PDLP Chapter 68: Fifa Ballon D'or, A New Mr. Ballon D'or Is Born!
Chapter 68: Fifa Ballon D'or, A New Mr. Ballon D'or Is Born!
At the end of each year.
It's all when more than a dozen football awards come out.
This time.
The most concerned is, of course, who went to the FIFA Joint Ballon d'Or.
The FIFA Joint Ballon d'Or is a combination of the "World Footballer of the Year" sponsored by FIFA and the "European Ballon d'Or" sponsored by the authoritative media "Football Magazine".
Before that.
The World Footballer of the Year and Ballon d'Or awards are awarded separately.
In the beginning.
The Ballon d'Or is also only awarded to European players.
It was later expanded to all players who played in Europe.
Authoritativeness gradually competed with World Footballer of the Year.
In 2010.
FIFA and Football have teamed up to merge the two awards.
Call it the FIFA Joint Ballon d'Or.
So now there is no World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or.
Messi is the first player to win the FIFA Joint Ballon d'Or.
That was in 2010.
Of course.
The awards for that edition were somewhat controversial
Because that year was a World Cup year.
Originally, everyone thought that the award would be given to the core of the World Cup winner, Xavi or Iniesta.
Not good anymore.
It should also be Sneijder, the core of the midfield as Inter's treble season.
Because Sneijder's Dutch team finished runners-up in that World Cup and performed equally well.
It can be said.
This year's Ballon d'Or was awarded to either Xavi or Iniesta, or Sneijder.
None of them are too controversial.
But on the other hand.
But it fell to Messi.
Messi's stats this season are certainly quite gorgeous.
But on championship honors.
Messi has only one La Liga title.
Compare it to the World Cup and the Champions League.
The gold content is too low.
However, this also exposed some problems with the FIFA Ballon d'Or selection mechanism.
The original World Footballer of the Year was voted on by the captain and head coach of the national team of the FIFA member states.
The selection of the Golden Ball Awards is voted by the editors of authoritative football media around the world invited by "Football in China" magazine.
At first glance.
It seems that the selection of World Footballer of the Year produces more fairness.
But it's not.
Because the editors of authoritative football media actually know the ball very well.
They take into account the performance of players from the previous year.
And what about the votes of the captains and coaches of the national team?
True, the coaches and captains of Europe's big teams are big names.
Their votes are informative.
But.
What about some of the lower ranked teams?
FIFA International 600 has more than 200 member states.
Among them, there are more than a hundred national teams composed of players, mainly amateur players....
For example, Guam, Nepal, Bhutan and so on.
Their players are amateurs, that is, they don't play football as a professional, they have to go their own.
So the vote of their captain and coach.
Frankly....
The reference value is not great.
The main thing is to vote for fame.
And their votes are worth the same as the votes of the captains and coaches of the strong teams in Europe and South America.
This brings up a problem:
The more famous.
The more advantageous it is in the World Footballer of the Year selection.
After the merger of World Footballer of the Year and Ballon d'Or.
The selection methods of the two awards have also been merged.
The votes of authoritative football media and national team captains and coaches account for 50% each.
On media voting.
Messi didn't even finish in the top three that year.
It was all thanks to the votes of the captain and coach of the national team that he won the Golden Ball Award that year.
Although there are many criticism in the selection of the FIFA Ballon d'Or.
But it's still the highest personal honor for a footballer on the planet.
Therefore, it is still very concerned.
The FIFA Ballon d'Or doesn't know who is number one until the ceremony.
Now everyone relies on speculation.
There are lessons from Messi's previous experience.
So it's not clear whether Li Ao will win the award.
Although Li Ao won the Triple Crown, didn't Sneijder also win the Triple Crown and did not win the prize...
Of course.
If Li Ao did not win the award this time, the controversy it caused would definitely be quite huge.
Because Messi won the award before, it can be said that his personal data crushed other competitors.
But now.
Want to see personal data?
Li Ao is better than Messi.
And before that.
FIFA announced the final three-man shortlist.
The three-man shortlist includes Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Li Ao.
Compare with the previous two candidates.
Li Ao's fame is certainly the lowest.
That's right.
He is the best player in the Champions League this year.
That's right.
His value in Dezhuan reached 200 million.
But none of this is a reason why he can suppress Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
If the captains and managers of the national team vote not by the championship honors they have achieved, but by fame.
Li Ao is definitely going to lose to Messi and Ronaldo.
This is also where the Golden Globes are full of suspense.
