Hertha hoping American 投資家s bring change in fortune
BERLIN (AP) - Big city club, no more.
Hertha Berlin is hoping to shake off the moniker associated with the 騒然とした last seasons and make another fresh start under new 財政上の 支援者s from Miami.
The relegation-脅すd Bundesliga club 現在のd 777 Partners as its 大多数 株主 on Monday, two days after 発表するing the American 会社／堅い was taking over the 64.7% 以前 owned by Lars Windhorst´s 投資 group.
"This is a very good day for Hertha BSC," Kay Bernstein said in what was his second news 会議／協議会 since taking over as club 大統領，／社長 in June. "It´s also a very, very good day for Hertha BSC to bury the `Big City Club´ label once and for all."
The 愛称 was spawned by Windhorst in 2019 when he took over and said Hertha, as a club in the 資本／首都 city, should be on a par with the likes of Real Madrid or Paris Saint-Germain.
Instead of seeing Hertha challenge Europe´s best, however, Windhorst only ever saw the team fight relegation and lurch from one 危機, スキャンダル or low point to another over three seasons.
Kay Bernstein, 大統領 of Hertha BSC, Josh Wander, CEO of 777 Partners Group, and Thomas E. Herrich, Managing Director of Hertha BSC, from left, stand together at a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 on the 入ること／参加（者） as new 投資家 for Bundesliga サッカー club Hertha BSC in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 13, 2023. (Andreas Gora/dpa 経由で AP)
Windhorst, who 注ぐd 374 million euros ($400 million) into the club, complained last year that 投資するing in Hertha brought only "disadvantages." His money disappeared まっただ中に bad 移転 取引，協定s, 財政上の mismanagement and the 衝撃 of the coronavirus pandemic.
Windhorst said in October he 手配中の，お尋ね者 his m oney 支援する after his 関係 with the club 決裂d over a 報告（する）／憶測 that he 雇うd an Israeli 探偵，刑事 機関 to try and 軍隊 the previous 大統領，／社長 out. Windhorst 否定するd the 告訴，告発s but it was yet another スキャンダル for the club. Windhorst also had 不一致s with Bernstein, the 現在の 大統領，／社長.
Bernstein 明確に feels Windhorst's 運動 to create a "Big City Club" was 責任がある much of Hertha's 最近の 激変.
"This is like a 記念の service that 許すs us to （土地などの）細長い一片 off this label and the delusions of grandeur of the last years," Bernstein said on Monday.
Hertha is still fighting relegation, only one point above the 減少（する） zone, and 777 does not know yet if it has 投資するd in a first- or second-分割 club.
Josh Wander, a co-創立者 of 777, said it doesn´t 事柄.
"Our goal here is to help 容易にする a long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 維持できる 財政上の profile for the club," Wander said. "It´s our belief that Hertha and all the clubs that we own, that the best way to 達成する 冒険的な success is to find ways to 支える yourself for the long 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語."
The American 投資 会社／堅い already has 火刑／賭けるs in Spanish club Sevilla, Italian club Genoa, Brazilian team Vasco da Gama, ベルギー club 基準 Liege, French team Red 星／主役にする FC and Australian club Melbourne Victory.
Wander said each could 利益 from the experiences of the other, but that no one club would be prioritized over another.
Wander 拒絶する／低下するd to say how much the company paid Windhorst for his 株 because of a confidentiality 協定, but 確認するd マスコミ 報告（する）／憶測s that 777 was 投資するing a その上の 100 million euros in Hertha.
It will take 777´s 株 of the company behind the club to about 75%. Hertha will 保持する the 大多数 of 投票（する）ing 権利s in keeping wi th German サッカー´s 50-加える-1 支配する 限界ing the 影響（力） of outside 投資家s.
"Germany 明白に has a different playbook from a 支配（する）／統制する 視野 than other leagues around the world. And we 認める that going in," Wander said. "But we 設立する a partner that we believed we could 信用 to work with."
Wander 追加するd that Hertha gave his 会社／堅い "a 広大な／多数の／重要な 取引，協定 of 信用／信任 that we could come into this 環境 and work as collaboratively as we かもしれない can within the 限定するs of the 50-加える-1 rulebook."
"The 意図 of our 共同 here is not to be 権威のある," Wander 追加するd. "The 意図 is to be 諮問の."
Bernstein 確認するd 777 had been 協議するd in January when the club decided to 解雇する／砲火／射撃 長，率いる of sport Fredi Bobic, and on player 調印s during the 最近の 移転 window.
"For me," Bernstein said, "it´s something 完全に normal to 交流 ideas, 反映する on 視野s and see what´s the best way for Hertha BSC."
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Josh Wander, CEO of the 777 Partners Group, speaks at a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 on the 入ること／参加（者） as new 投資家 for Bundesliga サッカー club Hertha BSC in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 13, 2023. (Andreas Gora/dpa 経由で AP)
Hertha's Marco Richter, left, and Mainz's Jae-Sung 物陰／風下 戦う／戦い for the ball during the German Bundesliga match between Hertha BSC Berlin and FSV Mainz 05 in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, March 11, 2023. (Soeren Stache/dpa 経由で AP)
