The vision of Berlusconi and others has won the support of many giants.

In 1998, representatives of 14 clubs, including Real Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Juventus, Inter, Manchester United, Liverpool, Bayern, Dort, Marseille, Grand Paris, Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Porto, gathered in Brussels, Belgium to officially establish G14.

In November of the same year, the rules and regulations of G14 were officially released. However, the goals of G14 at this time are still very different from those after that, so we will call it "G14 Phase I".

For UEFA FC, they cannot tolerate the big clubs breaking away from management and setting their own doors.

As a result, Berlusconi and others' call for a European Super League was firmly rejected.

But in order to calm the situation and avoid a complete falling out with the major clubs, UEFA is also willing to make certain concessions.

Soon after, UEFA issued an official statement, announcing the biggest reform in the history of the three major European cups from the 99~00 season - the European Cup Winners' Cup was canceled, and according to the ranking of European club competitions, countries can send 1-4 teams to participate in the European Champions Cup; There will be two stages of group round-robin matches in the Champions Cup, with the third place finishers from each group in the first stage going on to participate in the League Cup.

Through the exploration of UEFA's attitude, G14 gradually realized that it is unrealistic to want to set up a European Super League on its own, and since UEFA has changed the Champions League format and ceded some of its interests, it is better to abandon the previous tension and confrontation attitude, and instead counter UEFA's influence from all angles to achieve the purpose of ensuring the interests of the club.

In the years that followed, the G14 focused much of their attention on demanding compensation from UEFA.

For example, Morocco international Olmos, who played for Belgian club Charleroy in 2004, suffered an unexpected injury during a national team match and had to miss a large number of club games.

In order to make up for the loss, Charleroy then demanded compensation from UEFA, but was ruthlessly refused.

This incident became the fuse of a new round of conflict between the G14 and UEFA, and the increasingly influential G14 took advantage of the advantage of public opinion to quickly attack and filed a lawsuit against UEFA in 2006, claiming that FIFA should pay for the economic losses of 860 million euros caused by the international players of major clubs being used by the national team for free in the past 10 years.

In order to win this lawsuit, G14 can be said to have done their best, even at the expense of completely abandoning the European Super League plan that has been structured for many years, in order to come up with another "Olmos method" that is enough to change the order of football.

The world is bustling, all for profit.

The reason why the G14 is working so this matter is because if they can force FIFA to pass a compensation law, the major clubs can further increase their interests.

G14's lawyer, Pente, said in court that the 2016 World Cup in Germany will generate around 2.5 billion euros, but it is extremely unfair that the clubs that provide so many good players for each national team will not receive any profit share.

Under the G14's long tug-of-war offensive, FIFA also had to make concessions. Thereafter, if a player is injured while playing for the national team, the country's football federation will provide appropriate compensation to the club.

However, the G14 is still not satisfied with this, and they want a fixed and clear standard of compensation, rather than an ambiguous "appropriate compensation".

Therefore, the struggle between the two sides did not end for a long time.

With most of the world's stars and growing influence, the G14 at that time seemed to have become another UEFA in European football.

In order to pull out this thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, UEFA and FIFA have made a breakthrough alliance to see the Achilles' heel of the disunity within the G14 and prepare to seize the key point and deliver a fatal blow.

Speaking of the dissolution of the G14, Barcelona seems to be carrying the "black cauldron" forever.

People always think that the reason why G14 collapsed was because Barcelona "secretly connected" with UEFA, picked up a few teams that do not often participate in the Champions League, and finally set off a huge wave within the country.

But is that really the case?

There is no doubt that the Red and Blue have long since retreated, but the other dozen or so teams are not puppets arranged by others.

Even if Barcelona has a huge influence and strength, it is very difficult to shake other teams on their own, or even destroy the G14 league directly.

Therefore, the real reason for the dissolution of the G14 must not be entirely blamed on Barcelona alone.

This incident officially opened a conflict between G14 and FIFA over compensation for national team events.

However, due to FIFA's unclear statement, although the compensation for national team events has been implemented for a long time, it has never become a clear and unambiguous textual explanation.

Therefore, the G14 has always been dissatisfied with this and wants to seek more benefits in the compensation of the national team through other means.

The G14's desire for compensation for national team matches became their biggest weakness within them, and then-UEFA president Michel Platini and then-FIFA president Blatter jointly developed a targeted strategy to dismantle the confrontation.

It was Platini who lobbied the G14 members, saying that as long as they were willing to withdraw, FIFA would formally approve an agreement on compensation for national team events.

The then G14 president, Olas, was the president of Ligue 1 Lyon, and when Lyon's Abidal was injured while playing for the French national team, the Lyon club demanded compensation from FIFA, but it ended in failure.

As a result, Olas approached Platini and reaffirmed the importance he attaches to compensation for the national team's events. Platini took the opportunity to lobby Olas vigorously, conveying to him that FIFA would do everything possible to meet the club's basic interests as long as the G14 was disbanded.

Under the joint "encirclement" of FIFA and UEFA, and the chips they offered, the G14 members were really impressed, and the major teams realized that there was no point in continuing to fight like this.

The reason why they formed the G14 alliance is to take back more benefits from the UEFA alliance, and now that UEFA is willing to make concessions, the value of the G14's existence has been fully reflected.

In the early morning of January 16, 2008, G14, which had existed for 10 years, came to the end of its life.

FIFA and UEFA jointly issued a letter of intent to give more rights to the club, and as a concession, the G14 also announced the end of its mission.

Like Platini's lobbying promises, UEFA has given a huge tilt of interest after the dissolution of the G14.

"This resolution will allow UEFA and FIFA to intervene in a series of commitments, including financial compensation to clubs for injuries sustained during their participation in the European Championship and World Cup," Platini said. ”

In this way, the G14 completely disappeared into the dust of history, and they seemed to have lost the battle against UEFA, but is this really the case?

After the dissolution of the G14, the members received a huge payment of $252 million from UEFA for the national team competition.

In addition, in the same year that the G14 was dissolved, FIFA and UEFA jointly established the European Football Club Association, which is fully responsible for the rights and interests of major clubs in Europe.

Since then, hundreds of teams from all over Europe have joined the association, but the former traitors, the G14 members, are still in high demand, and many club presidents have served as ECA presidents.

In other words, ECA can be understood as the "G14 League" recognized by UEFA. They are governed by UEFA and FIFA, but have a fundamental right to protect their interests.

In this context, European football has experienced a relatively stable development environment for more than 10 years, and the major giants can basically maintain the same position with UEFA on the bright side, despite the undercurrents.

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