Chapter 902: FIFA Golden Globe Awards
Arlo won the Puskas Goal of the Year award, and it was David Silva who followed coach Carlo Ancelotti to the Zurich Opera in Switzerland, who followed manager Carlo Ancelotti to the Swiss Zurich Opera.
The time difference between Qatar and Central European Time is three hours, so it was almost 11 o'clock when the Puskas Goal of the Year award was handed out, and the next day I thought of playing the second round of the Asian Cup group stage with the hosts, and after a while of playing with my teammates in Iroh's room, they returned to their rooms to recharge their batteries for tomorrow's group stage.
Before the game, they privately decided to create the best result in the history of the Chinese team to participate in the Asian Cup in the group stage of this Asian Cup - three consecutive wins!
If you want to get good grades, you have to be in good spirits!
All the teammates left, and Ailuo shook his head after glancing at his roommate Gao Lin, who was all focused on his mobile phone, he knew that this guy was 90% of the intern girl who fell in love with Shenzhen TV, so Ailuo didn't bother Gao Lin, who was in crazy unrequited love, and cleaned up the room a little messy by himself.
By the time Iroh stretched out and was about to turn off the TV, the FIFA Ballon d'Or ceremony was just in the final stage, that is, the FIFA Ballon d'Or winner.
Iroh glanced at the time on the wall, just a few minutes after eleven o'clock in the evening, Qatar time, and he didn't care about those minutes when he went to sleep.
The three nominees are David Villa, winner of last year's Ballon d'Or at the World Cup in South Africa, Cristiano Ronaldo, who led Manchester United to FA Cup, Premier League and Champions League, and Leo Messi, who led Barcelona to La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League runners-up.
It can be said that the advantages and disadvantages of the three are obvious, David Villa's results are mainly in the national team competition, there is no good continuity, the first half of the 2010-2011 season in La Liga is good, but it can't give him an overall score, after all, the 2009-2010 season La Liga performance is sluggish, so this is the only place that limits him.
Cristiano Ronaldo did a perfect job throughout the 2009-2010 season, winning all competitions, he was also the top scorer in the Premier League and the best striker in the Champions League, and in the first half of the 2010-2011 season in La Liga, he scored 30 goals in 18 league games, even more than the Golden Boot winners of other leagues in the whole season, but the problem is that his performance in the World Cup in South Africa last year was relatively sluggish, scoring only two goals in four games. It's a world away from what he's done at the club.
Leo Messi's performance throughout 2010 can be said to be relatively average, La Liga champion, Copa del Rey winner and Champions League runner-up, he is only slightly inferior to Cristiano Ronaldo in terms of honors, but his resume in the World Cup is much better than Cristiano Ronaldo, leading Argentina back to the World Cup semi-finals after 20 years, and Elo, who won the World Footballer of the Year in 2006, only led Valencia to the domestic double.
Therefore, the selection of the winner of the first FIFA Ballon d'Or is very difficult to decide, and the selection of any player will cause dissatisfaction among all parties.
Of course, it would be a different matter if David Villa's 2010 club performances were impressive, and he was definitely well deserved.
The problem is that Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi have been the best performers of the year at club level, and they are more popular than David Villa's stellar summer.
On the eve of the award ceremony, some Spanish media broke the news that the votes of the final winners of the FIFA Golden Ball Awards co-organized this time are a bit problematic, because many small countries have the right to vote, which is completely different from the European Golden Ball Awards selected by the previous "French Football" magazine, and there is a lot less professionalism.
Therefore, there is a lot of speculation in the Spanish media that David Villa will not be able to press Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi with a chance to shine in the summer.
As the three FIFA Ballon d'Or nominees were introduced on the big screen, the camera cut to the faces of David Villa, Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi.
Looking at the screen, the expressions of all three were slightly nervous.
The past three European Ballon d'Or Awards and four World Footballer of the Year have been monopolized by Iro, and it was not easy to take advantage of Iro's serious injury to successfully brush his face, so that he was able to advance to the final three-person shortlist, and locked the biggest enemy Iroh out of the selection door, which also indirectly increased the chances of the three of them winning the FIFA Ballon d'Or.
Because Iroh has been the focus of attention in world football in the past few years, even those countries or regions that don't pay much attention to football or football lag behind know Iroh this person, if there is Iroh on the final three-person shortlist this time, then they can think with their toes that Iroh can win the election by brushing his face.
