On January 13, 2014, the 2013 FIFA Annual Awards Ceremony was held at the Zurich Opera House in Switzerland.

Compared to previous years, this year's Golden Globe Awards are full of controversy.

FIFA originally set the voting deadline for the Ballon d'Or on November 15, but five days after the voting deadline, FIFA abruptly announced that the voting deadline had been extended to November 29 and that those who had already voted would be allowed to change their previous votes.

This kind of practice of revising the rules after the fact has never been done before, so it caused a lot of doubts from the outside world at the time.

Some even believe that this is a rule modified by FIFA specifically for Ronaldo.

The reason is simple, the day before FIFA's announcement, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in the World Cup qualifying play-offs against Sweden, not only beating Ibrahimovic in a head-to-head duel, but also leading Portugal to the World Cup main event.

At this time, the postponement of the vote, and the permission to modify the previous vote, is definitely conducive to Ronaldo's election.

And before that, there was another incident in football - Blatter criticized the Ronaldo incident.

At the end of October, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said at the Oxford Forum that he prefers Messi, believing that 'Ronaldo is like a commander on the pitch and pays more attention to his hairstyle'.

This sentence caused a thousand waves with one stone and caused a great sensation in the football world.

Blatter's words deeply angered Ronaldo and offended Real Madrid.

Cristiano Ronaldo publicly announced that he would refuse to attend all FIFA events, including the Ballon d'Or ceremony.

And Real Madrid president Florentino called Blatter and asked him to publicly apologize to Ronaldo.

At the same time, fans including Cristiano Ronaldo and celebrities from Real Madrid and Portugal have slammed Blatter, believing that he should apologize for his words and actions.

What's more, some people believe that FIFA's Ballon d'Or is shady.

Blatter, as the president of FIFA, actually announced in public that he favored Messi, which makes it difficult to believe that the award of the Ballon d'Or is fair, especially since there has been a competition between Messi and Sneijder for the Ballon d'Or before.

Seeing that things are getting bigger and bigger, all kinds of conspiracy theories have emerged, and in the face of huge public opinion pressure, Blatter had to apologize to Ronaldo on the official tweet and hoped to have a friendly dialogue with Ronaldo, but this request was decisively rejected by Ronaldo.

Therefore, many people believe that FIFA suddenly changed the rules temporarily in order to show favor to Ronaldo and Real Madrid.

It's outrageous enough to extend the time to vote, and it's outrageous enough to allow you to amend a vote that has already been cast before.

This approach naturally aroused strong dissatisfaction with Ribery, who had a very high probability of winning the Ballon d'Or according to expectations from all parties.

After all, in a year without international competitions, he deserved to win the Ballon d'Or as the core of the Champions League winning team.

However, being so involved by FIFA greatly reduced the probability of Ribery winning the award.

Before the final results of the Golden Globe Awards were announced, in the odds offered by Spinach, the probability of Ribery winning had fallen to second, behind Cristiano Ronaldo, and even about to be caught up by Lin Quan, who was in third place.

Although Ribery was suppressed, Lin Quan suddenly appeared.

FIFA temporarily changed the rules in order to open the back door for Ronaldo.

But during the time when Ronaldo was in full swing, Lin Quan's performance in the league and the Champions League was also extremely bright.

This greatly increased his probability of winning the award, even surpassing Messi, who missed many games due to injury, and successfully selected for the final three players of this year's Ballon d'Or.

If you compare the data of Ronaldo and Lin Quan in 2013, Lin Quan's performance is not inferior to Ronaldo.

At the national team level, Lin Quan led Spain to 17 consecutive victories as the core of the team, and won the Confederations Cup with a winning record.

At club level, he led Werder Bremen to the German Cup and the Bundesliga Golden Boot.

In the Premier League, he has led Manchester City unbeaten and is well ahead of other rivals in the Premier League's scorer charts.

In the Champions League, Lin Quan scored six consecutive goals, breaking the Champions League history, and the total number of goals also came back to tie Cristiano Ronaldo, and the two tied for the first place in the Champions League scorer list.

