Volume 1 Chapter 319 World Footballer of the Year Nomination
Fiorentina's defeat of Livorno is by no means an upset, but many people can guess the ending, but they can't guess that the beginning is so mysterious, let alone that the process will be so exciting.
The focus of the game will undoubtedly be the battle of the top three scorers, Chen Yu scored a U goal before the game, Toni scored 4 goals and Lucarelli scored 3 goals, and they were the first, third and second scorers respectively in the scorers list last season.
However, in the opening 17 minutes, Lucarelli received a red card, and the battle for goalscorers turned into a civil war, and in the end, Toney and Chen Yu scored one goal each to equalize the score.
And the process of the game is even more exciting, less core Livorno behind two goals, but they did not give up, coach Donadoni replaced the striker, scored two goals in a minute to equalize, and then set up an iron bucket to defend for 70 minutes, in stoppage time was Chen Yu with a long-range shot to kill.
After this game, Fiorentina won all the U games and won the standings, while Livorno was overtaken by AC Milan and fell to fourth. The focus of this round is the Italian national derby Juventus home game against Inter Milan, in a close conversation, Inter Milan lost to the old and spicy Capello, the score of 0:0 is not ugly, but Juventus ended two seasons of league winless against Inter Milan with these two goals, and also with the same record of six wins in the standings to bite Fiorentina.
At the end of six league rounds, the national team has two international matches and a two-week break.
If you take the six rounds as a final exam, the best results are undoubtedly Fiorentina and Juventus, both teams are majestic, Juventus have won the league, the Champions League and the Coppa Italia, while Fiorentina have only drawn one against Barcelona.
Relatively speaking, Milan is not stable enough, Milan is not careful to kill the third place in the standings, and their original position is also compatible, but the points are less than the purple lily old woman 5 points, Inter Milan is not high, can win colorful, can also lose the flowers, hovering between super strong and mediocre, although now ranked tenth and their strength does not match, but the gap with the top 9 points, so that Inter may repeat the tragedy of last season's Champions League fight.
The pre-season prediction may still be the Romance of the Three Kingdoms between Milan and Juventus, but now the league seems to have become a two-way battle between Juventus and Fiorentina, and considering AC Milan's strong heritage, this season's can also become the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but one of them has changed from blue and black to purple.
In the face of the brilliant results, Capello was still humble after the race, "Sprint to the championship? It was still early, and I only saw the sun that had just risen. The league has just begun, with Fiorentina in front and AC Milan in the back, so we have to be stable and humble. ”
Fabio Capello's modesty was also justified, as the victory cost Juventus dearly, with striker partners Ibrahimovic and Trezeguet exiting the pitch with injuries and defender Thuram coming on injured and re-injured in the game, and it is difficult to say whether the three players will recover after the international break.
And judging from the schedule, Juventus will welcome Bayern in the Champions League, and soon after playing Bayern, they will play Sampdoria and AC Milan.
However, for Fiorentina, there is no such trouble in a short period of time, the Champions League and Barcelona have already played a game, the league before the round against Milan there is no team that can threaten Fiorentina, if a little luck, Fiorentina is likely to throw all opponents away before the three consecutive bad games with AC Milan, Roma and Juventus.
Another point that makes Fiorentina happier is that Fiorentina has little chance of being infected by the FTFA virus, and in Fiorentina's main squad, only a little more than a third of the internationals are played.
Frei will return to France, where he is the back-up goalkeeper.
On the back line, Dainelli and Maggio are very popular for being selected for the national team, but they have not been in Lippi's eyes, this is not that Lippi's vision is too high, but Italy has too many good defenders, who can play the main force in other countries, but it is difficult to even play a substitute in the Italian team, only Ujfarusi is the main defender of the Czech Republic.
The only possible candidate in midfield is Fiore, but Fiore's flashing time is too short, Lippi has to watch him again, and Montolivo is getting better and better, but he is still the first choice in the youth team, and the senior team will go to the water cooler at most.
Toni on the front line is definitely going to the national team, he has been moving more and more to the position of the main striker recently, and Di Natale is the most like Chen Yu in the entire Italian player, he can play the second striker, left and right winger, left and right winger, although Totti is still the main force, but due to the success of Fiorentina, Lippi also hopes to add an all-round striker to the Italian team with a large number of center forwards, and copy Fiorentina's style of play at critical moments to bring changes to tactics, so he was also recruited, It's just that he's more likely to be a substitute.
Chen Yu, who has gradually grown into a superstar, has no games to play now because his national team failed to reach the top 10, and he has many conflicts with the national team.
In this way, there are only four players who want to play in the national team for Fiorentina, and Frei is still the kind of player who may not get a minute of play, it can be said that the impact of the PIPA virus on Fiorentina is much smaller than that of other giants in Serie A, in Milan and Juventus, even the substitutes are players of the national team, and when Fiorentina is resting, they have to fly long distances to fight for the honor of the national team.
