Deisler123 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 5 hours ago, Xela said: Would be good to get a translation of the article in that magazine as I still don't know a great deal about RECON You can read through here: http://www.wzs.org.cn/zszz/zs_zz1701s/201701/t20170105_237743.shtml Trick is, you have to stop your browser from loading, otherwise it will hide the content (the article you want to read about RECON) and ask you to log in. I will do a quick manual translation later after I finish my work 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Deisler123 Posted January 23, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2017 (edited) @Xela Here you go: Note by Deisler - in the article there are a lot of complicated Chinese words (often used to show off the writing skills) which are impossible to translate, so I chose to use English in its simplest form to improve readability. 1 December, 2016, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Jiantong Xia sat besides Villa Park (note: in the stadium), watching players on the pitch silently. This has been the home stadium to Aston Villa since 1897, one of the greatest British football clubs. 4 days ago, 27th November, Aston Villa beat Cardiff City, holding the unbeaten record at home this season. Villa park, having witnessed a win, still has a chilling breeze, but green grass too (note: you get the idea....). In the stadium, flags of AVFC flying, on which a yellow lion raises his chest. In the UK, lion is the symbol of royal family. In football, the lion flag of AVFC has its own statue – the nickname of the club is ‘The Lions’. It has won totalling 7 leagues titles and 7 FA cups, and reached its highest honour of EUFA Champions Cup in 1982. AVFC used to be the lion of guardian of British football – Princess William and ex-PM Cameron declared publicly that they are AVFC fans. Now, AVFC have their new lead of the lion tribe: June 2016, Chinese giant RECON took this club over. In just six months, the lions became familiar with Tony Xia and his leadership (Note: the original sentence sounds a bit too ‘praising’- I softened it a little bit to make it read better). From here onwards, I will only pick RECON-related content to translate: Nov 2016, Xia appeared at AFM (Note: American Film ?Makers?), he started to negotiate with two film making companies. Xia went to the Birmingham Children’s hospital and gave gifts to the kids there. But very few people knew that Xia still suffers from pain in the left leg. A few months ago, he played in the RECON game (Note: internal match). People often called him ‘RECON Messi’, but he injured his left leg and still cannot stand for too long. Love of football is just a start. The decision of buying AVFC was in fact due to his instinct as an entrepreneur. ‘We always wanted to find a way to extend to global market, and AVFC is a perfect opportunity for us’ ‘first, football is the 1st sport, easy to expand our influence; second, Premier League is the most successful football league with best commercialisation – good for us to work on’, says Xia. ‘we planned to return back to Premier League in 1-2 years, and become one of the top clubs in Premier League and win the ticket to UEFA Champions League. In another 2-3 years, we will fight towards the No. 1 in Europe.’ Apart from this, Xia plans to convert the 10km squared area around Villa Park to a place that involves Commerce, Entertainment, Tourism and Sports theme Park. ‘My plan is not only to improve Villa Park as a stadium, but rather improve the whole area’, for tourism from China and India. He also plans to introduce VR (virtual reality) and AR technologies into Villa Park. AVFC to Xia is much more than a football business. It is a ticket to Commonwealth countries, EU and even the global market. ‘honestly, taking over Villa brings the benefit to our business, much better than I thought’ ‘Apart from Football, RECON’s final aim is to expand into Sports/Film and cultural business, healthcare business etc. In the future, maker of high quality content is rare (Note: this is a bit abstract, but I guess you can understand what it means, a bit like virtual ‘content’ rather than product that physically exists). Football is like film making industry – they are all makers of high quality content’. Recently, Xia acquired (almost done) two Hollywood companies, one leading company in Action films, and another one is one of the eight companies during the golden era of Hollywood (Note: didn't mention the name of that company.). ‘I am planning to integrate film and cultural elements into rebuilding Villa park, so VP is not only the paradise of the football fans, but also the theme park to people other than football fans, but enjoying equally the joys brought by football’ ----- a long section about his business expansion into Indian market, which is not quite interesting to read…. ---- ----- a final section about the financial performance of his recently-acquired MSG company, not interesting to read either. Deisler note: to summarise, this article talks about his global ambition, and his approach of using sport as a lead to realise it (with India Engineering section and American Film making industry etc). A typical magazine type of article.... kinda boring tbh. Edited January 23, 2017 by Deisler123 36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinte_Pest Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 cheers bud, lol " the Recon Messi" probably a bunch of sycophants afraid to tackle the Boss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 thanks for taking the time to translate that Deisler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 