Chapter 191: The Most Controversial Golden Globe Winner
The award ceremony continued, and then the best women's football coach was awarded.
Olympic champion U.S. team coach Pia and 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!
Then there is the eye-catching best men's football coach.
Del Bosque, Guardiola and Mourinho are the top three.
Scolari announced that Del Bosque, who led Spain to win the European Cup, was elected.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter awarded the "FIFA President's Award" to German superstar Beckenbauer.
He praised the "Football Emperor" for making outstanding contributions to football through various channels. "He devoted himself wholeheartedly to football. His rich knowledge combined with his direct and charming way has made him a football expert that is universally respected."
The Turkish Super League Eskişehir Club, the Uzbek Football Federation, and the Guatemala Football Federation were shortlisted for the "Fair Play Award".
Harry Ben Hussein, Vice President of FIFA and Chairman of the Ethics and Fair Play Committee, served as the award guest. The Uzbek Football Association, which ranked first in the AFC Fair Play List last year with 498.84 points, won the award.
Then the "Puskars Award" was awarded.
The "Puskas Award" is the best goal award. It was proposed by Blatter in 2009 to pay tribute to the legendary Hungarian forward Puskas.
The FIFA expert group nominates the top 10 goals, which are then voted on by visitors to the FIFA official website.
FIFA has previously announced the top 3: Falcao's sideways hook shot, Neymar's single-handed attack, and Stoch's volley from outside the penalty area.
Former Colombian star "Golden Retriever Lion" Valderrama served as the award guest and announced that Storch won the award.
In a Turkish Super League match on March 3, 2012, he responded to a corner kick from his teammates and volleyed directly into the net from the edge of the penalty area.
The awards ceremony has come to an end, with only the Miss World Football and Golden Globe awards left.
The atmosphere at the scene became heated.
Two generations of American team shooters Wambach and Morgan, and Brazilian star Marta entered the top three.
U.S. team goalkeeper Solo announced teammate Wambach was selected!
There was a round of applause.
There is only one last award left - the Golden Globe!
The live cameras were focused on the three candidates selected for the final list, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Iniesta.
Messi and Iniesta had calm expressions, and Ronaldo had a look of longing in his eyes.
Messi has won the Golden Globe Award, the highest personal honor in world football, for three consecutive years since 2009.
The Portuguese superstar has only won the World Footballer of the Year once, and that was in 2008, when the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year had not yet been merged.
After the two awards were combined, he never won the award.
Last year, he led Real Madrid to regain the La Liga championship from Barcelona, while Messi did not win any championship except personal data.
So he thinks his chances of winning are very high.
Of course, last year was the year of the European Cup, and Iniesta must also be considered.
Iniesta helped Spain win the European Cup, and the call for the award was very high.
But the Portuguese superstar believes that Iniesta's chances of winning the award are not great because his and Messi's reputations outweigh everyone else's.
Since Messi got nothing last year, he should win the Ballon d'Or!
Gullit and Kerimer invited the award guest Cannavaro to the stage.
Everyone at the scene looked at Cannavaro, and fans all over the world looked at the piece of paper in his hand through TV, computers, mobile phones and other screens!
The name of the winner is written on this piece of paper.
"Lio Messi..."
As Cannavaro read out the name written on the piece of paper, the audience burst into warm applause.
Messi was a little surprised, is it me?
Iniesta, who was sitting next to the Argentine superstar, smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Congratulations!"
Only then did Messi confirm that there was nothing wrong with his ears and that what Cannavaro read was his name.
Ronaldo, who was sitting not far away, had a look of astonishment on his face for two seconds.
After the Portuguese superstar exhaled heavily, he bent down and stretched out his hand to Messi: "Congratulations!"
When Cannavaro pronounced Messi's name, it was like a bombshell exploding in the heads of fans around the world.
Supporters of Ronaldo and Iniesta are furious:
"I don't even have a championship title, but I won the Ballon d'Or?!"
"This is a joke! Isn't football about winning championships?"
"Whoever has higher statistics will win the Ballon d'Or? Then there will be no need to vote for the Ballon d'Or, and it will be awarded directly to the top scorer!"
"This is definitely a behind-the-scenes operation! FIFA goes to shit!!"
"When goal statistics are not dominant, FIFA says how many championships Messi has won!
When there was no championship, FIFA said Messi's statistics were too beautiful!
Let’s simply change the name of the Golden Globe Award to the ‘Messi Award’, which is more in line with FIFA’s wishes!”
Messi's supporters were very excited and found reasons for their idol to win the award:
"Except for not winning the championship, Messi's performance last year was perfect! 91 goals in the year, who can do it?!"
"How difficult is it to break Gerd Muller's annual goals? He has not broken his record for forty years. Messi did it. This is more important than any championship!"
At the award ceremony, Messi walked onto the stage, and his wonderful goals in 2012 were played on the big screen.
Li Chuanqi was also shocked by this result. He didn't have any championship titles, but he could win the Ballon d'Or based on the number of goals he scored?
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That night, the World Fans Forum almost collapsed.
Fans who support Messi's winning and those who oppose Messi's winning have launched a war without gunpowder.
The next day, major media around the world reported on last night's annual awards ceremony.
The Guardian commented on the Golden Globe Award: “Messi won the Golden Globe Award, which symbolizes the highest personal honor last night!
Like in 2010, this award caused huge controversy.
In 2010, Messi did not win any important trophy. Iniesta and Xavi led Spain to win the World Cup. Inter Milan core Sneijder led the team to achieve the Triple Crown and led the Netherlands to the World Cup finals in South Africa.
These three failed to defeat Messi.
In 2012, Messi did not win any championships, but he defeated Iniesta, who helped Spain win the European Cup, and defeated Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, who helped Real Madrid regain the La Liga championship!"
German newspaper Bild commented: "The main reason why Messi defeated two strong competitors and finally won the Ballon d'Or is that he broke the annual scoring record of 85 goals set by the legendary German superstar Gerd Muller in 1972.
Judging from this result, how great Gerd Muller’s goal of the year is!
However, this award has caused huge controversy. Last night, our reporter conducted statistics on the opinions of a famous German fan forum. 42.8% of the people did not approve of Messi winning, and 36.7% approved of Messi winning.
Others said it didn't matter.
Judging from the data, there are more people who don’t approve of Messi’s award than those who approve of Messi’s award!”
