Chapter 145: Back to England (Subscription Requested)
In fact, it was officially announced at the Ballon d'Or ceremony that FIFA, or rather the plan to suddenly install a fourth official to UEFA led by Blatter, had been carried out immediately, and there was no possibility of any change or abandonment.
Including Li Xuan, a number of outstanding referees from all over the world will be officially requisitioned by FIFA and assigned to UEFA's major leagues or various specific competitions to become the fourth official in the real sense of supervision.
Their group of foreign referees will supervise various matches in Europe on the spot, especially to supervise whether the various behaviors of the referees and linesmen are suspected of match-fixing and match-fixing.
It seems that Blatter did this mainly to prove the authority and impartiality of FIFA, to show the prestige and righteousness of his president, and to try to take the initiative to bring some reputation change to world football. After all, in recent years, the whole world football has been full of scandals, and the overall image of football has long since plummeted, and it is indeed time to make a positive change.
However, as many discerning people in football circles know, Blatter has sent a large number of fourth officials to UEFA competitions, and the so-called guarantee of the relative fairness and impartiality of the highest level of European football is still a secondary factor. It is more obvious that he wants to take the opportunity to meddle in the European football turf led by UEFA President Michel Platini and forcibly snatch more benefits.
In fact, this is purely a dog-eat-dog mouthful of official internal football struggles between FIFA and UEFA, Blatter and Platini and others!
And the European football officials, led by Platini, are naturally extremely opposed to Blatter's plan. He didn't want to be disrupted by more outside overseers. At the same time, he does not want Blatter to take the opportunity to meddle in European football affairs.
Therefore. Even though they can't twist their arms or thighs on the surface, they still take measures similar to the implementation of the plan by the fourth official to supervise the progress of the plan, and they have adopted methods such as disobeying or deliberately setting up obstacles.
They privately gave this group of small referees a little bit of disadvantage, created all kinds of troubles in various aspects such as league reception, law enforcement procedures filing, personal life, etc., took the initiative to delay and do not cooperate, and did not give enough good treatment. Trying to keep these referees dragged down by chores, so that Blatter's plan could not go so smoothly and in a timely manner.
It's like a fire at the city gate, which will affect the fish in the pond.
Li Xuan soon discovered that after he successfully obtained the task assigned by FIFA, like all the referees who participated in the plan, he did not get the very high treatment he imagined. Instead, they seem to have become very annoying and very unpopular with the major leagues and associations of European football.
The league officials of various leagues, even on the contrary, are unwilling to accept them as the fourth official of FIFA. deliberately stuck them in various details, which brought a lot of difficulties and troubles to their originally high-spirited referees. It has been slow to carry out the work smoothly.
If it weren't for FIFA and Blatter's follow-up strong promotion of the plan, which continued to force UEFA to comply, Li Xuan guessed that their group of referees would probably continue to be hung for a long time, and they would not even be able to really start their work after they arrived, and the plan would be completely bankrupt.
However, Blatter is the president of FIFA anyway, and his energy and influence are still quite terrifying. Under his full request, UEFA still didn't dare to really go too far, unable to keep all referees from all over the world out, and then had to accept a few well-known and influential fourth officials in advance, and barely began to implement Blatter's plan.
Therefore, unlike other referees who may be slightly less famous, Li Xuan personally once temporarily officiated dozens of minutes of games in the Premier League and successfully helped the game at that time to complete the firefighting. He still has a bit of a personal reputation in the UK, and he has managed to gain a certain degree of goodwill in English football in the world.
So, in the end, under the prevarication of various European football associations, Li Xuan was one of the few FIFA referees who took the lead in getting a job opportunity, and was temporarily accepted by the English league and became the supervising fourth official who was about to appear on the British field!
In fact, as early as the beginning of his trip to Europe, Li Xuanna was also ambitious, ready to conquer the European arena immediately. It's just that the fierce and dark struggle between UEFA and FIFA in private that is about to tear his face apart made him fully experience in time that the position of the fourth official is not easy to do.
Therefore, even if he finally entered the relatively familiar British arena as he wished, Li Xuan no longer had the overly relaxed and happy state when he first got the news.
On the contrary, he began to become cautious and cautious, facing the very general treatment that was still more difficult and troublesome, but he was more concerned about not getting caught up in the fierce battle between FIFA and UEFA, and he was not in a hurry to show himself immediately for the time being, and he did not need to care about the difficult environment, he had to be patient first.
Fortunately, although the English Football Association also adhered to some of UEFA's yang and yin indications, and did not give Li Xuan any better treatment.
However, Li Xuan personally is quite popular among British fans, and those British fans don't care about the private battles between various football associations or football bigwigs, and they still maintain a certain curiosity and happy attitude towards Li Xuan himself being able to suddenly participate in law enforcement British events.
Obviously, Li Xuan, a young and handsome Chinese referee who has simply proven himself and is a bit legendary, will still be a little attractive to British fans.
This situation made Li Xuan comfort for the time being, and he was not disappointed that the supervision of the fourth official this time had completely become maintained, and it was still a good harvest at present.
Even if he had to formally and continuously supervise and participate in the enforcement of England's second division, Li Xuan chose to accept it seriously, completed his work conscientiously, and worked hard to have a good relationship with those British referees, and has been suppressing his personal unhappiness and adapting to bad treatment.
He was always waiting for his chance, but he didn't make mistakes, and he didn't want to give the English Football Association any excuse, fully showing the demeanor of an excellent referee from a FIFA representative! )