Author: falsetto Source: falsetto (official account ID: lxlong20) has been authorized to reprint
The curtain of ‘Where is Messi going’ finally fell. He chose the Miami International team from the United States.
After leaving Paris, Messi’s whereabouts roughly follow three directions:
Choose one, return to Barcelona for affection.
The stories of Messi and Barcelona are well-known to everyone. Although two years ago, Rápolt forced Messi away by unorthodox means; But the importance of Barcelona to Messi is self-evident.
In a sense, Barcelona has rebuilt Messi, which can be called Messi’s second hometown. Messi will never vent his negative feelings on Barcelona even if he is unhappy with Rápolt. And due to winning the World Cup championship last year, Messi was also relieved. After all, if you stay at Barcelona and become both a father and a mother, you may not have such good physical strength in the World Cup.
According to Messi’s strength and form, playing in Europe for another year or two is completely no problem. Messi also said in an interview, “I really want to go back to Barcelona, and I am excited to be able to do so. But on the other hand, after going through my previous experiences, I don’t want to face the same situation again – waiting for how things will happen and handing over my future to others
So Messi’s feelings for returning to Barcelona have always existed.
Option 2: Go to Saudi Arabia for money.
Last year, Cristiano Ronaldo went to Saudi Arabia to play football, earning an annual salary of 200 million euros (at current exchange rates, it would be over 1.5 billion yuan in Chinese yuan, exceeding the annual profits of the vast majority of A-share listed companies).
If Messi goes to Saudi Arabia to play, there is a high probability that his annual income will be higher than Cristiano Ronaldo. According to media reports, there are reports that Saudi Arabia has given Messi an annual salary of 300 million euros, some say 400 million euros, and more. But without a doubt, there is a lot of money. Messi said in an interview, “If it’s a matter of money, I’ll go to Arabia or other places. It seems like a lot of money to me there
For the past 20 years, Messi has been one of the highest earning football stars in the world, and he is not short of money. But he still said, “That’s a lot of money for him there
Given that Messi’s football career is already complete, going to Saudi Arabia to make a fortune in his later years is also a good choice. After all, money is not everything in this world, but it can definitely solve most problems.
But Messi made his third choice, going to Miami International with an annual salary of 50 million euros.
Many melon eaters cannot understand why Messi went to the United States.
If it’s for football, you should stay in Europe. After all, there is definitely no comparison between the American Professional Football League and the five major European leagues.
If it’s for money, you should go to Saudi Arabia. After all, there is much more money given there than in the United States.
Why go to the United States? I personally think this incident reflects the core competitiveness of the United States.
The public opinion community in China is quite entangled with the United States. Many people don’t have a good impression of the United States, because the United States lists China as a strategic game opponent, launches trade war, science and technology war, financial war, Information warfare against China, and does things around China. There are also some people who dislike the United States on the lips, but secretly go to the United States to buy a house. Of course, there are also people who truly love the United States and enjoy its technology and system.
To be clear, I personally dislike the hypocrisy and hegemony of American politicians; I particularly dislike the lies fabricated by American politicians about China, as well as the shameless behavior of causing trouble in the Taiwan Strait.
However, as a superpower, the core competitiveness of the United States is still worth studying and learning from.
I personally believe that one of the core competitiveness of the United States is to “attract the best people, provide them with the greatest basic protection, and bind them with their deep interests
There are three points worth paying attention to when returning to Messi’s signing with Miami International.
1. Messi’s annual salary of 50 million is not exclusively paid by Miami International, as Miami International cannot afford it, but is jointly paid by 29 teams of the American Professional League.
Many melon eating people may not understand that Miami International signed Messi, but let other teams pay the salary together, making it seem like other teams are lifting the sedan chair for Miami International. But one of the hallmarks of being a qualified melon eater is never to treat capitalists as philanthropists.
In the eyes of the bosses of AOL, as long as Messi comes to AOL, it can expand the influence of AOL and increase the sales of broadcasting rights; So as to benefit the entire American Vocational Association.
