Volume 1: When a Hero Appears, People Pay Attention. Chapter 82: A Prophecy (Second Update, Please Vote for Me!)

Chapter 82: One word becomes a prophecy (Second update, please vote for me!)

Chen Yingxiong is indeed very busy during this time...

Manchester City will be played on January 3, the FA Cup will be played on January 7, and the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals will be played on January 12. And on January 9, he has to go to Zurich to attend the FIFA Ballon d'Or Awards Ceremony.

So far, it is not known whether he can be elected. He only made it to the final three-person candidate list. However, the media are very optimistic about him and feel that based on his performance last year, it is not difficult to win the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

The Chinese media in particular were particularly excited. Chen Yingxiong already won the first UEFA Ballon d'Or in history six months ago, creating the history of Chinese football. If he can win the FIFA Ballon d'Or again, it will be a grand slam.

The fact that Chinese players can win such an honor is comparable to beating the United States in the Olympic Games to become the first in the gold medal and medal standings.

After all, football has always been a weak sport in China. Chen Yingxiong's award can be described as a historical breakthrough, which will go down in history.

The Chinese media were particularly excited when they thought that Chen Yingxiong might win the award. Domestic media have been promoting the FIFA awards ceremony these days, and China's CCTV has also decided to broadcast it live. Many fans left messages asking to stay up late to watch and witness this historic moment.

The selection methods of the FIFA Ballon d'Or and the UEFA Ballon d'Or are different. There is no on-site voting for this change. Instead, the final winner will be determined by a combination of votes from three parties. In fact, it is simply a merger of the previous World Footballer selection and the Ballon d'Or selection of "France Football" magazine, and adding the Ballon d'Or selection method to the previous FIFA World Footballer selection method.

The first part is the voting of football reporters from 208 media around the world, and the votes are tallied by "France Football".

The second part comes from the votes of the coaches of the national teams of the 208 associations under FIFA, and the votes are counted by FIFA.

The third distribution comes from the votes of the captains of the national teams of FIFA's 208 associations, and the votes are counted by FIFA.

The votes of these three parts each account for one-third of the total votes, and no single part can play a decisive role.

A media outlet voting on behalf of Chinese media has announced that they will vote for Chen Yingxiong: "Of course we have to support our own people, and the hero is our first choice. We also sincerely hope that Chen Yingxiong can win a championship for Chinese football. Historic FIFA Ballon d’Or!”

Even Chen Yingxiong himself feels that his chances of winning the award are very high. Because his performance last year was so brilliant, he felt there was no reason why he couldn't win this award.

You must know that the selection criteria for the FIFA Ballon d'Or Award is the player's performance during the year, which is mainly based on the following four points:

First, the individual honors and team honors obtained this year. In this regard, Chen Yingxiong has an absolute advantage. He is the top scorer in Serie A and the top scorer in the Champions League. In terms of team honors, he and Napoli won the Serie A championship and the Champions League championship. This performance is not convincing enough. Power?

Second, the characteristics of the players (talent and fair play spirit). In terms of talent, Chen Yingxiong is no worse than Messi. What may be controversial is the spirit of fair play. Chen Yingxiong feels that he has a fair play spirit because he never flops, but this may not be the case for others, because he once played in After being sent off, he beat his opponent, and in vicious retaliation on the court, he tackled the opponent for two months... This kind of behavior probably cannot be regarded as the spirit of fair play.

Third, career resume. Chen Yingxiong is slightly inferior in this regard. After all, his career has only started for five years. However, in these five years, he has won five league top scorers and three European top scorers, which may be able to make up for it.

Fourth, personality and particularly outstanding performance. Chen Yingxiong has no problem with this. Whether it is personality or outstanding performance, he has demonstrated it vividly in the past year.

Chen Yingxiong thought about it a lot and concluded that he could still beat Messi. Messi is his biggest rival and he knows it.

In this way, Chen Yingxiong followed Liverpool's general manager Niang Luffy to Zurich with his longing and hope.

