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Chapter 400: The unreliable guard with a knife! Give me back the Golden Globe you owe me! [A big chapter with ten thousand words, please beg me to subscribe]

After entering December, Atletico Madrid's schedule is really intensive.

After playing against Deportivo La Coruña, before the team had time to taste the joy of victory, everyone had to pack their bags and board an Emirates Airline plane to fly to Japan.

There is absolutely no doubt about Atletico Madrid's popularity in Japan.

Especially in the past three years, Atletico Madrid has won the Champions League consecutively, which has made Atletico Madrid's name even more famous around the world.

Japan is undoubtedly a very strong-willed nation, and they almost worship super giants like Atletico Madrid.

Over the past few years, Atletico Madrid has also become very familiar with the Club World Cup schedule.

This is like a vacation for the Sheets Army.

The team arrived in Japan on the 10th, trained in the morning on the 11th, and had a holiday in the afternoon.

We will have a day off in the morning on the 12th and resume training in the afternoon.

On the evening of the 13th, Atletico Madrid easily beat the Monterrey Club from Mexico 5-0 at the Yokohama International Stadium.

More importantly, Atletico Madrid did not try their best in this game.

Hazard's outburst allowed everyone to see the strength of Atletico Madrid's players on the bench.

Although the Belgian only scored 1 goal, he contributed 4 assists. One person turned Monterrey's defense upside down, allowing everyone to see "Messi" on the left side of Atletico Madrid.

Everyone was stunned!

Yang Hao also spoke highly of Hazard after the game, believing that the Belgian is one of the most anticipated young players in Atletico Madrid.

"From him, we can feel his unique talent at any time, and from the youth team to the first team, I think his biggest change is that his attitude towards football has become serious and focused."

"He wants to play more games so he needs to have a better attitude."

Currently, Atletico Madrid has four very good wingers.

David Silva has not experienced major injuries and is more of a winger, but he is capable of playing on both sides, as are Hazard and Di Maria.

These three wingers, plus Messi, allow Atletico Madrid's two wings to maintain strong offensive power at all times.

More importantly, all four of these players are direct descendants of Atletico Madrid's own youth training.

Needless to say, Messi, David Silva and Di Maria, Hazard also came to Atletico Madrid's youth training camp very early.

It is this emotional bond between direct youth training that allows them to get along very harmoniously in Atletico Madrid's first team.

In defeating Monterrey this time, Hazard showed that he has the ability to take the lead!
……

Three days later, still at the Yokohama International Stadium, Atletico Madrid ushered in the Club World Cup final.

The opponent is Corinthian of Brazil.

To say that this Corinthian team is not very strong overall.

Yang Hao looked at the player information of this team before the game and found that the player he was familiar with was Paulinho, who would play for his home country team and Barcelona in the future.

He is now Corinthian's main midfielder.

Although they are not very famous, Brazilian players have relatively strong personal abilities.

In accordance with FIFA regulations, Atletico Madrid sent all its main players to play this time, including Messi, Kaká and other stars.

By the way, since Blatter was suspended for 10 years, FIFA is now leaderless, and Bilal and others have an increasing say in FIFA.

As a senior member of the Spanish Football Association for more than 30 years, Bilal is now facing a rather embarrassing situation.

On the eve of the final, Bilal went to the hotel where Atletico Madrid stayed and had a long talk with Yang Hao.

Yang Hao reminded Bilal that if he wanted to run for office, he would be most confident of being the president of UEFA. The president of FIFA needs to take care of too many aspects, so he may not be suitable.

More importantly, can he withstand the investigation of his opponents?

Blatter and Platini have been screwed, and many high-ranking officials from football federations on all continents have fallen. Under such circumstances, if Bilal comes up, can he ensure that he is clean?

If not, then it is better to protect oneself wisely.

In addition, UEFA and FIFA need to reform. Does the Spanish Football Association also need to reform?

