Chapter 40 Studying with the Prince?

Although Zhou Yi can become the final three candidates and has created the history of Chinese football and even Asian football, everyone still hopes that he can win the highest honor.

Many people even have this idea in their minds - Zhou Yi's performance last season was simply amazing. Honorably, he led the team to win the Bundesliga championship, completed three consecutive league championships, and even won the Big Ears Cup in the Champions League. .

Such an amazing achievement and blinding results, for Zhou Yi, is the best opportunity in his career. This is not the year of major competitions such as the European Cup and World Cup. If he fails to win the award this time, who knows when will he wait until the next one?

In fact, to put it bluntly, the majority of Chinese fans are still not confident enough in Zhou Yi. Although Zhou Yi is still very young, everyone always thinks that being able to enter the final list this time is just like having bad luck, and such good luck may not happen to everyone. Every time, Zhou Yi will be favored.

Now that it has appeared, you should seize it, otherwise there will be no such store after passing this village.

But the reality is cruel. It does not mean that if you get enough honors, you will definitely win the award.

Many people have such worries, and the reason why they have such worries is because there have been similar precedents before.

The 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or selection was the first year that FIFA and the "France Football" magazine Ballon d'Or were merged. That year was also the year of the World Cup.

The final three candidates for the FIFA Ballon d'Or that year were Iniesta, Xavi and Messi.

There is no need to look at the final results, just look at the three-person candidate list. Anyone who really understands football can see the problem, because only the top three in the voting process can enter the final candidate list. The Dutch midfielder , Inter Milan’s core Sneijder is not here!

In the European club competition that year, Inter Milan became the biggest winner. The team led by Mourinho won the Serie A championship, Italian Cup championship and Champions League championship, becoming the first triple crown in Serie A history.

The core of the team, Sneijder, is the key figure in the team's ability to win the Triple Crown. His performance is very good. In the various awards for the best club players in the European season in the middle of the year, Sneijder beat Barcelona's Xavi and Bayern Munich's Dutch compatriot Robben to become the best midfielder.

In the national team competition that year, Sneijder's good form also continued. He and Robben led the Dutch national team through the World Cup in South Africa, and reached the World Cup final again after the 1978 World Cup in Germany. This is the best result of the Dutch national team in the World Cup after 32 years. Especially when playing against the favorite Brazilian team, Sneijder's performance was even more perfect. When the Brazilian team took the lead in the first half and the situation was great, it was Sneijder who stood up and scored two goals. The ball completed the comeback against Brazil, sending Kaka back to Brazil, and he made it all the way to the final.

In the final, the Netherlands and Spain struggled until overtime before they were finally defeated by Iniesta's goal. But despite this, Sneijder's performance in that World Cup was perfect. With five goals and one assist, Sneijder used such statistics to tell everyone that he is the core and leader of the Dutch national team. He also won the Silver Ball and Bronze Boot awards at that World Cup.

The club's honor and the performance of the national team are both very good. Compared with Zhou Yi, this performance is comparable, because with the bonus of the national team competition, it may be more convincing than Zhou Yi's results.

But such an outstanding player, at the peak of his career, couldn't even make the top three in the selection... Isn't this funny?

The FIFA Ballon d'Or is the merger of the former World Player of the Year and the Ballon d'Or of "France Football", so the voting method is a simple and crude addition of the two voting methods, but the weight is not considered. The reporter voting method of "France Football" Ballon d'Or Award and the voting method of national team head coach + captain of FIFA World Player are simply added together, but the number of national team head coaches and captains is significantly more than that of media reporters. Ah, so the number of votes cast by the national team head coach and captain will be much greater than that of reporters, and their choice will determine the final result. The reporters' vote, which is known for its authority, has become a foil and a make-up.

In the voting session, it can be seen that Sneijder had the highest reporter voting rate. He received 7.7% of the reporters’ votes. However, Sneijder’s voting rate for the national team captain and head coach was not as good as the final. The top three competitors were 3.79% and 3% respectively.

