Chapter 198: The European Golden Boy Award (Part I)
With Yang Fan's hat-trick, Wolfsburg won a big win on their home turf, 4-1, with the home team Wolfsburg in front and the away team Nuremberg in the back.
The defeat made the visitors' road to relegation even more difficult this season, but for Wolfsburg, the win was just too important. A four-game winless run has put Wolfsburg under intense pressure and the win now moves them up two places from ninth to seventh in the league. Interestingly, before the four consecutive draws, Wolfsburg also happened to be ranked seventh in the league.
Yang Fan, who scored a hat-trick, made a 'pumping' slap to the media that has been mocking him these days after scoring the goal.
Yang Fan's arrogant behavior and his hat trick gave the media enough hype material, which made their newspaper a big hit, but, considering that it was they who were 'slapped', it was indeed a little embarrassing.
Of course, these media will not give up, they will wait, like an injured negative dog, hiding in the corner and secretly 'licking' the paper wound, once they have the opportunity, they will come out and bite Yang Fan again.
The relationship between Yang Fan and some media is so painful, Yang Fan is a little bad, they will jump out to accuse and criticize, and then they will be slapped in the face by Yang Fan, covering their faces and hiding in the corner to 'lick' the paper wound, and then they will see the opportunity to jump out, and then they will be slapped in the face by Yang Fan. Both sides seem to be fascinated by such a game.
Yang Fan is very happy to 'smote' the slap of these media who scold him. As for the media, they also enjoy the process, which is a hype process in itself, and as for being 'slapped', this is a bird thing!
Three days later, Wolfsburg did not play in the German Cup, where Magath used a rotation system.
And the day after the game, the focus of media coverage was almost nothing to do with the German Cup match, and all eyes were attracted by the list of European Golden Boy awards published by Torino Sport.
The European Golden Boy Award is presented by the organization "All Sport" in Turin, Italy, and is judged by 30 well-known media outlets across Europe, and the selected players are all players under the age of 21 who play in the European league. Therefore, this award also has another name: the European Youth Golden Globe Award.
The European Golden Boy Award was established in 2003 and has been unanimously supported by the European sports media since its inception. It is one of the most prestigious awards for young players in European football, and the winner is known as the "European Youth Footballer of the Year" and represents the future of football.
The previous three European Golden Boy winners were Manchester United's Wayne Rooney in 2004, Lionel Messi in Barcelona in 2005 and Cesc Fabregas in 2006 at Arsenal, and they are all among the top young players in world football.
In fact, the list of the European Golden Boy Award was announced as early as half a month ago, it was a list of thirty people, and now, half a month has passed, and the media voting is nearing the end. It is not yet possible to determine which young player will win the European Golden Boy Award, but the list of winners has been narrowed down to two players.
"Kicker" quoted a report from "Milan Sport" newspaper that this year's European Golden Boy Award will be produced between two players.
Last summer, Atletico Madrid bought the Argentine teenager Aguero, who had just turned 18 years old at the time, at a price of 23 million euros, and 23 million euros is also the most expensive transfer 'transaction' in the history of Atletico Madrid for more than 100 years!
Sergio Aguero and Lionel Messi are two young players who have been highly anticipated by the Argentine, and Maradona has publicly praised watching them play as "an absolute pleasure". Aguero set the record for the youngest appearance in Argentine league history four years ago: fifteen years, three months and three days, and won the World Youth Championship with Lionel Messi the year before. And in 2005, Messi was able to win the 'European Golden Boy Award' precisely because of his 'outstanding' performance at the World Youth Championships, which won the favor of the media judges.
Now, Aguero's call to win the 'European Golden Boy Award' is very high, and it is also inseparable from his 'brilliant' performance at the World Junior Championships, Aguero, nicknamed the big empty wing, conquered the entire world football scene in 2007 with his excellent performance, his outstanding performance in the 2007 World Under-20 Championship, and his heroic form in the Spanish league. At the 2007 World Under-20 Championships, Sergio Aguero won the title of best player and best scorer, helping Argentina's youth team to be crowned World Junior for the sixth time
Tournament Champion.
In the 2007/2008 season, Sergio Aguero played 12 games for Atletico Madrid, scoring eight goals, a number that is perfect for a 19-year-old.
Second only to Aguero, the second most popular player is Yang Fan, Yang Fan only joined the Bundesliga team Wolfsburg during the winter break last season, that is, at the end of January, but the eighteen-year-old Chinese 'shooter' only took half a season to win the Bundesliga Golden Boot with the crazy table of shock and cool Europe, and the goal efficiency of scoring 23 goals in 15 games is also the craziest Golden Boot in the history of the Bundesliga!
