Chapter 747: Lobbyist

"We lost!"

Taking advantage of the halftime break, in front of the window of the bar specially provided for the distinguished customers of the chairman stand at the Allianz Arena, Yang Huan and Beckenbauer ordered a glass of beer across a high table.

The German football emperor shook his head and sighed with embarrassment.

The first half ended with a score of 0-3, which made everyone in the Allianz Arena sit still.

The scoreboard on the stadium shows that the attendance of this game is nearly 70,000.

But it was in the presence of these 70,000 people that Bayern Munich suffered a humiliating defeat.

However, in Yang Huan's opinion, this is difficult to explain anything.

Bielsa has been operating hard in Southampton for four years, coupled with Yang Huan's abundant resources behind the support, which has led to the current Southampton, and what about Guardiola?

He has only been at the helm of Bayern Munich for less than a year, and there is no comparison!

As for how strong Bayern Munich was before, there is no need to talk about it.

Guardiola came up, itself to overthrow everything in the Heynckes period, and tear down and rebuild everything, but Heynckes, more on the basis of inheriting Van Gaal, to improve.

In this case, it would be unfair to compare Pep Guardiola and Heynckes.

"We Chinese have a saying, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers!"

Yang Huan smiled and stretched out his hand, touched the beer glass in his hand with Beckenbauer, retracted it to his mouth, and took a sip.

German beer is famous all over the world, and it is indeed good, but the taste is a little different.

Beckenbauer tucked his glasses on the bridge of his nose and smiled, "So I was telling Herbert Heiner that this failure will benefit us for years to come!" ”

In this regard, Yang Huan was silent.

Sometimes failure is more than success, and people gain more.

This is especially true on the football field!

But soon, Beckenbauer said, "I'm not just talking about this game. ”

"Oh?" Yang Huan raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?" ”

He had expected it a long time ago, otherwise, Beckenbauer would invite himself to drink at halftime for no reason?

The football emperor always wears a smile that makes people completely unpredictable about his inner thoughts.

"Some of Platini's recent remarks have put a lot of pressure on FIFA, and they are going to compromise!"

Yang Huan was slightly stunned, and when he looked at Beckenbauer again, the latter was still smiling, but there was a hint of understanding hidden in his eyes.

As if to say, Master Huan, we clear-eyed people don't need to say secret words anymore, let's tacitly say it!

Beckenbauer and Blatter are old friends, and their friendship dates back decades.

There have even been rumors in the industry that Germany was able to win the right to host the 2006 World Cup in Germany because of Beckenbauer's maneuvering and supporting Blatter's re-election, and finally won the right to host the World Cup in Germany.

Therefore, Beckenbauer is also the chairman of the organizing committee of the World Cup in Germany.

With this World Cup, Beckenbauer's reputation in international football has skyrocketed, and his status in German football is extremely lofty.

But interestingly, just when everyone thought that Beckenbauer should take advantage of the victory and chase the 2007 UEFA presidential election, Blatter surprisingly chose to support the big upset Platini.

And what about Beckenbauer?

With strong support from then-UEFA president Johansson, he suddenly announced his abstention.

This made Johansson very angry, and in the absence of other candidates, he had to rush into battle himself, which directly led to the defeat.

At the time, many people mentioned that Beckenbauer abstained from the election because his goal was in Zurich.

That is, the headquarters of FIFA.

But after so many years, Blatter has been re-elected again and again, Zurich has nothing to do with Beckenbauer, and he is getting older, so in 2011, he announced his withdrawal from FIFA.

Many industry insiders have speculated that a very important reason why Blatter chose to support Platini was the fear that Beckenbauer would challenge his position, and Beckenbauer was disheartened and withdrew from the UEFA election.