Champion’s Heart

After the group drawing ceremony, it was the awards ceremony, which will award the best player of the European club last season.

This award was established last year, with the intention of resuming the previous European Golden Globe Awards and fighting against the FIFA Golden Globe Awards. This is an action taken by UEFA President Platini after the European Golden Globe Awards were collected by FIFA.

The European Club Best Player Award is selected by journalists from 53 European countries for the first round of voting, the top three players are selected, the final round of voting, and then the live voting at the award ceremony to select Best player.

This award is not limited to nationality, as long as the player plays in the clubs of the UEFA member states, and the player's performance in domestic, international, club, and national team competitions will be considered.

In the first European club best player selection last year, Zhou Yi was the only Chinese player on the shortlist. He eventually ranked 27th in this selection, a far cry from the top three.

This time, he is no longer the only Chinese player selected. Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Sun Pan also ranked among them with his excellent performance in the La Liga and the UEFA Cup.

But this time it still didn't matter to them.

Zhou Yi didn't even have to go to the scene because he didn't enter the final three-man roster. Although he performed very well in Dortmund, he still lacked a little persuasion compared to those three who made it to the final list.

The three finalists are Iniesta and Messi of Barcelona, ​​and Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid.

These three are the three best players in football today, and there is no doubt about it.

Zhou Yi still has a long way to go to become one of the three best stars in the world. Of course he is still young...

Although the Champions League last season was Chelsea, but in this selection, Chelsea did not have a player entered the three-man list. Because this is not the selection of the Champions League's own players, but the best player in all competitions throughout the season.

Although Barcelona were eliminated by Dortmund and Real Madrid were eliminated by Bayern Munich, the brilliance of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo is too dazzling, and the final list is also normal.

Iniesta was also favored by journalists for his irreplaceable importance in Barcelona.

Before the final results were announced, the three candidates were invited to the stage in succession. The host conducted a short interview with Iniesta, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

When asked about the Portuguese, the host asked a question and made the scene laugh, she asked: "Cristiano, what do you think of Real Madrid's grouping result in the Champions League this season?"

This question is generally after the lottery award consciousness is over. The reporters asked the players below. I did not expect the host to make a guest appearance directly. I asked this question in front of everyone.

Obviously, everyone is very interested in this one of the most terrifying death group ever.

In the laughter of everyone, the Portuguese shook his head, with a helpless smile on his face. Then he shrugged to the host's microphone and said, "This group is really difficult to play. Every opponent is very strong. But as the La Liga champion last season, we have the confidence and ability to face any strong enemy challenge. "

This answer was quite satisfactory, but in fact, after careful consideration, it revealed the ambition and confidence of the Portuguese. Because he used a word-"challenge", who would be challenged? Of course, the team with the strongest strength and the highest status will face the challenge. That is to say, in his view, Real Madrid has the strongest team in this group.

Today, this beautiful host seems to be deliberately spoiling. After asking Cristiano Ronaldo, she turned the microphone to Messi next to the Portuguese, but the question she asked about Messi was not related to Barcelona. It was related to Real Madrid. She asked : "So Leo, as a Barcelona player, how did you see Real Madrid being divided into the death group?"

Beauty is always privileged. If such a question is asked by a obese middle-aged man, I am afraid that Messi would have rejected it in silence. But when the beautiful hostess threw this question out with a sly smile on his face, Messi was embarrassed to refuse.

After everyone's laughter ended, he replied with a smile: "Everything in the death group can happen. I think in this level of competition, strength and luck are equally important."

This answer is obviously something that was not asked, but in fact it just means that you do not want to answer this question directly.

The beauty host knew that she would accept it when she saw it, and did not continue to ask questions.

This bypassed two people and ended the interview.

Finally, there was a live vote to announce the winning players.

Standing on the stand, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who looked like the protagonists, failed to win this award. The person who won the award was the low-key Iniesta.

This result also seems to indicate that the European club best player award is more professional than the FIFA Golden Globe Awards.

When Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo monopolized the FIFA Golden Globe Award and its predecessor, Mr. World Football, many people called Xavi, Iniesta, Sneijder and others outrageous. Experts believe that these players are no less important than Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but the latter two are more dominant in the voting because I am more famous around the world.

For example, in 2010, Mr. World Football was finally awarded to Messi, but this result was controversial.

The 2010 FIFA Best Player Selection is the first time after the merger of World Football and the European Golden Globe. The votes are divided into three shares: the national team coach, the national team captain and the media reporter each have a third of the vote Right, which led to a more professional media ticket is only a minority, so in the end, the more famous Messi won the FIFA Golden Ball Award that year after the merger, that is, Mr. World Football.

In 2010, Messi had no results in the clubs Barcelona and Argentina. In the eyes of many professionals, he is basically a soy sauce player in the selection of the player of the year. The Spanish national team and Barcelona's double-court midfielder Harvey, as well as the Dutch national team and Inter Milan's double-court midfielder Sneijder, are more qualified than him to win the FIFA Golden Globe.

Harvey led the Spanish national team to the historic World Cup in South Africa. Sneijder not only led the Dutch national team to the World Cup final for the third time in history, but also led Inter Milan to complete the Serie A, Italian Cup and Champions League. Wang's great cause.

In the end, Messi, who had no convincing performance, won the Golden Globe Award for his greater fame.

This result attracted many people's protests, which also gave birth to Platini's idea to restart the European Golden Globe Awards. Since the name "Golden Ball Award" already belongs to FIFA, UEFA has re-acquired the name "European Club Best Player Award", and the trophy cannot continue to use the classic golden football shape, but has become a A jersey shape with arms raised.

2011 was the first time. Messi was elected with 39 votes. Barcelona won the Champions League in the 2010-2011 season. Messi was the top scorer. This performance won this award, but it was more than a year ago. Convincing. In this selection, there is another episode. That was always confident, but too high-profile and unflattering Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo got only three pitiful votes in the final live ballot. When the number of votes was exposed, it suddenly attracted Many people hate him. In China, the Portuguese star even got a nickname called "Luo San votes"... which is also miserable.

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After the award ceremony, the final top ten rankings of the best players in European clubs announced by the media soon appeared on the Internet.

What made many Chinese fans and Chinese reporters so unexpected was ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They saw a familiar name in the top ten-Zhou Yi.

Yes, compared with the 27th place a year ago, Zhou Yi made rapid progress this year, just like being a rocket, it can be called the player of European football. His final ranking is exactly tenth.

Before him were Falcao in ninth place, Cech in eighth place, Drogba in seventh place, Casillas in sixth place, Harvey in fifth place, and Peel in fourth place Lowe, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo tied for second place, and Iniesta, who was eventually elected the best player.

This list of ten people was selected by the most authoritative media reporters in Europe. In other words, these ten people are the ten most recognized people in the world by the authority.

And Zhou Yi is one of the ten strongest people!

This really surprised some Chinese fans and reporters. They knew Zhou Yi was very powerful, but some people were worried that this is because everyone is Chinese, so there will be some sentiments toward Zhou Yi's evaluation, but now it seems...European The evaluation of Zhou Yi is higher than many people think! (To be continued.)