Chapter 275 FIFA Ballon d’Or

Bruno didn't pay much attention to his pursuers on the Serie A scorer list at this time, because on next Monday night, the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or Award Ceremony will be held at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

Before that, Bruno needed to arrive in Zurich in advance to prepare for the awards ceremony in the evening.

On such a major occasion, preparations must be done well, otherwise if something goes wrong, it will be embarrassing in front of the whole world.

Going to Zurich with Bruno was the team's head coach Guidolin.

As the head coach of the Serie A champion and Champions League champion team in the 2014-2015 season, and the five-time champion coach in 2015, Guidolin is also one of the three candidates for FIFA's best coach in 2015, and is even very likely to win. May be elected.

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Originally, there were two highest honors in football, namely the European Ballon d'Or, which has been held by France Football, a magazine of France's L'Equipe, since 1956, and the International Football Association Cup, which has been awarded by FIFA since 1991. United World Footballer of the Year.

However, in 2010, these two awards were merged, and then there was the current FIFA Ballon d'Or.

It's just that it's different from the previous European Ballon d'Or. The results of the Ballon d'Or were announced in advance, while the selection of FIFA's Ballon d'Or won't be known until the final awards ceremony.

Sometimes outside speculation is unreliable because the understanding of professional sports media reporters is completely different from the understanding of national team coaches and captains, such as the first FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010.

2010 is the year of the World Cup. The global media believe that this first FIFA Ballon d'Or should belong to Spain's new World Cup champion midfielder Xavi, or to Iniesta who scored the winning goal in the World Cup final. .

Although Messi was also selected for the final three candidates, everyone thought that he was just a foil, even Messi himself thought so.

But what's the result? When Blatter read Messi's name, everyone was stunned.

Even Messi himself looked in disbelief, but then he reacted, and ecstasy appeared on his face. Against the background, Xavi and Iniesta next to him looked lonely, stunned, and even a little angry.

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With such lessons learned, who can say that he predicted the final outcome of the FIFA Ballon d'Or?

Although Bruno has performed well in the Champions League, in the league, Udinese is not as crazy as Barcelona and Real Madrid.

At the same time, at the national team level, Bruno's performance is not better than Ronaldo and Messi. Especially since he and Ronaldo are teammates of the Portuguese national team, and Ronaldo is also the captain of the Portuguese national team.

Besides, it’s not like they didn’t win the European Champions Cup that year, but they lost the star in the World Footballer selection.

In the 2005 World Player of the Year selection, although Liverpool's captain Gerrard led the team to complete a shocking comeback in the Champions League final, after falling behind by three goals, he chased three goals in ten minutes to equalize the score, and finally relied on points. Defeated AC Milan in a decisive battle and won the European Champions Cup.

Gerrard's performance in the final was perfect, but even so, he didn't even make the final three candidates, let alone become the World Footballer, but he didn't win the Ballon d'Or that year either. .

It is said that the only factor that affected him was that although he led the team to win the Champions League, Liverpool's performance in the domestic league was not strong enough. Therefore, Ronaldinho was the World Player of the Year that year, and the second-ranked player was Lanzhou. Padre, Eto'o third.

In the selection of the first FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010, Inter Milan's biggest contributor to winning the Triple Crown and the absolute core of the Dutch national team, Sneijder, the number one contributor to the Dutch team's entry into the final, also missed the three-person candidate list. .

These examples are enough to show that just because you have won the Champions League, it does not mean that FIFA will select you.

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If it's the Golden Globe Award, it's okay, because the judges of the "France Football" Golden Globe Award are reporters from global sports media. Their job all day long is to pay attention to various news and changes in world football. The players who are most likely to appear in major sports news during the year are deeply impressed. They will carefully analyze the performance of the candidate players in various competitions during the year from a professional perspective, thereby arriving at an authoritative result.

However, the voting rights for the FIFA Ballon d'Or are in the hands of 208 journalists from media around the world, 208 national team coaches, and 208 national team captains. Professional journalists only account for one-third of the votes. , but the national team head coach and captain account for two-thirds.

You expect the head coaches and captains of countries such as Tonga and East Timor to have watched a few Champions League games. It’s hard to say whether they have even watched a Champions League game.

Their selection criteria are entirely based on whether the candidate's name is familiar to them. If they are familiar with it, it means he is powerful. If he is not familiar with it, it means he is not powerful.

Messi's winning of the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or is the best example. For people who don't watch much football, Xavi and Iniesta are definitely not as famous as Messi.

