Golden Greenery

"Thank you to all the judges for their love, thank you to UEFA and President Johansson for your love, thank you to "France Football" and editor-in-chief Pierre." Zhuo Yang said: "Although it is an honor to receive this honor, I still feel sorry for Canava "Ronaldo and Buffon are two great players with the same respect as the world champions Italy."

"Thank you to Madiburg Club and AC Milan!"

A year later, Zhuo Yang once again won the European Golden Ball on the stage of the Opera Garnier in Paris. He narrowly defeated the Italian captain Cannavaro of the world champion team and won the 2006 European Golden Ball.

It is not an exaggeration to say it was a narrow victory. In the final selection, Zhuoyang only scored 182 points, less than 10 points over Cannavaro's 173 points, becoming a European footballer with the smallest gap in history. Last year, he was 32 points ahead of Ronaldinho, which was already very rare. This year, Ronaldinho only ranked fifth with a total score of 73 points.

In fact, since entering the selection, Zhuo Yang has been lagging behind Cannavaro, Buffon, and Zidane, not because those three performed better than Zhuo Yang in 2006, but because this is a World Cup year.

The World Cup has too much influence, not to mention the Italian team as the champion. When individual performances are similar, the Golden Globe Award will definitely be awarded to the members of the world championship team. Even if others are more obviously convincing, the judges will involuntarily favor the champion.

However, "France Football", the organizer of the Ballon d'Or, is known for its professionalism. As judges, journalists from world-famous football media must also take into account the candidates' personal performance on the court to some extent and try not to be just reputation-based. Even if it favors the champion members, try not to be champion-only. However, Zhuoyang did not participate in the World Cup at all, which made the judges who admired him very embarrassed.

However, this is a World Cup event for civilian stars. During the entire tournament, there was not a single figure who could dominate the crowd. There were no teams or individuals like Ronaldo in 2002, Zidane in 1998, and Romario in 1994. A questionable standout. Otherwise, Zhuo Yang can basically rest this year.

Since the selection campaign kicked off in October, there has been a grand competition between Zhuo Yang, Cannavaro, Buffon and Zidane. This is not common in previous years. In more years, the two heroes compete with each other.

The situations of the four people are different. Zidane is sentimental, especially his tragic farewell in the final and his retirement. He is very advantageous in terms of emotional points. Moreover, he is the king of the older generation, has a long history and has a large number of media fans. But that's all. If he hadn't retired and got a red card, just looking at the performance of the French team in the World Cup, Henry and Scar Ribery were actually more convincing than Zidane. Henry ended up ranking fourth, and he was only better than Bu Feng lost 3 points and Scar was seventh.

Penalty kicks are really uncertain. If the French team has a little better luck in the final penalty shootout and becomes the world champion, Zidane will definitely be guaranteed the golden goal this time, and Henry and Ribery will be ranked higher. Come forward. Of course, in this case, there will be nothing wrong with Cannavaro and Buffon.

Cannavaro's only strength is his status as captain of the championship team. Of course, his performance is also very good, but it is too difficult for the defenders to overshadow the midfielder and frontcourt. Cannavaro's new club, Real Madrid, is helping him build momentum this time, including some Spanish and Italian media.

Italian football has always been relatively united when it comes to the outside world. This time, with the help of the World Cup championship, Apennines wants to reverse the negative impact caused by the "Calciopoli". After careful analysis, Italy grandly launched Buffon.

The first person to build momentum for Buffon was former French superstar, Juventus star, and UEFA executive committee member Platini. His reason was very strong: "After Yashin, the Ballon d'Or has not been awarded to another player for 43 years. He's a goalkeeper and he needs a successor."

Platini's words immediately captured the hearts of the world.

To be honest, the selection of the Ballon d'Or or World Footballer is a bit unfair to the backcourt players. The midfielders and frontcourts, especially the offensive players, are too favored.

The whole world knows that football owes Maldini a Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year, but just saying so and not awarding it to him is extremely hypocritical.

Moreover, Buffon performed well in the World Cup in the summer. Champion Italy conceded two goals in the entire tournament, a penalty kick by Zidane and an own goal by Zaccardo. Such a natural, although the back line is excellent, Buffon's performance is outstanding. Excluding the national team captain, Buffon is actually more qualified than Cannavaro.

There are many reasons why Platini supports Buffon. He is a well-known Juventus fan and Barcelona fan. There are 9 players from the Italian national team in this 50-man squad. Except for Gattuso, Gianluca Zambrotta, Grosso, and Toni, who are obviously here to join in the fun, even Pirlo, Montolivo and Totti are also included. Basically, there is no escape from the fate of studying with the prince. After Platini considered it again and again, he chose to support Buffon, not only because Juventus is his old club, but also mainly because Juventus is currently in Serie B.

Platini's perspective on the problem is very novel. It seems that Buffon's departure from the top league with Juventus is a huge disadvantage, but the emotional bonus of "loyalty" is enough to make up for it or even exceed it. And although Juventus has temporarily left Serie A, their influence in the Apennines and the entire Europe is undoubtedly no less than that of any giant, so Juventus quickly reached a tacit understanding or even an explicit agreement with Platini to join forces. Pushing Buffon to the top.

Of course, there is a more important reason why Platini admires Buffon. He wants to build momentum and support for his candidacy for UEFA president next year. In other words, Platini is riding on the popularity. No longer a football star but a politician, Platini is very thoughtful and sophisticated.

AC Milan promoted Pirlo and Zhuoyang, but did not hinder Buffon; Real Madrid brought a group of Western media to build momentum for Cannavaro, but they also had to take care of Zidane's face; the rest of the Barcelona team were given to Ronaldo Come on, Bertinho and Eto'o; England's praise of Henry, Ribery, and Drogba diverted the firepower, and none of them were convincing enough; Germany could only push Klose, and Ballack lost his position after defecting to England. Emotional points in the Bundesliga.

As a result, Buffon has been ahead of the rest of the world from the beginning of the selection and has occupied the media discourse list. Even at the beginning of last month, many media were very sure that Buffon would win the Ballon d'Or. Cannavaro will follow closely and finish second at a considerable disadvantage, while Zhuo Yang, according to media analysis, is third anyway.

However, at the last moment of voting and counting, two things suddenly happened, completely reversing the situation of the Golden Globe Awards.

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