Media reporters who were chasing Yang Fan's trail were quickly distracted by another piece of news.

FIFA and French football magazines jointly announced the finalists for the 2o1o Ballon d'Or in Paris, and the three main players of La Liga giants Barcelona, Messi, Iniesta and Xavi, won the top three.

In January this year, the organizers of the Golden Globe Awards announced a list of 23 candidates, and among the three candidates retained this time, Iniesta, nicknamed "Xiaobai", had the highest demand for the award. In this year's World Cup final in South Africa, the 26-year-old scored the winning goal with four minutes left in extra time to help the "Matador" beat the "Orange Army" to win the World Cup for the first time in history, while his compatriot Xavi also played a key role in Spain's victory.

Last year's Ballon d'Or winner, Lionel Messi, failed to lead Argentina to the top in South Africa, but he was selected for the tournament thanks to his outstanding performance in La Liga.

The surprise of the day was the omission of Dutch midfielder Sneijder. Last season, he helped Inter Milan win the Serie A, Coppa Italia and Champions League, and was a key part of the Nerazzurri's return to the top. In addition, in the prime of his career, he led the Netherlands to a runner-up finish at the 2o1o World Cup in South Africa, and was once considered one of the contenders for this year's Ballon d'Or.

There is also Yang Fan's failure to be selected for the top three, which also surprised many people, although Yang Fan did not win the league championship and European championship in the past year, but in terms of personal honors, Yang Fan's performance is also exceptionally good, he scored forty goals in the English League in the 2oo92o1o season, successfully defended the league Golden Boot, in addition, Yang Fan also led the Manchester City team, which was not favored before the season, to the English runner-up, which surprised the world, and Yang Fan led the Manchester City team to win the League Cup, which is also the first championship trophy won by Manchester City in 50 years, so to speak, Yang Fan is dragging Manchester City forward by himself, such a great performance, absolutely worthy of the status of the first person in today's football.

In addition to the players, the organizers also announced the shortlist of the best coaches, with Spain coach Bosque, Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola and Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho making it to the top three.

In 1956, the French football magazine began to award the Ballon d'Or, initially limited to European players, but from 1994 onwards the selection was expanded to the world. Although the "qualifications" of the World Footballer of the Year were launched in 1991, they quickly became an authoritative award recognized by the industry by virtue of the backing of FIFA. Interestingly, the standards of the judges have gradually converged in recent years, with Brazil's Kaka, Portugal's Cristiano Cristiano and Argentina's Lionel Messi winning both awards in 2oo7, 2oo8 and 2oo9.

In July this year, FIFA reached an agreement with French football magazine to merge the World Footballer of the Year and the Ballon d'Or into one, and the two awards will continue to retain the name "Ballon d'Or" after the merger, while the other individual awards awarded by FIFA will remain unchanged. The new Golden Globe Awards will be presented on January 1o, 201o in Zurich, Switzerland, and the partnership will last for at least five years.

There is no controversy about the selection of coaches in the top three, but the list of players in the top three has caused a wave of controversy.

The most controversial of these is Sneijder's defeat, because 2o1O is the World Cup year, so FIFA's FIFA Golden Ball Award naturally has to consider the performance of the World Cup, Yang Fan's Chinese national team did not even enter the World Cup, and lost a lot of points at this point, in comparison, Sneijder is the hero of Inter Milan to win the European championship, and the Dutch team to win the World Cup runner-up, and his defeat is particularly surprising.

At this time, what Yang Fan said in an interview was also proved by the Dutch media and Sneijder's supporters, when Yang Fan was asked about his opinion on the winners of the Golden Globe Award, Yang Fan bluntly said that he would vote for Sneijder in the first pick, and vote for Xavi and Iniesta in the second and third picks respectively.

The Amsterdam Forum in the Netherlands complained about Sneijder," ...... It is hard to imagine that such a person who has been praised by such a proud star as Yang Fan has not even made ......it to the top three of the Golden Globe Award."

