387 FIFA Goalkeeper of the Year

In football in this era, everything is business, and although sometimes we still hope for the little feelings that seem fragile, but compared to money, feelings are often not worth mentioning, but they are worth mentioning.

Wen Ya knows how to take charge of Zhetian, knows that he is a person of affection, gratitude, and at the same time, he is also the only player in the world who can make his own decisions, rather than being influenced by the club and at the mercy of his agent.

This point, even if it is a peerless double pride, cannot do it, let alone create Neymar, who is the world's first worth.

For those who want to leave, some have made it, and some have not.

Cristiano Ronaldo may regret that he didn't go, so he watched Zhang Zhetian and Neymar refresh the transfer list of world football one after another, and his ranking fell again and again, from third, to fourth, and now fifth.

If Monaco's supernova Kylian Mbappe succeeds in his transfer this summer, Ronaldo will be squeezed out of the top five, because the whole world knows that to take Mbappe, at least 180 million euros will be required, although this price cannot exceed Neymar, but it will exceed the second place on the list.

In just one summer window, the top three are refreshed, and each of them has a transfer fee of more than 100 million euros, which will set a new football record, if Mbappe's transfer is successful this summer.

At the beginning of August, the Bundesliga teams had already made most of their recruitment efforts this summer, and Bild took a look at the top 10 teams in spending.

As of August 4, last season's league runner-up RB Leipzig topped the table with an overwhelming advantage of 137.5 million euros, and last season's league champion Bayern Munich ranked second despite spending 100.5 million, but the gap of more than 30 million euros, although it seems that buying a player can catch up, but there seems to be no target in the current transfer market.

In third place is Wolfsburg, which underwent a change of manager last season, with a spending of 50 million euros, in fourth place is Schalke 04 with a cost of 47.5 million euros, in fifth place is Dortmund with 44 million euros, in sixth place is Borussia Mönchengladbach with 35.25 million euros, and Cologne is in seventh place with 34 million euros.

The last three clubs in the top 10 are Hamburg with a cost of 16 million euros, Eintracht Frankfurt with 15.55 million euros and Bayer Leverkusen with 14.5 million euros.

Obviously, except for RB Leipzig and Bayern, whose transfer spending is considered to be a giant, the transfer expenditure of other teams in the Bundesliga is even worse than that of small and medium-sized teams in the Premier League, which also shows the difference in the Bundesliga, most teams rely on youth training, rather than buying.

On August 4, FIFA announced on its official website that on the evening of October 23 this year, the FIFA Goalkeeper of the Year award will be announced in London, which will be the first time in FIFA's history that a separate award will be given to goalkeepers.

Former Croatian star Zvonimir Boban, Deputy Secretary-General of FIFA, said: "The role of goalkeepers in football is both primary and special, yet they often do not receive the credit they deserve, so we are proud to announce this award, not only to those who score goals, but also to those who prevent them. ”

To determine the nominees, the panel will select three candidates based on the performance of the goalkeepers between November 2016 and July 2017, regardless of league and nationality.

The trio will be revealed in the near future, with the winners announced at the FIFA Awards ceremony in London.

This is not only the first time that FIFA has awarded a separate award to a goalkeeper, but also the first time that an award has been given to a certain position on the pitch. After reading this news, many people will say, if this award had been set up for more than ten or twenty years, would it be soft for Ji'an, Luigi Buffon, and others to win the award?

Why did FIFA come up with this award for the best goalkeeper? In fact, there is a story in this.

In history, goalkeepers have won the Ballon d'Or or World Footballer of the Year only a handful of times, and only the former Soviet Union goalkeeper and idol "Octopus" Yashin has been touched.

At that time, the Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year were still two awards, and it was only in 2010 that they were merged.

For players with defensive attributes, it is relatively more difficult to win the Ballon d'Or. Objectively speaking, for fans, watching the game must want to see the offense, are looking forward to amazing goals, and some teams with excellent defense, one is easy to give people visual aesthetic fatigue in the style of play, but the defensive team generally relies on the overall results, and the individual is not easy to shine, after the merger of the Golden Ball Award and the World Footballer, no defensive player has won the award.

Before 2010, apart from Yassin, only Franz Beckenbauer (Ballon d'Or 1972 and 1976), Lothar Mateus (Ballon d'Or 1990 and World Footballer of the Year 1991), Matthias Summerer (Ballon d'Or 1996) and Fabio Cannavaro (Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year 2006) were the only ones who won the award for their pure defense.

From historical cases, we can see that the chances of defensive players winning top honors at the player level are very small, and at present, in the context of the "Mero competition" for a long time, a large wave of attacking players are difficult to achieve the Ballon d'Or, let alone backfield players and even goalkeepers.

The most impressive thing is that in 2010, when Igor Casillas escorted Spain as captain and saved Arjan Robben's solo knife to lead the team to the top in the final, FIFA still gave the Ballon d'Or to Leo Messi, which caused a lot of controversy.

In recent years, there is the veteran Buffon, the emerging David De Gea, the "goalkeeper" Manuel Neuer who sets a new concept for the goalkeeper position, and the miracle goalkeeper who came out this year to integrate attack and defense...... Goalkeepers on the pitch are no longer the usual role of staying in the goal and waiting for the opponent to attack, they are showing their style through many aspects such as technique and even emotion.

Now, fans can guess who the three "best goalkeeper" candidates will be, if you look at the performances since November last year, there are four who have performed well in both the league and the Champions League: Manuel Neuer, Gianluigi Buffon, Keylor Navas and Zhang Zhetian.

Needless to say, Neuer is expected to occupy a place regardless of whether he is elected or not. Buffon is old and strong, he is about to retire after the World Cup in Russia, he led Juventus to win last season's Serie A championship and Champions League runner-up, there have long been calls for the Golden Ball Award should have Buffon's share, this time the "best goalkeeper" award may be an opportunity to make up for the 06 years of "youngsters" and the highest honor.

(To be continued)