"Hah! Zidan, I'll just say you're whimsical! This is simply unrealistic. ”

After Wen Zhihao left, Zidane called Real Madrid president Florentino and got such a reaction.

Zidane snorted, "It's impossible now, but what about three or five years from now?" I'm not only the manager of the first team, but also the manager of the sporting department. Any potential genius is on my radar. Isn't that why the club wants me to do both? ”

"What did he say?" Florentino still had expectations in his heart.

"Personally, I don't feel like he's repulsing us...... I would suggest the club put him in the list of priorities. Even if we can't dig it during his time at Atletico Madrid, even if his six-year contract ends, he will only be about 24 years old, which is the beginning of the golden age of his career. With such a high starting point, we must not miss it. ”

Zidane firmly believes that Wen Zhihao's future should belong to Real Madrid, but unfortunately Wen Zhihao has no such plans at all.

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With a derby win against Real Madrid, Atletico can now turn their focus to the league and the Copa del Rey – with Barcelona and Valencia facing Levante at home to relegation zone side. It's not a big problem to play normally to win against the opponent, and if the two title rivals can draw after a tough battle, Simeone will be able to wake up laughing when he falls asleep.

Valencia, who has all returned from the main team, faces Barcelona, who has injured a small half of the central axis and Messi continues to be absent, and a draw away from home is a high probability event.

Simeone has shifted his focus to the Champions League quarter-final and Manchester United's clash three days later. Although Atletico Madrid will play away first, with the advantage of the away team and then the home team, Simeone also knows how difficult it will be to visit the Theatre of Dreams. Although Manchester United are more points behind Manchester City in the league and are in second place, they are strong in the Champions League. The two-legged clean sheet against Sevilla in the quarter-finals, especially the three-goal win at home, proved that Manchester United, although not as strong as Real Madrid and Barcelona, are not easy opponents to deal with.

Atletico arrived in Manchester three days early, marking the second consecutive year that Wen has been a guest at the Theatre of Dreams. Manchester United's opponent, hehe, it seems that the road is really narrow.

This set of confrontations between Atletico Madrid and Manchester United was originally compared to Juventus Vs Bayern Munich, Barcelona Vs Liverpool, Manchester City Vs Real Madrid, which did not have special attention, but with Chinese elements, the situation is very different. In the terminal of Manchester Airport, you can see a lot of yellow-skinned faces these days.

But to Wen's surprise, the Chinese media asked about another piece of news that he had not paid attention to at all.

The day after the Madrid derby, Italian media outlet Torino Sport announced the preliminary list of 70 people for the 2018 European Golden Boy Award.

Wen Zhihao, who missed out on the competition last year because he was not shortlisted at the beginning, got his wish this year and is one of the world's top 70 rising stars.

Whether it is individual results or team performance, Wen Zhihao's shortlisting is undisputed. The European media didn't even pay much attention – the 70-man list was just the initial audition, and with Wen Zhihao's performance, his failure to make the cut should be big news.

The 70-member primary election is not very valuable, and the mainstream media in Europe will often pay some attention to it after the list of 25 people is released in July.

But the Chinese media is different. Even if Wen Zhihao only entered the preliminary list of the Golden Boy Award, it is a historic victory for Chinese overseas players.

The news has attracted even more attention at home than the upcoming Champions League quarter-finals, and Wen Zhihao's fans quickly dominated portals and well-known sports forums to start predicting Wen's potential rivals for winning the European Golden Boy award this year.

Wen Zhihao's personal fans now make up a significant portion of Chinese fans, especially young students who like to be networms. Most fans are convinced that Wen Zhihao will be able to make it to the final top three, and only a few people who can prevent him from winning the award are Mbappe, the winner of last year's Golden Boy Award.

And with the momentum of Atletico Madrid this season, the league title is close at hand, and if he can reach the final of the Champions League, Wen Zhihao is very likely to hold two team crowns, and he also has a double line of goals and assists that are among the best in individual performances. It doesn't make sense not to win the prize.

Unlike the Golden Ball, the European Golden Boy Award is not voted for by the captains and coaches of the global national teams, but the voting rights are given to 30 well-known European media, and the results are relatively fair. There will be no controversy over the 2010 Ballon d'Or selection, where Messi relied on global popularity to beat Sneijder to win the award.

Sneijder held the Serie A championship, the Champions League champion and the World Cup runner-up that year, but still lost to Messi, who only won La Liga, and even Messi's Barcelona teammates, Iniesta and Xavi, who won the World Cup, did not win the award, making the global mainstream media question the fairness of the Golden Ball Awards: Why does a Pacific island country like Tonga, which has never even heard of its name, have the same voting rights as a football powerhouse?

Based on this reality, the selection system for the Golden Boy Award should be more convincing, and the voting power should be handed over to the authoritative media, so that the performance of the players is obvious to all.

Compared to the Golden Globes, the popularity of the Golden Boy Award candidates is not a key factor. If you don't look at your face, fame is not the most important factor. The result is determined by strength.

And Golden Boy Award winners tend to get more attention from the mainstream media. Because these young people are almost the future of world football.

That's why the Chinese media and fans are very enthusiastic about Wen Zhihao's shortlisting for the Golden Boy Award. He is now well-known, but there is still a big gap between him and his global reputation. Both the media and fans are eager to hope that Wen Zhihao can become a business card of Chinese football to the world.

And the Golden Boy Award, this is an opportunity for Wen Zhihao to step into the center of the football stage and be truly known by the world.

Now, it's a small step of success.

The Chinese reporters immediately approached Mr. Wen, but the first answer they received left them speechless.

Wen Zhihao looked at the reporter, flashed a flash of surprise, and said: "This is indeed good news, since last year, I have taken winning this year's Golden Boy Award as a goal." As you said, this is a small step of success...... Well, I didn't know about it yet, thank you for telling me the news in time. ”

The other Chinese reporters at the scene were suddenly crying and laughing, not knowing how to continue asking.

Nima, after a long time, people don't know about it, just us well-informed media entertain ourselves with the news!