On May 19, 1993, the French first division was near the end, and it had won four consecutive titles in Ligue 1. Marseille led the league championship by four points in the standings, but the league was not so important for Marseille, because six days later the team would compete for the European Champions League in Munich’s famous AC Milan.

Marseille reached the Champions League final in 1991, but lost to Red Star Belgrade in a penalty shoot-out. Now it is a godsend opportunity for Marseille to realize its dream of European hegemony.
However, Marseille will face not AC Milan but Vallancien and Vallancien, which are at the bottom of Ligue 1. Although they were on the verge of relegation, they were still struggling in the relegation zone.
Marseille didn’t want to lose, and didn’t want its players to appear in the final of the European Cup on May 26th with a tired face. So Marseille took great risks and tried to buy off the main players of Vallancien, such as Christopher Robert, with a big sum of money. Marseille won easily the next day’s game. It was reasonable to compare the strength of both sides, and few people paid special attention to the abnormality of the game.
After the game, a reporter from L ‘Equipe learned from Vallancien player grassmann that Marseille had bought off three teammates, including him. L ‘Equipe was very cautious about this and sent a short message in an inconspicuous position. As Marseille was about to participate in the European Champions Cup final, the French football community did not pay attention to it. Legras Aitgong, chairman of the French professional league Committee, said that he would investigate the matter after the game.
Six days later, Marseille defeated AC Milan in the final and won the first European Champions Cup in French history. When people were ecstatic to celebrate, Team reported the match-fixing case in Marseille and published an editorial.
The attitude of the French Vocational Committee was very correct and actively initiated the judicial process, and the French judicial department immediately intervened. On June 29, the League Committee reported the case, and on the 9 th, the court filed a case. On the 11 th, the court appointed a special judge to investigate the case. Compared with the French Football Association, it was "cautious" that many direct incidents occurred for nearly five months before intervening.
At that time, the president of Marseille Club was Tappi, who played an important role in the political and economic fields of France. He was not only a minister of French government departments, but also a member of parliament, and he was also a shareholder of Adidas, so it was easy for him to interfere in the investigation with his influence in the political media.
At the same time, French President Mitterrand publicly stated at a press conference that the judicial department had gone too far in this matter.
However, the investigation of this case did not stop. A player grassmann "confessed" that player Buruchaga (a member of the Argentine national team in the 6 th World Cup) quickly admitted that someone had approached him and paid him to release water.
On June 24th, under psychological pressure, Christopher Robert surrendered to the French Football Association. According to his confession, the police dug up 250,000 francs in cash buried in the backyard of his wife Mary Christina’s mother’s house.
The bribery scandal in Marseille shocked French football, which is the world football. FIFA flew into a rage and ordered the French Football Association hell to pay to hesitate. The French Football Association finally handed over the case to the judicial machine, and Marseille was immediately disqualified from participating in the European Super Cup, the Toyota Cup and the European Champions Cup next season.
On July 1st, a player of Marseille (including voller, desailly, Boli, Abédi Ayew and other famous stars) was taken away by the police and interviewed. At the same time, the police searched the office building of Marseille officials.
In the office of Bain, the general manager of Marseille, the police found several identical envelopes that Christopher Robert received, and the nails on the desk were also identical to that envelope. The police immediately arrested Bain, the general manager of Marseille, after obtaining enough evidence.
In the early morning of July 6, the police plane escorted Bain from Marseille to Lille, and then the police car was sent to Vallancien for trial by Judge Befi.
Everyone knows that Bain is the second person in the Marseille Club, so Tappi, the boss of Marseille, is naturally difficult to take off.
Tappi is an ambitious politician and doer in France. He once held the post of Minister of Urban Development of the French government. After Bain was arrested, Tappi was also exposed to people.
As a traveler, Zhuang Ge certainly knows the handling of this shocking football scandal and the final outcome of the people involved.
On February 1, 1994, Tappi was accused of taking part in bribery activities, and was asked to pass a decision on April 22, 1993 by the Special Committee of the French Football Association to cancel Marseille’s championship in Ligue 1 in the 1992-1993 season, and to demote Marseille to Serie B, cancel Tappi’s control over the club and cancel Bain’s salary in the club for life.
