Bayern Chairman Rummenigge (left) plays an appearance match with Hoffenheim investor Hoppe. Xinhua News Agency
Bayern vs Hoffenheim, the focus of this bundesliga round, is destined to become an eternal topic in the history of German football. Not because bayern scored 6-0 away from home, but because a part of the bayern fans in the stadium attacked Hoffenheim boss Hope, the home team players left the field in anger, and the game was broken for 13 minutes. What exactly caused this situation has to start from the unique operating model of the Bundesliga.
Unprecedented competition
The Hoffenheim home match against Bayern held in the early morning of March 1, Beijing time, there was no suspense in the result, the home team's strength was limited, unable to resist the strong attack of Bayern, who was eager to grab points, and lost 0:6, but a small number of Bayern fans who visited were not moved by 6:0, but played a banner prepared in advance to attack Hoffenheim boss Hope.
Due to the interference of the fans' movements in the game, coupled with the anger expressed by the Hoffenheim players after seeing the banner, the referee decisively blew the game off, the home team players immediately withdrew to protest, Bayern head coach Flick and board member Kahn went to the stands to communicate with the fans, but failed to persuade the Bayern fans.
The game was thus interrupted for 13 minutes, after which the players of the two teams returned to the field but no longer played normally, chatting together in the midfield, passing the ball, and waiting for the game to end, even the referee joined the chat and ended the final game in such a "protest" way.
Hoffenheim looked different
To talk about the causes of this protest, we must first start with the "50+1" policy of German football clubs.
This policy is a major tradition in German football, the core of which is to give power to the fans, that is, club members have at least 51% of the voting rights, business partners or investors have only a maximum of 49% of the voting rights, even if the investor has more shares in the club than the club, but in the club's decision-making, the club members still have more voting rights than the investor.
But there are exceptions to everything. The German Football Association also stipulates that as long as investors have owned the club for more than 20 years, they can get more voting rights, and Wolfsburg and Bayer Leverkusen have such exceptions.
In 2015, Hoppe, the owner of the long-term investment in Hoffenheim, was recognized by the German Football Association as having a majority of voting rights in Hoffenheim, a team that is nominally Hoppe's private property.
German fans are typical community fans, with a high sense of identity and belonging to the club, believing that the team is the life of the fans, can not be controlled by enterprises or individuals who want to make money, and should not carry out excessive commercial development, so they actively maintain the "50+1" rule.
Hoffenheim has been the target of public criticism for five years, and the last time Dortmund fans also went to the scene, all Dortmund fans were banned from watching Hoffenheim for two seasons. After that, Leipzig suddenly emerged, they are a "gold worship" club that has been promoted by money, and they have also been ridiculed and protested by fans such as Union Berlin, and Hoffenheim has a difficult brother and brother, and they are moving forward in criticism.
Crazy fans have found the wrong object
However, after the protests in Hoffenheim, the German football community was unanimous in support of the team owner Hoppe, and Bayern and the German Football Association made their attitude clear because they knew the real situation.
Hoppe is indeed a german rich man, but he played at Hoffenheim in his youth and is the team's most loyal fan. Since 1995, he has invested a total of 350 million euros in 25 years, and in his first year of ownership, Hoffenheim was still sinking in the eighth amateur league.
After that, the team began to upgrade by leaps and bounds, Hop repaired the stadium, established the youth training, and was promoted to the seventh level in one go, and in the first half of the 2008-09 season, Ibišević, Denbaba, and Obsi led Hoffenheim beat the first place in the Bundesliga with a promotion horse posture, almost creating a second Kaiserslautern miracle.
We often refer to Hoffenheim as "Hop village", it is indeed a village club, it is Hoppe who makes the team look new, so the fans are very grateful to him, even if Hope does not have overwhelming decision-making power, the fans are in line with his decision, but the fans of other teams can ignore this set, and Hop village has become a thorn in the eyes of these fans.
In fact, although Hoffenheim has different ownership from other teams, it is definitely not the kind of local team that spends unlimited money, their every infrastructure and transfer is carefully calculated, the highest transfer fee in history is only 12 million euros, how can Bayern's crazy fans not think about how much money their team spent when acquiring German potential stars, they really found the wrong object.
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