The whole year of 2011 is actually a small year for football, and there have been no major football events.

Therefore, this is a little more difficult for the selection of various specific awards for the AFC's annual football honorary awards. The candidates for each award seem to be on a relatively similar level, and no one can really distance themselves and ride the dust!

Narrowing down to Li Xuan's side, the AFC's 2011 "Best Referee" award competition is not Li Xuan alone, and he immediately has absolute qualifications to be 100% qualified to get the golden whistle.

In fact, the famous referee Ilmatov from Uzbekistan, who is also the referee of the 2010 World Cup, and has officiated a series of major events in Asia, has long had the honor of "Asian Golden Whistle" as the referee, but is still a strong contender for Li Xuan's "Best Referee" award.

Throughout 2011, Ilmatov's various law enforcement performances were indeed very exciting, and the level of law enforcement was completely worthy of the title of "World Cup Referee" and "Asian Golden Whistle", and it was also the top level in Asia. He has officiated quite a few important games in a row, and there are no obvious mistakes or accidents, and he is a very calm representative of the head referee.

Moreover, it is different from Li Xuan's entertainment situation when he had continuously and unintentionally experienced some disputes or exposure incidents on the field.

In the eyes of more traditional Asian football bigwigs, it is estimated that he will have a better impression than Li Xuan, a young idol topical referee who tends to be more entertaining.

After all, even if the turmoil Li Xuan experienced in the arena actually proved that he was right, in some people's mouths, it was easy to be smeared and attacked by all kinds of people. It must not be easily understood and accepted by the old traditions of football, not as traditional and quiet as Ilmatov, who exists outside of the game without law enforcement!

To use a less appropriate analogy, this is like the Oscars in the United States for so many years before 2012, and Leonardo has never been awarded a small gold statuette, and those more traditional Oscar judges are obviously more willing to see traditional veteran actors, but they don't like to see all kinds of news-ridden but extremely handsome young idol stars win awards!

Therefore. Even if Li Xuan is very confident, he does not dare to pack the ticket, and he will definitely be able to defeat Ilmatov without suspense and win the AFC Referee of the Year honor.

He didn't know the specific mentality of those AFC bigwigs and the judging criteria this time, so he could only wait for the official and specific award moment like the rest of the various award candidates.

And under such circumstances, he suddenly further understood that when he first came, Zhang Jinlong, acting chairman, led him to worship the pier for a more profound meaning.

Obviously, Zhang Jinlong seems to be behaving like this. Let him get a better impression in front of those Asian football bigwigs, so that he can compete for this "Asian Golden Whistle" award and not lose in the impression stream.

Of course, although Li Xuan really wants to win the top referee award in Asia, he will not really fall into it like crazy.

In terms of his personal mentality, he is actually quite relaxed, mainly regarding this award ceremony as an entertainment event, and a professional occasion to contact and deal with more football people.

It's not just Zhang Jinlong's referral help. Li Xuan personally, that is also quickly to meet more football people in Asia privately. Learn more about the football industry that you have heard of in the past but have never had the opportunity to meet.

Soon, on the day of the awards. While Li Xuan was waiting at the award ceremony to continue to meet new friends, the highly anticipated 2011 Asian Football Festival was finally officially launched as scheduled.

Then, on a pretty good stage in the city of Kuala Lumpur, this group of Asia's top football personalities gathered for the awards extravaganza. Quickly and in a timely manner, various big awards of the AFC of the year were awarded!

The Japan Football Association was one of the big winners at the start of the ceremony, as their men's team won the Asian Cup, while the women's team won the Women's World Cup in history.

Therefore, the Japan Football Association (JFA) is like a prize harvester when the awards are presented. It has won the title of "Association of the Year" in a row, as well as nine awards including "Best Men's and Women's Football Team Awards" and "Best Women's Footballer Awards".

Then, the AFC's "Fair Play Award" was successfully won by the Korean Football Association.

Speaking of this "Fair Play Award", the representative of the Korean Football Association who came to the stage to give an acceptance speech, in addition to first publicizing the greatness of the Korean Football Association and Korean fans in various braggarts, finally took the opportunity to mention Li Xuan's fairness and impartiality in law enforcement in Korea in the past season, which also helped them win this award, but they still have some conscience.

At the same time, with the awarding of the "Fair Play Award", several referee awards that are indeed slightly related to fair play will also be awarded immediately.

