Chapter 400 Reaching the top of the football world!Mr. Shuangliao wants to break the emperor's
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Ge Lei Sen Gu Dong
Chapter 400 Reaching the top of the football world!Mr. Shuangliao wants to break the emperor's record!
Zurich, Switzerland, January 2024, 1, FIFA headquarters.
On the left side of the first row are three male players, Chen Xiaoliang, Harland and Mbappe, and on the right side are Bon Marti from the Barcelona women's football team, and Oberdorf from the Wolfsburg women's football team And Arsenal Women's Beth Meade.
Obviously, they're here to take the prize.
The storyboard director behind the live broadcast shot was like Chen Xiaoliang's brainless fan. Even though FIFA President Infantino was talking endlessly on stage, the camera still had to cut to Chen Xiaoliang's cute face from time to time. .
This year's awards are not as suspenseful as the Golden Globe Awards in October last year, because the time frame of the Golden Globe Awards is based on the season. In the 10-2022 season, Chen Xiaoliang has the Triple Crown, while Messi has the World Cup, so the suspense at that time remains. At the last moment.
In the FIFA Awards Ceremony, which takes the year as the selection time unit, Messi won the seventh World Footballer of the Year trophy in his career by winning the World Cup as early as February 2023.
Therefore, in today's award presentation, people have long known that the final crown will be worn on Chen Xiaoliang's head.
When you have established outstanding achievements in a field that attracts worldwide attention, you will naturally be recognized and respected by everyone regardless of skin color, race, language, and culture.
Before the meeting, Chen Xiaoliang had already enjoyed such an honor.
When he walked in from the main entrance of the synagogue and was about to enter the synagogue, almost everyone turned their eyes to him, and at the same time they automatically parted to the two sides, and subconsciously gave him the way in the middle leading to the synagogue.
In this case, even if a few people may not be willing in their hearts, they have to succumb to the herd mentality under the strong atmosphere and automatically retreat to the side.
Chen Xiaoliang kept waving and nodding his thanks to many celebrities and dignitaries on both sides. Among them were Zidane, Maldini, Laporta, Guardiola, and even Klopp who did not have a smile on his face.
He walked straight into the venue and sat in his seat under the guidance of the etiquette student.
After a bunch of opening remarks, Infantino invited the famous Schmeichel and the world's best women's football goalkeeper in 2022, Mary Epps of Manchester United Women's Football, as the two best goalkeepers of the year, Manchester City's Ederson Presenting the award with Fromms of the Wolfsburg Women's Football Team.
Then the second awards ceremony caused some small disputes and a small commotion among the guests.
The five candidates for the Puskas Award were played on the screen in sequence, namely:
When Haaland faced his former owner Dortmund in the Champions League last season, he received a pass from the outside of Cancelo's right foot and flew to block the ball into the goal with the outside of his left foot;
When facing the four-man defense in Atlanta's penalty area, Kwa repeatedly changed his direction and deceived the goalkeeper's military training goal;
When Chen Xiaoliang faced Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League last season, he was dragged by Enzo and Cheek. In the end, the two fell down because they could not pull.
The Norwegian player Caroline Graham Hansen of the Barcelona women's football team played against Chelsea in the women's Champions League semi-final last season. At only 3 minutes and 11 seconds into the game, she received the ball from the right and cut inside to open two defenders. A goal from the far corner exploded from outside the penalty area with his left foot.
These four goals are gorgeous, technical, violent, and elegant. They all have their own preferences, and there is no problem. But when the last video was released, there were immediately rustling discussions at the scene.
That was Chen Xiaoliang's goal in the last moment of the Champions League final, which assisted Pellegrini's lore goal with six assists from Manchester City.
According to the selection rules of the Puskas Award, the final winner is the scorer, so this goal naturally belongs to Pellegrini.
The selection rules of the Puskas Award are different from other awards. FIFA will upload 11 selected and wonderful goals to the official website in November each year, and then fans from all over the world will vote for more than one month. Whichever gets the most votes wins.
The one with the highest number of votes in the end is naturally the most exciting and important goal among all the goals, and the most suffocating goal of the Champions League final at that moment.
Roma's No. 7, Pellegrini, who became captain again after Chen Xiaoliang left the team, stood up amid applause and walked to the stage.
The people present were all decent people. Although there was a lot of discussion, they still gave warm applause, but a large number of fans watching the live broadcast on the Internet couldn't sit still.
[When I voted, I voted for Xiao Liang! 】
[Although he did score the goal, 99% of the credit lies with Chen]
[I think the Puskas Award can make an exception for Chen Xiaoliang and modify the rules once, so that they can win this trophy together]
...
All of a sudden, complaints, grievances, and grievances came and went.
However, Chen Xiaoliang's attitude was immediately shown to audiences all over the world. At this time, the director pointed the camera at him for a long time.
Before Pellegrini took the stage, he went to the first row to greet Chen Xiaoliang. Chen Xiaoliang stood up and happily hugged him and patted each other on the back.
Then the Roma captain's thank you speech also calmed down the fans who were still complaining just now:
"I told the organizer that this ball should not be blamed on me, or at least Chen's name should be written on it. The staff also contacted Chen, but he firmly disagreed."
"He didn't say the specific reason, but I think all of our players in that Roma team knew in their hearts that we are a team with only victory in mind, not each other."
"It was undoubtedly a great goal. Chen himself could try to shoot, but he chose to pass it to me in order to be sure of winning."
"Although the winner written by the organizer is me, I think this ball should belong to that Roma team and everyone on the field at that time."
After finishing speaking, Pellegrini pointed to Chen Xiaoliang who was under the stage, and then they both raised their hands and patted their hearts together, expressing their sympathy for each other.
The fan's comment immediately became:
[For this pretender, Chen Xiaoliang will get 82 points, leaving 666 points for Pellegrini]
[Even after 100 years, people will know what is going on when they see this ball, but the team sport of football is irrefutable]
[The players who have been tamed by Xiao Liang are all so high? 】
...
After evaluating Puskas, the next is the best coach of the year.
There is also no suspense about this award. In years without international competitions, whoever wins the Champions League will almost always sit in this position, let alone the Triple Crown.
