South American football has always been represented by Brazil and Argentina. Many players from other South American countries made their debut in their home countries, but many played in Brazil and Argentina before moving to Europe. Then he joined European football through his performances in the Brazilian and Argentine leagues. In South America, it is not only the Brazilian and Argentine national teams that are the strongest teams in South America, but also their leagues. Compared to them, Chilean football has nothing to offer, except that some outstanding players come out once in a while.

There was Zamorano before, and later there were Salas, Pizarro and others. There will be great players like Vidal and Sanchez in the future. But that's all there is to Chilean football. The Chilean national team has not been able to break through to the group stage most of the time in the Shijie Cup, and has only broken through to the group stage twice in history. Forty years ago, he won the third place in the Shijie Cup in Chile, and then broke through to the round of 16 in the group stage of the Shijie Cup in France in 1998. That's it twice.

Rist doesn't value Chilean football because Chilean players are not as cheap as Africans, nor as talented as Brazilian and Argentine players. This time I came to Chile just to find Pellegrini and earn some money from him in the future. But when Rist came to Chile, a headhunter approached him. It is a headhunting company, which is to connect a football club in Chile and find them a partner.

"I never had the idea of investing in a Chilean club."

Coming to Rist's headhunters, it was their director, Eckert Brown. Miral. Rist didn't expect that these headhunting companies were really powerful, and Rist had only been in Chile for a few days. They've already found themselves. I have never had anything to do with Chile.

Eckert. Milar was a woman who looked supposed to be around forty years old. Spanish spoken with glasses is pretty standard. The dress is very neutral, and if you don't look closely, you can't tell that it's a woman. He was dressed in black all over his body.

Milar looked at Rist and shook his head, but didn't leave there. Instead, he continued: "Mr. Czerny, I know that your family is the largest shareholder of the Czech giants Sparta Prague, and you yourself own a Belgian powerhouse, Mechelen. And you have a cooperative relationship with a football school in Côte d'Ivoire. ”

Rist listened quietly, and could only be helpless in his heart. It's not a secret that these things are not secret, as long as you really want to know about Lister, these things are very easy to know. But the company in front of me is a Chilean company, how can it know so much about its own affairs. But after thinking about it, it's also. Now is the era of Shijie integration. Chile is also a relatively open country in South America. This company may not be a local Chilean company. Maybe it's a multinational company.

"I believe that Mr. Cherny must have done all this to expand his player pool. Although our Chilean player market is not as good as Brazil and Argentina, the strength of our Chilean players is also obvious to all in Shijie football. If Mr. Cerny is willing to invest in our Chilean clubs, then there will be a market for Chilean players in the future. I'm sure this deal won't be a loss for you at all. ”

Looking at the eloquent Miral, Rist could only laugh. Today he has only one meaning for himself. Looking for a partner for a Chilean club. Rist Zuihou still couldn't refuse Miral. So I took Miral's profile and looked at it. The Chilean club that is looking for a partner now is the Chilean Colo Colo Football Club. It is the most popular club in Chile and one of the biggest teams in Chile.

Colo Colo FC has won 23 Chilean league titles, 13 Chilean Cups, and even the only club in Chile to have won the Copa Libertadores. It is a veritable giant club in Chile.

Of course, the history is glorious. Even they won the Copa Libertadores just nine years ago. But the glorious history, coupled with the strength of the current team. It is useless in the face of economic failure. Although the Colo Colo club is very strong, it is not doing well, its financial situation continues to deteriorate, and it has a debt of more than 10 million US dollars.

But the Colo Colo Club itself has no money, not to mention a debt of nearly 15 million dollars, or even millions of dollars. So now they are in a hurry, and now they are still able to prevaricate. But in the next two years, these debts will come into full bloom, and there will be no way around then. As long as the debtor side goes to court, the Colo Colo club has no room but to wait for bankruptcy. Don't think that you are a domestic giant, although Colo Colo Club is a Chilean giant, but a giant like the state-backed Real Madrid is different. There's nothing you can do about bankruptcy.

