Chapter 140 The best of times, the worst of times

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The guests entered the venue and the award ceremony officially began.

"Tonight, a total of eight awards will be presented to the international football 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 Award, Miss World Football and the FIFA Ballon d'Or. , Chinese player Yang Feng was not only selected into the best 55-man squad, but was also shortlisted for the Puskas Award, which is the best goal award of the year. The goal he was shortlisted for was against Arsenal in the Champions League group stage. That goal scored by six people, of course, the most important thing is that he was also shortlisted for the final 23 people for the FIFA Ballon d'Or Award.

It is a pity that we did not see Shinji Kagawa in this 23-man list, and Huntelaar, who fans are more concerned about, also did not make it to this list..."

Everyone originally thought that it was certain that Yang Feng would be selected for the best team, but when they heard that there were as many as 55 candidates, they started to get a little worried again.

In fact, there are only 14 real competitors for Yang Feng, because the 55-man roster includes 5 goalkeepers, 20 defenders, 15 midfielders and 15 forwards. However, Messi and Ronaldo are both in the forward camp. If the best If there are only two forwards in the lineup, the others will definitely be out of luck.

Ruud Gullit, one of the Three Musketeers of the Netherlands, presided over this award ceremony. After some summary and outlook, the final three candidates for the FIFA Ballon d'Or and World Football Miss first appeared on the stage.

Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Iniesta, Wambach, Marta and Morgan have become the six most dazzling people in the entire world of football today.

Barcelona only won a tasteless Copa del Rey this year. Messi and Iniesta were selected based on their exaggerated personal performance and national team results respectively. Cristiano Ronaldo was selected for helping Real Madrid win the Spanish Super Cup and La Liga championship. His outstanding performance has made him one of the three most powerful players in the world this year.

Yang Feng did not sit in the audience, but was led to the backstage before the ceremony began.

The FIFA Ballon d'Or is the finale, and of course it cannot be awarded now. The best team will be announced first.

The list has not yet been announced, but the real winners have actually been notified and are here waiting to go on stage to receive their awards.

Including Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Iniesta who are still on the stage, the eleven most awesome people in various positions in world football in 2012 are here.

Just looking around, the others are either from Barcelona or Real Madrid. Yang Feng, who is a sand mine, is like Erha who has blended into a pack of wolves, so dazzling...

Among this group of people, the only person Yang Feng had ever interacted with was Cristiano Ronaldo. After all, they had just filmed a promotional video for "Pro Evolution Soccer 2013" together, so for the others, they were only in the stage of admiring the famous name for a long time.

Everyone is also very interested in this Golden Boy Award winner who has suddenly become popular this year, but at most they can nod and say hello. Only Casillas knows that they will become teammates next season, so he takes the initiative to say hello. Say hello.

"Hello Yang," Cassie stretched out her hand, "I'm Casillas."

"I know," Yang Feng reached out and shook his hand, "Raoer often mentions you."

"Really?" A hearty smile appeared on Cassie's handsome face, "What bad things did he say about me?"

"No, he said you are the best goalkeeper in the world today."

"Thank you, you're not bad either," Cassie said, "I hope we have the opportunity to play football together."

Barcelona players frequently raised eyebrows.

The relationship between most of the players of these two teams is very subtle, similar to the situation between Manchester United and Liverpool. They fought together when they were in the national team, and then started to fight life and death again when they arrived at the club. Seeing the behavior of Yang Feng and Casey, they both acquiesced. He will be his own opponent.

Messi, Ronaldo and Xiaobai showed their faces and walked off, each walking back to their own small circles.

Yang Feng looked at the two unparalleled heroes in their prime, and didn't know whether this was the best era or the worst era for the football world.

"It's probably Messi," Cassie suddenly sighed softly, "Four golden balls, it's too scary."

"Four seats? I'm afraid there will be more than that," Yang Feng responded, "Of course, maybe..."

"I'm afraid there will be more" means that Messi originally had 7 Golden Balls, and "maybe" means...here I come.

The world is undecided, you and I are both beasts and horses. In the first half of the Chosen Son vs. Time Traveler, Liu Xiu defeated Wang Mang. In the second half, it is up to him to win back.

