On May 16, 6:52 am, Alexander Kalinowski
<a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Alex:
> Posted this to the wrong newsgroup, initially.
>
>
>
> Alexander Kalinowski <a...@[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 importance.
>
> > *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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YOU RANG.?
Roky
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