Many people may wonder why Bilal has such a big influence in European football and even world football?
Bilal was born in Bilbao in 1950. He received youth training at Athletic Bilbao since he was a child and played as a right back. In 1973, he entered the Spanish national team until his retirement in 1981.

If you look at it in terms of honors, he really has no championships worth mentioning in his years at Athletic Bilbao and the Spanish national team.

The only thing that was successful was winning a King's Cup in 1973.

That's it.

But sometimes, things in the world are just so interesting.

Bilal did not show amazing talent on the football field, but his talent off the football field was very eye-catching.

As a Basque international trained by Athletic Bilbao, Bilal has served as the director of the professional football department of the Spanish Football Association since 1978, and at the same time entered the executive committee of the Spanish Football Association.

After retiring in 1981, he continued to work in the Spanish Football Federation until 1988 when he was elected president of the Spanish Football Federation.

He has remained in this position ever since, controlling the Spanish Football Federation.

In March 1992, he was officially elected as UEFA Vice-President. In 3, he joined the Executive Committee and served as Vice-President of the Referee Committee. In March 97, he was elected as FIFA Vice-President and joined the FIFA Referee Committee.

After the Calciopoli scandal broke out in 06, Bilal successfully took over as chairman of the UEFA Referees Committee.

All positions have been re-elected until now.

In other words, since he joined the Spanish Football Federation in 78, UEFA in 92, and FIFA in 02, his resume is even more significant than Platini's, even after going through the battle between Johansson and Platini. During the sensitive period, he was never shaken.

From this we can see that Bilal is definitely a man of skill.

At the very least, it is much better than many people in UEFA and FIFA.

But no matter how powerful it is, so what?
The current general trend is very obvious.

Fight corruption!

How could Bilal be clean after working for the Spanish Football Federation, UEFA and FIFA for so many years?

Not to mention anything else, as for the Spanish national team's warm-up match arrangements, Yang Hao can guarantee that if Bilal can be found clean after further investigation, Yang Hao will live broadcast the handstand pull on the Youtu Turtle all over the world.

His son is also engaged in football-related work and has had some dealings with Atletico Madrid.

This is actually quite normal.

For example, since his son is familiar with South America, some people want to introduce players to La Liga or even Atletico Madrid through him.

Then Atletico Madrid will definitely give him some face if it is dispensable.

Yang Hao had already reminded Bilal once before.

This time, he once again reminded Villar that UEFA and FIFA are both reforming, and the Spanish Football Association must also reform and reform with the times!
"The government is now vigorously promoting [Sports+], and you should know the stakes here."

Yang Hao's meaning is very clear. After you have been in charge of Pilar for so many years, you should step aside as chairman of the Spanish Football Federation.

Both UEFA and FIFA presidents need to reform and set a cap on their term of office, and the Spanish Football Federation will definitely do the same.

Promote the reform of the Spanish Football Federation, leave the position of chairman of the Spanish Football Federation, and run for the chairman of UEFA. This can get strong support from La Liga and the Spanish Football Federation!

If he continues to control the Spanish Football Association in this way and tries to build the Spanish Football Association into his private empire, he may end up like Blatter and Platini.

Not to mention whether Yang Hao and others will torment him, at the very least, his campaign opponents and even people in government departments may not let him go.

Pilar is also a ruthless person. He was mentally prepared early and agreed to Yang Hao on the spot.

They even asked about a candidate.

Luis Rubiales.

In 1977, Rubiales was born in Motril, a port city in southern Spain, just halfway between Malaga and Almeria.

He first received youth training in Motril, then went to Valencia in 1994. In 95, he came to Atletico Madrid from Valencia. In 96, he moved from Atletico Madrid to other teams. He has played many teams in his career. team, but they didn’t perform well.

Precisely because he has played for many teams, he has extensive connections in Spanish football. After retiring in 09, he joined the Spanish Football Association Executive Committee in April 10 and served as the Minister of Professional Football Department.

It's like walking the same path that Pilar walked.

