Chapter 113 Li Mingyu Receives the Puskas Award
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Luo Yi 36 Chao
Chapter 113 Li Mingyu Receives the Puskas Award
With the appearance of the award presenters, the atmosphere at the scene reached its first climax.
Every year the Puskas Award is a very important award.
In 2009, after the FIFA President Blatter visited Puskas’ football school in Budapest, Hungary, he said that we want to commemorate those who have left great footprints in the history of world football. Puskas is a talented player who has won countless honors and deserves to be remembered. Therefore, we are very happy to use his name to name this new award to pay tribute to him.
The first Puskas Award was won by Ronaldo, who was still at Manchester United at the time.
In the UEFA Champions League match against Porto that year, he scored a shocking heavy long-range shot, which was about 40 meters away from the goal and went directly into the dead corner of the goal.
The TV cameras kept showing the faces of the three finalists on the scene.
Ronaldo, who was shortlisted again, looked indifferent, Lewandowski also looked gentle today, and Li Mingyu also smiled, but he was very nervous.
Two football seniors on the field took out an envelope, and Kujata, the legend of the Dutch women's football team, said, "The player who won the 2021 Puskas Award is—"
Côte d'Ivoire superstar Drogba opened the envelope, saw the name on it, showed a bright smile, and said, "Li Mingyu!"
"Congratulations, Lee!"
Harland did not expect that Li Mingyu could beat Ronaldo and Lewandowski to win the Puskas Award.
Li Mingyu shook hands with Harland, then stood up, straightened his clothes, and walked towards the stage.
When passing the first row, Messi stood up and hugged his club's younger brother.
"Congratulations, Li, go and get your first trophy!"
With Messi's blessing, Li Mingyu stepped onto the stage.
Received the Puskas Award trophy from Essien.
Standing in front of so many people for the first time, Li Mingyu seemed a little nervous.
"Thank you FIFA for awarding me this year's Puskas Award. Of course, the goals of Ronaldo and Lewandowski are equally wonderful,..."
When Li Mingyu was talking about his acceptance speech, the TV cameras were also timely shown on some of the celebrities below.
Today's Li Mingyu is not an unknown person. Anyone who understands football knows that this young man has a bright future.
Today's Puskas Award trophy will definitely not be the only trophy in his life.
In just half a minute, Li Mingyu completed his award acceptance speech, and the stars in the audience applauded very cooperatively.
After all, the Puskas Award is just an opening dish of today's National Football Federation Awards Ceremony.
Although important, for some stars, this award is like a chicken rib.
Next, hostess Emma Jones took the stage to announce the next award presenter.
This award can be said to be a relatively important award.
2021 Men's Soccer Coach of the Year Award.
The three shortlisted head coaches are...
Klopp, the head coach from Liverpool, has reached the final of the Champions League in three years within four years, won two championships, and finished runners-up once. Especially last season, when he had no chance in the league, he won the Champions League again with his wonderful performance in the Champions League and qualified for the Champions League this season.
The emergence of Klopp has finally made Liverpool a veritable powerhouse in the Premier League.
The second place is Guardiola from Manchester City.
Manchester City won the Premier League last season, the English League Cup and the FA Cup. Once again, the triple crown has allowed Manchester City to establish its status as the king of England.
After Guardiola came to Manchester City, he brought the unlucky Manchester City, which had been suppressed by Manchester United, on the right track.
In Manchester City today, only the blue Manchester City jersey is king.
The third place is Koeman from Barcelona.
Last season, at the most time, Barcelona was behind Atletico Madrid by as much as 11 points, but in the last 13 games, Barcelona won an epic 13-game winning streak. Although it did not break Barcelona's team history winning streak, it also allowed Barcelona to finally reverse the score and win last season's La Liga championship.
Li Mingyu scored 13 goals in 37 games and can be called the savior of the team.
But Koeman's contribution cannot be ignored.
The camera kept showing the faces of the three coaches.
The three head coaches all seem very calm, but I don't know if their hearts can be as calm as their appearance?
The guest of honor this time is the legend of the American women's football team, Michelle Akers, she was also the "Miss Football of the Century" that she won together with Sun Wen in 2000.
"I am very happy to be here today. First of all, I would like to congratulate these three excellent coaches. They not only inspire more players to perform better, but also inspire more fans to love football!"
"So let's see, the FIFA Men's Football Coach of the Year 2021 winner is-"
"Josep Guardiola!"
