In this year's selection of the World Footballer, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Yang Fan and Xavi and Kaka are in the final competition.

Compared with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, Yang Fan is a star who has become popular rapidly in the past two years, and in the past 2008/2009 season, Yang Fan's watch is absolutely perfect, and it has also set off a storm for Yang Fan around the world, and the number of fans who like Yang Fan has grown wildly. However, when it comes to popularity, Yang Fan has not been able to suppress Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo: among the three, Yang Fan is the youngest and debuted the latest, Cristiano Ronaldo has long been famous in football, and the Portuguese who has played for many years in Manchester United has long been a famous top star in football, and won the European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer in 2008, which made Cristiano Ronaldo the most beautiful star in the world, and Messi is a star cultivated by Barcelona itself, and he was named Maradona's successor when he debuted, compared to Yang Fan, Messi's influence and fame also came earlierIn 2007, Kaka won the Ballon d'Or, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi ranked second and third, and at that time, they were the most famous stars in the world.

At the national team level, Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal is a European powerhouse, and Messi's Argentina is one of the South American giants. Therefore, if the captains and managers of those national teams only look at fame when voting, Yang Fan may not be able to win Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi.

This is a very interesting situation, in last season, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Yang Fan were the most outstanding. ', he just won the European Ballon d'Or, Messi's table is second, Cristiano Ronaldo's table is weaker than the two of them, but, when it comes to global fame, Cristiano Ronaldo is now the biggest, so, now there is also a voice, Cristiano Ronaldo is also very likely to win the World Footballer, at least the Portuguese media is very confident in this.

This is also the reason why the world footballer is more suspenseful.

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Let's put it this way, from a professional point of view, there is no suspense about Yang Fan's election, but the head coach and captain of many national teams are not as professional as everyone thinks, and many times they may know more about football tactics than ordinary football 'fans', but in the grasp of the latest football trends and information in the world, they can even be said to be closed to news, and they will only choose the most famous stars in their impressions.

There are quite a few precedents for this.

In 1991, Marseille's Papin won the Ballon d'Or, while World Footballer of the Year was "unexpectedly" won by Inter Milan's Mateus. Mateus is surprised because the German only won the UEFA Cup with Inter Milan in 1991. Papin's success in this year was far greater than that of Mateus, and the French striker followed Marseille to win the Champions Cup and the French league in 1991, and he himself became the best 'goalscorer' in Ligue 1 and the French Footballer of the Year. Mateus became World Footballer of the Year, thanks in large part to the 1990 World Cup victory. Apparently the national team coaches who voted have not yet come out of the memories of the Italian summer of 1990......

From 1991 to 2008, the two awards were won by the same winner a total of 11 times, but one notable difference between the two awards is the number of South American players, since 1995, there have been five South American players who have won the Ballon d'Or, and the number of South American players of the World Footballer of the Year has reached seven.

After 1995, Zidane and Ronaldo have both become world footballers three times, and these two players are also the two pinnacles of world football in Europe and South America, with huge appeal and representatives of an era of world football.

In addition to these two stars, as well as Kaka in 2007 and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2008, there always seems to be a disagreement between the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or, the 1996 Ballon d'Or belongs to the "libero" Summer, who led Germany to the European Championship and won the league championship in Dort'Monde, but the World Footballer of the Year was given to the "alien" Ronaldo: In 2000, the Ballon d'Or belonged to Figo, Figo's table in the national team's European Championship and the club was perfect, but the world footballer of the year belonged to Zidane, although Zidane led the French national team to win the championship in the European Cup, but Figo's table in the European Championship was not inferior' On the contrary, at the club level, Zidane was defeated by Figo, that year was the low point of Juventus, but at that time, Figo's reputation was not as good as Zidane, which was also the reason why he lost to Zidane in the selection of World Footballer......

