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Gazprom’s soccer jersey strategy, explained.
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Russia has the world’s largest reserves of natural gas, and most of it is controlled by the state-owned company Gazprom. But Gazprom has also built a global profile as a soccer sponsor. Good publicity for Gazprom means good publicity for Russia; since Gazprom is owned by the Russian state, domestic approval for the foreign energy provider can help build a reputation for Russia in places that might otherwise be wary of their creeping influence. And as Vladimir Putin pursues that influence abroad, building relationships with foreign business leaders using the sport of soccer has proven extremely useful.
One place where that’s been especially true is in Germany, where the team FC Schalke 04 has a longstanding sponsorship deal with Gazprom. When the deal was first signed in 2006, Russia was vying to increase their presence in the Western European gas market. Over a decade later, Gazprom sponsors one of Germany’s most popular soccer teams, and is about to open their second major direct pipeline from Russia to Germany.
A previous version of this video misidentified Switzerland on a map. The error has been corrected.
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what's soccer 🤣
2:13 aged very well.
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We don't have soccer in the UK, what sport is this?
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This aged well
Adidas and Puma (which is founded by Dassler Brothers) has a different sponsorships in every teams and competitions such as World Cup
Football football
Soccer???
Stop using synthetic fertilizer globally hurry.
Yikes
that's good
“UEFA has today decided to end its partnership with Gazprom across all competitions.
The decision is effective immediately and covers all existing agreements including the UEFA Champions League, UEFA national team competitions and UEFA EURO 2024.”
The writing was on the wall this ENTIRE time👀
If Russia have a lot of gas what’s wrong with selling that ?
It's called football
5:46 Schalke won the German Cup not the German Championship
Soccer??
Football not soccer
What do you mean this advertising isn’t for direct consumers. I was in desperate need of RUSSIAN gas for electricity
So basically European countries make deals with a Russian gas company. So we should blame Russia for advertising it. Western media has very investigative logic.
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The also sponsor f1
Everybody is selling to Asia now, its mutch better prices then in europe, and better profit.
Thats why europes gas reserves is far from full, now before the winter.
So europe has bited its own tail again.
3:50 Funny how there is newspaper from New Zealand but nothing east from Germany..
There's nothing called soccer ok
I thought the comments were full of politics, Russia whatever.
But there is a much more heated debate about Americans' pronunciation of "football".
Depressing American, this is not soccer, this is soccer. THEY LIVE TERRIFIED WITH RUSSIAN POWER, for decades their CLOACY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANIES LIKE HOLLYWOOD, NETFLIX, CNN, HAVE MADE THEM BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE THE BEST DL NATION IN THE WORLD AND THEY ARE ONLY MISERABLE SICK ANTI-RUSSIAN PARANOIDS. LONG LIVE RUSSIA !!
7:37 What is that 'interest'? not cleared.
"Complicated" is a too weak word for relationships between Ukraine and Russia.
There is a real war for existence of Ukraine as a country.
Thanks for this video!
>soccer
Pan y Circo
It's called Football
I stopped watching this video at the minute mark and unfollowed Vox because they kept calling it soccer…
Scrimmage ?
Football, not European soccer
The answer is simple: it is part of Russia's hybrid / information war
Still didn't get it, so why they need to sponsor football teams?
This phenomenon is called football washing a phrase obtained from brain washing
I fear the reason may be a little more sinister, than just countering "bad publicity"…
sponsorships provide a four lane highway for money laundering…
something every billionaire Russian needs, including, but not limited to,
Tsar Vlad the Intriguer