Entering December, European football has ushered in the awards season.
December 13th, European Golden Globe Awards Ceremony.
December 20th, FIFA Awards Ceremony.
These two highest honors for professional players will be announced one after another in just one week. This will undoubtedly attract the attention of fans and media reporters around the world, making them worried about whether the stars they support can be elected.
Fans and media reporters are nervous, and the players participating in the competition are even more anxious.
Even the players' clubs are very nervous and are intensively carrying out the final "public relations".
For example, Italian media previously broke the news that Italian Prime Minister and AC Milan Chairman Silvio Berlusconi personally called Erno, the editor-in-chief of French Football Magazine, and personally lobbied him in the hope that this year's European Ballon d'Or would be awarded to AC Milan star Shevchenko.
This will undoubtedly add to the suspense.
Cruyff, the godfather of Barcelona, spoke out for Su Dong in his column for three consecutive days, believing that Su Dong was the best superstar in the past year and he should be rewarded, even if he is only 20 years old.
"It can be seen from the El Clasico that today's professional football world is in great need of young players like Su Dong to break the old pattern, bring us a stronger and fresher impact, and inject fresh blood into football.
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Spanish star Luis Suarez, the first European Ballon d'Or winner in Barcelona's history, also frequently spoke out, saying that Sudong deserved the award, "I don't think there is anyone more qualified to receive this award than him.
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"If Su Dong had not won the award, I would have been ashamed that I had ever received this honor!"
Cruyff has two European Ballon d'Ors, and Luis Suarez has also won a European Ballon d'Or. The two of them stood on the Soviet side at the same time, which greatly boosted the momentum of the Soviet side, plus Barcelona's full support
Su Dong.
First, Chairman Laporta personally accepted an interview to support Soviet Union, and then technical director Begiristain also came forward to speak out. Head coach Rijkaard, captain Puyol, third captain Xavi, midfielder Deco...
In the end, even Ronaldinho said in an interview with the media, "Su Dong is indeed more qualified to receive this award than me. I think he should win!"
With full support from the Barcelona team, Sudong's side is also full of momentum.
The Catalan media are also frantically building momentum. Even Aspen and Marca, which are close to Real Madrid, are actively calling for Sudong. This makes Sudong's call for winning the award quite high, which is faintly suppressed by Scheffen.
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The German newspaper Bild made special predictions, believing that whether Su Dong won the award would depend on whether he could get far more votes than Shevchenko from journalists in non-Eastern European countries.
As early as early December, just after the voting ended, World Sports News was the first to reveal the news, that is, in the Eastern European voting area, Shevchenko surpassed Sudong, Deco and Ronaldinho by a large margin.
The person who voted on behalf of Spain was World Sports reporter Aguilar. He once revealed an inside story to World Sports, "Almost most of the votes from Eastern Europe, Shevchenko ranked first, while Su Dongpo ranked first.
In many Eastern European votes, they can't even make it into the top three, which is very outrageous and they did it on purpose."
Mundo Deportivo's revelations once triggered fierce protests from the Spanish media, which believed that this voting method was not fair at all.
"If some voters decide that a certain player is going to win the award from the beginning, they will deliberately rank his competitor very low through the way of sorting the votes, so that he will get very few points.
It’s cheating!”
French Football Magazine quickly revealed that it has not found any problems in this regard for the time being. It believes in the authority of the voting reporters from the 52 countries. It will also announce the voting results of the 52 reporters as soon as the awards are announced.
, to show fairness.
The German newspaper Bild said that Eastern European countries have united, which has caused a lot of controversy in the 2003 vote. It is not unusual to vote for Shevchenko again this year, but if the Soviet Union and Ronaldo are really malicious,
Popular competitors such as Erdinho are ranked at the bottom, which really makes people have to question the fairness and rigor of the voting.
However, Bild said that since the voting mechanism is already like this, it cannot be changed temporarily. If Soviet Union and Dong want to win the award, they must get more points on the votes of non-Eastern European countries to make up for the votes of Eastern Europe.
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From the club's public relations battle to the support in the circle of friends, both parties involved in the competition used all possible means to launch a public opinion offensive. At the same time, they also attracted the attention of fans and media around the world to the French Football Magazine headquarters in Paris.
As usual, the day after French Football Magazine announces the results, the magazine will be officially put on sale.
However, before the magazine is published, the winners must be photographed and interviewed in advance, which requires preparation in advance.
As a result, the whole world is paying attention to the movements of Ernault, the editor-in-chief of French Football Magazine.
But French football magazines also clearly know the focus of media reporters and fans. No one actually knows where Ernault went. Was it to Milan? Or to Barcelona?
