Julio Grondona, the autocratic czar in Argentine football for 32 years. He is a witness that Argentine football has stepped onto the altar, but he is also an old man who remained in the 21st century during the military government era. In fact, Grondona is the real culprit in the ups and downs of Argentine football in the past 3 years.

The route that has never been established

In the first 1 years of Grondona's administration, Argentina, like the world, was still in the post-cold war era. In the past 3 years, the only success of Grondona is the combination of bilardo and Diego Maradona. In an era when the national team can still compete with the club, Grondona's adventure is successful. However, after that, Argentina's economy and society did not rapidly enter the era of globalization with the end of the Cold War. On the contrary, the 1997 financial crisis completely destroyed the social foundation and economic lifeline of this country. On the premise that the benefits that can be obtained are greatly reduced, the contradictions among interest groups with many factions in Argentina are becoming more and more fierce. The national team is no longer the spiritual pillar of the past, but has become the only fruit that can gain more economic benefits.

Therefore, Grodona can only swing from side to side in such chaos, constantly seeking to maximize his own interests, and at the same time sacrificing the national team in balance and restriction. The America's Cup in 1993 was an important watershed for Argentina, which had to win the World Cup preliminaries through play-offs. Grodona chose to take a risk: inject the players with banned drugs, and at the same time use his relationship with FIFA to avoid drug testing. This is actually a silhouette of Grodona's code of conduct in the next 18 years: he can have no bottom line and do whatever it takes for the benefit.

Grondona's "peacemaker" role is reflected in Argentina's national team, that is, he always swings from left to right in coach selection. Facts have proved that Grondona's national team coach is more often a compromise of quarrels and interests, and the national team tactics have never been passed down for more than four years. More often, it is the pendulum result of Grodona satisfying various interests.

Another well-known conspiracy theory in Argentina is that Grondona has always adhered to the political thinking of "self-respect for patients"-only an Argentine national team that always keeps the hope of winning the championship but never succeeds will guarantee his supreme authority. Obviously, the bilardo-Diego Maradona combination created by the 1986 World Cup made him fully aware that trophies can package idols with greater influence than him. Therefore, having a coach as a scapegoat for every defeat is enough to ensure that Grondona will not be hurt-although every coach is his choice. On the issue of choosing a coach, Grodona even trusted the opinions of his two sons and his wife-the restoration of Basile was his wife's pillow breeze, and Diego Maradona's position was strongly sponsored by his son. On the contrary, Bianchi and Simone, who should have more tactical background, were abandoned because of the lack of this layer of "deaf ears". Destroy a System Before the Copa America, Mei Nuodi publicly criticized Grondona, and the pipe coach thought Grondona was responsible for the collapse of the entire Argentine football system. What is the energy of Grondona in Argentine football? During his 32-year tenure, he experienced four military presidents and seven elected presidents in Argentina, and successfully escaped from more than 4 doping scandals, nine players' union strikes and four referee strikes. In addition, the Argentine judicial department raided himself, the Argentine Football Association and the partner's office more than 5 times, which also made him unscathed.

He pioneered the league system of two seasons a year and the unique three-year average promotion and demotion system in the world, trying to make the big club monopolize the championship and keep in the first-class ranks, but it turns out that it is this strange elevator system that destroyed the riverbed of the heart water team that he almost joined when he was young. His attack on the Argentine football system began in 1977 when he joined the Football Association: Grondona was unable to take office immediately because he threatened the referee to sit in the football supervisor for two months when he became the chairman of the independent team, and when he became the chairman of the Arsenal team 11 years ago, he threatened the referee four times in just two years and nine months and was ordered to terminate the management right.

It is natural that such a person who flouts authority and law and discipline becomes the president of Argentine Football Association. He believed in the famous saying of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Andreotti who had an affair with the mafia: "It is true that power will erase a person, but it will erase those who don't use it." Grondona abused his power and sold the warm-up match of Argentina's national team to a Russian consortium for huge profits. This is a unique case among FIFA's more than 2 national teams. He successfully persuaded the government to buy the TV broadcasting rights of the first division, but turned a deaf ear to the second division; The forced implementation of the "shock" therapy against fan riots, which is not open to away fans, directly led to the bankruptcy of the second division, but the fan riots did not decrease significantly.

Grondona didn't bring abundant funds to the shareholding system reform of Argentine clubs. On the contrary, due to administrative inefficiency and bureaucracy, it almost destroyed the three giants of independence, competition and riverbed. Too much emphasis on the national team's economic income has seriously affected Argentina's youth training system. Joint-stock clubs pay more attention to players' transfer income, which leads to the over-exploitation of young players in Argentina. Today, almost all the five giants have lost their productive youth training system. Grondona is a disaster, and it is not just as simple as cutting off Argentina's trophy.