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FIFA's World Footballer of the Year award is not the same as the European Ballon d'Or, where the results are announced in advance, while FIFA's award is not known until the final award ceremony. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sometimes the speculation of the outside world is unreliable, because the understanding of professional sports media reporters is completely different from that of the national team coach and captain.

For example, in the 2010 World Cup year, the global media believed that the final World Footballer of the Year should belong to Xavi, the new World Cup champion Spain, or Andres Iniesta, who scored the winning goal in the World Cup final. Although Messi was also selected for the final three-person shortlist, everyone thought that he was just here to be a foil.

Even Messi himself thinks so.

The result? When Blatter pronounced Messi's name, everyone was stunned. Even Messi himself looked incredulous, but then he reacted, and ecstasy appeared on his face, and Xavi and Iniesta next to him looked lonely, stunned, and even a little angry.

With such a lesson from the past, who can say that he predicted the final result of the World Footballer of the Year?

Although Chu Zhongtian has an excellent performance in the Champions League, in the league, Hoffenheim is not as crazy as Dortmund, and at the national team level, a championship that European football does not pay attention to at all is not a plus.

It's not that he didn't win the European Champions Cup that year, but he lost the star of the World Footballer of the Year. In the 2005 World Footballer of the Year selection, although Liverpool's captain Steven Gerrard led the team to complete a shocking comeback in the Champions League final, after falling behind by three goals, he chased three goals in ten minutes to equalize, and finally defeated AC Milan on penalties and won the European Champions Cup. Gerrard's performance in the final was nothing short of perfect. But even so, he didn't even make the final three-person shortlist...... Not to mention becoming the World Footballer of the Year, but he didn't win the Ballon d'Or that year. It is said that the only factor affecting him is that although he led the team to win the Champions League, Liverpool's performance in the domestic league was not good enough, so ...... That year's World Footballer of the Year was Ronaldinho, followed by Frank Lampard and Samuel Eto'o third.

In the 2010 World Footballer of the Year award, also known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or, the new name for the merger of World Footballer of the Year and the Ballon d'Or, Inter Milan's treble and the absolute heart of the Dutch national team, Sneijder, the Dutch team's top contributor to the final, were also not selected for the three-man shortlist.

These examples are enough to show that if you win the Champions League, it doesn't mean that you will be selected for the World Footballer of the Year. If it's the Ballon d'Or, it's good to say, because the judges of the Ballon d'Or are journalists from the global sports media, and these people spend their days keeping an eye on all kinds of news and changes in world football, and they are very impressed by the players who are most likely to appear in the major sports news during the year, and they will carefully analyze the performance of the candidates in various matches during the year from a professional point of view, so as to arrive at an authoritative result.

But the voting power of the FIFA World Footballer of the Year is in the hands of the head coaches of the respective national teams, as well as the captains. You can expect the managers and captains of countries like Benin and Brunei to watch a few Champions League games, and they can't even say whether they have seen the Champions League games or not. The criterion for their selection is whether the candidate's name is familiar to him, if he is familiar, it means that he is good, if he is not familiar, he is not good.

Messi's World Footballer of the Year award last year is the best example of this, and for those who don't watch the game much, Xavi and Iniesta are definitely not as famous as Messi. Because Messi has been promoted as the number one star in world football in recent years, his reputation has reached its peak, he is the double winner of the 2009 World Footballer of the Year and the European Golden Ball Award, and he is also the winner of the 2010 European Golden Boot Award. Although Xavi and Iniesta are from Barcelona like Messi, when everyone mentions Barcelona, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely not Xavi or Iniesta, but definitely Messi.

Messi, C. Ronaldo and Chu Zhongtian are among the finalists this year, and compared with the first two candidates, Chu Zhongtian's reputation in the world is obviously much lower. Yes, he is the best player in the Champions League this year, yes, he is Mr. 70 million euros, yes, his move to Real Madrid is a sensation. But none of this allowed him to suppress Messi and C. Ronaldo.

If the captains and managers of those national teams only voted on fame, Chu Zhongtian defeated his teammates and Messi, and he would only be able to finish third. Messi and C. Ronaldo competed for the golden ball, while Chu Zhongtian could only win the bronze ball.

This is also the reason why the world footballer is more suspenseful.

From a professional point of view, there is no suspense about Chu Zhongtian's election, but the head coaches and captains of many national teams are not as professional as everyone thinks, and many times they may know more about football tactics than ordinary fans, but in terms of mastery of football consulting, they are even inferior to many "pseudo fans".

