The Era of Emerald

Just as most teams in Europe were preparing for a big fight in the summer, a big event happened in European football: the new European Champions Cup winner and the overlord of the French Football League Marseille Club won a French football match last season. In the first game, he was suspected of bribing the opponent's players to play match-fixing!

The situation of the match-fixing case was immediately made public by all-pervasive reporters. The ins and outs of the incident are as follows:

On May 1993, 5, the French First Division was coming to an end. Marseille, which had won four consecutive Ligue 19 titles, led the standings by 4 points, and the league title has been won several times.But for Marseille, the league is not so important, because the team will compete with the famous AC Milan for the European Champions Cup in Munich six days later.

The Marseille team once entered the Champions League final in 1991, but lost to the Belgrade Red Star team in the penalty shootout.Now is a godsend opportunity for Marseille to realize their dream of European supremacy.

But what Marseille will face tomorrow is not the AC Milan team, but the Valenciennes team, which is at the bottom of the Ligue [-] league.Although the Valenciennes team was on the verge of relegation at the time, they were still struggling tenaciously in the relegation zone.

The Marseille team didn't want to lose, and they didn't want their players to appear in the European Champions Cup final on May 5th with injuries and fatigue.So the Marseille Club took risks and tried to buy off the main players of the Valenciennes team, such as Christopher Robert, with a lot of money.On the second day, the Marseille team easily won 26:1. According to the comparison of the strengths of the two sides, it is reasonable for the Marseille team to win, so few people pay special attention to the abnormality of this game.

After the game, a reporter from L'Equipe learned from Valencienne player Grassmann that the Marseille team had bought three teammates including him. sent a text message.Since the European Champions Cup final that the Marseille team will participate in is coming soon, the French football community has not paid attention to it. Only the chairman of the French Professional League Committee, Le Graet, publicly stated that the matter should be pursued after the game.

Six days later, Marseille defeated AC Milan in the final and won the first European Champions Cup in French history.While people were celebrating ecstatically, L'Equipe disclosed the match-fixing case in Marseille with a full page and published an editorial.

The French professional committee has a very clear attitude and actively launched judicial procedures, and the French judicial department also immediately intervened: on June 6th, the League Committee reported the case, on the 8th the court filed the case, and on the 9th the court appointed a special judge to investigate the case.In contrast, the French Football Association has been "cautious" a lot, and it didn't start to intervene until nearly five months after the incident.

The chairman of the Marseille Club at that time was Tapie, who played a pivotal role in the political and economic fields of France. He not only served as the minister of the French government department, but also a member of the National Assembly. He was also the controlling shareholder of Adidas, so he could easily Use your political and media influence to interfere in the investigation.

At the same time, then French President François Mitterrand publicly stated at a press conference that the judiciary had gone too far in this matter.

However, the investigation into the case has not stopped. Some player Glassman's "confession",

The player Bruchaga (a member of the Argentina national team in the 86 World Cup) quickly admitted that someone had looked for him and offered him money to release him.

On June 6, Christophe Robert surrendered himself to the French Football Association under psychological pressure. Based on his confession, the police dug up 24 francs of cash buried in the ground for bribes in the backyard of his wife Marie Christina's mother's house. .

One stone hit a thousand waves. The Marseille bribery scandal shocked French football and even the world football. FIFA was furious and ordered the French Football Association to punish it severely. The French Football Association, which had been hesitant, finally handed over the case to the judicial authorities The Marseille team was immediately deprived of their qualifications to participate in the European Super Cup, Toyota Cup and next season's European Champions Cup.

On July 7, 1 players of the Marseille team (including Vorrell, Desailly, Boli, Abedi Bailey and other famous stars) were taken away by the police and received a summons. The building was searched.

In the office of Bain, the general manager of Marseilles, the police found several envelopes that were exactly the same as those received by Christopher Robert, and the staples on the desk were exactly the same as those on the envelope. After obtaining sufficient evidence, the police immediately arrested Marseille general manager Bain.