Not at the last minute.
No one can say for sure.
From a professional point of view, Li Ao's election is not in suspense, but many national team managers, as well as captains, are not as professional as everyone thinks, many times they may know more about football tactics than ordinary fans, but in the mastery of football consulting, they are not even as good as many "pseudo fans".
Given FIFA's previous convictions——— the 1991 European Ballon d'Or was won by midfielder Papin, who led the team to victory in the European Cup qualifiers that year and was indisputably elected to the European Ballon d'Or, but the World Footballer of the Year belonged to Mateus [Apparently the national team coaches who voted have not yet come out of the memory of the 1990 summer of Yiduli].
It is worth mentioning that it was the first World Footballer of the Year selection, and this award seems to have gone on two completely different paths from the moment it was born; The 1996 Ballon d'Or belonged to the "libero" Summer, who led the German team to the European Championship and also performed well in Dortmund, winning the league championship, but the World Footballer of the Year was given to the "alien" Ronaldo;
The 2000 Ballon d'Or belongs to Figo, when Figo's performance in the national team European Cup and the club was perfect, but the world footballer of the year belonged to Zidane, although Zidane led the national team to win the championship in the European Cup, but Figo's performance in the European Cup was not inferior to him, on the contrary, at the club level, Zidane lost to Figo, and that year was the trough of Juventus;
The 2001 Ballon d'Or was Owen and World Footballer of the Year was Figo;
The winner of the 2003 Ballon d'Or was Czech ironman Nedved, who sent Juventus to the Champions League final, but World Footballer of the Year gave Zidane...
With these previous convictions, you can understand the concerns in everyone's hearts.
Now World Footballer of the Year and the Ballon d'Or have merged.
Before that, there may be a World Footballer of the Year and a Ballon d'Or.
Now in case something goes wrong.
That's nothing.
This is naturally welcomed by conspiracy theorists, but there is a lack of conclusive evidence.
The national television sports channel also used this suspense as a gimmick when making the trailer for the FIFA awards ceremony, and put it in the trailer.
This whetted everyone's appetite, and I believe that there must be many Dragon Country fans who stayed in front of the TV in the early morning of that day to follow the FIFA Awards Ceremony.
FIFA's awards ceremony is full of "pretend" flavor.
In the splendid hall of the opera house, accompanied by a symphony orchestra, bel canto singers are invited to give performances, in fact, while these artists are singing on the stage, few of the players and coaches in the audience are interested in this thing, and they may be more interested if a rock band is invited to perform the show.
Football is a grassroots sport.
Say exactly.
It is the workers' movement.
Although in the Dragon Kingdom, people say that football was born in the Dragon Country———— to be precise, if all sports that kick football with feet are called football, then the ancient Dragon Country Kei is indeed the earliest football sport with written records.
But football in the modern sense was born in England.
Born between the working class in Manchester and Liverpool and London.
Therefore, since its birth, modern football has been destined to belong to the grassroots class.
The approach of the FIFA gang.
It is equivalent to a group of nouveau riche who have made their fortune on football and insist on guiding football to the elegant side.
It's just funny.
Li Ao is also not interested in FIFA's pretense of relying on football in terms of high culture (CDAD), he only cares about the final selection of footballer of the year.
But that will have to wait until the end, because the award ceremony is not just about a world footballer of the year, there are many other awards.
The first to be announced was the "Puskas Award", which was newly established in 2009 and is actually the "Goal of the Year Award",
The final winner is Zlatan. Ibrahimovich.
The winning goal was a friendly match between Sweden and England.
In that goal, he completed a shocking barb outside the box and sent the ball into the goal of Joehart's handle————— poor Johart once again became a backdrop for a superworld wave!
The Miss World Football award went to Samba female footballer Marta, which is the sixth consecutive year that she has won this honor and has become the number one figure in women's football.
The result of the best team of the year is that Bayern Munich and Barcelona are evenly divided!
Best goalkeeper Neuer, best centre-backs are Pique and Boateng, best right-back Ram, best left-back Alves, best midfielders are Xavi, Li Ao, Cross, best strikers are Messi, Lewandowski, Robben.
Except for one Lewandowski.
The other ten players are all from Bayern Munich or Barcelona————— Li Ao won the Champions League as Bayern Munich after all.
This shows the strength of the squad of the two teams that collided in the Champions League final last season.
But now Li Ao is a Manchester United player.
So the biggest winner of this best squad is Barcelona, who, as runners-up, also have four players in the best squad, the same as Bayern Munich.
