Chapter 1230: All-Star Voting (2)
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On November 14, two days before the voting for the first Serie A All-Star Game, the Italian Football Federation took the lead in announcing the shortlist of candidates and head coaches for the All-Star Vote.
Let's start with the two teams that participated in this year's All-Star Game. I don't know what kind of considerations the Italian Football Association has, and actually divided the two sides of the first Serie A All-Star Game into the Italian All-Star Team and the World All-Star Team, instead of Zhuang Mingge They proposed at the beginning, selecting players from the Serie A team to form two teams of European All-Stars and World All-Stars to compete!
That's right, the idea of holding the Serie A All-Star Game was not the idea of the Italian Football Federation, but the idea of Zhuang Mingge at the meeting of the Italian Professional League this summer, and the Italian Football Federation simply adopted this rather constructive suggestion and was responsible for implementing it.
The decision of the Italian Football Federation also means that all players playing in Serie A will be divided into two categories: on the one hand, players with Italian nationality (naturalized players such as Camoranesi, Deco, Diego Milito are also counted), and the most popular and best of them will become part of the Italian all-star team; On the other hand, there is the world all-star team composed of all non-Italian players, represented by Nedved, Ballack and others.
In this regard, Boss Mo and Zhuang Mingge complained fiercely about the brain-dead decision of the Italian Football Association in a private conversation: "Do you want to show off that Italian football can compete with the whole world, so as to make fans in other countries hostile to Italy?" I don't have to do that to die! ”
That being said, this is the case, and there is no possibility of change. After all, the Italian Football Federation has signed a contract with Qatar Airways, the main sponsor responsible for hosting this year's All-Star Game, and has written this in black and white on the contract, and the liquidated damages are as high as 90 million US dollars!
So, under Zhuang Mingge's kind reminder, the Italian Football Association, realizing that the situation was not good, had to summon several bigwigs who have considerable weight in Italian football, including Zhuang Mingge and Moratti, to Rome overnight, and discussed the solution to the matter at the meeting in a low voice.
After a two-hour emergency meeting, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, who was present in person, made a final decision: "Since the contract cannot be changed, this time, let the world see the strength of our Italian football!" For this time, I'm sure there won't be many countries where fans will be unhappy. On the contrary, it is very likely that they will ignore this point because of the star-studded scene. Therefore, as long as we do a good job in relevant propaganda work and grasp the trend of public opinion as much as possible, then we can avoid such incidents to the greatest extent. ”
You must know that Sky TV, a subsidiary of the international media giant Murdoch, is currently the largest TV broadcaster in Serie A, and if it can be linked to Murdoch through Sky TV's relationship, then the Italian Football Federation can ensure that the mainstream media in the world will not deliberately find fault with them. After all, Murdoch's words still work, no matter who wants to buy him three points of face. Therefore, as long as he can say something on this matter, even if some tabloids want to sensationalize, the direction of public opinion will not change much.
As a result, with the full cooperation of major media, the gimmick of Italian All-Stars VS World All-Stars did not cause much of a stir among non-Italian fan groups. For most fans, they never had the chance to see such a game, and when novelty prevailed, they naturally couldn't think of picking a thorn in it.
This is like the years when the Spring Festival Gala just recovered, no matter what kind of program it was, it would win full applause, but now that the material life is extremely rich, it is difficult to make the audience laugh even if it is a big change in the Spring Festival Gala.
Therefore, for the first All-Star Game, the tolerance of fans is still quite high. In their opinion, this is a brand new attempt after all, and some problems and problems in the operation process are inevitable, so no one with a little IQ has too much to say about this game. Except, of course, for those trolls who make a living from it, after all, that's what people rely on to eat.
At 12 o'clock at noon on November 16th, the much-anticipated all-star voting for Serie A officially began, and enthusiastic fans logged in to the official website of the Italian Football Federation through their pre-registered accounts to put the best team in their minds!
Since the all-star voting is an online vote, therefore, in order to avoid the phenomenon of malicious votes, the Italian Football Association strictly controls the review of the account, and everyone has to enter their ID number, and they need to fill out a form online that is exactly the same as the information on the ID card to get their own unique account.
For fans in countries that don't have an ID, such as the United States and Japan, they can register with their driver's license number or social security number to vote for their favorite football player.
Before the vote, the first to come out are the managers of the two teams. On the Italian all-star team, Ancelotti, Lippi and Capello have all received invitations from the Italian Football Federation. However, after some screening, Capello, the most famous and accomplished, eventually became the head coach of the inaugural Italian All-Star team. Carlo Ancelotti and Lippi would love to play in this position, but they are clearly not as competitive as Capello, who has already made a name for himself.
Capello, by the way, is not a volunteer worker, and the Italian Football Federation paid a full $2 million in appearance fees to get him to agree to lead a star-studded but lackluster team.
A fool would refuse to make two million dollars in one game, and the shrewd Capello certainly wouldn't make such a mistake.
On the side of the World All-Stars, the Italian Football Federation had to look for a replacement among the remaining foreign coaches because Heynckes, the best candidate, politely turned down the errand on the grounds that the team was busy. Eventually, Czech coach Zeman, who is coaching Sampdoria, became the head coach of the inaugural World All-Star team. It is said that the attacking maniac said yes because he really wanted to experience how high he could kick offensive football with a large number of stars.