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In addition, the media has been talking about the shady nature of FIFA's World Footballer of the Year selection, such as the voting managers and captains who do not know why their names appear on their ballots without being written...... This incident was the most troublesome in 2006, when Benayoun, the captain of the 'colored' national team, said in an interview with RAC1 radio that the top three in his ballot were originally Cannavaro, Zidane and Pirlo, but in the statistical table released by FIFA, it became Cannavaro, Pirlo and Zidane, Zidane's position was moved back one place for no reason, according to the scoring rules, Zidane is equivalent to losing 2 points, but Zidane also got more points from some other changed votes. txt novel download /()

RAC1 quipped: "It seems that the competition between Zidane and Cannavaro is also very fierce. "At that time, the coach of the Serbian national team was the Spaniard Clay 'Men', he said in an interview with RAC1 radio that at that time he did not choose only 3 players according to the regulations, but selected 5 at once, according to the order of Cannavaro, Zidane, Ronaldo, Eto'o and Deco, and in the end, FIFA helped him rewrite the ballot, although Cannavaro and Deco are still there, and they are in first and third place respectively, but Zidane, Ronaldo and Eto'o are missing, and the second place is ' Inserted into a ribery that he hadn't filled in at all. Nicaraguan coach Tolo also had a strange situation, he chose Ronaldo, Eto'o and Riquelme in order, but the ballot came out in order to change to Ronaldo, Riquelme and Eto'o.

At that time, the captain of the Nicaraguan team said that the FIFA people told him that order did not matter, so he chose Henry, Ronaldo and Lampard without qualifying, and FIFA gave him a qualification. Cuban national team coach Triana also said that his vote was changed, and he originally chose Zidane, Pirlo and Cannavaro, but FIFA announced Zidane, Cannavaro and Klose. Even the votes of Spain national team coach Aragonés were changed, with Samuel Eto'o, Thierry Henry and Zinedine Zidane becoming Eto'o, Thierry Henry and Ronaldo.

Some people even said that FIFA's World Footballer of the Year selection is completely internal, and Blatter wants whoever wins the award to win the award.

At the time when the 'yin' conspiracy theory was prevalent, this kind of statement was very popular and very marketable, but, in any case, these 'yin' conspiracy theories were just speculation by the media, and there was no direct and exact evidence, and the World Footballer of the Year is one of the two highest honors in football on the same level as the European Ballon d'Or, regardless of whether there is a shady and 'yin' conspiracy, to be able to get the World Footballer of the Year, this will be one of the most honorable moments in a player's career.

This time, the competition for the World Footballer of the Year is 'fierce', but, compared with last year, the possibility of Yang Fan winning the award is not small, so the attention to the 2009 World Footballer Awards Ceremony in China has also reached a fairly high level, CCTV will broadcast live, I believe that there must be a lot of Chinese football 'fans' who stayed in front of the TV in front of the TV in the early morning of that day.

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Zurich Congress Center, Switzerland, the scene of the FIFA 2009 annual awards ceremony.

Yang Fan arrived at the venue accompanied by the senior management of Manchester City Club and the team's head coach Mancini, and when he walked the red carpet, he accepted the request of reporters and stood there for a few poses, at this time, there was a 'commotion' behind him, Yang Fan turned his head to see that it was Cristiano Ronaldo.

Cristiano Ronaldo is dressed in a suit and leather shoes, the whole hairstyle is shiny, he greeted Yang Fan from afar, the two are former teammates after all, although there was competition when they were at Manchester United, however, now with the transfer of both of them to their respective teams, this kind of competition can not be said to be no, but it has faded a lot, and it is a little more cordial to meet again.

Cristiano Ronaldo once said in an interview with the media that if he and Yang Fan both retire, the two will become good friends, because Cristiano Ronaldo thinks that Yang Fan is not pretentious and thinks that he is the same 'sex' as himself.

The media fanned the flames and asked, 'What about Messi?', and Cristiano Ronaldo laughed, although he didn't say anything, but everyone understood what it meant.

