to worry about these details because they saw the old Shuai Genbao standing on the dock. The old man hadn't appeared in public for a long time.

The reporters rushed up to interview the godfather of Chinese football. Unfortunately, the security personnel at the scene were well-trained and quickly separated the reporters. Gu Fei surrounded Sir Ferguson boarded the bus and headed straight to the football base under the guidance of a jeep.

As the convoy walked away, the reporters also found their cars with yelling and set off with the convoy. The dock was in chaos.

In the dock dispatch room, local government officials on Sun Moon Island looked at the messy scenes below with a smile, but did not stop them. The arrival of these reporters was undoubtedly a good thing for Sun Moon Island.

In the past few years, the local governments of Riyue Island have tried every means to develop the economy and make the reputation of Riyue Island famous, but have little effect.

"Huanyu Investment"'s investment in the football base is just a small end. More of its investment is placed on the infrastructure construction of Sun Moon Island and various ecological tourism industries, and there is no output yet.

Since the beginning of this year, as the infrastructure conditions on the island gradually mature, the local government of Riyue Island and "Huanyu Investment" have reached a consensus that starting from this year's National Day, the ecological tourism industry of Riyue Island will be promoted to the public. This time Manchester United's visit to the Riyue Island football base is also a link in many plans.

The local government of Riyue Island was naturally overjoyed and gave the greatest support for the nearly perfect investment plan of "Huanyu Investment".

This time Gu Fei visited Sun and Moon Island, and local government officials even planned to hold a grand welcoming ceremony for Gu Fei and Manchester United, but Gu Fei rejected it.

Gu Fei has a special identity and is not suitable for direct contact with local government officials. In order to avoid waste of money, all red tape will be cancelled. Gu Fei and his group will go straight to the football base.

Although the government officials on Riyue Island were a little regretful, they immediately disappeared when they thought of Gu Fei's special identity and huge influence.

It can be foreseeable that after this wave of reporters came to Sun and Moon Island, their reports would definitely report to the people of the whole country about Sun and Moon Island's earth-shaking changes, introducing the ecological tourism of Sun and Moon Island and the Gufei Football Base, which had just begun to become a climate-shaking Gufei Football Base. By that time, Sun and Moon Island would have a large satellite, and this National Day may welcome a large number of tourists.

For Riyue Island, which cannot carry out industrial development and large-scale commercial development, the ecological tourism industry proposed by "Huanyu Investment" has become the best development model and has received strong support from the local government of Riyue Island and even the Binhai Municipal Government. Gu Fei even personally wrote the outline of the development plan for Riyue Island in the next 30 years, and proposed to use ecological tourism, tourism, sports training and other industries as the main body to promote the upgrading of Riyue Island's industries and achieve the leapfrog development of the tertiary industry.

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The convoy moved along the main traffic line in Sun and Moon Island. The spacious and flat 4-lane asphalt road opened the eyes of the reporters. In the absence of China's transportation, the local government's attention to transportation is amazing.

The various beautiful scenery along the way made the reporters' cameras never leave the view outside the window. The reporters did not expect that it would be a comfortable sightseeing trip with Manchester United.

Compared to the reporters' fuss, the Manchester United player in the bus looked at the old coach Genbao who had just boarded the bus with curious eyes. This is an old man of the same age as Sir Ferguson. Although the Manchester United player does not know what the old man is, it can be seen from Gu Fei's respectful attitude towards him that his identity is extraordinary.

Over the past year, Manchester United players and Gu Fei have been together day and night. They know Gu Fei very well. Gu Fei has a noble character and will not bow down just because the other party is a high-ranking official. He even has a good deal in front of the Queen of England and the elders of the domestic cabinet of the Chinese Empire.

Now, it is rare to see Gu Fei helping an old man get into the car and introducing the old man to Sir Ferguson solemnly. Manchester United players suddenly realized that the old man's identity was extraordinary.

"This is a meritorious coach of China Football, committed to the development of China's youth training!" However, Park Ji-sung, who is in Asia, recognized the old coach Genbao and whispered to Nani and Anderson beside him, which also made Manchester United players curious about what connection Gu Fei has with this old man?
Chapter completed!