105 chapter 105
On December 21, the 2009 FIFA Awards Ceremony was held at the Zurich Opera House. Barcelona won the Club World Cup last weekend, and Barcelona won La Liga, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Spanish Super Cup, Copa del Rey and Club World Cup in 2009.
In this case, Messi's title of "World Footballer" is basically a certainty, but even so, a group of people, including Fran, still need to be ready to attend the ceremony.
Carvajal looked at Fran in a suit and leather shoes, the navy blue slim suit and his rare serious expression made Mr. Agent speechless, "Every time I see you wearing such a serious book, I think..."
"Personable?" said Fran, adjusting his tie and smiling at himself in the mirror, only to hear Carvajal say faintly behind him, "Dressed beast." ”
Fran twitched the corners of her mouth, feeling the urge to pull the belt out and smack him.
As usual, because he didn't have a girlfriend and his mother was not willing to mix, Fran didn't have a female companion because he was on a plane with Ronaldo to Zurich, and on the plane, Ronaldo stared at his hair, which was fixed by hairspray, "Did you show me your height increase method in person?"
Since Marcelo came to Real Madrid with a standard unkempt hair, Fran has long since taken off the nickname of 'fluffy' with curly hair on his head, especially when the hairstyle he has worn for many years has become more and more fashionable in the past two years, Fran himself feels that he is leading the trend.
But that still didn't stop him from wearing the three-centimeter-tall curly hair that was as tall as Casillas, a meme he would never want to give up.
This time, the hairstylist applied plastic hairspray to Fran, so there was a scene where Ronaldo teased him, Fran glanced meaningfully at Ronaldo's heels, and Kakale, who was sitting on the other side of Fran, watched the two teammates hurt each other. Fran glanced at Kaka and Caroline, who were very husband and wife, and then glanced at Ronaldo and the beauty Neleida Gallardo beside him.
How exactly are the seats arranged, and when they wait until the award ceremony, they are actually in this order of being sandwiched between two couples on the plane?
Fran silently sighed in his heart and wanted to put the situation aside, when he heard Ronaldo suggest in his ear, "Let's take a selfie?" So the four thumbs from the two couples and the scissorhands from Fran were frozen, and Mr. Scissorhands's disgust was undisguised.
"How did you get in when you got to the venue?" Kaka smiled gently, completely different from Ronaldo's extremely painful ridicule, and Mr. Yes reached out and pressed down the two fingers of the scissor hand. Fran took advantage of the situation to put away his fists, and when he heard Kaka's question, he simply broke the jar and smashed, "Guess who is still going to the awards ceremony alone?"
Kaka tilted his head slightly to show that he wanted to hear more, and Fran pretended not to see Ronaldo's equally curious gaze next to him, and leaned into Kaka's ear and said a name.
In the next second, Kaka's eyes were full of sympathy when he looked at the right, and before Ronaldo continued to pour salt on the wounds of the old cadre, the Portuguese suddenly felt a chill on his back, thinking that Kaka was looking as if it was not Fran?
"So, you're coming in with Messi?"
Ronaldo's face is full of 'Are you kidding me', Caroline next to Kaka purses her lips and snickers at the Real Madrid ace's childish move, and the Spanish supermodel Gallardo, who is Ronaldo's current nominal girlfriend, obviously doesn't know how to react at this time. Fran was blowing at the lock of hair hanging down his forehead, ignoring Ronaldo's words and listening to him continue, "What about Xavi? What about Iniesta?
"Those two guys have female companions, Chris," Fran put on a standard Fran-esque expression, his left eye slightly squinted, his eyebrows drooped, and his right eyebrow raised, and Ronaldo's super management of expressions made Ronaldo admire, "And we both have to do it alone... And the two of us just appeared in order, it doesn't mean that the two of us created a 'bachelor group' to debut, and maybe we won't even give reporters the opportunity to take pictures side by side. ”
However, this sentence 'will not give reporters a chance to take pictures side by side' is not even believed by Fran himself, after all, he estimates that reporters must be happy to see himself and Messi's two single dogs standing together.
Of course, Ronaldo doesn't think he has any qualifications to dictate Fran's agent's arrangement, but he just doesn't feel good. Or is that the reason, said that the good Real Madrid and Barcelona are incompatible?
Fran said that he didn't say yes!
"One possibility is to play with the opponent's little man, and the other possibility is to go with me and Kaka, you choose!" Ronaldo said that he would give you another chance to be a new person, but after saying this, the son of God couldn't help but roll his eyes at the sky.