On March 17, 1995, after seven days of silence, Bain finally revealed the mastermind of the Marseille bribery case in court.
Bain said, "Today, I want to tell the truth. Nine days before the match in Vallancien, Marseille, Tappi ordered me to find a way to make Marseille take this game easily so as to protect AC Milan’s strength against it." Bain admitted the fact of bribing his opponent, but at the same time he pointed out that "I did it according to Tappi’s order, and it was impossible to pay the amount of bribes at Marseille Club without Tappi’s consent."
Bain’s words in court disrupted the case like a bomb, and the participants secretly formed a "logical structure". Even if the court letter made Tapifa justify himself, Tapi was deprived of his parliamentary freedom and immediately went to prison.
On May 16, 1995, after two years of trial and investigation, the bribery case in Marseille finally came to a final conclusion. Tapi was accused of being the mastermind of this case and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. After he was released from prison, he was not allowed to watch the game at the football stadium for one year, and all the people involved in the bribery case were punished accordingly. The bribery case in Marseille, which lasted for two years and was heated by the press, finally came to an end.
Tappi, the owner of Marseille Club, was not only punished criminally, but also had to quit football because of the disclosure and handling of the case, and his league was on the verge of bankruptcy, so he had to start his old career-actors sometimes made guest appearances as drama and film directors.
Grassmann, a player of Vallancien team, had to stay away from him because of his testimony, so he had to stay away from French soil and play for a small local club called Reunion Island, and finally quietly retired from football because of his age.
However, the most serious damage caused by the match-fixing case in Marseille is naturally that the star-studded array in Marseille was scattered five points after the match-fixing case of Marseille Club.
Abédi Ayew, two-time African footballer of the year, went to Lyon, marcel dessailly, transferred to AC Milan, Rudi V?ller returned to Lazio, Germany, signed Boksic Demeco and fabien barthez to Monaco, joined Glasgow Celtic Serie A giant Juventus, got the French national team and the club’s double captain, Deschamps Yugoslav star stojkovic, and traveled to Japan …
A match-fixing made Marseille forever until Zhuang Ge crossed in 212, and Marseille was also a strong team in Ligue 1, far from the style of four consecutive championships in that year, and Ligue 1 was thus caught in a long period of silence, the outflow of stars and the scuffle between the league teams. Even when the French national team won the World Cup and the European Cup successively, it did not improve.
And Zhuang Ge, who experienced the scandal of Serie A in later generations, also paid high attention to the ending of Marseille. He clearly remembered that Serie A completely lost its appeal to top stars because of the scandal in six years, and the reputation of Serie A teams was greatly affected.
We should make every effort to avoid that disaster in Serie A. The best way is to build an anti-"black gambling and drug gambling" body in the NBA like David Stern and nip all possible hidden dangers in the bud.
Therefore, Zhuang Ge must have enough words in the Italian professional league.
How to have more words? Nature is to make Florence a European giant.
How to become a rich family? It depends on Zhuang Ge’s own business …
Chapter 7 Lively Transfer Market
The words are divided into two branches. After seeing that Florence has been demoted and taken the lead in making big signings, those Serie A teams are naturally not to be outdone, and they are looking for deals to strengthen their array.
As the Italian economic recession has not yet arrived, these Serie A club owners have not yet developed the habit of keeping their wallets tight during this period.
If it develops normally according to history, the Italian lira will collapse by the end of 1994. Since then, Italian small and medium-sized teams have never introduced well-known foreign aid in a big way. From the end of the late 1990 s to the end of the 12 th season, Serie A can attract a lot of money, leaving the great boss Inter Milan, who still has a certain passion for football. Berlusconi ruled AC Milan, Sensiro Rome and Lazio, cragnotti, and Juventus.
For other teams, they are either engaged in the "human trafficking" business like Houdusse or have a financial crisis like Parma and Florence, so Serie A has declined since then … That’s beside the point.