Mourinho, who led Roma to win the triple crown, and Barcelona women's football coach Hilardes, who won the women's Champions League and achieved a double crown, won the awards respectively.
It's just that Mourinho didn't come to the scene because his wife was sick and was hospitalized. He just recorded a thank you video, which was received by the club staff of Greater Paris.
The next link is the best team of the year.
The 11 women's football team will play first, basically the players of the Champions League final opponents Barcelona Women's Football and Wolfsburg Women's Football Team, plus the Champions League semi-finals Arsenal Women's Football Beth Meade and Chelsea Women's Football Midfielder Reiten and so on.
As for the men's football team, the same as last year's selection, it is a 3-3-4 formation:
Goalkeeper Ederson (Manchester City)
Back three Kyle Walker (Manchester City), Ruben Dias (Manchester City), Stones (Manchester City);
Midfielders Rodri (Manchester City), Chen Xiaoliang (Manchester United), De Bruyne (Manchester City);
Forward Dybala (Paris), Haaland (Manchester City), Kwa (Manchester United), Mbappe (Paris)
This is also the first time Melo and Melo have both missed the FIFA awards ceremony. Even Dybala and Kwa, who seem to be replaced by Messi, will indeed receive much more team honors than Messi in 2023 .
Not to mention the entire 2023, except for falling in front of Rome, the rest of the time almost ran over the Manchester City generals of all teams.
This made many unwilling fans completely let go, shouting that their youth is completely over.
In the last link, the best players of men's and women's football were awarded by FIFA President Infantino himself.
Miss World Football was awarded to the core of the Barcelona women's football team, Bomati. During the 299 days of the two Golden Globe Awards and the two-time Miss World Football Putras was seriously injured, she led the Barcelona women's football team to regain the Women's Champions League.
The three candidates for the World Footballer are Mbappe, Harland and Chen Xiaoliang.
In 2023, these three people scored 50 goals and 17 assists, 63 goals and 8 assists, and 38 goals and 36 assists. From the data point of view, they are all comparable to the achievements of the ancient gods in the "WM formation" era.
But in the end there was only one winner.
Infantino: "The winner is Chen Xiaoliang, the best football player of the year 2023 officially selected by FIFA!"
Chen Xiaoliang first shook hands with Mbappe and Harland on the left and right, then got up, turned around and waved to everyone in the auditorium, then walked onto the stage, shook hands with the male and female hosts and Infantino, then received Pass the silver trophy that looks a bit like an ice cream cone, which symbolizes the highest honor.
"Although I may have predicted it in advance, I still find it incredible that it was the great Messi who stood here to receive the award last year."
"The last year was amazing and I went through many things. I would like to thank the teammates, coaches and all the staff of Roma and Manchester United. As Lorenzo (Pellegrini) said just now, in the football world, Any credit should go to the collective, none of this would have been possible without the other 10 teammates on the court, without the bench off the court, without the coaches, without the front office, without the investors, without the fans."
"Of course, thanks also to Kylian (Mbappe) and Erling (Haaland), I watch your videos from time to time and say 'wow, look at what incredible things they did again'."
"Then I was wondering, would you two watch my video?"
At this time, the audience broke out into "hahaha" laughter. Mbappe, who was sitting in the audience, smiled slightly, obviously not in a good mood, while Harland on the side grinned like a little BABY with a height of nearly 2 meters. Laughing, pointing at Chen Xiaoliang on the stage while nodding.
"In the end there is nothing else to say, the players just play well and see you next year."
See you next year. After Chen Xiaoliang said this, the anchors in the live broadcast rooms of the sports channels of various countries agreed that this was Chen Xiaoliang's announcement that he had booked the World Footballer of the Year next year.
Moreover, after winning the 2022-23 Golden Globe Award, the UEFA Best Player, and the Champions League Best Player because of his super performance last season, he won the World Footballer today, regardless of the Global Football Award hosted by the Dubai Sports Authority With the Golden Globe Award presented by "Turin Sports News", Chen Xiaoliang has already won the most mainstream individual awards.
If you insist on counting the league awards, including the Serie A MVP and the best player of the Italian Football Association, Chen Xiaoliang only lacks two league awards for the best player of the Premier League and the best player of the English Football Association (PFA).
With the current performance of him and Haaland, these two awards are destined to only be produced between them. Whoever wins the Premier League championship this season will get them.
Later, the number increases from 0 to 1.
The 2nd Golden Globe Award, the 2nd World Player of the Year, the 3rd, 4th...until retirement.
But his goals don't stop there.
It's just that he needs time, a lot of time.
After the award ceremony that day, Chen Xiaoliang could not leave. According to the event arrangement, he had to participate in the interview and video arranged by FIFA on the second day, take a set of award-winning makeup photos, and leave his signature at the FIFA headquarters.
Although he failed to return, in the second leg of Manchester United's League Cup semi-final on the evening of the 18th, Ten Hag deployed a formation between 4-4-2 and 4-2-4 , Let Cesco and Benzema start together to play double forwards, Ganacho and B Fei as the flankers, Casemiro takes turns, and Milinkovic and McTominay serve as midfielders.
In the end, Manchester United won the second round 1-0 by virtue of Luke Thomas's cross before the end of the first half. victory.
The team also entered the final of the League Cup with a total score of 3 to 1 in the two rounds.
Their opponent, in the other group of semi-finals, after a 4-4 tie in two rounds, a penalty kick overturned Manchester City's Arsenal 7-5 thrillingly.
The League Cup final will be played on the evening of March 3.
This is of course good news, but there is also bad news for the team.
After De Gea was injured, he was diagnosed with a fractured rib. At first, the team doctor suggested conservative treatment and he would recover for about 3 months. However, a week later, he was found to have pleural effusion during the follow-up visit, so he decided to perform drainage surgery and treat it. The fracture site is fixed.
As a result, it will take three and a half months to recover at the fastest, and even if it returns in April, facing the final stage of the league and the possible semi-finals and finals of various cups, the injury will be missing for half a season and the state will not be good. If nothing else, he will not be able to play, which is equivalent to being reimbursed for the season.
Manchester United has followed up Brentford's goalkeeper Raya and Portugal's Porto goalkeeper Diogo Costa for a long time before this.
