Chapter 140: The World's Top Scorer
At the award ceremony, as Ronaldo read out that the winner of the Ballon d'Or was Messi, the whole scene was in an uproar.
Countless people were in disbelief and expressed their difficulty accepting the fact that the Ballon d'Or was awarded to Messi.
The 2010 Ballon d'Or awarded to Messi, not to Xavi, who won the World Cup in South Africa, or Sneijder, who led Inter Milan to the treble, has already caused an uproar, and FIFA's prestige and credibility have fallen to the bottom in the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or selection.
Unexpectedly, this scene appeared again at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards.
Cheng Hai's voice is higher than that of Xavi or Sneijder in 2010, and countless people before the award ceremony confirmed that this year's Golden Globe Award is Cheng Hai's.
Although Cheng Hai does not have a World Cup champion or a real treble like Inter Milan, his personal performance is completely world-class and epic.
Not to mention anything else, a record of 152 goals scored in an annual year alone is enough to crush everyone in world football throughout the ages.
What's more, he also has five championships in the Asian Cup, Bundesliga, League Cup, German Super Cup, and European Super Cup, and his personal performance also has the Asian Cup Golden Boot, Bundesliga Golden Boot, European Golden Boot, League Cup Golden Boot, etc., and has broken countless records.
In the second half of the year alone, the performance of 15 goals in five group games in the Champions League has broken the record for the highest goals in a single season in the Champions League.
This kind of performance can't win the Golden Globe Award, it's simply outrageous! Even more unconvincing than in 2010!
The Ballon d'Or is not a team champion, only the Champions League can be won, it pays more attention to individual performance.
Otherwise, why did Messi win the Ballon d'Or in 2010?
As a result, a year later, the personal performance was not popular again, Messi actually overwhelmed Cheng Hai, who performed like a god in the Champions League and the Champions League Golden Boot, and won the 2011 Golden Ball Award, how can this be convincing?
In fact, Messi performed better in 2011 than in 2010. If Cheng Hai had not been born, there would have been no suspense for Messi to win the award.
Even in the middle of the year, Messi's award was taken for granted.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Hai's performance in the second half of the year was even more demonic, not only leading Dortmund to defeat Messi's Barcelona in the face-to-face European Super Cup, but also creating 15 goals in 5 Champions League games, breaking Gerd Muller's annual total goal record, breaking the 100-goal mark in the total goal record, and reaching 152 goals in the final record.
Therefore, as time goes by, most people are more and more optimistic about Cheng Hai, because his personal performance is so dazzling, and no player in football has ever staged such a crazy performance as Cheng Hai in a year.
Unexpectedly, the final FIFA Golden Ball Award is still not Cheng Hai, but Messi.
Messi won the same Ballon d'Or as Platini with this Ballon d'Or, but it caused more controversy than in 2010.
For Cheng Hai, who was full of hope, the Golden Globe Award was not him, which made him suffer a lot of mental blows.
Not only what the media and fans say, but he is confident that his performance last year is definitely worthy of the Ballon d'Or.
Although Messi can overpower him with the Champions League championship in the collective awards, his individual performance can overpower Messi more than a few times.
All kinds of golden boots and record-breaking, is it a joke?
never expected that such a performance would not even win the Golden Globe Award. Cheng Hai looked at the card that Ronaldo showed to everyone, and was a little stunned, and even forgot to applaud.
If it weren't for his father Cheng Songquan pulling him next to him and quietly saying "applaud, don't lose your politeness", Cheng Hai might not really remember applauding the winners.
Cheng Hai, who was the most frustrated, had to applaud the award-winning Messi for the image of himself and the motherland, and the sourness in his heart was really indescribable.
Even Messi himself, after hearing Ronaldo pronounce his name, was stunned for a while, and then walked up to the stage amid polite applause from everyone and received the Ballon d'Or trophy from the FIFA president.
But Messi is not a competitive man and has always presented himself as the boy next door.
