From country team to giant

Chapter 4 The Miracle of Huo Village
Zhang Xian is indeed drawing a big cake for them.

On the one hand, it is giving Jurgen Bauer some vision for the future, which is conducive to the development of his next work.

On the other hand, he needs to change his name!
"Rename?"

Jurgen Bauer froze for a moment.

To be honest, he refused in his heart, he felt that the name Meteor was very good.

"Bauer, this name does not meet our development requirements. We need to let everyone know that we are a country team, so we have to give them the most intuitive feeling. Even from the name of the team, they can know which class we represent!"

Julian Ball struggled: "The Meteor team is fine too. They will search for this team name and realize that we are a country team. This is not contradictory."

"No! It's different." Zhang Xian shook his head and said, "The effect I need is that just a name can let them know where our team is and what class we represent, and put this information into his head roughly through the name, instead of them searching on the Internet."

"Man, this is really important." Zhang Xian said seriously.

Jurgen Bauer hesitated for a long time, and reluctantly said: "Okay then."

"What are our names?"

Zhang Xian said with a smile: "Hoffenheim Football Club!"

After finishing speaking, Zhang Xian blinked and said with a smile: "Perhaps when we really enter the Bundesliga one day, the media in Germany and even the whole of Europe will exclaim "Huo Village Miracle". It may not be true, but you are the one who created the miracle, Mr. Chairman."

Jurgen Bauer's eyes lit up, and the name that didn't make him feel cool enough before suddenly felt guilty.

Huo Cun Miracle?

Hoffenheim?

This name is really good!
Of course, the problem of changing the name is not so simple to achieve.

First of all, he needs a paper application written by the club to change the name and submit it to the German Football Association, and wait for their approval before he can officially use the name 'Hoffenheim'.

Today, they are still the Meteor team.

The conversation ended quickly, and at the end, Zhang Xian took a photo with Jurgen Bauer.

Years later, the two became known as the two wagons on the road to Hohenheim's rise.

But there are also interesting sayings.

Jurgen Bauer is the horse, and Zhang Xian is the coachman wielding a whip.

After signing the document, Zhang is now officially appointed as the sports director of the Meteor Team (Hoffenheim).

Jurgen Bauer wanted to continue chatting with Zhang Xian, but the latter sent him away on the grounds of work.

After sending Jurgen Bauer away, Zhang Xian began to look through the team information and the results of the previous seasons.

It has to be said that this document gave Zhang Xian a headache.

On the one hand, in the past few seasons, the Meteor team's performance was too poor.

Almost every season, he is in a relegation state, and it is a difficult relegation state.

On the other hand, the team age agency is completely unreasonable.

Zhang Xian doesn't understand, what's the use of keeping these older players, isn't it a waste of money.

For this reason, Zhang Xian made up his mind that the first decree he took office was 'layoffs'!
The second decree 'salary cut'!
The current Meteor team is too stable. Although Jurgen Bauer claims to go to the Bundesliga, he doesn't feel it at all in his behavior.

This is a team that is going downhill day by day, this is the first impression Meteor team gave Zhang Xian.

Besides these appearances, he has not yet understood what kind of problems it has inside.

But he is not in a hurry. After all, with the issuance of these two decrees, those problems will surface, and they will be resolved together at that time.

Many people think that Zhang Xian's first and second decrees are too radical.

But this is the effect Zhang Xian needs.

He wants to make this 'senior team' feel the crisis. In the past, everyone in this team was singing good faces, and it is time for someone to sing bad faces.

He's going to be the knife that the Meteors hang over their heads.

Let them feel the crisis and sense of urgency at all times.

He believes that appropriate pressure will be transformed into motivation, and no matter what, it will be stronger than it is now.

After simply flipping through the documents, Zhang Xian found Mary and asked her to guide him around the club.

He needs to learn more about the team.

Mary didn't refuse either, this was her task.

The two walked out of the office building and headed towards the home field.

"Tell me about the components of the club." Zhang Xian said lightly.

"Hoffenheim now has only one football team and a local youth team," Marie said.

"Youth team?" Zhang Xian asked in surprise, "Youth training?"

Mary shook her head and said, "No, it can only be regarded as a youth team. It is composed of some football-loving teenagers from the local area and surrounding villages. They pay some fees and we help with training."

"Oh, there is a fee!" Zhang Xian nodded and continued to ask, "What about the income?"

