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Jose Maria didn't know much about Mr. Chen's past, that's why he asked such a question.

How could model cars and football clubs be linked?

How did an entrepreneur who makes car model toys become interested in football?

And what benefits can the acquisition of a mid-downstream team like the Spaniard bring to his company?

You must know that before Mr. Chen acquired the club, the Espanyol club had owed nearly 200 million euros in debt, and it often defaulted on wages. Whether it was players, coaches, or other staff members of the club, they often could not get their salaries on time.

But what Jose Maria didn't know was that the first step of the Chinese parking lot toy king's fortune was closely related to football - in the summer of 1996, in the distant England, the European Cup was in full swing Therefore, the England team, which is playing at home, hopes to repeat the good show of 30 years ago at their home court and win the European championship.

But the most impressive thing about that European Cup was the birth of the Czech cavalry.

And Bierhoff's golden goal win in the European Cup final, which was the first time a World Series was won by a golden goal.

It was also this summer that the young Mr. Chen was selling his first product, the electric football toy, room by room in a hotel where buyers gathered.

On the first night, he earned 600 yuan with this toy, 600 yuan in 1996.

In the summer of 1998, the World Cup was held in romantic France. Although the Chinese team failed to participate in the World Cup, the singing of "Doggie, oh tired, oh tired" was played in the streets and alleys of China.

Chinese fans... no, fans all over the world are crazy for the World Cup in France.

People remembered Ronaldo's mysterious sleepwalking in the final, and also remembered Zidane's two flashes of inspiration, the birth of a new king.

This summer, Mr. Chen no longer needs to knock on the doors of those buyers one by one. The "singing football" he developed has entered the Hong Kong Toy Fair.

The market opened up, and the company grew bigger and bigger. His company became the first company in China to be authorized by the world's top 500 automakers. It can scale down real cars and make them into model toys.

It can be said that Mr. Chen has now become the largest toy car model manufacturer in China, which has a great relationship with the two football toys that year.

So who said car model toys and football clubs are separated by two worlds?

This is simply a causal relationship.

If there were no football toys back then, Mr. Chen’s car model toy business might not exist now.

Who said that Mr. Chen has no feelings for football and knows nothing about it?

Who says he invests in football clubs just to make money?

But why Spanish?

It is said that when Mr. Chen’s company acquired the Espanyol Club, someone wrote a post on a well-known bragging website in China, saying that Mr. Chen posted an anonymous post on this famous bragging website on a whim to ask casually. He said that he is a very, very rich person, that if he has a lot of money, he will be bored, and he wants to play something different from ordinary people. He plans to buy a European football club to play, but he knows nothing about football, so he just wants to play football. I know that playing football is very expensive, so I came to this website to ask website users who have an average annual income of over one million, have a master’s degree or above, and most of their jobs are in Silicon Valley and the world’s top investment banks.

I want them to give me some advice and buy that club.

Then this boss Chen got these high-ranking students who earn one million a year, either in the United States or on the way to the United States on business trips. The work is obviously very tiring, but for some reason, he has time to spend 24 hours a day on this website. The quality and enthusiasm of netizens gave suggestions, and then waved the banknotes to smash the debt-laden Royal Espanyol Football Club, which was suppressed by the rival Barcelona in the same city and could not stand up for a hundred years.

This is of course a rumor, but it is just a way for those high-quality website users to put money on their faces. Otherwise, how can it be called a famous bragging website?

After all, it is a magical place where everyone opens their mouths to say "Thank you, I just got off the plane and I am in the United States"...

The actual situation is that Mr. Chen's business team has also inspected many places and has multiple candidate targets. For example, AC Milan, Real Sociedad and other football clubs have been considered. However, after careful analysis, from the perspective of return on investment and geographical location, they believe that the Royal Espanyol Football Club located in Barcelona is relatively easy in terms of investment and other businesses in the future.

So I chose the Spaniard.

There are many Chinese fans who always have a complex of wealthy families. No matter what they do, they always have to be associated with wealthy families, otherwise they will lose face.

But business is business. Although AC Milan has a large number of fans in China and seems to have a bright future, Mr. Chen's team is very clear that it is a bottomless pit. It looks beautiful, but it is a trap. My own company is really fed up with AC Milan, maybe it will turn around and lose all of my company's net worth.

The Spaniards are not rich, their grades are not good, their history is not glorious, and there is still a shining star in the same city that suppresses them, and there are no fans in China at all.

But for Mr. Chen, it is actually an excellent stage for him to play freely.

Satisfying the vanity of Chinese fans and being down-to-earth to do what he wants to do, he chose the latter.

It is enough for Gao Zheng to do the thing of attracting attention, but he can do other things that must be done from the perspective of running a football club.

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Mr. Chen is sitting on the rostrum of the Calderon Stadium, and he can feel that there are constantly curious eyes cast on him.

But under everyone's gaze, he remained calm and calm on the surface.

Sitting next to him, Cerezo, the president of Atlético de Madrid, seemed not very used to being a Chinese beside him. In order to avoid embarrassment, he took the initiative to chat with Mr. Chen: "I hope today's game will be a wonderful one. Contest……"

But after saying this, the corner of his mouth twitched, a little regretful.

Atletico Madrid and Spain are so disparate in strength, how wonderful is this game, is it that Atletico Madrid slaughtered the Spaniards one-sidedly?

So it is inevitable that his words will make people feel that he is satirizing the Chinese boss of the Spaniard.

However, Mr. Chen was not angry, but smiled and said to Cerezo: "I also look forward to a wonderful game."

Cerezo looked at the honest smile of the Chinese businessman, thinking that the other party was not being sarcastic...

He also forced a smile in response.

Fortunately, the game is about to start, so he doesn't need to focus more on how to continue the awkward chat.