Because he once played in the youth team of Atletico Madrid, and it was when the old Hill was there, Rubiales has a good relationship with Atletico Madrid. After all, the Football Association and Atletico Madrid are both in Madrid, and they are both in the city center, so they have frequent contacts. .

Bilal deliberately mentioned Rubiales at this moment, in fact, he wanted to test the attitudes of Yang Hao and Atletico Madrid.

But Yang Hao smiled and replied, "35 years old is too young and inappropriate!"

In one sentence, the possibility of Rubiales ascending to the top position in the short term was blocked.

The relationship between Yang Hao and Rubiales is not bad. This guy is well-informed, well-rounded, and most importantly, he knows how to get things done.

But in Yang Hao's previous life, after he became the chairman of the Spanish Football Federation, he forcibly kissed a female football player on the mouth when the women's football team won the championship, and also had many affairs with Barcelona's Gerard Pique. In the end, he was forced to step down by the pressure of public opinion.

"I think Tebas is good!"

"Javier Tebas?" Pilar frowned.

Yang Hao took in his expression and nodded with a smile.

"Of course, this is just my personal opinion. Who is elected depends on the votes."

Pilar's heart suddenly flashed, and he knew that Yang Hao was speaking politely.

With Yang Hao's current reputation in Spanish football, if he came out to support Tebas, who would dare to come out and choose him?
Of course, Bilal didn't think Yang Hao would do such a thing, because there was no need to debase himself.

Yang Hao should maintain his aloof status now.

There is no need for him to come forward at all, Cerezo just comes out.

Javier Tebas is a very annoying guy, and he was born in Costa Rica and has dual citizenship of Costa Rica and Spain.

Unlike others, Tebas is truly an elite who has worked his way up from the grassroots. He studied law at university, and later opened a law firm in Madrid with his wife, and has connections with senior executives at Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid. .

But he really entered football when he was 39 years old, that is, in 2001, when he came forward on behalf of Badajoz and other clubs to compete with the Spanish Football Federation and La Liga, demanding reforms to broadcast rights.

Later, Atletico Madrid came forward and organized La Liga teams and most La Liga teams to put pressure on Real Madrid and other wealthy teams to force the reform of La Liga broadcast rights and then achieve bundled sales. Tebas was also involved behind this.

Tebas is a lawyer by training, very venomous and unflattering.

Over the past few years, he has struggled all the way until now, becoming the vice president of the Spanish Football Federation.

how to say?

Tebas is not necessarily clean, and there are a lot of ridiculous things and a lot of jokes, but these are not big things in Spain.

But he has the advantage of not having much background.

Relying on a small team, Tebas seems to represent a disadvantaged group fighting against the big teams, but the interesting thing is, despite watching him fighting with the big teams in the media and TV stations all day long, But many things can really be done.

To a certain extent, a sensitive position with intertwined interests such as the chairman of the Spanish Football Federation requires a "pure minister" like him with no background.

Give it a push and let the fire of reform of the Spanish Football Association burn brightly again!
As for the future, once the two terms are up, there will be a replacement!
……

In the Club World Cup final, Atletico Madrid defeated Corinthian 3-0.

Although the Brazilian team showed tenacity, in the 39th minute of the first half, Hazard sent a cross when dribbling the ball to instigate a counterattack, and Torres' shot broke Corinthian's goal.

Messi then passed and shot in the second half, and Torres scored the second goal.

Atletico Madrid defeated Corinthian with 3 goals in Japan and successfully defended the Club World Cup.

This is the third consecutive year that Atletico Madrid has won the Club World Cup, which is unprecedented in the history of the Club World Cup.

On the plane leading the team back to Madrid, Yang Hao talked to Cerezo and Hill about the results of his conversation with Bilal.

Cerezo and Xiao Hill both agreed with Yang Hao's judgment.

"Within La Liga, many clubs are beginning to be wary of us." Cerezo sighed with mixed feelings.

In the past, Atletico Madrid stood on the same front and fought side by side with them.

