Chapter 225: The youngest Golden Globe winner
In addition to Cheng Hai's parents and the coach of the university team, there are also some interviews with Cheng Hai's teammates on the school team, coaches and teammates in Dortmund, scout Emory, as well as many wonderful goals and championship shots of Cheng Hai in 2012, etc., which attracted applause from the guests one after another.
The guest who was finally invited to present the year-end grand prize was Cannavaro, a defender who won the 2006 Ballon d'Or and former captain of the Italian national team.
Cannavaro stood on the podium, and the Golden Ball trophy, a model football made of pure gold, was placed on the stage next to Cannavaro, which was very dazzling.
Although everyone knew who would win the eventually, everyone held their breath and waited for Cannavaro to pronounce the name.
Even Cheng Hai was no exception, and he and Aniya squeezed their hands tightly, expecting to hear their name from Cannavaro's mouth.
Don't have any more surprises like last year.
Cannavaro picked up the envelope and said, "Now, let's see who won the 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or. ”
As the envelope was opened, Cannavaro pulled out the card with the name of the eventual winner written on it and a smile on his face.
Cannavaro didn't play any guessing game, but directly turned the cards over, held the corners between the fingers of both hands, and in the nervous anticipation of countless viewers around the world who watched the live broadcast live on the spot and in front of the TV, while showing it to the audience and the camera, he looked at Cheng Hai's direction with a smile and said:
"The winner of the 2012 FIFA Golden Globe is: Cheng Hai!!"
Suddenly, the audience burst into thunderous applause, and Annia even screamed excitedly and hugged Cheng Hai tightly.
Cheng Hai and Anya hugged for a few seconds, kissed each other, and then stood up and thanked all the players and guests in the audience.
The guests in the first row stood up first while applauding, and then all the guests in the audience stood up and congratulated Cheng Hai.
Cheng Hai shook hands with Klopp, Guardiola, Messi, Ronaldo, Wambach and others in the first row, and everyone sincerely congratulated him, Cheng Hai also thanked him, and then slowly walked onto the podium.
The commentator of CCTV-5 said excitedly in his studio:
"Cheng Hai!!"
"No surprises!!
"The 2012 FIFA Golden Ball Award was awarded to Cheng Hai by FIFA!"
All the players and guests at the Zurich International Exhibition and Convention Center stood up and applauded Cheng Hai!
"Cheng Hai's Golden Globe Award is well deserved!"
"In the past 2012, Cheng Hai scored 183 goals throughout the year, staged a miracle of five goals in five minutes, and just now scored a wonderful goal in the air that ran through six people in a row, led the Chinese Olympic team to win the gold medal in the London Olympics, and then led Dortmund to win the annual six crowns and advance to the Cosmos team."
"Cheng Hai's performance in 2012 is absolutely unique in the world, unbeatable! Winning the Golden Globe is a matter of course! ”
"Last year, the judges who discriminated against Cheng Hai because of nationality and skin color will no longer dare to do so this year."
"Cheng Hai won the Ballon d'Or at the age of 20, and Ronaldo, who won the Ballon d'Or at the age of 21, became the youngest player in world football to win the Ballon d'Or."
"At the age of 20, most people are still going to college in a daze, but Cheng Hai has already stood on the podium of the FIFA Golden Globe Awards!"
"It can be seen how high Cheng Hai's talent and strength are!"
Cheng Hai is also the first Chinese and Asian to win the Golden Globe Award! His award will surely lead to the vigorous development of football in China and Asia. ”
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In the commentator's excited commentary, thousands of netizens in China who watched the live broadcast also spoke excitedly on various social platforms:
"It's really Cheng Hai!!"
"Hahaha, I knew that FIFA would never dare to engage in moths again this year!"
"Cheng Hai deserves it!"
"The FIFA Golden Globe Awards, it's dizzying to think about! Or we Chinese people are amazing! ”
"I've decided, I'll go to a football interest class tomorrow and let my son play football!"
"Me too! Who says Chinese people aren't fit to play? No, he is also Chinese, Cheng Haineng scored 183 goals a year and won the FIFA Golden Ball Award. I don't ask my son to be so powerful, if he can eat the food of a professional footballer, it is much better than an ordinary college graduate and a part-time job! ”
"Yes! It may not be possible, but it is always possible to sign up for an interest class and give it a try! I'm going to register my son for class tomorrow too! ”
It is conceivable that as Cheng Hai becomes the first Chinese and Asian to win the Golden Ball Award, how big a wave of football will be set off in the entire country and Asia.
Liu Xiang, who was engaged in the unpopular 110 hurdles event, was able to set off a wave of imitation among the Chinese people after winning the Olympic gold medal, not to mention football, a popular sport?
As more and more children play football, five or ten years later, when talented children grow up, the composition of the Chinese national team will definitely not be as stretched as it is now.
On the outskirts of Chacheng County, Hongzun City, Qianzhou Province, at Cheng Hai's house, even in the middle of the night, Cheng Hai's parents Cheng Songquan, Xi Yulin, Cheng Songbao, Xi Huabin and other twenty or thirty relatives and neighbors also gathered in the living room to watch the live broadcast together.