Compared with the 28-year-old Raya, the 24-year-old Diogo Costa is more in line with the club's long-term strategy for signings.
However, the former asked for 4000 million pounds, and the latter came from a black shop like Porto. The other party said that he would only sell it if his termination fee of 7500 million euros was activated.
Moreover, Livakovic's performance in one goal after De Gea was injured is really impeccable, so Van der Sar is not willing to spend huge sums of money to buy another goalkeeper when he already has such an excellent goalkeeper. goalkeeper.
What's more, De Gea was only injured, not dead. After he returned to the team from injury, the 32-year-old goalkeeper still has enough strength to compete with Livakovic for a goal.
But there are only two goalkeepers in the current team. In case Livakovic has any troubles, only the embarrassing old goalkeeper Heaton, who is about to be 38 years old, can be used.
Like Dubravka and Butland last season, we must find an experienced and capable second goal.
Van der Sar moved very quickly. He let the scouting team find a player who had been his old opponent, and started loan negotiations with the opposing club. Things went very smoothly.
An official announcement will be made soon.
After finishing the award, Chen Xiaoliang finally returned to Manchester on January 1. He hasn't trained well these days, but Ten Hag is not worried about this.
He is not afraid that Chen Xiaoliang will slack off, because this kind of thing will never happen to such a football idiot. He is afraid that Chen Xiaoliang will be too tired, and he will be injured due to overwork. Fake.
But even when he is not around, the extra training team will still carry on as usual under the leadership of Kewa and Cesko.
In the next three games in the next week, Manchester United had a difficult process, but the result was smooth.
On January 1, Manchester United played against the Seagulls Brighton at home. They only rotated Benzema and Milinkovic who started the previous game, allowing Chen Xiaoliang and Casemiro to return to the starting lineup.
Brighton, who reached the knockout rounds in the Europa League, has recovered and adjusted very well after the winter break. Facing Manchester United's onslaught at Old Trafford, they defended very well.
Ecuador left-back Estupinan, Paraguayan midfielder Enciso, and Scottish center Evan Ferguson all relied on their excellent performances. It is rumored that many teams in the BIG7 have favored them. , Caicedo and others' high-priced transfer drama.
In the end, relying on Benzema, who replaced Sesco in the 70th minute of the second half, he was tripped by defender Veltman in the 79th minute when he picked a pass in the penalty area and got a penalty. Under Chen Xiaoliang's insistence, Benzema himself took the initiative. With a penalty, it was a bit difficult to win 1-0, defending the 3 points at home.
Compared with Manchester United's difficult goals, two major upsets broke out in this round. Liverpool, who played in an away game, was tied 2-2 by Nottingham Forest, and Manchester City, who played in an away game, was tied 1-1 by Wolves.
Manchester City, in particular, seems to be dissatisfied with the loss to Arsenal in the League Cup. Guardiola has rotated many players who he thinks have performed poorly, and even put Haaland, who has only scored 3 goal in the past 1 games, on the bench. Let Alvarez start.
The team led by 88 goal until the 1th minute, and until the 89th minute, Wolves winger Amada Traore counterattacked the overtake Akanji from the right, crossed the middle, and followed up with the stick forward Huang Xican Next, the teenager Rico Lewis made an own goal and beat Edson, who had just won the best goalkeeper, by surprise, and lost 2 points inexplicably.
After 21 rounds, the two teams of Manchester City once again accumulated 57 points, and Manchester City continued to rank first with 1 goal difference.
Four days later, after lunch, the team took the bus to Wigan, also in the Greater Manchester area, to participate in the third round of the FA Cup away game against Wigan Athletic.
This former Premier League team has been reduced to relegation from the English Championship last season, and is currently hovering in the middle of the League One. The total value of the club is less than 1500 million pounds.
Ten Hag sent all the substitutes, and even allowed Chen Xiaoliang, the darling of thousands of sponsors, to stay in Carrington to shoot commercials instead of playing with the team.
Facing such an underdog, the substitutes and the young players who participated in the first team training fought hard and fought 6-0.
In the 17th minute, Lindelof received a header from Eriksson from a corner kick and scored directly;
In the 24th minute, Greenwood received a cross from the young player Zidane Iqbal, dribbled the ball forward, cut in from outside the penalty area and scored from a long distance;
In the 39th minute, Greenwood intercepted Bennett's ball in the frontcourt, broke into the penalty area and hit a close corner, and scored another goal;
Ten Hag was very satisfied with the state he showed in training and in the cup, but the resistance to his playing did not come from the club, but from off-court factors, especially "political correctness".
In the 42nd minute, it was another corner kick. Eriksson took an inswing ball from the left. Maguire didn't hit the top in the middle, but ran to the feet of Anthony who was wandering on the right side of the penalty area by accident. In the case of defense, he took aim and shot without aiming, expanding the score gap to 4 goals;
After the goal, Maguire, who put on the captain's armband again because the captain and deputy captain Chen Xiaoliang, B Fei, and the third and fourth captains Casemiro and De Gea did not play, went up to celebrate with Anthony. Wang stroked his hair back chicly, and said, "I can hit this ball well, it's for you."
Anthony didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but when he thought that he had also gotten into it blindly, he could only say: "Old Ma, you're right. I hope you can get one yourself, and you don't have to give it to me."
In the 60 minutes of the second half, Ten Hag simply replaced Eriksson with Ibragimov, who was only 2 years old in more than two months.
Because of his young age, when faced with a low-level team that played high and high, once he encountered a physical confrontation, this young player who was born in a fighting nation but has dual British nationality had a lot of fighting spirit, but he still suffered a lot.
But God always favors those who work hard, and opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. In the 70th minute, the 15-year-old and 318-day-old teenager knocked away the opponent's goal with a direct free kick on the top of the penalty area. Gate, scored his first goal in an official game representing Manchester United's first team!
同时，他也凭借自己的年龄，打破了由肖恩·卡托（Sean Cato）在2011年9月3日代表业余球队巴洛镇（Barrow Town）创造的16岁25天的最年轻进球纪录。
And in the 77th minute, the 18-year-old teenager and the best young player of the club last season, Menu, scored the final goal single-handedly through a counterattack and a through pass from Ganacho.
Another three days later, Manchester United came to Hounslow, a borough outside London, to challenge Brentford away.
