The Reds Meet Shanghai Shenhua

Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson´s Manchester United squad pre­pare for their third match of their pre-season tour of South Africa and China as The Reds take on Shang­hai Shen­hua at the Shang­hai Sta­dium on Wed­nes­day. The Shang­hai Sta­dium has a crowd capa­city of around 80,000 people and is one of the thirty largest soc­cer sta­di­ums in the world.

Shang­hai Shen­hua are play­ing in the Chinese Super League and have won two Chinese Super League Cham­pi­on­ships and one Chinese FA Cup. The ambi­tious club are man­aged by pre­vi­ous Argen­tina Head Coach Ser­gio Batista and cur­rently sit at twelfth place in the Chinese Super League. On the occa­sion of Manchester United Foot­ball Club’s  encounter against Chinese Super League team Shang­hai Shen­hua, how­ever, rep­res­ent­at­ives of Aon and the Manchester United Found­a­tion met with mem­bers of the Chinese media to share com­mon insights, val­ues and expert­ise on employee engage­ment, team­work, and build­ing a win­ning employer brand. Spokes­per­sons included John Shiels, Chief Exec­ut­ive Officer of the Manchester United Found­a­tion, and Rick Payne, Tal­ent & Rewards Prac­tice Leader for Aon Hewitt in Asia Pacific. Rick Payne: “Aon and Manchester United FC share sim­ilar val­ues of team­work, integ­rity and the pur­suit of excel­lence. Team­work is essen­tial for both organ­iz­a­tions, whether with cli­ents or on the foot­ball field, and both are focused on win­ning, innov­a­tion, integ­rity and com­munity involve­ment. Manchester United FC provides Aon with one of the greatest plat­forms to grow glob­ally. Aon Hewitt’s research shows that employ­ers with higher levels of employee engage­ment achieve double the growth in profit levels if com­pared to other firms. Com­pan­ies with high engage­ment levels have lower employee turnover and a sig­ni­fic­antly higher per­cent­age of all employ­ees, par­tic­u­larly man­agers, are intern­ally pro­moted. Our study provides insights into how organ­iz­a­tions can cre­ate real com­pet­it­ive advant­age by bet­ter enga­ging their people.” Shang­hai Shen­hua Pro­vi­sional Squad: Shengjiong Qiu, Kaimu Zheng, Fei Xiong, Tia­nyi Qiu, Moises, Gua­nyi Wang, Wang Shout­ing, Lingji­ang Fan, Hongli­ang Wang, Yan Song, Joel Grif­fiths, Liang Cheng, Yu Fei, Tam Tsung, Yang Wang. Manchester United Pro­vi­sional Squad: Anders Linde­gaard, Rio Ferdin­and, Fre­deric Veseli, Michael Car­rick, Ander­son, Shinji Kagawa, Dav­ide Petrucci, Ant­o­nio Valen­cia, Fed­erico Macheda, Robert Brady, Sam John­stone, Bebe, Nick Pow­ell, Javier Chi­carito Hernan­dez, Paul Scholes, Jesse Lingard.

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