FIFA's World Footballer of the Year was born in 1991 and has been plagued by controversy since its birth.

For example, many media and fans have criticized that the World Footballer of the Year is more famous than necessarily the best performer of the year, such as Rivaldo in '99, Figo in '01 and Zidane in '03.

It's not that they don't have the ability to win awards, it's that they don't win awards in their best years.

Rivaldo was the best performer in '98, but he lost to Zinedine Zidane, only to win the award in '99; Figo was the best performer in the 2000 years, but lost to Zinedine Zidane, who had just won the European Championship, and won the medal in 01; And the same is true of Zidane in '03, when his performance at Real Madrid was not as good as in '02.

But there are also people who say that this is the beauty of football, sometimes you can play your best, but you can't win or win.

For example, Bayern Munich in '99 was unbeatable, but it was lost to Manchester United, but in 01, when Heathfield's team was obviously at the end of its power, but it won the Champions League.

In any case, FIFA's World Footballer of the Year award does pay more attention to fame, which is why many people have attached more importance to the European Ballon d'Or in recent years, even if the latter is only hosted by French football magazines, but it is more authoritative than World Footballer.

After the merger of the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or to form the FIFA Ballon d'Or, according to the ballot mechanism, only one-third of the media votes were cast, and two-thirds of the votes of the manager and captain were accounted for.

In other words, in the past, the selection mechanism of the World Footballer of the Year promoted by FIFA occupied the majority.

As a result, the annual Golden Globe Awards are often controversial, especially this year.

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When FIFA released the total votes for this year's Ballon d'Or on the big screen, everyone at the scene was also very concerned, not only the media took pictures wildly, but even many guests took out their mobile phones to take pictures of this scene, intending to study it slowly.

What is surprising is that Yang Yang and Messi's votes are very close, Yang Yang is 31.53 percent, and Messi is 27.88 percent, which can be said to be the closest year in the past years.

Judging from the breakdown of the votes, Yang Yang got five points of votes, that is, the votes that put Yang Yang first, as many as one hundred and sixty-seven, ranking first, while Messi only had one hundred and nineteen, but the Argentines had as many as one hundred and seventy-five three-point votes, and Yang Yang only had one hundred and forty-two.

It can be seen that Yang Yang is the world's No. 1 and occupies an overwhelming majority, and Messi is the world's No. 2 also has an overwhelming advantage, which makes the total score of the two very close.

In addition to the total votes, in the head coach vote, Yang Yang is the undisputed world No. 1, and he is also the world No. 1 in the captain's vote, but in the media vote, Yang Yang lost to Ribery by a narrow margin.

The Bayern Munich star performed well in the media ticket, beating Yang Yang, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to be the number one in the world, which means that if the original European Ballon d'Or was selected, this year's Ballon d'Or should be given to Ribery.

Franck Ribery's disadvantage lies in the votes of the national team manager and captain, and he is far behind the top three in this regard.

And everyone knows that this is the vote of the world footballer of the year, and it is more about the player's fame.

It is worth mentioning that among the votes in the three areas, Yang Yang's lead over Messi is very small, so that the final total score, Yang Yang is 1,365 points, Messi is 1,205 points, and there is only a difference of 160 points.

This may seem like a lot, but it's actually the smallest gap in years.

Judging from the vote rate this year, Yang Yang and Messi are biting very tightly, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ribery are biting very tightly, and Ibrahimovic has no suspense in this fifth.

In the past few years, many media also like to study the head coach and captain votes of the top ten traditional powerhouses in world football, judging from the votes released by FIFA, Yang Yang got six first-choice votes out of twenty votes, Ribery got five first-choice votes, and Messi only got two first-choice votes, but as before, Messi took the lead in the second and third votes.

Therefore, if only the votes of the top ten traditional strong teams are counted, Yang Yang is still narrowly ahead of Messi and Ribery, but Cristiano Ronaldo will not be able to enter the top three.

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The big screen at the scene played a variety of vote data, the guests on the scene were also analyzing their own data, and the live TV commentator was also interpreting various data with the audience in front of the TV, and finally got a unified answer, that is, Yang Yang won very dangerously.

On the whole, Ribery is the most regrettable, but Yang Yang deserves the award.

Therefore, when Yang Yang walked on the podium, everyone at the scene stood up and applauded him.

