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Chapter 745 Ou Chao Ou Chao!

The idea of ​​Berlusconi and others has won the support of many wealthy families.

In 1998, representatives from 14 clubs including Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Milan, Juventus, Inter Milan, Manchester United, Liverpool, Bayern, Dortmund, Marseille, Paris, Ajax, PSV, and Porto gathered in Brussels, Belgium, to formally establish G14. .

In November of the same year, the rules and regulations of G11 were officially released.However, the goal of G14 at this time is still very different from that in the future, so we will call it "the first stage of G14".

For UEFA, they must not tolerate the behavior of major giants breaking away from management and establishing their own.

Therefore, the idea of ​​Berlusconi and others asking for the formation of the European Super League was resolutely rejected.

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

Not long after, UEFA issued an official statement, announcing that since the 99-00 season, the biggest reform in the history of the three major European cups has been carried out-the European Cup Winners' Cup has been cancelled, and according to the ranking of European club competition results, each country can send 1 player. -4 teams will participate in the European Champions Cup; in the Champions Cup, there will be two stages of group round-robin matches, and the No.3 of each group in the first stage can continue to participate in the UEFA Cup.

Through the exploration of UEFA's attitude, G14 gradually realized that it is unrealistic to establish a European Super League on its own. Since UEFA has changed the UEFA Champions League system and given up some benefits, it is better to abandon the previous confrontational attitude that is on the verge of daggers. Instead, it counterbalances the influence of UEFA from various angles in order to achieve the purpose of ensuring the interests of the club.

In the next few years, G14 focused most of their attention on seeking compensation from UEFA.

For example, in 2004, Morocco international Olmos, who played for the Belgian club Charleroi, was accidentally injured in the national team game and had to miss a lot of club games.

In order to make up for the loss, the Charleroi club asked UEFA for compensation, but was ruthlessly rejected.

This incident became the fuse of a new round of conflict between G14 and UEFA. The increasingly influential G14 took advantage of public opinion to quickly launch an attack. In 2006, it filed a lawsuit against UEFA, claiming that FIFA should pay the major players in the past 10 years. The economic loss of 8.6 million euros caused by the free use of the club international by the national team.

In order to win this lawsuit, G14 can be said to have tried 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 Act" that can change the order of football.

The world is hilarious, all come for profit.

The reason why G14 worked so hard on this matter is because once it can force FIFA to pass the compensation bill, the major clubs can further increase their interests.

G14's lawyer Pent stated in the court statement that the 2016 World Cup in Germany will generate about 25 billion euros in revenue, but the clubs that provide so many excellent players to the various national teams will not get any profit sharing. unfairness.

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

But the G14 is still dissatisfied with this. What they want is a fixed compensation specification with clear text standards, rather than a vague "appropriate compensation".

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

Sitting on most of the world's stars, coupled with the increasing influence, G14 at that time seemed to have become another UEFA in European football.

In order to remove this thorn in the flesh, the two major powers of UEFA and FIFA made a breakthrough alliance, spotted the Achilles heel of disunity within G14, and prepared to seize the vital point and deliver a fatal blow.

Speaking of the disbandment of G14, Barcelona seems to be forever "blame".

People always think that the reason why G14 fell apart was because Barcelona "secretly communicated" with UEFA to encourage several teams that did not often participate in the Champions League, which eventually set off a huge internal storm.

But is this really the case?

There is no doubt that the Red and Blues at that time had long since quit, but the other dozen teams were not puppets arranged by others.

Even though Barcelona has great influence and strength, it is very difficult to shake other teams by itself, or even directly destroy the G14 league.

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

This incident officially opened the conflict between G14 and FIFA regarding compensation for the national team.

However, due to FIFA's ambiguous statement, although the compensation for the national team competition has been implemented a long time ago, it has never become a clear and clear text description.

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

G14's desire for compensation for the national team's events became their biggest internal weakness. The then UEFA President Michel Platini and the then FIFA President Blatter jointly formulated a targeted confrontation and disintegration strategy.

Platini came forward to lobby the G14 members, saying that as long as they are willing to withdraw, FIFA will formally pass the agreement on compensation for the national team.

Aulas, the chairman of G14 at the time, was the chairman of Lyon in Ligue [-]. When Lyon player Abidal was injured on behalf of the French national team, the Lyon club asked FIFA to pay compensation for this, but it ended in failure.

Therefore, Aulas found Platini and once again expressed his importance to the compensation of the national team.Platini took this opportunity to vigorously lobby Aulas, conveying to him that as long as G14 is disbanded, FIFA will do its best to meet the basic interests of the club.

Under the joint "encirclement and suppression" of FIFA and UEFA, and the chips they offered really moved the G14 members, all major teams realized that it would be meaningless to continue the endless confrontation.

The reason why they established the G14 alliance is to grab more benefits from UEFA. Now that UEFA is willing to make concessions, the value of G14 has been fully reflected.

2008年1月16日凌晨，存在长达10年的G14走到了生命的尽头。

FIFA and UEFA jointly issued a letter of intent on giving clubs more rights and interests. As a concession, G14 also announced the end of its mission.

Like Platini's promise in lobbying, after the disbandment of G14, UEFA gave a huge benefit tilt as promised.

"The resolution will involve UEFA and FIFA in a series of commitments including financial compensation to clubs for players injured in European Championships and World Cups," Platini said.

In this way, G14 has completely disappeared in the dust of history. They seem to have completely failed in the struggle with UEFA, but is this really the case?
After the disbandment of G14, each member received a huge compensation payment from UEFA for the national team event-2.52 million US dollars.

In addition, in the same year that G14 was disbanded, 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 across Europe have successively joined the association, and the former betrayers—G14 members are still very popular, and the presidents of many clubs have successively served as ECA presidents.

In other words, ECA can be understood as the "G14 League" recognized by UEFA.They are under the jurisdiction of UEFA and FIFA, but they have the basic right to protect their own interests.

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

The purpose of Florentino's visit to the giants this time is to restart the "European Super League"?
Why did he suddenly restart the European Super League?

This inevitably attracted the attention of many media and fans.

(End of this chapter)