2. In addition to her salary, Messi’s income also includes shares in Miami International.
The so-called 50 million yuan annual salary is only Messi’s basic guarantee. Having shares in the club is equivalent to becoming the owner. If Messi drives the influence of the American Federation of Trade Unions and makes Miami International a big profit, then Messi will have additional benefits.
Even if Messi retires, those shares are still there, which can generate lasting returns. Of course, the media has not provided detailed reports on the proportion of shares held by Messi in Miami International.
3. Franchise Rights: The AFC promises Messi that after his retirement, he can use the franchise rights to form his own club. Messi formed a club and had absolute control over himself.
——Linking Messi and the United States Professional Union for a long time is considered a long-term commitment from the United States Professional Union to Messi.
If the AFC develops well, the value of each club will rise with water.
As is well known, if a football star doesn’t want to be too bored after retiring, they can either switch careers as a coach or find a job at a club. But this promise from the American Vocational Association is equivalent to giving Messi another choice to become a boss.
Overall, although the United States did not give Messi as much money as Saudi Arabia, it was very attractive to Messi for the latter half of his life, so it successfully attracted Messi’s joining.
These moves by the AFC illustrate the American style of handling affairs, “attracting the best people, providing them with the greatest basic protection, and bundling them with their deep interests.” Looking at today’s international football world, Messi’s overall influence is still the greatest. Although my career is nearing its end, I can still play high-level games for a few years. In the eyes of many people, Messi is the third generation football king and the best football player of all time. Even if Messi retires, his football and character are excellent and he can maintain long-term influence. These factors, combined with the operational capabilities of American capital, have great room for imagination.
Throughout the reality and history of the United States, they have always played this way.
In a very realistic example, Elon Musk was originally a South African, but after arriving in the United States, he gained the greatest freedom to struggle.
Before Tesla’s success, Musk had been on the brink of bankruptcy many times, becoming the American boss. For most other countries, it is estimated that they have been listed on the list of old scoundrels several times. His company that launches rockets may find it difficult to establish a project in other countries. And that star chain is also difficult to be born in other countries.
The two founders of Google, like Musk, are also immigrants, one from Ukraine and the other from Russia. They were originally Eastern Slavic elites, but ultimately they were attracted and used by the United States. While using their energy to strengthen themselves, the United States has also achieved them, making them billionaires.
Only 200 years after its founding, the United States has been able to rapidly grow from a colony near the Atlantic Ocean to a superpower today. One of its core competitiveness is to constantly harvest top talents from all over the world, especially from Eurasia.
The revolutionaries who led the United States basically carried immigrant genes, or were all elite groups from outside. For example, Hamilton, who is the father of the United States, the father of finance and the father of the Constitution, is an illegitimate son born in the British West Indies. But he has gained unprecedented Lebensraum in the United States, and eventually became the right-hand man of Washington, deeply influencing the trend of history.
It was precisely because of the immigrant genes possessed by the founders that laid the foundation for attracting top talents in the future. After the birth of the United States, the mode of crazy absorption of top talents was started.
Firstly, it is reflected in the industrial and industrial aspects.
For example, steel king Andrew Carnegie was a Scot who brought the steelmaking technology of that era to the extreme and promoted technological progress in the United States through the steel industry chain. In fact, it was industrial capitalists like Carnegie and Rockefeller who propelled the United States to the throne of industrial production and commercial trade champion.
It is precisely because of the improvement of American industry and strength that the foundation of technological innovation has been laid. In this context, a group of the most capable people are attracted to the United States. For example, Edison’s parents, who were originally Canadians, arrived in the United States due to the oppression of colonial authorities. Edison was barely considered a second-generation immigrant and eventually became a great inventor through his own efforts. It was a group represented by Edison that laid the foundation for the strong power of the United States in the era of electrification.
The reason why Edison’s later career could be so great was because he received the support of the big capitalist Morgan. Morgan was the god of Wall Street in that era. The support Edison received was similar to what Musk now received.
