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In fact, before the opening of the World Cup in Germany, the black whistle scandal on the Bundesliga field, the long-term weakness of the national team, the problems in the construction of the World Cup venues and other factors made Germany widely questioned and criticized, but when the World Cup came, people were surprised to find that the Germans, who have always been known for their rigidity and rigor, set off an unstoppable wave of passion.

Flags are everywhere, in front of houses, cars, on the streets are filled with helpful fans, and an unprecedented passion is sweeping Germany!

Munich, June 9.

Munich World Cup Stadium (i.e. Allianz Arena, but Allianz is not a sponsor of the World Cup, and during the World Cup, the stadium was called Munich World Cup Stadium. ）

Aldridge attended the opening ceremony with his family, sitting in the VIP stands, and the organizing committee arranged a conspicuous position for him, he sat next to Beckenbauer.

In addition to the theatrical performance at the opening ceremony, Southgate, who has retired, represented the England national team with the Hercules Cup in his hand, symbolically returning the championship trophy to FIFA.

In the opening game, the German team defeated Costa Rica, and the German team led by Klinsmann was actually more embarrassing, and it was in a stage of transformation, relying on the old man to support the scene, and promoting young players, a bit like a role of "planting trees by predecessors".

The victory of the German team made the whole country rejoice, and Aldridge simply enjoyed the game, in the atmosphere that exploded in the stadium. I just think it's worth the trip.

After the game. Aldrich spoke with Beckenbauer individually.

Naturally, there is no need to say much about the scene.

Aldridge as the last World Cup-winning manager. And with his unprecedented coaching exploits, he can come to the stadium, and of course it will add a lot to the World Cup in Germany.

The focus of the conversation between the two was football.

Beckenbauer hopes Aldridge can temporarily suppress the pressure on UEFA from the G14s.

The G14 has not always been a player who aligns with UEFA's position.

As Millwall began to play a leading role in the G14, the sound of the G14 to the outside world naturally had Millwall's will.

In the UEFA presidential election six months later, Beckenbauer hopes that the G14 can temporarily hibernate to avoid putting too much pressure on UEFA and creating external difficulties for Johansson's re-election.

For such a request. Aldrich agreed.

However, after their conversation was over, Aldrich returned to the hotel to think about the problem and realized the core of the problem.

Johansson reassured Aldridge by promising that UEFA's internal chaos would end.

Then, it must mean that Johansson and Beckenbauer's faction can win!

Beckenbauer came forward to find Aldridge again, but the tone of the conversation seemed to ask Aldrich to help Johansson be re-elected smoothly.

What's the problem?

Who will be the next UEFA president?

Judging by the intelligence gathered by the vast majority of European media before.

Johansson is abdicating!

Come on, he's not only 76 years old, but he's also suffering from cancer. He also revealed many times that he wanted to abdicate and make way for Xian.

It was assumed that Johansson would support Beckenbauer's ascension. It can be called the successor of Johansson's single-handedly cultivated and paved the way!

However, in the conversation between Beckenbauer and Aldridge, although he also hated Platini's election stance, he seemed to be uninterested in the position of UEFA president.

Platini is engaged in "charity and poverty alleviation", he is the enemy in the eyes of the "European elite", it can be said that the G14 will never like Platini, on the contrary, if Beckenbauer can uphold Johansson's philosophy, then the G14 can even fully support Beckenbauer.

Johansson was able to understand that for football to develop, first of all, the superstructure had to be very luxurious!

Football stars, star teams, this is an important factor to attract the outside world.

The success of the Champions League is also because of the existence of the "European elite", without these giants, the Champions League is worthless!

But if it's like Platini's promotion, "Macedonian fans don't just want to see Zidane on TV, they want to see their team play against Zidane's team in the Champions League, they have the right to enjoy football, and we will do our best to achieve that!" The same is true for other European countries. ”

It's bullshit!

Who could have imagined that one day the Champions League would feature a group of teams from Malta, Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and other countries?

Yes, that's right, it looks like the Champions League has a wider scope, which is theoretically good for promoting football and enhancing the brand.

However, giants such as Millwall, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern and other giants, playing teams from these countries, do they need to be in the main lineup?

In addition, who will be squeezed out of these participating civilian teams?

Platini was a great player, but after he became a football politician, his ideas were disagreed with and even firmly resisted by European elites.

The G14 naturally did not want to see Platini elected, and at this time, Platini was still an ally of Blatter.

Aldridge called Carter in the evening to discuss the matter.

