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Chapter 77 World Footballer

The FIFA World Footballer’s selection is different from the European Golden Globe Awards. The results were announced in advance, while the FIFA selection was not known who was the first before the final award ceremony.

Sometimes the outside world's speculation is unreliable, because the understanding of professional sports media reporters is completely different from that of national team head coaches and captains.

For example, in the 2010 World Cup, global media believed that the final World Footballer should be the midfielder Xavi of the new World Cup champion Spain, or Iniesta, who scored the winning goal in the World Cup final. Although Messi was also selected as the shortlist for the final three, everyone thought he was just here to serve as a foil.

Even Messi himself thinks so.

What happened? When Blatt pronounced Messi's name, everyone was stunned. Even Messi himself looked incredible, but then he reacted and ecstasy appeared on his face. Xavi and Iniesta next to him looked lonely, surprised, and even angry.

With such a lesson, who can say that he predicted the final result of World Football Master?

Although Chu Zhongtian performed well in the Champions League, Hoffenheim was not as crazy as Dortmund in the league. At the same time, at the national team level, an Asian Cup champion, such as European football, has no bonus point effect.

It’s not that he won the European Champions League championship that year, but lost the star selected by the World Footballer. In the 2005 World Footballer selection, although Liverpool’s captain Gerrard led the team to complete a shocking reversal in the Champions League final. When he was behind three goals, he equalized the score with three goals in ten minutes. He finally defeated AC Milan by penalty shootout and won the European Champions League. Gerrard’s performance in the final was perfect. But even so, he didn’t even enter the final three candidate list... let alone become World Footballer, but he didn’t win that year. It is said that the only factor that affected him was that although he led the team to win the Champions League, Liverpool’s performance in the domestic league was not strong enough, so... World Footballer that year was Ronaldinho, with Lampard ranked second and Etoo third.

In the 2010 selection of Mr. World Footballer - also known as the FIFA Golden Ball Award, which is the new title after the merger of Mr. World Footballer and the Golden Ball Award -, Inter Milan won the biggest contributor to the trio, the absolute core of the Dutch national team, and the top contributor to the Dutch team's finals, Sneider also missed the three-man shortlist.

These examples are enough to show that you won the Champions League, and it does not mean that the World Footballer will choose you. If it is the Golden Ball Award, it is okay because the judges of the "French Football" Golden Ball Award are reporters from global sports media. These people's daily work is to pay attention to various news and changes in the world football world. They are deeply impressed by the players who are most likely to appear in major sports news this year. They will carefully analyze the performance of candidates in various competitions this year from a professional perspective, thereby achieving an authoritative result.

However, the voting rights of FIFA World Footballer are in the hands of the head coaches and captains of various national teams. You expect that the head coaches and captains of countries such as Benin and Brunei have watched several Champions League games, and it is hard to say whether they have watched the Champions League games. Their criteria for choosing is whether the candidate is familiar with the name of himself. If he is familiar, it means that he is powerful. If he is not familiar, he is not powerful.

Messi's winner of the World Footballer last year is the best example. For those who don't watch the game, Xavi and Iniesta are definitely not as famous as Messi. Because Messi has been promoted to be the number one star in the world football in recent years, his reputation has reached its peak. He was the double winner of the World Footballer and the European Golden Ball Awards in 2009, and he is also the winner of the 2010 European Golden Boot Awards. In addition, in the first half of that year, media from various countries have made an unparalleled promotion of Barcelona's six-champion championship and Messi, so it is normal for everyone to be familiar with Messi. Although Xavi and Iniesta are from Barcelona, ​​like Messi, when everyone mentions Barcelona, ​​the first thing they think of is definitely Xavi, Iniesta, but Messi must be.

The people selected for the final three candidates this year include Messi, C. Ronaldo and Chu Zhongtian. Compared with the first two candidates, Chu Zhongtian's reputation worldwide is obviously much lower. Yes, he is the best player in the Champions League this year, Yes, he is a 70 million euro man, and his transfer to Real Madrid was a sensation. But none of these can make him suppress Messi and C. Ronaldo.

If the captains and head coaches of the national team only look at fame when voting, Chu Zhongtian will defeat his teammates and Messi, and he will only be able to get third place. Messi and C. Ronaldo compete for the golden ball, while Chu Zhongtian will only be able to get the bronze ball.

This is also the reason why the World Footballer is even more suspenseful.

From a professional perspective, there is no suspense about Chu Zhongtian's election, but many national team head coaches and captains are not as professional as everyone thinks. Many times, they may have more knowledge about football tactics than ordinary fans, but in terms of mastering football consulting, they are even worse than many "pseudo-fans".

