The Era of Emerald

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"The UEFA Champions League semi-final Serie A civil war, the protagonist is the Spaniard! "

This was the headline printed on the front page of Gazzetta dello Sport early the next morning, and after the editor deliberately bolded these words, the headline became even more shocking.

This comment from Gazzetta dello Sport expressed the feelings of the vast majority of fans. In the eyes of these fans, the match between Fiorentina and Juventus, which should have become a classic, was completely disrupted by the referee Flores. up.

The Spaniard's performance in the first half was notable, but in the second half he began to show his true colors. It was not wrong to stare at Montero, who was suspected of malicious fouls, but he blew away an undisputed goal from the Uruguayan. The ball was indeed his major mistake, and in order to make up for this mistake, Flores found balance for the home team after Montero went off, and he blew it away near the end of the game. Without a reasonable explanation, he showed the German a yellow card for no reason!

Flores' unreasonable approach completely intensified the conflict between him and the Fiorentina players, and the Spanish referee did not quell the opponent's dissatisfaction well after that. While frantically sending yellow cards to brush up the sense of presence, it played an excellent role in fueling the fire.

The result of Flores doing this is that not only the Fiorentina players who felt wronged before were angry, but even the Juventus players began to feel dissatisfied in their hearts, saying that we just came forward to protect you, but you actually gave us a yellow card ?Out of your mind?

It is precisely because of this that in the final stage of the game, players from both sides almost swarmed up and beat up the Spaniard with his head in the water. If it weren't for the experienced Didier Deschamps and Effenberg shouting at the same time to calm down when they saw that the momentum was not right Once the game is over, I am afraid that Flores will become the first referee to be beaten in a UEFA Champions League match.

Although he escaped the fate of being beaten, when Flores left the stadium after the game, there were deafening boos from the stands of the Alpi Stadium. Express dissatisfaction with this presumptuous referee in this way.

The fans of the two teams saw it very clearly. Although the game would have ended in a draw without the intervention of the referee, no one would be in the mood to think about letting a mouse like Flores mess up the game. this possibility.At the same time, because the referee personally jumped out to attract hatred, the fans of both sides rarely fired at each other after the game, but fired at the referee in unison, concentrating their fire on the referee.

"Flores is a thief! His misconduct messed up a classic game! He stole the victory that should have belonged to Fiorentina!" This is the slogan shouted by Fiorentina fans after the game.

The Juventus fans were naturally not to be outdone, and they all said in interviews that if the referee hadn't favored Fiorentina at the beginning of the second half, Montero's goal would have given the Bianconeri the lead at home.

Fiorentina and Juventus also submitted official written materials to UEFA after the game, asking UEFA to give a clear statement on Flores' series of stupid penalties in the Champions League semi-finals.

UEFA, which is sandwiched between the two clubs, is also in a dilemma. After all, the two teams have no other faults in the game except for the conflict caused by the referee.No matter how you look at it, Flores is the culprit that caused all this to happen.

Two obvious misjudgments and a lot of yellow cards, this is what Flores has contributed to this game.

The officials of UEFA were also very hesitant about how to deal with the situation that occurred in this game. At first, these officials planned to contact the two clubs and let the two parties stop causing trouble.However, when their chairman, Mr. Johansson, made it clear in an internal meeting that he would strengthen the quality training of referees as a special group in the future, and try to prevent the recurrence of the semi-final like the Alpi Stadium, the wind direction immediately. A 180-degree turn has taken place, from a major incident to a trivial one, and it suddenly became the punishment of the amateur referee Flores, which sounded a wake-up call for all referees under UEFA.

"Tsk, this is finally giving Florence a small benefit, otherwise it wouldn't be a problem if those favors were always so procrastinating." The old man Johansson came out of the meeting room and wiped the ooze from his forehead. Sweat, thinking in his heart, "Corleone boy, your Florence is blessed. If I hadn't played this time, even if the referee really blows the whistle on the field, UEFA will definitely not beat itself face to punish a referee."

In this way, under Johansson's personal inquiry and instructions, UEFA quickly made a judgment on Fiorentina's away game against Juventus. The results are as follows:

[-]. The first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final between Fiorentina and Juventus is valid and there will be no replay;

[-]. The referee of the game, Flores, made a series of major mistakes in the game, which had an irreversible and serious impact on the result of the game. Therefore, UEFA decided to impose a two-month penalty on Flores. , prohibiting him from enforcing any football match in Europe during this period, and fined him [-] U.S. dollars;

[-]. Several players who received yellow cards before and after the conflict in the game, namely Florence's Effenberg, Stam, Toldo, Di Biagio and Carlos, Juventus' Didier Deschamps and Juventus Liano and the two, all the yellow cards received by these players in the game were cancelled.

Flores' refereeing career can be said to have come to an end. The future of this well-known referee in the Spanish referee circle was completely ruined in the semi-final between Fiorentina and Juventus.At the same time, after the game, Flores received a lot of abuse emails from the fans of the two teams, which made Flores feel very depressed. In his opinion, the referee is the boss on the court. No matter what kind of penalty is made, the players None of us should have objections.

So when Flores learned of UEFA's verdict, he published a message in the newspapers the next day announcing his decision to officially retire from refereeing for some sad reasons.

After learning the news that Flores announced his retirement, Zhuang Mingge did not express any sympathy for the Spaniard. In his opinion, the referee can be said to have brought the blame on himself.The main referee's biggest role is to ensure the fairness and smoothness of the game, but this Spaniard treats the game as his own back garden and acts recklessly. Of course, the fewer such referees, the better.

Although referees are also human beings, and the old saying goes that people are not sages and sages, but not all misjudgments in the game can be perfunctory with a fluffy sentence.Only by putting a sword of Damocles on the heads of the referees, so that they are more rational when making major penalties without being affected by other non-competition factors, can football games be more beautiful and exciting. !