Getting back to business, after the big screen introduced the candidates, the award presenter Hierro walked to the podium with Denis Chaumiere, the editor-in-chief of France Football, in a sealed envelope and in his hand, with FIFA President Sepp Blatter.
At this time, David Villa and Cristiano Ronaldo's bodies shook.
Hierro's identity is more complicated, he is the past captain of Spain and the captain of Real Madrid, and the award by him means that the winner is likely to be between David Villa and Cristiano Ronaldo, so Messi's expression was stunned for a moment.
After a few brief words between Blatter and Denis Chaumiere, the focus was on Hierro, who was in charge of revealing the suspense.
Iroh was on the same page as everyone else, and he was curious to know who the first FIFA Ballon d'Or winner was......
Will it be awarded to Messi according to the historical trajectory, or Cristiano Ronaldo, whose club stats are incomparably perfect, or David Villa, who has the best results in the national team?
All the suspense is buried in the dark envelope that Hiero is opening.
During the time when Hierro opened the envelope, Cristiano Ronaldo, David Villa and Messi were all very nervous, deep down in their hearts they were all looking forward to the richest personal glory of their careers, and they couldn't hold back the excitement when they thought of the suspense being revealed in a few seconds.
According to France Football's sister newspaper, Le Liga Della Teams, "Whether it's Cristiano Ronaldo, Leao Messi or David Villa, this may be the only chance of their careers to be elected, because the last three years of this honour belong to one person, and with him missing the entire season with a serious injury at the end of 2009, the attention was taken away from him, and it was not until the start of the World Cup that it returned to the fans' eyes, and he played as good as ever, think about it...... This time next year, will anyone else compete with the perfect Ai for glory? The answer is naturally a chance, but the odds are negligible, so if the three of them want to win the highest individual honor of their careers, it will depend on the suspense of the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or......"
At the same time as the three of them were in a fugue, Hierro had already opened the envelope, and everyone's focus was on the card in his hand.
"- Cristiano Ronaldo!"
Hierro read the name of the card inside the envelope and flipped the card.
The next moment, everyone's attention was on the high-spirited Cristiano Ronaldo.
Iro, who was watching the live TV, sighed slightly and pressed the remote control switch.
Picking up his phone on the bedside table, he replied to the greeting messages from his girlfriend Taylor and some friends, and then edited the text messages to the winner, Cristiano Ronaldo, and the unsuccessful David Villa.
After sending it, Ai Luo paid attention to his roommate Gao Lin, what he didn't expect was that Gao Lin, who was still sending a text message with great interest just now, was already asleep......
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David Villa was disappointed not to win the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or, winning the World Cup with the national team at the age of 29 and being one of the three candidates for the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the first time in his career, but ...... In the end, he was not elected, and he knew that he would not have this opportunity in the future.
Not to mention that his age is about to enter the late stage of his career, who can pay attention to him with the big halo of Iroh in front of him?
To put it mildly, if Iroh hadn't missed half a year of games without a serious injury, it would have been unknown whether he would have been on the final three-place shortlist.
It can be said that David Villa's regret miss will become the regret of his life.
Similarly, Messi is also very disappointed, missing the glory of this FIFA Golden Ball, and he doesn't know when he will wait until next time......
In the past half of the 2010-2011 La Liga season, Aillo's performance can be said to be the most eye-catching player in the entire La Liga and even Europe...... The next time Iroh became a favourite, it was when Iroh was seriously injured......
Although he knew that he couldn't expect to be opportunistic when he won his highest honor, Iroh felt like he was unbeatable.
The next day, almost all the media attention of the world was focused on the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or ceremony held last night at FIFA headquarters in Zurich.
Much of the Spanish media commented that the vote was unfair, arguing that David Villa was the one who deserved the FIFA Ballon d'Or because last year was a World Cup year, and the World Cup title was much more important than the Premier League and FA Cup winners and the Champions League combined.
The Catalan and Argentine media believe that this selection is unfair, and according to the overall results, Messi is the one who deserves the most FIFA Ballon d'Or......
The English and Portuguese media believe that Cristiano Ronaldo's election is very normal, and that the 2006 Ailo was a World Cup year.