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Grimaldi Conference Center.

Sun Ke, in a neat suit, sat in the center of the first row of the hall.

Not far to his left is Brother Luo.

Not far away on the right is Meimei...ahem, it's Brother Mei.

Sun Ke really felt sorry for these two brothers, even though he already knew the result, he still wanted to accompany them.

There is no way, some people in UEFA have only the size of a pinhead, and they especially like to play with power to prove their own existence.

If someone doesn't agree with him, he will really think of ways to trip you up.

For example, Arsenal and Professor have become a thorn in the side of UEFA for unreasonable reasons.

It stands to reason that before Platini became the president of UEFA, he and Wenger must have had a good relationship.

When Wenger started his career, he had the opportunity to coach Nancy because of the recommendation from Platini's father.

But Platini's father is not a very prominent person. His job is probably a teacher in a coaching training class, and he also works as a teacher in a school.

The reason why Platini Sr. was able to successfully recommend Wenger to the French Ligue 1 team Nancy's coaching position was not because of his ability to talk, nor because of Wenger's personal ability.

To be honest, the professor's level as a player is probably the level of Sun Ke's original owner.

Wenger's level is probably that of a main player in the third-tier league, a rotation player in the second-tier league, and an iron bench in the top league.

But his exploration of the football field has gone far beyond the scope of a player. In the teams he plays for, all the head coaches of the teams like him very much.

After retiring, the professor is armed to the teeth with knowledge, but his performance as a player and lack of coaching experience mean that his first coaching experience is likely to be with a low-level team.

Mourinho and Klopp, who have similar experiences to Wenger, both spent many years before getting the qualification to coach a top league team for the first time.

Mourinho followed three famous coaches including Robson and Van Gaal for many years, and only got the opportunity to coach a mid-to-lower team in the Portuguese Super League for the first time.

Klopp played for Mainz for 12 years. When the team was about to fall from the Bundesliga to the regional league, he was elected as the firefighting coach by the then captain.

It took him four years to help Mainz get promoted to the Bundesliga, and he stayed for two years before being relegated back to the Bundesliga.

He worked hard for two years, but failed to let Mainz return to the Bundesliga. After receiving the invitation from Dortmund, he decisively ran away.

At this time, Platini's recommendation letter played a crucial role.

Why does this guy’s recommendation work so well?

Because Platini had already become famous in European football at this time, the old Platini was regarded as the father and the son, and maintained good relations with the senior leaders of many French clubs.

When the commercialization of football was not developed enough, personal connections became an important factor in personnel appointments.

Although this kind of experience of rising to the top through personal connections may not be very exciting, the professor did get a position that was difficult for him to obtain based on his own abilities.

This story reminded Sun Ke of what he learned about the admission requirements of British and American universities.

Scores are not the most important criterion in those schools, but overall ability.

Where do these comprehensive abilities come from? Practical activities occupy a considerable proportion.

Many children have sharpened their heads and participated in those important practical activities.

But according to Sun Ke's understanding, except for a few students with active minds who can indeed instigate constructive practical activities, everyone else has to participate in activities organized by others.

Among them, many practical activities are very targeted. The people who organize the activities are either rich people or government officials, and their children are usually included in the activities.

Their children will certainly be at the center of these activities, if not.

So when it's time to choose a school, add a letter of recommendation and you'll have a good school.

If the admission standards are not clear, it will become even more difficult for children from ordinary families to have a chance to change their destiny.

Of course, there will definitely be children who enter prestigious schools and change their destiny.

And it will be treated as big news to inspire other working people. If everyone feels that there is no hope, big trouble will occur!

It's just that the proportion of such people is definitely very low.

In the poorest prefecture-level city in the province where Sun Ke lived in his previous life, a considerable number of children from Qingbei appear every year.

In China's college entrance examination, children from poor families will most likely not have money to make up for extra classes. However, during the fateful college entrance examination, if he has a short sword in his hand, there will only be a few competitors with hidden weapons.