Ronaldo came to Cassie and Yang Feng, nodded coolly to Yang Feng, and then said nothing with a stinky face.

Of course Yang Feng knew why.

It would be easier if Real Madrid won the Champions League or Portugal won the European Cup this year. There is still competition for this award, but Real Madrid only won the La Liga championship. With his personal performance so far behind, Messi is almost guaranteed to win this year.

Of course, Ronaldo was not convinced. I heard that he was half an hour late for the press conference, and he was very tough during the interview. Anyway, he just didn't admit that Messi was better than him.

Without this kind of strength, he would not have been able to overcome the difficulties later and chased from 1-4 in the Golden Ball to 4-4.

In front of the stage, Shevchenko, who has retired from politics, and UEFA President Platini appeared to announce and present the awards.

"The Best Team in World Football was founded by the International Professional Players Association in 2005. Since 2009, FIFA has added this award to the annual awards ceremony. The award is judged anonymously by more than 50,000 members every year... "

"The first to be announced is the best goalkeeper... Casillas!"

Cassie quickly walked out with a caddy, shook hands with Sheva, and stood in front of the stage.

"The best defenders...Alves, Pique, Ramos, Marcelo.

Best midfielder: Xavi, Iniesta, Alonso...

Are these all La Liga players? "

People in other leagues don’t look good on their faces.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi will definitely take up two more places, which means there are at least ten La Liga players.

"Is football dominated by Real Madrid and Barcelona?"

"That's ridiculous. Is this the best team in world football or the best team in La Liga?"

"Cech couldn't be selected and I laughed."

"It's over, Brother Feng has no chance."

"Starting as a forward, 4-3-3, who said there's no chance?"

"It should be Aguero, Manchester City's goal at the buzzer to win the championship was awesome."

"Has Yang Feng dick? Europa League champion and top scorer! Scored goals in 19 consecutive Bundesliga games!"

"Bundesliga? Haha."

"The best forward, Messi from Barcelona in La Liga! Messi today fully demonstrated what it means to score goals like crazy. Some fans joked that watching Messi score goals this year will make them sick...

Best forward, Cristiano Ronaldo! Cristiano Ronaldo helped Real Madrid win the Spanish Super Cup and La Liga championship this year. He scored 61 goals in 67 games throughout the year. Cristiano Ronaldo is not only a contender for the best forward, but also the biggest competitor for the best player.

The final suspense is here! Who is the last player? "

The organizers naturally knew where the gimmick was, otherwise Yang Feng would not be able to make his final appearance behind Melo due to his status. Platini also knew this well and deliberately made a long sound when announcing the last person. .

"The last player in the 2012 World Football Team of the Year is... Yang Feng from Schalke 04!"

He Shi breathed a sigh of relief and his voice became louder, "Congratulations to Yang Feng! Champion of the Europa League, German Super Cup, European Super Cup, 68 goals in the year, best forward, well deserved!"

Yang Feng led a little girl out of the backstage and shook hands with Platini.

"Congratulations," Platini shook his arm vigorously, "excellent performance."

"Thanks."

Yang Feng took the trophy from Sheva's hand again, nodded, and walked to stand next to Ronaldo.

"This lineup is really...Yang Feng became the only non-La Liga player in the eleven. His performance this year is no worse than Ronaldo and Messi. This is not only a breakthrough for Chinese football, but also a breakthrough for Asian football!"

Although La Liga has made up the majority of the best eleven in previous years, there will still be a few players from the Premier League or Serie A who can be added. Who knows that this year they will almost be rounded out by La Liga.

"Oh my god, Yang Feng v587! He is the only representative of the four major leagues."

"Haha, maybe next season, I will still be from La Liga sooner or later."

"Who did Chelsea offend? The Champions League winning team doesn't have a single best player?"

"One thing to say, Yang Feng's start is really too strong. He is 18 years old. You can't overdo it."

"Come on, it's just that FIFA wants to show off and doesn't want to let all the La Liga players go, otherwise it will be his turn?"

