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2026年美加墨世界杯刚结束不久，昨日FIFA突然官宣成立子公司“国际足联前进企业”（FFE），初始股权估值200亿美元，将向外界出售世界杯股份，此提案一出立即引发了轩然大波。

二 |     CANBERRA, Australia -- A Chinese Australian journalist who was convicted on murky espionage charges and detained in China for three years has returned to Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday.Cheng Lei, 48, worked for the international department of China's state broadcaster CCTV. She has reunited with her two children in Melbourne, Albanese said.Her return comes ahead of Albanese’s planned visit to Beijing this year on a date yet to be announced. He will become the first Australian prime minister to visit the Chinese capital in seven years.Albanese said Australia had traded nothing with China for Cheng's release.“Her release follows the completion of judicial processes in China,” he said.China’s Ministry of State Security said that Cheng had been approached by a foreign organization in May 2020 and provided them with state secrets she had obtained on the job in violation of a confidentiality clause signed with her employer. A police statement did not name the organization or say what the secrets were.A court in Beijing convicted her of illegally providing state secrets abroad and she was sentenced to two years and 11 months, the statement said. She was deported Wednesday after serving her sentence, presumably because she had already been detained for that long .“Her return brings an end to a very difficult few years for Ms. Cheng and her family," Albanese said. "The government has been seeking this for a long period of time and her return will be warmly welcomed not just by her family and friends but by all Australians.”The FreeChengLei account on X, formerly known as Twitter, posted a photo of Cheng with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Australia's ambassador to China, Graham Fletcher.The post included a quote, apparently from Cheng, that read: “Tight hugs, teary screams, holding my kids in the spring sunshine. Trees shimmy from the breeze. I can see the entirety of the sky now! Thank you Aussies.”Albanese’s government has been lobbying for the release of Cheng and another Chinese Australian held in China since 2019, Yang Hengjun.Bilateral relations have improved since Albanese's center-left Labor Party was elected after nine years of conservative rule. Beijing has lifted several official and unofficial trade barriers on Australian exports.Albanese's reference to China's judicial system suggested that Cheng had recently been sentenced after she was convicted in a closed-court trial last year on national security charges.Questioned by a reporter, Albanese said China was not acknowledging through Cheng's release that she posed no threat or had been wrongfully detained.“No, China would have not have said that that's the position. China would say that the judicial processes have been completed in China,” Albanese said.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the Chinese judicial system tried the case “in accordance with the law, fully safeguarding the rights enjoyed by the person concerned in accordance with the law.”Albanese said he spoke to Cheng in Melbourne, where her children have been living with her mother, and that they discussed a letter she had written to the Australian public in August to mark the third anniversary of her detention. The Chinese-born journalist spoke in her letter about her love for her adopted country.In the letter, she also described her living conditions in detention in China, saying she was allowed to stand in sunlight for just 10 hours a year.“She is a very strong and resilient person ... and when I spoke with her she was delighted to be back in Melbourne,” Albanese said.Albanese did not say whether Yang was also likely to be released.“We continue to advocate for Dr. Yang’s interests, rights and wellbeing with the Chinese authorities at all levels,” Albanese said.Yang, a 58-year-old writer and democracy blogger, told his family in August he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment.Yang has been detained in China since January 2019, when he arrived in Guangzhou from New York with his wife and teenage stepdaughter.Yang received a closed-door trial on an espionage charge in Beijing in May 2021 and is still awaiting a verdict.Yang's friend, University of Technology Sydney academic Feng Chongyi, said on Wednesday a verdict had been postponed for three months 11 times and the next possible ruling was January.He said Cheng’s release was good news for Yang. “I do hope Yang is treated in the same way. Given Yang’s poor health, his release is actually more urgent,” Feng said.___Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Beijing contributed to this report.___This story corrects the name of the Chinese security agency.。因凡蒂诺的提案是什么？谁将从中受益？这对足球运动本身可能意味着什么？《每日电讯报》体育版带来详细解读——因凡蒂诺计划将世界杯的部分股份出售给私人投资者，外界将其称为投向足球界的“200亿核弹”，甚至“可能比欧超联赛糟糕得多”，还有因凡蒂诺与唐纳德·特朗普之间的“兄弟情谊”……因凡蒂诺的计划是什么？国际足联主席因凡蒂诺已确认，他希望创建一家新的子公司——国际足联“前进”企业（FFE），将该组织的商业和赛事运营（包括转播、赞助、票务和授权业务）整合在一起，其中涵盖世界杯和世俱杯。国际足联表示，将基于200亿美元（折合150亿英镑）的初始股权估值，向外部投资者出售FFE的少数股权。国际足联称，此举可筹集至多42亿美元（32亿英镑），用于资助一项新的“国际足联快进计划”（FFFP），作为将足球发展资金扩大至超过100亿美元（75亿英镑）计划的一部分。

