On January 8, 2013, the FIFA 2012 Awards Ceremony was held in Zurich. With 7160% of the votes, Yang Fan beat Ronaldo (1368%) and Messi (1091%) and won the 2012 FIFA Golden Ball Award!

This is a tribute to Yang Fan's efforts in the past year!

He shocked the world by leading Manchester City to a quadruple in the 2011/2012 season, including the first Champions League trophy in the club's history!

When Yang Fan led Manchester City to stand at the top of Europe, the global media were saying that there was almost no suspense in this year's FIFA Golden Ball Awards.

Sure enough, this time, Yang Fan won the FIFA Golden Ball Award with an overwhelming advantage, and also broke Messi's monopoly on the FIFA Golden Ball Award for two consecutive years.

In view of Yang Fan's near-perfect performance as the number one person in world football that year, even the president of Barcelona FC Russell congratulated Yang Fan: Congratulations on winning the Ballon d'Or, Yang.

Other European football stars and celebrities have also taken to their tweets.

Ronaldinho: Congratulations to Young for winning the 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or, your strong style is on good display in football.

Colombian center Falcao: Congratulations to Young on winning the FIFA Ballon d'Or and I wish you continued success this season!

Previously, Yang Fan listed Falcao as his first choice in the Golden Globe vote.

For Falcao's congratulations, Yang Fan replied on Twitter: Thank you, Falcao, your praise makes me proud.

England legend Gary Lineker: Yang Fan was outstanding in 2013, congratulations on winning the Ballon d'Or. This is a season for Yang Fan!

Manchester City's sworn rival Manchester United FC official: Congratulations to Yang Fan for winning the 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or.

Barcelona star Alves: First of all, I congratulate Yang Fan on winning this award, but in my opinion, the result in my mind is different from this.

Messi: Yang Fan is great this year and deserves to win the Ballon d'Or.

Cristiano Ronaldo: Congratulations to Yang Fan for winning his second Ballon d'Or, and I will continue to work hard.

Kaka: Congratulations to Yang Fan for this great year, he won the Ballon d'Or, you deserve it, great striker!

VfL Wolfsburg official: Congratulations to Yang Fan for winning the Ballon d'Or, Wolfsburg will never forget the goals and stories you left here.

Man City President: It's a fair result, Young is the best player in the world.

Italy's "Milan Sports Newspaper": Yang Fan, the second Golden Ball Award, this is the 2013 year that belongs to the Chinese stars, congratulations to the new king of football!

However, for the high-spirited Yang Fan, the 2012/2013 season was not so smooth.

This season, Manchester City ended up in third place in the Premier League.

In the Champions League, Manchester City also stopped in the last four.

This season, apart from winning the FA Cup and Club World Cup, they have faced huge obstacles in the league and Champions League.

Some media began to preach that the era of Yang Fan and Manchester City was over.

They say Manchester City is just a flash in the pan and Yang Fan is no longer the 'Martian'.

Yang Fan and the Manchester City team immediately slapped all the doubters hard with their performance.

In the 2013/2014 season, Manchester City, under the leadership of Yang Fan, began to regain lost ground, they lifted the Premier League trophy and the League Cup in domestic cups, only to be beaten by Atletico Madrid on penalties in the semi-finals in the Champions League.

Although there are still some media clamoring that Yang Fan has not been able to lead Manchester City to win the Champions League again.

However, except for those who deliberately find fault, everyone has to applaud Yang Fan's wonderful performance, he played for Manchester City for five seasons, won four FA Cups, three League cups, one Champions League, three Premier League titles, and one Club World Cup!

Manchester City is now the new giants of European football, and any team must pay attention to and fear the existence, and their captain Yang Fan has contributed greatly.

Subsequently, Yang Fan won the 2014 FIFA Golden Ball Award.

For Yang Fan, the most memorable thing for him was the summer of 2014.

In the World Cup qualifiers in Brazil a year ago, Yang Fan led the Chinese team to defeat Trinidad and Tobago in the play-offs to grab a ticket to the World Cup finals in Brazil.

In the World Cup in Brazil, the Chinese team won one win, drew one and lost one, but in the end, it was only because of the disadvantage of goal difference that it failed to qualify from the group and unfortunately went out.

Despite this, Yang Fan said in an interview that this summer, he is very happy, because he is wearing the national team jersey and competing in the World Cup!

Then, after the start of the 2014/2015 season, Manchester City, under the leadership of their captain Yang Fan, set off a round of storm in European football.

They successfully defended their title in the league.

In the domestic cup competition, he also won the FA Cup and the League Cup!