Considering the various previous records of FIFA's previous selections - the 1991 European Golden Ball Award was from French midfielder Papan, who led the French team to win a complete victory in the European Cup qualifiers that year and was undisputedly elected the European Golden Ball Award, but the World Footballer belongs to Matteus. Obviously, the national team coaches who voted have not yet come out of the memory of the 1990 Italian summer... It is worth mentioning that the first World Footballer selection, which seems to have been on two completely different paths from the European Golden Ball Award since the moment it was born; the 1996 Golden Ball Award belongs to the "freeman" Summer who led the German team to the European Cup, and also performed well in Dortmund and won the league championship, but World Football

The gentleman gave the "Alien" Ronaldo; the 2000 Golden Ball Award belonged to Figo, who performed perfectly in the national team's European Cup and clubs back then, but the World Football Master belonged to Zidane. Although Zidane led the French national team to the European Cup to win the championship, Figo's performance in the European Cup is not inferior to him. On the contrary, at the club level, Zidane lost to Figo completely, and that year was the trough of Juventus; the 2001 Golden Ball Award was Irving, and the World Football Master was Figo; the 2003 Golden Ball Award winner was Nedved, who sent Juventus to the Champions League final, but the World Football Master gave Zidane... With these past records, you can understand the anxiety and worries in everyone's heart.

What's more, after the World Footballer was released last year, the media also revealed many shady stories about World Footballer selection. For example, the head coach and the captain of the voting did not know why the names they had never written appeared on their votes... Some even said that the FIFA World Footballer selection was completely decided, and whoever Blatt wanted to win the award would win the award, even if he was not qualified at all.

This is naturally popular among conspiracy theorists, but in fact there is still a lack of conclusive evidence.

When CCTV Sports Channel was making the trailer for the FIFA awards ceremony, it also used this suspense as a gimmick and put it in the trailer.

This has aroused everyone's appetite. I believe that there must be many Chinese fans who were guarding the TV in front of the TV in the early morning of that day to watch the FIFA awards ceremony.

※※The Spanish media do not care who will win the World Footballer in the end, because these three candidates are from La Liga, and the view that they have always advocated that "La Liga is the No. 1 European League" is another example.

They are more concerned about c. Is Ronaldo really not conflict with Chu Zhongtian?

After the game of Vallecano, Chu Zhongtian, C. Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, captain Casillas, and coach Mourinho flew to Zurich, Switzerland by plane, which is the headquarters of FIFA. At that time, they will attend the World Football Awards Ceremony held at the Grand Theater of Zurich, which is also the FIFA 2011 annual awards ceremony.

On the plane c. Ronaldo was still joking with Chu Zhongtian: "No matter who wins the first place in the end, he will treat you!"

He sat with Chu Zhongtian, talking and laughing along the way, and there was no way they could see that they were in conflict. If this scene had been seen by the media reporters, all kinds of rumors would have disappeared long ago.

In the evening, Chu Zhongtian also walked across the red carpet with C. Ronaldo. The two seemed to deliberately show their unity in front of the media. They stood on the red carpet and let the media take photos, looking intimate.

Of course, I was interviewed by reporters and I had to answer questions that were a bit embarrassing to them.

"We really have no conflicts. What should we do to prove this?" Chu Zhongtian spread his hands and was helpless in facing the reporter's problem.

At this time, a smirk suddenly appeared on C. Ronaldo next to him, and then he kissed Chu Zhongtian in the face with a thunderous look that he could not hide his ears and thunderously. Then, under the shock of Chu Zhongtian and the reporters, he burst into laughter with pride.

"Isn't this proven? Idiot Chu!" c. Ronaldo was very happy after spoofing Chu Zhongtian.

The reporters who reacted also shook their heads. Ronaldo had a lively personality and it was not surprising that he did such a thing, but it seemed that from another perspective they really had no conflicts... Some reporters simply asked the photojournalist: "Have you taken it?"

Seeing the photographer nodding hard, he showed a satisfied smile - no matter what, this is a gimmick worth hype... After leaving the reporters, Chu Zhongtian was still complaining that C. Ronaldo ruined his reputation for life. C. Ronaldo looked innocent: "Isn't kissing his face a normal way to greet him in the West?"

Facing such a person, Chu Zhongtian had no choice but to speak... No matter what, I believe that after the photos were online the next day, the fujokovic women at home and abroad would scream for it.

But it is finally proved that there is no conflict between himself and C. Ronaldo, which should allow the media to no longer have to continue to hype news about internal discord between Real Madrid.

While the two were still answering questions in front of the reporters, a commotion and scream came from beside them. Chu Zhongtian and C. Ronaldo both looked back and found that Messi was here.

As the hottest star in the world football world, Messi is also the most famous in international football. Not only is he sought after by reporters, but many young fans also tried to rush towards Messi and ask him for his autograph.

