Hans-Joachim Watzke, CEO of Borussia Dortmund, talks to Clarín. The German football governing body stopped an investment plan of one billion euros that had been approved by the vote of 24 of the 36 clubs in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2.
The massive protests by fans that caused long delays in some games. "The thing is that 'investors' in Germany is a bad word. The Germans are very traditional, old-fashioned. We weren't going to mess with the fans, but they never understood us," he said. "No leader proposed eliminating the 50+1, that was never put on the table. Our contract with the investors had clear limits," he added. "I think it was a bad decision because that money was going to help to grow the entire Bundesliga," said WatZke, the man who saved Dortmund from bankruptcy in 2005. "As head of the Bundesliga, I always had the feeling that the vast majority of the clubs supported this initiative, but then that changed when we threw everything back"