In the Champions League, the Manchester City team led by Yang Fan went all the way to the final, and in the final, they defeated Messi's Barcelona 3-1!

They are well-deserved quadruple champions!

This is also the second time that Manchester City has won the quadruple after the 2011/2012 season!

In January 2016, Yang Fan was once again the winner of the FIFA Ballon d'Or, with Yang Fan's Manchester City team-mate Sergio Aguero coming in second and Barcelona star Lionel Messi in third.

Manchester City successfully defended their Premier League title at the end of the 2015/2016 season, but in the Champions League, they reached the semi-finals, and this season's Champions League title was contested between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, and in this La Liga civil battle, Real Madrid defeated Atletico Madrid on penalties to reach the top of Europe.

Real Madrid won the Champions League, which directly led to the 2016 FIFA Golden Ball Awards, Cristiano Ronaldo became the FIFA 2016 Mr. Golden Ball, which also made Yang Fan unable to achieve the feat of being the FIFA Golden Ball for three consecutive years.

Then, in the 2016/2017 season, Manchester City only finished second in the league and did not make it to the end of the FA Cup and League Cup, but in the Champions League, Manchester City made it all the way to the final, and defeated old rivals Real Madrid 3-0 in the final, standing on the top of Europe for the third time!

This was followed in 2018 when Manchester City regained ground in the Premier League and won the Premier League title.

For Chinese fans, the most important news of the year is that under the leadership of Yang Fan, the Chinese team directly qualified for the group in the top 12 of the Asian qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup in Russia and advanced to the finals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

This is also the second consecutive time that the Chinese team has reached the World Cup finals.

Under the leadership of captain Yang Fan, the Chinese team can finally proudly say that it is a frequent participant in the World Cup.

At the World Cup in Russia, the Chinese team was placed in Group B, along with Germany, Colombia and Nigeria. It was a tough group for China, which is also considered the Group of Death, with Germany as the defending champions, Colombia ranked sixth in the world and Nigeria as an African powerhouse. Because of the presence of Yang Fan, the Chinese team is also considered to be not to be underestimated.

The first match against the defending champion Germany, the Chinese team lost 1-2, despite the loss, but the Chinese team won the respect of the world, the Chinese team opened the scoring by Yang Fan, took a 1-0 lead, and maintained the lead until the full 80 minutes of the game, the German team equalized by Thomas Müller in the 82nd minute, and then in the injury time of the game, the German team relied on a penalty to kill the Chinese team, however, the slow motion shows that the penalty is debatable, the Chinese team's foul is outside the penalty area, and the referee mistakenly awarded the German team a penalty。

In the end, in this game, the Chinese team and Colombia staged a goal battle, both teams scored three goals, and the two sides finally played 3-3, Yang Fan scored two goals in the game, and was the biggest contributor to the Chinese team's draw with the powerful Colombia.

Subsequently, in the face of Nigeria, the last opponent in the group stage, the Chinese team defeated the opponent 4-1 under the leadership of Yang Fan, Yang Fan scored a hat trick, and on the other field, Germany and Colombia drawn, in this way, the German team has two wins and one draw and 7 points, while Colombia is a draw in three games, only three points, and the Chinese team has four points with one win, one draw and one loss, and entered the round of 16 as the second place in the group.

The entire land of China was boiling, and many fans cried with joy.

CCTV's veteran commentator He Wei also choked up: The Chinese team has qualified! They have qualified! They have reached the round of 16 of the 2018 World Cup in Russia! They have completed an almost impossible task! Congratulations to them! Congratulations to them! Congratulations to the boys! Congratulations to Yang Fan! Congratulations to our captain Yang Fan! Congratulations to him! Thank you!

At the same time, the camera was aimed at Yang Fan.

He Wei continued to choke up and said, "We must thank him and thank him! Yang Fan! He is 30 years old this year, and as the greatest player in today's football, he is a well-deserved number one star! He has achieved such glorious achievements at the club level, Yang Fan himself said that his biggest regret now is that he has not been able to win glory for the country!" He said that he wants to apologize to the fans across the country, no, here I want to say, Yang Fan, you are so good, you don't need to apologize to anyone, you have done a lot for this country, every championship trophy you have gained, every goal you have scored, you are a long face for us, you have a long face for Chinese football! You have won the honor for the country! And now, we want to thank you again, we are now in the round of 16, we have reached the top 16! Once upon a time, it was a luxury for us to enter the World Cup finals, and now, we have reached the finals of two World Cups in a row, and this time, we have reached the round of 16!

