The European Golden Boy Award is the selection criteria, and the personal honor and collective honor of candidate players. Generally, only four are: club honors, personal honors, and national team honors. If that player is in a wealthy club, then there is also a halo bonus for the wealthy club.

Although there are 40 candidates on the list, there are only a few popular candidates every year, that is, three or four, and at most five or six. Last year's favorites were Messi, Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, among which Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo competed the most fiercely. Finally, Messi, from La Liga giants Barcelona, ​​won the 2005 European Golden Boy Award.

From the time of submitting the candidate list in September until the awards were presented in January 2007, the Turin Sports Daily periodically surveyed the candidates' support ratings, made rankings, and published them in newspapers.

However, generally speaking, after the 40-person roster comes out, the media can roughly guess which players are popular candidates. After all, the real genius Junyan is better than others.

Now, in the media's opinion, there are only these four people who are truly capable of winning the '2006 European Golden Boy Award':

Barcelona's Messi, Manchester United's Rooney, Arsenal's Fabregas, and Marseille's Flattering.

Among them, Messi was the winner of the "European Golden Boy Award" last year and the one with the highest bidding. Messi is also likely to become the first young man to defend this honor. This small Argentine player is hailed by the media as the successor of "Maradona".

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Argentine football has never lacked geniuses. The unruly monsoon on the Pampas grassland and the rushing water of the La Plata River have nurtured generations of superstars. However, since Diego Maradona, Argentine football has never found a leader-like handsome talent: Batistuta scored like a pick-up, but it was difficult to motivate the whole team; Redondo had the talent to command the three armies, but left the national team for long hair; Ortegas had amazing skills, but it was difficult to correct his bad habit of falling. Therefore, since Maradona was found to be taking banned drugs in the United States in 1994, Argentine team has never performed well in the World Cup.

Unlike "Crow Mouth" Bailey who likes to predict the championships of major events, after retirement, Maradona, in addition to dealing with illegitimate child lawsuits and rehabilitating drugs and losing weight over and over again, is looking for a successor for himself. In the past 10 years, at least six or seven successors have been appointed by Maradona. Before Messi, the most famous one was Saviola.

Saviola is the first person in history to win the honor of South American footballer before he was 18 years old. Since he entered the AFC in early 1998, Saviola has become the best scorer in the Argentina League in just one year. Another year later, he scored a total of 20 goals in the Argentina League in the spring and autumn seasons, setting a new record for his personal career. At the beginning of his fame, countless people began to compare Saviola with Maradona. Later, the media finally invited Lao Ma to comment on which of the Argentina stars at that time was the most similar to him. Maradona said Saviola's name without hesitation.

The World Youth Championship in 2001 made Saviola famous. In order to compete with Real Madrid, which owns Zidane, Barcelona chairman Gaspart ended up buying Saviola for nearly $26 million. In his first season in La Liga, the 20-year-old "Bunny" scored 17 goals without firmly standing on the main position, with a pretty good start. However, from the second year, Saviola caught up with the Barcelona club's senior shock and the frequent changes in the head coach. Reck

Sachs didn't know where to put him, and Van Gaal tried to revive the "Dutch Gang" and gave Saviola a small shoe. Antich, who reused Saviola, was quickly ousted. After Laporta entered the club, he began to clear Gaspart's old subordinates. The innocent Saviola became the target of being cleaned up and was loaned to Monaco. Although he performed well in Monaco, Barcelona has made it clear that he would not take Saviola back, and the next transfer was only waiting for him.

In the national team, Saviola's situation is also bad. Although Pekelman, the former national youth team's mentor, favored him after Bielsa and almost every game, Saviola can only repay with very few goals. Over the past year, only scored one goal against Venezuela and the Federation Cup against Tunisia in the World Cup qualifiers, which attracted fierce criticism from the media. For this young "Maradona successor" who became famous, there are few opportunities to prove himself. Saviola, with the Argentinian's huge expectations, may become the successor to the "Maradona" who disappoints the Argentinian the most.

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Fortunately, at this time, Messi emerged and filled the empty hearts of the Argentinians.

Messi started in the European arena and was familiar with European style of play, the skills of South American players and the tactical influence of European courts have made Messi more sharp and more combat ability and adaptability. From this perspective, Messi is more worth looking forward to than his many predecessors.

The amazing World Youth Championship has made Messi a hot topic in the media. In the history of Argentine football, no player has ever been able to get the opportunity to compete with the adult national team in the second year after participating in the World Youth Championship. Peckerman decisively brought Messi to Germany at the World Youth Championship this summer. Although this small player has not helped Argentina turn the tide, his future is limitless.

