The French media "Investigation" and "Le Monde" recently disclosed a shocking news in world football. Paris Saint-Germain and the Qatar consortium tried to bribe the editor-in-chief of "France Football" magazine in an attempt to influence the 2021 gold medal. In the selection of the Football Award, the report claimed that Ferre, who was the editor-in-chief of "France Football" at the time, had received gifts from the above two for many times and enjoyed some privileges. For example, Ferre could watch the game in VIP seats at the Paris home court and go to Qatar for business Ribes, who was Paris' communications director at the time, tried to establish a connection channel between the club and L'Equipe, a newspaper owned by France Football. Ribes was recently investigated for corruption, influence-peddling and other crimes.
In 2021, Messi won the award with 613 points, while Lewandowski ranked second with 580 points. Did Paris Saint-Germain's bribery affect the selection results of the Ballon d'Or? Is the 2021 Ballon d'Or selection good for Lewandowski? Injustice is the issue that fans are most concerned about right now. Dangoumau, who currently serves as the editorial director of L'Equipe, said: "The Men's Football Golden Globe Award is voted by a selection panel composed of 100 journalists from 100 different countries and regions. In 2021, the size of the selection panel once reached 180. This way This can effectively avoid any attempt to influence the selection results to ensure the integrity and independence of the award." In other words, it is almost impossible to try to influence the entire selection results by influencing a single individual, and the selection mechanism has been avoided to the greatest extent possible. This happens.
So it can be concluded that Paris' efforts were in vain. What's more interesting is that Ferre himself did not vote for Messi with the highest score in the Ballon d'Or that year, but voted for Messi's biggest competitor, Lewandowski. Ferre's own voting order that year was Lewandowski, Messi, Benzema, Jorginho, and Mbappe. This choice was not too controversial. At the same time, Luo Ming, the only Golden Globe Award judge in China, also said: "There is no shady issue in the selection of the 2021 Golden Globe Awards. The selection of the Golden Globe Awards or other authoritative awards is not based on excel data or the number of winners, but on the number of winners. You have to watch the football. Although "France Football" is the organizer, it cannot influence the votes of reporters and judges from all over the world."
"Lewand's approval rating was first in Europe and Africa at the time, and Messi was the first in these two The support rate in the region is second, but the support rate in Asia and the Americas is first. This is because of the time difference problem. Asia and the Americas saw Messi’s performance in the America’s Cup, while Africa and Europe paid more attention to the players. Performance in European competitions." Messi helped Argentina win the America's Cup with his extremely dominant performance, and it is undisputed that he received the highest number of votes in Asia and the Americas. But the vote-buying in Paris will undoubtedly bring controversy to Messi off the court, and the distorted reports of some media have catered to those who have always believed in conspiracy theories.
Le Monde mentioned in the article that Nasser asked Paris Communications Director Ribes to lobby Ferre and emphasized that Paris should play a certain role in Messi's award-winning process. From this incident, we can analyze the motivation for vote-buying in Paris. Nasser hopes to use Messi’s award-winning event to show the influence of the Paris platform. They hope to show their sense of participation and presence in the process of Messi winning the award, so as to To avoid falling into the discussion of winning a Ballon d'Or, Messi's seventh Ballon d'Or seems to be the result of both Messi's own efforts and the efforts of Paris itself. You know, if Messi had not left Barcelona because of Laporta's back stab, this Golden Globe Award would still be counted on Barcelona.
Essentially, the nature of the Ballon d'Or in Paris is the same as that of International Miami's Ballon d'Or. However, Nasser and the Qatar Group are so happy to celebrate the success and engage in face-saving projects that the campaign for Messi has changed, and it has also given rise to the star. brought negative impacts. Of course, this is also in line with Nasser's consistent behavior. Face is more important than anything else. He can even do things that violate the law just to look good. This refers not only to the election bribery incident, but also to the French prosecutors' other illegal crimes against Nasser. Some accusations.
