Chapter 507 The three giants gather together

Two days later, on the afternoon of October 10, Bruno appeared with Mourinho at the Palladium Theater in London. Just tonight, the 23-2016 FIFA Awards Ceremony will be held in this theater.

At the 2016 FIFA Awards Ceremony held at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland at the beginning of this year, although Bruno was selected for the final three-man list of World Footballer and was also selected for the best team of the year, Bruno did not go to the scene to receive the award. , the reason given by Bruno is that Manchester United will play in the League Cup semi-finals one day later.

Today, Bruno actually still doesn't want to go to the scene because he knows very well that he is still unlikely to win this year's World Footballer, despite his near-perfect performance.

However, because FIFA has held the awards ceremony in London, it only takes an hour by private plane. If Bruno doesn't go there, he will make it clear that he will not give face to FIFA and Ronaldo.

So, reluctantly, Bruno held his nose and went to London to appear at the awards ceremony at the Palladium Theatre.

When he arrived at the scene, Bruno was immediately happy because he found that Yossi was also at the scene. You know, this guy didn't attend the FIFA awards ceremony in the past two years.

It can be said that this is the first time that Bruno broke the monopoly of the Golden Globe Award and the World Footballer by the two peerless two prides. After the world football officially entered the era of the Big Three, the Big Three gathered together for the first time.

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As the awards were announced, there were no surprises.

After winning the 2016 World Footballer title at the beginning of the year, Cristiano Ronaldo once again won the 2017 World Footballer title.

People have long expected such a result. After all, in 2017, Ronaldo's performance was indeed outstanding.

In less than ten months, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 48 goals in all competitions for Real Madrid and the Portuguese national team, helping the Galacticos win three championships in La Liga, the Champions League and the Spanish Super Cup, and also led the Portuguese national team to win the Confederations Cup champion.

The most critical thing is that Real Madrid won the Champions League this year. This is the first time in 1992 years since the Champions League was restructured in 26 that a team has been able to defend the title.

In the previous 25 seasons, many teams were very close to defending the title, but in the end they all fell short.

For example, from 1993 to 1995, AC Milan reached the finals for three consecutive years, but they finally only defeated Barcelona to win the championship in 1994, and lost to Ajax in the two seasons before and after.

Ajax won the 1995 Champions League from 1996 to 1995, but a year later, they lost to Juventus in a penalty shootout in the final and failed to defend the title.

But Juventus soon became the next team to miss the title defense, and finished second in 1997 and 1998 for two consecutive years.

At the turn of the century, Valencia became runners-up in 2000 and 2001.

Then there is Manchester United. The Red Devils led by Ferguson, with the help of the twin stars of Cristiano Ronaldo and Rooney, have set a record of 25 consecutive unbeaten games in the Champions League, and until now no team has been able to break this record. record, but they only won the UEFA Champions League in 2008. In the 2009 Champions League final, they were completely defeated by Cosmos Barcelona 0:2.

This year, Real Madrid, known as the king of the Champions League, finally broke this curse and became the first team in 26 years to successfully defend the Champions League.

In fact, after the time has entered the 21st century, it is very difficult for a team to reach the Champions League finals for two consecutive years. In the past years, only three teams, Valencia, Manchester United and Real Madrid, have been able to do so.

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Although Ronaldo won the title of World Footballer for the second time as expected, according to the announced voting results, his advantage is not obvious.

According to data from FIFA's official website, among the four major voting groups, although Ronaldo ranked first in votes, Bruno was not far behind him.

As for the captain of the national team, Ronaldo received 8.11% of the votes, Bruno received 7.69%, and Yossi received 2.1%.

In the national team coach voting, Ronaldo received 8.52% of the votes, Bruno received 8.01%, and Yossi received 1.97%.

In terms of media, Ronaldo received 8.42% of the vote, Bruno received 7.75%, and Yossi received 2.43%.

In the final fan vote, Ronaldo's approval rate was 8.91%, Messi received 8.31%, and Yossi received 1.55%.

The total vote share was 33.96% for Ronaldo and 31.76% for Bruno, only 2.2 percentage points ahead of Bruno.

This has a lot to do with the fact that Bruno's personal performance in 2017 was not inferior to Ronaldo, or even worse.

In the first ten months of 2017, Bruno represented Manchester United and the Portuguese national team, playing a total of 55 games in various competitions, scoring 60 goals and 34 assists, helping Manchester United win the Premier League, FA Cup, and League Cup. , Europa League, Community Shield and European Super Cup, etc. 6 championship trophies, and also helped the Portuguese national team win the Russian Confederations Cup.

It can be said that Bruno's personal performance in 2017 was even better than Ronaldo, but his failure to participate in the Champions League in the 2016-2017 season became a key factor in his inability to defeat Ronaldo.

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This is the fifth time Ronaldo has won the World Footballer (FIFA Ballon d'Or) after 2008, 2013, 2014, and 2016. He has also overtaken Yossi and has won the most World Footballer in history. player of.

Of course, Ronaldo has to thank Bruno for winning the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or, otherwise he would just tie Yossi's record.

In the selection of other awards, Miss World Football was won by Dutch female football player Martens. She defeated Venezuelan forward Castellanos and American female football player Carly Lloyd to win the award.

The candidates for this year's best men's football coach are Allegri, Mourinho and Zidane. Allegri led Juventus to win the Serie A title last season and also reached the Champions League final. Mourinho led Manchester United to win the Premier League, Europa League, EFL Cup, FA Cup and Community Shield in 2017. and the European Super Cup, while Zidane led Real Madrid to win the Champions League and La Liga double last season, and also won the Spanish Super Cup.

The final result was as expected. Real Madrid coach Zidane defeated Allegri and Mourinho to win the 2017 Best Men's Football Coach Award.

Dutch women's football coach Wegmann won the Best Women's Football Coach Award, and Giroud won the 2017 Puskas Award. The Celtic fan received the award for best fan behaviour, with Francescone receiving the fair play award.

In the selection of FIFA's best team of the year, Buffon, Alves, Bonucci, Ramos, Marcelo, Modric, Toni Kroos, Bruno Fernandez, Messi, Ibrahimovic and Ronaldo were selected.