The reason why Huaxia TV Sports Channel will interview Dai Zhiwei and come up with a very high standard is because two days ago the AFC announced the shortlist of candidates for the 2015 Asian Footballer of the Year, Guangzhou Evergrande Dai Zhiwei, Dubai Al Ahli striker Khalil and UAE supernova Omar were finalists.

Compared with the Miss Asian Football, Best Team, Best Coach, Asian Diamond Award and other awards that will be announced at the same time, Dai Zhiwei has the greatest probability of winning the Asian Footballer, and even after the AFC Champions League was released, many bets have closed the betting on the Asian Footballer.

Dai Zhiwei's advantages can be seen.

Let's take a look at Dai Zhiwei's competitors first. Omar is one of the hottest stars in Asia at the moment, known as Gulf Messi. He is the heart of both the UAE national team and Al Ain UAE, having performed well in this year's Asian Cup, AFC Champions League and World Preliminary Tournaments, helping the UAE team to a third place in the Asian Cup.

Khalil is a direct rival of Dai Zhiwei, purely from the data, as the second man of the UAE national team, Khalil, in the game against Bahrain, Khalil's opening 14 seconds goal became the fastest goal in the history of the Asian Cup, and finally he won the Asian Cup Silver Boot with 4 goals and helped the team to finish third.

In addition, in this year's AFC Champions League, Khalil scored 7 goals, second only to Dai Zhiwei, in the top 40 of the Asian region of the World Preliminaries, Khalil scored 5 goals in the last 2 World Preliminaries, and is currently ranked second in the scorer list with 10 goals.

However, compared to Dai Zhiwei, Khalil was completely suppressed.

Dai Zhiwei helped the team win five consecutive Chinese Super League championships and the AFC Champions League, and although he failed to participate in the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year, he performed well in the national team's world preliminaries. In the AFC Champions League, although a crucial goal was scored in the first leg of the semi-finals,

Therefore, for Dai Zhiwei, getting the Asian Footballer of the Year is just a matter of waiting for a few days.

Sure enough, at 8 p.m. on November 29, the 2015 Asian Football Confederation Awards Ceremony officially began.

At the final award, the Asian Footballer of the Year ceremony, the three candidates, Dai Zhiwei, Khalil and Omar, all took the field to receive the crystal trophy from AFC President Salman, and then the three stood in a row on the stage, waiting for the host to read out the name.

"It's stupid! It's the same as the children who sit in rows in the kindergarten and divide the fruits equally. Dai Zhiwei slept with his mouth, and today he was wearing a high-end custom suit sponsored by his new sponsor, SAINT ANGELO.

The dark blue suit and light purple shirt, with Zhiwei's upright posture and handsome appearance, are definitely more attractive than a bunch of sissies in China.

The host took out the letter paper in the envelope and read it in suspense! "The 2015 Asian Footballer of the Year is—"

"Dai Zhiwei!"

"Huh!" Dai Zhiwei exhaled softly—a habitual action he used to act when he was nervous and cathartic, and then the corners of his mouth went up, keeping him smiling.

Khalil and Omar, who were next to Dai Zhiwei, also shook hands with Dai Zhiwei to congratulate him.

Before the award was announced, Khalil and Omar had already learned that they were missing the Asian Footballer of the Year, and they were also convinced of Dai Zhiwei's performance on the green field, so there was no frustration at the moment.

When Dai Zhiwei received the 2015 Asian Footballer of the Year trophy from AFC President Salman, he looked very shy.

After expressing his gratitude to Salman, Dai Zhiwei did not forget to continue to whisper a few words with Salman - compared to the vast majority of domestic players, Dai Zhiwei's English proficiency is definitely top.

During the conversation, Salman also fully affirmed Dai Zhiwei's performance throughout the year.

After receiving the trophy, it was time for Dai Zhiwei to make an acceptance speech on the spot.

Coming to the microphone, Dai Zhiwei held the trophy in one hand, adjusted the height of the microphone with the other, and then said: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen!" I am very happy to receive this award and it is a recognition of my performance throughout the year. First of all, I would like to thank my parents, they are the most important people in my life; Secondly, I want to thank me

Boss Xu Jiayin, head coach Cannavaro and my teammates, we spent the best time of my life together and felt the meaning of the championship; Finally, I would like to thank the supporters of Huaxia football, and please believe that Huaxia football will be better in the future! ”

However, at the end of his acceptance speech, Dai Zhiwei still showed his youthful and crazy side: "Thank you for voting for me, and I will continue to make sure that you will not feel that your vote is in vain." I hope to be able to stand here this time next year, this time after next year, and this time after that, holding the trophy and saying thank you to everyone! ”

With the announcement of the Asian Footballer of the Year, the 2015 AFC Awards Ceremony also came to a successful conclusion, and AFC senior officials and winners including AFC President Salman took the stage to take photos with the award-winning players.

