Chapter 137: Uproar
Cheng Hai entered the top three of the Golden Ball Awards, won the European Golden Boy Award, broke the Champions League single-season goal record and other major events continued to swipe the screen, which not only improved Cheng Hai's popularity in the world, but also made Cheng Hai gain the support and admiration of countless Chinese fans.
In this context, at the 20-year Chinese Super League Awards Ceremony held on February 0, Yangcheng Evergrande foreign aid Muric won the best player of the Chinese Super League, which is the former Huaguo Footballer Award, which caused an uproar.
In previous years, the best player in the Chinese Super League basically represented the most outstanding player in Chinese football that year, and there was basically no much controversy about awarding the best player who played in the Chinese Super League.
Even this year's best player in the Chinese Super League, Muric, has no doubt from a procedural point of view, because the person itself commends the "best player of the Chinese Super League", not the best player in China.
But in the hearts of the media and fans, because of the cancellation of the award of Mr. Huaguo, the former best player of the Chinese Super League was naturally defaulted to Mr. Huaguo Footballer.
As a result, this year, there was such a pervert as Cheng Hai.
Logically speaking, Cheng Hai did not play in the Chinese Super League team, and he did not receive the award of the best player in the Chinese Super League, so there was nothing controversial.
But the media and fans don't think so.
They believe that the best player in the Chinese Super League is actually Mr. Huaguo, and if all Chinese players can be shortlisted for the selection of Mr. Huaguo, then the obvious 20-year-old Mr. Huaguo should be Cheng Hai.
Even if Cheng Hai doesn't play in the domestic league, he is a Chinese!
In the past, there was no precedent for not playing in the domestic league and winning the Chinese Footballer of the Year, Yang Chen, who played for Eintracht Frankfurt in 2000, won the award of the Chinese Footballer of the Year.
Not to mention the league, just Cheng Hai led the national football team to win the honor of the Asian Cup, is he not worthy of a Chinese footballer?
Therefore, a few years ago, the best player in the Chinese Super League also represented Mr. Huaguo, everyone acquiesced and had no objections.
But this year is very different, countless people sneered and criticized the Chinese Football Association after the Chinese Super League awards ceremony, saying that the Football Association's change of Mr. Chinese Football to the best player in the Chinese Super League is simply the most brainless decision in history.
Now it's okay, Cheng Hai is not a Super League player, and he can't participate in the evaluation of the best player in the Super League from the program.
As a result, Chinese football has no awards that represent the highest honor in domestic football, and Cheng Hai, who scored 7 goals in 6 games in the Asian Cup, led the national team to break through history, and won the first Asian Cup championship of the Chinese men's football team, was unable to win any domestic football awards.
It's a big joke.
Even the European and American media are ridiculing Huaguo, saying that Cheng Hai, who can compete for the FIFA Golden Ball Award, cannot win the highest award in the year-end inventory of Chinese football, which is simply strange.
The Chinese Super League awards ceremony put the Chinese Football Association on the cusp, and they had to stand up and hold a press conference the next day to say that the decision to cancel the Chinese Football Coach and represent the Chinese Football Association with the best player in the Chinese Super League was hasty.
Some leaders of the Football Association said at the press conference that the selection of awards such as Mr./Miss/Coach of Huaguo Football will be restarted separately next year.
The initial idea is that in the future, the Chinese Footballer will be separated from the best players in the Chinese Super League, and the best players in the Chinese Super League will only be limited to players who play in the Chinese Super League, regardless of nationality.
The Chinese Footballer can only be awarded by Chinese players, no matter which country's league he plays in, completely separating the Chinese Footballer from the best players in the Chinese Super League, and giving overseas Chinese players a chance to win the highest domestic honor.
This is an afterthought, but it can also be regarded as a remedy, and while the media and fans are sneering, they can also be regarded as having more expectations for next year's awards.
But in fact, everyone knows that this is just an award reserved for Cheng Hai!
As long as Cheng Hai is not injured and his state does not decline, judging from his current performance, Mr. Huaguo Footballer is afraid that Cheng Hai will be Cheng Hai every year.
But there's no escaping it.
Just like Ibrahimovic, the Swedish Footballer of the Year has been him every year since 2007, there is no suspense, but is this award going to be cancelled?
Impossible.
Of course, some media reporters asked and interviewed Cheng Hai, but Cheng Hai didn't care and didn't say anything strange.
Because of whether there is this award or not, it is indeed insignificant for Cheng Hai's current fame, status, and rank.
Even if there were, it was just icing on the cake.
Cheng Hai did have reason to say that he didn't care about the honor of Huaguo Footballer of the Year, because it was on February that Cheng Hai accepted the award ceremony of the European Golden Boy Award before the 6th round of the Bundesliga match between Dortmund and Kaiserslautern.