But in the fifteenth round of La Liga, after Barcelona played against Albacete in an away game, the well-informed Mundo Deportivo suddenly published a piece of news that took part in the voting, once again attracting the attention of fans and media around the world.
Barcelona booked a Gulfstream G550 special plane to fly from Barcelona to Paris on the morning of December 13th.
Such an inexplicable news once again detonated the world football world.
Numerous European media swarmed in and frantically dug behind this news. Everyone knew what this meant.
Some media reporters even began to stay up late at Barcelona Airport just to capture first-hand news.
Many media are also rushing to discuss this point, especially Gazzetta dello Sport.
They found that neither Shevchenko nor AC Milan did anything unusual on December 13. Shevchenko was on vacation at his home in Lake Como.
There is no need to say more about what this means.
On the 13th, at nearly noon, Su Dong, dressed in a crisp black suit, accompanied by eight people including club president Laporta, vice president Sarah Martin, technical director Begiristain and the club’s press officer, appeared at the
Barcelona Airport.
The media reporters who had stayed up all night immediately swarmed over and surrounded them.
Both Sudong and Barcelona were in a very good mood, but due to the confidentiality agreement, they did not disclose anything to the outside world, but promised to hold a press conference after returning from Paris.
"In the 16th round of La Liga, we will hold a special event before the home game." Laporta revealed this little "secret" with a smile from ear to ear.
This also made it clear to everyone present that Su Dong had won the award!
The fans who originally supported him finally settled down with their hearts hanging in the air.
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At three o'clock in the afternoon, Su Dong and Barcelona arrived in Paris by special plane.
By this time, media reporters and fans in Paris had received the news, and some had even rushed to the airport to pick him up.
But at the tarmac, Su Dong and others were picked up by the French Football Magazine reception vehicle.
When Su Dong appeared again, it was already eighteen o'clock when the lanterns came on.
On the wall of the reception hall on the ground floor of Canal TV station, there is a huge frame of the cover of a French football magazine showing Ronaldo, Zidane and Nedvěd, the three recent European Ballon d'Or winners, holding goals in their hands.
But the most conspicuous place at the entrance of the hall is a huge photo of Su Dong holding the European Ballon d'Or. On the table in front are two large stacks of the latest French football magazine that will be officially launched tomorrow. This is the cover.
A huge photo.
Accompanied by two bodyguards, Su Dong appeared in the reception hall, but did not go to the live broadcast site. Instead, he went to an interview room first. The person who interviewed him was Aguila, a voting reporter from the Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo.
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There was actually nothing to say about the interview process. It was all official procedures, and Su Dong was very cooperative. However, outside of the interview, Aguilar revealed to Su Dong that it was actually very dangerous for him to win this time.
"Did you know? In 18 countries in Eastern Europe, Shevchenko won 17 first picks and one second pick. This is simply unbelievable, and you didn't get it.
Passed one first pick, so you're a full fifty points behind."
Su Dong was speechless.
The voting mechanism of the European Ballon d'Or is that one ballot has five positions, and each one can get five to one point.
According to the information disclosed by Aguilar, in the votes cast in the eighteen Eastern European countries alone, Shevchenko received 89 points, while the Soviet Union was 50 points behind, which is only 39 points. This gap
It is indeed too obvious.
It’s no wonder that Aguilar previously attacked the Eastern European vote group in the media, believing that they were cheating.
Su Dong has enough confidence. No matter how bad his performance is, he won't be so far behind Shevchenko, right? Could it be said that he has scored so many goals in the past year and won so many goals?
Are all champions fake?
But then I thought about it, the fact that he is standing here proves that his vote results in the remaining 30 countries are very good.
Otherwise, how could he win the award?
"Including Spain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Germany, etc., among the votes of these powerful teams, except for Italy, you all got the first pick. This is the most convincing, and even Italy took the first pick.
The first pick was given to Shevchenko, and the second pick is still given to you."
"In the end, you surpassed Shevchenko by 38 points and was elected without any doubt!" Aguilar laughed.
When Su Dong heard this, he let out a sigh of relief.
He knew that the battle for the Golden Globe Award was very dangerous, but he didn't know that there was such a competition behind it.
He had heard about the Eastern European votes before, but he really didn't know that it had such a big influence behind it.
Just imagine, if I hadn't tried my best to perform in the past year and gained enough chips in the non-Eastern European votes, I would definitely have failed in the selection of the Golden Globe Award.
Just like Ronaldinho and Deco, they were only about 30 points behind Shevchenko in the Eastern European votes, but although they were ahead in the non-Eastern European votes, they failed to widen the gap, and in the end the total score was behind Shevchenko.
A cut from Qinko.
So the final result of the top three in the Golden Globe Awards is Su Dong, Shevchenko and Deco.
