The Champions League round of 16 draw farce caused an uproar in public opinion, and this is not the first time they have been so "god-operated", after many years of drawing ceremonies, there have been controversies such as using "hot and cold balls" to arrange matches in advance, and pressing a ball during the draw to "make a play".
As the commercialization of football reaches its peak, arranging the most eye-catching matchups is undoubtedly more important to the promotion and profitability of the event, so "making a story" has become a top priority, and it has also made the outside world full of doubts. The UEFA draw is doubtful and will not be the last to appear.
However, compared with the anecdotes that Chinese football once produced because of the lottery, UEFA's approach can only be regarded as a small witch.
In the group stage of the 1999 season of the Chinese Second League, according to the rules of the competition at that time, Yi Teng Lian Tie and Mianyang Fenggu tied for second place, but there was only one place left to advance to the top 8, so Lang Xiaonong, the director of the competition department responsible for league management at the time, proposed a lottery to determine the ranking, and the representatives of the two teams first selected whether the result they guessed was singular or even, and then each wrote a number of less than 10, with the sum of the two numbers as the result, and the one that guessed the single and double numbers won.
As a result, Wang Jun, the coach of Yi Teng, who chose the singular number, faced Lang Xiaonong's inquiry and said that he wrote the number 9, while Li Haisheng, the general manager of the Mianyang team, said that he also wrote 9, so the Mianyang team that guessed the double number finally advanced. But Yi Teng's side is more and more wrong, the handwritten numbers 6 and 9 are not clearly separated, and the team that answers in the back is undoubtedly dominant, and can artificially "adjust" the result according to the data selected by the opponent. However, despite Yi Teng's appeal, the Football Association did not pay attention to it, and eventually Yi Teng Club withdrew from the Chinese Second League in anger.
Subsequently, after absorbing the "6" and "9" draw controversy, the Chinese Football Association developed the poker card drawing method and quickly got the opportunity to use it. In the 2002 A League, Beijing Guoan and Shenzhen Ping An were scored the same point, and according to the rules, the ranking needed to be determined by drawing poker cards. Xie Feng and Wei Kexing, two old friends, stood on the PK platform.
The process of the draw was quite dramatic, Wei Kexing, who represented Guoan, drew "J" first, it seems that their hope of winning the league runner-up is greater, who knows Xie Feng's "god hand" directly turned over "Q" to win the opponent. However, Xie Feng said in an interview afterwards that when he saw that the other party had drawn a big card, he casually drew the next one, and he did not expect such good luck. Therefore, some people speculate that the Football Association used a new deck of cards for the sake of fairness, but they did not wash the cards, which led to the situation where the two "straights" were connected.
The continuous lottery "accident" undoubtedly reflects the backwardness and simplicity of Chinese football in that year, and the latecomers do not seem to have learned their lessons. To this day, the farces of Chinese football are still emerging in an endless stream, and it still seems that the soup is not changed. (Supine Braces/zz)