Mary: "The main source of income is game tickets, followed by some jersey sales, but the proportion is very small. There are some sponsorships, but the cost is not much. It comes from the meat industry in Baden, Haas sausage."

Zhang Xian nodded.

At this time, the two had reached the periphery of the court, and Zhang Xian stopped.

He saw two shops on the left and right, a coffee shop and a food store, but they were closed at this time.

In this regard, Mary said: "The coffee shop is Old Dink's shop, and the food shop is opened by Mrs. Wendy. These two shops are only open on match days. After all, no one usually visits here."

Zhang Xian nodded again. Just as he was about to walk into the court, he happened to see a middle-aged man walking out with a plastic bucket.

Seeing this person, Mary smiled more sincerely, and said hello, "Hi, Ivan!"

Ivan also smiled and said, "Good afternoon, Mary."

Mary looked at the plastic bucket in his hand and said with a smile, "Are you raising money for your wife's kitchen remodel?"

Ivan nodded with a smile on his face, greeted Zhang Xian with a smile, and left.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Zhang Xian said with a smile; "He should love his wife very much."

With a strange expression on her face, Mary pointed in the direction of the court.

"This is his wife!"

Hearing this, Zhang Xian was stunned.

Wife = pitch?

so.
Mary explained: "He is raising money to repair the lawn, and the team's main income is used to pay the players' salaries, so every noon, Ivan will wander around every corner of Hoffenheim with a plastic bucket, hoping to get generous rewards from the fans!"

Zhang Xian grinned and said, "Is he our lawn caretaker?"

"It can be said like this." Mary said with fingers. "At the same time, Ivan also serves as the youth team coach, intelligence analyst, etc. You know, we are very poor, and we don't have enough salary to hire too many people."

The two stepped into the stadium. The stands were extremely dilapidated. Some of the railings were rusty and loose.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Xian frowned slightly.

Noticing Zhang Xian's expression, Mary said: "The railings don't mean anything to us. In recent years, the highest attendance rate of our stadium was 350 people. At the lowest time, it was difficult to gather 100 people. The away team came to play the game, and the fans thought it was too far away, so they rarely came. There is a saying in the league that the Meteor team's game is the most harmonious."

Zhang Xian turned his head and said, "Do you think this is a compliment?"

Mary was silent.

Zhang Xian looked up and saw that part of the roof of the stadium was also broken, and the entire half was empty. If it rained, almost all the stands on the left were leaking.

In this regard, Zhang Xian did not express his position. He and Mary walked off the stands and came to the stadium.

It just rained last night and the pitch was a bit muddy.

Visiting along the sideline, Zhang Xian found that there is a lot of mud and sand on the court, including a slope of about 12 feet.

After turning around, Zhang found that the leather shoes under his feet were covered with mud.

He looked down and said, "Haven't you thought about laying a new layer of lawn?"

Mary said directly: "There is no money. The cost of a square meter of natural lawn is about 50 Euros. Including labor costs, management costs, machinery costs and seed costs, we need to continue to invest a lot of money, and we can't afford it."

"Did Ball not continue to invest?"

"You should be called Mr. Chairman!"

"Okay, so he didn't continue to invest money?"

"No, he's poor too!"

Zhang Xian couldn't help complaining, poor!What kind of team do you support poorly?

"Where are the other shareholders?" Zhang Xian continued to ask.

"There is no other owner." Mary said, "Bauer owns 100% of the Meteor team!"

Hearing this, Zhang Xian asked in surprise, "The Meteor team didn't abide by the 50+1 policy?"

"Abiding?" Mary smiled brightly; "50+1 is not a hard condition, as long as he continues to sponsor the team for ten years, then he can own the team, and this year happens to be the tenth year!"

Zhang Xian felt that Mary's smile was ironic.

"So, we don't have any other equity holders?"

"no!"

"The boss still hasn't invested money?!"

"He has no money!"

Zhang Xian was speechless, how did you manage to be so confident.

After hesitating for a while, Zhang Xian asked, "Haven't you thought about selling shares?"

Hearing this, Mary said: "You can propose, but I can guarantee that Bauer will kill you!"

Zhang Xian still tried and called Bauer himself.

He said it very tactfully, and made a sideways interview. Even so, Bauer's reaction was also very intense.

He yelled 'The Meteor team is mine, no one can take her away', his voice was hysterical, as if he was looking for someone desperately.

In the end, Zhang Xian 'temporarily' gave up the issue of selling shares, and he also understood that who would buy the shares of a seventh-tier team at a high price would outweigh the gains.

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