On November 1, the day after Ringer's return to Madrid, FIFA announced the list of 23 players for this year's Ballon d'Or, and Ringer was among them.

Among the La Liga teams, Real Madrid has Cristiano Ronaldo and Bale selected, Barcelona has Messi, Neymar, Iniesta and Xavi selected, and Ringer is the only one selected in La Liga other than Barcelona Real Madrid.

Ringer's former club, Bayern Munich, have six players selected, the most of any team, namely Ribery, Arjen Robben, Schweinsteiger, Muller, Neuer and Lahm.

Of course, although it is a 23-man roster, it is Ribery, Ronaldo and Messi who are really competing for the final Ballon d'Or.

For now, the European media believes that the probability of the three winning the Ballon d'Or is the highest in Ribery, followed by Ronaldo, and Messi third. However, the Spanish domestic media generally supports Ronaldo, believing that Ronaldo's probability of winning the award is higher than that of Ribery.

Recently, after each game, Simeone will give the whole team a day off to allow everyone to have a better rest and recovery.

On this day off, Ringer met up with the visiting Krot again in the apartment.

"Lin, your performance is getting better and better, but I have a small opinion." Crott poured himself a cup of tea and sat down to himself.

"Say, Thomas, I'll listen to you."

"You've been on the 23-man roster for the Ballon d'Or recently, but I think I can give you a piece of advice, you should perform well lately and try to get a good place in the Ballon d'Or selection."

"Why? No matter how much I fight this year, I can't compete against the three of Ribery, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, right? ”

"That's true, but since the merger of the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year, the award has become more and more about the player's fame. With that Champions League final winner in the summer and now a Champions League hat-trick, if you can show it again, you should be in a good position this year's Ballon d'Or awards, which is a great opportunity to help you grow your reputation around the world. ”

At this point, Krott paused, continued: "Unless you say that you just want to play happily and never want to compete for that trophy. Otherwise, you'd better accumulate enough fame early, otherwise when you get enough honors, you may be like Sneijder in 2010, he helped the club win the treble, helped the national team win the World Cup runner-up, and was still the player with the most goals in the World Cup that year, but his previous fame was really not much, and in the end he could only lose to Messi, who only won one La Liga title that year. Oh no, Sneijder didn't even make it to the top three, you think about it, with so many honors, in the end, he couldn't make it to the top three of the Golden Globes, and this is caused by too little fame. ”

"Of course not!" Without hesitation, Ringer replied, "Well, I think what you said is a good note. ”

"Also, there will be a FIFA Team of the Year at the Ballon d'Or at the end of the year, three striker positions, Messi and Ronaldo will definitely occupy one each, and the remaining one is probably the biggest one at the moment for Paris Saint-Germain's Ibrahimovic, but you also have a chance, provided you have to show quickly and make others think that you are better than that Swede."

"Let me remind you, the tall Swedish man has scored 35 goals so far in 2013, and you have scored 35 goals so far in 2013, if you can continue to keep the number of goals not to be pulled away, although your reputation is much smaller than the opponent's, but your results in personal honors are better than the opponent's, you should also have a good chance of being selected."

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Early the next morning, Ringer went out to drive to the training base on the outskirts of the city, and ran into an acquaintance again.

"Hello Ringer, congratulations on being selected for the Golden Globe." Coming was Wen Jin of Xinlang Entertainment, and there were a few people carrying cameras behind him.

"Thanks, are you going to interview me?" Ringer thinks they're going to be a lot of people today.

"That's right, according to the data summarized by the European media, you are the most capable striker in all of Europe~~~"

Ringer also recently learned about the report in "French Football", and he actually didn't have much of a feeling, that is, a normal game run, and unintentionally ran into the most capable striker.

But after the report was reprinted by the domestic media, it caused a lot of discussion. At present, the average running of Chinese Super League players is even 7km per game, and it is already the famous "can't run to death" if they can run more than 9km, which is nothing, they have always played like that, but now when compared with Ringer's data, it shows the gap.

Ringer averaged more than 12km per game, and they ran less than 7km in a draw, and Ringer was almost as good as they were in two games in a game.

And with the hints given by the European media, and the Chinese media searched through the data, it was concluded that after Ringer joined Europe, the average running per game (every 90 minutes) in the Champions League since last season exceeded 13km, ranking 9th among all players participating in the Champions League, and the only striker player within the top 20 running, and the rest are all midfielders.

The most runner in the Champions League was Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen, who joined Tottenham Hotspur in the summer, who averaged 14.4km per game in the Champions League last season, but failed to lead Ajax out of the group.

So running this data, he is just a data, not necessarily good if you run more. Messi has never been known for his physical strength, his average running per game is often about 8km, but if he can score, no one will talk about this, and even Barcelona's "World Sports" two years ago also said that Messi is a "genius of walking", and those strikers who run desperately are just "coolies with no talent".

However, Ringer can run, and has also achieved success in Europe, and there have been a lot of discussions in China, some think that Chinese football is not good, that is, those who play football are too lazy, and they are even more reluctant to run, and now there is a Ringer who is willing to run, so he kicked out.

There are also bricks who believe that the inability of Super League players to run is mainly caused by eating habits, etc., they are born with insufficient physical strength, and Ringer is just a special case.

In short, during this time, there have been a lot of discussions on this issue in China, and many people who can't fight will stand up and say a few words.

