The biggest difference between the selection of the best player in Europe and the FIFA Ballon d'Or is not the media voting, but the live voting. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The FIFA Golden Ball Award is to collect everyone's votes in advance, and then count the nouns, and the top three enter the final award session, and there will be no second vote on the spot, but the awards will be presented according to the ranking. So every year, more or less there will be some media announcements in advance who will win the award, because the results have already come out, and the on-site announcement is just to create some tension and gimmicks, and does not affect the final result.

In order to distinguish UEFA from FIFA, even the selection method is different from FIFA, their voting is divided into two rounds, and each media with voting rights can write on the ballot the names of the five players they think were the best performers last season, in order, and then select the top three to enter the final, and then vote on the spot to determine who is the winner at the time of the final.

This gives voters time to reconsider and adds uncertainty to the final outcome.

It doesn't mean that if you are ranked first in the primary election, you will definitely be able to get the first place.

For example, in last year's European Player of the Year selection, Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo ranked first in the primary selection, but in the end, Iniesta did win the European Player of the Year award.

The voting method is for each country in which the European Sports Media Union (ESM) is a member of the UEFA membership, such as the newspaper Marca in Spain.

UEFA has 53 member countries, so there are 53 media representatives to vote.

Before the official start of voting, the big screen first showed the highlights of the performance of the three candidates in the past season, which was beautifully produced and fully demonstrated the characteristics of each player.

For example, Messi and Ribery are breakthroughs and goals, while Zhou Yi is goals and assists, of course, the picture of Zhou Yi lifting the league championship trophy and the Champions League trophy also appears in it, which is his most important result last season, and the main reason why he can stand here and compete with the other two world-class stars.

Without the blessing of the championship halo, no matter how good his personal performance is, I am afraid it will not be easy to come here.

After the video was played, the hosts, BBC celebrity Pedro Pinto and Miss Switzerland Melanie Vignig, invited the three candidates to the stage.

Amid applause and music, Zhou Yi got up, buttoned up his suit, and then squeezed past Watzke and Zorke and walked onto the stage.

His rivals Ribery and Messi also came in from different directions.

The three of them happened to meet under the stage, and Zhou Yi took the initiative to make a gesture of please, and did not rush to the stage.

Messi excused himself, but he was still the first to walk up, Ribery patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder in the back, and then pushed him from behind and walked onto the stage together.

Both are rivals in the domestic league and the Champions League, but they don't have any contradictions off the pitch.

After the three people walked on the stage, they unfolded one word, Messi on the far left, Ribery in the middle, and Zhou Yi on the far right.

Next to Zhou Yi stood the male host Pedro Pinto.

Between Pinto and hostess Melanie Vienig, there is a small table, which is clearly used to place the trophies.

The trophy for Europe's best player is a silver jersey with raised arms, but in China, some fans have given it a nickname, "silver pants".

After all three candidates took the stage, the moderator invited Mr. Hotzschwing, the rotating president of the European Sports Media Union and editor-in-chief of the German magazine "Kicker", to the stage to start the live voting.

Holtz was full of silver hair and smiled when he came to the stage - he was to be happy that last season's European football was a victory for German football, the Champions League final was a Bundesliga team, and this time the European Player of the Year selection, there are also two players who play in the Bundesliga team in the final selection. This all shows the strength of the Bundesliga today.

After taking office, Holtschu announced the opening of voting.

Then music sounded, and every voter sitting in the media box made a choice on the voting machine in front of him.

However, this option is not visible on the spot, which makes everyone who waits nervous.

Especially the Chinese fans in front of the TV.

“...... The on-site voting began, and we don't know if Zhou Yi will be able to win the final award. Judging from the primary selection data, Zhou Yi is ranked first, but if you want to say that Zhou Yi will definitely be able to win the award, it is not good, last year's Ronaldo was the first in the primary selection, but he lost to Iniesta in the final......" The CCTV commentator chattered endlessly, and his chatter and content further intensified the tension of Chinese fans.

The TV camera swept over the faces of the three players one by one.

The camera lens swept over Zhou Yi, and Zhou Yi had a faint smile on his face.

It is worthy of being the most hopeful of the three people to win the award......

