The Young Lion

In fact, before the opening of the German World Cup, the black whistle scandal in the Bundesliga, the long-term weakness of the national team, the problems in the construction of the World Cup venues, etc., made Germany widely questioned and criticized, but when the World Cup came, people were surprised The discovery of the Germans, who have always been known for their rigidity, set off an unstoppable passion frenzy.

The flag is everywhere. In front of the house, cars, and streets are full of helpful fans. An unprecedented passion is sweeping across Germany!

June 9, Munich.

Munich World Cup Stadium (namely Allianz Arena, but Allianz is not a World Cup sponsor. During the World Cup, the stadium was called the Munich World Cup Stadium).

Aldrich took his family to the opening ceremony and sat on the VIP stand. The position that the organizing committee arranged for him was really conspicuous. He was sitting beside Beckenbauer.

In addition to the cultural performances at the opening ceremony, Southgate, who has retired, represented the England national team in the Hercules Cup and symbolically returned the championship trophy to FIFA. The round of competition begins again!

In the opening game, the German team took advantage of Costa Rica. The German team led by Klinsmann was actually awkward. It was considered to be in a transition stage. It had to rely on the old to support the scene and promote young players. It was a bit like a “predecessor planting a tree”. Character.

The victory of the German team made the whole country jubilant, and Aldridge just simply appreciated the game. Under the atmosphere of bursting in the stadium, he only felt worthwhile.

After the game, Aldridge had a separate conversation with Beckenbauer.

Scene words naturally need not be talked about.

As the last World Cup champion coach, and his unprecedented coaching accomplishments, Aldridge can come to support, of course, will add a lot to the German World Cup.

The focus of the two discussions is football politics.

Beckenbauer hopes that Aldridge can temporarily suppress the pressure of the G14 on UEFA.

G14 has never been a role in line with UEFA.

As Millwall began to play the leading role in G14, the voice of G14 to the outside world will naturally have Millwall’s will.

Half a year after the UEFA presidential election, Beckenbauer hopes that the G14 will temporarily dormant to avoid putting too much pressure on UEFA and creating external difficulties for Johansson’s re-election.

For such a request, Aldridge agreed.

However, after their conversation ended, Aldridge returned to the hotel to think about the problem carefully, only to find the core of the problem.

Johansson promised that UEFA’s internal chaos would end, reassuring Aldridge.

Well, it certainly means that Johansson and Beckenbauer can win!

Beckenbauer came out to find Aldridge again, and the tone of the conversation seemed to let Aldridge help John Pine to be re-elected smoothly.

Where is the problem?

Who is the next UEFA president?

According to the intelligence collected by most European media before.

Johansson is about to abdicate!

Please, he is not only 76 years old, but also suffering from cancer, he also repeatedly expressed the intention to abdicate and let Xianxian.

The outside world believes that Johansson will support Beckenbauer as a high-ranking successor, and he can be called the hand-in-hand successor of Johansson who cultivated and paved the road with all his strength!

However, in his conversation with Aldrich, Beckenbauer also hated Platini’s campaign stance, but he seemed to be intrigued by the position of the UEFA president.

Platini is engaged in “charitable poverty alleviation”. He is the enemy of the “European elite”. It can be said that the G14 will never like Platini. On the contrary, if Beckenbauer can uphold the concept of Johansson Then, G14 can even fully support Beckenbauer.

Johansson can understand that for football to develop, first of all, the superstructure must be very luxurious!

Football stars, star teams, this is an important factor to attract the outside world.

The success of the Champions League is also due to the existence of “European elite”, without these giants, the Champions League is worthless!

But if it’s like the one promoted by Platini, what’s more, Macedonian fans not only want to see Zidane on TV, they also want to see their team in the Champions League with the team represented by Zidane In the match, they have the right to enjoy football, we will try our best to achieve this! The same is true of other European countries.”

This is simply shit!

Who can imagine a group of teams from Malta, Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and other countries appearing on the Champions League one day?

Yes, that’s right, it seems that the Champions League is covered in a wider range. In theory, it is good for promoting football and improving the brand.

However, like Millwall, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern, etc., to play teams from these countries, do you need to be in the main lineup?

In addition, who will be squeezed out of these participating civilian teams?

Platini is a great player, but after his identity became a football politician, his philosophy made European elites disagree and even resisted resolutely.

G14 naturally does not want to see Platini elected, at this time, Platini is still an ally of Blatter.

On this matter, Aldridge called Carter at night to discuss.

“I can’t figure out right now whether Johansson will go for a firm election or Beckenbauer! European media have said that Beckenbauer will be the next UEFA president, but Beckenbauer is The tone of my talk seems to have other ideas!”

