José Maria didn't know much about Mr. Chen's past, which is why he asked such questions.

How is it possible to connect a model car toy with a football club?

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

And what benefits can acquiring a mid-to-lower tier team like Espanyol bring to his company?

Before Mr. Chen bought the club, RCD Espanyol already owed almost 200 million euros in debt, and often owed wages, whether it was the players, the coaches, or the rest of the club's staff, often did not get their salaries on time.

But what José Maria didn't know was that the first step in the Chinese toy tycoon's career was closely related to football - in the summer of 1996, in the distant United Kingdom, the European Championship was in full swing, and the England team playing at home hoped to repeat the good play of 30 years ago on their home turf and win the European championship.

But the most impressive thing about that European Championship was the birth of the Czech Iron Rider.

and Bierhoff's Golden Ball victory in the European Championship final, which was the first time a World Series has decided the winner with a Golden Ball.

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

On the first night, he made 600 yuan from this toy, and 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, but the streets and alleys of China were playing the song of "dog, dog, tired, tired, tired".

Chinese Fans...... No, fans all over the world are going crazy about the World Cup in France.

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

This summer, Mr. Chan no longer needs to knock on the doors of those buyers one by one, and the "singing football" he developed has entered the Hong Kong Toys & Games Fair.

After opening up the market, the company is getting bigger and bigger, and his company has become the first enterprise in China to be authorized by the world's top 500 automobile manufacturers, which can reduce the proportion of real cars and make them into model toys.

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

So who says model cars, toys and football clubs are separated by two worlds?

It's all about cause and effect.

If there were no football toys at the beginning, there might not be Mr. Chen's car model toy company now.

Who says Mr. Chan has no feelings for football and doesn't know anything?

Who said he invested in a football club just to make money?

But why the Spaniards?

It is said that when Mr. Chen's company acquired the Espanyol club, someone wrote a post on a well-known domestic braggart website, saying that Mr. Chen was on a whim, and he posted anonymously on this famous braggart website and asked casually, saying that he was a very special rich person, and he was bored when he had more money, and he wanted to play something different from ordinary people, and he planned to buy a European football club to play, but he didn't know anything about football, so he just knew that playing football burned money. So come to this website and ask website users with an average annual income of more than one million, a master's degree or above, and most of their jobs are in Silicon Valley and the world's top investment banks, and want them to give them ideas to buy that club.

Then this Boss Chen got the advice of these high-quality enthusiastic netizens who earn a million a year, either in the United States or on a business trip to the United States, and are obviously tired from work, but I don't know why, they have the time to soak in this website 24 hours a day, and then they waved money and smashed at the debt-indebted Real Espanyol Football Club, which was suppressed by the city's sworn rival Barcelona for a hundred years.

Of course, this is a rumor, but it is just the practice of those high-quality website users who put gold on their faces, otherwise how can it be called a famous braggart website?

After all, it's a magical place where everyone opens their mouths and says, "Thank you, just got off the plane, you're in the United States......

In fact, Mr. Chen's business team has also looked at many places and has a number of candidates, such as AC Milan, Real Sociedad and other football clubs. But after careful analysis, in terms of ROI and location, they believe that RCD Espanyol in Barcelona is relatively easy, both in terms of investment and other businesses in the future.

So the Spaniards were chosen.

There are many Chinese fans who always have a giant complex, and no matter what they do, they always have to hook up with the giants, otherwise they will lose face.

But business is business, AC Milan is a giant, although it has a large number of fans in China, and it seems to have a bright future, but Mr. Chen's team knows very well that it is a bottomless pit, which looks beautiful, but it is a trap, and if his business is really fed up with AC Milan, it will in turn lose all his business fortune.

The Spaniards are not giants, their grades are not good, their history is not glorious, and there is a glorious death center in the same city that suppresses them, and they have no fans in China at all.

But for Mr. Chen, it is an excellent stage where he can play freely.

To satisfy the vanity of Chinese fans and to do what he wants to do in a down-to-earth manner, he chose the latter.

Gao Zheng can do the eye-catching thing, but he can do other things that must be done from the perspective of running a football club.

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As Mr. Chan sat on the podium at Calderón Stadium, he could feel the constant stream of curious eyes coming at him.

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

Cerezo, the president of Atletico Madrid, who was sitting next to him, did not seem to be very accustomed to a Chinese around him, and in order to avoid embarrassment, he took the initiative to chat with Mr. Chen: "I hope today's game will be a wonderful game......

But after saying this, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he regretted it a little.

There is such a huge difference in strength between Atletico Madrid and Spain, how exciting is this game, is it Atletico Madrid's one-sided slaughter of Espanyol?

So his words inevitably sound like he is sarcastic about the Spaniard's Chinese boss.

However, instead of getting angry, Mr. Chen smiled and said to Cerezo: "I am also looking forward to a good match. ”

Cerezo looked at the Chinese businessman's generous smile and wondered if the other party was not ironic......

He also squeezed out a smile in response.

Fortunately, the game was about to start, and he didn't have to focus more on how to continue the awkward conversation.