Chapter 226: Overwhelming
The FIFA year-end awards ceremony has come to an end, but the shock caused by Cheng Hai's winning the Ballon d'Or has just begun.
That night and the next day, whether it was Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Oceania, sports media in countless countries, and even comprehensive media, reported the news of Cheng Hai's 2012 FIFA Golden Globe Award with front-page headlines.
"Cheng Hai won the 2012 FIFA Golden Ball Award at the age of 20 and became the youngest Mr. Golden Ball in world football!" 》
"2012 FIFA Golden Globe Awards announced, Cheng Hai won the Golden Globe to create new history! 》
"Well deserved, Cheng Hai won the 2012 FIFA Golden Globe Award! 》
"Six Crowns of the Year + 183 Goals, Cheng Hai Won the 2012 FIFA Golden Ball Award! 》
"At the 2012 FIFA Awards Ceremony held last night, Cheng Hai was selected in the FIFA Team of the Year, becoming the only non-Real Madrid Barcelona player of the year."
"This best squad proves Cheng Hai's value to Dortmund from the side."
"In the race for the Puskas Award for Goal of the Year, Cheng Hai won the 2012 Puskas Award for the fourth aerial run goal scored by six people in five minutes in the miraculous miracle of Dortmund vs Wolfsburg, beating Falcao and Neymar."
"Of course, everyone's main concern is who will win the FIFA Golden Globe Award!"
"Although everyone thinks that Cheng Hai deserves to win the award, no one dares to be 100% sure before the award is announced, because last year everyone thought that the Golden Ball Award would be awarded to Cheng Hai, but it was finally awarded to Messi."
"Fortunately, there were no accidents this year."
"Cheng Hai won the 2012 FIFA Golden Ball Award by leading Dortmund to win the annual six crowns and the Chinese Olympic team won the gold medal in the London Olympics and scored 183 goals in the year!"
The turnout rate of the final 23-man list of the 2012 FIFA Golden Ball Awards posted on the official website of FIFA shows that Cheng Hai alone has a vote rate of more than 60%, and the total vote rate of 22 people such as Messi, Ronaldo, Iniesta, and Xavi is only about 30%. Even Balotelli, who was in last place, had zero votes, which can be described as the worst accompaniment. ”
"Cheng Hai's award is definitely well-deserved and convincing."
As a result, Cheng Hai became the first Asian and Chinese to win the Ballon d'Or, and at the age of 20, he surpassed Ronaldo and became the youngest player in world football to win the Ballon d'Or!"
"Cheng Hai creates a new history in world football and becomes the new Mr. Golden Ball!"
In China, CCTV-1's daily 19 o'clock news program even took a full 5 minutes to review the glorious moments of Cheng Hai's entire career and the grand occasion of winning the FIFA Golden Globe Award last night.
Although it is only 5 minutes, many of the pictures are short-lived and not very comprehensive.
However, CCTV-1's news program at 19 o'clock every day is itself focused on national events.
The news that Cheng Hai won the Golden Globe Award can be broadcast on this program for 5 minutes, which is longer than the length of all the high-ranking officials of the day, which is enough to prove that China attaches great importance to Cheng Hai.
There is no doubt that as the new Mr. Golden Globe, and has set a number of records, and is backed by the Chinese market with a population of 1.4 billion, Cheng Hai will usher in a wave of cooperation in the commercial endorsement market, and the price is even higher.
Cheng Hai's annual income is moving towards an annual income of more than 100 million euros that has never been touched by footballers.
After Cheng Hai, who won the Ballon d'Or, returned to Dortmund, he was warmly congratulated by the players, coaches and fans of the city.
On January 10, before the start of a warm-up match between Dortmund and the Belgian team, Dortmund held a warm celebration ceremony for Cheng Hai.
When Cheng Hai appeared on the Westfaren Stadium with the golden ball in his hand, the entire stadium was completely boiling.
Countless people shouted Cheng Hai's name and bowed to him.
Cheng Hai became the first player from Dortmund to win the Ballon d'Or on active duty, and both the club and the fans have enough reason to be proud and proud.
In the following days, Dortmund played several friendly matches before the start of the second half of the season, and no matter what team they faced, Dortmund won all of them, and Cheng Hai was also in super good form.
In a total of 4 friendly matches, Cheng Hai scored 21 goals, and an average of five goals per game was staged.
Although the intensity of the friendly match was not high, it was still shocking to score so many goals.
On the one hand, it proves that the new Mr. Ballon d'Or is well deserved, and on the other hand, it is also a wake-up call for Dortmund's opponents in the second half of the season.
Cheng Hai, who has just won the Golden Globe Award, can be said to be full of firepower.
On 18 January 2013, the second half of the Bundesliga season kicked off after the winter break, but Dortmund played the following day.
The next day, January 19, 2013, in the 18th round of the 20122013 Bundesliga season, Dortmund challenged Werder Bremen away.
Bremen themselves are a traditional powerhouse in the Bundesliga, and they are still their home turf, and everyone thinks that even if Dortmund wins, it will not be too easy to win.
Unexpectedly, less than 5 minutes into the game, Cheng Hai broke through Werder Bremen's goal with an earth-shattering powerful long-range shot from outside the penalty area.
According to post-match statistics, Cheng Hai's shot exceeded 100 kilometers per hour, no wonder the opposing goalkeeper did not react.
As the first official match in the second half of the season after receiving the Ballon d'Or, Cheng Hai continued his fiery form in the previous friendlies, not only hitting a shot with a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, but also staging a terrifying record of six goals in a single game with an overhead kick throughout the game.
Borussia Dortmund played home team Werder Bremen 8-0 away from home.
I have to say that Werder Bremen is too sad.
In the first round of the opening half of the season, Cheng Hai staged a single five-goal game to lead Dortmund to an 8-1 victory over Bremen.
As a result, at the beginning of the second half of the season, Bremen, who were ready to regroup, was beaten 8-0 by Dortmund led by Cheng Hai, conceded the same goal as in the first half of the season, and was shaved down, and watched Cheng Hai stage a terrifying achievement of six goals in a single game.
Of course, even so, even if his home team was slaughtered like this, there were still countless Werder Bremen home fans who gave Cheng Hai a round of applause at the end.
Cheng Hai's charm is really unrivaled, even if he is an enemy, he has to admire it.
On January 25, in the 19th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund hosted Nuremberg, Cheng Hai easily scored a hat trick and contributed an assist, leading Dortmund to a 5-0 home victory.
On January 29, Dortmund faced Hoffenheim away, in fact, this was the 17th round of the Bundesliga postponed in the first half of the season because Dortmund was going to participate in the Club World Cup.
It's a make-up game.
In this supplementary match, although the home team Hoffenheim resisted desperately, they finally scored a goal.
However, the final score was 1-4 and Hoffenheim were beaten by Borussia Dortmund by three goals at home.
Since the start of the second half of the season, Dortmund has been like a bamboo, constantly winning big scores, and continuing to advance towards the dynasty of three consecutive Bundesliga titles.