Manchester City manager Josep Guardiola has been named Manager of the Year.
Coman, who was sitting not far away, couldn't help curling his lips. Of course he knew that he was here to run with him today.
After all, how can a La Liga champion be compared with those two head coaches!
The other head coach, Klopp, frowned. There was no way. This is the FIFA awards ceremony. How could it be possible that UEFA would attach so much importance to a Champions League champion as UEFA.
In comparison, Guardiola's Triple Crown is even more eye-catching!
This is also where the contradiction between FIFA and UEFA lies.
UEFA has always promoted that the UEFA Champions League is comparable to the World Cup, and UEFA has also organized a UEFA Nations League game to replace the friendly match on the international match day, which in a disguised form divides the rights of the National Football Association.
After all, the center of the entire world football is in Europe, and the five major European leagues are more exciting than all the leagues in other countries combined.
Therefore, the contradiction between UEFA and the National Football Federation has always been irreconcilable.
The Puskas Award was originally a very important award, but in the past two years, because the final winners were not players from the top five European leagues, the gold content of this award has dropped greatly, and the word of mouth has also dropped a lot.
Although those few goals were indeed wonderful, without the aura of stars, in fact, many awards would be meaningless.
The reason is very simple. If these goals appear in campus games, you cannot deny that there are some young children who can score such wonderful goals, but can they be selected? After being selected, is it meaningful to win the Puskas Award?
In fact, this is the saddest part.
On the football field, it is always the sport of stars, because stars can bring attention and huge income, so everyone flocks to stars.
Of course, the star's own conditions must also be superior to others, with superior strength. After all, in competitive sports, performance is king.
Guardiola's acceptance speech was very brief, and after he finished speaking, he stepped down.
Next is a more interesting award, the Best Fan Award.
FIFA also pays a lot of attention to fans, and attaches great importance to the cultural relationship and interaction with fans.
FIFA uses this award to tell you many stories outside the football field.
If there were no fans, football would not be the number one sport in the world today.
Therefore, there has always been a saying that although each team has 11 players on the court, the fans are the 12th player.
The big screen also shows the scenes of the fans of each team.
Either excited, or sad, or helpless, or ecstatic...
But without exception, their support for their team will not give up because the team loses, nor will they despair because the team is in a trough. They will always use encouraging tone and expression to express their unswerving pursuit of the team.
This is a real fan, who loves a team and never comes here when you are at your peak, nor will you leave you when you are at a low point.
Finally, a little boy with leukemia, in a wheelchair, wearing a Barcelona jersey.
What shocked Li Mingyu was that the number of this jersey was exactly his No. 36 team jersey from last season.
In an instant, Li Mingyu's eyes were wet with tears.
In the applause of everyone, Li Mingyu stood up from his seat and walked quickly to the stage.
Seeing Li Mingyu walking towards her, this little girl who was only 11 years old, but with a pale face and no hair, looked at Li Mingyu with admiration, waved her skinny arms excitedly, and whispered Li Mingyu's name in her mouth.
Different from other people, this 11-year-old Elena shouted Li Mingyu's full name.
"Li...min...fish!"
Although it was not standard, the familiar Chinese pronunciation made Li Mingyu even more heartwarming.
Elena stretched out her hand and held Li Mingyu's hand tightly.
Li Mingyu could feel that the child's hand bones were protruding and trembling slightly, and he couldn't help but feel sour.
Elena said excitedly, "I purposely found an old Chinese man in the neighbor's house, and asked him to teach me to say your name, am I right?"
Looking at the timid Elena, Li Mingyu squatted down, looked at her with a smile, and said softly, "You speak very well!"
The host also told everyone about Elena's story.
Elena is a child of an ordinary family in Barcelona. At the age of 7, she was diagnosed with chronic leukemia.
As a result, the long-term treatment overwhelmed the family, but her parents never gave up.
In four years, Elena has changed from a lively and lovely little girl to a scrawny, unspoken and withdrawn child.
However, since she was born in Barcelona since she was a child, Elena's parents are loyal fans of the Spaniards, but little Elena has been a Barcelona fan since she was a child.
All along, her idol is Messi.
But since last season, Elena has "betrayed".
Li Mingyu broke into her world like a prince charming.
The silver saddle illuminates the white horse, rustling like a meteor.
Although Eileen had never read Li Bai's poems, Li Mingyu's god-like performance made her deeply admire Li Mingyu.