The Little Bees, who are temporarily ranked 15th this season, are worse than expected before the season, but they stick to their home court and still cause a lot of trouble for Manchester United, which has played out its main force.
In this campaign, Chen Xiaoliang returned to the starting lineup as a central midfielder, Kwa, Sesco, and Rashford three arrows, and Casemiro and Milinkovic joined forces for the first time as a double midfielder.
Brentford goalkeeper Raya was desperate to leave the team and join Manchester United. The game was like a big product exhibition, and he frantically saved Manchester United's shots. Chen Xiaoliang's long-range shot was saved by him three times.
Other players have the same mentality.
With the purchasing power of the Premier League becoming more and more perverted, the middle and lower reaches of the team buy players from the four major leagues, buy good players and sell them to the BIG7 team for a premium.
Leicester City, which had won the championship for a long time, contributed a lot of main players such as Kanter and Mahrez. Later, Brighton sold Caicedo and Kaoru Misaki made a net profit of 1 million yuan, not to mention the downgraded Rice. Especially, last season's relegation still received a league share of 1 million pounds. After selling Thielemans, James Madison, Endidi, Luke Thomas and others, they made a net profit of 1 million pounds, but also removed The burden of high-paid players.
Then buy some cheap and cost-effective players in the downstream teams of the four major leagues and the English Championship. This season, it ranks second in the English Championship, only behind Southampton, another relegated team. The posture of the Premier League.
Ever since, in a team like Brentford that aims to relegation, all the players with some strength in the team want to show themselves hard, and then become the next Kanter and the next Caicedo.
In this game, apart from Raya, Brentford's two wingers, Mbemo and Shadna, made a desperate breakthrough with the ball.
In particular, the 22-year-old German winger Schad, regardless of Freiburg, who finished fifth in the Bundesliga last season, insisted on staying in Brentford in the middle of the Premier League after the loan period expires.
But the real situation is that in the fifth place in the Bundesliga, no one cares about him, and he has not been given a chance. In the ninth place in the Premier League, he is the main winger. In the fifth place in the Bundesliga, his value has stagnated. Was called up by the national team to play two friendly matches.
The next step is to work harder, marry a model, join a wealthy family, and reach the pinnacle of life.
Luke Thomas, who was also young, was very embarrassed by Shad. Fortunately, Casemiro helped him defend, and he was barely defended.
According to the past, once Casemiro pulls to the side, Chen Xiaoliang has to retreat a little bit. Neither Eriksson nor B Fei are good at close defense, and McTominay and Fred are extremely poor in position selection. .
But it's different now. With the addition of Milinkovic, Casemiro can safely expand his sweeping area.
With a height of 191 centimeters and a weight of 76 kilograms, the muscular Milinkovic is hardly afraid to confront anyone personally, and dares to set foot at the front of the penalty area.
At the same time, as an all-round midfielder, he can also pass a precise long-distance pass when switching from defense to offense, helping the midfielder to launch a counterattack.
Therefore, although Brentford attacked fiercely after the opening, Manchester United kept retreating and gave the opponent corner kicks, but relying on the resilience of the defense and the ability of individual combat, they insisted on defending.
In the 51st minute of the second half, Chen Xiaoliang received the ball on the left side of the penalty area in a positional battle, pretended to pass the ball and then broke through to the left rib. gram, thrust straight forward to gramwa inserted from the left.
After taking the ball, Chen Xiaoliang rushed towards the goal and formed a double outflanking situation with Cesko, who was also advancing forward. Raya did not dare to fully pounce on the near post, but was hit by Kewa at the near corner.
0 to 1, Manchester United broke the balance of the score.
After this goal was scored, Chen Xiaoliang added another assist, and the Premier League data for this season became 23 goals and 13 assists.
Henry in the Sky Sports live broadcast room couldn't help saying that Chen Xiaoliang is likely to break the only "double 2002" record he set in the 03-20 season, with 24 goals and 20 assists.
At the same time, 20 assists is also the record for the most in a single season in Premier League history, but De Bruyne also sent 2019 assists in the 20-20 season, and the two tied for the top spot.
In second place was the unnamed ex-Real Madrid and Arsenal man with 2 assists.
Henry said: "I once said to De Bruyne that even if he can match my assist record, he needs to score 24 goals to catch up with me."
"I thought my record might last for another 20 years, but if I continue to play at this pace, Chen is likely to create a new Premier League single-season assist record before May, and if he wants to catch up with me in goals, he will have to Just need 5 more…”
"It might not take him until the next game..."
Ferdinand also followed suit: "Maybe after the end of this season, your title of the best foreign player in Premier League history will be replaced."
Carragher was upset at the side: "Leo (Ferdinand), you have to show respect to a legend like Henry. Even though Chen broke the record this season, he only stayed in the Premier League for one season. I don't think it is enough to compete with Henry. Henry on a par."
Gary Neville immediately counterattacked: "Yes, yes, the great Henry the Great, of course we must respect the brilliant results achieved at Arsenal. It's just... eh? How many points is Liverpool behind Manchester United now? Oh? It turned out to be 6 points!"
"6, what does the number 6 remind me of?!"
Everyone (except Carragher): "Hahahaha!"
The fans are very clear that this is a response to Carragher taking out a can of Hedy and drinking it for a long time in the live broadcast room after Liverpool beat Manchester United 7-0 last season.
The two were still bickering in the live broadcast room, and the score over there was rewritten again.
In the 53rd minute, less than 2 minutes away from the goal just now, Chen Xiaoliang received Sesco's header from outside the penalty area and returned it, with standard routines, standard actions, and a standard ending.
A 31-meter volley without stopping the ball, the ball drew an inward spin, turned a semicircle to the right and then came back, hanging straight to the upper right corner of the goal.
Raya threw himself three times, and finally failed to make it the fourth time. Facing such an arc, he moved his body slightly to the left, but subconsciously told him that the ball would go out of bounds.
Finally, watching the ball fly into the goal against the dead corner, he knelt down on one knee and let out a long sigh.
Also sighing was Henry in the live broadcast room. He didn't expect that as soon as he opened his mouth, he would say what he said, and he would realize it immediately...
0 to 2, the process was shocking and the ending was safe. Manchester United won five consecutive league victories.
