Vol 3 Chapter 8: Barcelona membership

The summer sunset in Barcelona sprinkled on the beach of San Sebastia and the little white sails of the Mediterranean Sea. The magnificent colors are like a Picasso neoclassical oil painting. The gorgeous sunset, like the overturned paint, sprinkled on the horizon, while the sunset was like drunk, thrown into the water, and dyed the blue ocean into dazzling red.
The sunset reflected on the huge Columbus sculpture at the end of La Rambla, making one of the 60-meter-high Barcelona landmarks so shining.
Because of the existence of this sculpture tower, many people who don't know much about history mistakenly think that Columbus departed from Barcelona to the distant Caribbean. In fact, 500 years ago, the place where the Italian Genoese Columbus went to sea was far away from here, and the direction of his fingers proudly on the portrait sculpture was not the Americas.
At that time, although Europeans already believed that the earth was a circle, there was no concept of the Pacific Ocean. Columbus thought that he was going to China and India. When he set off, he carried the national book given to the Indian monarch and the Chinese emperor by the Queen of Spain at the time.
Although Columbus was not the first navigator to arrive in the Americas, his discovery of the Caribbean has brought Europe and the Americas together since then, and opened up a new era of European exploration and colonization of overseas territories that will continue for centuries. Only then did the Spanish maritime empire spread all over the world.
Columbus discovered the most economical and safe route from Europe to the Americas. His voyage also became the dividing line between Europe's medieval and modern history. Of course, he also brought the destruction of ancient civilizations and races to the New World, and Make the African slave trade a profitable business.
In the restaurant on the top floor of the W Hotel by the beach of San Sebastia, three cousins, Zhuo Yang, Coco and Joan Laporta, enjoyed a beautiful view of the seaside and ate meals while chatting about Columbus. topic.
La Porta was very happy during this time. Zhuo Yang, who joined Barcelona with a shocking price, won a championship trophy for the club in the first game, although Sandro Russell believes that this trophy is not difficult, even without Zhuo Yang. It is also a matter of holding hands. This is indeed the case, but let Russell meticulously plan a six-month-long impeachment abortion, and La Porta survived the crisis.
This makes La Porta very happy, otherwise no one can guess what choice they will make based on the urinary nature of those members of the club.
Nowadays, professional football clubs in the world are basically divided into two types: corporate system and membership system. Corporate clubs have owners and shareholders. The player coaches are actually employees of the club. The vast majority of the five league teams belong to this category.
But at the beginning of the earliest days of modern football clubs, they all had the prototype of membership. Everyone got together because of their interests and hobbies, and from time to time they put together some money to make the team run, discuss together with whom to play, and who should play during the game, almost like this.
Over time, such a junior football club ecology gradually became outdated, so some rich people became the owners of the club, wholly-owned or joint-stock football clubs have broken ground, and only Spanish football has always insisted on the purest Membership model.
However, by 1990, due to the deterioration of the economic environment, the La Liga teams generally struggled and could not support it anymore. More than half of the clubs in La Liga and West B submitted bankruptcy applications to the government. What is this concept? Most clubs are unable to pay wages and strike players. This is still considered light. If they continue to deteriorate, if these clubs all go bankrupt and dissolve together, will La Liga end their lives for just a few decades?
It is certainly impossible to sit back and wait. The painful Spanish government has promulgated a new "Sports Law", Article 19 of which requires that all professional sports clubs must be changed from a membership system to a limited company. But there is also a gap. If the financial situation shows that three consecutive seasons have achieved profitability, it is allowed to retain the membership system.
In this wave of reforms, four clubs remained intact, namely Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Bilbao and Osasuna.
The three most economically developed regions in Spain, Catalonia, Madrid, Basque Country, Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Bibba, respectively, rely on these three regions. They are also the football centers of these three regions. The economic environment and team operations have prevented them from fiscal deficits. As for Osasuna, although their football status in the Basque Autonomous Province is not as good as that of Biba, they have successfully passed the financial review of the reform because they have always adopted a small-scale business model of small family Jasper.
FC Barcelona currently has about 120,000 members. These members are different from those of Ac Milan and Juventus. The kind that should be called ‘fan club’ is more appropriate. The members of Barcelona and Real Madrid are not shareholders of the club, and the club does not pay dividends. The members do not have any monetary income from the club.
After paying an annual membership fee of 130 Euros, the first right of members is to elect the club’s president, excluding the opportunity to purchase tickets for competitions.
Only 120,000? It's not that the enthusiasm of the fans to become members is not positive, but that the club has strict admission rules. Taking Barcelona as an example, if you want to become a full member of Barcelona, ​​you must be an immediate family member of the old member, and the immediate family members also have to wait in line. It is said that some people have waited for ten years.
This rule is easy to understand. If you open your mouth, you can become a member as long as you pay the membership fee. In the event of a whim, which Chinese tycoon will take out tens of millions to make more than 100,000 Chinese people become members~EbookFREE.me~ Zhong easily became the club chairman. 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, which makes many Middle Eastern oil robes waving money to buy Barcelona and Real Madrid but can only enter without a door.
However, the biggest drawback of membership clubs is that they are prone to internal corruption. There are so many black-box operations. If you are interested, you really want to look for things in this area. As long as you catch a standard, many of the former presidents of Barcelona fell like this. Therefore, this time he was able to ride through the "impeachment storm" safely, La Porta thought that he had put a big stone down.
Today he invited Zhuo Yang and Koko to dinner, but it was not for the championship, because Koko is about to start school, and he will return to Hanover early in the morning tomorrow, and La Porta will practice for his little cousin.
Although undergoing a sudden change from Milan to Barcelona, ​​Zhuo Yang is still satisfied with this summer vacation. He and Coco are together every day. Every morning when they open their eyes, they can see each other. This sense of happiness is nothing. replaceable.
The best summer will come to an end, and a better summer will soon come.
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