Chapter Eighty-Four: The Peak

On December 18, the 2007 FIFA Awards Ceremony was held at the Zurich Opera House.

The Brazilians emerged as the biggest winners, taking home a total of four awards, with Kaka and Marta winning Shijie Footballer of the Year and Miss Shijie respectively, while Argentina, Brazil's long-time rivals, became the Team of the Year for the first time.

After FIFA President Blatter's speech, he first presented the best player of the two age groups in this year's World Youth Championships, with Mateus and Chapuisat handing over the medals to Sergio Aguero, who led Argentina to the Under-21 World Youth Championship, and Tony, the best player at the U17 World Youth Championship. In the hands of Cross.

The awards were interspersed with video recaps of FIFA's major events and major events over the past year, with Brazilian Blue winning the Best Player award at this year's Beach Soccer Shijie Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona winning the Fair Play Award and Club President Joan Laporta receiving the trophy.

Barcelona have refused to accept commercial shirt advertising on the chest for many years, instead offering it to UNICEF for free, and have received a lot of praise for donating $7.5 million to UNICEF's AIDS programme over five years.

The FIFA President's Award was presented to Pele for his "contribution to the sport". Charlton gave the award speech, and the audience gave a standing ovation, which caused Bailey to shed tears.

"I have to share this award with all my friends because in my life I can't do it alone, and I want to share it with my wife, my family and God."

Zuihou announced two individual awards, the star of the Brazilian women's football team, Marta, although he failed to lead the Brazilian team to win this year's women's Shijie Cup, but still beat the German women's football captain Prinz, and Brazilian teammate Christian, won the title of Miss Shijie Football for a second time.

Marta's tears were one of the hallmarks of last year's awards, and this year she was also in tears: "Thank God for this moment of great joy and, of course, all my club and national team team-mates. ”

Then came the most exciting time, some of the previous awards were just warm-ups, and only this zuihou award could attract everyone's attention.

Eventually, FIFA President Seppat announced Kaka as the Shijie Footballer of the Year, and Pele handed the Gold Cup into Kaka's hands.

Kaka was also thrilled the moment he got the trophy: "Tonight was a special night for me, because when I was a kid I just dreamed of being a professional player for São Paulo and playing a game for the national team, that's all, but the Bible says that God may give more than you ask for, and that's exactly what happened in my life, xiexie." ”

This time last year, Deegan stood on the podium, but was finally played hard by FIFA once, and this year, despite being nominated, Deegan announced early that he would not attend any FIFA and UEFA award ceremonies.

But when Deegan saw Kaka standing on the podium through live TV, he couldn't help but feel excited, no matter what, Kaka was able to win the award, at least proving that the Wright family is the best on the football field.

The Prince of Milan, who had just won the Ballon d'Or and lifted the Club World Cup trophy, took over the title of Shijie Footballer of the Year 2007 from the Shijie Football Team tonight.

I have to say that today's shijie football is an era of young talents, and the 25-year-old Kaka shines that night, as well as Messi, who has just turned 20, and 22-year-old Ronaldo.

"We are all young people, which means that a new era has begun in football," Kaka said. ”

Over the years in AC Milan, Kaka's career has been rising, and this year has reached the highest peak in history, but even so, Kaka is still very humble in the reporter interview session in zuihou, first of all, he expressed his gratitude to AC Milan: "If there is no excellent team, it is impossible to have outstanding players, if my performance is very good, then first of all, I must thank my teammates, who have created the most haode environment and conditions for me." In Tokyo we achieved a victory for AC Milan, not a victory for Kaka. All of us are happy with this success that brought us to the top of Shijie. Every individual performance is the result of the team's overall efforts, and in football, there is no such thing as an individual accolade. Even in the Champions League, if I hadn't played in such a strong team, I wouldn't have been able to do anything. ”

The question then came back to La Liga and Real Madrid, who had always had their eye on Kaka, Kaka said: "The Spanish football league is one of the most attractive football leagues in Europe, there are a lot of great teams and great players in Spain, but I play for AC Milan and I am very happy for that, and I believe that it will not be easy for me to leave AC Milan and play in La Liga, I have had the opportunity to play in La Liga in the past and I have turned it down. I just want to say: I had a very good time at AC Milan. ”

From Kaka's point of view, AC Milan has undoubtedly played a key role in his growth and career development: "I have had many dreams since I was a child, such as winning the UEFA Champions League and all kinds of other competitions. To be honest I never imagined that my dreams would come true so quickly, playing at AC Milan is a very crucial step in my life experience, I arrived at AC Milan at a very young age and AC Milan has helped me a lot. ”

With his outstanding performance last year, Kaka was elected without suspense and became the new Shijie Footballer, and like the previous European Golden Ball Awards, Kaka was also elected Shijie Footballer with a high vote, which is well deserved.

His vote score reached 1,047, which is twice as high as Messi in second place, which is similar to Ronaldo, who won the Shijie Cup and Shijie Cup top scorer that year.

Two weeks after winning the European Ballon d'Or, Kaka was named Shijie Footballer of the Year, taking home two of the year's highest individual accolades and becoming the 10th Mr. Double in history.

The previous Mr. Double winners were Ronaldo, Basten, Weah, Zinedine Zidane, Rivaldo, Figo, Ronaldinho, of which Ronaldo won twice, so Kaka is the 10th.

At the same time, Kaka also became the third shijie footballer in the history of AC Milan club, and coincidentally, all three gentlemen are "Mr. Double".