Because Messi has been promoted as the number one star in world football in those years, his reputation has reached its peak. He is the double winner of the World Footballer and the European Golden Ball Award in 2009, and he is also the winner of the European Golden Boot Award in 2010. , coupled with the fact that in the first half of that year, media from various countries promoted Barcelona's six-time champion and Messi to the extreme, so it is normal that everyone is only familiar with Messi.

Although Xavi, Iniesta and Messi are both from Barcelona, when everyone mentions Barcelona, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely not Xavi or Iniesta, but Messi.

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This year's final three candidates include Messi, Ronaldo and Bruno. Compared with the first two candidates, Bruno's reputation around the world is obviously much lower.

Yes, he was the Golden Boot, assist leader and best player in the finals of the 2015 Champions League.

Yes, he led the "underdog" Udinese to win the Champions League and Serie A, achieving a sensational five-time crown in 2015.

But none of this allows him to overpower Messi and Ronaldo in terms of fame.

These two men have won the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year in the past seven years, and their reputation as an unrivaled duo has spread throughout the world.

If the national team captains and head coaches only look at reputation when voting, Bruno will definitely lose to his national team captain and Messi, and he will only get third place.

Messi and Ronaldo compete for the golden ball, while Bruno can only get the bronze ball.

This is why the FIFA Ballon d'Or is even more suspenseful.

From a professional perspective, there is no suspense about Bruno being elected. However, many national team coaches and captains are not as professional as everyone thinks. In many cases, they may know more about football tactics than ordinary fans, but in football consulting In terms of control, they are even worse than many "fake fans".

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Taking into account the various records of FIFA's previous selections.

The European Ballon d'Or in 1991 went to French midfielder Papin. That year, Papin led the French team to a complete victory in the European Cup qualifiers and was undisputedly elected to the European Ballon d'Or. However, the World Footballer belonged to Atletico Madrid. Theus, obviously the national team coaches who voted have not yet gotten over the memory of the 1990 Italia Summer.

It is worth mentioning that it was the first World Footballer selection. This award seemed to be on two completely different paths from the European Golden Globe Award from the moment it was born.

The 1996 Ballon d'Or went to the "free man" Sammer, who led the German team to win the European Cup and also performed well in Dortmund and won the league championship. However, the World Footballer was given to the "alien" Ronaldo.

The Ballon d'Or in 2000 belonged to Figo. Figo's performance in the European Cup for the national team and the club was perfect that year, but the World Footballer belonged to Zidane. Although Zidane led the French national team to win the European Cup, But Figo's performance in the European Cup was not inferior to him. On the contrary, at the club level, Zidane completely defeated Figo. That year was Juventus's low point.

The 2001 Ballon d'Or went to Owen, and the World Footballer of the Year went to Figo.

The winner of the 2003 Ballon d'Or was Czech star Pavel Nedved, who single-handedly sent Juventus to the Champions League final, but the World Footballer of the Year went to Zidane.

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It is precisely because of so many criminal records that we can understand the uneasiness and worry in everyone's hearts.

What's more, after the FIFA Ballon d'Or Awards were released in recent years, the media also revealed a lot of shady stories about the Ballon d'Or Awards selection. For example, the head coaches and captains who voted did not know why names of people they had not written appeared on their ballots.

Some people even say that FIFA's Ballon d'Or selection is completely predetermined, and whoever Blatter wants to win can win, even if he is not qualified at all.

This statement has naturally been welcomed by conspiracy theorists, but in fact there is still a lack of conclusive evidence.

Although Blatter has now left the position of FIFA president for some reasons, it does not mean that the conspirators will not think more about it.

The Portuguese media does not care who will win last year's Ballon d'Or, because the people most likely to win the Ballon d'Or are Portuguese, which greatly satisfies the Portuguese's vanity.

They are more concerned about whether Ronaldo and Bruno really have conflicts. After all, both of them are key figures in whether the Portuguese national team can make a breakthrough in the World Series.

The FIFA Ballon d'Or award ceremony was held on Monday night, and Bruno arrived at FIFA's headquarters in Zurich in the morning.

Bruno met Ronaldo, who arrived by private plane, outside his hotel.

Ronaldo said to Bruno: "No matter who takes first place in the end, they will treat you!"

He and Bruno sat together, chatting and laughing along the way, and there was no sign of any conflict between them. If those media reporters had seen this scene, all the rumors would have disappeared long ago.