Eventually, unlike Gall, the sweating electrician, the physicist Schlörb found his way into Salzburg in 2006. A discreet hotel in Berlin became the place where Kölmel and company presented Red Bull with a viable concept. On November 9, 2006 the bombshell exploded in Leipzig. Yet FC Sachsen, Lok and others all proved unwilling or unsuitable.\n\nBy September 2008 Red Bull had launched a new attempt, knowing they wanted a foothold in a top league in Germany.
Sachsen Leipzig were out of the race, as were Lok. Then Red Bull still had one ace up its sleeve: SSV Markranstädt, from a town of just 15,000, willing to provide the starting point.\n\nThe rest is history. Only Wolfgang Petit, president of FC Eilenburg, was left annoyed, insisting they should have been the club where RB began.