Chapter 1177: Decisive Battle at Old Trafford (4)

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"Huh~ Tony, I think it's time to recommend to FIFA that the Golden Ball system be abolished." After the lethargic overtime, Karin, who finally got off to a good start, complained to Zhuang Mingge, "I think the implementation of the Golden Ball system has not had the desired effect, but has made the teams more and more conservative in their tactical play, and the game has become dull because of this." In the long run, this will inevitably have a negative impact on the development of football. ”

"Well, you're not wrong at all." Zhuang Mingge nodded and agreed with Karin's opinion, "The purpose of FIFA's implementation of the Golden Ball system was to crack down on those teams who blindly defended the game in order to win, but as time went by, the Golden Ball system became the reason for each team to choose a rigid strategy in overtime. I don't think that's what FIFA wanted to see when it adopted the Ballon d'Or. ”

In fact, since the 02 World Cup, the protests of national football associations against the Golden Ball system have become louder and louder. Especially in Italy, which suffered from the Golden Ball in the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, has become the vanguard of the opposition to the Golden Ball system!

In the face of strong protests from national football associations, FIFA President Johansson was naturally happy to do so, and at the latest FIFA Congress, he overturned the Golden Ball system formulated by Havelange that year, and announced that the Silver Ball system would be implemented from September 1 this year. In other words, when the game goes to extra time, the decision for the scorer to win will change from the moment the goal is scored to the end of the second half of extra time. In other words, even if a player scores in extra time, the game will not end immediately, but will wait until the referee blows the whistle for the end of the first (second) half of extra time, and then decide the winner according to the score on the field.

The resolution dragged on for almost a year to be passed at the conference, mainly because Johansson had been working to purge the Havelange faction of power within FIFA during this time. After a World Cup in South Korea and Japan, which left a very bad impression on fans all over the world, FIFA Secretary General Blatter, who is in charge of the overall situation in South Korea, has become a street rat that everyone shouts at. In this way, Johansson, who is already an enemy of Havelange and his successor Blatter, naturally wants to seize the opportunity to fall into the well and vigorously suppress the forces of this faction, so as to strengthen his voice within FIFA.

What's more, Johansson's purge this time can be called famous. After all, Blatter's series of actions during the World Cup in South Korea and Japan had a negative impact on the World Cup, a football event with a long history, and the official image of FIFA was too huge, making many people strongly dissatisfied with Blatter.

The worst thing is that under the investigation of some well-intentioned people (Zhuang Mingge said that this is definitely not his handiwork), the sudden appearance of a large amount of unexplained deposits in Blatter's account in a Swiss bank was also made public. Blatter himself was unable to explain to the public and investigators where the money came from, and the incident led to the Swiss facing tremendous pressure from public opinion and an investigation by the legal authorities.

Although Blatter said in an interview that the deposits came from his legitimate income and claimed that the incident was a deliberate frame-up against him, the claims were clearly not credible when he could not say where the money came from.

Blatter will talk about the matter here for the time being, all in all, with the end of this FIFA conference, the abolition of the Golden Ball system and the replacement of the more reasonable Silver Ball system has become a sure thing.

At this time, the players of both sides, led by the referee, once again stepped onto the lawn of Old Trafford to prepare for the most thrilling and exciting penalty shootout in football!

The first to step 12 yards was Trezeguet, and after Gianluigi Buffon, who was in front of goal, the French national team striker slotted the ball cleanly into the bottom right corner after a run.

1 to 0! Juventus go first!

"Damn it!" After seeing Trezeguet deceive Buffon and shoot the ball into the goal from the opposite direction, Heynckes waved his fist in frustration and complained to Ferrara beside him, "This kid is obviously the top talent in goalkeeping, and he is also the first person in international football today, but why does he behave so ordinarily when it comes to saving a penalty?" ”

"Well, I don't know very well about that. It was the same in training, when it came time to save a penalty, Buffon did the same as he did in the game. Ferrara didn't know how to answer Heynckes' complaints, so he had to say a few words casually, "Maybe Buffon thought too much about the penalty and interfered with his judgment." If he had relied more on his instincts than his mind when saving penalties, as Toldo did, it might have worked much better. ”

"......" Hearing Ferrara's explanation, Heynckes was also a little speechless, he didn't think about this possibility. After all, intuition is such a thing as a mystery to the Germans, and it would be unscientific to attribute Buffon's lack of progress in saving penalties to it.

Although Trezeguet got the Bianconeri off to a good start, Juventus were not happy for long, as Ballack, who then came on, cut Frei's 10-finger pass with a powerful volley to level the score at 1-1! Although the young French goalkeeper judged the ball correctly, Ballack's shot was too powerful for him to save.

Immediately afterwards, the disparate performances of Billindeli and Vieri, who took penalties in the second round, caused Juventus to suffer another heavy blow. Although his shot bypassed Buffon's block, it smashed on the outside post of the goal and bounced off the bottom line because of the excessive pursuit of the shooting angle; Vieri, who played for Fiorentina, scored the penalty in the same way as Ballack, helping Fiorentina overtake the score!

To the horror of Juventus fans, Nedved, who was third to make his debut, also missed from 12 yards. Although Buffon was still unable to save the Czech's penalty, Nedved could not help the Bianconeri equalise, his shot hit the crossbar and bounced back into the box without flying into the back of the net behind Buffon!

Although Nedved later vented the ball into the back of the net, his move did not help, after all, penalty shoot-outs were a one-shot deal, and he would never be given a second chance to shoot.

In this way, relying on the back-to-back misses of Billindelli and Nedved, Fiorentina had a huge advantage in this penalty shoot-out. As long as Nesta, who comes out next, can hit the penalty, then Fiorentina, who are leading 3-1, will get the match point for this Champions League final in advance!