YB owner Reese hits the spot

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Brothers Andy and Hans-Whely Ryhy are among the biggest sports sponsors in the country’s history. Andy Rees always led the way. He is a doer, he is a driving force. Once sponsored by cycling, with a peak in 2006, Floyd Landis won the Tour de France. But later we judge for doping. The victory in the round is cancelled.

The Reese brothers from Zurich, actually more of a GC fan, acquire the Bernese Young Boys in 2008 and invest $60 million. They lead the club to unimaginable heights. It is a sad chapter that Andy Rees will never be able to reap the rewards of his great commitment. When YB became champion again in 2018 after 32 years, Andy Rees was gone. A few weeks earlier, he had died of cancer.

His brother Hans-Ueli takes over his shares. And will soon be able to celebrate the fifth YB title of today. Unlike his brother, Hans-Ueli is a soft-spoken man. Someone who stays in the background, who doesn’t want to give interviews, who is rather suspicious of the public. But on the occasion of the sponsorship event of Aargau’s FC Wohlen, Hans-Wheli Rihs found clear words in his speech, local newspaper Wohler Anzeiger reports.

Rhys reveals how YB generated 27 million in transfer earnings and a net profit of 7 million last season. “YB developed so much inventory that we could have survived three terrible seasons,” says Reese.

development provides food for thought

But the global development of football beats Rich in the gut. “Football in Switzerland is still normal. But what is happening abroad is extremely sad.” Dictate of money, ostentatious pictures from Qatar, corruption. All this is not his world and does not correspond to his understanding of sports. FIFA president Gianni Infantino called the YB owner an “insult to football”. And he declares that he will never shake hands with Infantino. “The craving for profiling is just part of football,” Rees says.

The fact that Rees denounced the rampant megalomania of football across all branches of Credit Suisse may seem ironic. In any case, FC Wohlen’s sponsors are listening in rapt attention. Even when Reese returns to the Bernese success story. “YB is a cultural asset. YB is a sympathy gang. YB is unique in Europe.”

Perhaps the sponsors of FC Wohlen remember the times when the club from Aargau wrote a little fairy tale for fifteen years in the Challenge League. Perhaps better times will come for the club, which is currently swinging in the 1st classic league.

A ray of hope has been found. Ciriaco Sforza, the most famous son of Aargau football, is to be elected to the board of directors of his hometown club. Responsible for sports. Perhaps Sforza will bring back the radiance of the province of Aargau.

Source: Blick