Children from poor families in Britain and the United States went to the battlefield with the pistols they had worked hard to buy, only to find that one-third of the competitors were wearing Iron Man equipment, and another third of the competitors were holding Carrying a heavy machine gun already stood at the commanding heights.

This is also a test of the mud horse.

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It is said that before Platini became UEFA president, he and Wenger had a really good relationship.

But after he became the president of UEFA, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, and Arsenal became what Platini called "a devastating blow to the development of football."

Platini's campaign slogan was to give small and medium-sized teams and weak leagues enough opportunities, and most of the votes for him came from the football associations of small European countries.

The first thing Platini did after taking office was to suppress the Premier League, and he bluntly said that Wenger's behavior of tapping young people from small teams has gone beyond the scope of a coach and is more like a businessman.

He bombarded Arsenal's operating methods that will lead to the decline of small and medium-sized teams, and advocated that growing up in small and medium-sized teams is a thing worthy of people's joy and can make football more enjoyable to watch.

After Platini became the president of UEFA, the Cyprus champion did achieve the feat of advancing to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

In Sun Ke's view, this phenomenon is like feedback to supporters or after-sales service to customers.

Whether his decisions were right or wrong, there is not much debate that he did not have a noble character.

UEFA ranks each club based on the total number of European competition points in the past five seasons.

According to the points ranking, the top eight are Bayern, Barcelona, ​​Chelsea, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Arsenal, Porto and Benfica.

These eight teams are the first-tier teams in this season's group stage, that is, the seeded teams.

The reason Benfica is ranked eighth is because they reached the final of the Europa League last season.

The scoring method for the Champions League and Europa League is the same. The only difference is that teams entering the Champions League main draw can get an additional four points.

In other words, in the seasons when Sevilla won the Europa League consecutively, after they qualified for the Champions League, they could suddenly become a second-tier team.

The reason why they have not been given the opportunity to be a Champions League seeding team is mainly because they are not guaranteed to enter the European competition every season.

The teams ranked in the second tier are Atletico Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk, AC Milan, Schalke 04, Marseille, CSKA Moscow, Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus.

The third tier teams are: Zenit, Manchester City, Dortmund, Basel, Olympiacos, Galatasaray and Bayer Leverkusen.

The four teams are: Copenhagen, Napoli, Anderlecht, Celtic, Victory Plzen, Real Sociedad and Vienna Austria.

Seeing these teams in different brackets, Sun Ke has a feeling that there will be a team between Manchester City and Dortmund that will enter the group of death.

And one of these two teams will definitely be grouped with Naples.

Sun Ke has basically figured out the rules of UEFA's gameplay in his past life.

As the representative of the Golden Dollar Club, Manchester City was severely punished by UEFA in the first two seasons.

Two years in the Champions League, two years with Bayern, and both years in the Group of Death.

After two seasons, Manchester City's boss must have figured it out and what needs to be done must have been taken care of.

Civilized people have their own unspoken ways, but they may look civilized, but in fact they are all just as dirty.

Of course, this is just Sun Ke's guess.

Although it's not a rumor, there is no evidence.

Manchester City has already been divided into the group of death with Naples. Their total European points in the past five seasons are only 46, which is a miserable group.

UEFA has been doing two things these past few seasons.

First, do not give Manchester City European points.

As long as there are no European points, they will always be ranked in the third or fourth tier, and they will always encounter strong opponents in the Champions League.

Second, Arsenal was killed in the first round of the knockout rounds. This has been too obvious in the past two seasons. They even wanted Arsenal to die in the group stage.

Sun Ke has already made the worst expectation, which is to be in a group with Atletico Madrid, Dortmund and Naples.

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Twenty minutes later, amidst two consecutive exclamations from the entire venue, Sun Ke showed a smile worth pondering on his face.

Arsenal are in a group with Marseille, Dortmund and Napoli.

Sure enough...

There is nothing pure about this world.

Each of these bureaucrats is dirtier than the last.

However, as long as we don't make mistakes like the 2002 World Cup or the Champions League semi-final between Barcelona and Chelsea that year, Sun Ke feels that the group stage is just a random killing.