Chapter 254 The Controversial World Footballer

Although the British and Chinese media are still actively building momentum for Yin Jun, Yin Jun knows that these are useless because the voting session of World Footballer has ended. At present, the final results of the top three have not been announced to the public. However, whoever scored the top three has already been released.

In other words, the efforts of the British and Chinese media at this time will not have any impact on the final result of the World Footballer. It may have some impact on the next European Golden Globe Awards, but I have a relatively obvious advantage in the selection of the European Golden Globe Awards.

It is precisely because he knows that the result is destined to miss the FIFA World Footballer this year that Yin Jun has decided not to attend this year's FIFA Awards Ceremony.

Yin Jun's reason is also quite sufficient, because the Toyota Cup match was on the afternoon of December 14, local time in Europe, and the FIFA awards ceremony was in the evening one day later, with only one day apart. Although Yin Jun can also arrive at the FIFA headquarters in a dusty manner, Yin Jun will be very tired and very unfavorable to Manchester United's next match.

Since I went there, it was just a foil for others, why bother?

However, Yin Jun still took a short video and asked Manchester United staff to send them to FIFA headquarters, expressing his apology for not being able to attend the FIFA awards ceremony, and extending his congratulations to the conference.

After all, Yin Jun will have a lot of time to deal with FIFA in the future, so we can't make everyone unhappy because of this incident.

Perhaps anyone with discerning eyes knows that this is just Yin Jun’s excuse, but having an excuse is better than having no excuses?

Everyone has a step to go down so that they will not be in a turmoil or even turn against each other.

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Sure enough, at 3:00 pm on December 15, Central European Time, FIFA officially announced that French player Zidane was elected as the 2003 World Footballer.

This is the third time the 31-year-old Real Madrid star has won the honor. He had previously won the title in 1998 and 2000. In the final selection, he won 264 votes, and Yin Jun, who ranked second, won 236 votes. The difference between the two is not big.

Henry, Ronaldo and Juventus star Nedved ranked third to fifth.

Zidane also became the second player to win the honor three times, the other one was his teammate Ronaldo. A Spanish spinach agency once ranked Zidane in fifth place was popular, but the FIFA selection allowed Zidane to stand out from Yin Jun, Henry, Ronaldo and others who were very popular.

When the results were announced, the British media were unfair about Yin Jun.

The level of the World Footballer's contestants is uneven and has always been criticized, making the selection less persuasive than the "Golden Ball Award" of "French Football".

British media counted the choices of head coaches of eight recognized football powers including Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Germany, France, England, the Netherlands, Spain, etc. According to the scoring rules, the first place in the vote was 5 points, the second place in the vote was 3 points, and the third place in the vote was 1. Yin Jun ranked first with 21 points, followed by Nedved with 11 points and Carlos with 9 points, Zidane ranked fifth with only 7 points, and ahead of him was Henry, a teammate who scored 8 points.

From this point of view, Yin Jun is indeed the most unfair. In the past year, both personal performance and club performance, Yin Jun has obviously surpassed Zidane. He saved the team many times in key games. Manchester United and Real Madrid both won the league championship, but Manchester United is still the Champions League champion, which is also the reason Yin Jun is more optimistic in the Golden Globe Awards selection.

Most of the coaches under the head coaches of several major powers play in the top European leagues, so they are naturally paying close attention to European club events.

However, in the selection of World Footballer, the national team's performance was very critical. Ronaldo's league performance in 2002 was almost blank, but this is the reason for being elected with 8 World Cup goals. Yin Jun suffered this loss. The international influence of the French national team is far from that of the Chinese men's football team.

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No matter how many people are unfair to Yin Jun, the result is destined. FIFA has selected the most uncreative candidate in the most conservative way.

Ronaldo has won three times, and now Zidane has also made a hat trick. In the selection of World Footballer, what else is more boring than letting Real Madrid take on big bags?

Open the honor book of World Footballers, starting from Zidane in 2000, to Figo and Ronaldo next, and now Zidane again, World Footballers have been wandering around Real Madrid's midfield and frontcourt for four consecutive years.

What is even more surprising is that the shortlist for four consecutive years is the situation where Real Madrid attacks the other one. In this selection, Real Madrid seems too aggressive.

In fact, what did Real Madrid win in 2003? The league won the championship in the last round and stopped in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, that's all.

From the public standpoint, no one can deny the greatness of Ronaldo and Zidane. But people have reason to demand a more "fresh" footballer in the world, such as Yin Jun.

Yin Jun's performance in 2003 was definitely the best among all football players, and it is no exaggeration to say that he is the leader of Manchester United's "Six-Crown Championship".

Under Yin Jun's leadership, Manchester United swept the Premier League, fought back against the Champions League Cup, defeated the starring Real Madrid to advance to the semi-finals, and finally won. In addition, they also won four championships in the English League Cup, Community Shield, European Super Cup and Toyota Cup, becoming the first six-champion team in football history.

As time approaches the end of the year, the second winter transfer window is about to arrive. The Chelsea boss recently offered Yin Jun a £50 million worth, but Ferguson only gave two words: Don't sell it!

The real king of Manchester United firmly labeled Yin Jun as "not selling" and believed that selling Yin Jun was a stupid move.

During the selection process, Yin Jun's call was always above Zidane. Even in the odds of the World Footballer by Spinach Company, Yin Jun was far better than Zidane, but the final result disappointed people very much.

People cannot know the inside story of the selection, but everyone knows that Real Madrid has a stronger influence in Europe than Manchester United.

Yin Jun's age, who was under 19, seems far from being able to be senior. The 12-time World Footballer, even when he was successful in his youth, Ronaldo won the first World Footballer at the age of 20, only became his first World Footballer at the age of 20. The other winners were also older and more famous than Yin Jun when they were elected.

The concept "barrier" gradually formed by FIFA in the selection is destined that the "Mr." selection this year can only be used as old bottles of aged wine.

From this we can also see some "policy tilt" by FIFA in this selection and some preferences dominated by the "fame" of players.

What a pity, it’s for Yin Jun! It’s sad, it’s for the result!
Chapter completed!