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When walking on the red carpet, Chen Yingxiong is the focus of the media.

Many media believe that Chen Yingxiong should be able to win the award, because in the past year's performance, he completely suppressed Messi, especially in the direct dialogue between the Champions League and Messi, even though he played six games less than Messi. He surpassed Messi and became the top scorer. He completed a hat trick in the final to help the team defeat Barcelona and win the first Champions League trophy in history. Isn't this performance enough for him to win the award?

Although Messi is also very good, he should have no chance of winning in front of the crazy Chen Yingxiong.

Even Messi himself thinks so.

When walking on the red carpet, there was no smile on his face and he passed by in a hurry. Perhaps it was because he was bored of being Chen Yingxiong's foil.

When Chen Yingxiong walked on the red carpet, he was all smiles and waved frequently to the media and fans on both sides. The flashlight was always shrouded in his body and almost never stopped.

Completely like a winner.

Many media are curious about what shocking words Chen Yingxiong will say at the award ceremony this time - every time he attends this kind of award ceremony, he always says something surprising when accepting the award. Of course, everyone is concerned about his speeches. There are mixed reviews. Some people think he is humorous, while others think he is aggressive and graceless. But no matter what, his speech will never be a formality, will never be perfunctory, and will never be ordinary.

Even Chen Yingxiong's acceptance speech has become an important and indispensable part of the award ceremony itself...

When interviewing Chen Yingxiong, some media asked him: "If you win the award, what will you say?"

His attitude was relatively conservative, and he added an "if" before winning the award. In fact, deep down in his heart, he felt that it made no difference whether he added the "if" or not.

Chen Yingxiong smiled: "I haven't thought about it yet!"

Every speech he gave was an impromptu speech.

He was in a good mood and was extremely humble: "Maybe I won't be able to get it, hahaha!"

The reporter laughed along with him. Just kidding! You can't even get that kind of performance? Who else can get it? !

But an hour later, Chen Yingxiong’s words came true!

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FIFA President Blatter stood on the stage, holding a list of winners, which had just been opened from a sealed envelope. To show fairness and impartiality, absolutely no one has tampered with anything in advance... Of course, this is all just a matter of face. All fools know that the results have come out a long time ago, and the big bosses of FIFA must have known the results a long time ago, and may even have modified the results that they are not satisfied with - this has not happened once or twice. It has already made people numb. Everyone says that UEFA is full of insider information, and FIFA is no different. Various scandals and shady stories emerge one after another.

These days, people who believe in FIFA’s fairness and integrity are even rarer than giant pandas.

Bratt smiled and looked into the camera. He already knew the answer, and he announced the result without even glancing at the list in his hand.

"The player selected for the 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or is..." He paused, just a little trick to whet his appetite.

Then he pointed with his finger at...Messi, who was standing next to Xavi!

"Congratulations to Leo Messi!! He has won this honor for the third time in a row!!"

There was a brief silence followed by thunderous applause.

The expressions of the three people on the stage were very exciting.

Chen Yingxiong, who was originally smiling and looking confident, was stunned. The surprise on his face was very obvious, and he had no intention of hiding it.

Messi had always had a straight face before, looking expressionless. He knew that there was a high chance that he would not get it, and he just came to do it for the Green Leaf, so he didn't want to appear too happy. What's more, the person who won the award was Chen Yingxiong, a person he disliked very much. Why should he be so happy that his mortal enemy won the award?

But I didn’t expect that he would be the winner in the end!

He was stunned for a moment, and then an incredible expression appeared on his face, but this expression only lasted for a short second or two before being covered up by a happy smile - to be able to defeat his mortal enemy in such a dramatic way, he Very happy!

Xavi looks like he's just pretending. Whether it's Messi or Chen Yingxiong who wins, it's not him who wins anyway. He started being a green leaf for others last year, and now he's used to it and is already a professional supporting player. . But it’s better for Messi to win than for Chen Yingxiong to win, right? So when Blatter announced that Messi had won the award, a smile appeared on his face, and he immediately went over to hug Messi to celebrate his win.

