Chapter 85: Asian Footballer of the Year (2)
At 16 p.m. on November 29, the AFC Annual Awards Ceremony was held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
Ringer appeared outside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel with Aragaki and immediately attracted many reporters to take pictures.
Only then did Ringer find out that he was the only one of the three selected who brought a female companion, and he was still a handsome guy and a beautiful woman, and he was also a popular candidate this year, which naturally attracted reporters to keep taking pictures.
Accompanied by the young lady to show her beauty outside for a while, Ringer entered the hotel.
In the hotel, many officials of the Asian Football Associations had already arrived, and as soon as Ringer entered with his young lady, a person came to Ringer: "Ringer, you go and sit with us." ”
Ringer remembers that this is the official of the Football Association surnamed Wang who went to Japan last time to recruit him.
To sit with the people of the Football Association? Of course it's not good, and it's not good to refuse outright, but Ringer has the perfect reason: "I'm sorry, the AFC arranged for me to sit in the front row." ”
Ringer, as a trio candidate for Asian Footballer of the Year, will of course be placed in the first row.
Originally, this AFC award had nothing to do with Krot, and that guy had to come with him, wasn't he afraid that Ringer would be bewitched by the Football Association, so he deliberately came over to mention his life.
Speaking of which, the current Football Association is also chaotic, there is not even an official president of the Football Association, and the person who came to attend the AFC Awards Ceremony today is also an unknown vice president.
As an award ceremony, it is naturally indispensable to be polite.
At the beginning of the ceremony, a group of Malaysian children went up to sing and dance, and then a man and a woman came on the stage. The host Ringer doesn't know either, and it should be a local star in Malaysia.
The moderator said a few words, followed by a long speech. Several key officials of the AFC, representatives of local football association officials in Malaysia, one after another, after more than half an hour passed, Ringer couldn't help yawning, and then the official award began.
"Lin Jun, it's time to start awarding awards, the camera will keep looking for you, pay attention to your image." The young lady who was sitting very dignified on the side secretly pinched his arm and reminded him.
"Don't worry, my award will be given last."
First of all, various association awards, the Iranian Football Federation won the Best Association Award, and the Uzbekistan Football Federation won the Best Fair Play Award.
The next one is related to Ringer, the best club award, which is finalized by Tokyo FC, Jeddah Al Ahly and Ulsan Hyundai, which are completely ranked according to the AFC Champions League results. There is no doubt that in the end, it was the AFC Champions League champions Tokyo FC who won the award.
Kenji Akune, the president of the team, took the stage to accept the award and gave a speech: "Thank you AFC for awarding us this award, this season has been a magical season for us, a miraculous season, I never expected us to be so successful this season. I have to thank two people, the team's head coach Ranko Bobovic and Lin Jun, it is your efforts that have made the team achieve today's results~~~"
Ajiugen praised him from above, but Ringer accepted it calmly.
Ringer felt that without his presence, Tokyo FC would never have achieved such a good result. At most, the AFC Champions League is to score a knockout round, Evergrande can't pass that level, the league is also a middle-to-upper result, and it is difficult to qualify for the AFC Champions League, let alone the league championship.
After the award of the best club, there were some awards for both men and women, and there were two judges in China who were shortlisted, but they did not win the award, and half of the referee awards were taken by the Japanese.
This was followed by an award called Asian Diamonds, which was presented to the late former AFC president, Malaysian Samah. This is the name of Samach, who died in September this year, and he has to mourn for a while.
Next, the best men's national team was awarded to the South Korean Olympic team, who finished third in the men's team at this year's London Olympics. The best women's national team was awarded to the Japanese Olympic team, who finished second at this year's Olympic women's team.
The best men's coach went to South Korean Hong Myung-bo, who won the third Olympic medal by leading the team. He should be grateful to Ringer, if it weren't for Ringer leading the team to eliminate Ulsan Hyundai, Ulsan Hyundai won the AFC Champions League, this award would probably go to Ulsan Hyundai head coach Kim Ho-kun.
The best women's football coach went to Asako Takemoto of the Japanese Olympic women's football team.
Then came the futsal awards, which went unnoticed, and then finally Ringer, the Rookie of the Year award.
The best rookie in women was presented first, and Hidee Shibata, a rising Japanese women's football player, won the award.
"Next up is the Men's Rookie of the Year, and I don't think there will be any suspense about this award." Ringer has a high probability of winning the Asian Footballer of the Year, and the broadcast commentator continued: "Ringer's biggest rival is Mohammed Khalar from Iraq, who is the MVP of this year's Asian Youth Championship, but it is still much worse than Ringer's achievements. ”
"The other party is only participating in the Asian Youth Championships, but Ringer has already led the team to win the AFC Champions League, this is not a level of competition at all, but the opponent is only 19 years old, and he has a good chance to win awards in the future."
It's like the award has been given to Ringer, but it's really about the same.
In international football, there is generally a default rule for the selection of the best rookie category, and the age is not more than 23 years old. Ringer is about to turn 22, but he is still eligible for the award.
"The winner of the best men's rookie of the year is ~~~Lin~goal~" The host, who seems to be a Malaysian star, also seems to be a football watcher, and actually knows this title, and now this title is about to become Ringer's exclusive English name.
