Chapter 198 FIFA Awards Ceremony
On September 25, the FIFA Awards Ceremony was held at the Festival Concert Hall in London, England. The awards were announced, but the most important award was, of course, the best men's footballer – formerly known as the World Footballer of the Year award.
For the past decade, the award has been monopolized by Mero and no one else can get hold of it, but this year there have been some changes that make people predict that something will change.
Chinese fans are paying a lot of attention, naturally because a captain is very hopeful of making a difference in this award this year.
In the previous selection of European Footballer of the Year in August, UEFA officially announced the final three candidates for the best player of the year were Ronaldo (Juventus-Portugal), Salah (Liverpool-Egypt), and Modric (Real Madrid-Croatia), but Messi was not on the list? And this year's World Cup champion Lu Zhuhu, the absolute core of the Chinese team, was not on the list! This has led fans to question the fairness of UEFA's selection. In this ranking, Lu Zhuhu is fourth with 72 points, while Messi has 55 points and Mbappe has 43 points -
But is there really a problem with this selection result? Although Chinese fans are full of grievances, it is reasonable according to UEFA rules. The candidate for the European Footballer of the Year was selected by a group of 80 coaches who competed in the Champions League (32 teams) and Europa League group stage (48 teams) in the 17-18 season, as well as 55 journalists from European media...... The league results are also a younger brother. In comparison, it is understandable that former teammates Ronaldo and Magic Flute were selected, after all, they are both from Real Madrid, and Real Madrid has won the Champions League for 3 consecutive years. Although the third place is somewhat controversial, after all, Salah reached the Champions League final, and his league season performance is also better than Lu Chahu.
In fact, Messi is still behind Lu Zhuhu, which has made Boss Mei's fans start to complain!
Although in this direct dialogue, Lu Zhuhu is the team that eliminated Boss Mei......
The end result was Luka Modric winning the UEFA Player of the Year -
This brings a touch of novelty to the podium of Mero dominating the screen every year, that is, Ronaldo fans are very unhappy, since the best positions were awarded to Navas, Ramos, Modric and Ronaldo, it shows that the UEFA award is for the Champions League, and Lu Zhuhu can overwhelm Ronaldo and others in the World Cup and is so-so, and he lost to his teammates more than the Champions League with Ronaldo! Even many Chinese fans said that Ronaldo and Lu Zhuhu did not win the award for the same reason - that is, because they both left Real Madrid, which means that Real Madrid affected the vote result - which is very in line with the consistent nature of Chinese fans who "know the shady scenes of European football best and understand better than European fans".
In any case, in UEFA's system, it is not surprising that Lu Zhuhu, who only shines on the World Cup stage and has a serious "bias", has been reduced to a supporting role. He was preparing for the Asian Games final in Jakarta at the time of the award, and immediately after the results came out, he congratulated his former teammate Modric - and naturally comforted President Luo in private - he may still be a little unhappy not to go to the award ceremony.
Now back in the FIFA system, the World Cup is of course the top priority in weighing the awards, and Lu Zhuhu has no reason to be a supporting role this time.
This year marks the 28th edition of FIFA's Player of the Year award – which also includes the six editions that were combined with the Ballon d'Or from 2010 to 2015, with national captains, national team managers, media representatives and the public voting in a 25% weighting for each of the four groups. Initially, 10 candidates were announced, and after voting, it was announced on September 3 that Modric, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lu Zhuhu were among the top three.
Due to his outstanding performance in the World Cup, it is not unlikely that Lu Zhuhu will win the World Footballer Award for the first time, at least in the analysis of the Chinese media before the game, there is a so-called "eight advantages" and other balabala.
Ronaldo will also not attend the FIFA awards ceremony this time, and he has asked the organizer for leave, saying that he has personal affairs to deal with and cannot go. In addition to Ronaldo's absence, another superstar, Messi, also decided not to attend the award ceremony. As the peerless duo who have dominated world football for nearly a decade, their absence will undoubtedly dim the stars of the awards ceremony, lack a lot of popularity, and it is also believed that both of them find it boring to "congratulate the new king" - the Spanish media previously reported that Messi will still go to the FIFA awards ceremony in order to show the spirit of fair play. But in the end, Messi told the Barcelona club that he could not travel to London for the awards ceremony due to family reasons. This was interpreted by the Chinese media as saying that if Lu Zhuhu won the award on the spot, Boss Mei would feel that the team was eliminated by him and had no face, and maybe he would have to play the highlights.