Therefore, after receiving the trophy, Messi looked at Cheng Hai, who was applauding him, and said: "I think, everyone knows that Cheng Hai was the best individual last year. I really admire Cheng Hai's achievements and the annual record of 152 goals. I am really surprised to win this year's FIFA Golden Globe Award, thank you for your trust and vote, and I also wish Cheng Hai and hope you will win the Golden Globe Award as soon as possible. ”
Messi didn't say anything nonsense such as "I don't deserve the Golden Globe Award, Cheng Hai deserves to win the award", because that would not only offend the people who voted for him and supported him, but also could not change the award results, and he seemed very mentally retarded.
Therefore, he can only thank those who voted for him and bless Cheng Hai.
The most important FIFA Golden Globe Award has been awarded, but the controversy caused by this winner has only just begun.
FIFA also knew that the award was very controversial, so that evening, they announced the votes of the final 23-man shortlist on the FIFA official website.
The data shows that Messi, Cheng Hai, and Ronaldo have a total vote rate of 38.7%, 38.2%, and 16.5% respectively, and the combined vote rate of the three has reached 93.4%, and the remaining 20 candidates have a total of 6.6% of the votes.
Some people even get 0 votes in a single vote, such as a vote for media personalities or a vote for a coach or captain of the national team.
Of course, this is not where everyone cares, everyone only cares about the vote rate of Messi and Cheng Hai.
The difference between 38.7% and 38.2% of the votes was only 0.5%, leaving people all over the world stunned.
The statistical table shows that Cheng Hai surpassed Messi in terms of media votes and player votes, but in the voting of the head coach of the national team, Cheng Hai was pulled a little bigger, I don't know why.
Moreover, even if the votes of media people and players are not normal, it is said that with Cheng Hai's performance, he should be far ahead of everyone's votes.
According to the turnout, even in the votes of the media and the captains of the national team, there are still many people who think that Cheng Hai's performance is not as good as Messi.
This is quite abnormal.
Whether it is the result of the Golden Globe Award or the final vote rate, it has caused heated discussions around the world.
"The 2011 FIFA Golden Ball Awards were announced, Messi's Golden Ball tied Platini's record three times in a row, and Cheng Hai missed the Golden Ball Award! 》
"Cheng Hai missed the 2011 FIFA Golden Globe Awards with a disadvantage of 0.5% of the votes, and the fairness of the Golden Globe Awards has been widely questioned! 》
"Cheng Hai, who set the annual record of 152 goals, did not win the Golden Ball Award! 》
"Messi won the 2011 FIFA Golden Ball Award, and the vote rate was only 0.5% higher than Cheng Hai and was questioned! 》
"Fan demonstrations broke out in Dortmund, Germany, to protest against the shady FIFA Ballon d'Or! 》
"Chinese fans are furious, and the official website of FIFA is attacked and shut down by Chinese netizens! 》
The German magazine "Kicker" even typed "Golden Ballon Award? '! The 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or was questioned.
It can be said that Messi's award and Cheng Hai's defeat have plunged the FIFA Golden Ball Award into a huge controversy for the second year in a row, and countless media and fans have been indignant and upset Cheng Hai.
Cheng Hai also said in an interview after the award ceremony: "First of all, I would like to congratulate Messi on winning his third Ballon d'Or and completing the triple record of the Golden Ball, which is as great as Platini. But I don't understand why so many people don't support me, is it because my performance is not good enough? ”
After speaking, Cheng Hai shook his head with a wry smile at the camera lens, and his expression of incomprehension was self-evident.
In Germany, in Europe, in Asia, in Latin America, Africa, Oceania, there are countless media and fans protesting against the results of the FIFA Ballon d'Or.
The 0.5% vote difference is not a consolation to Cheng Hai, but more like a huge irony.
As the organizer of the European Ballon d'Or before the merger with World Footballer, France Football was also quite annoyed.
At this time, they regretted their decision to merge with FIFA's World Footballer of the Year.
But at this time, the two sides have merged, and there is no way to go back, and no matter how big the controversy is, it cannot change the fact that FIFA is the highest individual honor of the year in world football.
However, they have their own countermeasures.