In the end, Li Mingyu said that he will bear all of Elena's medical expenses, and every year, he will donate 100 million euros for the treatment and research of leukemia patients.
Li Mingyu's generosity also won warm applause from the scene.
Over the years, more and more sports people have begun to join the ranks of charity.
Many players are now charity ambassadors for their countries. It is a blessing to use the money they earn to help other people in need.
After Elena and Li Mingyu hugged, they were taken backstage, and Li Mingyu also returned to his place.
The awards ceremony continued.
FIFA Women's Football Best Goalkeeper of the Year, also known as the Women's Golden Glove Award.
This award was only added to the award ceremony the year before last. For a long time, there has been only the best goalkeeper award for men's football at the award ceremony.
Over the years, the National Football Federation has also increased its support and attention to women's football.
In the end, the award went to Australian goalkeeper Lydia Williams.
The next award is the FIFA Fair Play Award.
This award is actually not suspenseful at all, because in last year's British Championship, in the last round of the game, Reading did not stop the game at the last moment due to the injury of the opponent's player, and when the opponent had signaled to kick the ball out of the sideline, the striker was eager to score, grabbed the football, and scored the goal, leading the score.
According to this score, they will come to No.6, qualify for the play-offs, and have a chance to break into the Premier League.
But after the head coach discussed with the captain, after the kick-off, all Reading players did not move, allowing the opponent's striker to score a goal.
As a result, the two teams eventually drew, and Reading also lost the qualification for the play-offs. This season, they are still fighting in the English Championship.
This game also shocked the whole of England. In such a crucial game, the Reading team can still abide by the principle of fair play, which is really admirable.
Therefore, Reading deserved the FIFA fair play award.
The FIFA awards ceremony went on one by one, and finally, came the most critical awards.
FIFA Men's Player of the Year, also known as the World Player of the Year.
This award can be said to be the most important moment at the National Football Federation Awards Ceremony.
The previous Miss World Football has been awarded to England's Lucy Bronze, and Wang Shuang only ranked third in the votes, so she missed the reelection of Miss World Football.
However, Wang Shuang also knew that it was impossible for her to win Miss World Football again, so she appeared very free and easy.
This year's World Footballer's award does not know who will go to it.
Photos of the three candidates appeared on the big screen.
(End of this chapter)
With the appearance of the award presenters, the atmosphere at the scene reached its first climax.
Every year the Puskas Award is a very important award.
In 2009, after the FIFA President Blatter visited Puskas’ football school in Budapest, Hungary, he said that we want to commemorate those who have left great footprints in the history of world football. Puskas is a talented player who has won countless honors and deserves to be remembered. Therefore, we are very happy to use his name to name this new award to pay tribute to him.
The first Puskas Award was won by Ronaldo, who was still at Manchester United at the time.
In the UEFA Champions League match against Porto that year, he scored a shocking heavy long-range shot, which was about 40 meters away from the goal and went directly into the dead corner of the goal.
The TV cameras kept showing the faces of the three finalists on the scene.
Ronaldo, who was shortlisted again, looked indifferent, Lewandowski also looked gentle today, and Li Mingyu also smiled, but he was very nervous.
Two football seniors on the field took out an envelope, and Kujata, the legend of the Dutch women's football team, said, "The player who won the 2021 Puskas Award is—"
Côte d'Ivoire superstar Drogba opened the envelope, saw the name on it, showed a bright smile, and said, "Li Mingyu!"
"Congratulations, Lee!"
Harland did not expect that Li Mingyu could beat Ronaldo and Lewandowski to win the Puskas Award.
Li Mingyu shook hands with Harland, then stood up, straightened his clothes, and walked towards the stage.
When passing the first row, Messi stood up and hugged his club's younger brother.
"Congratulations, Li, go and get your first trophy!"
With Messi's blessing, Li Mingyu stepped onto the stage.
Received the Puskas Award trophy from Essien.
Standing in front of so many people for the first time, Li Mingyu seemed a little nervous.
"Thank you FIFA for awarding me this year's Puskas Award. Of course, the goals of Ronaldo and Lewandowski are equally wonderful,..."
When Li Mingyu was talking about his acceptance speech, the TV cameras were also timely shown on some of the celebrities below.
Today's Li Mingyu is not an unknown person. Anyone who understands football knows that this young man has a bright future.
Today's Puskas Award trophy will definitely not be the only trophy in his life.
