Three days later, on November 5, FIFA also announced the 23-man roster for the 2016 World Player of the Year, and Willard was naturally on the list without any suspense.
The "FIFA Ballon d'Or", which was previously co-operated by "France Football" and FIFA, has been discontinued and has now been restored to the European Ballon d'Or hosted by "France Football" and the World Footballer hosted by FIFA.
However, nominations for the European Ballon d'Or are now not limited to nationality, or even European leagues. The selection scope is the same as the World Footballer, and can be players of any nationality playing in any league around the world. Therefore, it is generally not called the "European Golden Globe Awards" anymore, just the Golden Globe Awards.
It might be okay if the winner of the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year is the same person in the same year. In this case, it will definitely be awarded to the player with the best performance in a single year. But if the winner of the two awards in any year is not the same person, there will be talk and controversy.
In the summer of this year, everyone thought that with Ronaldo winning the Champions League, the Golden Boot, and Portugal's first European Cup, the year-end grand prize would basically be in Ronaldo's pocket.
Although later when FIFA and "France Football" announced their separation, Willard added honors such as the America's Cup, the Olympic Games, and the European Super Cup, but everyone still believes that Ronaldo's Champions League + European Cup has a higher gold content.
However, as Villard has now set a new world record for total goals in the year, and it is foreseeable that he will soon break through 100 goals and the three-digit mark, the balance of victory and defeat has suddenly changed, and everyone has become more optimistic about Villar. Become virtuous.
The Champions League happens every year and the European Cup happens every four years, but 100 goals in a year is an unprecedented miracle in football. And Willard is about to achieve this achievement.
This kind of personal performance is enough to crush any championship title. What's more, Velarde has no shortage of championship titles this year: Europa League, EFL Cup, America's Cup, European Super Cup, and Olympic Games. Velarde even flew back to Europe to win the European Super Cup on his way to the Olympics. He returned to Brazil and led Argentina to win the Olympic championship.
And in all competitions, Willard is almost always the best player, at least one of them.
Historic personal performance + multiple championships in hand, as well as the news that has been constantly flooding the screen during this period, have allowed Willard to surpass Ronaldo in the competition for the year-end awards, and at least he has gained a certain advantage in popularity.
And once Willard's total annual goals exceed the 100-goal mark and complete the unprecedented miracle of three-digit goals in the year, the ownership of the grand prize will become even more unsuspicious.
Whether it is the Ballon d'Or or the World Footballer of the Year, it is the individual players who are recognized after all. And Willard's personal performance this year is undoubtedly overwhelming.
In the end, the winner of the two awards will most likely go to Willard.
Willard is also very happy. If he really wins the award, this will be the first time he has won the Ballon d'Or in his career. There is no doubt about its importance. Only winning the Golden Globe Award is the best recognition for his personal performance this year.
The best players in the America's Cup and Europa League/European War are rewarded with 500 million experience points. I don't know how many World Cups there are, and I don't know if there are any rewards for the Golden Globe Award and World Footballer, which are similar to the global best player awards in a single year. , or how much can be rewarded.
But no matter how much, Willard will continue to fight with all his strength in every game. After all, the Europa League and America's Cup are not as valuable as the Champions League and European Cup. This is a fact. Willard can only conquer most of the judges through his personal performance and shocking statistics.
And this shocking key statistic is undoubtedly breaking the 100-goal mark for the year.
Only when he truly breaks through the 100-goal mark for the year and gets Willard's first Ballon d'Or in his career will it be considered stable.
What is even more gratifying is that on this day in the 11th round of the Premier League, Manchester City fell behind again. They were actually tied 1-1 at home by Middlesbrough.
The next day, November 6, before the start of the Liverpool game, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur tied again 1-1. As long as Liverpool continues to win in this round, the points gap between the Red Army and subsequent competitors will be further widened.
This makes the Red Army players and fans very excited. As for Willard, needless to say, he originally wanted to go all out to improve his personal performance.
At 20:00 that evening, with the referee's whistle, Liverpool's home game against Watford in the 11th round of the Premier League officially began.
Because there was a rotation in the last Champions League game, Liverpool attacked with all their main players in this game.
Although Watford is currently ranked in the middle and is performing well, its strength is still far behind Liverpool. What's more, Velarde wants to improve his performance to compete for the Ballon d'Or, and the players also want to win, widen the points gap with the teams behind them, and strive for the first Premier League championship in team history.
Therefore, Liverpool launched a fierce attack from the beginning of the game, bombarding Watford who was playing away from home and had not yet entered the game state.
Although Watford tried their best to resist, they were unable to resist in the 11th minute. Wing-back Noureddine Amrabat, who was returning to defense, saw Willard break through with a fried ball. When his teammate and defensive midfielder Behrami was about to take a shot, he couldn't help but push Velard from the side.
When Willard fell to the ground and the referee punished him for a foul and gave Liverpool a very good frontcourt free kick, Noureddine Amrabat regretted it, but it was no longer useful.
Just as Amrabat was worried, Velarde, who has excellent shooting skills, took a curved free kick directly around the wall from this position and sent the ball into the dead center of the goal.
Willard opened the scoring, giving Liverpool a 1-0 lead and extending his annual scoring record to 96 goals.
"Wow, only 11 minutes into the game, Willard scored."
"His total goals for the year have reached 96, and he is only 4 goals away from the three-digit mark."
"Looking at his state today, it's really hard to tell. Maybe in this game, he can score five dollars and directly refresh the annual scoring record to the 100-goal mark."
"That would be really shocking."
"Tomorrow all the headlines will be about Velarde's 100 goals of the year."
As the commentator says, Willard is excited today. Thinking that if he can perform a five-goal performance and directly break the 100-goal mark, he can directly lock in the Golden Globe Award. Velarde is full of motivation, and it is motivation that has exceeded the limit of his ability.
The so-called supernormal state is like this.
Willard himself is terrifying enough, but in the end he is in extraordinary condition, so how can Watford resist it.
Although Watford was trailing by the score, they had sensed the danger from the state of Liverpool and Velarde in the previous few minutes and directly defended.
But even so, they failed to stop Liverpool's attacks one after another.
