The Era of Emerald

ps: This is the first update today, and the 13 recommended update will be posted later in the evening, um, that's it.

Before this selection, g14 has already screened the qualifications of many alternate member clubs, and finally selected five clubs to enter the final selection.

The five candidate clubs are: Arsenal in the Premier League, Feyenoord in the Netherlands, Benfica in Portugal, Rangers in Scotland and Lazio in Serie A.

However, before the voting began, Van Prager, who presided over the meeting, came to the stage and announced that the meeting had entered a break.

In fact, it hasn’t been too long since the meeting. Van Prager’s arrangement is mainly to give the members of the executive committee a buffer and room for thinking, and to ensure that the next voting process goes on as smoothly as possible, so as to avoid any accidents due to certain problems. Some people took too long to think about it, which made the entire vote too long; in addition, it was also to give time to the club representatives and executive committee members on the shortlist. After all, if you want to be a member of this wealthy league, you have no connections. But it doesn't work.

Therefore, when Van Prager announced the suspension of the conference, the representatives of the five candidate clubs swarmed and went straight to the "target" they had selected before.

As the chairman of the Fiorentina club, Zhuang Mingge did not receive much attention from these representatives, because these people knew that this young chairman would definitely support the team from his home country.

However, no one came to chat with Zhuang Mingge, but it didn't mean that Zhuang Mingge didn't want to talk to someone.

"Chairman Beckenbauer, you really made it easy for me to find you!" Since it was in a public place, Zhuang Mingge couldn't greet the football emperor too intimately, so he had to change to a more formal address.

"Oh? It's Chairman Corleone. It's been a long time. What brought you here?" Seeing that the person who stopped him was Zhuang Mingge, Beckenbauer was stunned for a moment, and greeted him with a smile on his face. road.

"Uh, I want to discuss some personal matters with you. I wonder if Chairman Beckenbauer has the time?"

"Haha, of course it's okay." While talking, Beckenbauer waved to the representative of Feyenoord who was hesitating to speak, politely rejected the other party's intention to contact each other, and left side by side with Zhuang Mingge meeting room.

Since the friendship between Florence and Ajax has always been very good, when Zhuang Mingge found Van Prager, the other party readily lent a small room with good sound insulation to Zhuang Mingge and others to "rest".

Under the leadership of the Ajax club staff, Zhuang Minge and Beckenbauer walked into the small room, followed by Karin and Hoeness.

"Come on, Antonio boy, you took the initiative to find me this time, what do you want to talk about?" Seeing that there were only four of them in the room, Beckenbauer was no longer as polite as before, sat down on the sofa, and said , "Could it be that you kid finally thought about it and planned to sell Stefan (Effenberg) to Bayern?"

"Ahem, you think too much..." Zhuang Minge choked on Beckenbauer's words, and quickly explained his reason for coming to the other party, lest the old man in front of him say anything surprising, "Fran Ci, I heard that Chairman Johansson intends to participate in the FIFA presidential election next month?"

"That's right." Beckenbauer nodded. Johansson's plan to run for FIFA president has long been known. As Johansson's ally, he doesn't need to keep this issue secret. Judging from the current election situation, Johansson's chances of winning are quite high. Compared with Johansson's temporary successor, Blatter, the old man at Havelange, there is a big gap in qualifications and achievements. Nothing to worry about."

I knew you would be so optimistic, otherwise Johansson would not have accidentally lost to Blatter who slammed empty checks when the situation was very good in history.Hearing Beckenbauer's answer, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but slander a few words in his heart.

However, Zhuang Mingge did not dwell too much on this point, but told Beckenbauer all the inside stories about the campaign in his memory.

That's right, Zhuang Minge found Beckenbauer this time, hoping to use his mouth to help Johansson defeat Blatter in the upcoming FIFA presidential election and become the new FIFA president!

In Zhuang Minge's view, although Johansson has done some stupid things, compared with Blatter, the kind-hearted and dark guy, the UEFA president's style is obviously much better, at least he will not put some shameless Putting things on the bright side is disgusting.

For example, in 02, Italy was blacked out by Bangzi. If there was no acquiescence from FIFA, how could the Ecuadorian referee openly blow the whistle in front of so many fans all over the world?

"Hehe, it seems that Chairman Johansson is very confident in this election." Having said this, Zhuang Mingge's tone suddenly changed, "However, I have heard people say that, according to reliable sources, Blatter fought for More votes, privately promised to the AFC that Verapan will serve as the next FIFA secretary-general, and at the same time, in addition to the two hosts, the quota for the 02 World Cup will be allocated to the Asian 3 At the same time, Blatter also promised South Africa that he would get the right to host the 2006 World Cup!"

"Wait! Antonio, are you saying that Blatter is likely to make some promises to the continental football federations in exchange for votes in the general election?" After hearing Zhuang Mingge's narration, Beckenbauer frowned, his tone He said angrily, "Korea and Japan gave Asia three places for the World Cup, and the 3 World Cup promised to be hosted by South Africa... Isn't this too exaggerated? Blatter is not yet the president of FIFA. How dare he make such a promise so easily?" promise!"

The anger of the football emperor is also justified. Not to mention that Blatter has not been successfully elected, even if he becomes the president of FIFA, these two things must be decided by the vote of the entire executive committee. Something to cash in private.

"Well, although we know that the possibility of these two things succeeding is very small, in the eyes of the people in the AFC and CAF, it is not necessarily so. After all, people are lucky, like this It's a great thing that the world's pie is falling, of course, they would rather believe it than take the initiative to consider the chances of Blatter fulfilling his promise." Zhuang Mingge shrugged and said helplessly.

"If this is the case, then 'we' are in a very dangerous situation." Beckenbauer didn't pay attention to the inappropriateness of his words, and pondered, "Antonio, I think since you know these things, you should Is there any good countermeasure? Time is running out now, so don't play tricks on me."