Considering FIFA's previous selection of the Ballon d'Or – the 1991 European Ballon d'Or went to French midfielder Papin, who led France to a sweeping victory in the European Championship qualifiers that year and was undisputed to be elected to the European Ballon d'Or, but the World Footballer of the Year belonged to Mateus, and it is clear that the national team coaches who voted for it have not yet recovered from the memories of the Italian summer of 1990...... It is worth mentioning that it was the first World Footballer of the Year award, which seems to have taken a completely different path from the European Ballon d'Or from the moment it was born; The 1996 Ballon d'Or belongs to the "free man" Summer, who led the German team to win the European Championship and also performed well in Dortmund, winning the league championship, but the world footballer of the year was given to the "alien" Ronaldo; The 2000 Ballon d'Or belongs to Figo, Figo's performance in the national team European Championship and the club was perfect, but the world footballer of the year belongs to Zidane, although Zidane led the French national team to win the championship in the European Cup, but Figo's performance in the European Championship was not inferior to him, on the contrary, at the club level, Zidane defeated Figo, that year was the trough of Juventus; In 2001, the Ballon d'Or was Owen, and the World Footballer of the Year was Figo; The winner of the 2003 Ballon d'Or was Czech ironman Nedved, who single-handedly sent Juventus to the Champions League final, but the world footballer of the year was given to Zinedine Zidane...... With these antecedents, you can understand the anxiety and worry in everyone's hearts.

What's more, after the World Footballer of the Year was released last year, the media also broke out a lot of shady scenes about the World Footballer of the Year selection. For example, the head coaches and captains who voted did not know why the names of people they had not written appeared on their ballot papers...... Some people even said that FIFA's World Footballer of the Year selection is completely internal, and Blatter wants whoever wins the award to win, even if he is not qualified at all.

This is naturally welcomed by conspiracy theorists, but there is a lack of conclusive evidence.

When CCTV Sports Channel made the trailer for the FIFA awards ceremony, it also used this suspense as a gimmick and put it in the trailer.

This whetted everyone's appetite, and I believe that there must have been many Chinese fans who watched the FIFA awards ceremony in front of the TV in the early morning of that day.

※※※ The Spanish media does not care who will win the World Footballer of the Year in the end, because all three candidates are from La Liga, and the idea that "La Liga is the first league in Europe" that they have been advocating is another example.

Are they more concerned about C. Ronaldo really not contradicting Chu Zhongtian?

After playing Rayo Vallecano, Chu Zhongtian and C. Ronaldo, Gareth in the middle of the week. Bale, along with captain Iker Casillas and manager Jose Mourinho, flew to Zurich, Switzerland, where FIFA is headquartered. They will be present at the World Footballer of the Year ceremony at the Grand Theatre in Zurich, where FIFA awards the 2011 awards.

On the plane, C. Ronaldo was still joking with Chu Zhongtian: "No matter who wins the first place in the end, you have to treat yourself!" ”

He and Chu Zhongtian sat together, talking and laughing along the way, and they couldn't see that they had contradictions. If this scene had been seen by those media reporters, it is estimated that all kinds of rumors would have disappeared long ago.

In the evening, Chu Zhongtian also walked the red carpet with C. Ronaldo, and the two seemed to deliberately want to show their unity in front of the media, the two of them stood on the red carpet and let the media take pictures, looking intimate.

Of course, even those interviewed by reporters will inevitably have to answer questions that are a little embarrassing for them.

"There really is no contradiction between us, how can we prove it?" Chu Zhongtian spread his hands and was very helpless in the face of the reporter's question.

At this time, C. Ronaldo, who was next to him, suddenly had a wicked smile on his face, and then kissed Chu Zhongtian on the face with the momentum of covering his ears and stealing the bell, and then laughed triumphantly under the stunned eyes of Chu Zhongtian and the reporters.

"Isn't that proof of that, stupid Chu!" C. Ronaldo was very happy after spoofing Chu Zhongtian.

The reporters who reacted also shook their heads, Ronaldo has a lively personality, and it is not surprising that he did such a thing, but it seems to show that they really have no contradiction from another angle...... Another reporter simply went to the photojournalist and asked, "Did you take a picture?" ”

The photojournalist nodded vigorously and smiled contentedly - a hyped gimmick anyway...... After Chu Zhongtian left the reporters, he was still complaining about C. Ronaldo ruining his reputation. C. Ronaldo looked innocent: "Isn't it a normal way to greet people in the West with their faces?" ”

In the face of such a person, Chu Zhongtian was speechless...... Anyway, I believe that after the photos go online the next day, the rotten girls at home and abroad will scream for it.

But in the end, it has proved that there is no contradiction between himself and C. Ronaldo, which should allow the media to stop hyping up the news of discord within Real Madrid.

While the two men were still answering questions in front of the reporters, there was a commotion and screams from the side. Chu Zhongtian and C. Ronaldo both glanced back, and it turned out that Messi had arrived.

