Joseph Blatt, known as the tumbler in football, has served as the Secretary-General of FIFA since 1981 and was elected as the president of FIFA in 1998. He has always been an evergreen tree in international football.

Some people even call him a dictator behind his back.

As an old player who has been living in international football all his life, Blatt knows more than anyone how to play this set of rules of the game.

In 2007, Platini defeated Johnson and was elected as the president of UEFA. Many people said that he was deeply grateful for Blatt's true teaching.

They are like masters and apprentices. Platini is under Blatt, but now coaching UEFA, he has begun to challenge Blatt. There are even reports that Platini intends to run for FIFA president in the future.

This is what major European football powers hope to see.

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FIFA has more than 200 members, including world powers like China and the United States, developed and wealthy countries like Germany, Britain, and France, but also poor African countries like Uganda.

This institution pursues democracy and votes. Big and small countries, rich and poor countries are equal before FIFA, and everyone holds a precious vote in their hands.

This creates a very interesting situation, that is, it occupies the vast majority of small and poor countries. They do not have too many demands. Their football level is very low and their economic level is also very low. They do not have much demand at all. They have neither league nor want to host the World Cup. Some do not even have the intention and funds to develop football.

However, they have a precious vote.

In Europe, such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain, they have the world's top leagues, constantly opening up their own markets around the world, expanding their influence, and earning broadcast fees and commercial sponsorships from all over the world. They actively participate in FIFA's business.

In the FIFA system, these strong and rich countries are seeking FIFA.

So how should I play this game?

The answer is simple. Blatt understands it very well, that is, to obtain more resources from the rich and powerful countries that have sought out FIFA to please small and weak countries that hold votes in their hands, have no desires and no desires for FIFA, but have real power, have insufficient success, but have more than failures.

This trading method has made Blatt's position in FIFA as stable as Mount Tai. Although his relationship with UEFA is extremely poor and his relationship with major European football powers is also very indifferent, in fact, over the years, almost no one has been able to shake his position in the world football world.

Within FIFA, he is also just talking about it.

As his personal disciple, Platini has definitely learned his true teachings.

In the campaign to defeat Johnson and be elected as UEFA president, Platini supported the small and weak countries within UEFA and fought against the big and powerful countries behind Johnson. This tactical style was fully played out, and he eventually defeated Johnson.

After being elected as the president of UEFA, Platini also believed in his strategy more, so he began to vigorously support small and medium-sized countries within UEFA, and even did not hesitate to tamper with the group stage and knockout draws in the UEFA Champions League, so that small and medium-sized countries can also get a share of this piece of fat.

When dealing with UEFA's major clubs, Platini is absolutely unambiguous when taking action. Not only does he use layers of clauses, but he also sets obstacles in finance and other aspects, and tries every means to suppress wealthy families and giants. The famous g14 group was completely disbanded in his hands.

The two generations of master and apprentice have been doing well in FIFA and UEFA, which also makes everyone feel that the person who will succeed Blatt in the future must be his personal disciple Platini.

Don't think that only football does this.

Wrong!

Let’s talk about the Olympic Committee. When the Koreans bid for the Olympics, the South Korean president personally went to Africa to lobby, promising that if African countries vote for South Korea, they would dispatch special planes during the World Cup to bring athletes from all African countries to South Korea for competition and send them back to Africa after the Olympics.

This is definitely a huge sum of money for poor African countries. Even South Korea, which was the four Asian little dragons back then, had a considerable amount of money, but it eventually helped South Korea win the right to host the Olympics.

As for the South Korea-Japan World Cup in 2002, there were more tricks.

It can be said that such a gameplay is no longer new, but as long as the rules have not changed, it will definitely work.

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He even followed the essence of Blatt Shendu's gameplay, whether in managing FIFA or dealing with people. This time, when talking about the Golden Globes between Yang Yang and Messi at Oxford, he also adopted this strategy.

Messi, a world superstar, no one will deny Messi's strength and talent, but he has been in the shadow of Yang Yang for many years. Moreover, he was born in Argentina, which is a sharp contrast with Yang Yang, who is backed by the powerful China.