Of course, they couldn't understand the foreign language accent that Cannavaro pronounced, but everyone understood the name of "Cheng Hai" shouted by the CCTV commentator.
Cheng Hai got his wish and became the youngest Ballon d'Or winner in world football at the age of 20, creating the history of Chinese football and Asian football.
Everyone was quite excited, and congratulated Cheng Songquan and Xi Yulin one after another.
According to the grapevine, the county government is already planning a large stadium that can accommodate 60,000 spectators, named after Cheng Hai, and the main purpose is to play football.
Now that Cheng Hai has won the Golden Globe Award, it is more likely that the county government's plan will be passed.
In addition, the county government also encourages various towns and enterprises to build their own stadiums and teams, actively carry out football, take Chenghai as the highlight, attract investment, and make football another key industry in Chacheng County.
The FIFA Ballon d'Or was formed in 2010 by the merger of the European Ballon d'Or under France Football and the World Footballer of the Year under FIFA, with a five-year contract.
Therefore, in addition to Cannavaro, there were two presenters on stage, namely the CEO of France Football and the president of FIFA, Blatter.
Cheng Hai first shook hands with the two biggest bosses in charge of the FIFA Golden Globe Awards, and then took over the heavy Golden Globe trophy from Cannavaro.
Then, the three Cannavaro gave up their seats and let Cheng Hai deliver his acceptance speech on the podium.
Cheng Hai put the Golden Globe trophy on the speaker's seat, looked at the exhibition hall full of friends below, and had mixed feelings in his heart.
Although since the day he received the possession of the system, he knew that he would one day stand on the podium of the Golden Globes.
But I didn't expect it to come so quickly, and in just over two years, he won the first Golden Globe Award in his life.
This Golden Ball seems to be just his personal honor, but it has really created the history of Asian and Chinese football, and will definitely have a huge impact on the entire Asian and domestic football.
Cheng Hai naturally knew the meaning.
He said with some excitement:
"There is no doubt that the Ballon d'Or is the biggest and heaviest individual award of the year in world football."
"There are so many people I need to thank to win the 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or as a Chinese player at the age of 20."
"First of all, I would like to thank the judges who voted for me this time, thank you for your affirmation and support."
"Secondly, I would like to thank my parents, who gave me life and raised me. Today's Golden Globe Awards, I hope you are proud of it! ”
"Of course, the most important thing to thank is all the comrades-in-arms who fought side by side with me!"
"Whether it's club or country, whether it's a coach or a team-mate, everyone is helping me and trying to get the ball to my feet and get more shots on goal. The teammates at the back also tried their best to defend and try to win. ”
"Whether it's my personal annual 183 goals, or the collective six-time champion and Olympic champion, it's all the result of everyone's joint efforts."
"This golden ball is not my credit alone. It was obtained through the hard work of all the coaches and teammates of the club, the national team and the national Olympic team, thank you. ”
After a pause, Cheng Hai finally said:
"Finally, I would like to thank all the fans and fans who have supported me, and thank you for your support for me, Dortmund, and the Chinese national team."
"Thank you!"
Then, Cheng Hai lifted the trophy, and the audience resounded with prolonged applause, giving it to the youngest Ballon d'Or winner in football history.
As the highest honor of the year in football, and it is also the honor of merging the Golden Ball Award and the World Footballer of the Year, the weight of this FIFA Golden Ball Award is heavier than Cheng Hai imagined.
It not only brought Cheng Hai up to 200 million experience, but also gave Cheng Hai two additional chances to draw random skills.
In the explanation given by the system, the European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year, as the ultimate personal honor at the end of the year, have an experience of 100 million, and will each get a chance to draw a skill lottery.
Now, the European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year have merged to form the FIFA Ballon d'Or, so the awards have also been merged, and the awards will be split when the two institutions part ways in the future.
However, despite gaining 200 million experience, Cheng Hai still did not have the opportunity to upgrade, and he was still tens of millions away from 500 million upgrade experience.
As a result, Cheng Hai's practical basic skill "Passing" drawn by random lottery could not be used to add points.
Previously, Cheng Hai's passing subdivision skills were crosses, short passes, straight stops, and long passes in the air, which were inferior to medium and long-distance passes on the ground.
Although driven by these skills, Cheng Hai's medium and long-distance ground passes are not bad, but he can't reach the point of being superb.
For Cheng Hai now, his pursuit is to constantly evolve to a more perfect state.
With the basic skill of "passing", if you fill it up, you can also make up for the shortcomings of mid-to-long-distance ground passing.
However, now there is no upgrade, no skill points, and you can't add them if you want to, so you can only open them, and the attribute points stay at 15 points.
As for another randomly drawn skill, it is the goalkeeper's "GK hand control", which increases the probability of holding the ball steady when saving the ball and the success rate of hand-throwing the ball to launch an attack.
The initial attribute of GK's hand ball control is very low, only 4 points, but it has nothing to do with Cheng Hai for the time being, so don't worry about it.
Cheng Hai only needs to care about when to level up, get the upgraded skill point reward, and fill up the 15 "passing" skills, then the game will be more relaxed.