Chapter 1,238 Winning Another Golden Globe Award

A month has passed in a blink of an eye, and it’s finally time for the Golden Globe Awards to reveal the mystery.

After the third round match between the FA Cup and Manchester City, Gao Xiaodong and Ferguson took a flight to Zurich, Switzerland the next day to attend the FIFA Ballon d'Or Award Ceremony.

During this period, Manchester United performed brilliantly. They won a complete victory in the devilish Christmas schedule. However, Manchester City also performed equally well. Manchester United won a complete victory but could not surpass Manchester City.

This is a big blow to Manchester United.

After Chelsea, no team has put such great pressure on Manchester United.

Although Manchester United has been unable to surpass Manchester City in the league, Manchester United performed even better in the FA Cup. They defeated Manchester City 3:2 and eliminated their local rivals from this oldest competition. They finally took a breath of bad breath for losing to their opponents in the league. .

In the Club World Cup, Manchester United has also gained a lot.

The predecessor of the Club World Cup was the Toyota Cup, which was a confrontation between the European champions and the American champions. It was later transformed by FIFA into a confrontation between the champions of the five continents.

Although the Club World Cup is nominally very high-end and is the king of clubs in the world, in fact, except for Europe and America, clubs in other states are novices, and their level is probably not even comparable to that of the secondary leagues of the five major leagues. .

For Manchester United, what really means something is the final match against an American team (basically all American clubs advance).

Manchester United defeated Asian champions Al Sadd 5-0 in the semi-finals and swept South American champions Santos 4-0 in the final, easily winning the Club World Cup.

With the addition of a Club World Cup title, Manchester United attended the awards ceremony with the honor of five crowns. Gao Xiaodong and Ferguson also received a warm welcome from fans and reporters in Zurich.

This award ceremony will select the best team of the year, the best men's and women's football coach, the Fair Play Award, the FIFA President's Special Award, the Puskas Goal of the Year Award, the World Football Miss and the FIFA Ballon d'Or Award. Awards.

Ferguson and Gao Xiaodong are the favorites for the Golden Globe Award and the Best Coach.

Among the three candidates for the Ballon d'Or, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mourinho, the best coach candidate, both believed that it was impossible for them to win the award and announced in advance that they would not attend the award ceremony.

Reporters and fans felt very sorry for this. Everyone had been looking forward to the meeting between Gao Xiaodong and Mourinho, but Mourinho did not give this opportunity.

This football feast not only brings together the best players, coaches and presidents of today,

Football celebrities such as Pele, Zidane, Van Basten and Gullit also became presenters.

The last time he attended the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, Gao Xiaodong was still a rising star. Few people paid attention to him when he came to the hall. But now, as soon as he walked in, he became the center of attention. Wherever he went, almost everyone stood up and followed him. He shook hands and greeted them as if they knew each other well.

Gao Xiaodong and Ferguson came to the first row, and Messi and Guardiola, who had already arrived in advance, stood up to shake hands with them.

Although these two pairs of masters and apprentices are competitors for the Golden Globe Award and the Best Coach, everyone is very gentlemanly and elegant, and they had a good conversation after sitting down.

The big screen on the rostrum played exciting videos of the candidates for various awards. Then Ruud Gullit and Kaye Murray, who served as the masters of ceremony for this award ceremony, invited the football king Pele to come on and deliver a speech.

Football king Pele said that this is a moment that belongs to the FIFA family and makes him feel as warm as returning home. Thank you to FIFA President Sepp Blatter, thank God for letting him stand here healthy, and welcome everyone to Brazil to watch the 2014 Brazil World Cup!

Then Gullit announced the best lineup. The goalkeeper is Real Madrid's Casillas, right back Alves, center backs Pique and Vidic, left back Ramos; midfielders Xavi, Iniesta and Gao Xiaodong , forwards Messi, Ronaldo and Rooney. Real Madrid's four players Alonso, Ramos and Ronaldo were absent from the awards, but they expressed their gratitude to the fans through video recordings.

This lineup was jointly launched by FIFA and the International Professional Footballers Association, and was selected by a secret vote of 55,000 members of the International Professional Footballers Association. From a total of 55 people on the roster, 4 defenders, 3 midfielders, 3 forwards and a goalkeeper were selected to form the 2011 best team.

The best 11 players all come from three clubs: Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Manchester United. Among them, Messi and Ronaldo, who have been selected for five consecutive years, have tied Terry's record of being selected for the best team five times.

Blatter then took the stage and awarded the FIFA President's Special Award to Barcelona coach Guardiola. The third award announced was the Best Women’s Football Coach Award. German star Matthaus presented the trophy to Japanese women’s football head coach Norio Sasaki; former French international Kalembou presented the FIFA Fair Play Award to the Japan Football Association. , after experiencing the 311 earthquake, Japanese football played a positive role in motivating the people on a spiritual level, and they also won this award.

In the important award of Best Men's Football Coach, Manchester United head coach Ferguson defeated Barcelona head coaches Guardiola and Mourinho.

This is the first time that Ferguson has won the best coach award from FIFA. He is very excited about this. The old coach said that winning this award is the result of the efforts of the players. He is already 70 years old and has won this award. Finally, even if I retire, I will have no regrets.

Mexican stars Sanchez and Puskas took the stage to present the Puskas Goal of the Year Award to Brazilian international Neymar. In the Brazilian League match between Santos and Flamengo, Neymar started from the left sideline, spiking the ball to get rid of the opponent's two players. After cooperating with his teammates against the wall, he moved the ball and crossed the crotch in one go. The three defensive players then entered the penalty area and shot the ball in front of the opponent's goalkeeper.

However, many people do not think that Neymar should win this award. Most fans watching the live broadcast think that this is FIFA's egalitarianism. Gao Xiaodong's goals are not worse than Neymar's at all, just because Gao Xiaodong is very likely to win the Ballon d'Or. So I gave the Puskas Prize to someone else.

Finally, the highlight was the awarding of the Golden Globe Awards and Miss World Football. Before the awards, in order to relieve the tense atmosphere at the scene, British pop singer James Blunt performed a song "stay the night".

Then Shakira and Blatter jointly announced the Miss World Football award. Today, Sawa Hoshino, who attended the ceremony wearing a traditional Japanese kimono, defeated two major competitors, Marta and Wambach, and was honored as Miss World Football, ending Brazil's Superstar Marta has won the award for five consecutive years, becoming the first Asian player to win this award.

Finally, it was the Golden Globe Awards. Although some people thought that Messi could create some suspense before, when Ronaldo announced the number of votes received by the three candidates, everyone realized that it was just a fantasy. Gao Xiaodong received more than 6% With a vote rate of 10, this number of votes exceeded Messi and Ronaldo combined.

Gao Xiaodong excitedly received the trophy from Brazilian superstar Ronaldo and raised it high above his head, just like he lifted the championship trophy.

The guests and reporters at the scene stood up and applauded Gao Xiaodong, praising his wonderful performance in the past year.

Gao Xiaodong expressed his gratitude to his family, teammates and coaches for winning the award. "I am very happy to receive this award for two consecutive years. I would like to thank everyone who supports me, my family, coaches, and good partners at Manchester United. The Ballon d'Or is a personal representative." The honor that the team has received, they also have a share in this honor.”