Chapter 385: The Grand Plan for Picking the Golden Ball

The delightful white Christmas holiday has finally begun.

At the end of the final match of 2005, Madiburg eliminated Nuremberg 2-1 away in the FA Cup to reach the quarter-finals. After the first half of the Bundesliga, Madiburg accumulated 36 points with 17 games, 11 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss, ranking fourth in the standings.

At the top of the list, of course, is the habitual winter champions Bayern Munich, who have 41 points; The second is Hamburg with Van der Vaart, with 38 points; Werder Bremen are third with 37 points, and these four teams also make up the first group this season.

Behind Madiburg is the second group consisting of Borussia Mönchengladbach and Hertha Berlin with 26 points, Stuttgart with 25 points and Borussia Dortmund with 21 points. There is no need to go into detail in the future, the Bundesliga is always like this, and it is clear after the halfway point, the championship group, the European group, the chaotic group, and the relegation group, at a glance.

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After the game with Nuremberg, Zhuo Yang hurried back to his home in Hanover early in the morning, not for Christmas, and we Chinese did not care about this. In his small second floor, a mysterious photojournalism team is waiting for him, from the official UEFA photography team.

Madiborg Zhuoyang, Barcelona Ronaldinho and Liverpool Gerrard, the three were shortlisted for the 2005 European Ballon d'Or!

Madiborg Zhuoyang, Barcelona Ronaldinho and Chelsea Ribery, the three were shortlisted for the 2005 FIFA World Footballer of the Year list!

It's a common practice for UEFA to shoot short films, and although the final answer will be revealed after the New Year, a snapshot of the three candidates' lives will be filmed before that will be used as material for the live broadcast of the conference. As for the game highlights, just cut it from live TV.

Before Zhuo Yang, Xiao Luo and Gerald's filming work had been completed, he was the last one, and they had to rush back for Christmas after filming. Throughout the day, following the camera, Zhuo Yang repeatedly showed his prescribed actions such as playing the piano with his eyes closed, drinking tea leisurely, jogging in the woods, etc., and his linearistic small second floor and Hannover University of Music became the main scenes.

FIFA doesn't have this problem, and when the time comes, everything will be fine when you broadcast some match highlights.

Compared to Ronaldo and Gerrard, Scar, and even Samuel Eto'o and Frank Lampard, who unfortunately failed to make the two-man list, Zhuoyang has a number of disadvantages, the most obvious is that there is no convincing trophy. Ronaldo and Ribery have their respective league titles, Steven Gerrard is holding the Champions League Big Ears Cup, and Zhuo Yang's League Cup is a bit lacking. But Zhuo Yang also has an advantage that they can't match, that is, the number of goals, that is, the goals scored throughout the year that have gone down in history.

This is the big plan of the fat man Raiola, who is trying to win Zhuo Yang his first Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year.

The idea of the fat man was first born in April in the first half of the year, when after a series of hype, coupled with the relationship between Zhuo Yang and Beverly Deng through Mandela's royal mouth, Zhuo Yang's popularity has reached the peak of young players. Coupled with his good performance on the pitch and his unique status as a professional pianist in the football world, all of this makes Zhuo Yang have the image conditions to become a superstar.

And at that time, Madiburg was attacking Bayern Munich's title and had the potential to replace it, and the eyes of the football world were attracted to the young captain of the Bundesliga.

2005 was a small year for football, and there were no luxurious international events such as the World Cup and the European Championship in the year, which also happened to be the best year for Zhuo Yang to win the honor without the help of national team competitions. All the conditions were combined, and Raiola decided to embark on this seemingly impossible project.

However, the most crucial part of the plan, Zhuo Yang led Madiburg to the Bundesliga champions, but it failed at the last minute, and the grand plan suffered a heavy blow at the beginning. You know, the Bundesliga is the least convincing of the major leagues, and the same stars are very different from the Bundesliga and Serie A. If there is not even a façade Bundesliga title, there is little chance that the 'Golden Star Plan' will be realized.

