Alex:
Posted this to the wrong newsgroup, initially.
Alexander Kalinowski <alex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Just to demonstrate you how globalization works and why I think your
views
> are totally misguided.
>
> 15 years back, Germany was a football superpower. I just had won the
World
> Cup (1990 in Italy) and with the additional players from Eastern
Germany,
> after the reunification, the future looked rosy.
>
> 15 years later, today, Germany has fallen from grace. It has recovered a
bit
> during the last World Cup tournament, here in Germany, but it's clubs
still
> cannot compete with clubs from Italy, Spain, or England anymore.
>
> What happened? The end of the 90s and the beginning of this millenium
saw an
> explosion in player salaries. Germans thought it was crazy that a
football
> player should earn like 5 to 10 million euros per year. That clubs
should pay
> to other clubs a 120 million euros for the transfer of a top notch
player.
> After all it's just a *game*. Likewise, Germans didn't want to have to
pay
> for seeing football games, but in England, for example, the pay TV
brings the
> English clubs enormous amounts of money.
>
> So? The top players didn't want to come to Germany anymore. They want to
the
> other leagues, where they could earn more money. After a few years of
this,
> the quality (and thus the reputation) of the German league has suffered
so
> much now, that even now that Bayern Munich, Germany's top club, is ready
to pay
> as much as the English or Spanish clubs (Bayern Munich had been saving
money
> for years), the international top players don't want to come to Germany
to
> play here.
>
> Because we have refused to play along, we have lost ground in
competition.
>
> That is the basic point of it. You can try to resist the competitive
> mechanisms all by yourself, but you will change nothing and you will
just end
> up losing ground and *therefore* *influence* to change the nature of the
game
> itself. One just loses im****tance.
>
> *Therefore* my proposed strategy is to stay on top of the game and to
try to
> start a concerted effort by multiple participants to change the entire
system.
>
> A single nation's resistance against the forces of competition is
pointless.
> One needs to organize against it.
>
> Also note that this doesn't mean that the gms of English, Spanish and
Italian
> clubs are *necessarily* ruthless, power-mongering, money-grubbing
people.
> They are not the slave drivers, they are driven themselves, driven by
how the
> game of globalized competition works.
>
> But I would agree that quite a few of them don't mind being driven that
way,
> as long as it works in their favor. That needs to change.
>
>
> Alex
>
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