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Open discussion: Is 50+1 still worth it for German Football?
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Open discussion: Is 50+1 still worth it for German Football?

I love the Egalitarian spirit of German football - but is time up on it?

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Kartik Krishnaiyer here -From a personal standpoint, I prefer the German 50+1 system of ownership to the oligarch-fueled Premier League or the single-entity crony-capitalist structure of US Soccer. In the US, I have been involved with multiple efforts to create membership-driven clubs based on the German model. German clubs for the most part are about c…

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