Compared with the two, Lin Quan is only slightly inferior to Ronaldo in terms of fame, and he is even ahead in other aspects.

As a result, after FIFA revised the voting rules, although Ronaldo's votes increased a lot, at the same time, Lin Quan also won the favor of many voters, and the number of votes also skyrocketed.

This makes the suspense of the final Golden Globe Award still exist, and some of the votes that might have been voted for Ronaldo after the rules were changed were divided by Lin Quan.

Ribery's lead has been eroded, but it hasn't necessarily been caught up by Ronaldo.

As for the final result, it will be revealed at the awards ceremony.

Therefore, although this year's Golden Globe Awards is full of shady scenes, it is the most anxious Golden Globe Awards in recent years.

Although Ronaldo is in the lead at the odds offered by Spinach, he has little advantage over Ribery and Lin Quan, and all three have a chance to win before the final result is known.

It is precisely because of the great suspense of this year's Golden Globe Awards that the TV ratings of this year's Golden Globe Awards are very high.

In countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany and France, viewership generally hit record highs, breaking the previous Golden Globe Awards ratings record.

In Asia, because of Lin Quan's selection, the attention of this year's Golden Globe Awards has also increased significantly, and the topic and discussion on platforms such as Tieba and Weibo are very high, and fans stay up late to wait for the final results to be announced.

With such a high level of attention, FIFA attaches great importance to this event.

They specially invited a large number of football celebrities to attend the award ceremony.

Zinedine Zidane and Ballack were the first to come to the scene, revealing the 11-man roster for the 2013 Team of the Year.

The eleven are goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer.

Defenders: Lahm, Ramos, Thiago Silva, Alves.

Midfielders: Iniesta, Xavi, Franck Français.

Forwards: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lin Quan, Messi.

The 11 award-winning people came to the stage one after another, and took a group photo after receiving the award.

The forward trio of Ronaldo, Lin Quan and Messi stood together.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a head taller than them, so he stands out when he stands next to them.

Messi is the shortest of the three, four centimeters shorter than Lin Quan.

Standing next to the two, Messi was a little unnatural.

As a victim of FIFA's changes to the Ballon d'Or voting rules, Messi failed to make the top three shortlist this year.

And the two people around him were all selected, which made Messi a little embarrassed.

What's even more embarrassing is that at the moment when the photographer took the photo, Lin Quan and Messi both noticed that Ronaldo next to him suddenly tiptoed and made himself jump again.

Ronaldo, who was already a head taller than the two, looked even taller when he took a freeze-frame photo.

Compared to him, Lin Quan and Messi are like dwarfs.

Seeing Ronaldo's move, Lin Quan and Messi both showed surprised expressions on their faces, glanced at each other, and exchanged glances.

Messi subconsciously moved a step towards Lin Quan, not wanting to be a foil for Ronaldo.

Lin Quan couldn't help but want to laugh a little, the president was really narcissistic, and he had to be the most beautiful boy when he took a photo.

The rest of this year's 11-man lineup is not discussed for the time being, but this forward combination is definitely the strongest and most expensive forward combination in history.

Among the other awards, the award for the best coach was awarded to the retired grandfather Heynckes, which was not a suspense at all, and everyone recognized the result.

The Puskas Award was awarded to Lin Quan, who won the award for his earth-shattering upside-down golden hook strike against Chelsea, beating Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Neymar.

Before he knew it, Lin Quan had completed the defense of the Puskas Prize.

This is also the first player to defend his title in this award, and Lin Quan inadvertently set another record.

The final highlight came, after awarding the FIFA Honorary Ballon d'Or to the king of the ball, Pele, the king did not leave the field.

He is here to accept the award today, and he is also the finale of the award ceremony to announce the most important award - the Golden Globe Award!

The hostess handed Bailey an envelope with the list of winners of the annual Golden Globe Awards.

After Bailey got the list, he opened it and looked at it, and then sold it:

"Wow, what an unexpected result!"

