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The results of the UEFA Golden Boy Awards are announced on December 20 every year, so two days after the draw for the quarter-finals of this season's UEFA Champions League, 20 voting media outlets began to 'guess' who the final winner would be.

Founded in 2003 by the Italian newspaper Torino Sport, the European Golden Boy Award is voted for by major European media to award the best young player of the year, and is also considered a "coming-of-age ceremony" for young talents, and the selection of young players under the age of 21 must play for European clubs.

In addition, "Torino Sport" sends votes to 20 European sports media every year, and the maximum score that can be cast for each ballot is 10 points, and finally "Torino Sport" is responsible for counting the scores and awarding the "Golden Ball".

The European Golden Boy Award can be called the "Golden Ball Award under 21", the media of 20 European countries, an expert jury composed of 30 journalists, including the French "Team Newspaper", the Spanish "Marca", the German "Bild", the British "Times", the Dutch "Telegraph", the Spanish "World Sports" and the French "French Football" and other European mainstream media will participate in the selection, so the final selection results are very authoritative.

It can be said that the European Golden Boy Award is the most authoritative award for young players in European football, and the winner is also known as the "European Youth Footballer of the Year", representing the future of football.

At the same time, this award is also the only award for a 21-year-old young player, and from another point of view, this award represents the uniqueness and importance of focusing on youth football.

The European Golden Boy Award, which only started in 2003, is in its third edition this year.

The winner of the first edition was Van der Vaart, who had moved to Hamburg FC in Germany this season, and at the age of 20, he became the core of the midfield of the Eredivisie giants, and also helped Ajax win the Eredivisie title, and the 'Golden Ball' of the first European Golden Boy Award is naturally well deserved.

Compared with the first European Golden Boy Award, the competition for the second European Golden Boy Award is much fiercer, but this competition is a competition in Manchester United, and in the end... With a strong performance at the Euro 04 in Portugal, Wayne Rooney was elected by a narrow margin ahead of teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.

This year marks the third edition of the European Golden Boy Awards, and compared to the previous edition, this year's selection can be said to be undisputed, as any professional journalist who follows European football knows who the best young player under the age of 21 to play for a European club this year is.

There were so many accolades for this year that these professional journalists forgot to vote for players other than him.

04-05 UEFA Cup winner.

The best newcomer and top scorer in La Liga in the 04-05 season.

2005 World Youth Championship in the Netherlands best player and top scorer.

2005 UEFA Super Cup winner, best player.

After the start of the season, Iello continued his highlights from last season, scoring 20 goals in the league after 16 league games, although not as many as last season's 14 games with 25 goals, but this season he has become more selfless and his assists have skyrocketed.

In addition, in the group stage of this season's UEFA Champions League, they also surpassed the record of eight goals scored by Inzaghi, Crespo and Ruud van Nistelrooy in the group stage, setting a new record.

Had it not been for the overall slump of Valencia FC in the 04-05 season, perhaps he would have been shortlisted for the 2005 European Ballon d'Or.

Therefore, almost all European media began to speculate that Iello would be the final winner of this year's European Golden Boy Award after the 40-man list came out.

Only a few media are praising Barcelona's Messi, because the latter also had an amazing performance at this year's World Youth Championships in the Netherlands, almost leading the Argentine national youth team to the final with his own personal ability, but unfortunately lost to the perverted Iello in the final.

Of course, at a time when everyone thought it was Iroh who won the award, the two major newspapers from Catalonia, Le Monde Sport and Daily Sport, naturally refused to admit that Iello was the winner of the award.

They believe that Messi is more deserving of this award than Iro, Messi is quite professional on the football field, thinking about his teammates all the time, and there is a clear contrast to Iroh's 'too alone' style, he is a selfless player.

Coupled with the fact that the honest Messi is more well-behaved than Ailo's in terms of image, and there is no negative news, compared to the 'girlfriend' that Ailo can form a football team, Messi is simply like a blank sheet of paper, so ......

They believe that Messi is more qualified than Iroh in every way.

But they forget that footballers should be based on the performance on the pitch.

As a professional football journalist, we all know that a good football player is a good football player as long as he behaves well on the football field, no matter what role he plays in life, he is still a good football player!

It's undeniable!

I have to say that when the selection was made, "World Sports Newspaper" had a strong sense of subjectivity.

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On 20 December 2005, the day after Valencia beat Alaves.

In the midst of all the anticipation, the results of the European Golden Boy Award have finally come out.

On this day, the Torino Sport newspaper published the results in a prominent place in their newspaper and on their official website.

