Yang Yang won the first FIFA Golden Ball Award!

As the grand event of the Zurich Opera House in Switzerland came to an end, this news spread all over the world in a very short time. Fans around the world received this news in an instant, which sparked heated discussion.

Yang Yang is the number one player in the world. This is an undisputed fact and is recognized by the world. However, in this World Cup year, the Chinese team stopped in the quarterfinals, but Yang Yang won the FIFA Golden Ball Award, which undoubtedly made many people unable to accept it.

According to convention, the World Footballer of the World Cup Year comes from the World Cup champion team, which is the consensus of everyone. Yang Yang was elected this year, completely breaking this consensus in the past twenty years, which will naturally arouse heated discussions from the outside world.

Especially after FIFA announced the details of the votes, this kind of discussion became even more enthusiastic.

Judging from the votes, Yang Yang's total vote rate was about 22%, which was a little higher than Messi, who ranked second and Iniesta, who ranked third, but the advantage was not very obvious.

According to the selection method of the first FIFA Golden Ball Award, if the three votes are separated, Yang Yang ranks first in the national team head coach and captain votes, but he can only get fourth in the media votes, behind Sneider, Iniesta and Xavi.

In other words, if we follow the selection method in previous years, Yang Yang could only win the World Footballer of FIFA at most, while the European Golden Ball Award by French Football Magazine is Sneijder, the media number one vote.

The outside world has basically reached a consensus on this situation, because in the past few years, there have been such differences between the World Footballer and the European Golden Globe Awards, so many people believe that the European Golden Globe Awards are more authoritative, while the World Footballer is more concerned about fame.

However, the media soon gave the data to refute it.

Among the national team head coaches and captains of the top ten traditional teams in the world football that many media and fans generally attach great importance to, there are a total of twenty votes. Yang Yang got eight of the first choices, three second choices and five third choices. According to the five-point, three-point and one-point rules, Yang Yang got a total of fifty-four points.

Xavi got four first-choice votes, nine second-choice votes and one third-choice vote, and ranked second, six points less than Yang Yang, while Messi, Iniesta and Sneider were more behind.

Among them, Sneijder only had three first-choice votes, three second-choice votes and two three-choice votes, and got twenty-six points, which was a huge gap.

According to this data, after FIFA and French Football Magazine announced the merger, after comprehensively considering their performance in 2010, Yang Yang's outstanding performance was recognized by the head coaches and captains of the top ten traditional teams, which are the most influential votes in the world.

Therefore, many media believe that although Yang Yang did not achieve very good results in the World Cup, he was able to lead the Chinese team to break through the group stage historically and scored five goals in four games, tied for the World Cup Golden Boot, and Yang Yang's performance should still be affirmed.

"It is not Yang Yang's fault to be born in a weak football country. He was able to lead the Chinese team to a historic breakthrough, which itself is enough to prove his performance and strength, and this should be recognized and affirmed."

Many media even believe that the reason why Yang Yang only won the fourth place among the 208 media selections is that the selection of many media people still continues the traditional thinking of the past, and believes that the World Cup only considers the World Cup results in the year, while ignoring the performance of the club throughout the year.

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Not only has the media caused controversy, but there have also been strong differences within the players.

After the award ceremony, Xavi first generously expressed his congratulations to Yang Yang when interviewed by the Spanish National Post, but also expressed his complaints in his heart.

"There is obvious unfairness in this selection method, because it is based on the voting rights of head coaches and captains in countries such as Fiji, which exceeds the many professional media in Europe, but it is obvious that they cannot have information that keeps pace with the times like European media."

Xavi's statement is also a part of the FIFA World Footballer selection that has always been criticized, that is, many small countries and regions only choose players they have heard of, and do not really consider how he performed in the past year.

In this way of vote, Yang Yang, who is well-known, is naturally more popular than Harvey, Sneider and others.

Xavi later said that losing the FIFA Golden Ball Award was a great regret for him.

"But I don't think this is a big loss. I think Yang Yang deserves the award. I saw a report that day about high-level players who failed to win the Golden Globes. I found that Baresi has never won the Golden Globes, but this does not prevent the world from recognizing his greatness."

Barcelona's midfielder obviously wants to prove himself in this way.

