In Europe, professional football was an industry that could not be underestimated.
This most advanced football industry chain in the world supported countless industry professionals and related sectors every year.
Many people only saw the players and coaches, or at most the club management, but in reality, countless workers and professionals stood behind them, such as media reporters and stadium managers.
Managing a stadium was a highly specialized field, and it was becoming increasingly so.
The simplest question was how to maintain the pitch where the players competed, how to care for the grass so that it could accommodate all of a team's home matches over the course of a season. Daily maintenance and upkeep were highly specialized disciplines, and many universities even had departments dedicated to studying them.
The grass could not be too dry. It had to be watered to preserve its elasticity and prevent it from becoming too hard, which could effectively protect players from injury. Sufficient moisture also allowed the ball to roll more smoothly and quickly.
That was why pitches were usually watered before matches. It helped improve the tempo of the game and make it more entertaining.
But the pitch could not be watered too much, either. Excessive watering would lead to more mistakes in ball control and instead affect the normal flow of the match.
In other words, how much water to use was also a science. It could be different for every match, even every day.
As the professional football industry had continued to develop in recent years, more and more specialists had entered the field, driving the rapid growth of the entire industry—from players' daily training and dietary habits to club commercial promotion and the daily operation and maintenance of stadiums.
For example, two years earlier, Real Madrid had poached a