Chapter 234 During the Golden Globe Awards, Lin Quan became the favorite?

On January 13, 2014, the 2013 FIFA Annual Awards Ceremony was held grandly at the Opera House in Zurich, Switzerland.

Compared with previous years, this year's Golden Globe Awards was full of controversy.

FIFA originally stipulated that the voting deadline for the Ballon d'Or Award was November 15, but five days after the voting deadline, FIFA suddenly announced that the voting deadline was extended to November 29, and those who had already voted were allowed to make changes. own previous vote.

This kind of practice of modifying the rules after the fact had never happened before, so it aroused a lot of doubts from the outside world at the time.

Some people even think that this is a rule modified by FIFA specifically for Ronaldo.

The reason is simple. The day before FIFA announced this decision, Cristiano Ronaldo performed a hat trick in the World Cup qualifying play-off match against Sweden. Not only did he defeat Ibrahimovic in a head-to-head match, but he also led Portugal. Advance to the World Cup.

Postponing the voting at this time and allowing modification of the previous vote will definitely be beneficial to Ronaldo's election.

And before that, another thing happened in football - the incident of Blatter criticizing Ronaldo.

At the end of October, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said at the Oxford Forum that he prefers Messi, saying that "Cristiano Ronaldo is like a commander on the court and pays more attention to his hairstyle."

This sentence stirred up a thousand waves with one stone and caused a huge sensation in the football world.

Blatter's words deeply angered Ronaldo and also offended Real Madrid.

Cristiano Ronaldo has publicly announced that he will refuse to attend all FIFA events, including the Ballon d'Or awards ceremony.

Real Madrid president Florentino called Blatter and asked him to publicly apologize to Ronaldo.

At the same time, fans including Cristiano Ronaldo and celebrities from Real Madrid and Portugal criticized Blatter and believed that he should apologize for his words and deeds.

What's more, some people think that FIFA's Ballon d'Or award is shady.

Blatter, as the president of FIFA, actually announced in public that he prefers Messi. This makes it difficult for people to believe that the Ballon d'Or award is fair, especially since there has been a competition between Messi and Sneijder for the Ballon d'Or before. Prize thing.

Seeing that the matter was getting bigger and bigger, various conspiracy theories emerged. Facing the huge pressure of public opinion, Blatter had to apologize to Ronaldo on his official website and hoped to have a friendly dialogue with Ronaldo. However, this request was rejected. To Cristiano Ronaldo's decisive refusal.

Therefore, many people believe that FIFA's sudden and temporary changes to the rules are just to show favor to Ronaldo and Real Madrid.

It's outrageous enough to extend the voting period, but it's outrageous to allow changes to already cast votes.

This approach naturally aroused strong dissatisfaction from Ribery. According to the expectations of all parties, Ribery had a very high probability of winning the Ballon d'Or.

After all, in a year without international competitions, he deservedly won the Ballon d'Or as the core of the Champions League champion team.

However, due to FIFA's actions, Ribery's probability of winning the award was greatly reduced.

Before the final results of the Ballon d'Or were made public, according to the odds offered by the betting company, Ribery's probability of winning had dropped to second place, behind Cristiano Ronaldo, and was even about to be overtaken by third-placed Lin Quan.

Although Ribery was suppressed, Lin Quan suddenly emerged.

FIFA's temporary rule changes were originally intended to open a backdoor for Ronaldo.

But during the period when Ronaldo was showing his prowess, Lin Quan also performed extremely well in the league and the Champions League.

This greatly increased his probability of winning, even surpassing Messi, who missed many games due to injuries, and was successfully selected as the final three players for this year's Ballon d'Or.

If we compare the data of Ronaldo and Lin Quan throughout 2013, Lin Quan's performance is not inferior to Ronaldo at all.

At the national team level, Lin Quan led Spain to 17 consecutive victories as the core of the team, and won the Confederations Cup with a complete victory record.

At the club level, he led Werder Bremen to win the German Cup and also won the Bundesliga Golden Boot.

In the Premier League, he led Manchester City to remain unbeaten and was far ahead of other competitors in the Premier League scorer list.