There is no doubt that Dai Zhiwei and Salman are in the C position of the crowd.

In an interview with the official media, Dai Zhiwei said: "I think it means a lot to be named this year's Asian Footballer of the Year. For me, being able to win the Mr. Asia award in the first year of my career was an incentive for me to know that I should not stop there. ”

When asked who Dai Zhiwei's football idol is, Mr. Xinke Asia said: "Haha, in fact, I don't have an idol, my idol is a group - Chinese fans, because they are really stronger than everyone else......

Reminiscent of the dismal honor of Chinese football in the past, everyone laughed again after listening to Dai Zhiwei's words, and this year's AFC awards ceremony also ended in laughter.

After Dai Zhiwei was awarded the Asian Footballer of the Year, the outside world crowned him with the title of "Asian Messi", and broke the record of the youngest Asian Footballer at the age of 21.

Dai Zhiwei's record of being the "youngest" may take many years to be broken. Take the Ballon d'Or, the most prestigious individual honour in international football, as a reference.

In 1997, the 21-year-old Ronaldo won the Golden Ball for the first time and is still the youngest Golden Ball winner, and in 2001, the same 21-year-old England golden boy Owen was crowned the Golden Ball, which is exactly the same age as Dai Zhiwei was elected as the Asian Golden Ball.

When Messi won the award for the first time in 2009, he was already 22 years and 6 months old.

Of course, the Asian Footballer of the Year certainly can't compete with the European Ballon d'Or, but it is enough to reflect Dai Zhiwei's excellence.

As early as when the top three Asian Footballer of the Year list was released, Dai Zhiwei had already been compared with Messi.

At that time, the official website of the AFC commented: "In the five years that Spain has won three consecutive championships, the 'peerless double pride' has divided all the golden balls, and Son Xingmin and Dai Zhiwei are Asia's Ronaldo and Messi." ”

Son Xingmin is as confident and domineering as Cristiano Ronaldo, while Dai Zhiwei plays like Messi: fast, good at dribbling, and flexible in changing directions.

Just as Ronaldo and Messi complement each other in world football, the competition between Son Xingmin and Dai Zhiwei will continue for a long time.

However, Dai Zhiwei did not have enough time to feel the praise of the outside world for him to win the Asian Footballer of the Year, because the day after receiving the trophy, he threw himself into training again.

In order to prepare for the Club World Cup, Guangzhou Evergrande began training on November 30, which means that when other teams are on vacation, Evergrande players are still sweating.

The team is about to go to Japan to participate in the World Club Cup, this is the second time Evergrande has participated in this event, the team captain Zheng Zhi said: "Everyone has participated in the Club World Cup once, the opportunity is particularly rare, not a warm-up match is not a friendly game, this is a very formal game, we represent China and even Asia, two days ago to India, the president of the Island Football Association, the chairman of the South Korean Football Association are encouraging me, we are very serious preparation, the first game is very, very important, to compete with Barcelona to pass the first level, Mexico is not easy to deal with, the strength is very strong, But we want to win this game and hopefully we get off to a good start in our second Club World Cup. ”

After Dai Zhiwei returned to the team, he only practiced together for three days, and then departed for Osaka with the majority of the team on the China Southern Airlines plane to prepare for the first match of the Club World Cup on December 13.

Yesterday afternoon, Evergrande and the Nanyue team, which is preparing for the Provincial and Hong Kong Cup, played a warm-up match at the Olympic Sports Center. In the end, the starting trident Goulart, Elkeson and Zheng Long each scored a goal, and Evergrande won the opponent 3:1.

In the last warm-up match before the Club World Cup, Cannavaro's starting lineup followed his usual team in the previous six months, except that Li Shuai replaced Zeng Cheng, who suffered an ankle injury in the AFC Champions League final, and Dai Zhiwei, Zhang Linpeng and Jin Yingquan rested.

In the second half, Cannavaro rotated a lot, replacing the other nine people except Mei Fang and Paulinho, and Evergrande created relatively few chances.

Judging by the form of Robinho and Allan in the second half, it is unlikely that the two will want to start the line-up.

Yesterday was Alain's first appearance in front of the fans since his comeback, and he had a lot of range of movement, active movement and a couple of breakthroughs that showed his pace, but he didn't seem to have regained his sense of action from inside the box.

Speaking after the game, Alan said: "It feels good, after all, I've been injured for so long. Today's game is very important for me personally, and hopefully I can slowly get back into shape in the next games. ”

On the prospects of the Club World Cup, the new Asian Footballer of the Year wants the team to go further: "In the Club World Cup, we want to win the first game. Of course it won't be easy, the Americas are strong, but we want to do well in the Club World Cup. ”