It used to be December every year when the awards were presented, but now since FIFA merged the World Footballer of the Year and the Ballon d'Or, the ceremony has been moved to January. So now January has become one of the most important months in world football.

The 2012 awards will be presented in January 2013.

Because there is no European competition in Liverpool, only the Premier League, and no national team games, Chen Yingying did not even enter the list of the last three candidates this time. Naturally, Chen Yingying did not receive any invitation from FIFA.

Since last year's falling out with FIFA over the awards, Chen Yingying has no relationship with FIFA.

This year's Ballon d'Or was given to Messi in the end, which was a result without suspense and novelty.

Despite last year's European Championships, the German team won the title. However, it is difficult for the German team to come up with a number one star who can hold down the other players. Mesut Ozil is the heart of the midfield, "Piggy" Schweinsteiger is the team's metronome, and Thomas. Muller, captain Lahm, goalkeeper Manuel Neuer...... These people are all important contributors to the team's championship, and it's hard to say who is the best.

In this regard, they can't compete with Messi.

Messi's performance in the Champions League is so good, and the record of 18 goals in a single season makes many people think it is impossible to break.

In addition, Messi's fame is obviously better than that of Ozil and Schweinsteiger...... Those German players are famous, and they take a big advantage in the voting of national team managers and captains.

When Messi won the Golden Ball, the global media were discussing this matter, and everyone gave Messi all the words of praise they could think of, portraying Messi as a genius who only comes out of a hundred years in world football, and said that with only one World Cup champion left, Messi must be a proper new generation of "ball king".

It's no wonder that the media are so flattering, Messi won the award this time, and it is the fourth consecutive year that he has won the World Footballer of the Year, which is now the FIFA Golden Ball Award. He's already set an unprecedented record – something that no player has ever done before, and an alien like Ronaldo, who has won the World Footballer of the Year three times in his career, is already a remarkable achievement at the time, and he hasn't won it three years in a row.

And Messi not only won the FIFA Golden Ball Award for four consecutive years, but he also won the European Golden Ball Award twice in these four years - in 2010, because of the merger of the FIFA World Footballer of the Year award, there was no European Golden Ball Award that year, and in 2011, UEFA re-organized the European Golden Ball Award, and Messi was robbed by a hero.

Messi has become a "phenomenon" in world football, and everyone has said that there are two kinds of players today, one is called "Messi" and the other is called "player".

This kind of naked touting Messi made Chen Yingying very unhappy.

Because he was classified into the category of "players", he and Messi are completely two grades. But Chen Yingying doesn't feel that he and Messi are two grades.

But apart from being unhappy in his heart, he had no other way to vent it.

If the media came to him and asked what he thought of Messi's winning the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the fourth year in a row, he would be able to take the opportunity to express his disdain.

But no media came to him.

That's why he's looking forward to the Europa League.

He can only use one goal after another on the field to let everyone understand - Lao Tzu Chen Yingying is much better than Messi!

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On February 2, in the 25th round of the league, Liverpool welcomed Sunderland at home. In this game, Liverpool still played their main force, and in the end, they beat the "Black Cats" with a score of 3:0 on their home turf.

Chen Yingying scored a goal in the game, and his tally in the Premier League this season has reached a staggering thirty.

Second-placed Robin van Persie has only scored eighteen goals, a difference of 12 goals, and the top scorer this season looks hopeless.

Van Persie only realized how stupid his idea last season was – not this season and next season? Next season will still be Chen Yingying's world!

On 10 February, in the 26th round of the league, the last league game before the knockout stage of the Europa League, Liverpool challenged Chelsea away.

Liverpool now sit high at the top of the league table, four points ahead of second-placed Manchester City. O'Neill feels reassured and safe, and for that he can take his rotation in stride.

Away at Chelsea, Liverpool did not give up their main force, they only sent half of their main team, and Chen Yingying only came on as a substitute in the 70th minute.

In the end, Liverpool and Chelsea played out a 0-0 draw. Neither side scored. But even fools can see that Liverpool are playing Atletico Madrid away in the Europa League.

Of course, this draw is also due to Chelsea's side, because Liverpool stayed, and Chelsea also stayed.

Liverpool have a Europa League mandate and Chelsea have a Champions League mandate.

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After playing the match against Chelsea, on February 13, Chen Yingying finally waited for the Europa League he longed for.