Of the three, Ribery's mood is not very high, and perhaps he thinks he is the least hopeful of winning the award.

Judging from the championship last season, he was completely suppressed by Zhou Yi.

Although he also has titles, the German Cup is far worse than the other two, and without the all-important league title and the Champions League, Ribery does not think he will be able to win the title. As soon as he thought of this, his emotions naturally couldn't be high.

What about Messi? I'm a little nervous.

The situation is a bit more delicate as to whether he will win the award.

Messi naturally hopes to win the award, in terms of strength, saying that he is now the number one person in world football, I am afraid that only Cristiano Ronaldo and his fans will not be convinced.

In the past season, Messi's Barcelona won the La Liga title, but in the Copa del Rey, Barcelona were eliminated by Real Madrid. In the Champions League, they lost badly, and they were beaten 0:7 by Bayern Munich home and away, which was a humiliating defeat. These failures have cast a shadow over Messi personally.

However, in terms of personal data, Messi's performance is very eye-catching. In last season's La Liga scorer list, Messi became the La Liga Golden Boot with a terrifying 46 goals, and he scored a dozen more goals than Cristiano Ronaldo, who ranked second. And he has played two fewer games than the Portuguese, averaging a goal in 58 minutes, which is a horrific efficiency.

He's not just the La Liga Golden Boot, he's the European Golden Boot.

In the FIFA Golden Ball Awards six months ago, Messi won. It was a natural year, and in the past 2012, Messi's individual performance was indeed outstanding, scoring a total of 91 goals in all competitions throughout the year!

In the first half of the 2012-2013 season, he scored 26 goals in 17 league games, and in less than half of the season, he set a La Liga half-league goal record.

To say that Messi was the most attacking player in Europe last season is not a problem at all.

Scoring a goal is certainly the most intriguing scene in football and the greatest affirmation of an attacking player.

Therefore, Messi, who has such terrifying goal statistics, is still a strong contender for the best player in Europe even if he only wins one La Liga title.

Having such terrible statistics is also the main reason why the Chinese media are not sure that Zhou Yi can win the award -- who knows if those judges and reporters will respect Messi more? In recent years, both the media and fans have almost worshiped Messi.

Messi's stats are impressive, but Messi himself knows that the number of titles is still an important measure, especially the Champions League. His performance in the Champions League last season can only be described as average. Eight goals did not help Barcelona win the title, which is his weakness.

So Messi is very entangled now, on the one hand, he hopes to win the award, and on the other hand, he feels that there is little hope.

Of course, think of his old rival Cristiano Ronaldo, who is actually much better, at least he can still finish in the top three, while Cristiano Ronaldo is a historic absence from the top three. The Portuguese must be very frustrated and angry right now......

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The live voting ended quickly, and the judges didn't spend much time thinking about who to vote for, and many of them may have had a choice before voting.

However, it was not announced who was the best player in Europe last season.

Host Pedro Pinto laughed: "Now the results are out, but none of us knows. Who knows? The one who carved the trophy knows. He is carving the name of the best player on the trophy. The results will be announced along with the trophies......!

He's giving everyone a vaccination.

Last year's European Player of the Year award, after the on-site selection, the process of medal engraving was a little long, and everyone thought that Cristiano Ronaldo won the championship, because compared with Messi and Iniesta, his name was the longest and composed the most letters......

It turned out to be Andres Iniesta - the lettering staff didn't move fast enough......

However, this time it may have washed away the lessons of last year, and the staff were quite nimble, and soon, the hostess in a tight white dress walked out of the aisle with the silver trophy of the best player in Europe. After placing the trophy on the table, she left on her own.

Hostess Melanie Vignig invited UEFA President Michel Platini to the stage to announce the results and present trophies to the winners.

Platini walked up to the stage to the back of the trophy amid applause, the host put the microphone to his lips, and Platini held up the trophy with both hands, glanced at it, and then turned the trophy half a circle so that the back of the trophy was facing the audience and the camera, while he said: "The person who won the best European player of the 2012-2013 season is ......"

When the trophy was turned, everyone saw the name engraved on it.

ZHOU_YI。

"Zhou Yi!"