Indeed, in the new global balance, where football has become much more than sport, Europe is back with a vengeance. What has been unfolding in front of our eyes in the last four weeks has been a modern and reduced version of the balance-of-power system that dominated Europe and the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
确实，在新的全球平衡中，足球已经成为超越体育的项目，欧洲卷土重来，咄咄逼人。过去四周以来在我们眼前所展现的是一个现代和简化了的力量平衡体系版本。这一体系在十八世纪和十九世纪统治着欧洲和世界。