Yang Fan also almost single-handedly helped Wolfsburg climb out of the quagmire of relegation, and finally miraculously finished fifth in the 2006/2007 Bundesliga, and got a ticket to the UEFA Cup this season, which is the first time in the history of the Bundesliga team nicknamed Wolfsburg to enter the European arena.
In the 2007/2008 Bundesliga season, Yang Fan's performance was also commendable.
So far, Yang Fan has played ten games in the Bundesliga, scored ten goals, and led the Bundesliga 'shooter' list; In the German Cup, one game was played and three goals were scored; In the UEFA Cup, he also played one game and scored two goals to lead Wolfsburg to the group stage.
According to the statistics of "Bild", in the new season, Yang Fan played 12 games for Wolfsburg, in the league, cup, European competition, and in the case of three-line battles, he scored a total of 15 goals, and the goal efficiency of 1.5 goals per game is the highest goal efficiency among all teams in the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, and these five major leagues!
Therefore, although the Spanish media tried their best to sing praises for Aguero, believing that Aguero would win the 'European Golden Boy Award', the German media, especially the media in Lower Saxony, were still cheering for Yang Fan, believing that the number one star of Wolfsburg was the most qualified player to win the 'European Golden Boy Award'.
On November 3, 7, in the 12th round of the Bundesliga, Wolfsburg faced 'Bo' Hung.
Bojon is arguably the oldest qualified team in the Bundesliga, and his history is much thicker and older than that of Wolfsburg. In 1848, the 'Bo' Hung Brigade was founded. Bo' Hung is a resilient team, as evidenced by the team's historical record, and every time a team is unfortunate enough to be relegated to the Bundesliga, they will immediately return to the Bundesliga. After 1943, Bo' Hung was in the same district as Schalke 04, which was the strongest at the time, and the best result was to win the runner-up in the regional league. When the Bundesliga was formed in 1963, Bojon was now only able to play in the third-tier Westphalia amateur league.19
After five years of winning the championship and being promoted to the second division of the Western Region, it was finally promoted to the Bundesliga in 1971. During this period, he advanced to the final of the German Cup in 1968, but lost 1-4 to Cologne, the then Bundesliga giant, and only finished second. In 1988, Bo Hung again qualified for the final of the German Cup, unfortunately lost 0-1 to Eintracht Frankfurt, who was in the strongest period in history at the time, and 'Bo' Hung once again missed the championship.
In the 11th round of the league this season, Bojon is third from bottom in the Bundesliga table and is one of the teams most likely to be relegated at the end of the season in the eyes of the German media.
Before the game, the media was generally optimistic that Wolfsburg, who had just beaten Nuremberg 4-1 and had made a wide rotation in the German Cup in midweek, took three points away from the Ruhr Stadium, and even the head coach of the Bochon team, Marcel Kohler, said before the game that it would be very difficult for Bojon to stop the momentum of Wolfsburg at home.
However, the course of this match at the Ruhr Stadium surprised everyone.
Just three minutes into the first half, Bo'Hung midfielder Dabrowski caught Wolfsburg off guard with a powerful cold 'shot', and the ball hit Wolfsburg's defender Kirga's small 'leg' and flew into the net.
Nicknamed the 'King of the Hill', the 'Bo' team got off to a dream start at home, 1-0.
Just seven minutes later, the Bo Hung team got a chance to take a set-piece, Beckman's corner kick into the penalty area, the 'Bo' Hung team central defender Maltritz beat Madelen to jump, a very beautiful head to attack the 'goal', the ball went in!
Two to zero!
It took only ten minutes for the home team to lead Wolfsburg by two goals, and the whole Ruhr Stadium was thunderous, and the fans of the Bohan team were ecstatic, they did not expect their team to be so good in this game.
Before the end of the first half, Yang Fan assisted Dzeko to score a goal, and Wolfsburg pulled a point back.
However, at the start of the second half, the 'King of the Hill' scored again, this time by their midfielder Gerhard Schroeder, who took a set-piece into the top left corner of the goal.
Three to one!
The home team once again extended the deficit to two goals.
This match is destined to be one of the most classic competitions of the 2007/2008 Bundesliga season.
Not only because there were so many goals in this game, but also because the game was full of all kinds of factors, including the dramatic 'sex' factor. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to read it in Genesis (.rn) and vote for a monthly recommendation vote for the work. Your support is the motivation for me to continue creating)