Vol 7 Chapter 310: Old branches and new shoots (10)

"It seems that the outside world has never known the relationship between you and the stadium before. Are you deliberately concealing it?" The reporter pulled the question back.
"That's not true." Wang Ai pondered: "This matter belongs to my off-field life, and it is relatively far away. As a player, everyone will care about my games and training, and then they will also care about my daily life. Life, as for my investment activities, everyone is not very interested. Before 2009, I would occasionally read their work reports. I really didn’t have time to go there in person, so I could only read the reports. I don’t care about the development. In fact, the goal of 10,000 was not set by me, but was calculated by the team based on my future income, the overall maintenance cost of the stadium and other factors.

"Don't you care about spending so much money? The total investment is tens of billions, right?"
"Why should I care?" Wang Ai asked rhetorically with a smile: "I handed over this matter to someone who is completely credible, and has a strict auditing system."
"I mean, shouldn't you care about the progress of the project for all that money?"
Wang Ai shook his head: "My principle is not to lose money, invest it in the country, and do good deeds. As for how big or small it is, it doesn't matter, as long as the meat is rotten in the pot."
"Then when did you know you had 10,000 stadiums?"
"Strictly speaking, after that article appeared."
"You only know by looking at other people's statistics?"
"Yes." Wang Ai was calm and his eyes were clear: "Perhaps they were presented in their work reports before, but I didn't have time to look at them carefully. You can see by looking at my game statistics, there are almost hundreds of them a year. In the case of one official game, one every three days, targeted training the day before, recovery training the day after, and daily training the day in between. In addition to these, I still have business activities that I can never finish. , no time, no need."
"Then when was the last time you had a clear idea of ​​how many pitches you had?"
"During the World Cup in South Africa." Wang Ai nodded: "It was four years ago, when we changed cities every time we played, and of course we also changed the competition venue and training venue. Once again, I accompanied the coaching staff to inspect the training ground. , Instructor Gao talked to me about this, said to see how their training grounds were doing, and then casually asked me how your civilian stadiums were doing. At that time, my assistant replied, it seemed to be more than 6,000? Anyway, I'm stuck with that number."
"You keep saying it's an investment, but as far as we know it's led by your charitable foundation, the King Foundation?"
"Yes." Wang Ai explained: "The charitable foundation will allocate a part of the funds to charity directly every year, such as donations and materials, but the remaining part will be invested normally to ensure the survival of the fund itself. Because the Wang Foundation is a non-public fundraising The fund doesn’t raise donations from the public, it’s all up to me. And I’m not in a lifelong career, and I’ll be out of money in a few years, so the fund’s self-hematopoietic task is even more urgent.

"So since there are no fees and maintenance costs, is this investment a failure in terms of the fund's investment purpose?"
Wang Ai smiled and said: "How do you say this. From the perspective of rigorous investment, it is definitely not an ideal project to engage in a civilian stadium. It stands to reason that if such a large scale of funds goes to the stock market or something, the rate of return may be higher. But on the one hand , I have this pursuit, and I have a strong personal color for this fund, so the team must consider me more factors. On the other hand, although investing in the stadium itself is not profitable, the land will appreciate in value, which is our cash flow It may be nervous, but total assets are still growing.

"Of course, this kind of behavior that is irrational from an investment point of view can be established, and it benefits from the development of the country. It is precisely because our country continues to develop, and the pace of development is not slow, so our very conservative investment can be based on total assets. Expansion to absorb daily management costs, and even increase.
Speaking of this, Wang Ai smiled:
I am not a financier, I am a person who has a little achievement and a little self-willedness on the court, so I will not There are too many calculations, so I probably don’t need to lose. It doesn’t matter if I lose, I have enough money to spend and I don’t have any loans.

"Now that this news comes out, fans all over the country have begun to call the stadium 'Wang Ai Stadium'. What do you think of this? Some fans want to jointly write a thank you letter to you?"
Wang Ai took a deep breath and looked helpless: "Forget it, everyone has the energy to enjoy the exercise and don't worry about me. Really, I feel that the frequency of my name and image appears a little too high, far too big. Because of my contribution, this makes me very uneasy. In fact, I have not covered any of these stadiums, so many of them can appear and can always provide services for everyone, and it is inseparable from the support of local governments and sports departments over the years. and support. The leading team in this matter is only a dozen people, and it is impossible to ensure the quality of the stadium for ten years. So in the final analysis, it belongs to one of the public services provided by local governments for our people. Our fans have also carried out a lot of Work, such as maintaining the order of the stadium, protecting the quality of the turf is equal, so it also belongs to the service that we ordinary people provide for themselves.

"I can't attribute all this to the investors." Wang Ai looked at the reporters seriously: "I'm just starting a business, but in fact, among these 10,000 public services that are continuously provided, my factor is already very important. Smaller, and the longer it gets smaller.

"Then if you don't want the name Wang Ai Stadium, what name do you think is suitable?"
"People... uh." Wang Ai was at a loss for words, and after thinking for a while, he said a little embarrassedly: "Is it called a stadium? Or a football field? How many stadiums? Or named after the place where the stadium is located? For example, Dongjiao Stadium? What. I believe that by now, the local people already have habitual names, so just let it be."
"The Female President's Almighty King"
"Isn't it a civilian stadium?"
"No. This civilian stadium is our positioning of the nature of the stadium, not a name. We have never named it internally, only the serial number, which is the Arabic number on the goalpost."
"So what do you think about the stadiums that other stars invest in named after individuals?"
"I'm very supportive." Wang Ai said seriously: "For example, the one done by Lao Ma and Ma Mingyu, he is not like me who doesn't care about anything after spending money. He has been teaching children on the court. It is provided on the court. In the service, he is always a part or even the core. Therefore, it is appropriate to call it Ma Mingyu Stadium, but Wang Ai Stadium does not live up to its name."