Seeing the global controversy caused by the FIFA Golden Ball Awards, "French Football" immediately sent reporters to interview countless media reporters and national team coaches and captains who participated in the vote, asking them about the basis of their votes.
Especially those who voted for Messi with the first pick.
On January 11, 2012, the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) added fuel to the fire while France Football was conducting an investigation to try to clarify why this year's FIFA Ballon d'Or was Messi and not Cheng Hai.
The IFFHS has announced two awards, one is the top scorer in the global league, which counts the player with the most goals in a single season in the top 60 leagues in world football today.
For single-year leagues, the statistics are for 2011. The number of goals scored in the 2010/2011 season is counted in the cross-season league.
On this list, Cheng Hai, who scored a record 45 goals in the Bundesliga in the 2010/2011 season, did not win the title. The award was taken home by Latvian striker Sekulajeves of the Estonian league Transe, who scored 46 goals in the 2011 Estonian First Division, just one more goal than Cheng Hai.
Of course, the Estonian First Division cannot be compared with the Bundesliga, but the IFFHS only counts the top scorers in the global league, and only counts the number of goals, and does not have the points coefficient like the European Golden Boot.
As a result, Cheng Hai missed out on the top scorer in the global league by one goal.
However, in the statistics of another IFFHS world top scorer, Cheng Hai won the first place without any suspense.
The IFFHS World's Top Scorers are statistics on the goals scored by players in club and national team continental and international competitions above A', excluding club leagues, cups, etc.
The included competitions include the Champions League, UEFA Cup, European Cup, Asian Cup, Copa America, UEFA Super Cup, World Club Cup, Confederations Cup, World Cup, World Preliminary Tournament, A' Friendly Tournament and so on.
In the IFFHS ranking of the world's top scorers, the second to tenth candidates are normal.
Messi is in second place with 15 goals for club and 4 for the national team, with a total of 19 goals.
Falcao is third with 13 goals for club and four for country, with a total of 19 goals.
Santos' Brazilian prodigy Neymar is in eighth place with a total of 14 goals for club and 8 for the national team.
Cristiano Ronaldo is ranked 10th with 5 goals for the club and 7 goals for the national team, with a total of 12 goals.
And what about Cheng Hai, who ranked first?
He scored goals in the 2011 League Cup, Champions League, Asian Cup, and World Preliminary Tournaments, and finally won the title of the world's top scorer in IFFHS2011 with 45 goals in 13 games for the national team and 35 goals in 15 games for the club, a total of 80 goals in international matches.
The world's top scorer, this name sounds bullish, and the reward did not disappoint Cheng Hai.
Being selected for the FIFA2011 World's Best Team of the Year gave Cheng Hai an experience reward of 10 million, but the world's top scorer gave Cheng Hai an experience reward of 50 million, so that Cheng Hai was directly promoted by one level, and the level experience reached level 29 8.1926 million/70 million, and the balance of skill points became 60.
The skill that is randomly opened with the upgrade, the luck is not good, and the goalkeeper's "GK reaction" is opened, with an initial attribute of 7, which is of no use to Cheng Hai for the time being.
Of course, outsiders don't know that Cheng Hai will gain experience and upgrade with the announcement of this list, they only pay attention to one point:
Cheng Hai scored 80 goals in international matches in 2011, compared to Messi's 19, and Cheng Hai scored more than four times as many goals in international matches as Messi.
Even if you say that Cheng Hai's goals in the national team are all Asian abuse, Cheng Hai's goals in the club's Champions League and League Cup are enough to crush Messi.
Therefore, Cheng Hai's crushing victory into the IFFHS world's top scorer undoubtedly adds additional controversy to the fairness and fairness of FIFA's FIFA Golden Ball Awards.
Countless media and fans asked:
"With Cheng Hai's performance, why can't he win the 2011 FIFA Golden Ball?"
"With Messi's performance, why can he beat Cheng Hai to win the Golden Ball?"
This is the question of the soul that lingers in the minds of everyone in world football after the FIFA year-end awards ceremony.