Of course he is still their leader now.

But the Atletico Madrid of today is no longer the Atletico Madrid of the past.

The current Shenlian Legion is truly the world's top giants, even more popular and popular than Real Madrid and Barcelona.

If nothing else, Atletico Madrid is now the highest-paid football club in the world.

This is doomed to mean that Atletico Madrid cannot stand together with those small and medium-sized teams in the past on many issues.

Naturally, these small and medium-sized teams will be more wary of Atletico Madrid. On the one hand, they respect Atletico Madrid as the leader, but on the other hand, they are also wary of Atletico Madrid betraying their interests.

In this case, someone like Tebas is actually more suitable.

At the very least, he dares to represent small and medium-sized teams and fight against big teams.

This is true within the professional leagues, and it is also true within the Football Association.

Tebas will certainly make the wealthy teams unhappy, but he does have his merits.

Of course, this guy's relationship with the big teams isn't bad either.

……

While Atletico Madrid was playing in the Club World Cup, La Liga played a Copa del Rey game and the 16th round of La Liga.

After playing in the Club World Cup on the 16th, we returned to Madrid on the 17th. After a short rest, we ushered in the top 19 of the Copa del Rey on the 16th.

Atletico Madrid will challenge Getafe away.

In the 22th round of La Liga on the 17nd, Atletico Madrid faced Celta Vigo at home. This is a must-win game.

As a last resort, Yang Hao could only continue to play with a full substitute lineup in the game against Getafe.

As a result, what Yang Hao didn't expect was that Van Dijk performed very well in this game. He just kept Atletico Madrid's goal and faced the madness of superstars such as Ibrahimovic and Cavani. Under indiscriminate bombardment, Atletico Madrid retreated from the away game 0-0.

This really brought a big surprise to Yang Hao and Atletico Madrid fans.

……

At the weekend, in the 17th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid narrowly defeated Celta Vigo 1-0 at home with Messi's goal.

Due to one less game, Atletico Madrid's ranking in the La Liga standings fell to third place.

Currently at the top of the list is Arsene Wenger's Real Madrid, closely followed by Carlo Ancelotti's Valencia.

……

In 2012, Yang Hao and Lin Yoona spent Christmas together.

He began to take Lin Yoona to attend some Atletico Madrid events, as well as some royal and government events.

Yang Hao is now a Marquis of Spain, and his status is very high even among the aristocracy.

It is worth mentioning that before Christmas, Villar officially announced that he would resign as president of the Spanish Football Association to focus on the subsequent election for UEFA president.

Bilal said he believes he can bring more reforms and changes to UEFA.

As for the position of President of the Spanish Football Federation, Javier Tebas has become the most popular candidate among several candidates.

The chairman resigns and the vice-chairman takes over, which is justifiable.

But before resigning, Villar proposed a term limit for the president of the Spanish Football Federation.

Each term is four years, and each person is limited to a maximum of two terms.

In other words, after eight years in power, someone needs to be replaced.

This can also be regarded as a major restriction on the president of the Spanish Football Federation.

In this matter, the Spanish Football Federation undoubtedly wants to give UEFA and FIFA a good start.

……

After Christmas, the Hill Cup, which was suspended last year, was resumed.

Four teams, Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, Valencia and Getafe, gathered in the Middle East.

The Sheets traveled to Doha, the capital of Qatar, to play a friendly match with Getafe, while Real Madrid played Valencia in Abu Dhabi.

Both games generated huge buzz in the MENA region.

After returning to Spain, Atletico Madrid went to an away game to challenge Real Mallorca.

Hazard has been in very good form recently, but this has also stimulated Di Maria.

So, in the away game against Real Mallorca, Di Maria scored twice.

Messi scored a goal.

Atletico Madrid beat Real Mallorca 5-0 away from home.

……

In mid-week, the second leg of the Copa del Rey knockout round of 16 will be played.

Atletico Madrid vs. Getafe.

