Chapter 025: UEFA Best of the Year

The draw for the fourth pot team was completed quickly.

The final full grouping is as follows:

A: Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Olympiacos, Malmo;

B: Real Madrid, Basel, Liverpool, Ludogorets;

C: Benfica, Zenit, Bayer Leverkusen, Monaco;

D: Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund, Galatasaray, Anderlecht;

E: Bayern Munich, Manchester City, CSKA Moscow, Roma;

F: Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, Ajax, Atlético Greek;

G: Chelsea, Schalke 04, Sporting Lisbon, Maribor.

H: Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk, Athletic Bilbao, Borisov.

Bulgarian league champions Ludogorets have been drawn in Group B of Liverpool's side.

This team is a veritable rookie in Europe, you know, before 2010, Ludogorets was still in the Bulgarian second division, in fact, this team was reorganized and created in 2001 by a small town team in Bulgaria, the history of the team: 13 years!

In the 2010/2011 season, Ludogorets won the Bulgarian league title as a promoted horse and staged a Bulgarian version of the myth of Kaiserslautern, but they did not fall as quickly as Kaiserslautern in the Bundesliga, and in the following years, they did not let the title go unnoticed.

In the 2012/13 season, they entered the second round of qualification for the Champions League as the champions, and were eliminated by Dinamo Zagreb 3-4 on aggregate as rookies. In the 2013/14 season, they reached the final round of the Champions League play-offs, only to be eliminated by Swiss giants Basel 6-2 on aggregate over two legs, but that year Ludogorets experienced the feeling of the Europa League for the first time, in the same group as PSV Eindhoven, Dinamo Zagreb and Chanomos, they not only beat Dinamo Zagreb to avenge their elimination a year ago, but also unexpectedly defeated PSV Eindhoven twice, with a record of 5 wins and 1 draw, and the first place in the group was qualified, and in the 1/16 final. Against Serie A powerhouse Lazio, Ludogorets eliminated the opponent 3-3 at home and 1-0 away with an aggregate score of 4-3, giving fans of the mainstream league the name of the team for the first time. However, in the subsequent 1/8 finals, the team was eliminated by the powerful Valencia with an aggregate score of 0-4.

Well, the Chinese media once paid attention to this team, calling it Bulgaria's Evergrande.

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Klopp and Jiang Chenxi whispered and introduced him to the situation of the Bulgarian team, Jiang Chenxi was surprised, it seems that the little-known Bulgarian team does not seem to be a fish belly to be manipulated.

He was also amazed that Jurgen Klopp was so knowledgeable and so familiar with this team in the middle of nowhere.

Jurgen Klopp smiled and raised his phone, which received information about Ludogorets after he was drawn from Liverpool's group.

It's all thanks to assistant coach Kravitz, an encyclopedia in Klopp's head as the 'intelligence officer' on Klopp's coaching staff.

The draw was followed by the UEFA Awards Ceremony, which was underway for the UEFA Women's Ballon d'Or.

The three finalists for the Women's Women's Championship are Kessler, Muller and Fisher, all from Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg.

Soon, Infantino announced that Nadine. Kessler won the Women's Player of the Year honor.

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After the announcement of the women's best, everyone at the scene was in high spirits, and the most eye-catching award of the award ceremony came: UEFA Men's Best!

The three candidates are Cristiano Ronaldo, Jiang Chenxi and Manuel Neuer.

The camera gives close-ups of each of the three players.

Ronaldo has a faint smile on his face, Jiang Chenxi is also smiling, Neuer has a calm expression, everyone knows that Neuer is studying with the prince, and the real winner will only be produced between Jiang Chenxi and Ronaldo.

Jiang Chenxi and Ronaldo are tied for the Champions League Golden Boot, he is also the Bundesliga Golden Boot, and the most important thing is that he led Dortmund to win the Champions League last season, and he is dazzling in personal honors.

And Real Madrid's Portuguese superstar Ronaldo, the most important honors are the Champions League Golden Boot and the Spanish Copa del Rey, not as good as Jiang Chenxi in personal honors, however, the Portuguese superstar is incomparable to Jiang Chenxi in terms of influence and popularity.

In fact, when the media discussed the UEFA Player of the Year selection, they also agreed that it was a duel of personal honor and personal influence.

If you only look at last season's personal honors, Jiang Chenxi is well-deserved, and there is no male selection, but in fact, this is not the case, because the vote is cast on the spot, at this time, the player's fame and personal influence are very crucial.

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The 54 journalist judges voted through the voting machine to select the winner.

Soon, the results of the live voting were announced on the big screen.

Among the 54 reporters on the scene, they voted for Ronaldo on the 31st, Jiang Chenxi received 19 votes, and Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer only received 4 votes.

Cristiano Ronaldo won the UEFA Ballon d'Or.

The scene burst into warm applause.

"Keep smiling and applauding." , Su Xun whispered in her boyfriend's ear that she could feel Jiang Chenxi's loss, but at this time, countless camera lenses were aimed here, lest the media in the world be staring at Jiang Chenxi and interpreting his facial expressions.

"Yes." Jiang Chenxi gently patted his girlfriend's leg to signal that he was fine, and the Chinese star showed a 'sincere' smile on his face and applauded.

Amid the applause, Ronaldo got up from the Real Madrid seating area, and instead of going directly to the podium, he went straight to the Liverpool seating area.

Jiang Chenxi hurriedly got up.

Ronaldo hugged Jiang Chenxi, said comforting words in his ear, patted him on the shoulder, and then walked to the podium.

This is the courtesy comfort of the victor to the loser.

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Jiang Chenxi kept smiling, watching the energetic Portuguese walk towards the podium, he kept clapping, and more than a dozen camera cameras on the scene kept pointing at him.

"Ronaldo hugged Jiang Chenxi and comforted Jiang Chenxi, this is a heroic sympathy, although he only ranked second and did not win the UEFA Golden Ball Award, but for Jiang Chenxi, being able to become the second best player of the year in UEFA is already an honor to be proud of." He Wei, the commentator of the CCTV live award ceremony, said that he originally wanted to complain that Jiang Chenxi's personal honor was better than Ronaldo's, and Jiang Chenxi was the well-deserved UEFA best player, but the words came to his mouth and he forcibly swallowed it back.

Cristiano Ronaldo stepped onto the podium and received the trophy from UEFA President Michel Platini.

Jiang Chenxi squinted her eyes slightly, and the smile was still on her face.

He was clapping.

The line of sight is straight to the podium.

Someday......