The International Court of Arbitration for Sport is affiliated with the International Olympic Committee.

This is common knowledge.

Although today the International Court of Arbitration for Sport also has an International Council of Arbitration for Sport, composed of well-known figures from society and the sports world, its task is to safeguard the independence of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the rights of the parties involved. It is responsible for supervising the International Court of Arbitration for Sport in terms of administration and finance. In addition, the number of people appointed by the International Olympic Committee has been reduced, and the number of people appointed by organizations such as the Athletes' Commission has been increased to make the organization more widely representative. Financially, the court has also begun to accept social sponsorships, rather than relying solely on the International Olympic Committee.

But this is just a superficial phenomenon. Everyone knows that the International Court of Arbitration for Sport was established by the International Olympic Committee. No matter how it is reformed, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport is still administratively and economically under the management of the International Olympic Committee. No matter how the International Court of Arbitration for Sport defends itself, it cannot change this fact.

In fact, from the day it was established, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport has shouldered an important mission, which is also the ambition of the International Olympic Committee.

That is to intervene in various sports organizations and increase the International Olympic Committee's say and influence in various individual sports.

However, it would be foolish to directly intervene in the affairs of individual sports organizations in the name of the International Olympic Committee to establish influence, because this would definitely arouse protests and dissatisfaction from those individual sports organizations.

Any individual sports organization, no matter how small, has its own dignity. Independence is what they care about most.

The International Olympic Committee is already a behemoth. They are worried that their independent autonomy will be taken away by the Olympic Committee. Therefore, they have always maintained a trace of vigilance and wariness towards the Olympic Committee.

Perhaps very small individual sports organizations may be willing to join the Olympic Committee family, but the Olympic Committee looks down on them.

What the Olympic Committee is eyeing are the fat pieces of meat.

Such as FIFA.

As the world's number one sport, football has an extraordinary influence worldwide. The FIFA World Cup held by FIFA is no less important than the Olympic Games in terms of status, and even more influential than the Olympic Games.

It's terrifying for a single sport to reach this point.

Therefore, FIFA has always ignored the International Olympic Committee.

In order to protect their interests from infringement, FIFA and the Olympic Committee have always kept to their own sides—this is a better situation, and at worst, the two sides are incompatible.

Why are the Olympic football matches all participated in by national teams under the age of twenty-three? This is the result of the game between FIFA and the Olympic Committee. Because the Olympic Games and the World Cup are the two most grand sports events on the planet, and no other competition can be compared with these two, FIFA has always worried that the Olympic football matches will affect the World Cup. The Olympic Games and the World Cup are held every four years, and their time is just staggered, rotating once every two years. If the Olympic Games send adult national teams, how will the status of the World Cup be determined two years later? In the international football world, is an Olympic gold medal more important, or is the World Cup more valuable?

In order to counter the Olympic Games, FIFA stipulated that the national teams participating in the Olympic Games must be national teams under the age of twenty-three. Later, after many games between the two sides, FIFA allowed a maximum of three over-age players to participate in the Olympic Games. Even so, in the Olympic Games, football matches are undoubtedly a dispensable burden.

For this reason, the International Olympic Committee is very unhappy with FIFA.

The same is true on the issue of doping. Initially, FIFA did not accept the International Olympic Committee's decision on the punishment of players for doping. The two institutions have always said their own things and implemented their own standards. Even now, everyone seems to be cooperating seamlessly on the surface, but in fact there are still many small frictions.

Later, the conflict between the two sides further intensified.

The fuse was FIFA's "black gold scandal". Because many FIFA executive committee members were suspected of being involved in the black gold scandal, the International Olympic Committee overstepped its authority and stated that it would investigate three FIFA executive committee members. At the same time, the International Olympic Committee will also ask the BBC for evidence of bribery by three FIFA executive committee members.

The International Olympic Committee did this kind of direct intervention in the other party's internal affairs with confidence. Their reason is: Although all individual federations are independent organizations, as long as these organizations are included in the Olympic Games, in order to ensure the purity of the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee has the right to intervene in the investigation.

The then-President of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, also criticized FIFA for being more humble when facing the black gold scandal.

This tone of an old man teaching a younger brother made FIFA very unhappy.

The conflict between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger.

It's just that for the sake of face, they didn't completely fall out.