In the early morning of July 7, the police escorted Bain from Marseille to Lille by plane, and then sent to Valenciennes by police car to be interrogated by Judge Beffi.

Everyone knows that Bain is the number two of the Marseille club, so Tapie, the owner of Marseille, is naturally involved in the number one.

Tapie is an ambitious politician and doer in France. He once served as the Minister of Urban Development of the French Government.After Bane, who stood in front of him, was arrested, Tapie was also exposed to the people.

As a time traveler, Zhuang Mingge certainly knew the handling of this scandal that shocked the football world and the final outcome of the people involved.

On February 1994, 2, Tapie was accused of participating in the bribery activities of his subordinates, and was asked to do so. On April 10, the Special Committee of the French Football Association passed a decision to cancel the Marseille team's 4-22 season in the Ligue 1992 championship. And downgrade the Marseille team to the second division, cancel Tapie's control over the club, and cancel Bain's eligibility to work in the club for life.

On March 1995, 3, Bain, who had been silent for 17 days, finally revealed the mastermind of the Marseille bribery case in France.

Bain said: "Today I want to tell the truth. Nine days before the match between Marseille and Valenciennes, Tapie ordered me to find a way to make Marseille win the game easily and save the match against AC Milan. Strength." Bain admitted the fact of bribing his opponent, but at the same time he pointed out: "I did this according to Tappy's order. In the Marseille Club, without Tappy's consent, no one can offer bribes. number."

Bain's words in the French court were like a bomb that disrupted the "logical structure" secretly built by the participants in this case. Even if the court was convinced, Tapie couldn't justify himself.The evidence is conclusive, Tapie's immunity from parliamentarians was immediately deprived and he was imprisoned immediately.

On May 1995, 5, after two years of trial and investigation, the Marseille bribery case finally had its final result.Tapie was charged with being the mastermind of the case and was sentenced to one year in prison and not allowed to watch any football games for one year after his release.The relevant personnel involved in the bribery case have also been punished accordingly.So far, the Marseille bribery case that has been hyped by the press for two years has finally come to an end.

Tapie, the owner of the Marseille Club, was not only criminally punished, but he had to withdraw from football due to the disclosure and handling of the case. He will also play a guest role as a director of plays and movies.

As for the Valencienian team player Grassman who was a tainted witness, because of his testimony, the club owners kept him at a distance, so he had to leave the French mainland to play for a small local club called Reunion Island. Quietly retired from football due to age.

The Marseille club itself was the hardest hit by the match-fixing case in Marseille. After the match-fixing case happened, Marseille's star-studded lineup was scattered:

Two-time African Footballer of the Year Abedi Pele goes to Lyon, Marcel Desailly to AC Milan, Rudy Vöhler returns to Germany, Lazio sign Boksic, Dimeco and Barthez Headed to Monaco together, central defender Boli joined Glasgow Celtic, Serie A giants Juventus got French national team and club double captain Didier Deschamps, Yugoslav star Stojkovic traveled to Japan...

A match-fixing made Marseille forever. Until 2012, when Zhuang Mingge crossed, Marseille was only a strong team in Ligue [-], far from the style of the four consecutive championships that year, and Ligue [-] fell into a long period of silence. Outflows and scuffles within the league, this situation did not improve even when the French national team won the World Cup and the European Cup.

And Zhuang Mingge, who has experienced the "telephone gate" incident in later generations of Serie A, is also highly concerned about the outcome of Marseille. He clearly remembers that Serie A completely lost its appeal to top stars precisely because of the "telephone gate" in 06. The reputation of Serie A teams has also been greatly affected.

Therefore, both public and private, Zhuang Mingge must do everything possible to prevent Serie A from that disaster. The best way is to create an anti-"black gambling and drug" system in the league like David Stern did in the NBA, and use all possible Hidden dangers are nipped in the bud.

Therefore, Zhuang Mingge must have enough voice in the Italian professional league.

How to have more voice?Naturally, it is to make Florence a European giant.

How to become a wealthy family?It all depends on Zhuang Mingge's own abilities...