Golden Greenery

The reason why the Eiffel Tower is made of iron is to make it easier to dismantle.

150 years ago, France lost the Franco-Prussian War, "Prussia" was Prussia, and Emperor Napoleon never killed William I.

This defeat changed the European structure. France fell from its position as the European hegemon, and Prussia completed its unification and formed the German Empire, replacing France as the new hegemon.

More than ten years later, France, which established a republic, gradually recovered from its defeat. In order to demonstrate its national strength and rebuild its national self-confidence, it decided to host another World Expo in Paris. The reason why it is ‘again’ is because Paris has already hosted three of the previous nine World Expos.

In order to have a striking landmark building, France is inviting bids from all over the world to build a high tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris. There are two requirements: it can attract tourists to buy tickets to visit the tower; and it can be easily dismantled after the World Expo.

Was it demolished later? Without 128 years of cerebral thrombosis, I would not be able to ask this question.

On December 9, the 2017 European Golden Globe Awards were presented at the 128-year-old Eiffel Tower.

On the first floor of the Iron Tower, which is also the most spacious floor among the three observation towers, Zhuo Yang took back his golden ball in the conference hall here.

In the past, the European Golden Globe Award Ceremony was basically held at France TV or the Garnier Opera House in Paris. The precipitation was very heavy, but the location lacked innovation.

In the first edition after the separation of the two awards, UEFA also changed its leadership, with new people and a new atmosphere. The 2017 awards finally had some new meaning.

In fact, everyone knew from the beginning that there was no suspense, so when the host, French football legend Ginola and guest host Ronaldo analyzed the advantages of the final three candidates in a serious manner, from time to time there would be laughter like a cross talk. .

Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi laughed somewhat awkwardly. It was not until Ginola announced that Zhuo Yang won the award that they both let out a long sigh of relief.

The ranking of the top three is no different from the order of the World Footballer ten days ago. Zhuo Yang won the 2017 World Footballer and the European Golden Globe Award.

This year is the first after the split of the double award.

Eight years ago in 2009, it was also the last time before the two awards were combined into one. Zhuo Yang achieved a private win of both awards for the first time since Ronaldo in 2002. Eight years later, he once again won the first edition of the two reopenings, and everything seemed to have reincarnated.

Even if we don’t count the two-award-one Golden Globe in 2011, just talking about the Golden Globe Award, in 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2017, Zhuo Yang surpassed Cruyff and Platini who won three times four times. and Basten, the three ancient sages, became the first people in the history of the European Golden Globe Award.

Ronaldo, Pegasus, Keegan, Di Stefano, Rummenigge, they all did it twice.

When Zhuo Yang won the Ballon d'Or for the first time in 2005, he broke Ronaldo's 21-year-old age record in 1997 at the age of 20.

From 2005 to 2017, it spans 12 years. If anyone wakes up from a dream in these 12 years, they will be surprised: how old are you? Why is it always you?

However, in the age rankings, Zhuo Yang did not always get the first place. He won the award at the 'old age' of 32 years old, ranking only fourth in history, behind Stanley Matthews at the age of 41 in 1956, Lev Yashin at the age of 34 in 1963, and Cannavaro at the age of 33 in 2006.

Ginola bypassed Yashin and Cannavaro and asked Zhuoyang directly: "Is there any plan to break Matthews' age record?"

Most people would say a few polite words at this time, but Zhuo Yang replied categorically: "Impossible, absolutely impossible, because my princess does not allow it."

The camera turned around, and Kou Kou couldn't hide her pride in her smile.

She stipulated to Zhuo Yang that the age of forty is a bar, and he must not retire beyond this age. Koko has reason to be proud of being able to make the overlords in the football world obey him.

But Jinola was a little embarrassed, and all the words she had prepared were useless, so she had to force an awkward conversation.

"Oh...yeah, that's a shame. So, who do you think will break Matthews' record?"

Zhuo Yang was speechless: Does someone have to break it? 41 years old! There are many people who have played until the age of 41, but is it only for people to win awards at the age of 41? Matthews is an ancient fairy, okay?

‘Magic’ Matthews was an English player before and after World War II, the best right winger of that era. Not only did he set the age record for the Ballon d'Or at 41 years old, but his age of 50 years and 5 days was also the European professional league record.

Zhuoyang loves football enough, but he still shudders when he thinks about playing until he is 50 years old. However, Zhuoyang also knows that his mentality is the same as that of most top stars. In essence, he is unwilling to be surpassed and reduced to a marginalized person before wasting his time.

However, Matthews' age of 50 years and 5 days is not a world record. Today, 51-year-old Miura Tomohiro is still playing, and 55-year-old Uruguayan player Roberto Carmona is still playing. These two old brothers are beating the Guinness The record goes.

When it comes to Guinness, there are just too many bells and whistles. It is said that several clubs have made plans to sign some retired players or even amateur players over 70 years old to a short contract specifically for this purpose, and then let them play a game, aiming at the Guinness record.

But what's the point?

If Zhuoyang wants to, he can sign with his Madibao team when he is 80 years old, and he can still score goals. Do you believe it?

But what's the point?

Speaking of Madibao, in the last round of Group F of the Champions League two days ago, at the same time that Manchester City defeated Dongoi 5:4 in an away game, Madibao used the draw method at home and drew with the powerful Naples 0:0.

As a result, Manchester City 18, Madiburg 6, Napoli 5, Donne 5, Madiburg reached the top 16 of the Champions League as the second lowest-scoring group, while Naples also fell behind due to the advantage of mutual victory and defeat. Finished third in the group and went to the UEFA Cup.

For Zhuo Yang, this is the result he wants to see most.

Dun Kuang was so angry that he cursed, but who can you blame for your last three consecutive losses?

After the Champions League group stage, all five Premier League teams successfully made it through and ranked first in the group. Three traditional strong teams, Atletico Madrid, Dortmund, and Monaco, were slapped and eliminated.

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Ginola's question did not stump Zhuoyang. He rolled his eyes and said: "Among us, the one who has the most hope of breaking Sir Matthews' age record for winning the award is only Buffon. Am I right? Mr. Buffon?”

Buffon, who is about to turn 40 years old, smiled happily. Due to his excellent performance at Juventus last season, he ranked fifth in this award, which is also a pretty good result.

But Buffon knows he has no hope, because he has withdrawn from the Italian national team without a World Cup, and Juventus has little hope of dominating Europe in the short term.

However, Zhuo Yang's words ignited Ronaldo's hopes.

They are both the same age. Since Zhuo Yang will retire before the age of forty, then as long as Mr. Luo maintains his condition until after the age of forty, won't the Golden Ball and Mr. Grand Prize be within reach?

If you can't afford to offend me, I will consume you to death! On this night, Ronaldo had a new goal. He vowed to break Matthews' 41-year-old oldest age to win the Golden Globe Award.

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