In just half a minute, Li Mingyu completed his award acceptance speech, and the stars in the audience applauded very cooperatively.
After all, the Puskas Award is just an opening dish of today's National Football Federation Awards Ceremony.
Although important, for some stars, this award is like a chicken rib.
Next, hostess Emma Jones took the stage to announce the next award presenter.
This award can be said to be a relatively important award.
2021 Men's Soccer Coach of the Year Award.
The three shortlisted head coaches are...
Klopp, the head coach from Liverpool, has reached the final of the Champions League in three years within four years, won two championships, and finished runners-up once. Especially last season, when he had no chance in the league, he won the Champions League again with his wonderful performance in the Champions League and qualified for the Champions League this season.
The emergence of Klopp has finally made Liverpool a veritable powerhouse in the Premier League.
The second place is Guardiola from Manchester City.
Manchester City won the Premier League last season, the English League Cup and the FA Cup. Once again, the triple crown has allowed Manchester City to establish its status as the king of England.
After Guardiola came to Manchester City, he brought the unlucky Manchester City, which had been suppressed by Manchester United, on the right track.
In Manchester City today, only the blue Manchester City jersey is king.
The third place is Koeman from Barcelona.
Last season, at the most time, Barcelona was behind Atletico Madrid by as much as 11 points, but in the last 13 games, Barcelona won an epic 13-game winning streak. Although it did not break Barcelona's team history winning streak, it also allowed Barcelona to finally reverse the score and win last season's La Liga championship.
Li Mingyu scored 13 goals in 37 games and can be called the savior of the team.
But Koeman's contribution cannot be ignored.
The camera kept showing the faces of the three coaches.
The three head coaches all seem very calm, but I don't know if their hearts can be as calm as their appearance?
The guest of honor this time is the legend of the American women's football team, Michelle Akers, she was also the "Miss Football of the Century" that she won together with Sun Wen in 2000.
"I am very happy to be here today. First of all, I would like to congratulate these three excellent coaches. They not only inspire more players to perform better, but also inspire more fans to love football!"
"So let's see, the FIFA Men's Football Coach of the Year 2021 winner is-"
"Josep Guardiola!"
Manchester City manager Josep Guardiola has been named Manager of the Year.
Coman, who was sitting not far away, couldn't help curling his lips. Of course he knew that he was here to run with him today.
After all, how can a La Liga champion be compared with those two head coaches!
The other head coach, Klopp, frowned. There was no way. This is the FIFA awards ceremony. How could it be possible that UEFA would attach so much importance to a Champions League champion as UEFA.
In comparison, Guardiola's Triple Crown is even more eye-catching!
This is also where the contradiction between FIFA and UEFA lies.
UEFA has always promoted that the UEFA Champions League is comparable to the World Cup, and UEFA has also organized a UEFA Nations League game to replace the friendly match on the international match day, which in a disguised form divides the rights of the National Football Association.
After all, the center of the entire world football is in Europe, and the five major European leagues are more exciting than all the leagues in other countries combined.
Therefore, the contradiction between UEFA and the National Football Federation has always been irreconcilable.
The Puskas Award was originally a very important award, but in the past two years, because the final winners were not players from the top five European leagues, the gold content of this award has dropped greatly, and the word of mouth has also dropped a lot.
Although those few goals were indeed wonderful, without the aura of stars, in fact, many awards would be meaningless.
The reason is very simple. If these goals appear in campus games, you cannot deny that there are some young children who can score such wonderful goals, but can they be selected? After being selected, is it meaningful to win the Puskas Award?
In fact, this is the saddest part.
On the football field, it is always the sport of stars, because stars can bring attention and huge income, so everyone flocks to stars.
Of course, the star's own conditions must also be superior to others, with superior strength. After all, in competitive sports, performance is king.
Guardiola's acceptance speech was very brief, and after he finished speaking, he stepped down.
Next is a more interesting award, the Best Fan Award.
FIFA also pays a lot of attention to fans, and attaches great importance to the cultural relationship and interaction with fans.
FIFA uses this award to tell you many stories outside the football field.
If there were no fans, football would not be the number one sport in the world today.
Therefore, there has always been a saying that although each team has 11 players on the court, the fans are the 12th player.
The big screen also shows the scenes of the fans of each team.
Either excited, or sad, or helpless, or ecstatic...
But without exception, their support for their team will not give up because the team loses, nor will they despair because the team is in a trough. They will always use encouraging tone and expression to express their unswerving pursuit of the team.
