Within a Champions League extremely atypical, there is a club that, due to its peculiarities, draws powerfully attention and that is the RB Leipzig, which barely 11 years after its foundation has reached the Semifinal of the continental tournament, something he achieved with the technician Julian Nagelsmann who is just 33 years old, having started his coaching career after a failed playing career due to injury.
But that is just one of the curiosities of this club that in 2009 was finally able to be born and write its way from the fifth division, after several attempts to buy clubs, which aroused hatred in the german country, both due to the commercial origin of the RB Leipzig, as well as wanting to acquire the franchise of a club at the point of a ticket, something that in Germany it is unthinkable.
THE 350 THOUSAND EUROS THAT GAVE HIM LIFE
In May 2009, Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian billionaire owner of the emporium of Red Bull, an energy drink company, acquired in the fifth division of German football (known as the Oberliga), at Spiel-und Sportverein Markranstädt, a modest club located 13 kilometers from the city of Leipzig, for the ‘modest’ amount of 350 thousand euros, with which he was finally able to buy his place in the german soccer. In addition, it acquired the rights to the Zentralstadion in Leipzig, renamed as Red Bull Arena, stadium where Mexico was eliminated by Argentina in Germany 2006.
But the conformation of RB Leipzig It was not easy at all because since 2006 Mateschitz (who already had at Red Bull Salzburg in Austria and New York Red Bulls in the MLS), tried to acquire clubs like St. Pauli, Fortuna Düsseldorf and 1860 Munich, but in all of them he encountered resistance from fans and even violent protests, which forced the German Soccer Federation to stop any type of negotiation.
WHY IS IT CALLED RASENBALLSPORT LEIPZIG AND NOT RED BULL LEIPZIG?
Unlike the other teams you have Red Bull in the world, how are the Salzburg, New York y Red Bull Brasil, el Rasenball Sport Leipzig could not be called as the energy drink brand, because in Germany there are sponsorship laws that prevent a sports club from having the name of a commercial brand, so the board decided to name it after Rasenball sport, which in German means “grass ball sport”, whose initials are the same as Red Bull.
THE WEATHER ASCENT OF RB LEIPZIG TO THE BUNDESLIGA
Since 2009, when he started his career in the Oberliga, the RB Leipzig had a meteoric rise towards the Bundesliga, achieving four promotions in just seven seasons, so that in the 2016-17 season he reached the Maximum German Circuit. Three years later and after great years in the Bundesliga, managed to enter the Champions, tournament in which he will face this Tuesday (14:00 from central Mexico) the Paris Saint-Germain for a ticket to the Final.
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