Yang Fan and Cristiano Ronaldo shook hands, both of them were quite emotional, Manchester United's twin stars now one went to Real Madrid, the other went to Manchester City.

"I thought you'd play at Manchester United until you retired. Cristiano Ronaldo whispered.

"It's not enough to play until I retire, but I really didn't expect to leave so early. Yang Fan said.

At this time, the reporter asked for a group photo of the two top stars, Cristiano Ronaldo and Yang Fan happily nodded in agreement, the flash was great, and the two former Manchester United stars left a few classic photos at the 'door' of the Zurich Convention Center in Switzerland, which looked quite sympathetic.

I believe that when I saw this scene, the most embarrassing person must be the Manchester United football 'fan'.

"By the way, you've got a treat today. Cristiano Ronaldo said.

"What, you surrendered your gun in advance?" Yang Fan said half-jokingly.

"Of course not. Cristiano Ronaldo's eyes widened, "I'm confident that I'll win against you today." I'm talking about the European Golden Globe Awards, and you haven't had a treat yet. ”

"Huh. Today I'm going to take the World Footballer again, so I'm going to invite you together. Yang Fan said.

Cristiano Ronaldo was about to say something more, when a commotion and screams came from behind the two. Yang Fan and Cristiano Ronaldo both looked back, and it turned out that Messi had arrived.

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Although Messi's Barcelona lost to Yang Fan and Cristiano Ronaldo's Manchester United in the Champions League final last season, this did not affect Messi's popularity. Barcelona's beautiful football has many supporters around the world, and Messi is in full swing, and his arrival has aroused the excitement of many journalists and football fans.

"It's really popular. Cristiano Ronaldo whistled, then pouted and looked no more.

Yang Fan stared at Messi again, and turned his head, but the corners of his mouth also raised an inexplicable smile.

Similarly, Messi raised his eyes and saw Cristiano Ronaldo and Yang Fan not far ahead, and the Argentine star's face also changed, and then returned to a humble smile.

The reporters are all 'fine', I don't know how many cameras are staring at the facial expressions of these three people, and these reporters also laughed when this qiē was captured, although the results have not yet been revealed, but the competition shown by this facial expression between these three people is already very interesting.

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In the hall of the resplendent Zurich Congress Center, the award ceremony began, FIFA invited world-famous singers to sing, and there was a beautiful 'symphony' to accompany the performance, which showed the strength of FIFA, and the scene of such an award ceremony was much more luxurious than the award ceremony of the European Ballon d'Or. FIFA wants to make this award high-end, atmospheric, and high-grade, so that it is worthy of their status.

The award ceremony was hosted by N International Sports anchor Pinto and Sky Sports beauty anchor Jackson.

The first to be revealed is the "Puskas Award", which is a new FIFA award created this year, which is actually the "Goal of the Year". In the end, Yang Fan won this award, which was his first goal against Barcelona in the Champions League final, and this goal became a classic after that game, and was downloaded by fans of the ball on major TV stations and sports websites and forums.

Then it was revealed that the Miss World Footballer award went to Brazilian 'women' footballer Marta, who won this award for the sixth consecutive year and became the number one figure in women's football.

This was followed by FIFA's 2009 Team of the Year, with Iker Casillas (Real Madrid) as the goalkeeper, Alves (Barcelona), John Terry (Chelsea), Nemanja Vidic (Manchester United), Patrice Evra (Manchester United) as the defenders, Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Kaka (Real Madrid), Xavi as Xavi (Barcelona) as the strikers, Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Yang Fan (Manchester City), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid).

It is no surprise that Manchester United players and former Manchester United players such as Yang Fan and Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as Barcelona players, were the best teams in their respective leagues last season and will meet in the Champions League final, which has been hailed as the most 'fine' competition in the history of the Champions League.

Blatter then presented the FIFA President's Award to Queen Rania Abdullah of Jordan.