Ringer stood up and hugged Miss Aragaki before taking the stage to accept the award.
It was an Indian who presented him with the award, and to be honest, Indian football is at the middle and lower levels in Asia, and Ringer really doesn't know what football legends India has.
"Thank you!" Although you don't know each other, you still have to be polite.
Standing in front of the microphone, Ringer said simply: "Thank you to the AFC, thank you to Coach Bobovic, thank you to President Ajiune, thank you to everyone who has helped me, I am very happy to receive this award, this is an encouragement to me, I will continue to work hard." That's it, I hope I can get a chance to come up again later. ”
There was some good-natured laughter from below, and everyone knew what Ringer meant, and he would go up to get the most important award later.
"Lin Jun, wouldn't it be too flamboyant to say this." As soon as Ringer came, the young lady couldn't wait to take the trophy and look at it, and carefully reminded him.
"It's okay, I've been sitting here for more than an hour, if the AFC doesn't dare to give me the award, don't think about me attending any of their events in the future."
Next is the best overseas player, which was given to Shinji Kagawa, but Kagawa did not come, and was replaced by an official of the Japanese Football Association.
In fact, this best overseas player should be the most prestigious award in Asian football.
It's a bit strange that the best foreign player went to Brazilian Silva Kotinho of Kuwait Sporting, rather than Ricardo Oliveira, the hottest foreign player in Asia at the moment.
"Next is the most important moment of this awards ceremony, the awards of Miss Asian Football and Mr. Asian Football~~~" The host is chatting awkwardly again, this time in previous years is often the most tense time, but this year not too many people can afford to be interested.
Mr. Footballer was almost locked by Ringer, and the competitors around Ringer, Lee Geun-ho and Karimi, looked indifferent, who could still be interested. The other three candidates for Miss Football are all Japanese, and they have been included by the Japanese in advance, and the others are not interested.
Soon, Ringer's sister Aya Miyama won Miss Football. Ringer was the football school where he first learned the basics of football, and Aya Miyama studied there when she was a child, so she is considered Ringer's senior sister.
"The winner of this year's Asian Footballer of the Year is ~~~~~~Lin~~goal~~~" once again pronounced Ringer's name, although this award was almost booked in advance, the host still pretended to be surprised and passionate.
"Ringer, congratulations! He won the 2012 Asian Footballer of the Year, the second Chinese to win the highest honor in Asian football, we congratulate him ~~~ "Yang Ma's commentary commentator is not pretending, this is really exciting.
Ringer first hugged Karimi and Lee Geun-ho beside him, and then held the young lady's forehead and kissed it, and then slowly walked onto the stage. Well, just kissed that bite, I don't know how many Japanese otaku will be cursed again.
This time it was Zhang Jilong who presented the award to Ringer, he is the current acting chairman, so naturally he should present this most important award.
"Congratulations, Ringer."
"Thank you, Mr. President."
After taking the trophy, Ringer once again stood in front of the microphone: "I'm really happy to be on this podium. A little over a year ago, I was just an ordinary college student, and more than a year later, I was standing on this podium, and it all really felt like a dream to me. ”
"First of all, I would like to thank my parents for their unconditional support for me and for agreeing to a 20-year-old student to switch to football, I know they were very worried at the beginning, but they chose to believe in me and support me, which is why I am today."
"Secondly, I would like to thank Mr. Thomas Crott for his presence that made my football dream take off. He sent me to football school to learn the basics, he helped me get into a professional football club, he helped me a lot. I know there are a lot of people who are biased against Thomas, but I know he's a great agent and he's helped me deal with a lot of things so I can focus on playing. ”
"I also want to thank my friends, who have helped me, who have not helped me, who have thanked my fans, who have supported me, who have not supported me, who have thanked everyone, who knows me and who don't know me, I have to thank them, it is a fate for everyone to meet in this world."
"Thank you!"
After saying that, Ringer bowed deeply to the audience, but then did not step down directly. As Mr. Football, you also have to display the trophy on stage and take a group photo with Miss Soccer.
One after another, people who have just won various trophies go backstage to display the trophies and take pictures of people.
As soon as Ringer took a photo with his two trophies and Ajiune's best club trophy, the Chinese Football Association came over.
Speaking of which, Ringer's two awards can be said to have nothing to do with the Chinese Football Association, but how he is also a Chinese, he should also take two photos with the trophy and the officials of the Football Association, otherwise it is too much to say.
As a last resort, Ringer had to deal with it.
"Ringer, what do you think about the problems of the national team~~~" As soon as two pictures were taken, the people of the Football Association began to talk about these.
However, soon a voice interrupted them: "Lin, hurry up, there are many reporters waiting outside to interview you, just put the trophy there, and you won't lose it, go out to receive an interview first~~~"
Seeing Ringer being taken away by Bobovic, the people of the Football Association could only stare at the two trophies with black faces.
Forget it, anyway, this year is not a grain without harvest.
The people of the Football Association can only comfort themselves like this, you must know that the Chinese Football Association has won nothing in the annual awards in the past two years.
This year's AFC Awards Ceremony came to an end, with Japan taking home 11 awards as the biggest winner.
Ringer won the Rookie of the Year and Footballer of the Year, avoiding three consecutive years of nothing for Chinese football.