Iniesta also said in an interview that it is unfair to choose only one player in the Golden Ball Awards, because everyone will focus on offensive players in the frontcourt, which is an innate characteristic of football.

"I think that in collective sports, individual awards are always unfair. Throughout history, awards are always awarded to strikers who score goals, and rarely to midfielders, defenders or even goalkeepers. This is unfair. I think the best way is to give an award in every position."

But soon, Maca published an article supporting Yang Yang and publicly refuted some of the statements of Xavi and Iniesta.

The article stated that Harvey believes that Yang Yang was promoted to the first FIFA Golden Ball Award by a group of small countries and few people. However, among the head coaches and captains of the top ten traditional powers, Yang Yang's vote rate is still the first, six points higher than Harvey, who ranked second, which shows Yang Yang's authority in winning the award.

"In Spain, Yang Yang appeared among the first choices of Bosque and Casillas, and got two valuable first choices from the head coach and captain of the Spanish national team."

In addition to avoiding Spain, which is a player in its own country, the first choice of the head coach and captain of the two football powers, the Netherlands and Argentina, also gave Yang Yang the first vote, which is enough to prove that Yang Yang deserves the award.

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Yang Yang was not sure that he was questioned by his competitors, but after the award ceremony, he also publicly stated that this time he won the award made him feel a little nervous.

“In fact, before the list of awards was announced, I think the ones who deserved the most were Sneider and Casillas.”

"Wesley played the peak season of his career. He showed unparalleled excellence in both professional and World Cup. I think he deserves more recognition and affirmation."

"And Casillas, I think Spain can pick up the World Championship trophy. He is one of the most critical players on the team and has made great contributions because he made many key saves in the game, such as a penalty against Paraguay, and a one-on-one save from Robben in the final, which is the key to Spain's victory."

Yang Yang also mentioned Xavi and Iniesta. He believes that these two Barcelona midfielders should also be recognized. They have launched an epoch-making change in the world football concept in the past few years.

Regarding his award, Yang Yang said neither humbly nor arrogantly that he was a lucky person.

“I never thought that one person could win a game.”

"The reason why I was able to win this award is inseparable from the support Sneider who passed the ball behind me and the support given to me by my teammates. This is not just an honor that belongs to me alone, I hope to share it with everyone."

As for what to do, Yang Yang said that he had not thought about it yet.

A media reporter even joked on the spot that Yang Yang might consider building a trophy memorial hall to showcase all the personal honors and trophys he has received since his debut, and introduce the honors and the history behind the trophy so that everyone can remember the names of the heroes behind the scenes.

After hearing this, Yang Yang was very moved, "This is a good idea."

But everyone thinks that this is just a joke.

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Yang Yang returned from Zurich with honor and was warmly welcomed by Madrid fans.

This is Yang Yang's second highest personal honor after joining Real Madrid. Last year, he also won the World Footballer and the European Golden Ball Awards, but everyone knows that it is more because of his outstanding performance at Liverpool.

But this year, Yang Yang won the first FIFA Golden Ball Award again and successfully won the highest personal honor award for four years. It can be said that he left his own glorious history in the world football world.

More importantly, the era of Yang Yang is not over yet. He is only twenty-four years old. In his year of playing, all Real Madrid fans have no doubts that Yang Yang will continue to lead this Real Madrid forward for a long time in the future.

On the third day after Yang Yang returned from Zurich, the whole world was discussing whether Yang Yang should win the first FIFA Golden Ball Award, while Real Madrid ushered in the second leg of the Spanish Cup.

Due to his 8-0 home win against Levante in the first leg, Yang Yang scored a double hat trick of goals and assists. In addition, the main stars in the team went to Zurich to cheer for Yang Yang. Therefore, in the second leg of Levante away, Real Madrid played with a full substitute.

The young players, including Morata and Hesse, all got the chance to play in the game, but due to the weak performance of midfielders Gago and Granero, Real Madrid did not play well away against Levante, and they eventually lost 0-2 away.

Although he lost in the second leg, Real Madrid still successfully advanced to the quarterfinals of the King's Cup 8 to 2.

When drawing lots, Barcelona had the best luck, winning Real Betis, who had already been transferred to the Spanish Second Division, while Real Madrid had the worst luck, drawing their city rival Atletico Madrid.
Chapter completed!