Chapter 450: Post-Match Turmoil (Continued)
PS: In the new week, I hope you will say a lot of support~
After Flores was severely punished and announced his retirement, UEFA used this as an opportunity to launch a vigorous refereeing campaign in its jurisdiction, and as a result, it also unexpectedly caught a large number of referees who took bribes and blew the whistle in the game. Of course, most of these cases have occurred in the lower leagues, and the top leagues have not found such incidents due to the different levels of attention.
Under UEFA's orders, many referees who have been controversial in matches have been forced to re-learn the rules of football and deepen their understanding in the process.
At the same time, UEFA also announced an update news: from today, when there are major penalties in the game that can determine the outcome of the game (such as red cards, penalty kicks, suspense goals), the referee must make a decision based on the slow-motion replay to ensure the fairness of the game.
Of course, considering the difficulty of implementing this work, UEFA requires that it first start with the three major European cups and the four major leagues, and then adjust and improve according to the actual situation, and gradually expand the scope of implementation.
Although many football associations have a lot of gaps in the number of referees due to this rectification, the fairness of the game has been guaranteed, and the fans also enjoy this kind of game without much controversy.
Zhuang Mingge is very concerned about the rectification of referees, after all, a referee's professional quality and conscience can almost determine the direction of the game.
Zhuang Mingge has never neglected the role that referees can play in the game, as evidenced by the three black-to-black matches of the Korean baseball in the Shijie Cup in '02 and the Stamford Bridge tragedy in the spring of '09.
Of course, what Zhuang Mingge didn't expect was that another positive effect of UEFA's order was to make it extremely difficult for players to fake falls. After all, if you want to fake a penalty in the penalty area, then the players' acting skills must be very superb, because this time the players will not only have to fool the eyes of the referee, but also the cameras scattered around the stadium.
Want to fake a fall? Then you must at least make it impossible for the camera to distinguish the difference between a fake fall and a real fall, otherwise once the truth is captured in slow motion, what awaits you will be the endless anger of the referee...... And, depending on the severity of the circumstances, the player who faked the fall may also be given a yellow card.
As a result, UEFA's order unexpectedly significantly reduced the number of fake falls in matches, leaving the fans with no chance of survival.
"Thank you, President Johansson, for your help this time, and Florence will always remember that it was you who extended your hand to us at this juncture." Zhuang Mingge solemnly thanked John Song on the phone, after all, people have done you such a big favor, and it is really unreasonable not to express your gratitude.
Although due to the sensitivity of the status and identity of the two, it is better to avoid private contact or anything, after all, once this kind of thing is discovered by the paparazzi, it will be a storm, and maybe the next day there will be reports that the UEFA president has a close relationship with the Fiorentina president, intending to ensure that the purple lily wins the Champions League or something......
So, now it's the best way to express your gratitude verbally, and when something really happens, to help John Song.
As the president of UEFA, and at the same time, he can still wrestle his wrist with FIFA and Havelange, Johansson can naturally be regarded as a human spirit, and he basically understood all the thoughts in Zhuang Mingge's heart, and he basically understood all the thoughts in his mind, so he tacitly did not break it: "Haha, Chairman Corleone, you are so polite, you also helped me when G14 was established, didn't you?" Besides, I also watched the video of the match from the Fiorentina semi-final. Some referees are indeed too presumptuous in their behavior during the game, and if they are not stopped in time, football will sooner or later lose a large number of potential fans due to the misdeeds of these referees. ”
Subsequently, Zhuang Mingge and John Song exchanged a few polite words on the phone before hanging up the phone.
To be honest, Zhuang Mingge still has a good impression of this old Swede, although in history he inevitably made some mistakes after the arrival of the Bosman Act era, such as rashly expanding the League Cup, which not only led to the demise of the Winners' Cup, but also made the influence of the League Cup decline day by day. But in general, every reform he made to European football was done with good intentions, hoping that European football would become the center of all-shijie football.
At the same time, Johansson has never used the referee to play against the Blues in terms of fixtures and opponents, and will never use the referee to blackmail the opponent during the game.
In Zhuang Mingge's eyes, the Swede's successor, Platini, has done a much worse job in this regard. It can be said that there were far more off-the-beaten-flagged European games in the Purgandad era than in the Johansson era, the most famous of which was the Norwegian Henin, the referee from the Norwegian league can be said to be controversial, and the most famous incident he personally caused was the Stamford Bridge tragedy in 09, in which he turned a blind eye to Barcelona's fouls and handballs in the box a total of five times, and made the opposite decision on several occasions.
The Norwegian referee has many feats, such as blowing away a good ball from Italian striker Toney in the group stage of Euro 08 and wrongly awarding a penalty to Romania, which led to a 1-1 draw for Italy; In the 10-year Shijie Cup qualifier play-off between France and Ireland, he also did not have any doubts about Thierry Henry's handball goal; In the quarterfinals of the Champions League in the 09-10 season, he not only ignored Bayern striker Klose's 2-meter offside header, but also severely sent Fiorentina player Massimo Gobby off with a red card, which directly led to the purple lily's lack of hatred due to away goals.
While it's true that there is no direct evidence that UEFA is suspected of manipulating the game, don't take the fans for fools, right?! With a little brainstorming, you can see that there is something wrong with these games!
With so many suspicious matches not investigated, Platini and UEFA under his control not only never responded in these aspects, but also tirelessly pursued the so-called financial fair play policy! Real Madrid and Barcelona are financially healthy because they are members, and the Premier League and Serie A teams violate the rules because they have money from their owners, which reason is this?
Therefore, Zhuang Mingge still hopes that Johansson can continue to work in the position of UEFA president, if he really puts Platini on the stage, God knows what kind of trouble this former football superstar will make.