Young Football Player

During the month of January, the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or awards ceremony was held.

This year is the first year after the combination of the World Footballer and the European Ballon d'Or, and then there was a lot of controversy.

The first is that Sneijder actually missed the top three Golden Globes.

At the end of the World Cup, Sneijder was undoubtedly the number one favorite for the Golden Globe Award. However, due to his poor performance after the start of the new season, many people are no longer so optimistic about him winning the award, but he missed the top three. , which is really a bit too much.

In 2010, Sneijder led the team to win the Triple Crown and the runner-up in the World Cup. If Melo can lead the team to achieve such a result in a certain year, he will definitely be called the world champion.

The second controversy is that Messi finally won the award.

Sneijder has continued to "die" after the start of the new season, and it's fine if he doesn't win the Golden Globe.

Most of the media felt that it should be given to Iniesta.

But in the end it was Messi who won the award, and it was not a slight advantage to win. Messi still had a lot of votes ahead of Iniesta.

2010 was the year of the World Cup. Messi’s performance in the World Cup only had one assist. If it is necessary to say that Messi’s role cannot be reflected by statistics, then in the final 0:4 loss to Germany, Messi can be said to be Bad performance.

In the face of the ball king tester, he performed quite poorly, but in the end he won this year's Golden Globe Award, which is indeed somewhat controversial.

However, this also reflects that since the Golden Globe Award was merged with the World Player of the Year, it has become an award based on fame. Messi's fame is his great help.

In this way, the controversy has nothing to do with Messi, it is the reason of the award itself.

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If someone carefully studies the German national team, they will find that they have been the world football king detection machine since their rise.

In world football, there is no doubt that only Pele and Maradona can be called the king of the ball.

In addition to these two top players, there are still many amazing talents in the football world. Among these talented players, some of them are just a little bit away from being the top players, so they are called quasi-ball champions. .

Those who can be called the quasi-ball kings probably include Puskas, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Platini, Zidane, Ronaldo...

Although the careers of Ronaldo and Messi are not over yet, if they fail to win the World Cup, it may be more appropriate to be called the quasi-ball champion in the end.

Among these quasi-ball champions, the meaning of their difference from the real champion may be different, but a few of them are actually short of a World Cup champion.

The 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, that session can be said to be considered the least suspenseful session before the game.

That year, Hungary led by Puskas was considered to be the undoubted favorite to win the championship, and it was very, very ahead of other opponents. At that time, many European media reported that they could skip the World Cup and directly award the prize to Just Hungary.

How strong was Hungary at that time? They have not lost any games in four years. The so-called strong European teams such as England, France, Germany, etc., can not lose more than three goals against Hungary, that is a huge victory.

After the start of the World Cup, Hungary did go smoothly. It slaughtered its opponents and advanced, creating many score records. They beat Brazil and Uruguay 4:2 in the quarter-finals and semi-finals. These are the only two "small victories". up.

In the final, Hungary's opponent was Germany.

In the group stage, Hungary was in the same group as Germany. At that time, Hungary won 8:3 against Germany.

Just when everyone thought that Hungary could win the World Cup without any effort, the Germans activated the characteristics of their king detection machine.

When the German team fell behind 0:2 in the opening 8 minutes,

Started a Jedi counterattack and scored three goals in a row, defeated Hungary with a score of 3:2, and won the first World Cup championship in the history of his team.

At that time, Puskas had already had countless reputations in the club, and he was just short of leading the team to win a World Cup championship, and he could be crowned the champion, but he was killed by the Germans.

In the 1974 World Cup in Germany, Cruyff, who led Ajax to win the Champions League three consecutive times, was also full of confidence and wanted to try to hit the champion.

However, the German, who is the king of the ball and the host, will naturally not let Cruyff pass easily.

Ball Saint led the Netherlands to enter the final with ease. In the final, they also turned against Germany. In the beginning, the Germans didn't even touch the ball. Cruyff helped the Netherlands earn a penalty and let the Netherlands 1. :0 lead.

But the tenacious German finally reversed and defeated the Netherlands 2:1. Cruyff's dream of being the champion of the ball was shattered, and he only got the title of a ball saint.

It is worth mentioning that these two quasi-ball champions who narrowly lost to Germany in the final were both elected as the best players in the World Cup.

In football in the 1980s, the brightest player was undoubtedly Maradona, and the only player who could compete with Maradona at that time was the Frenchman Platini.

Platini led France to win the first European Cup in the 1980s, and also won the Golden Boot with a record-breaking number of goals. He also led Juventus to win the Champions League at the club, and he still won the Golden Globe Award three times in a row. .

Platini may have caused controversy in the position of UEFA chairman, but in the player era he was the undisputed quasi-ball champion, and he was also only one World Cup champion away.

Platini's two most promising World Cup titles were in front of the Germans.

In the 1982 World Cup in Spain, Platini led France to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals against Germany, he once led 3:1 in overtime, but was eventually equalized and finally fell to a penalty shootout.

The 1986 World Cup in Mexico belonged to Maradona, but the performance of Platini and the French team this year was not bad at all.

The defending champion Italy was eliminated in the round of 16, and the South American powerhouse Brazil was eliminated in the quarter-finals. The French team can be said to have gnawed hard bones and forced their way into the semi-finals. Platini also showed his determination to strive for the championship. Unfortunately, the semi-finals They met their old rival again - Germany.

The effect of the ball champion detection machine was triggered again. Germany won France 2:0, preventing Platini from entering the final to compete with Maradona for the title of ball champion.

Of course, in the end, the Germans fulfilled Maradona's title of football king in the final, but if you can pass the test of the ball king inspection machine, you are the ball king, and there is nothing wrong with it.

But four years later, in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Maradona came again with great ambitions. He wanted to win the second World Cup and make his name better. Bailey.

But this time, although the 30-year-old Maradona, who had already declined in form, once again led the team to the final, he still lost 0:1 in front of the ball king tester, because his state at that time was no longer considered to be in the finals. The king of the ball.

The German ball king detection technology can be said to be quite reliable and reliable.

Among the prospective football champions, the three who were unable to be crowned champions due to the lack of World Cup champions all fell in front of the testing machine.

At present, Messi is another quasi-ball king who is only one World Cup short of being crowned king in today's football, and the result of his first ball king test is obviously not qualified.

But he will definitely have a second, maybe even a third.

(Although Messi also lost to Germany in the World Cup in 2006, Messi hadn't grown up at that time, and he was not the core of Argentina, so that time was not considered as the king test)