"The new winner of the European Golden Boy Award - 'Prince' Ai from Valencia!"

Underneath the eye-catching caption is a large photograph of Iroh clenching his fists and looking hideous.

This result is not contrary to most people's assumptions, and Iroh is the winner of this year's European Golden Boy Award!

There is no suspense!!

As soon as the news was published, Iello received a call from Paulo de la Pao, editor-in-chief of the Torino Sport newspaper.

Paulo de la Pao first congratulated Iello on winning this year's European Golden Boy Award on the phone, and then vaguely expressed that if he was free, it would be best to come to the headquarters of the Torino Sports newspaper in the next two days to accept the award, and by the way, accept an exclusive interview with this newspaper.

In this regard, Ailuo naturally agreed, the editor-in-chief of the family called you directly to report the good news and invited you to win the award, and besides, participating in an exclusive interview will not lose meat, and the key will also improve influence, such a good thing is stupid not to go.

It didn't take long for his agent, Papa Adrian, to make a phone call, congratulating Arlo and bringing him countless pieces of good news.

One of the best news is that with Iroh's performance on the green field, Nike's treatment that has been biting and refusing to relax has begun to loosen, and when the winter break comes, he can go to Nike's headquarters in Beaverton to sign a contract.

I have to say that this European Golden Boy Award really came at the right time!

Behind the honor is to be eligible for better treatment!

Later, Papa Adrian also expressed the requests of countless well-known European media to interview, but he knew Iello's style, so he politely declined.

After a while, Iroh received some more celebratory calls from some of the sponsors.

Finally, Iroh also received a call from Ho Puqi in San Francisco, USA.

In addition to expressing his congratulations to Iro, he also brought good news, that is, he had found Mark Zuckerberg in San Francisco, and according to the conversation between the two sides, He Puqi found that "Facebook" is indeed in short supply of funds now, for this good news, Aylo just said, "Invest as much money as you have now!" If you don't have money, borrow it!!

You must know that Facebook will enter the road of rapid development after experiencing a shortage of funds this year and early next year, and when there is money, it may not be able to buy the current shares, so the more the better!

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The day after the winner of the European Golden Boy Award was published in Torino Sport, Airo was welcomed back to the Valencia training base.

First of all, a banner reading "Congratulations to the 'Bat Prince' on winning this year's European Golden Boy Award" has been hung at the entrance of the training base, and since Iroh has always been the first to come to the training ground, it can be seen that this banner should have been prepared last night.

Iroh nodded in satisfaction.

After the start of normal training, Flores and the whole team congratulated Arlo on winning this year's European Golden Boy Award.

Of course, at this time, it is natural that the support of the most popular fans from Valencia is indispensable.

During the training, many fans carried homemade slogans, banners or held posters of Iroh to express their support for Iroh to win the honor.

At the same time, the number of journalists gathered on the periphery of the training base began to increase significantly.

It is estimated that everyone is booking an exclusive interview with the failed media to know Elo's personal feelings after winning this year's European Golden Boy Award.

Among them, the number of journalists from China is the largest.

It is estimated that all the domestic journalists in Europe rushed over, and there were more than fifty of them.

This is the largest gathering of Chinese journalists in Valencia's history.

And that's not even counting the journalists who are on their way from China.

This honor is the first honor for a Chinese player.

You must know that among the world honors, only in the 1993 season, Gong Lei was nominated as a candidate for the World Footballer by the head coach of the Tahiti national team with his outstanding performance.

And with this nomination alone, he has become China's first person in the world honor.

This is a great shame for China, the world's most populous country!

However, this year, Iroh actually won the award, not the nomination!

European Golden Boy Award!

Although it is only the best player under the age of 21 in Europe, for Chinese football, which has not had a world personal honor for a long time, this is like a long time of nectar, which is gratifying.

They all believe that Iroh can become the best player in Europe under the age of 21 today, and will definitely become the best player in Europe and the best player in the world in the future!

Iroh will also enter the high-speed channel of his personal career, which is the expectation of the Chinese people for him, and it is also a wish.

Journalists from China are so excited, but what about the fans from China?

Naturally, I was even happier!

Since yesterday, well-known domestic companies such as Sohu, Penguin, New Wolf, and Wangyi have long been headlined with Ailuo winning the 2005 European Golden Boy Award.

Although many domestic fans did not know the meaning of this award, which only began to rise in 2003, under the translation of major portals, domestic fans quickly understood the meaning of this award to Chinese.

PS: The national football match begins! Win!!