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After drawing the third bracket of teams, UEFA CEO Lars Christ Olsen took to the stage of the conference and cultural center with the sealed card of last season's Champions League striker winner.

A VCR was shown on the big screen, and the three candidates for the best striker were Valencia's Ailo, Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o and Arsenal's Thierry Henry.

Although the latter two were the goalscorers of the final, Iello used his individual ability to bring the team to the semi-finals, and also broke the record of AC Milan legend Altafini in a single season of 14 goals in the 62-63 season.

Everyone thought that this award was uncontroversial, and the media focus also focused on Iroh's body, all kinds of flashing lights kept flashing, and the most exciting thing was the Chinese media, this is a big prize!

Even UEFA CEO Lars Christ Olsen, who holds the sealed card, thinks so, as second-placed Samuel Eto'o has scored just six goals, just in the single digits of Iro, while Thierry Henry has even fewer goals.

In other words, the two of them combined have not scored as many goals as Aillo alone.

So the best striker is indisputable, including Samuel Eto'o and Thierry Henry.

Henry, who was sitting not far behind Iro, even asked Totti, the Roman prince in front, to pat Iroh on the shoulder and congratulate Iroh on the award in advance.

But at this moment, Lars Crist Olsen opened the sealed card, and when he saw the name, he was stunned at first, and then very helplessly turned the card aside.

Eto'o!

Boom -

Suddenly, the head coaches, players and media of the top 32 teams in the entire conference center let out a burst of exclamations at the same time.

No one expected this result.

Of course, there was one person in the entire venue who did not arrive to marvel, but to smile as a matter of course.

The media present began to discuss, is the European championship more important than the number of goals scored and the zào record??

Can...... It's the best striker, not the best player!

What are the criteria for measuring a striker? It's a goal!!

That...... What's the matter with the champion?

If so, what else would be chosen for the best striker, the best midfielder, the best defender? Wouldn't it be okay to give these awards directly to the champion team?

Love can be divided as it is.

Media people with a keen sense of smell even smell a sense of conspiracy.

Iroh, who was still smiling before, has completely changed his expression now.

Not because he lost the award for the best striker, but because he was unhappy! Fools know that the criterion for selecting a striker is the number of goals.

This is clearly someone targeting himself!

It was also embarrassing when Samuel Eto'o came to the stage to deliver his acceptance speech, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that he doesn't deserve it, and how can anyone who has scored six goals have more ability to win the best striker than a player who has scored sixteen?

So he could only scratch the back of his head with a wry smile, and finally said firmly: "A striker's job is to help his teammates, not just to score, I don't know if the goal in the Champions League final is the most important goal of my career, but it is certainly one of the most important." ”

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The raffle continued, but the minds of all the media people present were not on it, because no one played better than Iroh throughout the 05-06 season.

If you have to follow the gold content, it is only Cannavaro, who helped Italy win the World Cup.

But Cannavaro was only a summer of play, while Iroh was a great performer all year long.

But it's not about the Champions League, so it's a separate matter.

It is also worth pondering that Iello also single-handedly helped Lencia win the league title and the Copa del Rey title, and if it weren't for the bad luck in the second leg of the semi-finals, whether Barcelona could reach the final is another matter.

Even if you think about it with your toes, you can think that there is someone who doesn't want Arlo to win the award, but who is this person? Current UEFA President Johansson? This is obviously impossible, although the relationship between the two is not particularly good, but it is also very good!

Moreover, the current UEFA president Johansson has also praised Iello in public many times, which is obviously impossible!

Who could that be?

The draw ceremony is still going on, and the media have already thought of themselves as Sherlock Holmes, and they will not let go of any clues.

Finally, the UEFA Champions League's Most Valuable Player was contested, with three candidates: Valencia's Ello, Barcelona's Ronaldinho and Arsenal's Thierry Henry.

Henry can already ignore that no runner-up player has ever won the Most Valuable Player, and Iello should also be excluded, he has not won the best striker he is most sure of, so what is the background compared to the Champions League title behind Ronaldinho?

So the last MVP was just a formality, and Ronaldinho won the award without dispute.

In the end, the reporters on the scene began to question UEFA's selection, because they looked at a series of selection lists, except for goalkeeper Lehmann won the best goalkeeper, the other four best were won by Barcelona, not counting the best coach Rijkaard.

