The Young Lion

At the awarding ceremony for Mr. Football this year in late 2005, Blatter also presented another award created by himself: the President’s Special Award.

It is awarded to those who have made a special contribution to world football in one year.

This year, the award was given to a person who is no stranger to Chelsea.

Swedish referee Frisco.

The referee was the one who enforced Chelsea against Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League last season and was bombarded by Mourinho after the game. He met with Barcelona coach Rijkaard at the halftime break and violated the rules. , There are allegations that affect the fairness of the game!

This matter was in full swing last season, in the first half of this year. Frisco even received death threats and was forced to announce his withdrawal from the refereeing field.

After a short period of time, Blatter presented this special award to Frisco. The outside world seemed to show comfort, but it was also unavoidable that he was considered a victim.

And made a speech against Chelsea: “If only 11 foreigners are allowed in the 11 starters of a team, then they will focus on the establishment of the youth training system. FIFA is considering such a problem. The number of foreign aid is limited. It is a way, if Chelsea only allows five foreign aids, then Abramovich will not buy the best players in the world and break the market balance. What is happening in Chelsea at the moment should not happen at all, This leads to chaos and disorder.”

Although Blatter pointed at Chelsea, the outside world still believed that Millwall, who was carrying the banner of the Premier League and established a ruling dynasty in Europe, was also criticized!

why?

Look at Millwall’s main starters, and even look at their first team.

How many native English players are there?

Almost invisible!

But Blatter would never dare to accuse Millwall of justice!

Because the focus he elaborated is the cultivation of youth training system.

Millwall is the best representative of youth training in Europe and the world.

UEFA do not dare to make a fuss on this point against Millwall.

According to the current UEFA rules, Millwall has the largest number of young athletes participating in the Champions League every season!

Local cultivation is not related to player nationality.

Just like after two seasons, if Arsenal participate in the European War, Fabregas will be labeled with the Arsenal youth training, and has no dime relationship with Barcelona or Spain. This will be clearly marked in the UEFA official website record. .

Players like Ronaldinho Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Villa, Alonso, De Rossi, etc. of Millwall clearly stated on the UEFA official website: Millwall youth training!

Blatter dared to highlight this point and attacked Millwall, which is equivalent to confronting UEFA and even the European Union. This is a fire.

After Aldridge led his team back to London, he still made the topic clear.

From the outsider’s point of view, he stood up abnormally for the enemy Chelsea.

Millwall during the World Cup.

The 17th round of the Premier League continued as usual. Arsenal’s league performance this season was very bad, and the performance in the strong dialogue was also disappointing. Especially when the home was slaughtered by Millwall, Wenger secretly regretted when he returned to midnight dream, so in Haibu When Chelsea welcomed Chelsea, Wenger didn’t have a face, he played a conservative game with Chelsea. Now some fans have called for Wenger to leave class. In order to keep the coach, he has to bow his head for the record.

Although Chelsea temporarily returned to the top of the standings after Highbury scored 1 point, Millwall missed one game.

Before returning to England to prepare for this matchup with Birmingham, Aldridge attended a press conference.

In response to Blatter’s criticism of the Premier League, and specifically named Chelsea’s remarks, he expressed his views.

“One of FIFA’s responsibilities is to promote the development of football. Mr. Chairman said that Chelsea did not do well. I don’t want to express my opinion. I just want to express my position. Take the players in the Millwall as an example. Billy When he was a child, the living environment was difficult. Millwall brought him to London to let him receive the best football training. Imagine that if we don’t do this, Villa’s growth environment will be different, and the quality of training will be obtained. It certainly does not reach the level in London. This is the reality. The material gap is very intuitive. It has a very obvious effect on the growth of players in a system.”

In fact, UEFA or FIFA, these years have introduced some policies that restrict the transfer of young players. One of the purposes is to prevent clubs like Millwall from prematurely tapping talent resources belonging to other clubs. go.

So Millwall has followed the rules all these years, and will not dig up any young genius who can talk to the club, then everyone will talk according to the rules, they can’t talk, the sales can’t be fair, and there won’t be dirty in the dark. Digging people means.

But from Aldrich’s stand, he did not particularly agree with FIFA and UEFA.

Like in the future, Chelsea will be punished, Barcelona will also be punished, the reasons for the punishment are not the same, Chelsea belongs to being targeted, because the reason for punishing Chelsea is the illegal operation in the recruitment process.