Before this game, Getafe had just played Rayo Vallecano away in the league at the weekend.

Getafe and Barcelona are competing for the top four in the league. This is something everyone knows.

But after Neymar joined, Barcelona's offensive firepower has become very fierce, and it is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

This resulted in Getafe's competitive situation being relatively passive. They were caught off guard by Rayo Vallecano, who was good at defensive counterattacks, and lost 1-2 away from home.

Falcao and Hulk each scored one goal.

In this case Getafe had to make appropriate rotations in the Copa del Rey.

It's all rotation, but Atletico Madrid's rotation is obviously stronger.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Lewandowski opened the scoring for Atletico Madrid.

Evra then scored a goal.

Lewandowski scored another goal from Koke's pass before the end of the game.

3-0, Atletico Madrid eliminated Getafe at home and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.

Yang Hao also praised the performance of young players such as Lewandowski, believing that they are becoming an emerging force in the team that cannot be underestimated.

……

After playing in the King's Cup, Yang Hao led the team to Zurich, Switzerland.

This time, there are two Atletico Madrid players in the top three of the FIFA Ballon d'Or, namely Messi and Iniesta.

The other one is Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid.

Many people feel that Iniesta has reason to win this award, because he is not only the core contributor to Atletico Madrid's double crown last season, but also the number one contributor to Spain's victory in the European Cup and the best player in the European Cup. . In a competition year, if such results still fail to win the Golden Globe Award, it would be hard to believe that there are no tricks in the Golden Globe Award election.

But many people believe that Messi was so eye-catching last season that he is also qualified to compete for the Ballon d'Or.

Not to mention anything else, how many dusty historical records has he broken in terms of the number of goals he scored?
Some people even believe that Messi and Iniesta are both from Atletico Madrid, which can easily lead to them diverting each other's votes, but instead benefiting Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo.

Moreover, Ronaldo led Portugal to the European Cup finals, and his performance was also remarkable.

What's more, the Portuguese's performance in the league is also quite outstanding, not far behind Messi.

Ronaldo's biggest shortcoming is that he is always the runner-up and has no championship.

All in all, this has become the biggest suspense before the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

This year’s best lineup is:

Goalkeeper: Casillas;

Defense: Marcelo, Ramos, Pepe, Alves;
Midfielder: Iniesta, Busquets, Xavi Alonso;

Forwards: Ronaldo, Torres and Messi.

Of the 11 positions, 9 players are from Atletico Madrid and the remaining 2 players are from Real Madrid.

This is simply incredible.

Winning caused uproar long before the Golden Globes.

But many media and fans have also provided explanations.

According to FIFA, Marcelo and Alves are due to their outstanding performance in the club. These two players inherit the characteristics of Brazilian full-backs and their performance is remarkable.

Ramos and Pepe have to rotate with Thiago Silva at Atletico Madrid, and their overall performance is not even as stable as Thiago Silva.

But they won the European Cup,
Among them, Ramos played on the right in the European Cup and was one of the best players.

The defense is reasonable.

Not to mention the midfield.

Iniesta is well-deserved to be selected. Busquets and Xabi Alonso were nominated at the same time, but they squeezed out Barcelona's Xavi.

why?

Because the two of them also performed very well at the club, but Barcelona, ​​on the other hand, did not perform well last season.

Moreover, in the European Cup, Spain's midfielder is Xavi Alonso, Xavi and Busquets.

Combined with the performance of the European Cup and the club, it is normal for Xavi to be squeezed out.

It's almost the same when it comes to the front line.

Therefore, Atletico Madrid occupies 9 seats in the best team, which seems outrageous, but it is actually due to the outstanding performance of Spain and Atletico Madrid.

Yang Hao won the best men's football coach of the season, and there is no controversy about this.

In the final selection of the FIFA Ballon d'Or, Iniesta defeated Messi and Ronaldo and was selected for the FIFA Ballon d'Or!
This will be Atletico Madrid's fifth Ballon d'Or winner!

