Chapter 38 When the European crackdown is in progress

The action of European football is not over yet. This is the same process as Chinese football, but it does not mean that the roadmap is the same. False gambling is a cancer of football, but there is a difference. To use a vivid metaphor: European football Tan is a normal person with a tumor, and Chinese football is a tumor with a person. It is reported that the former Bulgarian Football Association vice-chairman Hristo Danov suddenly broke the news that on November 17, 1993, France's 1-2 home game against Bulgaria was probably manipulated by an English gambling company.He revealed that a broker had approached the Bulgarian team and two French defenders in an attempt to fix the match.But Danov later said that he "forgot" the names of the two French defenders, and finally let the public case come to an end.Like the Chinese team, the world champions and European champions also had a crashing "11.17".

At present, European football, which has been regarded as the standard by its Asian counterparts, is pursuing the "fake gambling black" all the time. On November 25, 2008, UEFA announced that five football clubs from Albania, Latvia, Slovenia and Hungary were being investigated for alleged involvement in a major match-fixing case.As the vanguard of this European gambling campaign, the German police and UEFA’s competent affairs department joined forces with the police from six countries to reveal the gambling-related activities in the leagues of nine European countries. The German police quickly locked down three former Bundesliga players. The offense of match-fixing.

Many European clubs have entered the ranks of century-old clubs, but the history of match-fixing is longer than that of most clubs. In 1898, in the match between Burnley and Stoke City, the two sides "must" draw 0-0. As a result, the players of both sides did not take a single shot, and the uniforms were all clean.Later, in 1932, the game between Chelsea and Portsmouth also failed to score for some reason, and the players were "grinding their skills".The biggest bright spot in the game appeared, and the ball suddenly exploded by itself.The audience mocked, since it's all on strike, why don't you guys?

The 1993 edition of "Crazy Bundesliga" records that in the last eight matchdays of the Bundesliga in 1971, 26 of the 72 games were proved to have been manipulated.The skilled Cologne goalkeeper Manglitz conceded 11 goals in two games. It is reported that the standard he set is "1 penalty kick 1000 marks".Subsequent investigations by the federal court and the Essen district court found that he would often hand over an envelope at the entrance to the stadium with his new wife's parking space on it, and the latter's cash would be handed directly to her.The arrest of the German national goal opened the prelude to the Bundesliga gambling in the 1970s.

Looking back now, many details at that time are shocking.For example, the Hungarian Wag is the striker of the Berlin team. Before a key game, Bielefeld had a separate meeting with him, asking him to deliberately not score when the two sides played against each other, and promised to give him "twice" more than other players. remuneration.Wager said he needed to pay in advance, but Bielefeld refused through an intermediary, only promising to pay immediately after the game started.As a result, during the half-time break, Wag ran directly to the phone and asked his wife if the money had arrived in front of many people, but when he heard that there was no money in the account, he became furious and said, "These pig gongs, They want to take our foreign money!"

So he wanted to beat Bielefeld alone, and in the second half he dribbled the ball alone, and the ball hit the opponent's crossbar.Since then, his teammates never passed him the ball again, which ensured that Bielefeld won the final 1-0. The pre-1974 World Cup sweep saw 2 clubs, 2 managers, 5 officials and 52 players punished in the West German league, just before the World Cup there was a wave of amnesties and most of the players were found abroad rice bowl.Among them, more than a dozen Schalke players were pardoned relatively late, because not only did they deliberately postpone the game because they received 40,000 marks, but they were also found to have perjured themselves.After this thorough blow, the Bundesliga has been on the right track since then.The West German Football Association dealt with the matter within 6 weeks. Prosecutions, counterclaims, sports arbitration committees and civil courts followed one after another. The then West German Football Association spokesperson Gerhard made a statement to the public, "The Bundesliga itself has not fallen. It just sounded the alarm for us."

The match-fixing star of the 1980s was Italy.Eleven players were arrested in the shocking match-fixing case in Italy. Although they were later acquitted, the Court of Sport has since punished seven clubs, including AC Milan and Lazio, and 20 players have been jailed for a long time. Banned, the most famous than the 1982 World Cup hero striker Rossi. In 1994, the newly established Premier League was immediately recruited. "Globella Scandal" debut, gambling syndicate agent Vincent then broke the news to the "Sun", he contacted the goalkeeper Grobela and paid cash process was "Sun" filmed.Grobbela was arrested along with former Wimbledon striker Fashanu, goalkeeper Seggs and Malaysian businessman Lin Hengshan. He was fined heavily. Nineteen years later, a reporter from the British "News of the World" pretended to be a wealthy Arab businessman and got the inside story from Fashanu. Fashanu claimed that he worked for the Far East Gambling Group and his income reached 1.5 million pounds.He added £250,000 to his account for providing "information" ahead of a Liverpool derby.

However, Asians have played a rather dishonorable role in the Premier League. Year 1999.When Charlton played against Liverpool at home, all the lights went out. After 40 minutes of overhaul, it still didn't help, and the game was forced to stop.After investigation, the power distribution room was damaged.The stadium management company reported the incident to the police.During the investigation, Fish, the security manager of the Valley Stadium, admitted that he had accepted a bribe of 20,000 pounds from several Asians. Three Asians were able to sneak into the stadium and blow up some key components, mainly because the "company" that was going against them at the time.