The remaining two players belong to Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund.
The media in Madrid was quite unconvinced.
They believe Ronaldo can at least replace Lewandowski as part of the best squad.
However, the Catalan media are mocking Real Madrid again 16 last season.
The players of the Juro team also
Can you make the best team?
Isn't that a joke?
In short, the battle between Real Madrid and Barca is present on any occasion.
However, these are all mat fields, and the most notable is the selection of the World Footballer of the Year.
After the FIFA President's Award was awarded, it was the turn of the much-anticipated World Footballer of the Year award session.
In fact, at the very beginning of the award ceremony, the introduction videos of the five candidates were already played.
In addition to Li Ao, C. Ronaldo and Messi, the other two candidates are from Barcelona, they are Xavi and Andres Iniesta.
Although Barcelona lost 2-0 away in the national derby not long after the finale, in the list of candidates, Barcelona won 3-2 against Real Madrid.
It can also be regarded as bringing back a city.
In the past, FIFA's Footballer of the Year was revealed by having three candidates stand up and then score their scores at the bottom of the screen.
Instead of doing so now, it's now up to the presenters to open the envelope and name the final winner.
So until then, no one knew who would be the best of the five candidates.
Li Ao was accompanied by Manchester United CEO Ed Woodward, Manchester United's legendary coach and now Manchester United image adviser Alex Ferguson, as well as a group of Manchester United staff, who are considered Manchester United square formations.
C. Ronaldo sits next to his Real Madrid teammates, who also have Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, which can be called the "Real Madrid phalanx", and Messi and Xavi and I
Niesta, as well as Daniel. Alves and other Barça teammates sat together, and the two sides were clearly separated———— and the confrontation between Real Madrid and Barça moved from the football field to other places, entering
The era of all-round confrontation. Even at the FIFA awards ceremony, they have to take a stand and stand at all times.
As the highlight of the ceremony, Blatter and UEFA President Platini walked hand in hand to the podium, where Platini held a blue envelope, there
The face is the answer to all suspense.
The scene suddenly fell silent.
Everyone, including the commentators and viewers in front of the TV, is also waiting for the answer.
The television broadcast gave each of the five candidates a close-up, exactly the same time, without the slightest bias.
Platini walked over to the microphone and looked down to open the envelope.
Everyone suddenly felt that his movements were very, very slow
In fact, Platini's rate is as usual.
Then he pulled out the card with his name on it in the envelope and glanced down with a smile on his face.
Many fans of the Dragon Kingdom saw this expression of Platini when watching TV, and their hearts tightened - it's over, this time the world footballer of the year must still be Messi's!
Godfather is already smiling knowingly!!
That's the code!
Just when the Dragon Kingdom fans were crying wolf howls in their hearts, Platini spoke.
"The 2013 World Footballer of the Year winner is——"
He flipped the card in his hand so that the named side faced the camera, and then said, "Li Ao from the Dragon Kingdom!"
When Platini pronounced that the winner of the 2013 World Footballer of the Year was Li Ao, there was a cheer in front of countless televisions in the Dragon Kingdom.
National football finally has a figure who can win in world football!!
UEFA Player of the Year!
FIFA Ballon d'Or!
Such honors have always belonged only to those world superstars!
"Li Ao is the World Footballer of the Year for the new year!!"
"19 years and 78 days!! Congratulations, congratulations to Li Ao for becoming the youngest Golden Globe winner ever!"
Duan Xuan, who was broadcasting this grand ceremony, also shouted excitedly.
"This is the highest award in world football!"
The audience applauded thunderously, and in such applause, Li Ao stood up from his actions.
He hugged Ferguson first.
Ferguson gave him his debut at Manchester United – in fact, if it weren't for the big platform of Manchester United, Li Ao might have stayed in some smaller teams for a season or two, and he definitely is
He became the World Footballer of the Year at the age of nineteen!
Li Ao then went to Bayern Munich.
Hugs with Heynckes and his former teammates.
After doing this, Li Ao turned and walked to the rostrum.
Li Ao walked up to the podium, then shook hands with FIFA President Sep Blatter, followed by UEFA President Michel Platini.
After shaking hands with Li Ao, Platini awarded Li Ao the World Footballer of the Year Ballon d'Or.
Applause rang out like thunder.
The shutter of the camera sounded loudly.
Li Ao held the trophy of the Golden Globe, and the smile on his face couldn't help but show.
"Ding! Congratulations.. You've completed the main quest!".