In the final total vote rate, Sneijder ranked fourth at 14.48%. And what about Messi, who ranks first in this category? The total vote rate was as high as 22.65%, but the media vote rate was indeed the lowest among the top four - 4.38%.

He relied on the votes of the national team captain and national team coach, which were 8.55% and 9.72% respectively, significantly ahead of the remaining three.

This voting method of FIFA has been criticized as unprofessional, which is in sharp contrast to the voting method of the Ballon d'Or Award of "France Football" that year.

Some people may find it strange that they are both head coaches and captains of the national team, so why are they unprofessional?

The professionalism of players is reflected in their football skills, but not necessarily in their comprehensive understanding of football.

It can be said that the captain of a national team may not understand the general trend of world football as well as a Chinese fan who cannot even kick the ball well.

Not to mention the head coaches and captains of those small and weak football countries. For example, how much do you expect the head coach and captain of the Tonga national team to know about world football? Their football intelligence may rely more on media reports, so the stars who often appear in the media are naturally the people they are most familiar with, such as world-class superstars like Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

When it's time to vote, they don't know anything about the other candidates and only vote for names that look familiar to them. Of course, people like Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo take advantage.

FIFA currently has 209 member countries, and the national team head coaches and captains of each member country have voting rights, which is equivalent to 418 voting qualifications. And what about the media jury here at the Golden Globes? Only fifty-three authoritative media outlets are eligible to vote.

Even if all 53 media reporters chose Sneijder, it would still be no match for the 418 votes cast for Messi.

So under such a weird voting rule, the best player in 2010, Sneijder, was shamefully not even included in the top three...

Before the final results were released, the top three alone caused great controversy and doubts.

And when the final results came out, almost all the media were dissatisfied - you said that Sneijder did not enter the top three and was not qualified to participate in the final competition, then okay. Let's look at the remaining three people. Xavi or Iniesta, who led the Spanish national team to win the World Cup, should be more likely to win than Messi and have higher qualifications, right?

But no, Messi won the final FIFA Ballon d'Or!

When the results were announced, Messi himself was surprised and surprised - he really didn't think he was qualified to win the award.

In the World Cup year, the performance in the World Cup has a high reference value. Messi's performance in the World Cup cannot be compared with Xavi and Iniesta. He did not score a goal in the World Cup in South Africa and led the team The Argentine national team was also beaten by the German team. How can such a performance be worthy of the Ballon d'Or?

But who said he was the most popular world-class star in the media in recent years, and was even called the third world champion?

He has high media exposure and his name frequently appears in various reports. Anyone who knows football knows him as Messi, which gives him an advantage in voting...

In this way, Messi controversially won the highest award among individual player honors that year, the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

Since there is no competition for the European Ballon d'Or and FIFA, Messi was the top professional player in the world that year.

This is definitely unfair. In terms of Messi's strength, he is certainly one of the best players in the world, but based on his performance in 2010, he should not surpass Sneijder and get this award.

But many years later, when people look up the winners of the 2010 Ballon d'Or, they will only see Messi's name, and many people may not know the story behind it. They will take it for granted that Messi won the Ballon d'Or that year because he performed the best that year and was officially recognized.

Such a thing can happen to Sneijder, the core player of the Netherlands, a powerful football country, so why can't it happen to Zhou Yi, the core player of the Chinese team, a weak football country, three years later?

You know, Sneijder still won the Triple Crown, but Zhou Yi didn't even win the Triple Crown.

The only thing they can hope for is the authority and impartiality of the European Sports Media Alliance reporters, hoping that they can make choices that are consistent with their professional evaluation and authoritative status.

But some people are worried that at this juncture, will there be the possibility of racial discrimination? Racial discrimination on football fields has always been very serious. Such problems also exist in the media dominated by Europeans and Americans. They are only more prejudiced against China. Think about the London Olympics just past year. It was simply a teaching example of European and American media’s discrimination against Chinese sports.

Will some reporters think that Chinese players are not worthy of this honor and do not want to see Chinese players take a share of the football project, so they choose to vote for Messi or Ribery?

When the results are about to be announced, Chinese fans who have had low self-esteem in the football world for a long time are particularly sensitive and fragile...

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