After the 13th round of La Liga, the Copa del Rey will be played in the middle of the week.

However, ahead of the Copa del Rey match, on December 1, FIFA announced the final list of three players for the 2014 FIFA Ballon d'Or.

Ringer, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, these are the three who were finally selected.

Although everyone has long known that Ringer's selection into the final three-person list is a sure thing, when this incident really happened, it still caused a lot of repercussions.

"Former Asian Footballer of the Year, Chinese Football Player Ringer was selected as the final three-person list of the FIFA Golden Ball Awards, becoming the first person in the history of Asian football", this is the layout given by the homepage of the official website of the AFC.

"Ringer was selected as the final three, the pride of Asian football"

"J-League to European giants, Ringer's road to transformation"

In short, Ringer's name has been swiped across Asia, and his name can be seen on sports websites and media in various countries.

In the news broadcast that night, Ringer received a special brief report: "In the early morning of December 2, Beijing time, on the afternoon of December 1, local time in Europe, FIFA announced the final list of three candidates for the 2014 Golden Ball Award, Chinese football player Ringer with his outstanding performance in the past year, successfully selected into the final three-person list, this is the first time that Asian players have entered the final selection, and the final award results will be announced at the FIFA Awards Ceremony on January 12 next year~~~." ”

Ringer has been a leading figure in Asian football since last season, and his inclusion in the Ballon d'Or trio squad has boosted his fame even more.

And on the Korean Peninsula, which borders northeastern China, something related to Ringer also happened.

First, Ringer was selected for the Golden Globe Award three-person list, and the people in South Korea came out to do something, and they must find a Korean descent for Ringer.

In fact, they had been doing this before, but they had never been able to find a convincing statement, and this time, they were going to start with Ringer's surname.

Lin is a Chinese surname, and it is also a Korean surname. In the thirties of the last century, when the Japanese invaded Korea and turned Korea into their colony, many Koreans (who were still Koreans at that time) fled to China, and according to the Koreans, Ringer is likely to be the descendant of those Koreans who fled to China at that time, so he was a person of "noble" Korean blood.

This is also really TM wonderful, dare to say anything.

What's even more bizarre is that someone really came out to admit it. In South Korea, someone surnamed Lin came out and said that some of their ancestors had a certain relative who fled by boat to the area of Shanghai, Jiangsu, China, and later settled there.

Well, this TM came to touch the porcelain by force, and Ringer didn't bother to deal with them.

The 38th parallel is a strange dividing line, the most famous is that the south of the 38th parallel is shameless, and the north of the 38th parallel is not fatal.

The shameless Ringer could ignore it, but if he didn't want to die, Ringer had to respond.

The day after Mr. Ringer was named to the three-man Golden Globe list, North Korea's official spokesman said he would invite Mr. Ringer to visit the country next summer.

In fact, this did not happen suddenly, as at the AFC's annual awards ceremony on November 30, when officials of the North Korean Football Association said that they would invite Ringer to visit North Korean football students.

"I invited Ringer because the kids in North Korea love him. In the football schools in Pyongyang, if you asked them who the best players were, some would say Messi, some would say Cristiano Ronaldo, but in the last two years, they would say Ringer. They all love football, and they also like Ringer ~~~" This is what the official of the North Korean Football Association said in front of reporters.

It is worth mentioning that at the AFC awards ceremonies last year and this year, Ringer was successfully elected as the best overseas player, but Ringer did not go back, and the officials of the Chinese Football Association accepted the award on his behalf. According to the "Football News", the biggest benefit of Ringer's rise for the Chinese Football Association is that as long as Ringer's state suddenly declines in the future, almost all of the best overseas player awards every year are Ringer's, and the Chinese Football Association can also have at least one trophy every year, and there will be no embarrassing situation of not winning a trophy in three or four years as in previous years.

When Ringer first heard that he was invited to visit, he was a little hesitant to go, but then he received a call from the North Korean Football Association, in which they not only formally invited Ringer, but also said that their Kim boss also attached great importance to the invitation.

North Korea's Kim boss is famous for his love of football. There is a joke that during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the head coach of the North Korean national team who went to South Africa to compete at that time carried a satellite phone with him to ensure that he could accept tactical adjustments from Pyongyang at any time.

Of course, the credibility of this statement is not high, and it is more likely that others deliberately made it out to ridicule North Korea, but Boss Kim is indeed more concerned about football.

After Ringer and Krott deliberated, they felt that they could accept the invitation, which was also a good way to increase their influence.

For special political reasons, few prominent Westerners are willing to visit North Korea, but Ringer himself is Chinese, which is not a big problem.

Ringer agreed to the other party's invitation, so this time, taking advantage of Ringer's selection of the three Golden Globe Awards, the North Korean side also announced the invitation to Ringer to visit.

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Ringer's inclusion in the three-man list of Ballon d'Or is hugely influential in Asia, but not so much in Europe, as it was expected.

Regarding the list of three Ballon d'Or winners, the biggest controversy on the European side is Messi, and the German side is almost noisy.

"The shame of football, the World Cup winning team has no one in the top three? This was reported by the German magazine Kicker.

In fact, since the World Footballer of the Year award began, or since the selection scope of the European Ballon d'Or was expanded to the whole world, there has never been a World Cup winning team that has not been selected in the top three.

In 1994, Romario, who helped Brazil win the championship, was elected World Footballer of the Year, but that year the European Ballon d'Or had not been extended to the whole world, and it was the former Barcelona star Stoichkov who won the World Cup Golden Boot and helped Bulgaria reach the World Cup semi-finals.

In 1998, Zinedine Zidane, who helped France win the championship, won the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or.

In 2002, Ronaldo, who performed at the top of the World Cup, won both the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or.

In 2006, Cannavaro, captain of the World Cup-winning team, won both the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or.

In 2010, the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or merged for the first time, and although Messi was unexpectedly elected, the core players of the World Cup-winning team, Andres Iniesta and Xavi, were both in the top three.

And this time, the fact that no one in the German team, as the World Cup winner, can make it to the top three of the FIFA Ballon d'Or is indeed huge news, and the whole of Europe is discussing this issue.

Since Ringer and Ronaldo entered the top three with relatively little controversy, the Germans thought that Messi squeezed them out and snatched the places, so Germany was quite unconvinced by this.

"Messi is just a loser, he doesn't deserve to be in the top three."

"Messi is a robber, he robbed Neuer of his honor."

A wide variety of topics are buzzing in Germany.