"A walking half a million? Are there still black Yangfeng in China?"

"Isn't it normal for Portugal to have Roman black, Argentina to have plum black, and China to have maple black? Let's follow international standards."

"That guy said the opposite just now. FIFA really wants to let all La Liga teams go. Yang Feng just can't hold it back. Otherwise, I'll give you a La Liga package."

This is true. Historically, these eleven players were all from La Liga, with Real Madrid and Barcelona each accounting for half. The only one who slipped through the net was Atletico Madrid. Unfortunately, Atletico Madrid's Europa League championship was won by Schalke 04. After leaving, Yang Feng also made Falcao, who was supposed to be dazzling, dim.

Gullit handed the microphone to the kid held by Ronaldo and asked him to ask questions to Ronaldo.

The kid must have rehearsed, and he spoke quickly: "Cristiano, how can I become a player like you."

Cristiano Ronaldo took the microphone, said "uh" first, and said solemnly: "It's not easy, quite not easy. You have to be yourself first, and then work hard, work hard, and work hard again. One day you will succeed."

This may be a cliche to others, but to Ronaldo, it is definitely out of true feelings, and everyone applauded him.

Then there's the award for best women's football coach.

Olympic champion U.S. team coach Pia, Japanese team coach Norio Sasaki, and Olympic dark horse French team coach Bini ranked in the top three in the voting.

Former Brazilian men's football coach Luiz Felipe Scolari announced that Pia was elected, but when he presented the award, he forgot to hand the trophy to Pia first, which caused laughter in the audience.

Pia sang loudly during her speech, bringing the atmosphere of the party to a climax.

The women's football coach then became the men's football coach. The candidates were Bosque, Guardiola and Mourinho. In the end, Bosque, who led Spain to win the European Cup, was elected.

The organizers took advantage of every opportunity to play a short documentary about Iniesta, one of the FIFA Ballon d'Or candidates, which mainly introduced his football journey, played some highlights and other people's evaluations of him.

Then Beckenbauer won the FIFA President's Award and the Uzbek Football Association won the Fair Play Award. After that, the Ronaldo documentary started to be played.

“The last three awards!

The first thing to be awarded is the Puskas Award.

The Puskas Award is also what we often call the best goal award of the year. It was proposed and created in 2009 by the current FIFA President Blatter to pay tribute to the legendary Hungarian striker Puskas. It was nominated by the FIFA expert group 10 The best goal will be voted for by visitors to FIFA’s official website…”

Former Colombian star "Golden Retriever Lion" Valderrama was the guest of honor. Gullit, who had short hair, put on a mop-like wig in a funny way, restored his former braided handsome image, and hugged Valderrama, causing uproar. laughing out loud.

The three goals selected appeared on the screen.

The first one is Falcao's sideways hook shot in a La Liga game, the second one is Neymar's classic single-handed attack, and the third one is Yang Feng's "pass to himself three seconds later" and then Teammate Huntelaar also passed the goal.

"Is this no longer suspense?"

"It seems that Yang Feng also has a side hook? Isn't it worse than Falcao?"

"Neymar's goal is a bit naughty!"

"It's worse than last year's. It should be hopeless."

Yang Feng looked at the goal video on the big screen, and was reminded of some memories. He originally thought that he was a sure shot, but he also became a little worried.

I have seen the highlights of the Puskas Award in my previous life, and I am deeply impressed by this year's selection, because in addition to the two goals of Falcao and Neymar, there were also Fenerbahce's I don't know who scored. He scored a volley. In comparison, that goal was actually less enjoyable to watch than Neymar and Falcao, but in the end it was he who won the award.

Yang Feng suspected that this was a "balance" and was worried that he would also be balanced out.

"It's a great honor to present this award..." Balderrama said as he opened the envelope and took out the small piece of paper inside. "The winner of the 2012 Puskas Award is..."

Falcao, Neymar and Yang Feng appeared side by side in the camera. Falcao looked a little nervous, but Yang Feng and Neymar, who had won this award last year, looked quite relaxed, and even had a smile on their lips.

"Yang Feng!"