However, in the system of Shinco World Footballer, there has been a qualitative improvement again.
(End of this chapter)
Zurich, Switzerland, January 2024, 1, FIFA headquarters.
On the left side of the first row are three male players, Chen Xiaoliang, Harland and Mbappe, and on the right side are Bon Marti from the Barcelona women's football team, and Oberdorf from the Wolfsburg women's football team And Arsenal Women's Beth Meade.
Obviously, they're here to take the prize.
The storyboard director behind the live broadcast shot was like Chen Xiaoliang's brainless fan. Even though FIFA President Infantino was talking endlessly on stage, the camera still had to cut to Chen Xiaoliang's cute face from time to time. .
This year's awards are not as suspenseful as the Golden Globe Awards in October last year, because the time frame of the Golden Globe Awards is based on the season. In the 10-2022 season, Chen Xiaoliang has the Triple Crown, while Messi has the World Cup, so the suspense at that time remains. At the last moment.
In the FIFA Awards Ceremony, which takes the year as the selection time unit, Messi won the seventh World Footballer of the Year trophy in his career by winning the World Cup as early as February 2023.
Therefore, in today's award presentation, people have long known that the final crown will be worn on Chen Xiaoliang's head.
When you have established outstanding achievements in a field that attracts worldwide attention, you will naturally be recognized and respected by everyone regardless of skin color, race, language, and culture.
Before the meeting, Chen Xiaoliang had already enjoyed such an honor.
When he walked in from the main entrance of the synagogue and was about to enter the synagogue, almost everyone turned their eyes to him, and at the same time they automatically parted to the two sides, and subconsciously gave him the way in the middle leading to the synagogue.
In this case, even if a few people may not be willing in their hearts, they have to succumb to the herd mentality under the strong atmosphere and automatically retreat to the side.
Chen Xiaoliang kept waving and nodding his thanks to many celebrities and dignitaries on both sides. Among them were Zidane, Maldini, Laporta, Guardiola, and even Klopp who did not have a smile on his face.
He walked straight into the venue and sat in his seat under the guidance of the etiquette student.
After a bunch of opening remarks, Infantino invited the famous Schmeichel and the world's best women's football goalkeeper in 2022, Mary Epps of Manchester United Women's Football, as the two best goalkeepers of the year, Manchester City's Ederson Presenting the award with Fromms of the Wolfsburg Women's Football Team.
Then the second awards ceremony caused some small disputes and a small commotion among the guests.
The five candidates for the Puskas Award were played on the screen in sequence, namely:
When Haaland faced his former owner Dortmund in the Champions League last season, he received a pass from the outside of Cancelo's right foot and flew to block the ball into the goal with the outside of his left foot;
When facing the four-man defense in Atlanta's penalty area, Kwa repeatedly changed his direction and deceived the goalkeeper's military training goal;
When Chen Xiaoliang faced Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League last season, he was dragged by Enzo and Cheek. In the end, the two fell down because they could not pull.
The Norwegian player Caroline Graham Hansen of the Barcelona women's football team played against Chelsea in the women's Champions League semi-final last season. At only 3 minutes and 11 seconds into the game, she received the ball from the right and cut inside to open two defenders. A goal from the far corner exploded from outside the penalty area with his left foot.
These four goals are gorgeous, technical, violent, and elegant. They all have their own preferences, and there is no problem. But when the last video was released, there were immediately rustling discussions at the scene.
That was Chen Xiaoliang's goal in the last moment of the Champions League final, which assisted Pellegrini's lore goal with six assists from Manchester City.
According to the selection rules of the Puskas Award, the final winner is the scorer, so this goal naturally belongs to Pellegrini.
The selection rules of the Puskas Award are different from other awards. FIFA will upload 11 selected and wonderful goals to the official website in November each year, and then fans from all over the world will vote for more than one month. Whichever gets the most votes wins.
The one with the highest number of votes in the end is naturally the most exciting and important goal among all the goals, and the most suffocating goal of the Champions League final at that moment.
Roma's No. 7, Pellegrini, who became captain again after Chen Xiaoliang left the team, stood up amid applause and walked to the stage.
The people present were all decent people. Although there was a lot of discussion, they still gave warm applause, but a large number of fans watching the live broadcast on the Internet couldn't sit still.
[When I voted, I voted for Xiao Liang! 】
[Although he did score the goal, 99% of the credit lies with Chen]
[I think the Puskas Award can make an exception for Chen Xiaoliang and modify the rules once, so that they can win this trophy together]
...
All of a sudden, complaints, grievances, and grievances came and went.
However, Chen Xiaoliang's attitude was immediately shown to audiences all over the world. At this time, the director pointed the camera at him for a long time.
Before Pellegrini took the stage, he went to the first row to greet Chen Xiaoliang. Chen Xiaoliang stood up and happily hugged him and patted each other on the back.
Then the Roma captain's thank you speech also calmed down the fans who were still complaining just now:
"I told the organizer that this ball should not be blamed on me, or at least Chen's name should be written on it. The staff also contacted Chen, but he firmly disagreed."
"He didn't say the specific reason, but I think all of our players in that Roma team knew in their hearts that we are a team with only victory in mind, not each other."
"It was undoubtedly a great goal. Chen himself could try to shoot, but he chose to pass it to me in order to be sure of winning."
"Although the winner written by the organizer is me, I think this ball should belong to that Roma team and everyone on the field at that time."
After finishing speaking, Pellegrini pointed to Chen Xiaoliang who was under the stage, and then they both raised their hands and patted their hearts together, expressing their sympathy for each other.
The fan's comment immediately became:
[For this pretender, Chen Xiaoliang will get 82 points, leaving 666 points for Pellegrini]
[Even after 100 years, people will know what is going on when they see this ball, but the team sport of football is irrefutable]
[The players who have been tamed by Xiao Liang are all so high? 】
...
After evaluating Puskas, the next is the best coach of the year.
There is also no suspense about this award. In years without international competitions, whoever wins the Champions League will almost always sit in this position, let alone the Triple Crown.
Mourinho, who led Roma to win the triple crown, and Barcelona women's football coach Hilardes, who won the women's Champions League and achieved a double crown, won the awards respectively.