With this hot topic, the Xinlang Sports Association Sports Weekly came to Spain and planned to do an "unannounced visit" to Ringer, that is, to record how Ringer trained in the team every day, how he rested, and then took it back to China to play.

"Okay, you can just don't disturb the team's training, otherwise Coach Simeone has a bad temper and won't be polite to you." Ringer agreed to their request, and was helping him with propaganda anyway.

"It's okay, we've already communicated with the club, it won't affect your training, and I believe Coach Simeone won't embarrass us." These guys are also prepared.

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"It's 7 o'clock in the morning Spanish time, and Ringer is driving to the team's training base in the suburbs, and the BMW in front of him is that."

Ringer drove in front, followed by Wen Jin and their filming car, and there were special personnel in the car doing commentary.

"You may think that the streets of Madrid are still deserted at 7 o'clock in the morning, but in fact, Spaniards have a late schedule, and 9 o'clock is their normal wake-up time."

After a 20-minute drive, Ringer arrived at the Espino training base.

"Lin, I knew you would come so early." The security guard at the gate was a young man in his 20s, and he was obviously prepared for Ringer to come to the training base so early.

The security guard put Ringer in, and just as he wanted to lie down to catch up on sleep, another car stopped at the door.

"Hey, what are you guys doing? Parking is not possible here. The young man immediately poked his head out and shouted.

"We are ~~~"

A group of Asians carrying cameras came down, and then spoke in unfamiliar Spanish for a while, and the security guy remembered that the club had informed him yesterday that there would be such a group of Chinese reporters to interview at the training base, so he was willing to cooperate.

"Lin? He comes over every morning at 7 a.m., and I'm used to opening the door for him early every day. ”

"Normal training usually starts at 9 or 10 o'clock, but Lin has to come in advance to do training, and he often comes early to warm up, and then he moves out the training equipment alone, and there he practices free kicks and waits for his teammates. You know, there is no such thing as a genius in free kicks, every free kick master is obtained by hard training, and I think Lin will also be a free kick master in the future. ”

"Physical training? No, Lin has not trained his physical strength alone, his physical training is carried out with the team, he is always energetic, and he does not need to train his physical strength alone at all. ”

Wen Jin and his entourage entered the training base, and soon saw a person warming up there, and then went to the storage room to move out the human wall needed for free kick training, the goal block, etc., and began to practice by themselves.

The camera gets busy and starts filming Ringer's training from all angles.

After 9 o'clock, Atletico players began to arrive one after another, and soon the Atletico Madrid coaching staff also appeared, and the day's training began.

During the training, the film crew could only shoot far away and could not pass, which was Simeone's request.

So the footage can only be seen, Simeone and a fat assistant coach are always shouting on the sidelines, but they can't hear what they are shouting at all. Every once in a while, a player is called out to the sidelines to talk alone, and Ringer is called up the most often.

Each time, Ringer would listen carefully, nod his head occasionally, rarely speak, and return to the field to continue training when he was done.

When the morning training is over, the players go back to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes, which is also a place where the filming team cannot go.

The players went to the restaurant for dinner, and this time the crew was finally allowed in.

"Yes, the food here doesn't taste very good, but they're athletes and they have to endure that, and it's good for their bodies." This is the chef of the restaurant in an interview.

"The meat here is only chicken, beef and fish, and a lot of it is boiled in salted water with a few simple condiments, so the taste may not be liked by many people."

"Of course, there are also fried ones, fried steak and french fries are popular with everyone, and we have to serve them as well, but the quantity has to be controlled, and the frying has to be in olive oil."

"Flour products must be whole wheat, there will be whole grains, and milk should be low in fat."

"Fruit is a must at every meal, there is fresh fruit, there is also fruit juice or fruit salad to choose from."

'We provide lunch and dinner every day on training days, but only lunch is mandatory here, so other times the players are more on their own and if a player wants to eat junk food, God can't stop him.

"Lin? He's a very self-made player, he eats two meals here on training days, and he's asked us how to mix breakfast and supper, so his success is no accident. ”

Soon after lunch, it was time for the players to take a lunch break, and the crew had to go and interview the rest of the staff at the training base.

"Lin? He's a very talented player and he's hard working, I've been here for more than a decade and I've seen Vieri, Torres, Sergio Aguero, Forlan, Falcao and Costa as the strikers and they've seen one success after another, but I think Lin can reach higher heights than them. "This is what the old man in the equipment management of the training base said.

In the afternoon, the filming team filmed the team's afternoon training from afar, and after the end, some left immediately, some would eat dinner and then leave, and some would eat dinner and rest for a while and continue to practice.

This time, the film crew was allowed to come and shoot nearby, and Atletico's fat assistant coach was pulling Ringer and Courtois on the field, so that the new talented goalkeeper in Europe could talk to Ringer about the problem.

"I think the angle is good for Lin's free kick just now, but there is no power, no speed, so I can easily get the ball."

"Hear me, Lin, this is the goalkeeper you are facing, the intuitive experience you gave him." Fat Boggs said.

"With the added power, it's easy to knock the ball off."

"So that's your question at the moment, how do you add power to the ball but also hold it down. Many free-kick masters will have a small upward jump at the moment of kicking the free kick, which is not because they want to jump, but because they are holding the ball, and they naturally make this action. ”

"How to hold the ball, everyone has a different way, they all have their own feeling of pressing the ball, you also need to find this feeling now~~~"