Seeing Sneijder's defeat in the top three, the Italian media couldn't bear it, and Sky TV commentator Maciegiani said: "Inter Milan should have at least one player in the top three, but now it is three Barcelona players." It was Inter Milan who won all the honours and Sneijder will remain in people's minds, not only because of everything he won at Inter, but also because of his performances at the World Cup. ”

As the last Spaniard to win the Ballon d'Or, Suarez has previously claimed that the Ballon d'Or's shortlist is fair and reasonable. But this time, the legend of the big international era also expressed to the media his regret that Sneijder was not selected. 'Xavi deserves more credit for the whole season, he is the general manager of Barcelona. But Sneijder certainly deserves the nomination, but Milito shouldn't be forgotten beyond him. ”

Sneijder's defeat is still unclear why. If the best coach of the year can be awarded to Mourinho, why can't the Ballon d'Or be recognized as the core of the Netherlands who is only on a downward slope in the second half of the year? How many players like Sneijder have won five European titles in the same year and led the Dutch national team to the World Cup final in history?

Indeed, Sneijder is incomparable to Messi in terms of talent, and he is also different from Andres Iniesta and Xavi, two talented midfielders who represent Barcelona's football philosophy. But Sneijder is undoubtedly the best endorsement of God's reward for hard work, what a wonderful inspirational story is a player who was swept away by Real Madrid, who won almost all the top honors in a club that has said goodbye to the top honours for decades, and finally won almost all the top honors with a team football that is so perfect, that he has become the absolute core of a truly invincible division?

Milito's performance last season was a complete fairy tale. The goals scored in the last three finals were the number one contributor to Inter's epic treble. At that time, Milito was not selected for the 23-man Ballon d'Or squad, and the media speculated that the result was because the Argentine goalscorer had no performance at the World Cup. But the top three results of the Golden Ball Award show that this selection seems to be illogical, because Messi did not score a goal in the World Cup, and his performance in the World Cup was also poor, and Milito's performance in the club was not inferior to Messi, why couldn't Milito even squeeze into the squad!

Inter captain Bergomi also reminded people that Milito was actually more wronged than Sneijder. Sneijder was still on the 23-man list, while Milito was simply rudely left out: "Everyone could see Sneijder's look of disappointment at the ceremony, but I think the real scandal was the disrespect to Milito in this award. In my opinion, this Argentine talent was the soul of Inter last season. ”

A reporter tried to contact Yang Fan, wanting to hear what the unruly player had to say about the top three list of the Ballon d'Or...... In fact, they have great expectations for this, because Yang Fan is also famous for his big mouth.

However, they were disappointed, Yang Fan was really like a steaming world, and reporters couldn't contact him at all.

Of course, there are also some people who can contact Yang Fan.

Zhang Shunxian, a veteran Chinese reporter who is known as Yang Fan's news spokesman by the Chinese media, finally got through to Yang Fan's phone, but he didn't ask where Yang Fan was now, because he knew that if he did, Yang Fan wouldn't say anything. Of course, he could sit in and listen to the side shots.

"How is the recovery from the injury?" Zhang Shunxian asked with concern, of course, this should be more of a polite remark, because everyone knows the results of Yang Fan's surgery and the condition of his injury, and it is difficult for Yang Fan to recover from his injury without fifty days.

"That's good. Yang Fan said.

"That's good. Zhang Shunxian didn't hear the meaning of Yang Fan's words, thinking that Yang Fan was answering politely, of course he didn't expect that the star on the other end of the phone had a cheating artifact to help him recover from his injury.

"Uncle Zhang, is there something wrong with calling me?" Yang Fan asked.

"Well, no, the newspaper gave me a task. Zhang Shunxian smiled and said, "Now everyone cares about you and wants to hear your thoughts on the top three Golden Globe Awards." ”

"Have the top three Golden Globes been announced?" Yang Fan asked in surprise.

Zhang Shunxian's Khan, Yang Fan doesn't know about his feelings, of course he won't think that Yang Fan said this on purpose, with his good relationship with Yang Fan, Yang Fan doesn't need to treat him like that.

"Well, it has been announced, yes" Zhang Shun was about to say the names of the three people first, and Yang Fan planned it.

"Don't say it yet. Yang Fan shouted, "I'll guess who they are." ”

"Haha, then you can guess. ”

'Sneijder, Xavi and Iniesta. Yang Fan said the names of the three people.

"Wrong. ”

"Wrong?" Yang Fan didn't believe it, "It's impossible." "How do he think, it should be these three people, these three people have entered the top three, Yang Fan is still more convinced, Sneijder is the European champion and World Cup runner-up, Xavi and Iniesta are World Cup champions. He doesn't think that anyone else is qualified to squeeze out these three people to enter the top three: Yang Fan believes that in addition to these three people, he is more qualified to enter the top three than the other nineteen people who entered the 23-man squad, and this proud young man has this confidence.