After listening to Aldridge’s elaboration, Carter pondered for a while on the other end of the phone and replied indefinitely after a long time: “There will certainly not be a split between Beckenbauer and Johansson, but listening to what you said seems to be the two’s intentions The difference is, I think, Johansson’s position is affirmative. If he goes to run, the odds are not too great. In the past two years, he has been building momentum for Beckenbauer. He has stated that he will retire many times. It’s not enough anymore. In addition, he still has health risks. At the age of 76, he will be 77 by the end of the year! If Beckenbauer runs for election, he should be stable.”

Aldridge felt the same way.

If Johansson did not suffer from cancer, and he did not reveal the intention of abdicating many times in the past two years, then Johansson will continue to run, and there is still great hope for re-election.

But they were all ready to give way, and then they repented at this time, quite a bit self-confident.

“Then Beckenbauer wouldn’t be a direct UEFA presidential candidate! But he didn’t seem to have that meaning, otherwise, why didn’t he clarify the words with me, as long as he said he would run, I can give him on behalf of G14 All the promises he wants.”

“Uh, I think the problem might be the World Cup.”

“World Cup? What does the World Cup have to do with UEFA?”

“Two years ago, Beckenbauer may still be on thin ice. After all, the outside world has serious doubts and criticisms about hosting the World Cup in Germany, but today, the World Cup has received a huge response from the opening. The outside world has received praise. As the organizing committee of the World Cup Madam President, what kind of praise will Beckenbauer get behind and behind the stage, and how will today’s success stimulate his ambition?”

“So what is he going to do? Ambitious, okay, to be UEFA president! What could make him more than UEFA president…”

Aldridge said half of it suddenly stopped talking.

Because he suddenly thought of a sensational thing in the next few years in the original history.

That was the bribery scandal that the World Cup applied for.

Beckenbauer was also involved.

It was Fleet Street that was exposed.

However, the point is not a scandal. The scandal itself existed during the bid for the World Cup, but it was only exposed.

It was Beckenbauer’s identity at the time, he was a FIFA!

He works for FIFA!

In fact, after the end of the Johansson era, Platini was in power, Aldridge had never heard much about Beckenbauer’s deeds in the football political circle, and the German football Caesar was not very glamorous in front of the stage. Beautiful.

However, thinking about it now, Aldridge probably guessed why Beckenbauer, who was so loud before Johansson lost to Platini, would disappear in the next few years!

“I received the wind from Germany. Beckenbauer seems to have lost interest in the position of UEFA President. The German media revealed that the wind is that Beckenbauer is going to run for the FIFA Executive Committee. The goal is The chair of FIFA. But the news is not sure, and there is not much media hype. After all, it is during the World Cup, but one thing is certain, the German World Cup is important to Beckenbauer’s political capital.”

After Carter finished talking about these winds he heard, he didn’t get Aldridge’s response for a long time. For a while, Aldridge sighed helplessly and said goodbye to Carter.

He understood a little bit why there was a subtle difference in the attitude of allies in the trench between Johnson and Beckenbauer.

Johansson really wanted to put Beckenbauer on the throne of UEFA.

However, the success of the World Cup in Germany made Beckenbauer’s ambition inflated. He wanted to step into the sky and directly overthrow Blatter’s rule to become the head of the next FIFA.

As a result, he and Johansson had huge differences in their strategic lines.

Johansson wanted Beckenbauer to defend Europe. This is the most important territory for FIFA, and it is the most important. It has long been the territory of FIFA as an enemy role.

Beckenbauer now changes his mind, and in turn hopes that Johansson will hold on for another term. He will go to FIFA to expand his territory, and he will go further!

To put it simply, Johansson wants to stay true, but Beckenbauer wants to be aggressive.

Perhaps Beckenbauer felt that it was absolutely okay for Johansson to hold the position of UEFA President and give him the backing to challenge Blatter!

Relatively speaking, FIFA’s strategy is quite simple. Blatter fully supports Platini, who is now an ally and his younger brother. If it fails, there is no loss.

So only after the defeat of Johansson’s campaign, FIFA turned around to soothe Beckenbauer and let him be elected as a FIFA executive committee, but actually made Beckenbauer enemies from the inside and out, it is impossible to get involved in the FIFA chairmanship. Retreat, but the foundation of the European territory was cleaned up by Platini. In football politics, it has long become the main theme of Platini and Blatter from allies to anti-object struggle. .

Aldridge was very helpless about this. He couldn’t call to remind Johansson or Beckenbauer. If you didn’t say a steady win, at least you didn’t lose. You adjusted the strategy, and in the end, the chicken flew.

Why do people listen to him!