Not easy! Definitely not easy!

In such a bad situation this year, in the face of Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar's leading Barcelona, even Blatter personally went down to the field, and FIFA has made it clear that Yang Yang can still win the championship, which is really not easy.

But from these difficulties, it can also be seen how high the gold content of Yang Yang is.

Although they missed out on the Champions League, they won the double title of La Liga and Copa del Rey, scoring 55 goals in the league, 15 goals in the Champions League, 9 goals in the Copa del Rey, and 91 goals on all fronts in a season.

After Yang Yang walked on the podium, he first shook hands with Blatter and Platini, then hugged Pele, and finally received the FIFA Ballon d'Or trophy from Pele's hand, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

Holding the trophy and walking to the microphone, Yang Yang looked directly at the many guests in front of him.

He knows that he must be the focus of attention of the media and fans around the world at this moment, and his words and deeds will be infinitely amplified, but he enjoys it more and enjoys this honor.

"First of all, I have to thank all the managers and captains of the club who voted for me, all the media friends who voted for me, and all my team-mates and friends who worked hard for me, without your efforts I would not be here."

Yang Yang said this very sincerely, because this is the truth.

In the past period, Real Madrid's teammates, former teammates of Liverpool and Ajax, are all running for Yang Yang, they are all humerus generals of their respective national teams, and some are even captains of the national team, all of them have chosen to support Yang Yang, which is not easy.

"In addition, I would like to thank all the fans who have supported me along the way, you are the biggest motivation for me to continue to work hard, and I would like to thank my friends in the media for their supervision and encouragement."

If the former sentence is normal, then the latter sentence is somewhat reverie, because Yang Yang thanked the media for their supervision and encouragement, but in fact, everyone knows that his ability to win the award has something to do with the fierce media trouble in the past.

Blatter's quick talk at Oxford University caused a violent storm, aroused the interest and scrutiny of media reporters, and forced FIFA to make some more off-the-beaten-track moves, and was forced to accept the fact that the ballot had to be accepted.

Without the supervision of media reporters, it is estimated that FIFA would really dare to cross the line even more.

'I'm very happy, it's very, very difficult to get this award this year, I want to thank my manager Carlo Ancelotti, my assistant coach Zinedine Zinedine, my president Florentino, everyone up and down the club, all my team-mates in the first team of Real Madrid, I say to them, I will definitely work harder!'

"Finally, I would like to thank my home country, as well as the media and fans of my country, thank you for always being there for me, for supporting me, for my family, for my friends, I am very emotional right now, I may miss something, but I want to say that I thank everyone, everyone."

After finishing speaking, Yang Yang took two steps back and bowed to all the guests in the audience.

The scene erupted in thunderous applause and cheers.

They all know that this award is not easy to come by, because from FIFA to UEFA, they don't want to see Yang Yang continue to win awards, so Yang Yang's competitors are not just Messi, not just Cristiano Ronaldo.

Even, before tonight, everyone felt that Messi's award was a sure thing, but who would have thought that the situation would turn around, and in the end, Yang Yang would continue to dominate world football.

This is the seventh year in a row that he has won this award!

But who can say that he is not worthy?

So far this season, La Liga has played nineteen rounds, Yang Yang has scored thirty-two goals, after the Champions League group stage, Yang Yang has scored six goals, from the current results, if Yang Yang's state does not decrease in the second half, then he is likely to hit a new personal high this season.

If we were to score 60 goals in the league, it would be a historic achievement.

As for the first half of the year, Yang Yang also scored a flood of goals in Real Madrid, and the team won the La Liga championship and the Copa del Rey double, which is well deserved, and Yang Yang's performance is also very good, which makes him win the award.

On the contrary, Messi, in recent times, he has been performing poorly, especially from October to now, he has almost been in a trough, which makes people very worried, will he be able to continue to catch up with Yang Yang?

Yang Yang, who has won the FIFA Golden Ball Award for seven consecutive years, when will he be willing to stop his steps?

Is it really necessary to wait until he is old, as the outside media and fans say, to wait until he is old?

Could it be that there is really only time that can stop Yang Yang from moving forward?

No one knew the answer, but this did not prevent them from admiring and respecting Yang Yang's achievements at this moment, in the Zurich Opera House.