It's just that Mourinho didn't come to the scene because his wife was sick and was hospitalized. He just recorded a thank you video, which was received by the club staff of Greater Paris.
The next link is the best team of the year.
The 11 women's football team will play first, basically the players of the Champions League final opponents Barcelona Women's Football and Wolfsburg Women's Football Team, plus the Champions League semi-finals Arsenal Women's Football Beth Meade and Chelsea Women's Football Midfielder Reiten and so on.
As for the men's football team, the same as last year's selection, it is a 3-3-4 formation:
Goalkeeper Ederson (Manchester City)
Back three Kyle Walker (Manchester City), Ruben Dias (Manchester City), Stones (Manchester City);
Midfielders Rodri (Manchester City), Chen Xiaoliang (Manchester United), De Bruyne (Manchester City);
Forward Dybala (Paris), Haaland (Manchester City), Kwa (Manchester United), Mbappe (Paris)
This is also the first time Melo and Melo have both missed the FIFA awards ceremony. Even Dybala and Kwa, who seem to be replaced by Messi, will indeed receive much more team honors than Messi in 2023 .
Not to mention the entire 2023, except for falling in front of Rome, the rest of the time almost ran over the Manchester City generals of all teams.
This made many unwilling fans completely let go, shouting that their youth is completely over.
In the last link, the best players of men's and women's football were awarded by FIFA President Infantino himself.
Miss World Football was awarded to the core of the Barcelona women's football team, Bomati. During the 299 days of the two Golden Globe Awards and the two-time Miss World Football Putras was seriously injured, she led the Barcelona women's football team to regain the Women's Champions League.
The three candidates for the World Footballer are Mbappe, Harland and Chen Xiaoliang.
In 2023, these three people scored 50 goals and 17 assists, 63 goals and 8 assists, and 38 goals and 36 assists. From the data point of view, they are all comparable to the achievements of the ancient gods in the "WM formation" era.
But in the end there was only one winner.
Infantino: "The winner is Chen Xiaoliang, the best football player of the year 2023 officially selected by FIFA!"
Chen Xiaoliang first shook hands with Mbappe and Harland on the left and right, then got up, turned around and waved to everyone in the auditorium, then walked onto the stage, shook hands with the male and female hosts and Infantino, then received Pass the silver trophy that looks a bit like an ice cream cone, which symbolizes the highest honor.
"Although I may have predicted it in advance, I still find it incredible that it was the great Messi who stood here to receive the award last year."
"The last year was amazing and I went through many things. I would like to thank the teammates, coaches and all the staff of Roma and Manchester United. As Lorenzo (Pellegrini) said just now, in the football world, Any credit should go to the collective, none of this would have been possible without the other 10 teammates on the court, without the bench off the court, without the coaches, without the front office, without the investors, without the fans."
"Of course, thanks also to Kylian (Mbappe) and Erling (Haaland), I watch your videos from time to time and say 'wow, look at what incredible things they did again'."
"Then I was wondering, would you two watch my video?"
At this time, the audience broke out into "hahaha" laughter. Mbappe, who was sitting in the audience, smiled slightly, obviously not in a good mood, while Harland on the side grinned like a little BABY with a height of nearly 2 meters. Laughing, pointing at Chen Xiaoliang on the stage while nodding.
"In the end there is nothing else to say, the players just play well and see you next year."
See you next year. After Chen Xiaoliang said this, the anchors in the live broadcast rooms of the sports channels of various countries agreed that this was Chen Xiaoliang's announcement that he had booked the World Footballer of the Year next year.
Moreover, after winning the 2022-23 Golden Globe Award, the UEFA Best Player, and the Champions League Best Player because of his super performance last season, he won the World Footballer today, regardless of the Global Football Award hosted by the Dubai Sports Authority With the Golden Globe Award presented by "Turin Sports News", Chen Xiaoliang has already won the most mainstream individual awards.
If you insist on counting the league awards, including the Serie A MVP and the best player of the Italian Football Association, Chen Xiaoliang only lacks two league awards for the best player of the Premier League and the best player of the English Football Association (PFA).
With the current performance of him and Haaland, these two awards are destined to only be produced between them. Whoever wins the Premier League championship this season will get them.
Later, the number increases from 0 to 1.
The 2nd Golden Globe Award, the 2nd World Player of the Year, the 3rd, 4th...until retirement.
But his goals don't stop there.
It's just that he needs time, a lot of time.
After the award ceremony that day, Chen Xiaoliang could not leave. According to the event arrangement, he had to participate in the interview and video arranged by FIFA on the second day, take a set of award-winning makeup photos, and leave his signature at the FIFA headquarters.
Although he failed to return, in the second leg of Manchester United's League Cup semi-final on the evening of the 18th, Ten Hag deployed a formation between 4-4-2 and 4-2-4 , Let Cesco and Benzema start together to play double forwards, Ganacho and B Fei as the flankers, Casemiro takes turns, and Milinkovic and McTominay serve as midfielders.
In the end, Manchester United won the second round 1-0 by virtue of Luke Thomas's cross before the end of the first half. victory.
The team also entered the final of the League Cup with a total score of 3 to 1 in the two rounds.
Their opponent, in the other group of semi-finals, after a 4-4 tie in two rounds, a penalty kick overturned Manchester City's Arsenal 7-5 thrillingly.
The League Cup final will be played on the evening of March 3.
This is of course good news, but there is also bad news for the team.
After De Gea was injured, he was diagnosed with a fractured rib. At first, the team doctor suggested conservative treatment and he would recover for about 3 months. However, a week later, he was found to have pleural effusion during the follow-up visit, so he decided to perform drainage surgery and treat it. The fracture site is fixed.
As a result, it will take three and a half months to recover at the fastest, and even if it returns in April, facing the final stage of the league and the possible semi-finals and finals of various cups, the injury will be missing for half a season and the state will not be good. If nothing else, he will not be able to play, which is equivalent to being reimbursed for the season.
Manchester United has followed up Brentford's goalkeeper Raya and Portugal's Porto goalkeeper Diogo Costa for a long time before this.
Compared with the 28-year-old Raya, the 24-year-old Diogo Costa is more in line with the club's long-term strategy for signings.