Before the start of the game, the Torino Sports newspaper held an award ceremony for Cheng Hai, and in the enthusiastic applause and cheers of more than 10,000 people at the Westfa'Len Stadium, the European Golden Boy trophy modeled after the European Golden Ball Award and a smaller proportion was awarded to Cheng Hai.
Obviously, such a trophy, even if it is not the Golden Ball, is much heavier than the Chinese Footballer.
The experience reward given by the system also proves that in the eyes of the system, this is also a heavy reward at the same level as the Asian Footballer, and the experience reward has reached 0 million.
With the momentum of just getting the European Golden Boy trophy, Cheng Hai scored another hat trick in this game and led Dortmund to a 4-win victory.
After this game, Cheng Hai's annual total goals in 20 years have reached a terrifying 45 goals.
And before the end of 20 years, Cheng Hai still has two games, one in the Bundesliga and one in the German Cup.
Whether he can score five goals in two games and raise his annual goal total record to more than 50 goals is quite exciting.
It's not a joke to say that the end of the year is a frequent award period for various awards.
Just won the European Golden Boy Award, a few days later, on February 5, Cheng Hai was nominated for the 202 Laureus Sports Awards, and he was nominated for "Best Male Athlete" and "Best Breakthrough Award".
The Laureus World Sports Awards are one of the most influential awards in world sport and the only global sports awards.
Prior to Cheng, Yao Ming and Liu Xiang won the Best Newcomer Award in 2003 and 2005, and the Chinese Olympic team won the Best Team Award for winning the gold medal list at the 200 Beiping Olympics.
But the most important Best Male/Female Athlete Award, Chinese athletes have never been able to win.
The Best Newcomer Award will be cancelled after 200 years, otherwise Cheng Hai will be 8'90% sure of winning this award.
Now Cheng Hai is nominated for the Best Male Athlete and Best Breakthrough Award, and the best male athlete Cheng Hai will compete with Messi, the sprint superstar, and the tennis superstar Djokovic, not limited to football, which is a bit difficult.
is the best breakthrough award, although the athletes on the nominee list have achieved good results, but compared with Cheng Hai's breakthroughs on all fronts of the club and the national team, it is a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, according to the Laureus Best Breakthrough Award, the media and fans analyzed, Cheng Hai is more than eighty percent sure that he will be in the bag.
With two nominations and at least one award, the 9-year-old Cheng Hai has ushered in a bumper harvest, and the peak of his career has started too early, which is enviable.
The day after Lawrence announced his nominations, on 6 February, UEFA held the draw for the last six of the 20/202 Champions League.
In the draw for the final, the Milan duo became the unluckiest of brothers.
A Milan meets Dortmund, Inter Milan meets Arsenal!
Of course, for Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal, it also feels very unlucky!
Just came out of the group of death, and as a result, they met the Milan duo in the knockout round, which also felt very wronged and very uncomfortable.
Even with Borussia Dortmund with Cheng Hai, Klopp said that the two legs/finals will definitely be difficult to play.
Because A Milan is a Serie A team and a defensive expert, Cheng Hai's strength is really unknown how much he can play against A Milan!
After the draw ceremony, the next day, February 7, in the 7th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund challenged Freiburg away.
Freiburg, of course, don't want to be the background for Cheng Hai's goalscoring record, and they are currently at the bottom of the table, with a very heavy task of relegation.
Therefore, Freiburg played quite hard at his home stadium in this game, and in order to prevent Cheng Hai and his teammates from scoring, they not only got a full 4 yellow cards, but even a red card, and were directly sent off one person.
Their attack was not bad, and they scored a full 2 goals.
However, finishing bottom of the table after the halfway point of the league has already proved that there is a huge gap between Freiburg and top-placed Borussia Dortmund.
Although they scored two goals, they were attacked by the Hornets led by Cheng Hai and scored six goals, and in the end, the home team Freiburg lost a 2-6, which can be called a heavy defeat.
As for Cheng Hai, even though they made a strict defense, they still failed to stop Cheng Hai's goal.
Cheng Hai even staged a big four, with an assist, which increased his annual goal total to 49 goals, and was only one goal short of 50 goals.
In other words, in the next German Cup game, Cheng Hai only needs to score one goal to raise his annual total goal record to 50 goals.
Dortmund's opponent in the next German Cup is still a team from the Bundesliga, which makes the media and fans more confident that Cheng Hai will score more than 50 goals in the next game.
It is a little pity that this third round of the German Cup is an away game for Dortmund, and it cannot be played at the Westfa'Len Stadium, and there is no scene where Westfa' Lenwando fans applaud Cheng Hai together.
Reporters and fans who want to see Cheng Hai's annual total goal record break through the 50-goal mark can only follow in Cheng Hai's footsteps and go to the scene of the German B team to observe.
Of course, there are too many people who think like this, they may not be able to buy tickets, they may not have places, and there will definitely be people who will be blocked out of the stadium because they can't buy tickets.