As soon as he said this, there was a burst of discussion at the scene.

An unexpected result?

Isn't it Cristiano Ronaldo who won the award?

The camera on the scene immediately focused on the Portuguese, and Ronaldo sat up straight, with a very serious expression on his face.

He originally refused to attend the Ballon d'Or ceremony, but was persuaded by Florentino to come to the scene.

But if he came to the scene and didn't win the Ballon d'Or, what was the point of him coming?

Did you come specifically to reconcile with Blatter?

But he hasn't decided to forgive Blatter yet!

Seeing that the success aroused everyone's curiosity, Bailey slowly began to open the envelope.

"The player who won the 2013 Ballon d'Or is—"

The camera locked on Ronaldo, Ribery, and Lin Quan at the same time, and gave the three of them a shot in the same frame.

In the shot, Ronaldo's expression is serious, and Ribery is slightly nervous.

Only Lin Quan, as if he had nothing to do with him, was still chatting with Guardiola on the side, and didn't seem to care about the result at all.

"This kid, his mentality is really good!"

As an outsider, Messi's mentality is relatively relaxed, and there is no tension in the past.

But he didn't expect Lin Quan, who was selected for the first time on the shortlist, to be so calm, thinking that when he was selected for the last three people for the first time, he was so nervous.

This made Messi can't help but sigh, this guy is really born with a big heart.

……

"Pep, or you will jump ship with Kroos and come to Manchester City!"

Lin Quan said to Guardiola half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Although Guardiola still has two and a half years left on his contract with Bayern, judging from Bayern's series of actions, they have a serious lack of respect for Guardiola.

The person who said he wanted to buy it didn't buy it, and he was reluctant to give the transfer fee.

During the winter break, Guardiola made it clear that he could not sell the players he sold, this kind of move, let alone put it on Guardiola, even on the tinker Ranieri, is extremely disrespectful to him.

Pep Guardiola didn't really want to talk about this topic, so he changed the subject:

"Stinky boy, you still have the heart to talk about these things or not, don't you care if you win an award at all?"

Lin Quan shrugged his shoulders indifferently: "I am fortunate to have it, but I have lost my life, besides, I am here to accompany the runner, and the winner is either Ribery or Ronaldo, it is definitely not me!" ”

Guardiola nodded slightly, Lin Quan's ability to recognize reality and not hold unrealistic illusions made him very satisfied.

After all, he is still young, and with his current performance, winning the Ballon d'Or is just around the corner.

Compared with Lin Quan, he is more worried about Ribery.

Ribery does not have the strong individual strength of the peerless Shuangjiao and Lin Quan, and Bayern does not win the Champions League every time.

And his French national team has not been outstanding in major tournaments, which means that this is likely to be the only chance of Ribery's career to win the Ballon d'Or.

That's so important to him!

If he hadn't won the prize this time, Ribery would have been devastated.

I don't know if it's going to be ruined!

Bayern now have one less midfielder, and Ribery is the team's top name, if he collapses, then Bayern's second half of the season may really be over.

"This year's Ballon d'Or winner is Cristiano Ronaldo!"

Hearing Pele read out the results, Ronaldo first lowered his head, and when he raised his head, the smile on his face could not be suppressed.

He came to the stage after kissing his girlfriend Yelena, and after shaking hands with Blatter, Pele and other award presenters, Blatter handed the Ballon d'Or trophy to Ronaldo.

The handshake between the two can be regarded as a write-off of the previous grievances.

This is the second time Ronaldo has won the Ballon d'Or after 2008, and he also broke Messi's monopoly on the Ballon d'Or for four consecutive years.

In the competition for the personal honor of the peerless double pride, Ronaldo finally got back one percent, and he no longer used one Golden Ball Award to compare with the opponent's four Golden Ball Awards.

Last year, after Messi broke the record of scoring goals in football in a natural year and achieved four consecutive Ballon d'Or awards, a voice appeared in football:

Some fans who support Messi believe that there is no such thing as a peerless duo.

