As the three favourites for this year's European Ballon d'Or winners, many of the journalists who received the votes were wondering whether to choose Batistuta or George Weah, or Klinsmann, one of the former Inter troika, after all, these players have performed very well this year.

Originally, '95 was not a major year, so the performance of players in the European Champions Cup often became the basis for the judges' votes, if you look at it this way, then Ajax deserves to be the No.1 in European football this year, and the Ballon d'Or should also focus more on this traditional Dutch giant.

However, under the turmoil of Zhuang Mingge, Ajax was dismantled a year ahead of schedule, resulting in many of their players performing very poorly in the second half of the year, only Kluivert and Davies met the level expected by fans, and Seedorf who played for Sampdoria, but their performances in their respective clubs were not very outstanding - Kluivert's brilliance was completely overshadowed by his teammate Weah, and Davies is still sharing opportunities with Kripa and others. And Sampdoria, which Seedorf plays, has not even entered the top four in Serie A at present...... As a result, the Ajax players were completely excluded from the list of winners of this year's Ballon d'Or by the judges.

In this way, Fiorentina, who won the Serie A and European Cup Winners' Cup double as a promoted horse, entered the judges' field of vision, after all, such an outstanding result cannot be ignored by any journalist, so as the captain of the purple lilies and the top scorer in Serie A last season, Batistuta became one of the favorites for the Ballon d'Or.

As for Jurgen Klinsmann and George Weah, these two players have not won the title this year, and the reason why they are the favorites is more due to their excellent performances in all competitions. The "Golden Bomber" first scored 21 league goals in the Premier League, and then returned to the domestic league to join Bayern Munich, and this season in the Bundesliga is also a series of goals, such an excellent performance makes Klinsmann naturally one of the favorites.

Weah's reasons for selection are basically similar to Klinsmann's, but there is one thing that the Liberians have to overpower Klinsmann, that is, Weah still has a Golden Boot in the European Champions Cup last season, Batistuta is also last season's Serie A Golden Boot, and Klinsmann, who does not have the Golden Boot honor, will inevitably fall behind in the competition of several goalscorers.

In addition, as the only European player among the three favourites, Klinsmann has been decided by many discerning people in the football circle to miss this year's European Ballon d'Or, for the simple reason that this year's European Ballon d'Or has expanded its selection scope for the first time, from simply only European players can participate to all players who play in Europe are eligible to enter the shortlist for the Ballon d'Or.

As a result, the new Ballon d'Or winners will have to be awarded to non-European players as compensation for their predecessors who missed out on the Ballon d'Or because of their nationality.

Therefore, in this sense, the choice of George Weah is not so much about his performance on the pitch as being better than other stars, but as the first "expansion" of the European Ballon d'Or, the organizer France Football magazine naturally wants to show the importance of non-European countries. If Africa, as a backward region in football, produces a European Ballon d'Or winner this year, then the influence of the European Ballon d'Or will naturally spread to the whole world because of this result.

Therefore, as one of the representatives of African football in Europe, George Weah, who has been playing well all year long, is the natural choice.

Batistuta also has this significance, but if he is elected by a traditional football powerhouse, he will still be inferior in terms of influence, after all, it is not too unusual for an Argentine or Brazilian to win such an honor.

So, while Barty seems to have the upper hand from a purely competitive point of view, it cannot be ruled out that Weah may come from behind.

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Some people may ask, since Zhuang Mingge cares so much about the selection of the European Ballon d'Or, why didn't the Shijie Footballer launched by FIFA see that he cared?

I'm sorry, but what's that? Zhuang Mingge said that he really didn't like the unreliable thing selected by FIFA, so he was naturally not interested in caring about it......

After all, the selection of Shijie Footballer of the Year is determined by the votes of all Shijie national team coaches and captains, and the biggest loophole in this is the uneven level of voters. Voters in many small football countries do not have a good grasp of the dynamics of football, and the selection is often more about fame than strength, so that many stars who performed very well in the year are hated because they are inferior in fame. And in the selection process, many of the national team managers put forward candidates who are often laughable.

For example, in 1993, Chinese player Gong Lei was nominated for Shijie Footballer of the Year, and the person who recommended him was the head coach of the French Tahiti national team, and the reason for nominating Gong Lei was quite simple, that is, Gong Lei won the top scorer of the French Tahiti League with 36 goals that season, so the country's head coach thought that Gong Lei was the most Haode player on Shijie, and it turned out to be a big joke.

Moreover, the lag of information is also evident in the selection of Shijie Footballer of the Year, the winner of the European Ballon d'Or in '91 was the French sharpshooter Papin, who led the team to three consecutive Ligue 1 titles while playing for Marseille, and also reached the Champions League final that year, and he himself completed the Ligue 1 Golden Boot four times in a row, and the Champions League Golden Boot has also become his bag for three consecutive years...... Such a result made him deserve to win the European Golden Globe Award that year with an absolute advantage.

However, in the selection of Shijie Footballer of the Year, the winner of Zuihou was the German Mateus, nothing else, just because of his outstanding performance in the Italian Shijie Cup the previous year, so that many coaches in remote areas still think that Mateus was still the most Haode player in Shijie in 91, which led to the tragedy of Papin......

You must know that in the second half of 91, Mateus experienced a serious injury and missed several months of play, and his performance after his comeback was also very average, which was completely incomparable with Papin at that time!

Moreover, there are a full fifty players on the shortlist for the European Ballon d'Or, and there are only five players on the shortlist for Shijie Footballer, and this has been ruthlessly complained by Zhuang Mingge: Is there only five players in the entire Shijie football performance haode players? There are too few choices given by these officials of FIFA, right?!

Based on the above reasons, Zhuang Mingge is very unhappy with the selection of Shijie Footballer of the Year, and he only cares about the upcoming Golden Ball Award ceremony.

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