As in previous years, the annual awards ceremony was scheduled at the Zurich Opera House.

After Gao Han and the five of them attended the press conference before the ceremony, they entered the venue together, and Gao Han took the opportunity to find Platini and FIFA President Blatter and carefully consult his thoughts.

These two football bigwigs have shown the importance of the Chinese market, now China's national strength is strong, especially after the subprime mortgage crisis and the European debt crisis, the world's economy is in a depression, only China is a standout, which makes no industry in the world can ignore China's existence.

UEFA President Michel Platini is very interested in Gao Han's proposal, and he believes that attracting Chinese players to play in European football can effectively help European football open up the Chinese market, and the best part of this area is Chinatown.

But there are also many problems in this, even if UEFA and the Spanish Football Federation agree, the Spanish government may not agree.

Commonwealth players can play in the Premier League, and African-American players can play in France and Spain, all of which are supported by the laws of their countries, but China obviously can't get such treatment unless the Chinese government comes forward and reaches a cooperation agreement with the host country.

Blatter's attitude is similar to Platini's, coveting the Chinese market, but never finding a stepping stone.

Even, Blatter told Gao Han very directly that he regretted that China could not participate in the World Cup, and believed that this was a huge loss for the World Cup and FIFA, so he very much agreed with Gao Han's move to vigorously develop youth training in China, and promised to do his best to support and help.

However, the occupation of foreign aid quotas by Chinese players still depends on the policies and wishes of the host country government and even the European Union.

Gao Han was not surprised at all that he did not receive an answer.

Whether it is UEFA or FIFA, the sphere of influence is only in the acre of football, but Gao Han's idea has been involved in Spain's labor law and has risen to the level of national policy, which is indeed very difficult.

But Gao Han is not disappointed, at least he has reached a cooperation with Blatter and Platini in youth training, coach training and referee training, and FIFA and UEFA will strongly support Chinatown's plan in China.

When Gao Han returned to his position, the award ceremony officially began.

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The first guest to walk on the podium was Brazilian ace Pele.

The crow-billed king is responsible for presenting the World Players Union's Team of the Year, with eleven players basically from Manchester City and Barcelona, reflecting the strength of both teams.

The goalkeeper is Petr Cech, the backline is Sergio Ramos, Xavi Martinez, Gerard Pique and Alves, and since there is no strong left-back, Atletico Madrid's centre-back Ramos plays at left-back.

Xavi Alonso was behind in midfield, Luka Modric partnered Xavi up front, and the front trident was Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Alexis Sanchez.

With the exception of Atletico Madrid's centre-back Sergio Ramos, all of them are from Manchester City and Barcelona, two of the strongest teams in the world, and last season's classic Champions League final is still talked about by countless fans.

Eleven players who were named to the All-Star team walked up to the podium, and Pele presented them with awards.

After Pele presented the Team of the Year, FIFA President Sepp Blatter walked onto the podium.

The FIFA president, who was the victim of a recent bribery scandal, first sold off a ticket and did not directly introduce the awards, but first introduced the biographies of the winners, such as his more than 25 years of coaching in a team that has brought the team to one of the best teams in the world.

As soon as everyone heard this, they basically looked at Ferguson, who was sitting next to Gao Han.

Only the veteran Scottish coach in football today deserves this honour, and his tenure at Manchester United is legendary.

In fact, long before tonight's awards ceremony, everyone was rumored that the winner of this year's FIFA President's Award will be Alex Ferguson, which is the main reason why he appeared at the Zurich Grand Theatre tonight.

Although he was also shortlisted for the Best Men's Coach award, most people thought that he was basically out of the picture.

When Blatter shouted the name of "Sir Alex Ferguson", everyone in the audience stood up and applauded Ferguson, and Ferguson also hugged Gao Han, Guardiola and others next to him excitedly before walking on the podium.

At this time, a video specially made by FIFA for Ferguson was also played on the podium, first on the 25th anniversary of his time at Manchester United's Old Trafford, and then on the evaluation of his peers and players he coached, and the first appearance was Gao Han.

"He was a very good friend, elder, teacher, and he was one of the people I respect most in the world today. ”

After tailgating Gao Han, Guardiola, Arsene Wenger, Redknapp and other friends and rivals of Ferguson have appeared, and then there are his players, and the most touching thing is that Beckham appears at the end of the video.

The superstar player, who left Manchester United in 03 because of the flying boot incident and switched to Real Madrid, and has been strangers to Alex Ferguson ever since, said at the end of the video with his affectionate eyes and a slightly choked voice: "He is like my father, we all love him and respect him." ”

Sitting below, Gao Han obviously saw that Ferguson's shoulders twitched a little, and turned his head in disguise, obviously showing his true feelings.