"I don't know right now whether Johansson will run firmly or Beckenbauer will run! The European media said that Beckenbauer would be the next UEFA president, but Beckenbauer spoke to me in a tone as if he had other ideas! ”

After listening to Aldrich's explanation, Carter muttered for a moment on the other end of the phone, and replied uncertainly after a long time: "There will definitely be no split between Beckenbauer and Johansson, but listening to what you said, it seems that the two have different intentions, I think, Johansson's position is certain, if he goes to run, the odds of winning are not too big, in the past two years, he has been building momentum for Beckenbauer, and he has repeatedly stated that he will retire, and he will run." The momentum is no longer enough. Plus he also has health risks. At the age of 76, by the end of the year, he will be 77! If Beckenbauer runs, he should be sure of nine out of ten. ”

Aldrich thinks so, too.

If Johansson had not been plagued by cancer and had not repeatedly expressed his intention of abdicating in the past two years, then Johansson would still have great hopes of being re-elected.

But they are all ready to give way, and then regret it. It's a bit of a mess.

"Then Beckenbauer's candidacy will directly become the president of UEFA! But he didn't seem to mean that, otherwise, why didn't he make it clear to me, he just said that he was running, and I could give him all the promises he wanted on behalf of the G14. ”

"Well, I think the problem might be at the World Cup."

"The World Cup? What does the World Cup have to do with UEFA? ”

"Two years ago, Beckenbauer may still be walking on thin ice, after all, the outside world has been more strict in questioning and criticizing Germany for hosting the World Cup, but today, the World Cup has received a huge response from the beginning. The outside world is full of praise, as the chairman of the World Cup organizing committee. What will Beckenbauer's praise for behind the scenes, and today's success spur his ambitions? ”

"So what is he going to do? Ambitious, okay, go and become UEFA president! What could be more important than the position of UEFA president to him"

Aldrich suddenly stopped speaking in the middle of speaking.

Because he suddenly thought of an event that would be more sensational in the next few years of the original history.

That is the bribery scandal of the World Cup application.

Among them, Beckenbauer was also involved.

It was Fleet Street that was exposed.

However, the key is not the scandal, the scandal itself was saved during the World Cup bid, it is just whether it has been exposed.

It's Beckenbauer's identity at the time, he was a FIFA guy!

He works for FIFA!

In fact, after the end of the Johansson era, Platini was in power, and Aldrich didn't hear much about Beckenbauer's deeds in football politics, and the Caesar of German football was not very glamorous in front of the stage.

However, in retrospect, Aldridge probably guessed why Beckenbauer, who was so vocal before Johansson's loss to Platini, would have almost disappeared in the coming years!

"I received rumors from Germany that Beckenbauer seems to have lost interest in the position of UEFA president, and the German media revealed that Beckenbauer is going to run for the FIFA executive committee and aims for the FIFA presidentship. But the news is uncertain, and there is not much media hype, after all, it is the World Cup, but one thing is for sure, the World Cup in Germany is important for Beckenbauer's political capital. ”

After Carter said what he heard, he couldn't get a response from Aldrich for a long time, and for a long time, Aldrich sighed helplessly, said goodbye to Carter and hung up the phone.

He kind of understood why there was a subtle difference in the attitudes of Johansson and Beckenbauer, allies in the trenches.

Johansson does want Beckenbauer to become UEFA president.

However, the success of the World Cup in Germany has made Beckenbauer's ambitions inflated, and he wants to go one step to the sky, directly overthrow Blatter's rule and become the head of the next FIFA.

As a result, there was a huge divergence between his and Johansson's strategic line.

Johansson wanted Beckenbauer to hold on to Europe, the most important territory for FIFA, and the territory with the most weight, and the enemy role of FIFA for a long time.

Beckenbauer has now changed his mind, and in turn hopes that Johansson will hold on for another term, and he will go to FIFA to expand his territory and go further!

To put it simply, Johansson wanted to keep it, but Beckenbauer wanted to forge ahead.

Perhaps Beckenbauer felt that Johansson would be absolutely fine if he held on to the position of UEFA president and backed him up to challenge Blatter!

But relatively speaking, FIFA's strategy is very simple, Blatter fully supports Platini, who is now both an ally and his younger brother, if it succeeds, take UEFA, kick Johansson's big mouth, if it doesn't work, there is no loss.

That's why Johansson later failed in the election, FIFA turned around to comfort Beckenbauer and let him be elected to the FIFA executive committee, but in fact, Beckenbauer suffered from the enemy's back, and it was impossible to get involved in the FIFA presidency and retreat, but the foundation of the European map was swept away by Platini, and in the politics of the football circle, it has long become the main theme of Platini and Blatter's struggle from allies to anti-eye protests.

Aldrich was very helpless about this, and he couldn't call to remind Johansson or Beckenbauer, if you don't talk about winning steadily, at least not losing the game, you adjust your strategy, and finally the chicken flies and the egg fights.

Why should people listen to him! (To be continued......)