In the news broadcast that night, it took nearly five minutes to report the news that the Chinese team reached the round of 16 of the 2018 World Cup.

At the end of the group stage, Yang Fan's tally of goals in this World Cup reached six, and the 30-year-old veteran led the scorer list, leaving a group of young people to look up to.

The opponent of the Chinese team in the quarterfinals is Italy!

This match between China and Italy is considered one of the most exciting matches of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

The score of this game was 2 to 1!

It was El Shaarawy who scored for Italy, while Yang Fan scored twice and scored one in each half to help China eliminate the mighty Italy 2-1.

This shocked the whole football world!

The whole land of China is boiling, and the Chinese team has reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup!

On this day, in China, beer was sold out of stock, and on the square, countless fans held high the five-star red flag and sang the national anthem!

In the news broadcast the next day, it was specially revealed that **** personally called the Chinese team in Russia, especially with Yang Fan, the captain of the Chinese team, to thank the young man of the national team as a fan, thank Yang Fan!

followed in the quarter-finals. The opponent of the Chinese team is the French team.

The Chinese team played 1-1 in 90 minutes of regular time and the French team.

Yang Fan and Antoine Griezmann scored goals for their respective teams.

In extra-time, neither side scored.

The game went to a penalty shootout.

In the penalty shootout, Zhang Ke, the third player of the Chinese team, missed the penalty kick, and finally the Chinese team unfortunately lost the penalty kick and stopped in the quarterfinals!

At the end of the game, the applause in the stands lasted for a long time, which was dedicated to Yang Fan!

Although the Chinese team was eliminated, they have won the respect of fans around the world, especially the captain Yang Fan, who now leads the World Cup scorer list with nine goals, the 30-year-old veteran, with a goal to tell everyone, he is still the No1 in today's football!

Even the fans of China's opponent today, France, stood up and applauded Yang Fan.

Before the start of this World Cup, Yang Fan said that considering that he was already thirty-four years old when the next World Cup started, this World Cup is likely to be his last World Cup.

Now, this Chinese star, the No. 1 star in today's football, has scored nine goals and led the team to the quarterfinals, telling everyone how strong he is!

"This is the World Cup that belongs to Yang Fan, he said he wanted to enjoy the feeling of the World Cup, and he did it, he left nine goals in the World Cup and five games that fans around the world can remember often. In the history of the World Cup, the greatest star in today's football has left his mark! The World Cup is also proud to have such a great star!"

Three years later, the final of the 2020/2021 Champions League.

Manchester City beat Barcelona 4-0!

Yang Fan, who is already thirty-three years old, scored four yuan in the game, shocking the entire football world!

And even more shocking news was that after the game, Manchester City captain Yang Fan announced his retirement.

The news spread, and fans around the world panicked because of it.

No one thought that Yang Fan would announce his retirement at this time.

Countless fans have kept him, you are only 33 years old, you have just put on a good show in the Champions League final! You can still play for at least a few years, how did you retire?

Amid the voices of countless fans, Yang Fan posted a video on Twitter.

He thanked all the fans and thanked them for their retention. Yang Fan said that he had won all the honors he could get, he felt a little tired, he didn't want a weakened Yang Fan to appear in front of everyone, he had already presented the best Yang Fan to everyone, so it was good! He said that he wanted to enjoy life and accompany his family.

After the release of this video, the retention voice gradually became quieter.

It's more about praising voices.

The media around the world are honoring Yang Fan and giving him praise.

Nostalgia is mainstream.

From Yang Fan's entry into the professional game in 2006 to his retirement in 2021, heh, that young boy back then, has grown step by step into the greatest star in football, his countless wonderful goals, those countless memorable moments, now, he is retiring, from now on, we will never see his heroic appearance on the field.

It's a summer of memories!

In memory of the greatest star in football!

"The greatest star in football today has retired!" is the title on the official FIFA website!

Three years later, at the age of 36, Yang Fan posted a photo on his Twitter: I love you.

The photo shows four people, one is him and one is Emma Roberts, both with a child in their hands......

This year, a bronze statue of Yang Fan was inaugurated outside the Etihad Stadium, engraved with two sentences:

He dedicated all his youth and talent to football!

His life is as gorgeous as a summer flower!

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PS: End of the book.

More than 5 million words, the book is finished, at this moment, I have mixed feelings, I don't know what to say, and when I have time, I will send another testimonial, at this time, it is really a little too volatile.

The new book "The Godfather of the Court" was released at the starting point, which is already 360,000 words, and it is on the shelves today, and I hope that partners will continue to support Xiaoqi.

Thank you.

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