Chapter 645: The World Cup Begins
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Due to the fact that he made a lot of money last year by taking advantage of the financial crisis that swept through Asia, coupled with the good operation of the partner company in the past two years, money is just a number for Zhuang Mingge now.
In this case, Zhuang Mingge naturally began to think about how he could use the money he couldn't spend in dozens of lifetimes to make his life more comfortable.
As a result, RIVA, known as the "Rolls-Royce of yachts", naturally came into Zhuang Mingge's sight, and this luxury yacht designed by many of RIVA's top designers and costing up to $50 million is one of a series of luxury goods he purchased.
In addition, Zhuang Mingge also purchased several islands for vacation. Although Zhuang Mingge does not know much about the market and selection criteria of private islands, please don't forget that Zhuang Mingge himself is not short of money, so in fact, he only needs to buy the islands that are best evaluated by professionals.
As a result, the island of Safiradura in Spain and the island of cabbage in the Bahamas, which were regarded as the best choice for private islands in the previous life, fell one after another under Zhuang Mingge's money offensive.
And just buying these islands cost Zhuang Mingge nearly 100 million US dollars, of course, this is not counting the later infrastructure construction and decoration and maintenance costs, otherwise this cost may have to be doubled.
However, Zhuang Mingge obviously doesn't care about this, earning money is to enjoy life, what's the point of living like a rich but stingy person like Grande?
Now, Zhuang Mingge has made good use of the luxury yacht he has just acquired, and has taken Karin and little Groz on a wonderful vacation trip for him.
After a ten-day Mediterranean vacation, Zhuang Mingge and his entourage drove the yacht directly to Monaco, from where they set foot on French soil and began the long-planned World Cup trip.
By the way, two days before the start of the opening match of the World Cup, the 51st FIFA Congress was officially held in France. At this conference, Johansson and Blatter had a fierce battle for the position of FIFA president!
Due to Zhuang Mingge's reminder, Johansson secretly sent people to expose Blatter's indiscriminate blank check behavior to the Asian Football Confederation and the African Football Confederation, and made some promises to the two major football associations, such as supporting South Africa's bid to host the 2010 World Cup, and Asia will get two and a half places in the next World Cup......
After this series of heavy punches against Blatter came out, the effect was even better than Beckenbauer and others expected - the football federations of Asia and Africa, which felt deceived by themselves, completely abandoned Blatter, who could only play tricks, and turned their heads in favor of the more reliable Johansson.
And this sudden change caused Blatter, who thought he had won the victory, to suffer an unprecedented defeat in the FIFA presidential election - out of a total of 191 votes, the FIFA secretary general only got 51 votes, while his opponent Johansson was elected as the new FIFA president with an absolute majority of 140 votes!
Blatter, who was dumbfounded by this result, quickly reacted that it was the AFC and the African Football Confederation that had been secretly persuaded to join forces with him, but he didn't understand what went wrong and actually made the two major football confederations change flags and run under Johansson?
Blatter would never know that it was Zhuang Mingge, a stranger who had nothing to do with him, who exposed his plan and ruined the good things for him and Havelange.
Not to mention Blatter, who lost a single game after losing the election, Johansson, who won the election, passed his first decision after becoming president of FIFA at this conference - in order to popularize football around the world and further consolidate the status of football as the number one sport in the world, FIFA will work with football confederations on all continents and national football associations to build a series of football-related infrastructure so that more children can access football.
After a lot of discussion and competition, South Africa and Nigeria were the first lucky winners of the football promotion plan, and FIFA will take a portion of the profits from previous years to support the development of football in these two countries, and then decide on the next action plan based on the results.
At the same time, with the support of Johansson, AFC Secretary-General Villapan was elected as the new FIFA Secretary-General with a high vote, completely kicking Blatter out of FIFA management and completely knocking him out of this power game!
Platini, who lost the support of the big boss behind FIFA and had been secretly moving closer to Havelange and Blatter, trying to challenge Johnsson's position after the success of the World Cup, was dumbfounded, because he didn't expect his backstage to collapse so lightly under Johnsson's offensive.
Although Havelange, who stepped down, still has a very strong voice in the reserved land of South America, this has nothing to do with Platini in Europe.
As a result, realizing that the general situation is not good, Platini is ready to take advantage of Johansson's recent promotion to FIFA president to compete for the vacant UEFA presidency.
I have to say that Platini's idea is very good, but what the former French football superstar doesn't know is that Johansson and Beckenbauer, two black-bellied guys, have already joined forces to dig a big hole for him, just waiting for him to stupidly jump into it by himself.
Well, that's all for these people, let's turn the conversation back to the World Cup.
On June 10, at the Stade de France on the outskirts of Paris, the capital of France, Zhuang Mingge and his party watched the World Cup opener match between defending champions Brazil and Scotland in a box.
However, Brazil did not take much advantage of the Scots in what was considered a disparity of strength in the opening game - Sampaio's goal gave the Samba Army the lead, but Collins equalised with a penalty in the 38th minute, and if it had not been for Cafu's own goal in the 73rd minute, Zagallo's Brazil would have suffered an embarrassing draw in their opening group game.
However, in this Brazilian national team, the only players who can attract Zhuang Mingge's attention are Ronaldo and Carlos, two of his own families, and even Cafu and Emerson, two future world-class stars, cannot attract Zhuang Mingge's attention.
After all, for Zhuang Mingge and others, who are all Italian fans, this opening game can only be regarded as an appetizer, the Italian national team's game is the focus of their trip, and other games can only be regarded as the embellishment of the World Cup journey.
So, after the opening match, Zhuang Mingge and his entourage left Paris overnight and rushed to Bordeaux, the site of the first match of the Italian World Cup, located in the city of southwest France.