In the Champions League, Lin Quan scored in six consecutive games, breaking the historical record of the Champions League. He also came from behind to tie Cristiano Ronaldo in total goals. The two tied for the top scorer in the Champions League.

Comparing the two, Lin Quan is only slightly inferior to Ronaldo in terms of fame, and is even ahead in other aspects.

Therefore, after FIFA revised the voting rules, although Ronaldo's number of votes increased a lot, at the same time, Lin Quan also won the favor of many voters, and the number of votes also skyrocketed.

This leaves the final suspense of the Golden Globe Awards still lingering. Some of the votes that might have been voted for Cristiano Ronaldo after the rule changes were taken away by Lin Quan.

Although Ribery's lead has been weakened, it may not necessarily be caught up by Ronaldo.

As for the final result, we have to wait until the awards ceremony to finally announce it.

Therefore, although this Golden Globe Awards is full of shady stories, it is the most anxious Golden Globe Awards in recent years.

Although Ronaldo is in the lead according to the odds issued by the betting company, his advantage over Ribery and Lin Quan is not large. Before the final result is released, all three of them have a chance to win.

Precisely because this year's Golden Globe Awards is so suspenseful, the TV ratings for this year's Golden Globe Awards are very high.

In countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany and France, the ratings generally reached record highs, breaking the ratings record of previous Golden Globe Awards ceremonies.

In Asia, because of Lin Quan's selection, the attention of this Golden Globe Award has also increased significantly. The topic and discussion on Tieba, Weibo and other platforms are very high, and fans stay up late to wait for the final result. Revealed.

Such a high degree of attention makes FIFA attach great importance to this event.

They specially invited a large number of football celebrities to attend the award ceremony.

Zidane and Ballack took the lead and announced the 11-man roster for the 2013 Best Team.

These eleven are goalkeepers: Neuer.

Defenders: Lahm, Ramos, Thiago Silva, Alves.

Midfielder: Iniesta, Xavi, Ribery.

Forwards: Ronaldo, Lin Quan, Messi.

The 11 winners came on stage one after another and took group photos after receiving their awards.

The forward trio of Ronaldo, Lin Quan and Messi stood together.

Ronaldo was a head taller than them, so he stood out when standing next to them.

Messi is the shortest among the three, four centimeters shorter than Lin Quan.

Standing next to the two of them, Messi felt a little uncomfortable.

As a victim of FIFA's changes to the Ballon d'Or voting rules, Messi was not included in this year's top three candidates.

And the two people around him were all selected, which made Messi a little embarrassed.

What's even more embarrassing is that at the moment when the photographer was taking pictures, both Lin Quan and Messi noticed that Cristiano Ronaldo next to them suddenly tiptoed, making himself jump up a bit.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who was already a head taller than the two of them, looked even taller when taking the freeze-frame photo.

Compared with him, Lin Quan and Messi are like dwarfs.

Seeing Ronaldo's move, Lin Quan and Messi both had surprised expressions on their faces, looked at each other, and exchanged glances.

Messi subconsciously took a step towards Lin Quan, not wanting to be a foil for Ronaldo.

Lin Quan couldn't help but want to laugh a little. The CEO was indeed narcissistic and wanted to be the most handsome guy in every photo taken.

Let’s not talk about other positions in this year’s 11-man lineup, but this striker combination is definitely the strongest and most expensive striker combination in history.

Among other awards, the best coach award was awarded to the retired old man Heynckes. There was no suspense about this, and everyone recognized this result very much.

The Puskas Award was awarded to Lin Quan. He won the award with his shocking upside-down golden hook against Chelsea, beating Ibrahimovic and Neymar.

Before he knew it, Lin Quan completed his defense of the Puskas Award.

This is also the first player to complete the defense of this award. Lin Quan inadvertently created another record.

The final highlight came. After the FIFA Honorary Ballon d'Or was awarded to the football king Pele, the football king did not leave the game.

He is not only here to receive the award today, but also as the final award guest to announce the most important award - the Golden Globe Award!