However, the former asked for 4000 million pounds, and the latter came from a black shop like Porto. The other party said that he would only sell it if his termination fee of 7500 million euros was activated.
Moreover, Livakovic's performance in one goal after De Gea was injured is really impeccable, so Van der Sar is not willing to spend huge sums of money to buy another goalkeeper when he already has such an excellent goalkeeper. goalkeeper.
What's more, De Gea was only injured, not dead. After he returned to the team from injury, the 32-year-old goalkeeper still has enough strength to compete with Livakovic for a goal.
But there are only two goalkeepers in the current team. In case Livakovic has any troubles, only the embarrassing old goalkeeper Heaton, who is about to be 38 years old, can be used.
Like Dubravka and Butland last season, we must find an experienced and capable second goal.
Van der Sar moved very quickly. He let the scouting team find a player who had been his old opponent, and started loan negotiations with the opposing club. Things went very smoothly.
An official announcement will be made soon.
After finishing the award, Chen Xiaoliang finally returned to Manchester on January 1. He hasn't trained well these days, but Ten Hag is not worried about this.
He is not afraid that Chen Xiaoliang will slack off, because this kind of thing will never happen to such a football idiot. He is afraid that Chen Xiaoliang will be too tired, and he will be injured due to overwork. Fake.
But even when he is not around, the extra training team will still carry on as usual under the leadership of Kewa and Cesko.
In the next three games in the next week, Manchester United had a difficult process, but the result was smooth.
On January 1, Manchester United played against the Seagulls Brighton at home. They only rotated Benzema and Milinkovic who started the previous game, allowing Chen Xiaoliang and Casemiro to return to the starting lineup.
Brighton, who reached the knockout rounds in the Europa League, has recovered and adjusted very well after the winter break. Facing Manchester United's onslaught at Old Trafford, they defended very well.
Ecuador left-back Estupinan, Paraguayan midfielder Enciso, and Scottish center Evan Ferguson all relied on their excellent performances. It is rumored that many teams in the BIG7 have favored them. , Caicedo and others' high-priced transfer drama.
In the end, relying on Benzema, who replaced Sesco in the 70th minute of the second half, he was tripped by defender Veltman in the 79th minute when he picked a pass in the penalty area and got a penalty. Under Chen Xiaoliang's insistence, Benzema himself took the initiative. With a penalty, it was a bit difficult to win 1-0, defending the 3 points at home.
Compared with Manchester United's difficult goals, two major upsets broke out in this round. Liverpool, who played in an away game, was tied 2-2 by Nottingham Forest, and Manchester City, who played in an away game, was tied 1-1 by Wolves.
Manchester City, in particular, seems to be dissatisfied with the loss to Arsenal in the League Cup. Guardiola has rotated many players who he thinks have performed poorly, and even put Haaland, who has only scored 3 goal in the past 1 games, on the bench. Let Alvarez start.
The team led by 88 goal until the 1th minute, and until the 89th minute, Wolves winger Amada Traore counterattacked the overtake Akanji from the right, crossed the middle, and followed up with the stick forward Huang Xican Next, the teenager Rico Lewis made an own goal and beat Edson, who had just won the best goalkeeper, by surprise, and lost 2 points inexplicably.
After 21 rounds, the two teams of Manchester City once again accumulated 57 points, and Manchester City continued to rank first with 1 goal difference.
Four days later, after lunch, the team took the bus to Wigan, also in the Greater Manchester area, to participate in the third round of the FA Cup away game against Wigan Athletic.
This former Premier League team has been reduced to relegation from the English Championship last season, and is currently hovering in the middle of the League One. The total value of the club is less than 1500 million pounds.
Ten Hag sent all the substitutes, and even allowed Chen Xiaoliang, the darling of thousands of sponsors, to stay in Carrington to shoot commercials instead of playing with the team.
Facing such an underdog, the substitutes and the young players who participated in the first team training fought hard and fought 6-0.
In the 17th minute, Lindelof received a header from Eriksson from a corner kick and scored directly;
In the 24th minute, Greenwood received a cross from the young player Zidane Iqbal, dribbled the ball forward, cut in from outside the penalty area and scored from a long distance;
In the 39th minute, Greenwood intercepted Bennett's ball in the frontcourt, broke into the penalty area and hit a close corner, and scored another goal;
Ten Hag was very satisfied with the state he showed in training and in the cup, but the resistance to his playing did not come from the club, but from off-court factors, especially "political correctness".
In the 42nd minute, it was another corner kick. Eriksson took an inswing ball from the left. Maguire didn't hit the top in the middle, but ran to the feet of Anthony who was wandering on the right side of the penalty area by accident. In the case of defense, he took aim and shot without aiming, expanding the score gap to 4 goals;
After the goal, Maguire, who put on the captain's armband again because the captain and deputy captain Chen Xiaoliang, B Fei, and the third and fourth captains Casemiro and De Gea did not play, went up to celebrate with Anthony. Wang stroked his hair back chicly, and said, "I can hit this ball well, it's for you."
Anthony didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but when he thought that he had also gotten into it blindly, he could only say: "Old Ma, you're right. I hope you can get one yourself, and you don't have to give it to me."
In the 60 minutes of the second half, Ten Hag simply replaced Eriksson with Ibragimov, who was only 2 years old in more than two months.
Because of his young age, when faced with a low-level team that played high and high, once he encountered a physical confrontation, this young player who was born in a fighting nation but has dual British nationality had a lot of fighting spirit, but he still suffered a lot.
But God always favors those who work hard, and opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. In the 70th minute, the 15-year-old and 318-day-old teenager knocked away the opponent's goal with a direct free kick on the top of the penalty area. Gate, scored his first goal in an official game representing Manchester United's first team!
同时，他也凭借自己的年龄，打破了由肖恩·卡托（Sean Cato）在2011年9月3日代表业余球队巴洛镇（Barrow Town）创造的16岁25天的最年轻进球纪录。
And in the 77th minute, the 18-year-old teenager and the best young player of the club last season, Menu, scored the final goal single-handedly through a counterattack and a through pass from Ganacho.
Another three days later, Manchester United came to Hounslow, a borough outside London, to challenge Brentford away.
The Little Bees, who are temporarily ranked 15th this season, are worse than expected before the season, but they stick to their home court and still cause a lot of trouble for Manchester United, which has played out its main force.
