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"The 2028 European Ballon d'Or award ceremony will be held in Lisbon, Portugal...Although the award ceremony has not yet started, there are already many rumors confirming that the Argentine football genius Melibanega will win this year's European Ballon d'Or! A good season in the Champions League will be the deciding factor... but Meli himself refuses to comment on the rumors ahead of the award ceremony..."

Seeing the relevant news on TV, Xie Lan turned and asked her husband: "Old Hu, why is everyone saying that Meli can win the Golden Globe, but our son can't?"

"Meli has the Champions League, which is the most important advantage." Hu Lixin explained.

"Then our son still has an Olympic gold medal!" Xie Lan was a little unconvinced.

"Hey, the weight of the Olympic Games is actually not important in football... Europeans don't pay much attention to Olympic football. So winning the Olympic gold medal actually has no effect on the Golden Globe Award."

Hu Lixin analyzed it to his wife.

"But there is the European Cup this year! Doesn't it mean that the year of the competition depends on the performance of the competition? What performance does he have in the competition? If the Olympic gold medal is not important, the bronze medal is even less important?"

According to the usual practice, in the year when there is a major competition, players are required to consider their performance in the major competition.

But this year is special...

"This year's European Cup..." Hu Lixin asked, "Do you think anyone in the Czech team is qualified to win the Golden Globe?"

This question stopped Xie Lan.

Yes, there is really no one in the Czech team who looks like a superstar...

This year's European Cup is very strange, and the final winner is the Czech Republic, which no one is optimistic about before the game.

They exposed a big upset in this European Cup.

The Czech Republic, which is not strong, relied on its super tactical discipline and execution ability, coupled with a very characteristic style of play, to block and kill gods in this European Cup.

In the opening game of the European Cup, they defeated the host French team with a score of 1: , revealing the first upset of this European Cup.

Afterwards, they were upset all the way and reached the finals.

In the final, the Czech Republic's opponent is still the host France.

The hosts planned to avenge their loss in the opening game in the final, and bombarded the Czech team's goal from the very beginning of the game.

The Czech Republic first relied on excellent overall defensive tactics to deal with the French team and dragged the game into overtime, and then relied on their high center Radek Maher's corner kick header in extra time to score again 1: defeated the French team.

With everyone dumbfounded, he won the European Cup.

Regardless of the fact that during the Olympic Games, the attention of Chinese fans is all on the Olympic Games, but in fact this summer, the flow of world football is responsible for the big dark horse of the Czech national team.

After the Czech team won the championship, the French media was full of mourning. They criticized the Czech Republic's victory as a retrogression of football,

Because Czech football has no aesthetics at all, they rely on two tactics throughout the whole process-putting a bus in front of the goal in defense, and relying on long passes when attacking.

This outdated and backward tactic should have been eliminated from the football world, but unexpectedly, it was picked up by the Czech Republic and used in the European Cup, and it also used this backward tactic to violently beat many European powerhouses.

France, England and Italy were all victims of the Czech Republic.

The captain of the Czech Republic is their high center forward Radek Maher. He is 1.98 meters tall and has excellent header ability. He scored three goals in this European Cup and is the top scorer in the Czech team.

But he is not the main contributor to the Czech team's championship, or his role is not so great that it can cover up the contributions of other Czech players.

The reason why the Czech team was able to win the championship upset and write their fairy tale this summer is also inseparable from their rock-solid defense.

In defense, the Czech team placed great emphasis on overall discipline. Just like the parts on a precision machine, each "part" knows what it should do.

Among them, their central defender and second captain Pavel Nevak is an excellent representative. The central defender is 1.96 meters tall and has excellent header ability, but the limitation brought by his height is that he turns slowly and is not flexible enough. His main task in the Czech team's defensive system is air defense.

Use his excellent header ability to solve the Czech team's threat in the upper area of ​​the penalty area.

He just needs to do this one thing well.

As for other defensive work, there are teammates to help him complete.

In order to help him better complete the defense and make up for his shortcomings, the Czech coach Timo Buchtmann specially assigned a long-lost position to the Czech defense line-sweeper.

The flexible sweeper made up for Nevak's clumsiness, and allowed Nevak to defend in front with confidence.

In addition to the defenders, the main goalkeeper of the Czech Republic is also the hero who can win the championship.

Before this European Cup, Jakub Rabina was just an unknown player in the Czech domestic league.

With his various highs and lows in this European Cup, he has attracted the attention of many European teams after trying to keep the Czech Republic.

The goalkeeper, who is 1.97 meters tall and has a wingspan of more than 2 meters, has excellent physical fitness, and at the same time is not bulky and very flexible.

In this European Cup, the Czech team often needs to face the siege of stronger opponents in the game, but only conceded two goals. After entering the knockout stage, they did not lose a goal, helping the Czech team rely on three games 1: 0 won the European Cup.

Such an outstanding performance helped him rise to the top in one step. After the European Cup, he was finally acquired by Leeds City with a transfer fee of 40 million euros.