However, the International Olympic Committee's dissatisfaction with FIFA accumulated more and more.

They have been waiting for an opportunity, waiting for a suitable opportunity to intervene.

The last time they intervened in FIFA's black gold scandal, they failed to control FIFA, which made the Olympic Committee feel very regretful.

At this time, the opportunity came.

The news of Chen Hero's ban came out, and his agent, Dekura, even threatened to appeal the matter to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport!

A godsend!

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So what does Chen Hero's ban have to do with FIFA?

This starts with the current FIFA President Platini. That's a very, very, very long story.

After working hard for a long time, Platini finally successfully was elected FIFA President.

He reached the highest peak that a politician can reach in the football field.

He had dreamed of it for a long time, and finally he didn't have to present awards to Chen Hero at the Champions League and UEFA Golden Globe Awards ceremonies. But he soon sadly discovered that he still had to present awards to Chen Hero at the FIFA Ballon d'Or...

Chen Hero has become the only superstar in the world of football. Winning awards is simply commonplace for him.

Platini's hatred for Chen Hero did not weaken with his success.

Because Chen Hero has never stopped provoking Platini.

After becoming familiar with the relationship between Chen Hero and Platini, everyone can understand what his ban has to do with FIFA.

FIFA strongly supports the English Football Association's ban on Chen Hero. They support the two-year ban even more.

If they couldn't directly bypass the English Football Association, FIFA would have wanted to finalize the verdict directly.

But this does not prevent them from expressing their support for the English Football Association on various public occasions.

Platini and other dignitaries lined up to express their views on this matter in front of reporters. Without exception, they all demanded that Chen Hero be severely punished, and that the purity of football and the image of professional players be maintained.

FIFA's attitude on this matter is very clear. They and the English Football Association are on the same page.

Now Platini hates that Chen Hero didn't do this in a national team game, otherwise he would really dare to order Chen Hero to be banned for life!

FIFA's enthusiasm for this matter gave the International Olympic Committee, which intended to intervene in FIFA's internal affairs, a good opportunity.

But this opportunity did not exist before Dekura announced that they would appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Because according to the rules, if one of the parties does not voluntarily file an appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport is not qualified to intervene.

But once one party files a lawsuit, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport can officially start the arbitration process.

At this time, the International Olympic Committee can intervene, and it can intervene openly!

The day after Dekura's press conference, the spokesperson of the International Court of Arbitration for Sport talked about this matter when interviewed by reporters.

He did not explicitly support anyone, but what he said made everyone understand who he supported.

"The International Court of Arbitration for Sport has always been committed to protecting the interests of athletes and does not hesitate to be enemies with those huge sports organizations. This is our mission and honor. As long as Hero appeals to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, we will definitely take over. We will never let go of any bad guys, but we will never wrong any good guys."

He almost said directly: "Hero, please apply for arbitration! We will definitely help you win this lawsuit!"

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The spokesperson of the International Court of Arbitration for Sport's remarks really caused panic on the English Football Association's side, or rather, it caused panic in FIFA. They put pressure on the English Football Association.

Then the English Football Association contacted Liverpool Football Club privately and expressed their willingness to discuss Chen Hero's ban period.

They thought that since they took the initiative to go to the other party, the other party should go along with the flow and agree to have a good talk with them. Anyway, what they want is to reduce the ban period, right? At that time, they will drag them for half a year first, and then agree to reduce it to one year, which is actually still a year and a half of the ban...

Who would have thought that they would be rejected by Liverpool Football Club.

The answer they got was that Chen Hero's agent had already appealed the matter to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, so Liverpool Football Club could not help.

A day later, Dekura proved to the world that he was not just talking, and also proved to the English Football Association that Liverpool was indeed not lying.

Because the International Court of Arbitration for Sport officially announced that it had accepted Chen Hero's appeal application and opened a case for investigation. At the same time, they have sent the arbitration application and a copy of its annexes and the list of court arbitrators to the other party involved in the dispute, which is the English Football Association.

Although FIFA tried its best to prevent the behemoth of the International Olympic Committee from entering, it was too late. The International Olympic Committee had already stretched out its hand.

Those who play with fire will get burned. Platini would never have imagined that he would just support the English Football Association in punishing Chen Hero, and he would have attracted such a terrible monster!

He had a feeling of being shot even when lying down.