Not to mention the second one, so sad that Fran can barely think about it, but how much dog food has been forcibly fed on the plane this way, and he is already tired of eating it!
There is no second possibility! I want to go with Messi, even if it is side by side, I want to see Messi, let me see Messi!
Seeing that Fran was determined to go down the crooked road, Ronaldo couldn't wait to reach out and pull him back, "Didn't you come here like this in the past few years?"
The previous few times, he either followed Capello to see the world, or he was good with the Guti brothers, and no one disliked anyone, but this time his teammates around him are all in pairs, even if he is thick-skinned, it doesn't mean that he will not feel pain in his heart! Originally, walking the red carpet was a happy thing, and he could silently give himself a thumbs up in his heart, so why should he be uncomfortable at this time?
In the end, after Roccaca entered, he still saw Messi and Fran walking into the theater together, and the two exchanged happily, and the Argentine, who always gave the impression of being introverted, raised his head slightly, with an undisguised happy smile on the corner of his mouth. In order to appear less oppressive, Fran may be separated from Messi by a position, but he also listens with his head in cooperation, and under the light at the entrance, I don't know if it is the role of the straight and slim suit, which sets off the Real Madrid general's temperament and gentleness.
Ronaldo covered his forehead and withdrew his gaze, and happened to meet Xavi, who also looked weird. The former tried to turn his eyes away naturally, staring at the floor under his feet, his palm moved down from his forehead to his lips, Kaka saw that he wanted to speak, and probably complained about something like 'Fran Messi's spicy eyes', he wanted to dodge but stopped because of his personal cultivation.
"Look at Messi's smug smile, don't you just think it's a nail in the coffin? Hmph, who hasn't had the same. Ronaldo said something very different from what Kaka thought, and Kaka guessed what kind of □□ his ears would suffer in the next few hours.
I only heard Fran's highly recognizable voice behind Ronaldo, who silently said, "I haven't gotten, I haven't even gotten a copper ball", Ronaldo turned around and just wanted to continue complaining about Fran's decision, but choked back after seeing Messi with a well-behaved smile next to Fran.
The current rules for the selection of World Footballer of the Year stipulate that the national team coaches and captains of FIFA's member associations vote for the World Footballer of the Year candidate, and each vote is filled in with three candidates, and the first, second and third scores are 5 points, 3 points and 1 point in turn, but they cannot choose their own players.
However, there is a slight change in the selection rules this year, and the final list of 5 finalists was given before the award ceremony, instead of the previous style of announcing the final winners and score rankings at the end. Among the five-man list that has been given, Messi, Ronaldo, Xavi, Kaka, and Forlan are on the list.
Perhaps judging from the paper rankings alone, this is Real Madrid and Barcelona's second world, but the fact is that Ronaldo and Kaka were nominated more because of their excellent performance when playing for their respective old owners. Looking at it this way, only Fran is the only one who really won the award because of Real Madrid.
Real Madrid's performance in the previous season was actually not bad, but Barcelona, who had no choice but to restart, was too conspicuous, so that the 'civilian Real Madrid' was crushed. But the club's overall results are one thing, and the Footballer of the Year award is also about individual performance, especially since Francisco Alvarez has made a name for himself since the start of the new season, and it is understandable that Forlan, who has been touted as 'breaking new ground for defenders', has been topped into the top five.
Of course, there are many more reasons to twist and turn.
It is precisely because of these twists and turns that in the World Footballer of the Year award after a series of large and small awards, Messi unsurprisingly won the first place, followed by Ronaldo, and the third place did fall to Fran.
Fran, who was just here to get the best lineup to make up the numbers, looked at himself with a confused face on the big screen. Cristiano Ronaldo, who was sitting next to him, quickly accepted the fact after an initial stunned and planned to finish on the podium with his team-mates.
When Ronaldo was a little impatient and coughed, Fran realized what was happening, and his joy was undisguised, and he walked forward in three steps and two steps, almost leaving Ronaldo directly behind. The style of painting is obviously different from the smiling and reserved Messi and the unhappy Cristiano Ronaldo who missed the first place, as if he was the one who won the World Footballer.
- I really didn't prepare for that award at the end of '09, and even now I'm amazed at that happening. As mentioned in the preface of my previous autobiography, many people said to me that although you are indeed from Real Madrid, you are actually "not Real Madrid". Either you move to appreciate your league, or you have to change your ball. So little by little I tried to change, to try to really fit into the club, to try to think about what is really appealing about this league and then to improve myself.