In this campaign, Chen Xiaoliang returned to the starting lineup as a central midfielder, Kwa, Sesco, and Rashford three arrows, and Casemiro and Milinkovic joined forces for the first time as a double midfielder.
Brentford goalkeeper Raya was desperate to leave the team and join Manchester United. The game was like a big product exhibition, and he frantically saved Manchester United's shots. Chen Xiaoliang's long-range shot was saved by him three times.
Other players have the same mentality.
With the purchasing power of the Premier League becoming more and more perverted, the middle and lower reaches of the team buy players from the four major leagues, buy good players and sell them to the BIG7 team for a premium.
Leicester City, which had won the championship for a long time, contributed a lot of main players such as Kanter and Mahrez. Later, Brighton sold Caicedo and Kaoru Misaki made a net profit of 1 million yuan, not to mention the downgraded Rice. Especially, last season's relegation still received a league share of 1 million pounds. After selling Thielemans, James Madison, Endidi, Luke Thomas and others, they made a net profit of 1 million pounds, but also removed The burden of high-paid players.
Then buy some cheap and cost-effective players in the downstream teams of the four major leagues and the English Championship. This season, it ranks second in the English Championship, only behind Southampton, another relegated team. The posture of the Premier League.
Ever since, in a team like Brentford that aims to relegation, all the players with some strength in the team want to show themselves hard, and then become the next Kanter and the next Caicedo.
In this game, apart from Raya, Brentford's two wingers, Mbemo and Shadna, made a desperate breakthrough with the ball.
In particular, the 22-year-old German winger Schad, regardless of Freiburg, who finished fifth in the Bundesliga last season, insisted on staying in Brentford in the middle of the Premier League after the loan period expires.
But the real situation is that in the fifth place in the Bundesliga, no one cares about him, and he has not been given a chance. In the ninth place in the Premier League, he is the main winger. In the fifth place in the Bundesliga, his value has stagnated. Was called up by the national team to play two friendly matches.
The next step is to work harder, marry a model, join a wealthy family, and reach the pinnacle of life.
Luke Thomas, who was also young, was very embarrassed by Shad. Fortunately, Casemiro helped him defend, and he was barely defended.
According to the past, once Casemiro pulls to the side, Chen Xiaoliang has to retreat a little bit. Neither Eriksson nor B Fei are good at close defense, and McTominay and Fred are extremely poor in position selection. .
But it's different now. With the addition of Milinkovic, Casemiro can safely expand his sweeping area.
With a height of 191 centimeters and a weight of 76 kilograms, the muscular Milinkovic is hardly afraid to confront anyone personally, and dares to set foot at the front of the penalty area.
At the same time, as an all-round midfielder, he can also pass a precise long-distance pass when switching from defense to offense, helping the midfielder to launch a counterattack.
Therefore, although Brentford attacked fiercely after the opening, Manchester United kept retreating and gave the opponent corner kicks, but relying on the resilience of the defense and the ability of individual combat, they insisted on defending.
In the 51st minute of the second half, Chen Xiaoliang received the ball on the left side of the penalty area in a positional battle, pretended to pass the ball and then broke through to the left rib. gram, thrust straight forward to gramwa inserted from the left.
After taking the ball, Chen Xiaoliang rushed towards the goal and formed a double outflanking situation with Cesko, who was also advancing forward. Raya did not dare to fully pounce on the near post, but was hit by Kewa at the near corner.
0 to 1, Manchester United broke the balance of the score.
After this goal was scored, Chen Xiaoliang added another assist, and the Premier League data for this season became 23 goals and 13 assists.
Henry in the Sky Sports live broadcast room couldn't help saying that Chen Xiaoliang is likely to break the only "double 2002" record he set in the 03-20 season, with 24 goals and 20 assists.
At the same time, 20 assists is also the record for the most in a single season in Premier League history, but De Bruyne also sent 2019 assists in the 20-20 season, and the two tied for the top spot.
In second place was the unnamed ex-Real Madrid and Arsenal man with 2 assists.
Henry said: "I once said to De Bruyne that even if he can match my assist record, he needs to score 24 goals to catch up with me."
"I thought my record might last for another 20 years, but if I continue to play at this pace, Chen is likely to create a new Premier League single-season assist record before May, and if he wants to catch up with me in goals, he will have to Just need 5 more…”
"It might not take him until the next game..."
Ferdinand also followed suit: "Maybe after the end of this season, your title of the best foreign player in Premier League history will be replaced."
Carragher was upset at the side: "Leo (Ferdinand), you have to show respect to a legend like Henry. Even though Chen broke the record this season, he only stayed in the Premier League for one season. I don't think it is enough to compete with Henry. Henry on a par."
Gary Neville immediately counterattacked: "Yes, yes, the great Henry the Great, of course we must respect the brilliant results achieved at Arsenal. It's just... eh? How many points is Liverpool behind Manchester United now? Oh? It turned out to be 6 points!"
"6, what does the number 6 remind me of?!"
Everyone (except Carragher): "Hahahaha!"
The fans are very clear that this is a response to Carragher taking out a can of Hedy and drinking it for a long time in the live broadcast room after Liverpool beat Manchester United 7-0 last season.
The two were still bickering in the live broadcast room, and the score over there was rewritten again.
In the 53rd minute, less than 2 minutes away from the goal just now, Chen Xiaoliang received Sesco's header from outside the penalty area and returned it, with standard routines, standard actions, and a standard ending.
A 31-meter volley without stopping the ball, the ball drew an inward spin, turned a semicircle to the right and then came back, hanging straight to the upper right corner of the goal.
Raya threw himself three times, and finally failed to make it the fourth time. Facing such an arc, he moved his body slightly to the left, but subconsciously told him that the ball would go out of bounds.
Finally, watching the ball fly into the goal against the dead corner, he knelt down on one knee and let out a long sigh.
Also sighing was Henry in the live broadcast room. He didn't expect that as soon as he opened his mouth, he would say what he said, and he would realize it immediately...
0 to 2, the process was shocking and the ending was safe. Manchester United won five consecutive league victories.
However, in the system of Shinco World Footballer, there has been a qualitative improvement again.
(End of this chapter)