Yang Feng stood up amidst the applause of the audience, high-fived and hugged Raul and Huntelaar on both sides before walking onto the stage.

Valderrama handed him the trophy and said, "Congratulations."

"Thanks."

Yang Feng stood in front of the microphone holding the trophy, and the applause of the audience slowly quieted down.

It was just a "small" award, and the organizers didn't leave him any time to make a long speech. Yang Feng didn't even prepare a speech, so he just blurted out his acceptance speech.

"Thank you to my coaches and teammates. Football is a sport of eleven people. Although I was the one who scored the ball in the end, it was you who worked silently behind the scenes. All goals and honors are the result of team efforts. Thanks."

After finishing speaking, he stepped down.

Just like his celebration after scoring a goal, it was simple and boring.

Messi's documentary appeared on the big screen before the final two awards were awarded.

“It’s Miss World Football here. Brazilian star Marta and two-generation American team strikers Wambach and Morgan have entered the top three. The award is given to the American team goalkeeper Solo...

This is the eighth time Marta has been shortlisted in the top three of Miss World. In the previous seven selections, she won the first place six times. It was not until last year that the monopoly was broken by Japanese contestant Sawa Hoshiki and she ranked second. Do you know if you can win this year? Oh, the winner is Wambach, congratulations... The most exciting moment is here. Who will be the final winner of the FIFA Ballon d'Or? Iniesta? Ronaldo? Or will Messi complete his fourth Ballon d'Or award? "

Former Ballon d'Or winner Cannavaro walked out from backstage.

After the highlights of Xiaobai, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi once again appeared on the big screen, Cannavaro announced the final winner of the 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or Award.

"...There are not many surprises...There are no surprises...Messi...91 goals in the year, everything is so unbelievable..."

Messi became the player with the most Ballon d'Or awards in history, but his performance was still the same as when he won the first award. He seemed very nervous. Not only did his voice tremble slightly, he even forgot to thank his coach.

Everyone at the scene stood up and applauded.

"With 41.60% of the vote, Messi defeated Ronaldo with 23.68% and Iniesta with 10.91%, setting a record and becoming the only person to win the Ballon d'Or four times and the first person in history to win the Ballon d'Or for four consecutive years. .

In the history of La Liga, Messi has been ahead of his predecessors Copa, Di Stefano, Suarez, Cruyff, Stoichkov, Rivaldo, Figo, Ronaldinho, Ronaldinho and Canava. After Luo, he brought the 16th Golden Ball trophy to La Liga.

As a Barcelona star, Messi has made Barcelona lead Real Madrid 10-6 in the number of Golden Balls. Barcelona is also the club that has won the most Ballon d'Or awards.

In 2012, Messi participated in 69 games, including 47 goals, 22 braces, 6 hat tricks, 2 big fours, 1 five-goal score, and averaged 1.32 goals per game. In the games where Messi scored, Here, Barcelona achieved a terrible result of 43 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, with a winning rate of 91% and an unbeaten rate of 96%.

Among the unprecedented 91 goals in the year, Messi scored 79 goals for Barcelona and 12 goals for Argentina, including 3 headers, 8 right-foot goals, and 80 left-foot goals, including 14 goals. Penalties, 7 free kicks, and of course, in addition to 91 goals, Messi also scored 24 assists..."

With 91 goals in 1 year, Messi's terror cannot be described in words. The record of 85 goals in a natural year set by Gerd Muller, the Golden Boot of the Century, in 1972 has been refreshed by Messi.

Although Gerd Muller's lifetime record of 1,461 goals in 1,216 games is still an unbreakable peak that hangs over all professional players, Messi is just 25 years old, and no one knows when he ends his career. On that day of his career, will this record be refreshed to another higher level by him?

Under Messi's dazzling light, few people noticed that the young Golden Boy Award winner actually scored a full 68 goals this year.

Although this number of goals can only rank seventh in history, but more importantly, if this scoring efficiency can be maintained, maybe Yang Feng will be able to complete his career 100 goals at the end of this season or at the beginning of next season.

You know, it took Messi 210 games to complete 100 goals, while Yang Feng may only need 100 games...

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