Chapter 855 Football Association Meeting
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While the Fiorentina players were actively preparing for the next round of the league, Zhuang Mingge quietly left Fiorentina and took Karin and Groz Jr. to the headquarters of the Italian Football Federation in Rome to attend an important meeting there. The Italian Football Federation convened the meeting with the aim of developing a reform plan to strengthen the attacking culture of Serie A, as well as ways to make the league more enjoyable, in order to attract more fans to Italian football.
With Zhuang Mingge's unremitting efforts over the years, the Italian Football Association in this world is much stronger than the Italian Football Association in history that is self-contained and does not know how to forge ahead. For example, when it comes to the commercialization of Serie A and the promotion of Italian football to the world, these FA officials are simply well-deserved model workers!
Of course, the reason why the Italian Football Association is so concerned about these serious matters, instead of fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, is mainly because when the last time the new broadcast fee distribution plan was formulated, under the construction of Zhuang Mingge, the professional league specially added such a clause to the plan: 1% of the total TV broadcast fee of the Serie A league will be allocated every year as a bonus for the hard work of the Football Association, and this cost is shared by the eighteen Serie A teams!
The reason why Zhuang Mingge proposed this proposal is that the Italian Football Association is afraid that the Italian Football Association will see that the Serie A teams have made a lot of money because of the sale of broadcast rights, but they have not been able to get any actual benefits, so they are passive and even stumbling behind their backs, which will adversely affect the development of Italian football. Rather than letting these bureaucrats make irrational moves, it is better to share a little benefit and pull them into this boat, which was Zhuang Mingge's idea at that time.
So, let Zhuang Mingge toss like this, and the interests of the Serie A league and the Italian Football Association are firmly tied together because of this clause!
Although the Italian Football Federation only receives 1% of the total TV broadcast fee, if you multiply this percentage by a half billion dollars, it means that the Italian Football Federation will receive a huge income of more than five million dollars every year by virtue of this clause!
That is why the Italian Football Federation, driven by this huge income, is working so seriously, because these bureaucrats have realized that they will only be able to get more income if they sell Serie A for a higher price! It's a bit harder, but it's much safer than earning some grey income, after all, one of the propaganda goals of the Prodi government, which now controls Italian politics, is to fight corruption, and if they are discovered, they will surely be dead......
I have to say that once you concentrate on something, it is still easy to achieve results, even the Italian Football Association, which was known for its unreliability in the previous life. After a lot of investigation, especially the passionate confrontation between Fiorentina and Roma in the second half of last year, the Italian Football Federation finally realized the important role of strengthening the attacking atmosphere to improve the attractiveness of the league!
In the view of the Italian Football Association, which already has a sense of danger in times of peace, although Serie A is still the world's No. 1 league with the best players in the world, with Capello, Lippi, Ancelotti and other coaches who pursue the "one-to-zero" doctrine on the stage one after another, the atmosphere of Serie A has gradually become dull and conservative, and it is no longer as open as when the three-point system was first implemented.
Fans clearly prefer a less tactical but passionate game than a star-studded but not spectacular game, as evidenced by the slight drop in Serie A's ratings last season compared to 1997-98!
At the same time, the rise in ratings in La Liga and the English Premier League has also caused alarm among the Italian Football Federation. After all, there is a good saying, taking people's money is like killing parents, and in the eyes of these Italian Football Association officials, these Spanish and English guys are doing this kind of thing now!
As a result, changing the increasingly strict conservative atmosphere of Serie A has been the focus of the Italian Football Federation's work since last summer, and only now has it achieved initial results.
By the way, Zhuang Mingge's conservative and dull tactical play is also one of the reasons why Zhuang Mingge decided to terminate Capello's contract last summer: although Capello can also lead the team to play wonderful attacking football under certain conditions (such as the time when Capello was in charge of Roma in history, when the Red Wolves were known for their powerful attacking power in Serie A), most of the time he will adopt more conservative tactics to maintain the lead...... And now Fiorentina, what is needed is no longer simple victories, but also to attract more fans with these victories!
As a top club, Fiorentina can play conservatively in a few games, which is acceptable, but not for an entire season, because then Fiorentina will inevitably lose a large number of potential fans and adversely affect their popularity around the world.
Why did Juventus in the Lippi and Capello periods have such a brilliant record, but their popularity is not as good as Real Madrid, which dreams of eight years every year? Of course, one of the factors is in the quality of the star, but its conservative and dull and boring style of play is the main culprit for this result!
In contrast, Heynckes is also an old-school coach with the same emphasis on defensive solidity and overall supremacy, but his football philosophy is not as conservative as Capello and Carlo Ancelotti, and the German is not lacking in aggressiveness when the game is dominant. Moreover, in Heynckes' view, the so-called "one-to-zero doctrine" has deviated from the original intention of the creation of ZĂ o and embarked on an extreme path.
Therefore, for the current Fiorentina, Heynckes, who can make reasonable use of existing resources and emphasize the team but does not play conservatively, is the most suitable candidate for the manager.
Getting back to the point, after many internal meetings and discussions, and after preliminary exchanges with Fiorentina, the top three in the north, the Roma duo and many other domestic giants, the Italian Football Association worked out a draft reform, and released a message before the 17th round of Serie A matches were about to begin, calling 18 clubs participating in the Serie A league this season to rush to the headquarters of the Italian Football Association in Rome to discuss major matters!
Having said that, if there is no progress and results at all, the Italian Football Federation will rashly call the leaders of these clubs to Rome, I am afraid that the first thing these bigwigs who have to do hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars per second after arriving in Rome is to directly overthrow the Italian Football Association that dares to tease them, and learn from English clubs to set up a company to run the Serie A league on their own.