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"The 2028 European Ballon d'Or Awards Ceremony will be held in Lisbon, Portugal...Although the awards ceremony has not yet started, there are already many rumors confirming that Argentinian football genius Melibanega will win this year's European Ballon d'Or! He is on A strong season in the Champions League was the deciding factor... but Melli himself refused to comment on the rumors ahead of the awards ceremony..."

Seeing the relevant news on TV, Xie Lan turned to her husband and asked: "Lao Hu, why are everyone saying that Meili can win the Golden Globe Award, but our son can't?"

"Melli 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.

"The weight of Olympic competition is actually not important in football... Europeans don't pay much attention to Olympic football. So winning the Olympic gold medal actually has no impact on the Ballon d'Or."

Hu Lixin analyzed this to his wife.

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

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

But this year's situation is special...

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

This question stopped Xie Lan.

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

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

They suffered a big upset in this European Cup.

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

They defeated the host France team with a score of 1: in the opening game of the European Cup, exposing the first upset of this European Cup.

Then there were many upsets all the way to the finals.

In the final, the Czech opponent is still the host France.

The hosts plan to avenge their loss in the opening game in the final.

From the beginning of the game, the Czech team's goal was bombarded.

The Czech Republic first relied on its excellent overall defensive tactics to deal with the French team and dragged the game into overtime. Then, with the help of their high center Radek Maher's header from the corner kick in overtime, the Czech Republic once again won the score 1: Defeated the French team.

With everyone stunned, they won the European Cup.

Regardless of the fact that Chinese fans are all focused on the Olympics during the Olympics, in fact the biggest traffic driver in world football this summer is the Czech national team, a dark horse.

After the Czech team won the championship, the French media was filled with grief. They criticized the Czech Republic’s championship as a step backwards for football.

Because there is nothing aesthetic about Czech football, they rely on two tactics throughout the game - placing a bus in front of the goal in defense, and relying on long passes to lob during offense.

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 beat many powerful players in Europe.

France, England and Italy were all victims at the feet 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 was not the primary contributor to the Czech team's championship, or his role was not large enough to overshadow the contributions of other Czech players.

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

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

Among them, their center back 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 is slow to turn and not flexible enough. His main task in the Czech team's defensive system is air defense.

Use his excellent heading ability to solve the threat in the Czech team's penalty area.

He just needs to do this one thing well.

As for other defensive work, his teammates help him complete it.

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

The flexible sweeper makes up for Nevak's clumsiness, and allows Nevak to defend from the front with confidence and boldness.

In addition to the defenders, the Czech Republic's main goalkeeper is also the hero of their championship.

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

With his various high and low blocks in this European Cup, he has attracted the attention of many European teams after trying to keep the Czech Republic from losing.

The goalkeeper, who is 1.97 meters tall and has a wingspan of more than two meters, has excellent physical fitness, is not bulky and is very flexible.

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

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

But whether it is captain center Radek Maher, center back Pavel Nevak, or goalkeeper Jakub Brabina, they are not the biggest contributors to this Czech team's championship.

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

He was once the head coach of the strong Bundesliga team Vesseldorf. He created Vesseldorf's most glorious era. Under his leadership, Vesseldorf once won the Bundesliga championship and the Europa League.

But that was thirty years ago.

Later, his coaching philosophy gradually failed to keep up with the times. He was dismissed from the get out of class at Vesseldorf and failed to achieve success in other teams.

He can only move away from home, and he is basically a person who has been "exiled" by German football.

He came to the Czech Republic four years ago and became the head coach of the Czech national team. Used iron and blood to build this team into a team that pays great attention to discipline.

"Iron Army".

In this European Cup, he used outdated tactics and combined 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 biggest contributor to the Czech championship.

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"But the Ballon d'Or cannot be awarded to a head coach. The personal abilities of other Czech players are not outstanding to the level of the Ballon d'Or. Melli's personal performance and team results are very good. Even if he does not win the European Cup, except for him Besides, there is no one more deserving of the Ballon d'Or."

Hu Lixin said.

What he said makes sense.

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

Although Melli has not won the European Cup, as long as there are no particularly outstanding players in the European Cup-winning Czech national team, Melli is still very likely to win this year's Ballon d'Or.

So is there such a player in the Czech team?

To be honest, not really.

Because of Buchtmann's tactical characteristics, he turned the entire Czech national team into a German-style precision machine, with every part fitting perfectly and running extremely smoothly.

But every Czech player is just a component in this machine.

Can parts win a Ballon d'Or?

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

The year of the European Cup was not a good time for non-European players like Melli to compete for the Ballon d'Or.

But this year’s European Cup is in a special situation.

Therefore, among the younger generation of players, Melibanega will be the most likely to be the first to win the top honor of the European Ballon d'Or.

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

The media also asked similar questions:

Why is Melly a favorite for the Ballon d'Or, but Hulay, who just defeated him at the Olympics, is not?

Everyone analyzed it from various angles.

It’s similar to what Hu Lixin said.

In short, it is a flaw that there is no Champions League.

The reason why Xie Lan asked her husband again was naturally because she was unwilling to do so.

Although Hu Lai won the gold medal at the Olympics this time, the gold medal was too small. It was certainly not as conspicuous as the Golden Globe Award when placed in the honor room.

"It was because of being eliminated from the Champions League by Melli last season!" Xie Lan complained. "We lost to Merry in the semifinals. It was like letting Merry step on our son's championship!"

Hu Lixin shook his head and smiled: "Actually, even if Hu Lai wins the Champions League, it will not be that easy to win the Ballon d'Or."

"Why?" Xie Lan asked, "Don't they all have Champions League titles?"

"Because he is a Chinese player. As a Chinese player, if you want to win the Ballon d'Or, you must not only do the same as European and American players, but also do better than them. It's like a perfect score is calculated as 100 points for others. , Chinese players need 150 points to be considered a perfect score."

"Squirt..." Xie Lan imagined it and felt very unhappy.

But she had to admit that her husband was right.

The Golden Globe Award has always been the exclusive preserve of European and American players. If a Chinese player suddenly appears and wants to take away the honor that belongs to European and American players, uu reading, it will 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.

Seeing that his wife was a little depressed, Hu Lixin comforted her: "Even if you don't win the Golden Globe, you can still win other honors. For example, the Champions League Golden Boot, your honor room will be able to be added to it when the time comes."

Xie Lan sighed: "Forget it, it's better than nothing."

Hu Lixin smiled: "Your tone will make people hate you even if you say it. The Champions League golden boots are 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 has a league championship, a Champions League championship, and an Olympic championship..."

Hu Lixin nodded: "Yes, this year should be a bumper harvest for young people."

Xie Lan slapped him in the face: "Then I'll go tell Lao Li and put his daughter's trophies, medals, etc. in the honor room I created.

It's definitely safer than leaving it at his house! "

Hu Lixin:? ? ?