Golden Greenery

The summer sunset in Barcelona shines on the sexy Santa Sebastia Beach and the white sails dotted on the Mediterranean Sea. The magnificent colors are like a Picasso neoclassical oil painting. The gorgeous sunset is like spilled paint, scattered on the horizon, while the setting sun is like drunken wine, thrown into the water, dyeing the blue ocean into a dazzling bright red.

The setting sun reflects on the huge Columbus sculpture at the end of Rambla Street, making this 60-meter-high one of Barcelona's landmark buildings so dazzling.

Because of the existence of this sculpture tower, many people who do not know much about history mistakenly believe that Columbus set out from Barcelona to the distant Caribbean. In fact, the place where Columbus, a Genoese man from Italy, went to sea 500 years ago is far away from here, and the direction in which his finger proudly points on the sculpture is not America.

At that time, although Europeans already believed that the earth was round, there was no concept of the Pacific Ocean. Columbus thought that the places he was going to were China and India. When he set out, he carried letters of credence from the Queen of Spain to the Indian monarch and the Chinese emperor.

Although Columbus was not the first navigator to reach the Americas, his discovery of the Caribbean closely linked Europe and the Americas, ushering in an era of European exploration and colonization of overseas territories that would last for centuries. , and only then did the Spanish maritime empire spread across the world.

Columbus discovered the most economical and safest route from Europe to the Americas. His voyage also became the dividing line between the medieval and modern history of Europe. Of course, he also brought the annihilation of ancient civilizations and races to the New World, and The African slave trade became a profitable business.

In the restaurant on the top floor of the W Hotel on the beach in Santa Sebastian, Zhuo Yang, Kou Kou and cousin Joan Laporta were enjoying the beautiful scenery of the sea while eating and chatting about Columbus in a relaxed manner. topic.

Laporta is very happy during this period. Zhuo Yang, who joined Barcelona for a shocking price, won a championship trophy for the club in the first game. Although Sandro Rosell believed that this trophy was not difficult, even without Zhuo Yang It’s also a matter of taking it hand in hand. This was indeed the case, but the impeachment that Russell had carefully planned for half a year was aborted, and Laporta survived the crisis safely.

This makes Laporta very happy, otherwise no one can guess what kind of choices they will make based on the urine of the members of the club.

Today, professional football clubs around the world are basically divided into two types: corporate and membership. Corporate clubs have owners and shareholders, and players, coaches and staff are actually employees of the club. Most of the teams in the five major leagues fall into this category.

But when modern football clubs were first founded, they all had the prototype of a membership system. Everyone gets together because of their hobbies, and from time to time they pool some money together to run the team, and they discuss who to play with, and who should play during the game. That's pretty much it.

As time goes by, such a junior football club ecology gradually becomes outdated.

As a result, some wealthy people became club owners, and wholly-owned or joint-stock football clubs were reborn one after another. Only Spanish football still adheres to the purest membership model.

But by 1990, due to the deterioration of the economic environment, La Liga teams were generally struggling and seemed to be unable to sustain themselves. More than half of the clubs in La Liga and La Liga submitted bankruptcy applications to the government. What is this concept? Most clubs cannot pay wages and players are on strike. This is considered minor, but if it continues to deteriorate, if these clubs all go bankrupt and dissolve together, will La Liga end its life in just a few decades?

It is definitely impossible to sit still and wait for death. The Spanish government has learned from the painful experience and promulgated a new "Sports Law". Article 19 of it requires that all professional sports clubs must be transformed from a membership system to a limited company system. But there is a gap left, and if the financial situation shows that it has been profitable for three consecutive seasons, it will be allowed to retain the membership.

In this wave of reforms, four clubs have remained unchanged, namely Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Bilbao and Osasuna.

The three most economically developed regions in Spain are Catalonia, the Madrid Region and the Basque Autonomous Province. Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Biba are respectively based on these three regions. They are also the football centers of these three regions. They have good The economic environment and team operations allowed them to avoid a financial deficit. As for Osasuna, although their football status in the Basque Autonomous Province is not as good as Biba, they have been able to successfully pass the financial review of the reform because they have always adopted the small-scale Xiaojiabiyu business model of living within their means.

Barcelona Football Club currently has approximately 120,000 members. These members are different from the members of Ac Milan and Juventus. They should be more appropriately called ‘fan groups’. Members of Barcelona and Real Madrid are not shareholders of the club, and the club will not pay dividends. Members do not receive any monetary income from the club.

After paying an annual membership fee of 130 euros, apart from the opportunity to purchase game tickets first, the biggest right of members is to elect the president of the club.

Only 120,000? It’s not that fans are not enthusiastic about becoming members, but the club has strict access regulations. Take Barcelona as an example. If you want to become a formal member of Barcelona, ​​you must be the immediate family member of an old member, and the immediate family members must also wait in line. It is said that some people have been waiting for ten years.

This rule is easy to understand. If you open up, you can become a member as long as you pay the membership fee. If a Chinese billionaire suddenly spends tens of millions to let hundreds of thousands of Chinese people become members collectively, he can easily become the president of the club in the election. What do you do when you see it?

The membership club is actually a public welfare organization and belongs to all members, so the club cannot be resold. This has made many Middle Eastern oil robes wave their money and want to buy Barcelona and Real Madrid, but they have no way to get in.

However, the biggest disadvantage of membership-based clubs is that they are prone to internal corruption, and there are so many behind-the-scenes operations. People who are interested really want to find trouble in this, and they can catch them accurately. This is how many former Barcelona presidents fell. Therefore, Laporta felt relieved that he could survive the "impeachment storm" safely this time.

Today he invited Zhuo Yang and Kou Kou to dinner, but it was not for the championship, because Kou Kou was about to start school and would return to Hannover early tomorrow morning. Laporta practiced it for his little cousin.

Although he has experienced a sudden change from Milan to Barcelona, ​​Zhuo Yang is still contented with this summer vacation. He and Kou Kou are together every day, and they can see each other when they open their eyes every morning. This kind of happiness is endless. replaceable.

The best summer must eventually come to an end, and a better summer will soon come.

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