In fact, he still remembers Beckham very much, just like a father will always remember his children.

The video ends with a caption: "Sir Alex Ferguson, football's greatest legend." ”

After the video ended, the audience burst into thunderous applause again.

Gao Han is also happy for Ferguson from the bottom of his heart, and admires the Scottish coach, for his legendary journey, even if he gives more praise, it is not surprising, he is destined to be an insurmountable monument in the history of world football.

The FIFA President's Award was followed by the Best Women's Coach award, which was won by Japan's Norio Sasaki, while the Japan Football Association also won the Fair Play Award and Paris Saint-Germain's Neymar won the Goal of the Year award.

After the awards, one after another, it was finally the turn of the men's coach of the year award.

From last year's early award to this year's penultimate award, this undoubtedly reflects FIFA's intention in arranging the awards, highlighting the importance of men's football coaches, and the guest of honor is UEFA President Michel Platini.

As soon as the UEFA president came to power, he jokingly teased Gao Han, "FIFA hears you." ”

There was a burst of laughter in the audience, and everyone remembered that it was also in this grand theater last year, Gao Han had mentioned it when he gave his acceptance speech, hoping that the role of the head coach could be more recognized and affirmed, and this year he got it.

In fact, there is basically no suspense about the final winner.

When Platini called out Gao Han's name, there was only warm applause from the audience, but no surprise.

Manchester City's treble made Gao Han almost miss this award, and even Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said in a previous interview with the media that he would not attend the award ceremony, because the best men's football coach award must belong to Gao Han.

Gao Han, dressed in a straight suit, stood up calmly, hugged Pep Guardiola, Bosque and Ferguson, and then went over to hug Manchester City players, Barcelona's Messi and Paris Saint-Germain's Neymar and others, and then walked to the podium and hugged Platini before receiving the trophy.

"I'm very grateful to FIFA for the recognition of me and to Michelle. ”

After saying that, Gao Han turned around and thanked Platini for his jaw.

"I'm glad that this award is finally a little late, which means that the work of the manager is getting more and more recognition and recognition, and I think that in the past year, there have been a lot of managers who have been better than me, but I am luckier than them. ”

"I have to thank my family because I wouldn't be able to work without their support and tolerance, I have to thank my colleagues for their efforts to get me here, and I have to thank my players because I couldn't be here without everyone working together. ”

"So, I'm going to share this award with them, and at the same time, I'm proud to have such family, colleagues and players like that, proud to have that!"

Gao Han's confession was also met with thunderous applause from the scene.

This is the second consecutive season that he has won the FIFA Men's Coach of the Year award, which has completely established his title as the world's No. 1 coach.

After Gao Han received the award, the scene also specially played the vote rate of the best men's football coach of the year, Gao Han with more than 70% of the votes, far ahead, the second place Guardiola is only more than 10 percent, and Bosque is only 7.0 percent, this huge gap is surprising Gao Han's influence in world football.

After presenting the Best Men's Football Coach Award, the famous singer and Pique's girlfriend Shakira was in charge of presenting the Miss World Football, and finally Japan's women's football international Emichi Sawa won the award.

Brazil's Marta, who has long dominated the title of Miss World Football, has not performed well in the past year, and Brazil has stopped in the quarterfinals of the Women's World Cup, but the Japanese women's football team has made rapid progress, winning the Women's World Cup for the first time, and head coach Norio Sasaki has also won the Women's Coach of the Year award.

Gao Han was also full of sighs in the audience.

If you want to improve, you must first see and admit the gap, the level of Japanese football has indeed improved very rapidly in recent years, whether it is men's or women's football, whether it is Japan's J-League, or the Overseas Army, Japan has undoubtedly become a force to be reckoned with in today's football.

The same is true for South Korea, where the level of men's football has also improved rapidly in recent years, and these two East Asian neighbors have even left China far behind in terms of football.

However, it is not difficult to see from the experience of Japan and South Korea that there is still hope for Chinese football.

What Japan and South Korea can do, China can also do, and even do better than them.

But this does not need to shout slogans, but to do it in a down-to-earth manner.

Therefore, Gao Han has strengthened his determination to continue to vigorously promote youth training.

After presenting the Miss World Football, it is immediately time to come to the last award, which is also the finale of tonight's awards ceremony, the FIFA Golden Ball Awards.

Is it Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo?

(End of chapter)