三 | 国际足联强调，将保留对FFE的独家控制权，并在足球治理、赛事、比赛日历以及所有监管和体育决策方面拥有专属权力。国际足联还强调，所有这些都须经其211个会员协会中的“多数”批准。谁将受益（各个足协成员、因凡蒂诺）？根据国际足联“前进”发展计划，各会员协会在2027至2030年期间的预算拨款为每协会800万美元。一旦FFE计划获批，各成员协会将立即获得一笔2000万美元（约1500万英镑）的“选择性”资金（目前尚不清楚他们会基于何种理由拒绝这笔资金）。

四 | 此后在2027-2030年间再获2000万美元，2031至2034年间获2200万美元，2035至2038年间获2400万美元。对于依赖国际足联拨款的那些协会来说，因凡蒂诺此番大手笔将带来翻天覆地的变化。周二公布该计划时，特别提到了佛得角和库拉索，这两个国家/地区正是在“国际足联前进计划”长达十年的持续扶持下，才得以登上世界杯舞台。

五 | 私募股权投资者自然也希望从中获利。尽管公告并没有提到，但因凡蒂诺此前曾传可能在子公司中担任权力极大的“专员”一职，时间点就在他2031年国际足联主席任期结束之后。届时，他每年有望赚取数千万英镑的收入。主要参与者有哪些？考虑到因凡蒂诺与特朗普之间的密切关系，此次计划中最受关注的焦点人物当属约书亚·库什纳——他的哥哥贾里德正是美国总统的女婿。这位亿万富翁旗下的Thrive Eternal基金，已被国际足联列为FFE拟议投资者集团的“预期牵头方”。约书亚·库什纳与名模太太卡莉·克劳斯参与FFE筹建的还有Bann Ventures的首席执行官格雷格·马菲，他曾担任自由媒体公司总裁兼首席执行官，正是在其任内，自由媒体完成了对F1（一级方程式赛车）的收购并持续运营至今。此外，摩根大通和OpenEconomics也参与了潜在投资者的搜寻工作。

六 | 国际足联表示，其目标是组建一个“地域分布多元化的投资者群体，以体现国际足联和足球运动的全球属性”。国际足联还透露，截至目前，来自世界各大地区的投资者均已表现出兴趣。我们之前是不是见过类似情况？因凡蒂诺此前就曾尝试推动与私人投资者达成数十亿美元级别的交易。早在2018年，他便提出了一项为期12年、总额高达250亿美元的方案，计划由日本软银集团秘密出资，用于打造全新的全球性赛事，其中就包括扩军后的男足世俱杯，而沙特阿拉伯的资金似乎也为其提供了支持。然而，这一提议最终在欧足联的强烈反对下夭折，因为欧足联认为其核心赛事资产——欧冠联赛和欧洲杯正面临威胁。这对足球运动意味着什么？FIFA在公告中对出售世界杯股份可能引发的深远影响轻描淡写。然而，私募股权介入后，很可能迫使相关方为新投资者追求利润最大化，即便这会损害足球运动的整体利益。

七 | 首届48队世界杯刚刚落幕，国际足联已在酝酿下届扩军至64支球队。

八 | 加纳主帅奎罗斯就批评今夏扩军的效果“粗俗又平庸”。改制后的32队世俱杯，第二届赛事同样可能进一步扩容。同时，关于世界杯或世俱杯是否改为每两年举办一届的讨论也可能再度浮出水面。此外，补水暂停或将成为比赛常态，而世界杯票价除了最富裕的球迷外，绝大多数人仍将难以承受。球员权益组织屡屡对密集赛程表达担忧。

九 | 球员工会Fifpro此前报告称，部分球员全年休息时间仅占12%，根源在于赛事组织方未将球员福利放在首位。

十 | 当时效力于曼城的德布劳内就曾指出，对国际足联和欧足联而言，金钱远比球员福祉更重要。各方反应如何？因凡蒂诺称，这项计划旨在“推动全球足球民主化”，并承诺大力投资“那些最偏远、最常被忽视的足球角落”。然而，他立即遭到最富有的的欧足联的反对。欧足联指出，此举“越过了足球管理机构不应触碰的红线”，并呼吁所有关心足球未来的人正视这一威胁。欧足联强调，“足球的灵魂与管理权绝非可以买卖的商品，尤其在对获利方毫无透明度的前提下。

十一 | 没有人是足球的主人，足球也不是国际足联可以随意出售的。”其他一些批评者则用“核弹”、“比欧超联赛更糟糕”来形容这一计划。挪威一直公开批评因凡蒂诺，正考虑就美国前锋巴洛贡禁赛解禁的决定，提出道德投诉。

十二 | 英足总目前尚未发表评论，据悉，英足总曾支持因凡蒂诺留任国际足联主席。因凡蒂诺预计将在明年连任该职务。