Just when most teams in Europe were preparing to make a big splash in the summer, something big happened in European football: Marseille club, the winner of the new European Champions Cup and the overlord of the French football league, was suspected of bribing opposing players to play match-fixing in a Ligue 1 match last season!

The situation of the match-fixing case was immediately made public by the all-pervasive reporters, and the ins and outs of the matter are as follows:

On May 19, 1993, the French first division was coming to an end, and Marseille, who had won four consecutive Ligue 1 titles, led the standings by four points. But for Marseille, the league is less important as the team will face the famous AC Milan in Munich for the UEFA Champions League in six days' time.

Marseille reached the historic Champions League final in 1991 but lost on penalties to Red Star Belgrade. Now is the time for Marseille to achieve their dream of European supremacy.

But Marseille will not face AC Milan tomorrow, but Valencian, who are at the bottom of Ligue 1. Valencian were on the verge of relegation at the time, but they were still struggling in the relegation zone.

Marseille don't want to lose, and they don't want their players to show up in the UEFA Champions League final on 26 May. So the club of Marseille risked the world's condemnation and took a risk, trying to buy off Christophe Robert and other main players of the Valencian team with a lot of money. On the second day, the Marseille team easily won 1:0, according to the strength of the two sides of the game, it was reasonable for the Marseille team to win, so few people paid special attention to the abnormality of this game.

After the game, a reporter from the newspaper learned from Valencian player Grassman that the Marseille team had bought three of his teammates, including him, and the newspaper was very cautious about this, and only sent a text message from an inconspicuous position. Due to the imminent final of the European Champions Cup in which the Marseille team participated, the French football community did not pay attention to it, and only the chairman of the French professional league committee, Le Graat, publicly stated that he would pursue the matter after the game.

Six days later, Marseille defeated AC Milan in the final to claim France's first ever European Cup. While people were celebrating with ecstasy, the newspaper devoted a full page to the Marseille match-fixing case and published an editorial.

The French Professional Council was very clear and actively initiated the judicial process, and the French judiciary immediately intervened: on June 8, the league committee reported the case, the court filed a case on the 9th, and on the 11th the court appointed a special judge to investigate the case. In contrast, the French Football Federation was much more "cautious" and did not intervene until nearly five months after the incident.

The president of Marseille was Tappi, a former French minister, a member of parliament, and a controlling shareholder of Adidas, so he was easily able to use his political and media influence to interfere in investigations.

At the same time, then-French President Francois Mitterrand publicly stated at a press conference that the judiciary had gone too far in this matter.

But the investigation of the case did not stop, and there was a "confession" from the player Glassman,

Player Bruchaga (a member of the Argentine national team in the '86 Shijie Cup) quickly admitted that someone had approached him and offered him money to release water.

On 24 June, Christophe Robert surrendered to the French Football Federation under psychological pressure, and on the basis of his confession, the police dug up 250,000 francs in cash buried in the ground for bribes in the backyard of his wife, Marie Cristina's mother's house.

The bribery scandal of Marseille shocked French football and even Shijie football, FIFA was furious and ordered the French Football Federation to punish severely, and the French Football Association, which had been hesitating, finally transferred the case to the judicial authorities, and the Marseille team was immediately disqualified from participating in the European Super Cup, Toyota Cup and next season's European Champions Cup.

On 1 July, 10 Marseille players (including Worrall, Desailly, Boehly, Abedi Pele and other famous stars) were taken away and questioned by the police, who searched the office building of the Marseille officials.

In the office of Bain, the general manager of Marseille, the police found several envelopes identical to those received by Christopher Robert, and the staples on the desk were exactly the same as those on the envelope. After obtaining sufficient evidence to obtain the required evidence, the police immediately arrested Bain, the general manager of the Marseille team.

In the early hours of 6 July, the police flew Bain from Marseille to Lille and then in a police car to Valencian for interrogation by Judge Befy.

