1. What’s the Duty of Football Manager
- Tactics and Strategy
- Match-day strategies, starting lineup, in-game adjustment, set-piece tactics
- Analyze opposition
- Training
- Plan and oversee training sessions
- Use tech and data to analyze the performance
- Player Management
- Fitness and health
- Ensuring a positive atmosphere
- Provide guidance and motivation to player
- Transfer and Recruitmnet
- Collaborate with scouting team
- Negotiate contracts, in conjunction with club’s director
- Decide the sale or loan of players
- Media Relation
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Match Day Management
1.1. Soccer?
From Association Football, shortened to Assoc, then add ‘er’ suffix, led to soccer
The word is widely used in UK until the latter half of the 20th century
2. How Freeze Dried Works
- Freezing: spread in a single layer, and rapidly frozen, forming small ice crystals
- Primary drying: placed in a vacuum chamber, the pressure is reduced, apply a little heat, cause the frozen water to sublime(升华), remove 95% of the water
- Secondary drying: more heat to break the molecular bindings and remove the bound water
- Packaging
2.1. Why Freeze Dried
- Preserve most of the vitamins
- Result in a porous structure, allow fruit to rehydrate when added to water
- Flavor retention: minimal loss of flavor compounds
- Long shelf life
3. Why is the Month Distribution Not Even
Historical, political and astronomical origins
- Romulu’s Calendar, only 10 month, 304 days, month 30 or 31 days
- Adding Jan and Feb, to match the solar year, month 29 or 30 days
- Julian Reform, regularized, moth 30 or 31 days, except Feb
- Gregorian Reform: correct the little error by introducing: year divisible by 100 not be leaped except there were also divisible by 400
For Roman, the even number is not lucky, so try to avoid it
Quintilis (renamed to July in honor of Julius) and Sextilis (renamed August in honor of Augustus)