Well, it can only be said that the Chinese media can really add drama to themselves.
As early as a few years ago, the media has been predicting who will stand up and break Melo's domination of football, and listed several candidates, the most likely of which is of course Neymar, as well as Lu Zhuhu, Bale, Hazard, etc. - no kidding, in the two years of Real Madrid, there are results, data and data, Lu Zhuhu is very competitive, who knows that he went to the arsenal and "regressed".
The awards ceremony was held in London, and there was still the possibility of winning the award, so Lu Zhuhu naturally participated happily, and in order to show his attention, Ning Shuangxiao also bought him a new suit - he finally didn't have to wear any Armani forever.
Among the most high-profile awards, the best men's football coach basically does not have much suspense, the Chinese team coach Lippi beat Zidane to be elected FIFA coach of the year, he led the "Oriental Dragon" to defend the title this summer and successfully reached the top of the world. Of course, this is actually a joint win between Lippi and Brother Da Long - and Brother Da Long has also won the best coach for the second time, but unfortunately he is still making wedding clothes for others, and it is still not him who receives the award......
The goalkeeper of the award was won by Belgian international Thibaut Courtois, the first time he has won the award, having kept 15 clean sheets in the Premier League last season. This is the second time FIFA has awarded Goalkeeper of the Year, which was won by Buffon last year, and now it looks like Buffon will have a few more years to play.
It's a bit touching that Brazilian women's football player Marta won the FIFA Women's Player of the Year - forgive Lu Zhuhu for being a little surprised, because in his impression, Marta is not a player of the same era as Da Luo and Xiao Luo......
To be honest, he really grew up watching Miss Marta play...... Although I haven't actually watched her play, I have only heard of her as a female footballer in those years...... The "living fossil" is not bad now, and he also helped Orlando to the playoffs last season, and at the national team level, he also helped Brazil win all seven games and win the Women's Copa America. Voted Women's Player of the Year for the sixth time – just many years after the last one.
As the first award that Lu Zhuhu is chasing today, the FIFA Puskas Award was also officially announced at the ceremony-
Lu was selected for the World Cup "Electric Light Poison Dragon Diamond" and was also well received before the game, but the final result was Salah's goal, and he was elected with 38% of the vote. In the 1-1 draw with Everton in the Premier League, Mohamed Salah's opener was voted FIFA Goal of the Year.
I was looking forward to it, but I was disappointed in the end, which is a pity.
But finally in the FIFA Team of the Year selection process, Lu Zhuhu stood on the podium with honor, although FIFA still likes to slap himself in the face this time, and the best goalkeeper of the year can't enter the best team again:
Goalkeeper: David De Gea (Manchester United/Spain)
Defenders: Alves (Paris/Brazil), Raphael Varane (Real Madrid/France), Ramos (Real Madrid/Spain), Marcelo (Real Madrid/Brazil)
Midfielders: Luka Modric (Real Madrid/Croatia), Lu Zhuhu (Arsenal/China), Eden Hazard (Chelsea/Belgium)
Forwards: Lionel Messi (Barcelona/Argentina), Kylian Mbappe (Paris/France), Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus/Real Madrid/Portugal)
This time, compared with the best team of the World Cup, what is even more excessive is that only Lu Zhuhu was selected for the Chinese team, even if you stuff Xiao Zhi of the World Cup Golden Ball Award into it, it is very good!
But no.
It is estimated that these judges really don't know Chinese players - except for Lu Laohu. It's like when Greece won the European Championship and no one remembers what the team was.
Mero was not present, and Lu Zhuhu, as the host of London, seemed to be the protagonist, greeting others again and again, chatting and laughing with his former Real Madrid teammates, and standing in the C position when taking pictures.
As the final part of the award ceremony, FIFA President Gianni Infantino took the stage to announce the final selection of the World Footballer of the Year.
Rao is Lu Zhuhu was originally in a very relaxed mood, with the mentality that winning the award is very good, and it is not a big deal if he doesn't win, but at this moment he was a little nervous.
It's like going back to the time when I was in elementary school and the top three students were selected.
He never thought that he could become the number one star in the world, and it even felt incredible many times that he thought that there was such a possibility -
Back in the 30s, he already felt that he was the strongest in the world, but at that time, there were still Li Huitang and Dai Linjing in China, and there were Sindral and Meacha in the world.
"Damn, if the prize is given to me this year, I will donate to the 'World Footballer Primary School' again." Lu Zhuhu YY, his eyes fixed on Infantino.