This is debatable, because the agents of the football circle are unwilling to say: almost no club will recruit according to the rules, and everyone will use some sideways to promote the transfer of players!

Of course, a well-behaved club like Millwall is really an extinct creature now.

This naturally also caused Millwall to have a dispute with Ajax, which was almost related to Bo Gongtang. Aldridge did not want to deal with this kind of trouble, because it was a big loss, distracting energy, and not cost-effective.

But other clubs, almost all have a variety of transfer operations violations.

But only Chelsea was fined, which belongs to being targeted!

Barcelona will be fined in the future, it is a violation of the signing, which has little to do with the signing process.

They introduced FIFA to ban players who cannot be recruited, such as U18 players who cannot make international transfers.

From the standpoint of the club, of course, we will spare no effort to protect our own human resources.

But what if you stand in the player’s position?

South Korea’s “Messi” and Japan’s “Messi”, is it better to receive training in Asia from an early age, or is it more helpful to become a talent when you receive training in La Masia at a young age?

The players themselves should also have the power to choose!

This is about the player’s own future! Own life!

Just like a child’s parents will do everything possible to let their children go to a prestigious school, if the government puts in place policies, a child can only choose a school within the local area, not go abroad, or even choose schools across provinces and cities. How much dissatisfaction will this cause?

Those who have no conditions and no capital, choose local schools, have opportunities and have capital, but cannot send their children to a better environment to cultivate talents, this just doesn’t make sense.

Putting on Millwall, Aldridge doesn’t particularly care about whether Millwall’s lineup has players of English nationality. After all, the background of East London is a gathering place for immigrants. A large number of Millwall’s fans are of immigrant descent. In addition, now that they are international teams, the marketing goal is global, who cares about how many English players Millwall has?

However, FIFA really wants to promote the implementation of the foreign aid system in the Premier League step by step, and it is even possible to specifically cancel the unrestricted policy of nationality cultivated locally. In that case, it is very unfavorable for Millwall’s future development.

Aldridge has no absolute confidence in this matter.

Despite the history he has experienced, the development of the Premier League has not changed.

But in the life he is currently experiencing, many changes have taken place in European football. The policy change is one of them, and even includes changes on other continents. Perhaps this is the butterfly effect. For example, Brazil introduced the transfer age of domestic players earlier. Restrictions, such as UEFA earlier introduced the age limit for players’ international transfers.

Although Millwall and Chelsea are rivals.

However, in his stand against UEFA and FIFA, Aldridge’s attitude is very firm.

Millwall and Chelsea are the family affairs of the Premier League.

It doesn’t matter if you tear your face.

When the door can be opened and external pressure is ushered in, as the two teams most watched by the Premier League at this time, the relationship between them can be said to be cold!

Watching a good show on the wall now, maybe Chelsea will be fined in the future, and it is Millwall’s turn to be targeted. Even Millwall may be shot before Chelsea!

After saying something that was a defense of Chelsea, a reporter from the Guardian on Fleet Street brought the topic to the just-finished World Club Cup.

“Sir Hall, in the questionnaire survey conducted by this newspaper, 49% of the fans are: Is the World Club Cup a waste of time? The answer to this question is’Yes’. Do you think this shows that the World Club Cup is in the hearts of fans Low status?”

Aldridge smiled faintly: “I don’t comment, anyway, I think at least if you ask the fans if the World Cup is a waste of time, the fans who will choose the answer of “yes” will definitely not exceed 1%. If it is exceeded, then it means Most of the fans who have been questionnaire surveyed, the national team they support has not entered the World Cup. Oh, if the World Cup is changed to once every two years, it is hard to say.”

A laugh sounded from the scene.

The Fleet Street reporters cast an admiring glance at Aldridge without knowing it.

In a word, the news is here again.

Aldridge is fighting back Blatter!

Blatter is not only keen to use the World Club Cup to circulate money, he is also actively promoting the ridiculous proposal of “the World Cup is held once every two years”.

The Guardian reporter continued to ask: “The World Club Cup reflects the disparity between the rich and the poor in world football, Millwall’s player value, player salary, player lineup composition, etc. A huge gap, even several times, tens of times, and hundreds of times overtook the opponent. In such a tasteless game, Millwall went to Wanli to participate, but in the finals, the main players spent a lot of energy, and now return to the Premier League to participate In the make-up, there are tough Devil schedules behind, don’t you think about it? Or, although fans think that the World Club Cup is a waste of time, do you care more about this championship trophy?”

Aldridge frowned.