Prandelli was very satisfied with Fiorentina's current record, and couldn't be more satisfied, after the match with Livorno, he invited all the players to a big meal, and then announced a five-day holiday, after five days, the players who did not play for the national team reunited to play two warm-up matches against the third division team Satania.
This holiday is definitely a surprise for Fiorentina's players, many European players have chosen to return to China or go out for vacation, players outside Europe choose to shop, and Chen Yu because it takes more than two days to return to China, so he chose to stay in Italy to complete his advertising endorsement contract.
Chen Yu's annual salary has reached 5.5 million euros after tax, and his advertising endorsement income is not weaker than his annual salary.
Of course, the increase in income comes at the cost of the absence of time off, five days off, shooting commercials, attending product launches, TV shows, and participating in charity events...... A series of arrangements were arranged for four and a half days, including a mid-flight between three European countries.
And for Goofy, these days of vacation are very relaxed, although nominally he accompanied his girlfriend Jaya to cover the game of the Italian national team, but since the two games were in Slovenia and Moldova, Goofy used the time of the game to play several nearby countries.
After the two matches of the national team, the league and the Champions League will soon reopen, and at this time, there is also good news for Chen Yu, in fact, this is also what everyone expected, that is, Chen Yu finally succeeded in the shortlist of the World Footballer of the Year.
The list of candidates released by FIFA this time includes 30 players, including 18 from Europe, South America, Africa and Asia, and no other regions have been selected.
Brazil became the big winners, thanks to the victory in the Confederations Cup, they have six superstars Adriano, Kaka, Roberto Carlos, Robinho, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo shortlisted for this time, football powerhouse Italy has Nesta, Maldini, Buffon, while Germany, Spain and Argentina have only one, Germany is Ballack, Spain is Raul, Argentina is Riquelme
In addition to the above players and Chen Yu, the other 17 players are: David Beckham (England), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Deco (Portugal), Drogba (Ivory Coast), Eschinenne), Eto'o Cameroon), Gerrard (England), Thierry Henry (France), Ibrahimovic Sweden), Frank Lampard (England), Nedved (Czech Republic), Okocha (Nigeria), Robben (Netherlands), Wayne Rooney (England), Shevchenko (Ukraine), Ruud van Nistelrooy (Netherlands), Zinedine Zidane (France
The selection of the "World Footballer of the Year" was initiated by FIFA in 199l, and German star Matthaus was elected as the first "World Footballer of the Year". In recent years, the influence of this selection has surpassed the "World Footballer of the Year" selection of the long-established British "World Football", and the winner has also become the world's recognized "World Footballer of the Year".
Chen Yu's nomination for the World Footballer of the Year has caused a huge sensation in China, and many media believe that Chen Yu has created a new history, breaking the embarrassment that no one in China has been nominated for the World Footballer of the Year, but at a time when fans across the country were cheering, "Sports Weekly" turned out an old news under the instruction of the Football Association, proving that Chen Yu is not the first Chinese player to be nominated for the World Footballer of the Year, and the first to be nominated was Gong Lei, who once played in the Tahiti Islands.
It turned out that from 1990 to 1996, Gong Lei came to the French island of Tahiti in the South Pacific at his own expense. During his time in the Tahiti League, he led the team to four league titles and three cup titles, and was also named the best player and top scorer six times. Since the winner of the Taciti League can participate in the French Cup, Gong Lei has also represented the club in the round of 16 of the French Cup. In the 1993 season, Gong Lei scored 36 league goals, and was nominated by the head coach of the Tahiti national team as a candidate for the 1993 World Footballer of the Year, just because there are only 10,000 people in the Tahiti Islands, and the area is only as big as a township in China, and the media is not embarrassed to brag about it, so the vast majority of people don't know the secret of the road, and now, because the Football Association doesn't like someone to use Chen Yu to prove their incompetence, so they instructed the "Sports Weekly" to poke out this old news.
This is a fact, there is no way to change it, the first person to be nominated for the World Footballer of the Year is Gong Lei, not Chen Yu, but this has not affected the growing Chen Yu fever in China, and the "Football Newspaper", which has always liked to be opposite to the "Sports Weekly", wrote an article to refute: "Tahiti Football King, this is also embarrassing to say, I have no disrespect for the palace director, but this really doesn't explain the problem, can Tahiti's 36 goals be compared with Serie A's 38 goals?" If any player who can't play in the Chinese Super League goes to a small country like the Vatican with only a few thousand people to play football, and then is nominated by the country's Football Association, it is not history, it is a joke. ”
The Football Newspaper continued to criticize the Chinese Football Association, saying: "Chen Yu's victory is the defeat of the Chinese Football Association, and every victory of Chen Yu is a slap in the face of the Chinese Football Association, because he proves that Chinese are not unsuitable for playing football, but our managers are too incompetent." ”
They hope that ten days later, Chen Yu can successfully enter the list of 50 candidates for the 05 Golden Ball Award selected by all editors and reporters of "French Football" magazine by anonymous voting, and then slap the reporter of "Sports Weekly" and the Football Association.