The Doc is a top geezer and you wouldn't think twice about going for a pint with him 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, mottaloo said: The Doc is a top geezer and you wouldn't think twice about going for a pint with him Would need a bar stool though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 21 hours ago, villan-scott said: Xia trolling Villa fans by following Rooney and Sanchez is genius! Love the man! why is that trolling us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daweii Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 43 minutes ago, ender4 said: why is that trolling us? Because a lot of Villa fans take who he is following as semi-confirmation of incoming players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 1 hour ago, Daweii said: Because a lot of Villa fans take who he is following as semi-confirmation of incoming players. Sure, but anybody daft enough to think we're on the verge of signing Alexis Sanchez is in greater need of a rubber room than a transfer speculation thread. I think implicit in the idea of 'trolling' here is tricking people. Xia isn't trolling, he's just following footballers he's interested in on Twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dont_do_it_doug. Posted January 23, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2017 3 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Sure, but anybody daft enough to think we're on the verge of signing Alexis Sanchez is in greater need of a rubber room than a transfer speculation thread. I think implicit in the idea of 'trolling' here is tricking people. Xia isn't trolling, he's just following footballers he's interested in on Twitter. By trolling he means playing up, surely? Trolling is not necessarily a negative thing. He would have noticed that we made a big deal about him following Lansbury, Hourihane and Bree. Then there was a whole thing about him following a Villa fan called Dan Bardell, who he had a little banter with about signing him for the bench. Then he follows two random world class footballers. You kinda have to live on Villa Twitter to get the joke. He does interact with fans, read comments, get involved with the chat. He knows what he's doing and he's good at it to be fair. It's just a bit of fun. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Tony is a modern man. Well into his tech, social media etc. Despite thinking he should tone down the 'be a MAN' stuff this is a good thing. Because football has evolved, football Twitter in particular is a behemoth. It's the future and we have an owner who embraces that. Good stuff. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Apparently he has said something about ground renovation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Big T is a dude. I love him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Just now, dont_do_it_doug. said: Tony is a modern man. Well into his tech, social media etc. Despite thinking he should tone down the 'be a MAN' stuff this is a good thing. Because football has evolved, football Twitter in particular is a behemoth. It's the future and we have an owner who embraces that. Good stuff. The leader of the free world has decided to use twitter instead of the media - he copied Tony. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 3 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: By trolling he means playing up, surely? Trolling is not necessarily a negative thing. He would have noticed that we made a big deal about him following Lansbury, Hourihane and Bree. Then there was a whole thing about him following a Villa fan called Dan Bardell, who he had a little banter with about signing him for the bench. Then he follows two random world class footballers. You kinda have to live on Villa Twitter to get the joke. He does interact with fans, read comments, get involved with the chat. He knows what he's doing and he's good at it to be fair. It's just a bit of fun. Fair enough. I've never heard of 'positive trolling' before but if you say it's a thing I believe you. I have absolutely no knowledge of what he, or any other Villa fan, are talking about on Twitter unless it's posted on here, so I shouldn't have entered the conversation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said: Fair enough. I've never heard of 'positive trolling' before but if you say it's a thing I believe you. I have absolutely no knowledge of what he, or any other Villa fan, are talking about on Twitter unless it's posted on here, so I shouldn't have entered the conversation. Haha that's ok, I was attempting to fill you in I use the troll gif all the time. It was always intended to be a playful movement, but it has been hijacked by the media to represent something far more sinister. Basically, anyone using the internet to be a **** word removed is labeled a troll these days, rather than what they are. A **** word removed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 (edited) what is twitter? Edited January 23, 2017 by Grasshopper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Cheers @Deisler123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted January 23, 2017 Administrator Share Posted January 23, 2017 43 minutes ago, Grasshopper said: what is twitter? Something which shouldn't be taken out of context. It's always taken out of context. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 1 hour ago, Grasshopper said: what is twitter? It's a place where people can't stop talking bolloxs... even when they're on their own! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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