Okay Foro, I'm not going to try and convince you with the village argument. I'm going to tell you something different though. As you know, Germany re-unified only fairly recently, in 1990. There are many football clubs in the east, long established that used to be highly successful and had strong supportive bases, in big cities like Dresden, Leipzig, Magdeburg, you name it. Please don't measure my words here, I don't know the details of every football club.
After re-unification, nearly each and every single one of those clubs broke down because nobody went to sponsor them. Nobody gave them money. They have no chance to rise because they have no money, because nobody gives them money. And then some rich entrepreneur pumps his money into a tiny village club somewhere in the southwest, where there are enough successful clubs for the locals to support. Because he wanted to. Because he had the money. Because he could. I never said that they are the richest club in Germany, but everything they have was given to them by that one sponsor.
That is infuriating for supporters of other clubs, mostly those in the east, who have to play in the second or third leagues because nobody will give them money. Following the reunification, only four clubs from the East (VfB Leipzig, Dynamo Dresden, Hansa Rostock and Energie Cottbus) ever managed to reach the first Bundesliga, and Dynamo Dresden and VfB Leipzig haven't been in for 15 years. Not because they suck so hard, but because they lack the money. They need those investments. They need those youth academies. Not a small village club that has never had any supporters outside of their village before they rose to success. There are thousands of village clubs in Germany. Every single tiny little village has one of those.
In the eyes of supporters of every football club other than Hoffenheim, what is happening is unfair. Do you understand that?
After re-unification, nearly each and every single one of those clubs broke down because nobody went to sponsor them. Nobody gave them money. They have no chance to rise because they have no money, because nobody gives them money. And then some rich entrepreneur pumps his money into a tiny village club somewhere in the southwest, where there are enough successful clubs for the locals to support. Because he wanted to. Because he had the money. Because he could. I never said that they are the richest club in Germany, but everything they have was given to them by that one sponsor.
That is infuriating for supporters of other clubs, mostly those in the east, who have to play in the second or third leagues because nobody will give them money. Following the reunification, only four clubs from the East (VfB Leipzig, Dynamo Dresden, Hansa Rostock and Energie Cottbus) ever managed to reach the first Bundesliga, and Dynamo Dresden and VfB Leipzig haven't been in for 15 years. Not because they suck so hard, but because they lack the money. They need those investments. They need those youth academies. Not a small village club that has never had any supporters outside of their village before they rose to success. There are thousands of village clubs in Germany. Every single tiny little village has one of those.
In the eyes of supporters of every football club other than Hoffenheim, what is happening is unfair. Do you understand that?
