A club that did exist 11 years ago and only made it to the Bundesliga in 2016 is in the champions league semi-finals.
And he was given there to play exciting and offensive football with a team made up entirely of other young men led by a coach of only 33 years old.
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Despite all this, Leipzig’s lifestyle is offensive to classic football players and is almost illegal for many in Germany for a reason: the club is obviously the red Bull game and billboard.
They are the upstarts of world football and, as has been said, the most hated team in Germany.
Rejected by fans of several top clubs in the German football hierarchy for 3 years, Red Bull acquired the gaming rights to the little-known 5th SSV Markranstadt department in 2009 and temporarily replaced the team’s name, colors and badge.
In seven seasons, the club had entered the Bundesliga, giving Leipzig a standout team for the first time in 22 years.
But this drought-ending construction has not been well received in the rest of the country, thanks in large part to the club’s flagrant but legal passage of the famous German rule of “50-1”.
Rule 50-1 dictates that individual members own the majority of the club’s voting shares. It’s a rule that’s in a position that football is of the hobby.
RB Leipzig adheres to this policy with the highest possible technique.
Red Bull, which holds a 99% stake in the organization, and the club owns the rest, again purchased 49% of the voting shares before promoting the remaining 51% at exorbitant costs and influencing who can buy them.
The club would have 17 voting members and all have ties to Red Bull.
This is the only creative flaw that RB Leipzig has used.
German football clubs cannot be named after companies. This is the rule that follows the RB Leipzig: RB is short for RasenBallsport which translates as “ball sports on grass”.
German football clubs are also banned from using corporate logos as shields, which has forced RasenBallsport to replace his badge twice. It has two red bulls running towards each other but are not the same as those of the energy drink, and instead of a sun between them, they separate through a football.
Suffice it to say, he’s had a lot of feathers in Germany.
The Eintracht Frankfurt refuses to display the RB Leipzig logo on each and every visit, while the Red Bull Arena is boycotted by opposition supporters.
In 2016, Borussia Dortmund enthusiasts did that with protest organizer Jan-Henrik Gruszecki, who told the Guardian: “Of course Dortmund make money, but we do it to play football. But Leipzig plays football to sell a product and a lifestyle. That’s the difference. »
This design gave RasenBallsport a different merit over the rest of Germany.
The decision-making procedure is simplified due to the lack of voting members, leaving aside the monetary Fairplay, there is a bottomless budget pot to explode and Leipzig has a network of other Groups owned by Red Bull to do so.
Take Dayot Upamecano for example. Upamecano, the team’s notable player in his semi-final win over Atletico Madrid and at RB Salzburg’s sister club in Austria until 2017.
Despite all this, it would be negligent to accuse RB Leipzig of a buying success.
The investments he makes are largely in the education box and the players he calls are promising teenagers he can sell for the higher costs.
Upamecano originally bought through RB Salzburg for 2.20 million euros and when it was transferred to Leipzig for 10 million euros in 2017, it was just a surname. He has not yet played for France, but the German club will benefit greatly if they sell it, pursuing a style that temporarily brought a lot of good fortune to the team.
Timo Werner was 20 when he moved from Stuttgart for 14 million euros and signed for Chelsea for 53 million euros.
The club paid surpluses when it spent 29.75 million euros to bring Naby Keita from Salzburg in 2016. He has become his most productive player before moving to Liverpool for 60 million euros.
Tactically, the team plays exciting football based largely on fast counterattacks and is obviously designed to do so.
This also predates Julian Nagelsmann, along with former managers Ralph Hasenh-ttl and Ralf Rangnick, both known for their very urgent and dynamic schools.
On Wednesday, the Germans will face PSG for a spot in the top flight of the Champions League. For the first time in a long time, he may not be the bad guy.
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