Edison’s lifelong enemy was Nikola Tesla, a genius from Austria-Hungary. Because Tesla invented the AC generator, which was a masterpiece that changed the world trend but was not allowed by Edison. But because Edison was strongly supported by the United States, Tesla was treated unfairly. In fact, for the genius Truss, the alternator is just one of his masterpieces left to the world. Decades later, when young Musk read Tesla’s biography, he was moved to tears. Later, in order to pay tribute to Nikola Tesla, he named the automobile company Tesla.
Edison’s electric light company once recruited an Irish technician named Henry Ford. The old railway later promoted the automobile revolution a hundred years ago and became a king of automobiles. In fact, in the automotive industry, Ford is equivalent to Musk a hundred years ago. Ford’s business was originally unsuccessful because at that time, the resources of the United States were monopolized by giants.
In order to solve the problem of sustainable development, the United States has launched a bone scraping and detoxification like “antitrust movement”, which has spun off most monopoly companies, forcing Rockefeller, Carnegie, and others to retire. Because of the awesome of anti-monopoly, Ford and other rising stars have been given full space for development, and the industrial potential of the United States has been released again, so Ford has become a new generation of industrial capitalists, that is, the auto king.
At the beginning of the industrial civilization cycle, the United States was not a global scientific center. The first Scientific Revolution broke out in Britain, and the second Scientific Revolution took place in Germany. So how did the United States replace Europe?
After achieving sufficient breakthroughs in technology, the United States began to attract big scientists. The United States took advantage of the internal turmoil in Europe, especially the Nazi exclusion of Jews, to attract top scientists from Europe, represented by Bohr and Einstein, to immigrate to the United States. After they went to the United States, not only did they obtain a stable and superior research environment, but more importantly, they brought the scientific center from Europe to the United States—— This is the most successful “intelligence” harvest of Eurasia by the United States.
Of course, some people may feel that the science center is just a figurehead without tangible benefits. This viewpoint is completely wrong. It was precisely under the impetus of Einstein and others that President Roosevelt made up his mind to launch the Manhattan Atomic Bomb Project. The plan eventually not only promoted Japan’s Unconditional surrender, but also opened the curtain on the use of nuclear energy.
It is precisely because of the development and utilization of nuclear energy that the Cold War pattern built on the basis of the “nuclear threat” has emerged. The so-called Cold War is just a term for the global game of superpowers. The foundation of a superpower is a nuclear superpower. The United States has established the foundation of a nuclear superpower with a large number of master figures in the field of nuclear energy. In the past, but still today.
After Germany’s defeat, the top priority of the US military was to search for top German scientists. Von Carmen (also Jewish, who was pushed to the United States before World War II), the head of the American space industry, took a group of people (including a genius with an oriental face, Qian Xuesen, Von Carmen’s favorite student) to find the German rocket king Von Braun.
A group of top scientists represented by von Braun went to the United States. According to logic, von Braun served the Nazis and may be liquidated in many countries. But the United States gave him great tolerance, allowing his scientific research career to reach an unprecedented peak. Von Braun played an irreplaceable key role in the Apollo moon landing program in the United States.
Apollo moon landing plan is of great significance to the United States. It not only directly promoted the birth of a large number of large companies in the United States, but also promoted the revolutionary development of IT technology, allowing the United States to enjoy the huge dividends of the The Internet Age. Most of the technologies that the United States currently uses to block China’s neck are related to this.
In addition, the Apollo program also played an immeasurable role in the political level. The Reagan era used the so-called Strategic Defense Initiative to fool the Soviet Union and let the Soviet Union invest more resources in heavy industry, thus ignoring the livelihood industry, laying the groundwork for the final disintegration. The reason why the United States was able to successfully deceive the Soviet Union was because it had a lunar landing plan as the foundation.
Looking back at American history, it is easy to find that the core competitiveness of the United States is mainly to attract the top talents. The United States is not simply shouting slogans, but has a corresponding system and has consistently implemented it for hundreds of years. The United States is still attracting a large number of talented international students from China and India today, which is the continuation of this policy. The process of playing the game between China and the United States also requires striving for the best talent possible. Qian Xuesen’s return to China was a good example.