At the same time, this is another Spaniard who has won an award after Torres!

There was thunderous applause, and Yang Hao sat in the venue with mixed feelings in his heart.

He was mentally prepared for this outcome.

And behind this is actually the change he brought about.

In Yang Hao's previous life, in 2012, Messi was able to win the Ballon d'Or again. The reason was actually quite complicated.

Iniesta helped Spain win the European Cup, but his performance was not as good as when Yang Hao was coaching. Moreover, Barcelona did not win the championship that season. Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal also stopped in the semi-finals and only won the league championship with Real Madrid.

It is precisely because of this that Messi, with 91 goals in a year, won the FIFA Golden Globe Award without any suspense.

But now?

Atletico Madrid's double crown, coupled with Spain's victory in the European Cup, combined with these two factors, Iniesta's performance has received more recognition and affirmation, and he also has a slight advantage in the votes.

Judging from the voting results announced on the spot, Iniesta is slightly ahead of Messi.

On the contrary, Cristiano Ronaldo is far behind Iniesta and Messi, and he does not benefit from it.

Iniesta obviously did not expect that he would win the award, and he was very excited.

Messi congratulated Iniesta with a smile.

Later, Xiaobai also specially thanked all his teammates from Atletico Madrid and Spain, and especially thanked Yang Hao.

The Spanish midfielder burst into tears at the Zurich Opera House.

Atletico Madrid also became the top winner of this award ceremony.

Not only did the Sheets almost monopolize the best team of the year, but they also won the fifth Ballon d'Or in the current team.

This is absolutely unbelievable.

One team has 5 Ballon d'Or players together, can you believe it?
Yang Hao had some small regrets.

He was very happy and proud that Iniesta won the award, and believed that Xiaobai deserved the award.

But Messi failed to win the award, and he was a little regretful.

In his previous life, by 2012, Messi had already won 4 Ballon d'Or awards.

But now?

He only took 2 seats.

Under the coaching of Yang Hao, Messi is definitely stronger than in his previous life.

But luck seems to be somewhat inferior.

This is not something Yang Hao can deliberately control.

For example, he couldn't persuade Iniesta this time, or let Atletico Madrid do its best to support Messi.

This is not very realistic.

It can only be said that in Yang Hao's previous life, Messi owed Iniesta a Ballon d'Or, and now he has paid it back.

……

Returning to Madrid from Zurich, we ushered in the 19th round of La Liga.

Atletico Madrid defeated Zaragoza 2-0 at home.

Before this game, Atletico Madrid held a Ballon d'Or ceremony for Iniesta, showing the Ballon d'Or he had just won from Zurich to more than 7 Atletico fans.

There are also nine Atletico Madrid players who won the Best Team of the Year Award, as well as Yang Hao's Best Coach Award.

Although Atletico Madrid has won numerous awards in the past few years, the fact that the team has a fifth Ballon d'Or winner was beyond everyone's expectations.

Throughout the history of football, it is unique!
In the words of marketing director Carlos Leo: Atletico Madrid is about to take off again!
Then, Messi passed and shot to help Atletico beat Zaragoza.

It is worth mentioning that Messi's goal came from an assist from Iniesta, so after the goal, the two ran to the sidelines to celebrate the goal, looking very harmonious.

……

After 19 rounds of La Liga, Real Madrid continues to lead the standings, followed by Valencia.

Although Atletico Madrid is ranked third, it is mainly due to having one less game.

Despite having one game less, the Sheets scored 63 goals and conceded 14 goals in the first half. Their performance was still quite impressive, not even worse than last season.

Messi once again put in an amazing performance, leading La Liga's top scorer list with 32 goals.

From all aspects, Atletico Madrid has basically continued its excellent performance in previous seasons, and the team's overall performance is very stable.

However, the competition in La Liga is becoming more and more fierce, which has led to Atletico Madrid's current competition pressure becoming more and more intense.