Everyone knows that Bane is the No. 2 person in the Marseille club, so the No. 1 person, Marseille's owner Tapi is naturally inextricably linked.

Tapi is an ambitious politician and doer in France, having served as Minister of Urban Development in the French government. After Bane, who was in front of him, was arrested, Tapi was also exposed to the people.

As a traverser, Zhuang Mingge certainly knows the handling of this scandal that shocked the football world and the ending of the people involved.

On February 10, 1994, Tapi was accused of participating in bribery by his subordinates, and on April 22, the special committee of the French Football Federation passed a decision to revoke Marseille's title in Ligue 1 for the 1992-1993 season, demote Marseille to the second division, revoke Tapi's control of the club, and disqualify Bain from working for the club for life.

On March 17, 1995, Bain, who had been silent for 700 days, finally revealed the mastermind of the Marseille bribery case.

"I'm going to tell you the truth today, nine days before the match between Marseille and Valencia, Tapi ordered me to think of a way to make it easy for Marseille to win this game and save the strength against AC Milan," said Bane. Bane acknowledged the fact of bribing his opponent, but at the same time he noted: "I did it on Tapi's orders." At the Marseille club, it was impossible for anyone to offer the amount of bribes without Tapi's consent. ”

Bane's words in France were like a bomb that upset the "logical structure" that the participants in the case had secretly constructed, and even if the court was convinced, it made it impossible for Tapi to justify himself. The evidence was overwhelming, and Tapi was immediately stripped of his parliamentary immunity and immediately imprisoned.

On May 16, 1995, after two years of trial and investigation, the Marseille bribery case finally had a zuihou result. Tapi was convicted of being the mastermind in the case and sentenced to one year in prison and denied any football pitch to watch a game for one year after his release. The persons involved in the bribery case have also been punished accordingly. At this point, the Marseille bribery case, which had been hyped up by the press for two years, was finally over.

Marseille club owner Tapi was not only criminally punished, but because the case was disclosed and handled, he had to withdraw from football, and his group was also on the verge of bankruptcy, so he had to work as an actor and sometimes make a cameo appearance as a director of plays and films.

As for the Valencian player who was a tainted witness, Glasmann, because of his testimony, the owners of the club turned away from him, so he had to leave the French mainland to play for a small local club called Reunion Island, and finally quietly retired from football due to his age.

The most hit by the Marseille match-fixing case is naturally the Marseille club itself, and after the match-fixing case, Marseille's star-studded squad was scattered:

Two-time African Footballer of the Year Abedi Bailey went to Lyon, Marcel Desailly moved to AC Milan, Rudi Worrall returned to Germany, Lazio signed Boksic, Di Meco and Barthez went to Monaco together, central defender Boly joined Glasgow Celtic, Serie A giants Juventus got both French national team and club captain Didier Deschamps, and Yugoslav star Stojkovic traveled to the East......

A match-fixing, so that Marseille has never recovered, until Zhuang Mingge crossed in 2012, Marseille is only a strong team in Ligue 1, far from the style of the four consecutive championships of the year, and Ligue 1 has fallen into a long period of silence, the outflow of stars, the melee of teams within the league, this situation has not been improved even when the French national team won the Shijie Cup and the European Cup.

Zhuang Mingge, who has experienced the Serie A "phonegate" incident in later generations, is also highly concerned about the ending of Marseille, and he clearly remembers that Serie A has completely lost its appeal to top stars precisely because of the "phonegate" in 06, and the reputation of the Serie A team has also been greatly affected.

Therefore, in public and private, Zhuang Mingge must make every effort to avoid that disaster in Serie A, and the most important way is to build an anti-"black gambling and drug" system in the NBA like David Stern in the league, and nip all possible hidden dangers in the bud.

Therefore, Zhuang Mingge must have enough say in the Italian professional league.

How to have more voice? Naturally, Fiorentina is a continental giant.

How to become a wealthy club? It depends on Zhuang Mingge's own ability......