Then the controversy came.

As soon as the draw ceremony was announced, the reporters at the scene surrounded the UEFA senior management.

There are also reporters who have found Iro.

"Having scored 16 goals in the 2005-2006 Champions League, breaking the 43-year-old record in a single season in the Champions League, is there anything you would like to say about not being voted the best striker?"

As soon as Iroh was about to leave, he was surrounded by reporters, and he was really unhappy today, so he looked impatient and replied: "Didn't you say the best striker just now?" A striker's job isn't just about scoring goals, it's about helping his teammates score! I don't think I'm doing well, right...... I seem to have more assists than him, right? ”

After saying that, he left the Grimaldi Conference and Cultural Center without looking back, leaving a group of reporters looking at each other.

*****

In an interview with reporters that evening, Platini, who is running for UEFA president, vaguely mentioned that Samuel Eto'o unexpectedly won the best striker in the Champions League last season, "As Eto'o said, the task of a striker is not only to score goals, but also to help his teammates score, which is why Barcelona won the Champions League and Valencia was eliminated......"

Platini's answer immediately aroused the suspicion of journalists.

The local Valencian reporter was not satisfied with Platini's answer and continued to ask, "As you said, the task of a striker is not only to score goals, but also to assist his teammates to score, but Ai scored many more goals than Eto'o in last season's tally, and he is also two ...... ahead of Eto'o in assists."

Platini's face immediately darkened, and he said sharply, "Football is a team sport, and you can never succeed by playing alone, as last season's Champions League showed!" ”

Journalists are not stupid, but most of them draw inferences or draw inferences.

If Platini's previous answer was a pretext, then the answer he just gave was an excuse entirely.

Football is a team sport, but every team also has to have a player who is superior to the team, because only then will the team rely on their individual ability to score goals without being able to break the deadlock.

The next day, all kinds of rumors flew all over the sky.

"Torino Sport", which has always had a good relationship with Ellilo, raised its own doubts, "Yesterday afternoon at the Champions League draw ceremony at the Grimaldi Convention and Cultural Centre in Monaco, the award for the best striker caused controversy, Valencia's star Ai played a miracle last season, scoring 16 goals in 12 Champions League games, breaking the single-season goal record that had been in the dust for many years, but such a result cannot be the best striker of the season......

Once upon a time, the selection of a good striker was to reflect the value of the striker in terms of the number of assists, but what makes people think deeply - Ai has more goals and assists than Eto'o, then the question is, the champion...... Is it really that important? So what is the best in the future, don't you win the championship? What else do you want to choose? Isn't it enough to collectively squeeze your head and win the championship once and for all? ”

This summer, Italy suffered a phonegate incident, so that the entire Italian media realized the importance of fairness, "Milan Sports Newspaper" also openly questioned UEFA's selection, "Since the Champions League 92-93 season since the Champions League restructuring, there has been such an unbelievable thing, scoring 16 goals in a single season, but not winning the award of the best striker, there is no doubt that this will be a shame for UEFA, a scandal!" ”

England's authoritative newspaper "The Times" also gave its own judgment on this selection in the sports column, "The first time I heard that the element of the selection of the best striker is not a goal but an assist, I don't know if we are lonely or someone deliberately did it, of course, we don't know, but this selection of the best striker leaves us with a big regret, because many years later, when Ai broke Altafini's single-season Champions League goal record, he will find that The best striker of the year was Samuel Eto'o, who scored six goals......"

Just when many newspapers were questioning UEFA, the "Telegraph" from the Netherlands suddenly broke the news, "In the eyes of most people, this selection has a lot of water, and it is true, because everyone knows that the current UEFA President Johansson has a good relationship with China, and has praised Ailo many times in public, so this will inevitably lead Platini, who is competing for UEFA president, to secretly wrestle with Johansson in private... From another point of view, the change of ownership of the best striker also represents the current distribution of strength at the top of UEFA, and it has to be said that such an excellent young player has become a victim of politics......"

So, when the Telegraph swept across Europe, everyone suddenly realized that there was such a relationship, but ...... This Platini is too political, right? Before he was elected president of UEFA, he began to suppress the deployment of the current president.

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