Messi is the only existence, and Ronaldo, who only won one Ballon d'Or, is not qualified to be compared with Messi.

This statement has been recognized by many people in the football world, which has made Ronaldo feel a lot of pressure.

Now, the pressure has finally decreased.

When giving his acceptance speech, Ronaldo burst into tears with emotion, and after wiping away his tears many times, he began to thank his teammates at club and national team, his family and those who voted for him.

Seeing Ronaldo crying excitedly, the scene also burst into warm applause for him, but there was one person who did not applaud.

The moment Ribery read out Ronaldo's award, Ribery's whole face was pale, and he was motionless like a statue.

Someone stole his trophy!

After the award ceremony, when Ribery interviewed reporters, he directly said that he did not accept this result and would never accept it.

"I feel like I deserve this award, but there are so many off-court factors!"

Ribery's interview quickly pushed the organizer FIFA to the forefront, and the doubts on the Internet became louder.

France coach Didier Deschamps has publicly expressed his support for Ribery, believing that the Ballon d'Or result is unfair to Ribery.

And some fans in France were also very unhappy with the result, and they ran outside the headquarters of France Football magazine to protest.

As a French magazine, it turned its elbow outward, and French fans demanded that "France Football" end its cooperation with FIFA and select it separately as before.

In the face of doubts from the outside world, FIFA chose to play dead.

intends to delay it, and when the heat dissipates, the outside world will naturally not continue to pay attention to this matter.

However, at this time, French reporters dug up the fierce news.

They interviewed some of the people who took part in the polls, who said that their votes were very different from the final results, and therefore suspected that their votes had been tampered with!

For example, the head coach of the Fiji national team, Buzzetti, checked the results of his own vote published by FIFA.

Three of his votes went to Cristiano Ronaldo, Franck Ribery and Robert Lewandowski.

But Buzzetti revealed that he was a fan of Messi and Lin Quan, and he had always firmly voted for Messi, but in the results released by FIFA, Messi's name was not seen.

"Lewandowski? I didn't vote for him at all because I didn't think he was up to the level of the previous three players. ”

In the face of the reporter's interview, Buzzetti said indignantly.

Coincidentally, after Buzzetti came out to make a statement, many people who participated in the voting said that the results announced by FIFA were different from their own voting results.

After these fierce revelations were revealed, the doubts of the outside world became louder and louder, and FIFA couldn't even play dead.

So they hurriedly sent someone out to explain, saying that this situation may be the result of the football associations of various countries.

Although the coach and captain are the people who actually have the right to vote, the football associations in various countries may directly vote on behalf of the coach and captain, resulting in inconsistencies between the voting order and even the list and the selection of coaches and captains.

This explanation seems plausible, and some fans are starting to believe FIFA's explanation.

However, at this time, one of the organizers, the reporter of "France Football", Plauder, stood up and said that in the internal vote, Ribery's score was the first.

At this moment, doubts were overwhelming, French fans were indignant, and Ribery even denounced FIFA one after another in front of social media and reporters.

In order to completely dispel the suspicions of fans, FIFA approached France Football magazine, and the two sides jointly announced the votes of the three candidates for the Ballon d'Or.

Cristiano Ronaldo in first place scored 1,305 points, and Ribery received 1,127 points, nearly 200 points behind Ronaldo.

It can be said that Ribery is not wronged at all when he loses!

After FIFA announced the results, the doubts of the outside world immediately dissipated a lot.

However, fans have discovered something shocking:

The second place in the score was not Ribery, but Lin Quan!

He scored 1,265 points, just 40 points off C.

"Damn, Lin Huang almost snatched the Golden Globe Award from Ronaldo!"

"It's a big loss, if I had known this result, I should have asked the Spanish Football Association and Manchester City officials to build momentum for Lin Huang and pull up votes!"

"Who knew that Emperor Lin could get so many votes!"

"40 points narrowly won, someone will change Ronaldo's pants!"

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