In the end, the award slowly came out of the bald mouth-
When Lu Zhuhu saw his mouth shape, his heart was excited!
It's clearly a "Lu" look!
Ha ha! Did Lao Tzu become the number one in the world by voting?
Eventually, however, the voice was ......
"Luka Modric."
Because of the bald head to reveal the suspense.
Luka Modric voted FIFA Player of the Year!
I thought that the new king would change hands, but what I didn't expect was that this person would be Modric, who is the same age as Ronaldo and two years older than Messi.
Modric has already won Mr. UEFA first, and now he has won this award, which is really a bit surprising, and he unconsciously looked at Lu Zhuhu at the moment he came to power-
Lu Zhuhu was stunned for a while, but finally smiled at him.
Luka Modric walked slowly onto the stage and said: "This award is not just mine, it belongs to all my Real Madrid team-mates, all my Croatia team-mates, all the coaches who have taken me. Without them, this award would not have been possible, and I am very grateful to them. This award is also dedicated to my family, without them I wouldn't be the player and person I am now, they are the best I am. I would also like to thank today's opponent, my good friend, Lu - well, you are still young. ”
The magic flute didn't care about the feat of winning all the awards, he wanted to comfort Lu - but the words were very weird, the audience laughed, and Lu Zhuhu couldn't help laughing.
Haha, I'm still young!
Give up the excessive obsession with the award, and everything is relieved.
Originally, the world championship could not have been won by a team like ours!
What else to force!
The FIFA awards ceremony is over, and the dust has settled on the awards, but the credibility of this award ceremony has been questioned, and in China, the main controversy is still related to Lu Zhuhu!
The FIFA FIFA Player of the Year votes were as follows:
Luka Modric got 29.05% of the vote
Lu Zhuhu 19.08%,
Cristiano Ronaldo 11.23%
Mbappe10.52%
Messi9.81%
Cristiano Ronaldo, who won the award two years ago, scored 44 goals in 44 official games for Real Madrid last season, scored 15 goals in the Champions League, and became the top scorer in the Champions League for six consecutive seasons, scoring 18 goals in the last 10 rounds of La Liga. With four goals scored in the World Cup, the national team's performance is not inferior to Modric.
Lu Zhuhu scored double figures in 52 games for Arsenal last season, and the Europa League was not without results, at least reaching the semi-finals. Leading the national team is even more unstoppable, scoring in the World Cup finals and semifinals, leading the Chinese team to win the championship again.
Lu Zhuhu and Ronaldo can only surpass Modric combined, does FIFA like the new and hate the old?
Whether in terms of team performance or individual performance, they are not inferior to Modric!
Then there is the best goal of the year (Puskas Award) belongs to Salah, there are a total of 10 candidates for the Puskas Award, including Lu Zhuhu, Ronaldo, Cheryshev, Pavard, and other wonderful goals, Lu Zhuhu World Cup several goals are very good, and the electric light poison dragon drill is also very representative, Ronaldo scored a shocking hook last season, and the award is the highest, but the final winner is Salah.
can only say that his ethnicity is too capable of swiping votes-
However, the biggest slot is here, when do you see that if anything is stained with voting, the Chinese will lose?
It's too fake!
None of that matters anymore.
A few days later, another annoyance arose.
On October 2, when Lu Zhuhu was scrolling through Weibo, he suddenly saw a strange thing:
On June 23, 1992, the Hongshankou Conference opened the prelude to the professionalization of Chinese football. Recently, things that undermine the professional and commercial rules of the league have been released one after another, and we have gradually deviated from the direction. During the long holiday, the formation of a national training team to return to the national system can announce the end of the first professional reform of Chinese football. In the past 26 years, we have gone from being hopeful to wavering and confused, and now we have chosen to return to the original point. In Memoriam, 1992.6.23-2018.10.2"
The sadness of Chinese football lies in the fact that "you professionals have been doing it for so many years and have not figured it out", the absurdity lies in the fact that "it is better to try our layman's method now", the helplessness lies in the fact that "even if we can't get it right, it will not be worse than now", and the idiot lies in "Dude, the idea you came up with was done by someone 50 years ago, and it turned out to be unworkable". The main content of this farce is: "The ashes are not cold, and Shandong is in turmoil, and Liu Xiang does not study."
What's the same thing?
Lu Zhuhu looked at the spokesman He Shishi, thoughtfully.