In the summer, Raiola was a thief and thought hard about how to make up for this serious shortcoming, and he was reluctant to give up such a good vintage. Smart as a fat man found that since Zhuo Yang entered 2005, he has scored goals in every game, and the thief does not go empty. This is a great finding for Raiola, and if Zhuoyang can maintain this momentum throughout the year, it will be enough to make up for the lack of a champion.

As a result, there is Zhuo Yang standing on the forward line in the new season, and there is a club strategy of Madiburg to let Zhuo Yang score even if he disregards the team's results. It all started with Raiola's suggestion, and Madibo certainly welcomed it with both hands, and even Saihu knew what it meant for a club to have a Ballon d'Or or World Footballer of the Year in the squad.

Therefore, at the beginning of the season, when Madiburg's record was not good, Uncle Scum resolutely did not withdraw Zhuo Yang to the midfield, as long as Zhuo Yang could score, he would not hesitate to sacrifice the team's results. Later, Robert Baggio's No. 9 and a half tactics for Madiburg perfectly resolved the contradictions, and Zhuo Yang and Madibao achieved a win-win situation.

This is the reason why no matter how dense the schedule is, Zhuo Yang must play every game, and he is replaced by Uncle Scum immediately after scoring a goal. It's all about scoring goals of the year, something that no one has ever done before.

The selection of the European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year is based on the natural year, not according to the schedule of the mainstream leagues across the year, so the annual infield goal has become the only possible condition for Zhuo Yang's success.

In order to achieve this goal, Raiola also paid a special visit to Mr. Beckenbauer during the summer China Semifinals, and skillfully persuaded Emperor Pei to support Zhuo Yang.

After careful consideration, Beckenbauer nodded in favor of the fat man's suggestion. The emergence of a Ballon d'Or or world footballer of the year winner in the Bundesliga is only good for the image creation of the entire Bundesliga, so why not? The Bundesliga is now declining and is less and less valued by major awards, and the last time the Bundesliga had a Ballon d'Or was in 1996, when Summerer beat Ronaldo to win the honor. And for more than 20 years, since Rummenigge in 1981, Samer is the only golden egg for players in the Bundesliga and Germany.

Today, Summer's sporting director and head coach have taken turns for several laps, and the Bundesliga or German players no longer have anything to do with this honor, Serie A, the Premier League, and La Liga have taken turns to monopolize this award, which symbolizes the highest individual honor in European and world football, and the gap between the Bundesliga and them is getting wider and wider.

The same goes for World Footballer of the Year, 'distant' Mateus in 1991, and that was the background of Inter Milan, without the credit of the Bundesliga.

Beckenbauer looks at it, the Bundesliga is really starlight, and can only barely rely on Ballack to support the façade before, but the appearance of Zhuo Yang has become a ray of light over Prussia.

If Zhuo Yang can win this award, it will undoubtedly greatly improve the overall image of the Bundesliga. In private, Beckenbauer has a good impression of Zhuo Yang, and the two have a very good personal relationship; Yu Gong, Emperor Pei cares about the whole of German football, and Raiola's plan is in line with his idea of 'reviving German football'.

Beckenbauer dreamed of having another German player in the Bundesliga win the Ballon d'Or or Footballer of the Year, so Beckenbauer used his influence to make the entire German football community start to build momentum for Zhuo Yang, with the best in the wheel and flowers every week. It's just that Pei Huang may have forgotten or ignored that Zhuo Yang is not German.

At the pre-season referee joint meeting, Beckenbauer made it clear that the referee must protect a young player like Zhuo Yang, and the central idea outside the words - as long as Zhuo Yang does not eat people on the field, he can not be red carded, no one is killed, and the yellow card is counted. Who dared to use a brutal foul to infringe on Zhuo Yang, and the red card was replaced with an iron one for Lao Tzu to wedge the girl's head.

Obedient and listening, those who can mix with the referee are smart people.