The 30-man list released by FIFA has been hyped in China and has also caused controversy in Europe. This is mainly due to the fact that Brazil has too many players, twice as many as Italy and six times as many as Spain and Argentina, which definitely does not fit the balance of strength between the two sides.
French "French Football" believes that FIFA's selection is not reliable, like Robinho, he didn't play anything at all, just played a little fancy, so he was nominated for the World Footballer of the Year, and last season Chen Yu led Fiorentina to Serie A, and performed well in Serie A and the Italian Cup, but he was not selected, and the discrimination against small football countries is obvious.
Germany's "Bild" newspaper believes that there is no fixed standard for FIFA's selection, and it seems that in the World Cup year, the selection of "World World Footballer of the Year" is mainly based on the player's national team's World Cup record and the player's individual performance in the World Cup. In non-World Cup years, the main criterion for selection is the performance of the player's club in the Champions League. But whether Ronaldo and Ronaldinho's awards follow this standard, and the list is even more chaotic, and it depends more on which country's media power is more developed and touted.
Spain's "World Football" bluntly said that the nomination of the World Footballer is not as good as "French Football", the first is that the list is too small, only 30 people, it is inevitable that there will be regrets, the second is that the "World Footballer" is voted for by the coaches and captains of various national teams under FIFA, and the European Golden Ball Award is an anonymous vote of all editors and reporters of the "French Football" magazine, obviously reporters and editors are more familiar with the players than the coach and captain, because that is their profession.
Obviously, compared with the controversy, the major media and fans are more enthusiastic about who will become the World Footballer of the Year in 05.
The last Footballer of the Year was taken away by Ronaldinho, and the Ballon d'Or became Shevchenko's bag, and this season, they are certainly still the favorites, but because of Liverpool's miraculous title last season, Gerrard has a great credit, and if anyone in the Premier League wins the World Footballer of the Year, then Gerrard is second to none. Of course, Frank Lampard, Chelsea's 'long-lasting lamp', has not been forgotten, and Chelsea are invincible, so the Blues' number 8 has become one of the favorites for Mr. Rashard.
In addition to these three favourites, Samuel Eto'o and Deco, who assisted Ronaldinho in completing Barcelona's revival title last season, are also very popular, and many believe that at least one of them has a chance to reach the top three of the world footballer of the year.
Juventus snatched back the Serie A title from AC Milan last season, and the biggest contributor was Capello who was the best goalkeeper Buffon in the world, but considering that the goalkeeper has never won the World Footballer of the Year, Buffon may not have any hope of winning the championship even if he has great popularity, and it is a success for Buffon to reach the top three
No matter in any field, there must be dark horses, and the dark horse in this year's World Footballer of the Year selection is Chen Yu.
Last year, Chen Yu did not even enter the nomination of the World Footballer of the Year, although he scored 38 goals in Serie B, and led the quasi-giants of Serie A back to the Serie A arena, causing a huge sensation in China, but no one questioned this, after all, the influence of Serie B is very small, and Chen Yu did not even get the Asian Footballer of the Year last season.
And this year, and last year has had a fundamental change, this year's Chen Yu led the promoted Fiorentina to win the third place in Serie A, successfully entered the Champions League, and won the Italian Cup, in terms of personal honors, Chen Yu broke Nodal's dusty 43-year record of 3 single-season goals, became the winner of the European Golden Boot, and his influence gradually expanded from Italy and China to the world of football.
Although Chen Yu's background is still very shallow, without any heavyweight championship title, there are still many media who believe that Chen Yu has the hope of entering the top three of the World Footballer of the World, at least there is disappointment to enter the top ten, after all, the selection of the World Footballer is an individual honor, not a collective honor, so that year's Ronaldo and last year's Ronaldinho were able to be elected without any heavyweight championship, and Chen Yu's scoring ability last year was shocking, in the most difficult to score in Serie A, Chen Yu averaged one goal per game, Breaking all kinds of records, surpassing Shevchenko and winning the European Golden Boot is something that Ronaldo has not done, and if Chen Yu reaches the top three, it is not without a little hope that he will even dominate.
However, Chen Yu also has a big shortcoming, this shortcoming is that Chen Yu does not have the results of the national team, because of the contradiction with the Chinese Football Association, Chen Yu has not played a game for the Chinese team now, so in the selection of Mr. Football, Chen Yu must suffer a lot, but there are also people who have different opinions on this, such as the Chinese media, they think that Chen Yu's failure to participate in the Chinese team may not be a shortcoming, because the poor performance of the Chinese team is likely to drag Chen Yu into the quagmire.
However, regardless of whether Chen Yu can reach the bottom three or not, being nominated for the World Footballer of the Year is a major breakthrough, which also means that he has finally changed from a Chinese star to a world star.