Yang Hao himself reflected that the three games that have been lost so far this season are basically due to insufficient rotation and insufficient bench thickness, and the performance of young players is not stable enough.

But judging from recent times, the young players in the team have become more and more mature. Over time, Atletico Madrid's lineup will become stronger and stronger.

……

Midweek, the first leg of the Copa del Rey knockout round of 8.

Yang Hao continued to start with Lewandowski and other players in the Copa del Rey against Real Betis.

Only 11 minutes into the first half, Lewandowski scored another victory for Atletico Madrid.

The assister is Isco.

Not long after, Di Maria scored another victory.

In the end, Atletico defeated Real Betis 2-0.

……

Over the weekend, the 20th round of La Liga.

Atletico Madrid was at home and defeated Levante 5-1 at home with goals from Messi, David Silva, Torres, Iniesta and substitute Koke.

But in the same round, Real Madrid narrowly defeated Valencia 5-4 away from home.

Wenger's team played a very interesting game.

In the first half, the Bat Legion's tactics were a bit too radical. The home team wanted to eat up Real Madrid, but was caught off guard by Real Madrid's continuous counterattacks.

第8、34、36、41和44分钟，连丢5个球。

When masters compete with each other, one careless move can lead to disaster.

But in the second half, after Ancelotti adjusted, he immediately caught Real Madrid and beat him up.

The Bats scored 4 goals in a row, and it was only 73 minutes.

Valencia launched a crazy attack on Real Madrid, forcing the Galacticos to defend tightly.

In the end, the Bat Legion failed to equalize the score.

Real Madrid won, but the Bat Corps didn't "lose" either.

One game, 9 goals, only La Liga can see this!
The media and fans around the world were completely delighted.

……

When Yang Hao led the team to play in the 20th round of La Liga, far away at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, the new UEFA presidential election gradually came to an end.

There were many people who were interested in running for the first time, including former Ajax chairman Van Praag and UEFA secretary-general Gianni Infantino.

The two men were considered Bilal's top rivals.

However, Infantino did not announce his intention to run for a long time. It was not until the official vote that he announced that he would give up his candidacy.

Although Van Praag is very prestigious in European football, La Liga has been very strong over the years, so Van Praag lost to Bilal in the election.

After the official announcement of his election, Bilal was also very high-spirited.

His campaign slogan was reform, so he announced a series of drastic reforms for UEFA.

Including revising the term of office of the UEFA president, he hopes to set the upper limit at three terms.

In other words, the UEFA president can only serve for 12 years at most.

But this still requires a vote and communication with the club alliance.

This involves another slogan of Bilal's candidacy, which is common progress.

He said that the development and prosperity of European football cannot be separated from the efforts of clubs.

As the president of La Liga, Villar said that no one knows how to appease these "rebellious" clubs better than him.

He promised that UEFA would use the greatest sincerity to appease the clubs, and at the same time allow clubs to participate more in UEFA's operations and decision-making.

For example, he will propose at the next UEFA conference that the chairman of the European Football Club Association, which is officially recognized by UEFA (not the club alliance established by 14 clubs including Atletico Madrid), enter the UEFA executive committee.

This is tantamount to giving higher powers to the club association.

But he hopes that the Club Alliance can abandon the European Super League, return to the Club Association, and sit down and talk with UEFA again, and the two sides will discuss how to better develop European football.

In order to show sincerity, UEFA will carry out drastic reforms.

In addition to the chairman's term, a series of reform plans including financial disclosure and decision-making process disclosure will be put on the agenda.

Various policies and measures of Bilal won him full applause.

After the corruption cases of Platini and Blatter, fans around the world desperately needed the emergence of a reformer like Bilal, and he played this role appropriately.

After Bilal was elected, he publicly expressed support for Infantino's candidacy for FIFA president and also supported FIFA reform.

This includes further increasing the authority of the independent ethics tribunal, as well as FIFA’s financial transparency and so on.

As FIFA Vice President, Bilal's support has aroused huge repercussions around the world.