Messi, who is famous, still maintains his usual calmness and restraint, and even taciturn, as if the glory of the World Youth Championship has never caused any turmoil in his heart. Although many people say that he is like Maradona, Messi is not satisfied with it. He said, "Diego is unique, and I have never hoped to reach his height."

In response, the Argentine media joked, "What about ten years later, will Messi still say this after he won the Grand Slam?"

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In addition, Arsenal's Fabregas was praised by Spanish media as the successor of "Guardiola".

Therefore, there are also media jokes that the 2006 "European Golden Globe" competition was a contest between "Papan's successor", "Guardiola's successor", and "Maradona's successor". Well, if this seems to be the biggest hope of Messi's winning bid, and the least hope of winning bid is the biggest.

Why? Guardiola is not enough to see in front of Maradona, let alone Papan.

Of course, Manchester United star Rooney, who once won the "European Golden Boy Award", was also favored by some media and fans, becoming the first player to win the "European Golden Boy Award" twice.

It is worth mentioning that Rooney was born on October 24, 2005. Because the selection range of the European Golden Boy Award is young players under the age of 21, he almost couldn't get this opportunity again.

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Zhang Yang made AC Milan suffer in the Champions League, which undoubtedly attracted the attention of the Italian media. The Marseille media joked that this is Zhang Yang's major advantage.

To be honest, Zhang Yang is really not very clear about the "European Golden Boy Award". He only knows the "European Golden Boy Award". However, he doesn't know much about the specific ones. It's not that he is ignorant. The boy who only knows training and competitions all day is almost an otaku.

Zhang Yang heard that he had been selected for the 'European Golden Ball Award' and had a high call for winning the bid. In addition to being surprised, he learned about the authority and importance of the 'European Golden Ball Award' and was also excited.

This is called the "Little Golden Globe Award". Although young players who win this award may not necessarily win the European Golden Globe Award one day, being able to dominate among their peers is definitely an opportunity that Zhang Yang, who seems honest and likes to show off in his bones, is definitely unwilling to miss!

Therefore, when interviewed by "Voice of the North", Zhang Yang was not polite at all, and he ambitiously stated that he was determined to win this award.

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The reporter of "Voice of the North" was a little surprised when he looked at this confident boy. He was strange. Don't Asians like to say modestly, "I'm not good enough, others are better than me." However, when he remembered what this young man did after joining the Marseille, he looked a little "humble and cautious" and he would feel relieved.

However, the reporter asked, "Why do you think you will definitely win the Golden Boy Award?"

Uh-Zhang Yang was stunned for a moment. This question is really an idiot problem. He almost blurted out, "Idiot, that's because I'm the best!" He was unwilling to admit that anyone of these peers is better than him. Maybe there are indeed those who are better than him, but this morale cannot be lost. If a young man is like this domineering arrogance that is better than me!

You can say that Zhang Yang is excessively arrogant, or you can say that he is very confident.

However, this is the character of this young man. He is usually a very sunny and peaceful young man, but in the competition field, he is absolutely ostentatious when competing for honor! In fact, whether you like this young man or not, you have to admit that those real legendary shooters seem to be this kind of virtue. For example, Mr. Cantona.

Of course, Zhang Yang couldn't say directly that I was better than those guys. He was confident and even a little arrogant, but he was not stupid, so he was too arrogant. Well, did he think his current statement was very gentle?

He began to settle accounts with the reporter with his fingers, look, I am a Sagittarius.

The reporter nodded.

The scoring criterion for a score is the number of goals, he said.

The reporter nodded in agreement.

I scored thirty-three goals last season. He said again.

The reporter nodded again.

My goals are the most numerous of these people. If we look at the data, I have the most advantage.

The reporter looked at Zhang Yang, you really know how to calculate, you are a shooter, Messi is not a pure shooter, and Fabregas is even more so. However, he suddenly felt in his heart that Zhang Yang's chances of winning the "European Golden Boy Award" seemed to be the greatest.

The Golden Boot of the Ligue 1 League is the biggest capital for Zhang Yang!

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"Why are you so confident?" At the end of the interview, the reporter asked another idiotic question. When he asked this question, he knew that he was wrong. He really wanted to slap himself. Sure enough, when he saw Zhang Yang looking at him in surprise, he seemed to be saying, "I have confidence in myself, is this wrong?"

Well, you are right. Anyone has the right to have confidence in himself. He actually wants to say, young people, you should be humble, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say it, and he made up his mind to make this kid suffer in the report. It is not a good thing for young people to be too powerful. He feels that he has no malice at all, but it is just for the protection of this young person.

Therefore, in the report the next day, the title chosen by this reporter from "Voice of the North" was: Showing confidence for a hundred times, threatening to win the Golden Boy Award!

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ps: The second update is presented.
Chapter completed!