The hostess handed Bailey an envelope containing the list of winners of the annual Golden Globe Awards.

After Bailey got the list, he opened it and took a look at it, and then sold it:

"Wow, what a surprising result!"

As soon as he said these words, there was a burst of discussion on the scene.

Unexpected results?

Isn't it Ronaldo who won the award?

The cameras at the scene immediately focused on the Portuguese. Ronaldo sat up straight, with a very serious expression on his face.

He originally refused to attend the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, but was later persuaded by Florentino to come.

But if he comes to the scene but fails to win the Golden Globe Award, what is the point of his coming?

Are you here specifically to reconcile with Blatter?

But he hasn't decided to forgive Blatter yet!

Seeing that Bailey had successfully aroused everyone's curiosity, he slowly began to open the envelope.

"The player who won the 2013 Ballon d'Or is——"

The camera locked on Ronaldo, Ribery, and Lin Quan at the same time, and gave the three of them a shot in the same frame.

In the camera, Cristiano Ronaldo has a serious expression, while Ribery is slightly nervous.

Only Lin Quan, as if he had nothing to do with him, was still chatting and laughing with Guardiola on the side, seemingly not caring about the outcome at all.

"This kid has a really good attitude!"

As an outsider, Messi's mentality is relatively relaxed and he does not feel as nervous as before.

But he didn't expect Lin Quan, who was selected for the candidate list for the first time, to be so calm. He thought that when he was selected for the final three people for the first time, he was extremely nervous.

This made Messi couldn't help but sigh, this guy is really born with a big heart.

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"Pep, why don't you jump ship with Kroos and come to Manchester City!"

Lin Quan said to Guardiola half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Although Guardiola's contract with Bayern still has two and a half years left, judging from Bayern's series of actions, they have a serious lack of respect for Guardiola.

The person who agreed to buy didn't buy it, and he wasn't willing to pay the transfer fee.

During the winter break, they sold players that Guardiola made it clear he could not sell. This kind of move, let alone Guardiola, even if it was placed on tinker Ranieri, would be a disservice to him. Extremely disrespectful.

Guardiola didn't want to talk about this topic, so he changed the subject:

"You brat, you still have the time to talk about these things. Don't you care at all whether you win or not?"

Lin Quan shrugged indifferently: "I am lucky to win, but I will lose my life. Besides, I am here to run with you. The winner is either Ribery or Ronaldo, and it is definitely not me!"

Guardiola nodded slightly. He was very satisfied that Lin Quan could recognize the reality and did not have unrealistic illusions.

After all, he is still young, and with his current performance, winning the Golden Globe Award is just around the corner.

Compared to Lin Quan, he was more worried about Ribery.

Franck Ribery does not have the strong personal strength of the peerless twins and Lin Quan, and Bayern does not win the Champions League every time.

The performance of his French national team in major competitions is not outstanding, which means that this time is likely to be Ribery's only chance to win the Ballon d'Or in his career.

This is really important to him!

If he doesn't win this time, Ribery will definitely suffer a serious blow.

Maybe it will be a disaster!

Bayern is now missing a midfielder, and Franck Ribery is the team's top player. If he fails to recover, then Bayern may be really doomed in the second half of the season.

"The winner of this year's Ballon d'Or is - Cristiano Ronaldo!"

After hearing the results announced by Pele, Cristiano Ronaldo lowered his head first. When he raised his head, the smile on his face could no longer be suppressed.

He came on stage after kissing his girlfriend Jelena. After shaking hands with Blatter, Pele and other award-presenting guests, Blatter personally handed the Golden Globe trophy into the hands of Ronaldo.

This handshake between the two of them can be regarded as the settlement of their previous grudges.

This is the second time Ronaldo has won the Ballon d'Or after 2008. He also broke Messi's four-year monopoly on the Ballon d'Or.

In the competition for personal honors between the two peerless heroes, Cristiano Ronaldo finally regained 10%, no longer competing with his opponent's four Ballon d'Ors with one Ballon d'Or.

Last year, after Messi broke the historical record of goals scored in a natural year in football and achieved four consecutive Ballon d'Or awards, a voice emerged in the football world:

Some fans who support Messi believe that there is no such thing as a double pride.