However, the Italians certainly held back in this regard and quickly became the new focus in the 21st century. In May 2004, 12 professional Italian teams were involved in gambling and organized crime, with Siena at the center of the scandal.The anti-mafia police in Naples raided the Siena club headquarters and took away all the documents in eight filing cabinets.At the same time, the police launched operations in 14 cities at the same time, and the Serie A teams alone involved Chievo, Regina, and Lecce.The Italian Football Association immediately issued an official communique, claiming that it was not aware of the scandal, and once it was officially notified by the police, the Football Association would launch a parallel investigation.

Everyone thought that this incident was a match-fixing incident against small clubs and low-level leagues, but it became more and more serious two years later. On May 13, 2006, the Rome police conducted a raid on the headquarters of the Italian Football Association.The target of this search is not only the former Juventus general manager Moggi, but also Juventus, AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio 4 Serie A teams and 41 Italian football figures involved.And these people are suspected of manipulating the results of 19 Serie A games in the 2004/2005 season.The former president of the Italian Football Association, who had resigned at the time, was also investigated by the magistrate.

In this context, the Italian Football Association had to announce the cancellation of the decision to send its own referee De Santis to the World Cup in Germany to enforce the law. At the same time, Griselli and Ivaldi, who will serve as assistant referees, were also disqualified from law enforcement. Everyone is in the list of 24 referees involved in the investigation. The first trial of "Phone Gate" came almost at the same time as the climax of the Chinese football crackdown. On December 14, 2009, the Naples local court made the first trial of 11 suspects involved in the 2006 Italian football scandal. Among them, the former Juventus manager Four people, including Jiraudo, were sentenced to imprisonment.Giraudo was sentenced to 3 years in prison, two referees Ranese and Dondalini were sentenced to two years in prison, another referee named Pieri was sentenced to two years and 4 months in prison, and others Seven people involved were acquitted. The impact of the "Callgate" incident changed the Serie A league. In November 2009, in the European football investigation, the news from the German media and the police was particularly frightening.The Federal Prosecutor's Office in Bochum announced to the outside world that the gambling syndicate had manipulated more than 200 European league games at all levels in 2009. UEFA representative Limach said, "This is the biggest scandal in football history." According to the "Bild" report, the "match-fixing scandal" involved 9 countries, and Germany was the center of the storm. The 32 games involved in Germany included 4 games in the second division, 3 games in the third division, and 18 games in the third division. League, 5 5th tier league games, and 2 youth games at U19 level.As for the games involved outside of Germany, they actually included at least 3 UEFA Champions League games, 2 Europa League games, and 1 U21 European Championship qualifier. In just a few weeks, EU police conducted more than 50 searches and a total of 17 people involved were arrested.According to preliminary investigation results, the amount involved was as high as tens of millions of euros, and more than 200 people were involved.Prosecutor Bachmann from Bochum said: "As in the 1970s, players and coaches played the leading role, followed by referees and club officials." The revealed details were shocking, and Bild exclusively exposed the details of 8 games, including the amount of black money collected by players and game-related gambling.The games were played in leagues in countries such as Switzerland, Belgium, Croatia and Turkey, and all took place in 2009.Obviously, these are the most modest sessions, the highest amount involved is less than 150,000 euros. However, the turmoil is like a snowball. At the beginning of December, about 300 Spanish players were suspected of participating in the control of the game, and the Spanish police launched an investigation. "Marca" revealed the names of the seven players under investigation, including goalkeeper Lopez Valeggio who is playing for Zaragoza, a traditional strong team in La Liga. From Eastern Europe the situation was more dire than elsewhere, with the suicide of a Russian referee on November 13, 2009, at the center of renewed concern in European football.On October 25, when Ramos coached CSKA Moscow lost 1-3 at home to FC Moscow, Kayumov, who served as the referee, caused great controversy.Recently, Kayumov was summoned by the Moscow police and detained. Behind the scenes, he was involved in gambling and being bribed. At present, the Russian Football Association has launched an investigation.It is reported that on the 13th, Kayumov stood on the window sill on the seventh floor of an apartment in downtown Moscow, looking sluggish. Fortunately, he was discovered in time and the rescue was finally successful.Some Russian media believed that he had "mental problems". Of course, it's not just games that can be investigated as far as possible "manipulation" is concerned. In 2006, when the old Redknapp was coaching Southampton, the bookmaker offered odds for him to switch to Portsmouth, and he really switched to Portsmouth.In order to investigate whether he was suspected of "cheating" in it, the Football Association and relevant parties conducted an investigation.After Lei Shi accepted the questioning, the matter was left alone. The action of European football is not over yet. This is the same process as Chinese football, but it does not mean that the roadmap is the same. False gambling is a cancer of football, but there is a difference. To use a vivid metaphor: European football Tan is a normal person with a tumor, and Chinese football is a tumor with a person.European football needs to crack down on counterfeiting and crimes on the basis of the established laws, while Chinese football needs to fundamentally solve fake gambling and crimes. This is a long way to go. However, it is not impossible. On the contrary, in China, where power is quite concentrated, it has great advantages. If we not only look at it from the perspective of morality, but also from the perspective of economics and human nature, we will find that its roadmap seems very clear .Because there is nothing wrong with football betting itself. On the premise that gambling is almost one of the most primitive desires of human beings, how we channel and utilize it has become an interesting topic at the moment.