As a long-established Chilean giant, they really don't have anything to do now. So they had to find a partner who could help the club through this crisis. I didn't expect to find myself. Rist was a little funny. So he pushed it away and said, "Ms. Miral, I'm really sorry. Colo Colo FC is now in so much debt and it is a mistake of their management. I'm working with them now, and they'll still be in debt after a while. So not all the money I put into it was wasted. I'm not going to do such a stupid thing. ”

Now the Colo Colo club is almost 15 million dollars in debt. The Colo Colo Club itself has only about $30 million in assets, and now it owes so much debt. And it's hard for the club to even pay the players' salaries right now. Rist has also spent a lot of time in football, not only in Europe's top five leagues, but also in many minor leagues in Europe.

After all these days, Rist kind of understood. When I was in China, many Chinese fans criticized Chinese clubs for being informal, which led to the inability of Chinese clubs to make money in football. It is believed that there is a big problem with the operation of Chinese football clubs. That's what Rist thought when he was an agent in China. I always think that as long as the Chinese football environment is better and the club's operation is more regular, there should not be such a large loss. Football clubs are supposed to make money.

But now Rist's mind has completely changed. If you want to use the football club to make money, this kind of thing is completely rare in Shijie football. In Shijie football, there are not one or two clubs that lose money, but seven or eight out of ten football clubs lose money. If one out of ten is profitable, that's a good idea.

For example, in Spanish football, without the support of the government, nine out of ten La Liga teams will go bankrupt. Clubs like Real Madrid have state support, while clubs like Barcelona and Valencia have local government support.

Look at how rich the Belgian people are. But the Belgian club is basically not profitable, and it is all a lot of debt. Shijie football can afford to build a £400 million stadium as frugally as Arsenal does, and can count them on one hand. Because it's so hard to make money with football.

Rist just wanted to be a good agent and didn't think about investing in football. Belgium's Mechelen club Riester just wanted to make a stopover. Asking Lister to invest in a team with so much debt like Colo Colo Club, Rist has no interest in it. Such a club Riester also needs to invest about 10 million dollars.

Although it is not that Rist cannot come up with tens of millions of dollars now, Rist does not want to invest in this situation.

"Mr. Chelny, you probably don't know. None of Chile's football clubs are joint-stock companies, as Chilean law does not allow Chilean clubs to be demutualized. However, in recent times, Chile has also been considering changing the situation, because Chilean football clubs have too much debt, so they do not stop this. As long as the football club is not listed, it is fine, so there are many Chilean clubs that have started to find partners privately. If you are willing to invest, then you can become the majority shareholder of the Colo Colo club. Their request is simple, they want you to be able to afford the debt. If you want, then they can allow you to reshuffle the club's management as a majority shareholder. They are willing to give up the right to run the club. ”

The right to operate, even if it is ceded, Lister does not have the ability to do so. Rist thought about it, and Chilean football has always had no ambitions. If it weren't for Pellegrinister, he wouldn't have been able to come to Chile at all. But after all, Colo Colo Club is a Chilean giant and a South American powerhouse, if it is in the hands of Lister, then Lister can rely on this club, not only in Chile, but even to radiate South American football. It's kind of a bunker in South American football.

But tens of millions of dollars, and even Rist needs more money. If he gets the right to operate it completely, Rist estimates that he will need an investment of about $20 million. This is not a small amount, but it is not an investment of one or two million, three or four million. It's an investment of tens of millions, twenty million dollars. Rist couldn't have made an easy decision.

So Reeskey nodded, "Ms. Miral, I'll think about this matter carefully." After all, there is a lot of money involved, and I need to go back and discuss it with others, and I need to do a more comprehensive analysis. ”

"Xiexie, Mr. Chelny."

Seeing Miral away, Rist shook his head. It seems that there are far more powerful people on this shijie than Lister imagined. It was only the first time I arrived in Chile, and someone came to my door. It looks like I'm already in someone's data system.

However, Rist did not continue to pay attention to the matter. This kind of investment is not something that can be decided in a day or two. When Rist returned, he needed to read the information about the Colo Colo club and listen to the opinions of some professionals before he could make a decision. And this matter is not what Lister is most anxious about right now.

Take Pellegrini back to Europe first. There were a few other things to do when I got to Europe. (To be continued......)