Messi is the only one in the world. Cristiano Ronaldo, who only won one Ballon d'Or, is not qualified to compare with Messi.

This statement has been recognized by many people in football, which puts Ronaldo under tremendous pressure.

Now, this pressure is finally reduced.

When delivering his acceptance speech, Cristiano Ronaldo wept with excitement. After wiping away his tears many times, he began to thank his teammates at the club and national team, his family and those who voted for him.

Seeing Cristiano Ronaldo crying with excitement, the audience also burst into warm applause for him, but one person did not applaud.

The moment Ribery read out Ronaldo's award when Pele announced it, his face was ashen and as motionless as a statue.

Someone stole his trophy!

After the award ceremony, when interviewed by reporters, Ribery directly stated that he did not accept this result and would never accept this result.

"I think I deserve this award, but there are too many factors off the court!"

Ribery's interview quickly pushed the organizer FIFA to the forefront, and doubts on the Internet became louder and louder.

France coach Deschamps publicly expressed his support for Ribery and believed that the result of the Ballon d'Or was unfair to Ribery.

Some fans in France were also very dissatisfied with this result. They ran to protest outside the headquarters of "France Football" magazine.

As a French magazine, it turned its elbows outward. French fans demanded that "France Football" end its cooperation with FIFA and make separate selections as before.

Faced with doubts from the outside world, FIFA chose to play dead.

I plan to delay it. After the heat dissipates, the outside world will naturally stop paying attention to this matter.

However, at this time, French reporters dug up some shocking information.

They interviewed some people who participated in the voting. These people said that there was a big discrepancy between their votes and the final results, so they suspected that their votes had been tampered with!

For example, Fiji national team coach Buzzetti checked his own voting results announced by FIFA.

His three votes went to Cristiano Ronaldo, Franck Ribery and Lewandowski.

But Buzetti revealed that he is a fan of Messi and Lin Quan. He has always firmly voted for Messi as the first vote, but he did not see Messi's name in the results announced by FIFA.

"Lewandowski? I didn't vote for him at all because I didn't think he was up to the level of the first three players."

Faced with the reporter's interview, Buzetti expressed indignation.

Coincidentally, after Buzzetti came forward to express his position, many people who participated in the voting expressed that the results announced by FIFA were different from their own voting results.

After these violent revelations were revealed, the outside world's doubts became louder and louder, and FIFA could no longer pretend to be dead even if it wanted to.

So they quickly sent someone to explain, saying that this situation may be the result of the football associations of various countries voting on behalf of them.

Although coaches and captains are the people with actual voting rights, the football associations in various countries may directly vote on behalf of coaches and captains, resulting in inconsistencies between the voting order and even the list and the selection of coaches and captains.

This explanation seemed reasonable, and some fans began to believe FIFA's explanation.

However, at this moment, reporter Proud from "France Football", one of the organizers, stood up and said that in the internal voting, Ribery's score was the first.

At this time, doubts were overwhelming, French fans were filled with indignation, and Ribery even criticized FIFA one after another on social media and in front of reporters.

In order to completely dispel fans' suspicions, FIFA found France Football magazine, and both parties jointly announced the votes of the three candidates for the Ballon d'Or.

Ronaldo, who ranked first, scored 1,305 points, and Franck Ribery got 1,127 points, nearly 200 points behind Ronaldo.

It can be said that Ribery's loss was not unfair at all!

After FIFA announced the results, a lot of doubts from the outside world immediately dissipated.

However, fans discovered something shocking:

The second scorer was actually not Ribery, but Lin Quan!

He scored 1265 points, only 40 points behind C.

"Damn, Lin Huang almost stole the Ballon d'Or from Cristiano Ronaldo!"

"What a huge loss. If we had known this result earlier, we should have asked the Spanish Football Federation and Manchester City officials to build momentum for Lin Huang and win votes!"

"Who knew Huang Lin could get so many votes!"

"A narrow win with 40 points. Someone come and change Ronaldo's pants!"