First, the women's "Best Assistant Referee" and "Best Head Referee" awards were presented, and then the women's assistant referee from Australia, Sarah Ho, and Japan's female referee Sachiko Yamagishi won two awards.

In fact, Li Xuan, who was sitting at the award ceremony, immediately became a little solemn and began to wait silently for the award of the male referee.

It is a pity that none of Li Xuan's Chinese assistant referee partners can stand out and win the honor of "Best Assistant Referee" in Asia, but this award was finally won by Rasorov from Uzbekistan.

Such a situation made Li Xuan personally suddenly a little concerned.

The honor of "Best Assistant Referee" has been handed over to the referees of Uzbekistan, so doesn't that prove that the referee Ilmatov, who is of the same nationality, is more qualified to win the men's "Best Referee" award?

Although Li Xuan was not nervous, and he didn't necessarily have to win the award, he immediately paid further attention at the award ceremony.

And the organizer of the scene did not let Li Xuan wait long.

Then, subsequently, the guest of honor became Zhang Jinlong, the acting president of the AFC.

So, Li Xuan suddenly understood at that moment that he should have won the award steadily.

"In 2011, there were many excellent referees from Asia, such as Ilmatov from Uzbekistan, Yuichi Nishimura from Japan, Li Xuan from Huaxia, and ......."

"These referees are the best representatives of the referees in Asian football. It is the presence and efforts of their group of professional judges on the pitch that has made Asian football continue to flourish and the competition environment has been further purified. They are the perfect representative of fairness and justice on the green field, and they are an excellent force that has a significant role in promoting the development of football. In the past year, one referee in particular has performed the most outstandingly, and deserves the honorary title of Asian Men's 'Best Referee' of the year!"

"The winner of the 2011 AFC 'Best Referee' award is—"

"Li Xuan, who is from the Chinese Football Association and transferred to work in the Korean Football Association, is young but has outstanding ability!"

Zhang Jinlong deliberately sold a pass, then looked at Li Xuan and read out his name smoothly.

Suddenly, the entire award ceremony immediately resounded with a burst of thunderous applause!

At this time, Li Xuan immediately got up at the right time, and first took the initiative to hug Ilmatov, Nishimura Yuichi and other competitors who were sitting next to him.

Then, with a very happy smile, he walked on the field to shake hands with Zhang Jinlong, the acting president of the AFC, and took the opportunity to receive the honorary award, a golden whistle!

"First of all, thank you to my family, thank you to my colleagues, thank you to the fans, thank you to football...... Well, I have so much to thank. However, obviously at this special moment, I have to thank the AFC officials first, thank you for being willing to give me the gold to present me with this golden whistle award. ”

After Li Xuan laughed at the scene quite easily, he pulled back the tone of his words a little seriously: "I am honored and proud to be officially recognized by the AFC, to be supported by the fans, and to be respected by my peers and people in the football circle, which is the greatest praise for my work as a referee." In addition, there are a lot of great peers here, in fact, they are also eligible for this award, and I was just a little luckier than them when it came to the selection. ”

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"Football is a sport that I have always loved deeply, and the referee on the green field is an important cause that I am closely related to football! For me, being a good referee is obviously a very proud and proud thing. ”

"Therefore, I hope that this award will not be the culmination of my personal refereeing and law enforcement career, but a new start for me to achieve better law enforcement performance!"

After Li Xuan briefly finished his speech, he held high the golden whistle symbolizing the best referee in Asia, signaled and posed, and then prepared to leave the court.

However, Zhang Jinlong reached out and grabbed him again in time, and said with a rather strong smile of relief: "Don't go down yet, about you, our AFC obviously has another new situation ready to announce it at this opportunity!"

After seeing Li Xuan's slightly puzzled expression, Zhang Jinlong smiled again, then patted Li Xuan's shoulder and said to more guests at the scene: " Due to the personal recommendation of FIFA President Mr. Blatter, Li Xuan, who was supposed to watch UEFA during the European Championship together with most of the young referees who participated in FIFA's referee exchange and training program, will be lucky enough to go to Europe immediately and become one of the special officials assigned by FIFA to the Champions League, which is commonly known as the fourth official!"

As soon as Zhang Jinlong finished saying this, not only the guests at the scene immediately began to talk unexpectedly, but even Li Xuan, who was smiling just now, couldn't help but be a little shocked and incredulous! )

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