Carvajal in the audience saw his own player who was hit by pie in the sky, he could barely refrain from laughing, and said to his subordinates, "The voting results have been announced, right, pass it to me." ”
Soon, the results of the votes for the top 10 national team managers and captains just announced by FIFA reached Carvajal.
- Actually, I always thought that when I embarked on this path, I didn't really care about these awards. But it was all sour grapes, and when I thought about it later, I really understood why so many people were so hungry for this trophy. Because it proves that there is nothing wrong with my insistence on doing so, and it proves that my efforts are seen by others.
Carvajal pursed his lips as he looked at the results in his hand, and the top 10 FIFA ranked national teams were Spain, Brazil, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Germany, France, Argentina, England and Croatia, and were subject to the requirement that they could not vote for their own players.
And this voting list made Carvajal gasp.
Perhaps the vast majority of people understand that Messi's excellent performance throughout the year is enough to make him the World Footballer of the Year, and their own votes will not affect the overall situation, resulting in the unbridled voting of the top 10 national teams, especially the most important.
Spain's Bosque and Casillas voted with the same Fran, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, and the favor votes were obvious. On the Brazilian side, Dunga and Lucio, who have always had a feud with Argentina, will not vote for Messi, but they will not be able to vote for Kaka, but they will not vote for Kaka's direct rival Cristiano Ronaldo, so the first of the two precious votes fell to Forlan.
The Netherlands' Van Marwijk and Van Bronckhorst unsurprisingly voted for Messi and Xavi, with the two thirds going to Forlan and Andres Iniesta. Italy's choice is relatively crisp and interesting in Carvajal's view, Lippi voted for Messi and Ronaldo, and the third vote went to Forlan, who has always been favored by Italy, and Cannavaro, who is also a defender, may understand that it is not easy for his peers or really think he is doing a good job, and once again gave the first vote to Forlan.
For Portugal, captain Simão voted for Messi, Kaka and Iniesta, but coach Queiroz chose a very different one, losing the first vote to Fran, who is in good relationship, and the last two votes went to Xavi and Kaka. Germany's Loew and Ballack gave Xavi and Messi the first votes respectively.
France coach Dolmenech was a fresh stream, voting for Didier Drogba, Gianluigi Buffon and Wayne Rooney, while Thierry Henry's vote went to his club team-mate Lionel Messi. In order to ensure Messi's absolute advantage, Argentina's Maradona and Mascherano will certainly not give Kaka, Ronaldo, Xavi, and Iniesta a few vote favorites, so who do they think is the underdog and perform well and deserves to vote? So these two voted for Drogba, Forlan, Ibrahimovic and Forlan, Essien, and Gerrard respectively.
On the England side, it doesn't matter who wins or loses anyway, and head coach Capello secretly voted his first vote for his protégé Fran, putting Messi in second place. Terry, on the other hand, voted for his teammate Drogba and gave the No. 2 vote to his colleague Forlan. Croatia may be like those national teams outside the top 10, Messi, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, Iniesta, Kaka, occasionally interspersed with a Fran, anyway, it has little to do with them.
As a result, the underdog Fran, who seems to many to be insignificant, got an advantage of 53 points in this situation, even two points higher than Messi, who should be the first Messi with 51 points. Compare the results of Cristiano Ronaldo with 9 points, Iniesta with 8 points, and Kaka with 7 points...
If it weren't for Carvajal knowing that the water was too deep, he would have wanted to scold, Damn, just looking at this ticket type, my Fran should be the first to be stable?
- Teenagers are playful, young people are obsessed with love and sing about dreams, and in the prime of life, they learn from fame and family, regardless of their twilight years, I think I was indeed like this at that time.
Messi's final score finally won the top spot with an absolute advantage of 1012 breaking a thousand, and Ronaldo with 323 points and Fran with 205 points were in the second and third places. Kaka and Xavi followed with 173 and 171.
Looking at Fran with a big smile on the podium, Carvajal, who figured out why this happened, was suddenly not as happy as he was at the beginning.
Kavajal gritted his back molars and said to his subordinates, "Take the captain of the Swedish team, that's right, I'm talking about Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and bring the results of Ibrahimovic's vote to me for fun! Don't tell me he voted for himself and Fran to invalidate the vote!"
After a while, Carvajal looked at the votes of Diego Forlan, Maxwell, and Messi in his hand, Forlan was the La Liga Golden Boot last season, there is nothing wrong with it, Maxwell is on good terms, what's wrong? What if you don't vote for Messi's club to find fault? Carvajal thought to himself, well, this vote is no different from invalidation. 166 Reading Network