Chapter 427: Controversy!

"Are those national team managers and captains blind people who only look at the player's own fame? How could they vote for Ronaldinho? Even Adriano is more deserving of this award than him!" George is naturally extremely dissatisfied with Ronaldinho's victory over Ronaldo in the selection of World Footballer of the Year. In his opinion, Ronaldinho in this life is not qualified to be elected as the World Footballer at all!

In George's previous life, Ronaldo was the subject of considerable controversy when he won the World Footballer of the Year award in '04 and '05. You know, although Barcelona's record in those two years was better than that of the Gaspart period, it was not good enough for Ronaldo to win the prize (note: Barcelona in the 03-04 season was empty in the big four, and the League Cup was killed by Brondby in the third round of the knockout round; in the 04-05 season, it only won one La Liga title and won the Confederations Cup with the Brazilian national team, and the Champions Cup was stopped in the round of 16). Whether it's Shevchenko and Deco in '04, or Adriano and Riquelme in '05, they are all more qualified for this award than Ronaldo!

Sometimes, however, things are just as wonderful. For example, in this World Footballer of the Year selection, the national team coaches and captains who served as judges ignored these stars with great honor and personal ability, and voted for Ronaldinho, who only has one La Liga title and one Confederations Cup winner!

George has never denied Ronaldo's talent and spirituality in football, and he also admits that the Brazilian deserves the title of superstar, but one yard is one yard, and Ronaldo's level and whether he deserves to be the World Footballer of the Year cannot be confused. In terms of the overall performance of the whole year of 2005, Ronaldinho is far from winning the prize!

Although Ronaldo won the La Liga championship and the Confederations Cup championship in the 04-05 season, which is considered to be a standard in terms of team honors, Barcelona stopped in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and the fact that he was suppressed by Real Madrid in the standings this season and was defeated by his opponents in the national derby, has reduced Ronaldo's reputation and evaluation a lot, and it has also become his biggest point loss!

In contrast, Adriano, who was the biggest contributor to Brazil's victory in the Confederations Cup, won the two major awards of the Cup's Golden Boot and Golden Ball, and was regarded as the new king by Inter Milan fans, and Riquelme, who was reborn in Villarreal and led the Yellow Submarine, which could only fight for relegation every year, to the Champions League in history, their performance and achievements in this year are not inferior to Ronaldinho, who has a strong team and a complete system support!

As for Cristiano Ronaldo, although Adriano and Riquelme are as important as Inter Milan and Villarreal, he has a huge advantage in team honours, and has also had eye-catching performances in key games such as the Champions League final and the battle with Chelsea at the top of the table. Is it simply because he has a bigger reputation in international football as a member of the 3R group, and judges outside the mainstream football circle have a better impression of him?

"As for Ronaldinho's view of winning the World Footballer of the Year? Well, I think the results of this selection once again prove that there is an extremely serious problem in the selection system of the World Footballer of the Year. In an interview with the Times reporter, George did not hesitate to complain about Ronaldo, "Although Ronaldinho is a very good player, but to tell the truth, like Rivaldo six years ago, Ronaldo's performance in the past year has not reached the level of being elected World Footballer of the Year. In my opinion, Adriano, Frank Lampard, Riquelme and Cristiano are all more deserving of this award than him!"

George's words were like pouring a scoop of water into a pan of oil, which immediately detonated the Catalan media, which has been hyping that Ronaldo is the first person in today's football after the results of the World Footballer of the Year selection were released. After learning of this news, Barcelona mouthpieces such as "World Sports" and "Daily Sports" wrote articles to fight back, launching an extremely fierce counterattack against George's remarks!

"Cristiano Ronaldo has had a good performance at Tottenham, but he is only a good performance. In fact, in terms of importance to the team, he is not as important as Ronaldinho. Even if he scored the two goals that sealed the victory for Tottenham in the Champions League final last season, it can't change this ironclad fact!As for Riquelme and Adriano, not to mention, if you want to compete with Ronaldinho, you must at least have a championship trophy with enough weight in your hand~" A day after the Times published George's opinion on Ronaldo's award, World Sports couldn't wait to jump out and pointed the gun at George and Ronaldo, as well as other players who were mentioned by George in the interview and thought that they were more qualified to win the award than Ronaldo, "So, there is no doubt that Ronaldo is not qualified to be compared with Ronaldinho at all! This time the world footballer of the year, Ronaldinho is worthy of the name!"

Le Monde Sport's statement, while plausible, inadvertently made a fatal mistake – when Ronaldinho was first elected World Footballer of the Year last year, the Brazilians also did not have any title in their hands. At that time, the reason given by "World Sports" was that Ronaldo's performance in Barcelona was better and played a more important role!

As a media outlet, it's not strange to see the wind and speak for yourself, but it's disgusting to have a double standard. If you don't have a champion, you can talk about performance and importance, and only then can you have a league champion who seems to have beaten all over the world. Such a mouthpiece is simply recruiting black for Barcelona!

Not to mention, fans who have followed La Liga know that Barcelona's real rise came after Davies joined on loan from Juventus. Prior to this, Barcelona led by the "first man in football" Xiao Luo could only rank in the middle of the standings!

As a result, after the fact of adopting double standards in the selection of World Footballer was exposed and disclosed by other media, the self-inflicted "World Sports" suddenly fell into an extremely embarrassing situation and became the laughing stock of fans all over the world!

I don't know if Barcelona's mouthpieces have such an inherent attribute as "pig teammates". At the same time that "World Sports" made a foreign appearance in front of fans, "Daily Sports" was not far behind, and specially published an article on the front page, listing six reasons why Ronaldo should not win the award!

As soon as this article came out, it immediately made all non-Barcelona fans cry and laugh. Because the reasons cited by the Daily Sports are simply ridiculous. For example, Ronaldo's goals and assists in 05 did not have Rodo, and the Portuguese did not perform well in the national team, etc., all of which were listed by this media as proof that the former is not worthy of the World Footballer!

Come on, this is the World Footballer of the Year selection, not the top scorer and assist king. What's more, if according to this standard, Henry, who scored goals and assists "double-double" data at Arsenal and was the Premier League Golden Boot last season, is not the best candidate for the world footballer of the year?

In addition, I don't know if it's to make up enough six reasons, "Daily Sport" even pointed to Tottenham's Champions Cup schedule too easy (meeting PSV Eindhoven in the quarterfinals), Ronaldo did not lead the team to win the Premier League title but was overtaken by Chelsea, and also regarded it as one of the reasons why the Portuguese are not as good as Ronaldo!

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