Two people from Real Madrid's camp turned their heads and looked at Messi. C. Ronaldo turned his head back first. After seeing it was Messi, he turned his head back and curled his lips with disdain. Chu Zhongtian looked at the person for a while before turning his eyes away.

Although the result has not been announced yet, the competition between the three people has actually begun.

Not only the competition between these three people, but actually the competition between Real Madrid and Barcelona. None of the two teams is willing to compare the variance, so the competition and comparison are all-round, not only reflected in the World Footballer, but also in the Best Team of the Year - see who is selected for the Best Team of the Year... ※※※ FIFA Award Ceremony is full of a strong "pretense". In the magnificent Opera Hall, the symphony orchestra is accompaniment, and bel canto singers are invited to perform for everyone. In fact, when these artists sing loudly on the stage, there are few players in the audience, and coaches are interested in this thing. If a rock band is invited to perform the show, they may be more interested.

Chu Zhongtian was not interested in FIFA's behavior of putting football on high-pressure culture. He only cared about the final selection results of the Footballer.

But this will take the end, because the award ceremony is not just a World Footballer, but also many other awards.

The earliest announced was the "Puscas Prize", which was a newly established award in 2009, which is actually the "Google of the Year Award". In the end, Chu Zhongtian's teammate Garez Bale won the Puscas Prize for his first goal in the first round of the Champions League group stage last season. In that goal, he dribbled the ball and ran away from the world's number one right guard, Macon, Inter Milan captain Zanetti, and then defeated the best goalkeeper Cesar in Serie A, successfully and scored the football into the far corner. It was indeed quite exciting.

The Miss World Football Award was given to Brazilian female football player Mata, which was the sixth consecutive year that she won this honor and became a well-deserved number one in the women's football sport.

The result of the best team of the year Barcelona and Real Madrid were evenly matched. Goalkeeper Casillas, forward C. Ronaldo, midfielder Chu Zhongtian and left-back Garez Bale were selected for the best team respectively, while Barcelona was right-back Alves, midfielder Xavi, Iniesta and Messi were selected. The two giants divided eight of the eleven players, which showed the current status of these two teams in the world football world. Some people even said that Barcelona and Real Madrid are another kind of giants that surpass other giants, and their duels are even more eye-catching than the World Cup final.

However, these are all for the stadium, and the most eye-catching one is the selection of World Football Master.

After the FIFA President’s Award was awarded, it was the turn of the highly anticipated World Footballer Awards.

In fact, at the beginning of the award ceremony, the introduction video of the five candidates had been played. In addition to Chu Zhongtian, C. Ronaldo and Messi, the other two candidates were from Barcelona, ​​namely Xavi and Iniesta.

Although Barcelona lost 0:2 away in the national derby that had just ended not long ago, Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 3:2 on the candidate list. It can be regarded as a win back one goal.

In the past, the FIFA footballer revealed that the three candidates were allowed to stand up and then score their scores at the bottom of the screen. Now that we don’t do this, we are now directly opening the envelope by the award presenter and then reading out the final winner. Therefore, before that, no one knew who would be the best among the five candidates.

Chu Zhongtian and C. Ronaldo sat next to their Real Madrid teammates. In their area, Real Madrid head coach Mourinho can be called the "Real Madrid square". Messi sat with Barcelona teammates such as Xavi, Iniesta, and Daniel Alves. The two sides were clearly distinguished. With Mourinho's arrival, the confrontation between Real Madrid and Barcelona has shifted from the football field to other places and entered an era of all-round confrontation. Even at the FIFA award ceremony, they have to distinguish between the top and bottom and always show their position.

As the highlight of this award ceremony, Blatt and UEFA President Platini walked onto the podium together. Platini held a blue envelope in his hand, which contained the answer to all suspense.

The scene suddenly became quiet.

Everyone, including the commentator and audience in front of the TV, is also looking forward to the answer being revealed.

The TV broadcast gave each of the five candidates a close-up shot, and the time was exactly the same, and there was no sign of partiality.

Platini walked to the microphone and lowered her head to uncover the envelope.

Everyone suddenly felt that his movements were very, very slow... In fact, Platini's speed was as normal.

Then he pulled out the card with the name written in the envelope, looked down, and showed a smile on his face.

Many Chinese fans were watching TV when they saw Platini's expression and their hearts tightened - it's over, this time the World Footballer must be Messi's! His godfather has already smiled knowingly!! This is the code!

Just as China Qiu Min was howling in her heart, Platini spoke.

"The winner of the World Footballer of 2011 was—" He flipped the card in his hand, letting the name-face facing the camera, and then said: "Chu Zhongtian from China!"
Chapter completed!
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