Chapter 1662

Barcelona's summer sunset sprinkles on the sexy beach of San Sebastia and the white sails of the Mediterranean. The magnificent colors are like a Picasso neoclassical oil painting. The gorgeous sunset, like the overturned paint, is sprinkled on the horizon, while the sunset is like drunk, put into the water, and dye the blue ocean into dazzling red.

One of Barcelona's landmarks, 60 meters high, is so glittering with the setting sun on the huge Columbus sculpture at the end of Rambla street.

Because of the existence of this sculpture tower, many people who don't know much about history mistakenly think that Columbus set out from Barcelona to the far Caribbean. In fact, 500 years ago, Columbus of Genoa, Italy, went out to sea far away from here, and the direction of his fingers proudly pointed in the statue of man is not America.

At that time, although the Europeans had believed that the earth was round, but there was no concept of the Pacific Ocean. Columbus thought that the place he was going to is China and India. At the time of departure, the carrier was the credentials given by the queen of Spain to the Indian monarch and the Chinese Emperor.

Although Columbus was not the first navigator to arrive in America, his discovery of the Caribbean Sea made Europe and America closely linked from then on, thus opening up the era of European exploration and colonization of overseas territories that lasted for several centuries later, and finally the Spanish maritime empire spread all over the world.

Columbus found the most economical and safest route from Europe to America. His navigation also became the dividing line between medieval and modern European history. Of course, he also brought the extinction of ancient civilization and human race to the new continent, and made the African slave trade a lucrative business.

In the restaurant on the top floor of W hotel on the beach of San Sebastia, Zhuoyang, Koko and cousin Joan Laporta enjoy the beautiful scenery of the sea and eat while chatting about Columbus.

Laporta is very happy in this period of time. Zhuoyang, who joined Barcelona with shocking value, won a championship trophy for the club in the first game. Although Sandro Russell thinks that the trophy is not difficult, even without Zhuoyang, it is a matter of holding hands. It was true, but Russell's impeachment, which had been carefully planned for half a year, was aborted, and Laporta survived the crisis.

This makes Laporta very happy, otherwise with the urination of those members of the club, no one can guess what kind of choice they will make.

Nowadays, professional football clubs all over the world are basically divided into two types: company system and membership system. Company system clubs have owners and shareholders. The staff of players' coaches are actually the employees of the club. The vast majority of the five league teams belong to this type.

But at the beginning of modern football clubs, they all have the rudiments of membership. We gather together because of our interests and hobbies, and from time to time we gather some money to make the team run, and discuss with each other who to play and who to play in the game, which is almost the case.

With the passage of time, such a primary Football Club ecosystem gradually becomes out of place. As a result, some rich people become the owners of the club, and wholly-owned or joint-stock football clubs are breaking through the ground and emerging one after another. Only Spanish football still adheres to the most pure membership mode.

However, in 1990, due to the deterioration of the economic environment, the Spanish teams were generally struggling, and could not afford to continue. More than half of the clubs in the Spanish and Western League submitted bankruptcy applications to the government. What is the concept? Most clubs can't afford to pay, players strike. It's all light. If it continues to worsen, if these clubs go bankrupt and disbanded together, will La Liga end its life in just a few decades?

It's impossible to wait and die. The Spanish government has issued a new "sports law", Article 19 of which requires all professional sports clubs to change from membership system to limited company system. But there are also gaps. If the financial situation shows that the company has made profits for three consecutive seasons, it is allowed to retain the membership system.

In this wave of reform, there are four clubs standing still: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bilbao and Osasuna.

The three most developed regions in Spain are Catalonia, Madrid and Basque autonomous province. Barcelona, Real Madrid and Biba rely on these three regions respectively and are also the football centers of these three regions. Good economic environment and team operation make them avoid financial deficit. As for Osasuna, although their football status in Basque autonomous province is not comparable to that of Biba, they have also successfully passed the financial review of the reform because of the small-scale business model of making ends meet.

Barcelona football club now has about 120000 members. These members are different from those of AC Milan and Juventus. It is more appropriate to call them "fans group". The members of Barcelona and Real Madrid are not shareholders of the club, and the club will not pay dividends. The members have no money income from the club.

After paying the membership fee of 130 euros every year, members have the greatest right to elect the president of the club, except for the priority to purchase the tickets for the competition.

Only 120000? It's not that the enthusiasm of fans to become members is not positive, but that the club has strict access regulations. Take Barcelona as an example. If you want to become a full member of Barcelona, you must be the immediate family of the old member, and the immediate family must also wait in line. It is said that someone has been waiting for ten years.This rule is well understood. If you open your mouth, you can become a member as long as you pay the membership fee. In case that any rich Chinese comes up with tens of millions to let hundreds of thousands of Chinese collectively become members, then you can easily become the president of the club in the election. What do you do when you see it?

Membership club is actually a public welfare organization, belonging to all members, so the club can not be resold, which makes many Middle East oil robes waving money to buy Barcelona and Real Madrid, but they can only enter without doors.

However, the biggest drawback of the membership club is that it is prone to internal corruption, and there are many hidden operations. People who are interested really want to find something on it. Once they grasp one criterion, many former Barca presidents fall down like this. Therefore, Laporta put down a big stone in his mind when he was able to survive the impeachment.

Today, he invited Zhuoyang and Koko to have dinner, but not for the champion. Because Koko is going to start school, he will return to Hanover early tomorrow morning, and Laporta will practice for his little cousin.

Despite the sudden changes from Milan to Barcelona, Zhuoyang is still satisfied with his summer vacation. He and coco are together every day and can see each other when they open their eyes every morning. This kind of happiness is irreplaceable.

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