Everyone is also clearly aware that the trend of reform has gradually spread in European football and will quickly sweep across the world.

Yang Hao did not participate too much in the election of Bilal and the candidacy of Infantino.

With his current identity and status, there is really no need to do these things.

However, many La Liga bosses, including Cerezo and Florentino, as well as Benitez, Juande Ramos, Wenger, and even Mourinho, have all spoken out and tried their best to Support Bilal and Infantino.

Bilal is good at dancing and has made full preparations for his candidacy early on. The only difference is UEFA or FIFA.

As for UEFA supporting Infantino's candidacy for FIFA president, this is not unusual.

On the contrary, if UEFA does not support it, it will be big news.

Given the current situation in world football, Infantino's image as a pioneer of reform is really pleasing.

He is also actively traveling to various continental football federations, hoping to gain more support.

Judging from outside election feedback, Infantino's election should not be a problem.

In Yang Hao's opinion, this result is quite good.

Whether it is Infantino or Bilal, after becoming the president of FIFA and UEFA, they can't just sit there and obey Yang Hao, La Liga, and the club. Be responsible for your own votes.

But in any case, they are very familiar with the professional league and they know the club's operations, so it will definitely be helpful in formulating some policies and communicating with the club.

What's more, now, UEFA has not yet appeased the "G14".

With the Platini and Blatter corruption cases, the club has become a force that cannot be underestimated in world football.

Infantino revealed that if he is elected, he will consider establishing the World Football Club Association. After all, there is a Club World Cup, and it is reasonable to have such an association.

Like UEFA, the president of the World Football Club Association is expected to join the FIFA executive committee.

This also means that from now on, clubs will have the ability to influence the decisions of FIFA and UEFA.

that's enough.

Yang Hao never thought of letting the club dominate.

Once capital loses control, it is not necessarily a good thing.

The reverse is also true.

So the most important thing is checks and balances.

Maintaining a relatively balanced and stable state is an ideal outcome for all parties.

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Copa del Rey quarterfinal second leg match.

Atletico Madrid drew 1-1 with Real Betis away from home.

Lewandowski scored a goal for Atletico Madrid.

The Sheets defeated Real Betis with a total score of 3-1.

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In the 21st round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid lost 1-2 away to Athletic Bilbao.

In the first half, Atletico Madrid took the lead thanks to Messi's goal, but at halftime, the main defender Pepe was injured and came off the field.

So Yang Hao had to arrange for Thiago Silva and Ramos to partner. As a result, Bielsa's team broke Atletico Madrid's goal twice in the 77th and 84th minutes.

Both goals were corner kicks.

This defeat exposed Atletico Madrid's shortcomings in high defense.

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Copa del Rey semi-final first leg.

Atletico face Pochettino's Sevilla.

Yang Hao once again started Lewandowski at home. As a result, the Polish center did not disappoint Yang Hao, scoring two goals in the 49th and 71st minutes of the second half.

Atletico Madrid finally defeated Negredo 2-1 at home.

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December 2, the 3th round of La Liga.

Atletico Madrid defeated Real Betis 5-1 at home thanks to Messi's two goals.

Ramos, who failed to block Athletic Bilbao's corner kick in the last round, also scored twice in this round.

Both goals were corner kicks.

This made Yang Hao feel helpless and funny.

The guards with swords are indeed unreliable.

If he could score like this in the last round, how could he lose to Athletic Bilbao?
In this round, Barcelona drew 1-1 with Valencia away from home.

The two sides fought hard for 90 minutes and finally shook hands and made peace.

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Three days later, in mid-week, the 3th round of La Liga made up the game.

Atletico Madrid visited Camp Nou. With Carlos Tevez scoring the first goal, Messi scored a hat trick. David Silva received an assist from Iniesta and scored a goal. The team won 4-1 in Nou. Camp reverses Barcelona.

This battle made Atletico angry and proud, and they returned to second place in the league.

(End of this chapter)