Red bull founder Mateschitz has big plans © SID-IMAGES/SID images/Arthur ThillAccording to the formula 1 triumph with Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz has still more dreams. With RB Leipzig, he wants to win the Champions League one day.
Cologne/Salzburg (SID) - after winning two World Championship formula one dreaming Red-Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz also of the Champions League title in football. But the 66-year-old Austrian will lead rather the current four Club RB Leipzig not with expensive stars, but as with Vettel with even sponsored talents to the big soccer stage. "What we will certainly never do is, that we a few hundred million or how much take whatever, and so a Legionars-or mercenary force be made up, and then play that." "This is not art," Mateschitz said in an interview with the sports information service (SID).
"Football is even less predictable than the formula 1." It is not so predictable mechanical grip and aerodynamics. The accident or other factors play a greater role. "Football takes in any case very much longer, will be but nevertheless also once managed," Mateschitz said about his plans in football.
At its core are not Austria's master of Salzburg or the branch in New York, but the team in Leipzig. "You can play out not Champions League from Austria." "For this we must choose us one of the four major leagues, where we play with the strongest team", said "Mr. Red Bull".
In five to eight years in the top of the Bundesliga
Mateschitz categorically excludes a joining of a leading team. "It makes no sense if we assume a large, established Club, because then plays still Chelsea and not the Red Bull." We have to be authentic as in formula one, as well as in other sports. "And this is only if we start from zero," he said.
This would be the "project in Leipzig," said Mateschitz: "And we will play in the Premier League in five or six years." Then, we will try to establish ourselves in front. "And at some point, we - are then front play also by our incredible efforts to lead their own offspring to the top - four, five academies." Until it is as far as this takes but "five to eight years", said the billionaire: "we have known this but before, and also you can not accelerate that."
RB Leipzig currently plays in the Regionalliga Nord. The rise in the 3rd Liga is this year in view of 11 points behind leader Chemnitzer FC hardly possible. Only the master rises up.
RB Leipzig is a "corporate project"
Meanwhile, Mateschitz places particular emphasis, that Red Bull just like in formula one was not a sponsor. "We do not sponsor." We sponsor the formula one not, we are the formula 1 Ethihad or shell, Emirates or bwin, whoever, that sponsor Chelsea or arsenal or whatever. "We play football, we are integrated, we take responsibility for the defeat as well as for the profit", the Red Bull Chief stressed: "we take a suitcase full of money to anyone and make us dependent, whether he issues that for night clubs or for the performance."
His group involved in the sport only in "our corporate projects" - in addition to football in formula one, the air race or Chrashed ice, Mateschitz said: "From passion, as part of our marketing mix - and the duality of the two is hervorragand." Because we make things, where half of the expenditure of the Finance Minister with paid, because it is an advertising expense, if we make the cops somewhere on it. Very happy circumstances are very, that. "We're thankful for that, and it should remain that way."