It's hard to imagine that there are still big players and teams interested in the Europa League in the current context. Manchester City and Manchester United were kicked into the Europa League last season, and everyone thought they would make a bloody storm here and finally meet in the final, which was a Manchester derby. Unexpectedly, after the two teams passed the first round of the knockout round, they abandoned their martial arts and were inexplicably eliminated. There are many theories about their elimination, but there is one factor that cannot be ignored...... The Europa League is actually not attractive to these two teams, and it is not attractive to Manchester United, because Manchester United is also a giant, and it is the main player who participates in the Champions League every year, and it is normal not to take the Europa League in his eyes. But it's not attractive to a new upstart like Manchester City, which is very telling. Manchester City has only risen suddenly in the last two years, and they should be grateful to Dade for being able to participate in the League Cup, but now they do not take the continuation of the League Cup and the Europa League in their eyes, so you can imagine how influential this competition has become.

It is said that just a few years after Platini reformed the UEFA Cup to become the Europa League, he began to brew the cancellation of the Europa League and merge the Europa League with the Champions League. The reason is that the Europa League is not attractive to sponsors and TV broadcasters, and its ability to attract money is much inferior to that of the Champions League.

Of course, there are no absolutes, not all teams are not interested in the Europa League, not to mention the second-rate teams and the second-rate teams in the first-class leagues, as long as it is a European competition, they are willing. Let's just say that among the big teams, there are also many interested in the Europa League.

Liverpool is a living example of this.

This has a lot to do with Liverpool's lack of a trophy with enough weight over the years.

Liverpool won a League Cup last season, but that was only a domestic title, and it was the lightest of the three domestic titles, and it didn't have much value for Liverpool FC other than a special meaning for Dalglish.

The Europa League is different, how to say that it is also a European competition, even if it is not attractive, it is compared to the Champions League, the Champions League is now the world's No. 1 football event, and the influence of the wheel, even the World Cup can't compare to it, so it is normal for the Europa League to be unattractive.

The Europa League is a European competition, and European glory is still very tempting for a team. The Champions League winner is called the "European Champion", and the winner of the Europa League can also be called the "European Champion", and is also eligible to participate in the European Super Cup, and compete with the Champions League winner for the honor of "European King of Kings".

It's not like a League Cup champion of the English League Cup – the winner doesn't even qualify for the Community Shield......

Not to mention Chen Yingying's goal, so Liverpool's current team is even more energetic to participate in the Europa League than to play in the Premier League...... After all, they are already ranked first in the Premier League, and many people naturally have fatigue. Comparatively speaking, a knockout game like the Europa League is more fresh, after all, the opponent is unknown and fresh.

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If Torres were still at Atletico Madrid, the clash between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid could have spawned a story. It's a pity that Liverpool is no longer Spanish anymore, and Torres has left Liverpool. So it's just a normal Europa League game.

The most eye-catching player in the Liverpool squad is Chen Yingxing. From the moment the team arrived at the airport, the media surrounded him.

This is not the first time Chen Yingying has played in Madrid, but it is his first time playing against Atletico Madrid.

He had played against Real Madrid when he was at Napoli before. Atletico Madrid is relatively new to him.

It's not really without gimmicks either.

The media defined the match as "a contest between two Europa League top scorers".

Atletico Madrid has striker Falcao and the goalscorer is the first person Chen Yingying wants to surpass in the Europa League. It was he who set a record of seventeen goals in the 2010-2011 Europa League, breaking Chen's previous record for goals scored in a single season after the League Cup restructuring.

Chen Yingying has scored 14 goals this season, and that's just the number of goals scored in the group stage. He has great hopes of breaking Falcao's record.

So the reporters especially wanted to see what a direct conversation between the two shooters would be like.

And it's the best way for Falcao to defend his record – as long as he and Atletico Madrid beat Liverpool in the quarter-finals, Chen won't be able to move forward and score, and naturally he won't be able to threaten his record.

At the same time, Chen Yingying is not without opportunities. Even if Liverpool are eliminated by Atletico Madrid, as long as he can take his chances and score three goals in those two games...... He could be the equals of Falcao in the Europa League scorers' charts. If he can score four goals, he can surpass Falcao......

Of course, it's too difficult to score four goals.

Overall, as long as Atletico Madrid can eliminate Liverpool, Falcao's record is safe, at most it is just to share with Chen Yingying.

At the airport, Chen Yingying was blocked by the media in Madrid, and everyone must let him talk about Falcao's record.

"Records? That's what you were going to break! ”

Chen Yingying lived up to expectations.