Messi, as the hottest star in world football, is also the most famous in international football, he is not only sought after by reporters, but also many young fans try to rush to Messi and ask him for autographs.

The two people in the Real Madrid camp turned their heads to look at Messi, and C. Ronaldo was the first to twist his head back, and he turned his head back after seeing that it was Messi, pouting his lips with disdain. Chu Zhongtian looked at it for a while before he looked away.

Although the results have not yet been revealed, the competition between the three has actually begun.

Not only is the rivalry between these three, but in fact it is between Real Madrid and Barcelona. Neither team wants to be worse than the other, so the competition and comparison are all-encompassing, not only in the World Footballer of the Year, but also in the Team of the Year - to see who has the most players in the Team of the Year...... FIFA Awards Ceremony is full of strong "pretense" flavor. In the glittering hall of the opera house, accompanied by a symphony orchestra and bel canto singers, when the artists are singing on stage, few of the players and coaches in the audience are interested in it, and if a rock band is invited to perform the show, they may be more interested.

Chu Zhongtian is also not interested in FIFA's pretense to rely on football in a high-pressure culture, he only cares about the final selection result of the Footballer of the Year.

But this will have to wait until the end, because the award ceremony is not just about awarding a world footballer of the year, but also many other awards.

The first to be revealed was the Puskas Awards, which were newly created in 2009 and are actually the "Goal of the Year". Eventually, Chu Zhongtian was in Real Madrid's teammate Gareth. Gareth Bale won the Puskas Prize for his first goal in last season's Champions League group stage first contract with Inter Milan. In that goal, he took the ball on a long run, shook off the world's No. 1 right-back McCann, Inter Milan captain Zanetti, and then singled out the best goalkeeper in Serie A Cesar to hit the ball into the far corner, which was indeed quite exciting.

The Miss World Footballer award went to Brazilian footballer Marta, who has won the award for the sixth year in a row and has become the number one figure in women's football.

The results of the Team of the Year are evenly split between Barcelona and Real Madrid this time. Goalkeeper Casillas, forward C. Ronaldo, midfielder Chu Zhongtian and left-back Gareth. Gareth Bale was named in the best team, while Barcelona saw right-back Alves, midfielders Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi selected. The two giants have divided eight of the eleven places, which shows the current status of these two teams in world football. It has even been said that Barcelona and Real Madrid are another kind of giants that surpass the other giants, and that the matchup between them is even more eye-catching than the World Cup final.

However, these are all cushions, and the most eye-catching is the selection of the World Footballer of the Year.

After the FIFA President's Award was awarded, it was the turn of the much-anticipated World Footballer of the Year.

In fact, at the very beginning of the award ceremony, the introduction video of the five candidates was played. In addition to Chu Zhongtian, C. Ronaldo and Messi, the other two candidates are from Barcelona, Xavi and Iniesta.

Although Barcelona lost 0-2 away in the national derby that ended not long ago, in the list of candidates, Barcelona won 3-2 against Real Madrid. It's also a city back.

Previously, FIFA's Footballer of the Year was revealed by having three candidates stand up and then punch their scores at the bottom of the screen. Now that this is not done, it is now directly up to the award presenters to open the envelope and then read out the final winner. So until then, no one knows who will be the best among the five candidates.

Chu Zhongtian and C. Ronaldo sit next to their Real Madrid teammates, and they also have Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, which can be called the "Real Madrid phalanx", and Messi and Xavi, Iniesta, and Daniel. Alves and other Barcelona teammates sat together, and the two sides were clearly divided - with the arrival of Mourinho, the confrontation between Real Madrid and Barcelona moved from the football field to other places, and entered the era of all-round confrontation. Even at the FIFA awards ceremony, they have to distinguish themselves and always take a stand.

As the highlight of the ceremony, Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini walked hand in hand on the podium, in which Platini held a blue envelope in his hand, which contained the answer to all suspense.

The scene suddenly fell silent.

Everyone, including the TV announcers and viewers, is also waiting for the answer.

The televised broadcast gave each of the five candidates a close-up, at exactly the same time, without the slightest partiality.

Platini walked over to the microphone and lowered his head to open the envelope.

Suddenly everyone felt that he was moving very, very slowly...... In fact, Platini's rate is as usual.

Then he pulled out the card with his name on it in the envelope and looked down with a smile on his face.

Many Chinese fans saw Platini's expression when they watched TV, and their hearts tightened - it's over, this time the world footballer of the year must still be Messi's! Godfather is already smiling knowingly!! That's the code!

Just when Qiu Min in China was crying wolf in his heart, Platini spoke.

"The 2011 World Footballer of the Year winner is—" He flipped the card in his hand so that the named side faced the camera, and then said, "Chu Zhongtian from China!" ”

(To be continued)