As the world's No. 1 sport, football is the sport with the largest number of participants, and there have been many great athletes, far from Zidane, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, etc., these world-renowned sports superstars, and now there are top superstars such as Messi, Ronaldo, and Jiang Chenxi, but the Laureus Best Athlete Award, which represents the highest individual honor award in the world sports, has always been out of contact with football. As a team sport, football is difficult to compete with individual events such as tennis, track and field, golf and F1 in the selection of best athletes.

Since the Laureus Athletic Association International launched the Laureus Awards in 2000, there has never been a footballer in the 15 Best Male and Female Athletes.

The main reason is that the Laureus Awards are a comprehensive selection of the best in sports, taking into account all disciplines. Football is a team sport, and the Laureus Awards have the best team award, football is the sport that has won the most best team awards, and if the best athlete is awarded to a football player, he may win two awards: best athlete and best team. Therefore, the selection of the best athletes is biased towards individual events.

Another reason why footballers don't win the Athlete of the Year award is that footballers can win a lot of influential awards in their field, such as World Footballer of the Year, FIFA Team of the Year, European Golden Boot, etc., while many other sports do not have such opportunities. Even if there is, like the best athlete in the IAAF, the influence is not as good as that of the world footballer.

As a result, it is difficult for a footballer to win the Laureus Athlete of the Year award.

However, it cannot be said that the Laureus Award excludes football, Pele, Beckenbauer, Cruyff, Zidane and other football legends have all won the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Ronaldo has also won the Best Comeback Award.

But, no matter what, it's an indisputable fact that a footballer has never won the Laureus Male Athlete of the Year award.

Therefore, the media also joked that no matter who can win the Laureus Male Athlete Award, it will be the most convincing proof!

"French Football" also joked that Ronaldo, Messi and Jiang Chenxi, there have been endless arguments about who is the best among the three, and now there is a simplest criterion, whoever can win the Laureus individual award first is the best.

Of course, this is more of a joke, for example, Messi or Jiang Chenxi, or Ronaldo, if someone wins the Laureus Award, the other two fans will admit that the winner is better than them? Impossible!

However, the joke of "French Football" still makes sense, whoever can win the Laureus Male Athlete Award first is indeed one step ahead of the other two, which can add a lot of points to him!

Milan Sport analyses the competition for the Laureus Best Male Athlete award.

First of all, because the Laureus Prize has always favored tennis, Djokovic, last year's Best Male Athlete winner, is the most likely to win the award.

And then there are the two football superstars.

In the past year, Messi has led Barcelona to La Liga, Copa del Rey, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and Club World Cup, achieving five trebles. The Argentine has scored 52 goals and provided 26 assists in 61 appearances for his country and club, and this is indeed Messi's most promising chance to win the award.

Jiang Chenxi led Liverpool to win the Premier League championship and FA Cup championship and the Community Shield championship in the past year, crowned the treble, in addition, he surpassed Messi in personal honors, the Champions League Golden Boot, the European Golden Boot, and the new record of 51 goals in a single season in the top five European leagues, and most importantly, at the previously concluded FIFA annual awards ceremony, Jiang Chenxi defeated Messi and successfully defended the FIFA Golden Ball Award.

There is also a very important point, that is, Jiang Chenxi has led Liverpool to the semifinals of the English League Cup in the 2015/2016 season, Liverpool's opponent in the semi-finals is Stoke City, if Liverpool can get past Stoke City and finally reach the final, then, in the League Cup final on February 28, Jiang Chenxi will have the opportunity to lead Liverpool to win the first championship trophy in the five major leagues this season, and considering that the Laureus Award was finally announced on April 19, this will also likely add points to Jiang Chenxi.

Another nominee for the best male athlete is track and field superstar Usain Bolt, who also won the treble in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at last year's World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

In addition, there is NBA star Curry, Curry led the Warriors to win the NBA championship, and also broke the single-season three-point shooting record, which also made Curry win the award.

"This will be the ultimate showdown of the world's top athletes!" - "Team Newspaper".

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"Angry, roaring Klopp, spectacular goalscoring feast!"

This is the headline of The Guardian on January 23, after the end of Liverpool's away match against Norwich City in the 23rd round of the English Premier League.

The report used photos of Jurgen Klopp's face flushing and roaring arms in anger, as well as images of the score at the end of the game at Norwich's Carrow Road Stadium.

Below the scoreboard is a dense collection of the names of the players who scored the goal and the time of the goal.

Liverpool took the initiative on the pitch after the opening and scored first, which should be said to have made a dream start.

In the eighteenth minute of the game, Jiang Chenxi's header was ferried, assisting Firmino to score, and Norwich was 0-1 Liverpool.

On the commentary bench, while praising Firmino who scored the goal, he also praised Jiang Chenxi, Jiang Chenxi's assist is his ninth assist in the Premier League this season, this is an amazing statistic, he has scored 30 goals in the Premier League this season, okay, Jiang Chenxi has scored like hemp, let's not talk about the goal data, now, you are a goalscorer, and the assist is about to go to a double, how can you make those offensive midfielders of other teams in the Premier League embarrassed? !

"That's what football's best players do!" Mortenson praised Jiang Chenxi.

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Eleven minutes later, in the twenty-ninth minute of the game, Norwich striker Mbokani equalised for Norwich City, who made it 1-1 to Liverpool.

In the 41st minute of the game, Norwich midfielder Naismith hit a world wave and broke through the goal guarded by Mignolet, and Norwich beat Liverpool 2-1!

At the end of the first half, Norwich City beat Liverpool 2-1 and Jurgen Klopp left with a bad expression.

You know, Norwich are now only fifth from bottom in the league, deep in the relegation zone, and Liverpool are behind at half-time, which is really a bit undeserved.

At half-time, the Liverpool manager's roar could be heard in the corridors of the dressing room.