But the brief silence at the venue was enough to explain the problem - everyone was surprised.

When CCTV broadcasts this kind of program live, it doesn't have time to make subtitles, so it always arranges for one person to do simultaneous interpretation.

But Blatter's sentence of announcing who won the prize did not require simultaneous interpretation. People who don't understand English can just guess what he said. Therefore, the host took over the task of explaining at this time, and he finished: "The person who won the 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or Award is..."

He also paused after Brat, but Chen Yingxiong's name was already in his throat and was about to come out.

When Brat pointed to Harvey, the host Liu Jianhong almost pronounced the name "Chen Yingxiong" in advance. Fortunately, his many years of hosting experience told him that it was better to be safe. Fortunately, he was safe. , otherwise it would probably be a joke.

Then he heard the name "Leo Messi".

He couldn't help but said "Hey", which was very unexpected.

Not only was he surprised, but the Chinese fans who stayed up late waiting in front of the TV were also surprised. They all feel that Chen Yingxiong is a sure shot at winning the award. Even fans of Barcelona and Messi do not think Messi has the ability to compete with Chen Yingxiong for this award. Chen Yingxiong has been too successful in the past year...

Many people thought they heard wrongly, and some people posted excitedly on the Internet announcing that Chen Yingxiong had won the award, but unexpectedly they made a big mistake.

But at this time, no one was in the mood to laugh at the arrogant person.

Chen Yingxiong didn’t win the award?

What is FIFA doing?

This must be another fucking shady story!

"Fuck! Bratt, this old thief!"

“FIFA is so damn dark!”

"Sure enough, the world is as dark as crows! It's the same damn thing at home and abroad!"

"Oh no! Messi has won two controversial awards in a row! If I were him, I would be embarrassed to accept this award!"

"Shady! Shady! Shady!!"

"What a disgrace! A disgrace to football! FIFA has disgraced football!"

Excited Chinese fans cursed in front of the TV and on the Internet.

In fact, Liu Jianhong was so excited that he wanted to curse, but he held back... But doubts about FIFA's result still popped out of his mouth: "Messi won the award? Is it really Messi?" Award-winning? Of course, Messi's performance in the past year was very good. We are not biased against Messi, but because there are others who performed better than him... 2011 is not a big competition year, there is no World Cup and no Europe Cup, there is the America's Cup, but Messi's performance was average, and Argentina did not win the championship at home... It can be said that his performance at the national team level was very unconvincing. Why did he win the award? What about the heroes? What the club said He has won the two most important championships, as well as two top scorers. In the summer, he transferred to Liverpool for 70 million pounds, which is also the second highest value in world football. Isn't such a performance worthy of it? A FIFA Ballon d'Or!"

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When Xavi and Messi hugged, when the audience burst into thunderous applause to congratulate Messi.

Chen Yingxiong stood two meters next to him - the two of them stood so far apart as soon as they came on stage. It was not the one who took the initiative to stand further away, they were both very conscious.

Chen Yingxiong, who was standing two meters away from Messi, did not applaud with the others. The beautiful host next to him applauded with a smile at first. This was a etiquette. When she found that Chen Yingxiong had a straight face and lowered his hands. When she was on both sides of her body, a surprised look appeared on her face.

Looking over again, I found that Chen Yingxiong's hand was constantly clenching and loosening, clenching and loosening...and so on.

Even next to Chen Yingxiong, she could clearly feel the... angry aura.

She was frightened. This big boy always had a smile on his face since he appeared in front of her. His smile was pretty good-looking. Although he was a bit ruffian, the host liked this feeling. Macy was too shy, like a good child, but Chen Yingxiong's wild aura fascinated her...

She didn't expect that this boy who smiled a bit like a gangster would be so terrifying when he suddenly became angry, and it even exceeded the range she could accept - yes, she liked a man who looked like a beast, but he was only "like" a beast. Rather than a real beast...

Today, Chen Yingxiong feels like a real beast to her, a bear about to explode!