Blatt did not think carefully at the time, but just considered this issue according to his inertial thinking over the past few decades. He believed that from the perspective of FIFA, it is not a good thing for Yang Yang to monopolize the Golden Ball Awards all year round, and he now has a lot of voices in supporting Messi, so he chose to support the weak to challenge the strong.

But what surprised him was that not only did his strategy not work, but instead caused him a lot of trouble.

He suddenly realized that he had mastered his skills in the past few decades, and his tried and tested tricks were useless.

Originally, he wanted to suppress Yang Yang and support Messi, but the public opinion outside completely reversed, and most people actually supported Yang Yang with a clear position. What was going on?

Blatt has been reflecting on this phenomenon these days, and his subordinates have come to a preliminary conclusion, that is, Yang Yang is indeed stronger and his performance is indeed better. This is different from some of the operating methods of FIFA in the past, because the strong are king on the football field.

In fact, if FIFA really wants to support Messi, he doesn't need Blatter to come forward and directly give the prize to Messi. There is no big problem, because before Blatter comes forward, according to the odds offered by the famous bookmaker, Messi's probability of winning was 1.8, ranking first, while Yang Yang only had 3.5, ranking second.

But after Blatter made his remarks, public opinion quickly reversed. The latest odds that William Hill just issued, Yang Yang's winning odds exceeded Messi, reaching 1.36. Messi, who has been in a sluggish state, fell to 3.2.

Gambling companies are the most sensitive to the market's public opinion. They make a living by relying on this. Although the odds do not mean winning the prize, they can initially reflect the public opinion. Most people support Yang Yang.

This undoubtedly roasts FIFA and Blatt on the fire.

What's even more terrible is that Yang Yang already has the confidence and determination to challenge FIFA.

His agent Raiola had come forward and publicly stated that he would prevent Yang Yang from going to Zurich to attend the FIFA awards conference before Blatt publicly apologized, which was undoubtedly an ultimatum to FIFA.

If Yang Yang does not come to attend the FIFA Awards Conference, the influence of this event will be greatly reduced. Even if Messi wins the award, he will still be questioned overwhelmingly. If Yang Yang wins the award, it will be even more of a nightmare.

The current Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy also recently publicly stated that he is a real Madrid fan. "If I can vote, I will definitely vote for Yang Yang. He always impressed me. He is a player who gives everything on the court and always gives his all."

Not only that, from the current votes received by FIFA from the head coaches and captains of national teams from member countries around the world, as well as media from various countries, Yang Yang has soared by the recent blowout and Blatt's own "boosts" that Yang Yang's popularity has soared.

This made FIFA very worried. If Yang Yang really won the award but was absent, FIFA would definitely become a laughing stock in the world, but if Blatt was asked to cheat, he would not dare.

Although everyone says that Blatt is a digitist of FIFA, in fact, it is not a solid piece of the inside. If Blatt is caught with a braid, he will be disgraced immediately. Besides, now that the media is so developed, what tricks can be covered up?

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“We have issued an urgent notice calling on players, coaches or journalists who have not had time to vote, or have ‘hope’ to vote again, to continue voting by October 29 and have ‘guided’ the vote.”

The right-hand assistant sat in front of Blatt, frowned, but said carefully.

"I didn't leave any tricks, right?" Blatt's old voice came.

During this period, his pressure was greater than ever before, and he seemed to have grown older.

"No, we handled it very carefully, but judging from the current survey, the results are difficult to predict."

What is hard to predict is that it is possible for Yang Yang or Messi to win this Golden Globe Award.

Originally, the voting for the Golden Globe Awards ended on November 15th, but unexpectedly, Blatter deliberately postponed it to the 29th day and asked his right-hand assistants to call one by one to "guid" the vote, but the result was still unpredictable.

"Now there is a lot of public opinion outside. Yang Yang did not come forward in person, but asked the agent to come out, and wanted to leave room for maneuver. If he really asked him to come forward in person and say irreversible things, it would be too late."

When Blatt heard this, a harsh look flashed through his turbid eyes, "Do you want me to apologize publicly?"

If the matter has come to this point, what will happen if he apologizes publicly?

The man opposite was silent and dared not speak anymore.

He knew what the result would look like, but this was the best stop loss plan he could think of now.

If Blatt really wants to blame, he should blame himself for being unrestrained at Oxford University?
Chapter completed!