In addition, to Yang Fan's surprise, the Chinese Football Association actually won the award, and the surprising statement that the Chinese Football Association won the Football Promotion Award has also become a reality, and the Chinese Ambassador to Switzerland Dong Jinyi received the honor on behalf of the Football Association.

CCTV broadcast the award ceremony live, and when the Chinese Football Association won the award, Duan Xuan added, "This is the second time that China has won the award at the FIFA annual award ceremony after Sun Wen." ”

"I'll have to see Yang Fan later. He Wei continued.

"yes, yes, that's the main thing. ”

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As the two CCTV hosts said, at this FIFA awards ceremony, the highlight is undoubtedly the announcement of the World Footballer of the Year, which is the most weighty, the most concerned and expected award.

The World Footballer of the Year award will be announced after the Puskas Award for Goal of the Year, FIFAPRO Team of the Year, Miss World Football and FIFA President's Special Award were announced. First of all, the host Pinto introduced the five players who entered the list of Wuxuan, and the 'fine' color video of these five players began to be released on the big screen.

The first to come out was Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo. The videos were filmed before, with Cristiano Ronaldo concluding the video by saying: "It was a very painful period before I was injured and couldn't represent Portugal in the most crucial match of the World Cup qualifiers. Fortunately, Portugal qualified for the finals and I believe we will have a good performance in South Africa next year. ”

The second to play was Real Madrid's Kaka. "We didn't give up when we were 2-0 up in the Confederations Cup, we had more experience and we won the game, and that moment is something I will never forget," Kaka said in the interview. ”

The third to appear was Barcelona's Lionel Messi. Messi said: "Although I have won a lot of honours in my football career this year, I still have a long way to go and I will continue to work hard. ”

The fourth to make an appearance was Xavi, the heart of Barcelona's midfield. Xavi said: "The World Cup is very important for every player, we have a generation of very good players, so we are looking forward to the moment when Spain will win the title. ”

Yang Fan said, "My career path has just begun, I will continue to work hard, and I look forward to the day when I will represent the Chinese team in the World Cup and compete for honors......

When Yang Fan's video was released at the scene, especially when he heard Yang Fan's last words, the host of CCTV seemed very 'excited', and Duan Xuan even shouted, "This is also what we are looking forward to." ”

At the same time, many Chinese football 'fans' in front of the TV are also enthusiastic about these words, although the current situation of Chinese football is sluggish, but the flame of dreams has not been extinguished.

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After the videos of the five candidates were broadcast, it was finally time for the suspense to be finally revealed.

As the most watched and anticipated award of this award ceremony, it is natural that the big names in football came to the stage to present the awards, FIFA President Blatter and UEFA President Platini walked hand in hand on the podium, in which Platini held a blue 'color' envelope in his hand, which contained a qiē suspense answer.

At this point, the scene immediately fell silent.

Everyone, including the narrator in front of the TV and the audience, held their breath.

The TV broadcast gave each of the five candidates a close-up, and Yang Fan, who appeared in the camera, his expression began to be stern, he was extremely eager for the World Footballer of the Year, and it was inevitable to win, he couldn't even imagine losing to Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, which would make him crazy.

Platini walked over to the microphone, coughed and then lowered his head to open the envelope.

I don't know if it's intentional or not, Platini's movements are slow...... It's so slow that it's maddening.

Finally, Platini pulled out the card with his name in the envelope and looked down with a meaningful smile on his face.

Many Chinese football 'fans' saw Platini's expression when they watched TV, and their hearts tightened - everyone on the earth knew that Platini admired Messi, and some people even joked that Platini was Messi's godfather.

At this moment, Platini finally spoke, "I am honored to reveal the final suspense, and I announce that the 2009 World Footballer of the Year winner is—"

As he said this, the UEFA president also flipped the card in his hand and showed it to the global audience in front of the camera, and at the same time, he also said: "Yang Fan from China - congratulations to him......"