This is a real fan, who loves a team and never comes here when you are at your peak, nor will you leave you when you are at a low point.
Finally, a little boy with leukemia, in a wheelchair, wearing a Barcelona jersey.
What shocked Li Mingyu was that the number of this jersey was exactly his No. 36 team jersey from last season.
In an instant, Li Mingyu's eyes were wet with tears.
In the applause of everyone, Li Mingyu stood up from his seat and walked quickly to the stage.
Seeing Li Mingyu walking towards her, this little girl who was only 11 years old, but with a pale face and no hair, looked at Li Mingyu with admiration, waved her skinny arms excitedly, and whispered Li Mingyu's name in her mouth.
Different from other people, this 11-year-old Elena shouted Li Mingyu's full name.
"Li...min...fish!"
Although it was not standard, the familiar Chinese pronunciation made Li Mingyu even more heartwarming.
Elena stretched out her hand and held Li Mingyu's hand tightly.
Li Mingyu could feel that the child's hand bones were protruding and trembling slightly, and he couldn't help but feel sour.
Elena said excitedly, "I purposely found an old Chinese man in the neighbor's house, and asked him to teach me to say your name, am I right?"
Looking at the timid Elena, Li Mingyu squatted down, looked at her with a smile, and said softly, "You speak very well!"
The host also told everyone about Elena's story.
Elena is a child of an ordinary family in Barcelona. At the age of 7, she was diagnosed with chronic leukemia.
As a result, the long-term treatment overwhelmed the family, but her parents never gave up.
In four years, Elena has changed from a lively and lovely little girl to a scrawny, unspoken and withdrawn child.
However, since she was born in Barcelona since she was a child, Elena's parents are loyal fans of the Spaniards, but little Elena has been a Barcelona fan since she was a child.
All along, her idol is Messi.
But since last season, Elena has "betrayed".
Li Mingyu broke into her world like a prince charming.
The silver saddle illuminates the white horse, rustling like a meteor.
Although Eileen had never read Li Bai's poems, Li Mingyu's god-like performance made her deeply admire Li Mingyu.
In the end, Li Mingyu said that he will bear all of Elena's medical expenses, and every year, he will donate 100 million euros for the treatment and research of leukemia patients.
Li Mingyu's generosity also won warm applause from the scene.
Over the years, more and more sports people have begun to join the ranks of charity.
Many players are now charity ambassadors for their countries. It is a blessing to use the money they earn to help other people in need.
After Elena and Li Mingyu hugged, they were taken backstage, and Li Mingyu also returned to his place.
The awards ceremony continued.
FIFA Women's Football Best Goalkeeper of the Year, also known as the Women's Golden Glove Award.
This award was only added to the award ceremony the year before last. For a long time, there has been only the best goalkeeper award for men's football at the award ceremony.
Over the years, the National Football Federation has also increased its support and attention to women's football.
In the end, the award went to Australian goalkeeper Lydia Williams.
The next award is the FIFA Fair Play Award.
This award is actually not suspenseful at all, because in last year's British Championship, in the last round of the game, Reading did not stop the game at the last moment due to the injury of the opponent's player, and when the opponent had signaled to kick the ball out of the sideline, the striker was eager to score, grabbed the football, and scored the goal, leading the score.
According to this score, they will come to No.6, qualify for the play-offs, and have a chance to break into the Premier League.
But after the head coach discussed with the captain, after the kick-off, all Reading players did not move, allowing the opponent's striker to score a goal.
As a result, the two teams eventually drew, and Reading also lost the qualification for the play-offs. This season, they are still fighting in the English Championship.
This game also shocked the whole of England. In such a crucial game, the Reading team can still abide by the principle of fair play, which is really admirable.
Therefore, Reading deserved the FIFA fair play award.
The FIFA awards ceremony went on one by one, and finally, came the most critical awards.
FIFA Men's Player of the Year, also known as the World Player of the Year.
This award can be said to be the most important moment at the National Football Federation Awards Ceremony.
The previous Miss World Football has been awarded to England's Lucy Bronze, and Wang Shuang only ranked third in the votes, so she missed the reelection of Miss World Football.
However, Wang Shuang also knew that it was impossible for her to win Miss World Football again, so she appeared very free and easy.
This year's World Footballer's award does not know who will go to it.
Photos of the three candidates appeared on the big screen.
(End of this chapter)