"Well, the top three announced by FIFA are Messi, Xavi and Iniesta. Zhang Shunxian said.

"Holy. Yang Fan burst into a foul mouth, "What's the matter?"

"Then I don't know, anyway, it's the results announced by FIFA. Zhang Shunxian said.

Yang Fan was stunned for a moment before he digested the news that surprised him, and then he shook his head, "Sneijder is really a pity. ”

Zhang Shunxian was not surprised at all by Yang Fan's words, he knew that Yang Fan admired Sneijder, so he would naturally feel sorry and unfair for Sneijder.

"yes, Sneijder should be qualified for the top three. Zhang Shunxian said, "Then don't feel sorry for yourself? You didn't enter the top three." ”

"There is nothing to regret. Yang Fan shook his head, "This year is the World Cup year, I didn't enter the top three, I have this mental preparation, besides, my goal is not the top three, and when the year of the continental competition passes, it will be my world." ”

Zhang Shun first listened to Yang Fan's domineering words, and also smiled, but he knew that Yang Fan was right, after the World Cup year, without the constraints of the national team's performance, Yang Fan's performance will be more eye-catching, and he really hopes to hit the Golden Ball Award.

The two of them chatted briefly for a while, and then ended the call.

Yang Fan threw his phone aside and sighed, he really didn't expect that there would be an accident on the top three list, and Sneijder would be excluded. Yang Fan admits that Messi is very good, and he admits that this Argentine is the one who can threaten him, but, to be honest, just look at the performance of this year, in the year of 2o1o, Messi is really not as qualified as Sneijder to enter the top three, besides, Yang Fan himself admires Sneijder very much, and thinks that Sneijder is more qualified to compete for the Golden Ball Award than himself. On the other hand, Yang Fan really didn't think that Messi was better than him in this year, and if he was compared with Messi, Yang Fan thought that he was more qualified than Messi to enter the Golden Ball Award.

Just the next day, those who had been following Yang Fan's trail appeared, and Yang Fan's Twitter was updated.

"The Uncrowned King. "Yang Fan's update on Twitter has only one sentence, to be exact, this is a long word!

However, this immediately aroused a frenzied interest, and people began to analyze and speculate.

In the end, the general opinion is that Yang Fan is complaining about Sneijder, because the Netherlands has the title of the uncrowned king, and Sneijder is a Dutchman, in addition, Sneijder is the champion of the Champions League, the runner-up of the World Cup, and in the eyes of many people, he is eligible to win the FIFA Golden Ball Award, but he did not even enter the top three, which makes people sigh and deserve the symbol label of the uncrowned king.

Of course, this is just speculation on the part of the public, because Yang Fan only said the word on Twitter and did not give any explanation, and others can only speculate and discuss.

However, the Dutch fans and Sneijder's fans are very happy, especially the Dutch, they have a very good impression of Yang Fan, and think that Yang Fan is a person who dares to stand up and uphold justice.

Of course, there are also people who are unhappy, and Messi's fans are unhappy, because the general opinion is that Messi is the one who squeezed Sneijder, because the other two, whether it is Xavi or Iniesta, are recognized by the public as qualified to enter the top three.

Messi's supporters sarcastically said that Yang Fan was jealous, and Yang Fan said this completely out of jealousy, because Messi entered the top three, but Yang Fan did not enter, so he said these stupid words, this person was completely burned by jealousy......

For such words, Yang Fan's fans and Chinese fans were naturally unhappy, and a battle immediately broke off on the Internet.

What about Yang Fan?

After he tweeted, he didn't pay attention to the FIFA Golden Globe anymore, he was busy with rehabilitation and training, and he was tired like a dead dog in the copy every day, and there were two chances that were very reluctant, and he was scared to see if he met the standard, lest he did not complete the training standards, in that case, there would be no hope of early recovery from injury.

On this day, Yang Fan suddenly remembered an extremely important matter, and he hurriedly called Gao Hongbo, the head coach of the Chinese national team: Because, he suddenly remembered that the Chinese team should have reported to the AFC at this time the squad of players to participate in the Asian Cup! If after he recovered from his injury, he was unable to participate in the Asian Cup because he was not in the squad, then there would be no place to cry.

He hoped it wasn't too late for him to make the call......