But whether it is captain center Radek Maher, central defender Pavel Nevak, or goalkeeper Yakurabbina, they are not the biggest contributors to this Czech team's ability to win the championship.

We must find a number one hero, and that can only be the team's head coach, the German Timo Buchtmann.

He used to be the head coach of the Bundesliga powerhouse Weisserdorf, who created the most glorious era of Weiserdorf. Under his leadership, Weiserdorf once won the Bundesliga and Europa League championships.

But that was thirty years ago.

Later, his coaching philosophy gradually failed to keep up with the times, and he dismissed get out of class in Weisedov sadly, and failed to succeed in other teams.

They can only go far away, basically belonging to those who have been "exiled" by German football.

He came to the Czech Republic four years ago and became the head coach of the Czech national team. With iron and blood, this team has been built into a very disciplined team.

"Iron Army".

In this European Cup, he used outdated tactics to cooperate with the high tactical execution ability and discipline of the Czech players, but he created the history and miracle of Czech football.

He is the founder and greatest contributor to the Czech Republic's championship.

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"But the Golden Globe Award cannot be awarded to a head coach. The personal abilities of other Czech players have not reached the level of the Golden Globe Award. Meli's personal performance and team performance are very good. Even if there is no European Cup champion, except for him Besides, there is no one more deserving of the Ballon d'Or."

Hu Lixin said.

He has a good point.

The European Ballon d'Or is an individual award, so it pays more attention to the individual performance of the players.

Although Meli has no European Cup champion, as long as there are no outstanding players in the European Cup champion Czech national team, Meli is still very likely to win this year's Golden Globe Award.

So is there such a player in the Czech team?

Honestly, not really.

Because of Buchtmann's tactical characteristics, the entire Czech national team was built by him into a German-style precision machine, with every part perfectly fitted and running smoothly.

But every Czech player is just a piece in the machine.

Can parts win the Golden Globe?

Obviously, it is inconsistent with the spiritual purpose of the Golden Globe Awards.

Originally there was a major year of the European Cup, it was not a good time for non-European players like Meli to compete for the Ballon d'Or.

But this year's European Cup is special.

Therefore, among the younger generation of players, Melibanega will be the most likely to take the lead in winning the top honor of the European Golden Globe Award.

In fact, his wife, Xie Lan, knows what the husband said. After all, the Chinese media have been hyping up the Golden Globes for the past two days.

The media also asked similar questions:

Why is Meli a favorite for the Ballon d'Or, but Hou Lai, who just beat him at the Olympics, is not?

Everyone analyzed it from various angles.

It is similar to what Hu Lixin said.

In short, the absence of the Champions League is flawed.

The reason why Xie Lan wanted to ask her husband again was naturally unwilling.

Although Hu Lai won the gold medal in the Olympic Games this time, the gold medal is too small to be placed in the room of honor, and of course it is not as prominent as the Golden Globe.

"It's because of being eliminated by Meli in the Champions League last season!" Xie Lan complained. "We just lost to Melly in the semi-finals. It's like letting Melly step on our son to win the championship!"

Hu Lixin shook his head and smiled: "Actually, even if Hu Lai wins the Champions League, it will not be so easy to win the Golden Globe."

"Why?" Xie Lan asked, "Isn't everyone championing the Champions League?"

"Because he is a Chinese player. As a Chinese player, if he wants to win the Ballon d'Or, he must not only do the same as the European and American players, but also do better than them. It's like other people's test is a full score of 100 points." , Chinese players need to score 150 points in the test to be considered a full score."

"Spray..." Xie Lan imagined for a while, feeling very uncomfortable.

But she had to admit that her husband was right.

The Ballon d'Or has always been the monopoly of European and American players. If a Chinese player suddenly appeared and wanted to take away the honor that belongs to European and American players, it would be really not easy.

Just like China wants to break the monopoly of Europe and the United States in high-tech fields such as chip design and manufacturing.

It is impossible to succeed without putting in more effort.

When Hu Lixin saw that his wife was depressed, he comforted her: "Even if you can't win the Golden Globe, you can still win other honors. For example, the Champions League Golden Boot, when the time comes, your room of honor will also be able to be promoted."

Xie Lan sighed: "Forget it, talk is better than nothing."

Hu Lixin smiled: "Your tone, you will be hated if you say it. The Champions League Golden Boot is just better than nothing'?"

Xie Lan didn't care about this, she suddenly remembered another thing:

"Then Qingqing should be able to win the Women's Football Ballon d'Or, right? She also has a league title, a Champions League title, and an Olympic title..."

Hu Lixin nodded: "Yes, this year should be a bumper year for Qingqing."

Xie Lan slapped her hands: "Then I'll go and talk to Lao Li, and just put his daughter's trophies and medals in the room of honor I made.

It must be safer than keeping it in his home! "

Hu Lixin:? ? ?

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