"So I think it was reasonable to be called 'European Footballer of the Year' before 1995. After the reform in 1995, it is not so reasonable, because the best stars in the world usually play in Europe. Although it is limited to Europe.
League, but the European League itself is also selected from all over the world. After all, it is no longer the era of Pele. It still has this formal restriction, so it is okay not to change the name for the time being. But it will not be possible in the future. It can only be called the Golden Globe Award.
He can no longer be called European Footballer." When Wang Ai said this, he added: "In fact, from 1995 to now, the Golden Globe Award and the World Footballer have overlapped many times, and there will only be more overlaps in the future.
The possibility of merging the two major awards is ruled out.”
"The two major awards will be merged? Will it be possible?"
"The possibility is not low." Wang Ai nodded: "After last year's reform, the Golden Globe Award has completely overlapped with the World Footballer in terms of selection scope. It was highly overlapped before. After this reform, the Golden Globe Award will definitely be re-established.
Regarding your own selection rules, if both parties have been awarding awards to the same person for a long time, why not merge them?"
"Then there will be only one grand prize in the future? That one will be more worthy of the name of being number one in the world."
Hearing this, Wang Ai shook his head, thought for a while and said: "But in the longer term, it is possible that we will not split up again and we will do our own thing."
"Then why?" Duan Xuan's train of thought was completely diverted by Wang Aila.
"After all, the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer are awarded by different organizations. Although the final recipients of the awards may be the same, the interests of the two parties are inconsistent, and how they operate is still different. After a period of merger, it may not be due to the separate operations.
They parted ways due to inconsistency in direction.”
Duan Xuan frowned and thought deeply. Wang Ai looked at it and interrupted: "I mean it's too deep, right? Then tell me something else?"
"Hey, no need!" Duan Xuan waved his hand hurriedly: "Then you can explain it to everyone. No matter how many years you have watched football, you still don't understand some of the rules."
Wang Ai scratched his head: "I don't think anyone wants to go to class, right?"
"You can speak more vividly," Liu Jianhong shouted from the side of the auditorium.
"Okay." Wang Ai thought for a while and then said: "This modern football actually has two systems coexisting. One is the commercial football system and the other is the honorary football system. Well, maybe no one has said this before?
I don’t know if my definition is accurate or not. Let me just say it this way to make it clear to everyone.”
"It's just the professional league and the national team, right?"
"Yes, this is more intuitive. In fact, it can be regarded as the difference between the Club World Cup and the World Cup. On the surface, one is the highest stage for professional clubs and the other is the highest stage for national teams, but the operational nature is quite different."
"Come on, Dr. Wang, let's have a sip of tea and chat slowly." Duan Xuan pushed the teacup over.
Wang Ai smiled and took a sip: "To put it simply, the club needs to make money to maintain, but the national team does not need to make money. The club's first task in raising the team is to sell tickets, sell jerseys, and sell broadcast rights.
This is the core task. If you can't make money, you will cut funds and even sell the club. You will never make a loss-making business. But the national team is not the same. The national team, including the National Olympic team and the National Youth Team, are all based on competition.
Honor is the core mission. Although the national team does not exclude making money, when there is a conflict between making money and performance, performance will be chosen. Therefore, although the two systems often use the same people, their values, evaluation systems and directions are different.
the same."
Wang Ai looked at the audience and continued: "Commercial football, or professional league, is inseparable from star players. Because star players are watched and followed by many people, once he comes on the field, the TV broadcast rate will be as high as
Jerseys and game tickets sell well. But it is different in the national team. Strictly speaking, the national team has no star players, only athletes. The club can lose part of its competitiveness in order to make more money, but the national team usually does not. So every time
When international competitions come, some national teams will lose their star players because the evaluation systems are different."
The audience in the audience nodded frequently, and Duan Xuan interjected: "Then what does this have to do with the separation and combination of the two awards?"
"The Ballon d'Or is a media award, organized by France Football magazine. Western media, like clubs, also want to make money and sell sales. World Footballer is an organizational award, and it is awarded by FIFA. FIFA
Although it is also a commercial organization, FIFA's members are the football management bodies of each member country. Therefore, Honor Football has a greater impact on FIFA than on "France Football" magazine, so Honor Football has a greater impact on the World Footballer
It also has a greater impact than the Golden Globe Awards. Therefore, the two parties may merge due to the reform of the Golden Globe Awards and the overlapping selection scope. But in essence, the differences in goals, orientations and evaluation systems will cause some conflicts between the two parties, so there will be some conflicts after the merger.
The possibility of breaking up again.”
"What you mean is that the Ballon d'Or focuses more on commercial sports and the World Footballer focuses more on honorary sports?"
"Yes." Wang Ai nodded, looked at the audience and said: "For example, in 2000, World Footballer, Zidane, Ballon d'Or, Figo. Why? Because of the honor of the European Football Cup that year.
, France is the champion, and Zidane is the core. In the European Champions Cup of commercial football that year, Real Madrid was the champion, and Figo was the core. Therefore, the World Footballer of the year gave the honor to Zidane, who performed better in football.
The award was given to Figo who performed better in commercial football."
The audience looked at each other and suddenly applauded Wang Ai. For the audience in 2008, this was a lot of knowledge.
Wang Ai added: "Of course, except for the World Cup, the selection results of the past three World Cups were the same, and they were all the core of the championship team. FIFA has the element of honorary football, but it is also a commercial organization, and the World Cup itself
The commercial value is also very great. Well, from this perspective, last year, oh the year before last, Zidane and I lost to Cannavaro, which was not unfair."
Duan Xuan suddenly smiled: "You mean if there was no World Cup the year before last, you would have won it a year earlier?"
Wang Ai also laughed: "If it weren't for the Golden Boot Award in the World Cup in Germany, my ranking might not be that high. Anyway, in the World Cup year, the advantage of the core of the championship team is too obvious. After all, that is what the whole world sees.
.”
At this time, Liu Jianhong asked a question on behalf of the audience below: "Xiao Wang, since you said that commercial sports and honorary sports have many overlaps, does that mean that commercial sports actually assumes the responsibility of providing talents for honorary sports?"
Seeing Wang Ai nodding, Liu Jianhong added: "Is there any way to immediately prosper our league? What methods do you think can be used to improve the level of our league?"
This chapter has been completed!