In 1992, Basten won the European Footballer of the Year and Shijie Footballer of the Year for his wonderful performance in the European Championship, and in 1995, Georges Rosten. Weah has won the big two with his impressive performances at Paris Saint-Germain and after his move to AC Milan.

In 2004, Shevchenko was just one step away from being named Mr. Double, and he won the European Footballer of the Year award that year, but in the Shijie Footballer of the Year award, Sheva came in third.

In the 12th year after Weah, Kaka stood up and stood at heights that Sheva had never reached.

Before and after Basten won the two major awards in 1992, it was Capello's most successful period in charge of AC Milan, in 1992 and 1993, AC Milan won the Serie A twice, and reached the Champions League final in the 92/93 season, but that was also a game for Basten's zuihou.

In 1996, the summer after Weah won the Mr. Double, AC Milan lifted the trophy for the 15th league title in the club's history, but with Weah already 29 years old when he joined the club, they were unable to lead the way to a further glory.

Basten was 28 years old when he won the European Ballon d'Or, Weah was 29 years old, Kaka is much younger than the two predecessors, in 2007, when Kaka exploded, AC Milan won the European Champions Cup, the European Super Cup and the Shijie Club Cup, for various reasons, AC Milan's hope of making a difference in the league this season is quite slim, but Kaka is still young, he has more time to lead the team to the middle of the boom.

2007 was a fruitful year for Kaka, in which he won team honours such as Champions Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Shijie Club Cup, and individual accolades such as European Cup Top Scorer, European Footballer of the Year, Shijie Footballer of the Year, Shijie Football Player of the Year, Shijie Players League Player of the Year, and he won every individual accolade he could.

"I'm sure Kaka's progress hasn't come to an end, he's still improving over the next five years. Of course, there are many good players on Shijie, but for now, Kaka is the best candidate for Shijie Footballer of the Year. This is what Brazilian ace Pele said in an interview with reporters later.

Indeed, at the age of 29, AC Milan's predecessor George Milan, who won the Double Mr. Awards. Compared to Weah, the 25-year-old double man Kaka is far from the end of his room, and Kaka himself has always said: "I'm far from the top, I'm still improving. ”

At the Club World Cup in Yokohama, Kaka has shown something different, with Kaka being the top scorer at the last Champions Cup and Kaka's impressive improvement in passing at the Shijie Club Cup.

AC Milan scored five goals in two games, and Kaka provided three assists alone, and Kaka has made great strides in terms of passing timing, accuracy and creativity.

The three assists are different, the final assist Inzaghi Zuihou a goal is relatively simple, when one-on-one with the opposing goalkeeper, he saw the position more Haode Inzaghi, so the horizontal pass assisted the latter to score, but such selflessness, compared to the exquisite pass is not easy, the first assist in the final and the semi-final assist Seedorf a goal, showing Kaka's greatest characteristics of the show, he is now able to break through his ability to break through with the ball, and the organic combination of passing, Especially in the final, he assisted Inzaghi's first goal, when Inzaghi's running was only instantaneous, and Kaka was surrounded by opposing defenders, and the situation was chaotic after the shot was blocked, but he still showed a clear mind and a keen ability to read the game, and accurately sent the ball to Inzaghi's feet to form a stunner.

In addition to these three assists, Kaka's first game against Yokohama, after breaking through the inside cut, diagonally back to Andrea Pirlo in the middle, and breaking through to the bottom line in stoppage time and suddenly knocking back Seedorf, were all wonderful passes.

After the European Ballon d'Or selection, Kaka said: "It gives me more responsibility. ”

This sense of responsibility was immediately evident in the Club World Cup, with Kaka becoming more selfless, more willing to assist his team-mates, less expressive and more focused on the team, which is a sign of the maturity of the style of play.

With Kaka saying after the Shijie Footballer of the Year award that his "story with Real Madrid is over", Real Madrid has gradually given up the idea of bringing in Kaka for two years.

Real Madrid club president Calderón also said afterwards: "Maybe I will cause some objections when I say this, but Kaka may not have a main position in the current Real Madrid team, our team is now very complete, and it is difficult for you to further improve the strength of the team." ”

Calderón's words may be a bit insincere, but there is no doubt that this is exactly what AC Milan wants to hear and see.

In Maldini is about to retire, in Pirlo, Seedorf and others are not in good shape, in Ronaldo is still recovering from injury, in the case of Pato is still unable to play, Kaka has become the banner of Milan City, at this time, Kaka can't go!

Degan also sent a text message to Kaka for the first time to congratulate him, but the more he saw Kaka in such a beautiful situation, the more Degan felt that Kaka's future at AC Milan was bleak.

A Club World Cup, coupled with personal honors, is likely to cover up the current Milan problems, of course, some things can't be covered, but can't stand Berlusconi and others deceiving themselves, AC Milan already has the first star of shijie, and in January, there will be another Brazilian talent who can play for the team, at this time, do you still need to continue to bring in players?

Of course, if it's Berlusconi's favorite player, it's another matter, everyone knows that Berlusconi has always had a deep love for Ronaldinho with ecstasy buckteeth, but because the other party is Barcelona's leading star, he can only sigh, but now Ronaldinho's life in Barcelona is not happy, so the erotic Bey is moved again!

"Kaka is already the number one player in Shijie football, and now I want to think, why don't you play a Brazilian dream quartet at AC Milan?"